I have the staff and none of my characters can use it. Assuming they need to be dark and a magic user the only maiden I have to fit would be Edana and there is no option for any of the items. They may not add them until after the event?
There is not enough time for me to get Daphne so I just hope the effort I have already spent will not be a waste.

As for compensation for the outage, my energy was boosted above the normal max but not by nearly as much as it should be given the outage for me was during my most active hours.
I am not complaining as I am playing for free but the comments may help guide the devs in future notions of how compensation should be done.

I ended up losing some of the energy boost anyway as I leveled up very soon after I got on.

By the next event I will have built up my maidens, buildings and max energy enough to make things a lot smoother. I am only just getting a strong team together now.