These thingies shoot firebolts, lightning, you name it. The fact that one
can't control them being fired and those being rather annoying with certain
mobs that might actually get something out from certain types that you avoid
to shoot but your helpful staff is shooting, that fact not being my point.

The uber cool feature would be to see resists (with the same % that ones
analyze % is anyway) of the type that the old buddy staff happens to shoot.