Fire Staff has two good perks, refreshing pillar and empowering fireball. However, empowering fireball is bugged right now and doesn’t work if you have an elemental conversion gem equipped. So for a lot of people fire staff only has 1 useful perk. Then ice gauntlet also only has 1 useful perk, unending thaw.
If they want to buff the fire staff and ice gauntlet they definitely need to start with fixing bugs and making the perks actually usable.