Staff

This article is about the class of weapon. For the specific weapon sold by NPC weaponsmiths, see Staff (weapon).

The staff is a two-handed weapon and can be crafted by an artificer. Staves typically have a mix of supportive and controlling skills in their sets, and often affect many foes or allies. The maximum damage range for staves is 1,034 - 1,166. Ranged staff skills typically have a range of 1200, making it a long-ranged weapon. Revenant and Daredevil use staff in close combat. With the elite specializations Druid and Daredevil, Staff is the most used terrestrial weapon with only the Warrior and Engineer being unable to use it.

Skills by profession

	Skill	Type			Description
Guardian
1	Wave of Wrath		0.5½		Make a powerful shock wave, hitting up to five foes.
2	Orb of Light		0.5½	3	Fire a moving orb of light that damages enemies and heals allies it touches. Detonate the orb to heal nearby allies and grant them light aura.
2	Orb of Light, Detonate Orb of Light chain  Detonate Orb of Light				Detonate the orb to heal nearby allies. Orb of Light takes longer to recharge if detonated.
3	Symbol of Swiftness	Symbol	0.75¾	15	Sear a mystic symbol into the target area, damaging foes and granting swiftness to allies.
4	Empower		20.5½	20	Channel healing and might to your nearby allies. Completing this channel grants more health to your allies.
5	Line of Warding	Ward	1	30	Create a line in front of you that foes cannot cross.
Revenant
1	Rapid Swipe		0.5½		Swipe your staff at your foe.
1	Rapid Swipe, Forceful Bash, Rejuvenating Assault chain  Forceful Bash		0.5½		Bash your foe with your staff.
1	Rapid Swipe, Forceful Bash, Rejuvenating Assault chain  Rejuvenating Assault		1		Cleave foes around you with your staff, creating healing orbs for you and your allies.
2	Punishing Sweep		0.75¾	5	Sweep your staff at your foe. Gain access to Debilitating Slam if your foe is using a skill when struck.
2	Punishing Sweep, Debilitating Slam chain  Debilitating Slam		0.25¼		Imbue your staff with mist energy and slam it down, damaging and dazing nearby foes.
3	Warding Rift		10.5½	12	Create a rift from the Mists, warding you from attack. While the rift is open projectiles will hit nearby foes, blinding them.
4	Renewing Wave		1	15	Send out a wave of mist energy that heals and removes conditions from allies.
5	Surge of the Mists		1	20	Charge forward, knocking back enemies that cross your path.
Ranger (requires Druid)
1	Solar Beam		10.25¼		Fire a concentrated beam of light, damaging the target foe and healing allies inside of the beam.
2	Astral Wisp		0.75¾	8	Send a wisp to attack your foe. While attached it will circle the foe, healing allies it passes through.
3	Ancestral Grace		10.25¼	18	Become a wisp of natural energy traversing to the target location. When you reach the target, heal nearby allies and grant protection to your pet.
4	Vine Surge		0.75¾	20	Send forth vines that immobilize enemies and cleanse conditions from allies.
5	Sublime Conversion			25	Summon an energy barrier that causes enemy projectiles to heal upon impact.
Thief (requires Daredevil)
1	Staff Strike		0.5½		Strike your enemies with your staff.
1	Staff Strike, Staff Bash, Punishing Strikes chain  Staff Bash		0.5½		Swing your staff a second time, striking multiple foes.
1	Staff Strike, Staff Bash, Punishing Strikes chain  Punishing Strikes		1		Whirl your staff around, striking nearby enemies.
1	Hook Strike	Stealth Attack	0.75¾	1	Attack your foes with stealth, knocking enemies down.
2	Weakening Charge		0.5½	3	Deliver multiple strikes, weakening foes.
3	Debilitating Arc			4	Strike enemies in front of you and roll backward, breaking immobilizing effects.
4	Dust Strike		0.75¾	4	Sweep the ground, blinding enemies in front of you.
5	Vault		0.75¾	5	Leap toward your destination, damaging foes upon impact.
Elementalist
Fire Attunement
1	Fireball		1		Cast a fireball that explodes on impact and hits multiple foes.
2	Lava Font			8	Make lava erupt from the target area.
3	Flame Burst		0.5½	10	Burn foes at the target location.
4	Burning Retreat			20	Quickly roll backward, leaving behind a line of fire that burns.
5	Meteor Shower		30.75¾	30	Call down a meteor shower onto the target area.
Water Attunement
1	Water Blast		0.75¾		Spray a jet of water at your foe that splashes to heal nearby allies.
2	Ice Spike		0.75¾	6	Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable.
3	Geyser		0.75¾	20	Create a geyser to heal nearby allies.
4	Frozen Ground			30	Coat the target area in ice, chilling foes that enter it.
5	Healing Rain		1	40	Call down a healing rain on the target area, granting regeneration to allies and curing conditions once every three seconds.
Air Attunement
1	Chain Lightning		0.75¾		Hit multiple foes with arcs of chain lightning.
2	Lightning Surge		1	10	Charge a lightning surge that damages and blinds foes near your target when it discharges.
3	Gust		0.25¼	25	Push foes backward with a burst of air.
4	Windborne Speed		0.25¼	25	You and nearby allies gain swiftness, while curing crippled, immobilized, and chilled.
5	Static Field		0.75¾	40	Create an electrical field that stuns foes crossing it.
Earth Attunement
1	Stoning		0.75¾		Hurl a rock and weaken your foe.
2	Eruption		10.25¼	6	Shake the ground until it erupts and damages foes.
3	Magnetic Aura			30	Reflect projectiles with magnetic energy.
4	Unsteady Ground		0.25¼	30	Create unsteady ground that foes cannot cross.
5	Shock Wave		0.75¾	30	Create a shockwave that bleeds and immobilizes your target.
Fire + Water
3	Pressure Blast	Dual Attack	1	15	Send out a vaporous projectile that heals allies it passes through. This projectile violently explodes if it hits the ground or strikes an enemy, healing allies and damaging foes in the area.
Fire + Air
3	Plasma Blast	Dual Attack	0.25¼	12	Launch a ball of plasma that explodes on impact at your foes.
Fire + Earth
3	Pyroclastic Blast	Dual Attack	0.75¾	15	Launch a molten rock that devastates an area.
Water + Air
3	Monsoon	Dual Attack	0.5½	20	Launch a hurricane in a direction, healing allies and damaging enemies.
Water + Earth
3	Lahar	Dual Attack	0.5½	20	Create an area that cripples and damages enemies.
Air + Earth
3	Pile Driver	Dual Attack	10.5½	18	After a short channel, launch a hyper-fast boulder that decimates foes in its path.
Mesmer
1	Winds of Chaos		0.75¾		Bounce an orb of energy between foes and allies that applies random boons to allies and random conditions to foes.
1	Chaos Vortex	Ambush	1	1	Release a vortex of chaos energy that inflicts conditions on foes and grants boons to allies.
2	Phase Retreat	Clone		10	Teleport away from your target, summoning a clone that casts Winds of Chaos.
3	Phantasmal Warlock	Phantasm	0.75¾	18	Cast winds of chaos on nearby foes. Summon an illusion that deals extra damage for each unique condition on the target foe.
4	Chaos Armor			30	Apply a random condition to nearby foes and gain chaos armor. Chaos armor gives you random boons and your foe random conditions whenever you are struck.
5	Chaos Storm		0.25¼	35	Create a magical storm at the target location that applies random conditions to foes and boons to allies.
Necromancer
1	Necrotic Grasp		0.75¾		Send out a grasping hand that damages foes in a line and grants you life force.
2	Mark of Blood	Mark	0.75¾	40.75¾	Inscribe a mark that bleeds foes when they trigger it, and grants regeneration to allies.
3	Chilblains	Mark	0.75¾	16	Chill and poison the target area.
4	Putrid Mark	Mark	0.75¾	20	Inscribe a mark that transfers conditions from yourself to foes when they trigger it.
5	Reaper's Mark	Mark	0.75¾	32	Inscribe a mark that causes fear when foes trigger it.

Related traits

•  Honorable Staff — Staff skills gain reduced recharge, and you gain concentration.
•  Tranquil Benediction — The healing orbs that you create while wielding a staff will now grant swiftness and regeneration when picked up by allies.
•  Celestial Being — Gain access to glyphs. You can become a celestial avatar once you gain enough astral force. Generate astral force by healing allies and damaging foes.
•  Primal Echoes — Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.
•  Physical Supremacy — Gain access to the physical skill category. Your maximum endurance threshold is increased.
•  Staff Master — While wielding a staff, gain endurance for each initiative point spent. Deal bonus damage when your endurance is not full while wielding a staff.
•  Chaotic Dampening — Chaos armor grants protection. Staff and trident skills gain reduced recharge..
•  Soul Marks — Marks generate life force when triggered. Marks are unblockable. (Four out of five Necromancer staff skills are marks)

See also

• Gallery of staves

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Weapons

One-handed

Axe • Dagger • Mace • Pistol • Sword

Main-hand only

Scepter

Off-hand only

Focus • Shield • Torch • Warhorn

Two-handed

Greatsword • Hammer • Longbow • Rifle • Short bow • Staff

Aquatic

Harpoon gun • Spear • Trident

Other

Bundles