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 magical 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. Revenants and Daredevils instead use the staff in close combat.

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	Detonate Orb of Light, 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			6	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. Damage is reduced per target each time they are struck by this ability.
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	30	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.
Elementalist (requires Weaver)
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	Summon two illusions that deal damage and inflict vulnerability.
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	Inscribe a mark that 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

Proficiencies

•  Staff Proficiency — You can wield a staff.
•  Staff Proficiency — You can wield a staff.

Enhancements

•  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.
•  Primal Echoes — Reduces recharge of staff skills. Daze nearby foes when you swap to staff.
•  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