Celestial catalytic staff

The celestial catalytic staff is the strongest magical weapon in Dungeoneering. It can be found in the dungeons under Daemonheim. It requires level 99 Magic to wield, and increases the damage that destructive spells can do by 30%, which is more than than any staff in RuneScape. This staff cannot be created and can only be acquired as a drop from the Unholy Cursebearer.

The highest possible single damage splat dealt with this staff is 434. The hits dealt by the effect of blazer ring appear separately. Theoretically, the total maximum damage possible with a single spell is 649, using Fire Surge with the celestial catalytic staff, a Blazer-class ring and a strong magic potion. The Blazer-class ring could potentially add 50% damage in five successive hits, and the strong magic potion boosts 6% + 20 levels - so a player would receive a 25% bonus with 99 magic.

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Celestial Catalytic Staff vs Empowered Fire Staff
There has been much debate about which staff is the best in Dungeoneering. While the Celestial Catalytic Staff has the highest potential damage for elemental spells and is more accurate than the Empowered Fire Staff, one should consider that the latter may be useful in situations when minimal Runecrafting is required. For every 100 casts of Fire Surge, one has to craft 100 Death, 100 Blood, 700 Air and 1000 Fire Runes. By using an Empowered Fire Staff, one may take the essence they would have spent on fires and make more blood, death, and air runes, increasing the amount of casts you can do with the same amount of essence. The fire staff also allows for quick casts of High Alchemy in the early stages of the round because only nature runes is required. If one were to compare the max hit of Wind Surge with Celestial Catalytic Staff and Fire Surge with Empowered Fire Staff in the early stages, Wind Surge would deal 286 damage while Fire Surge would deal 308 damage. However, bear in mind that the latter the less accurate because of the magic attack bonus on the staff. However, if one has the patience and funds to craft the runes for Fire Surge on the Celestial Catalytic Staff, one will often see higher and more accurate hits that sometimes draw envy from melee users.

With the help of the Celestial surgebox (counting not as one of the player's precious bound items, but as ammo instead), Runecrafting demands become much more realistic because the player only has to worry about crafting fire runes at the beginning of a dungeon. One step further, if the player binds both a Surgebox and an Empowered Fire Staff, they would start the dungeon ready to go with 125 casts of fire surge - the Celestial Surgebox supplying the airs, deaths, and bloods, and the Empowered Fire Staff supplying the fires. The runecrafting needs of using a Celestial Catalytic staff become much more manageable with the help of a Celestial Surgebox - requiring only fire runes as opposed to fires, deaths, bloods, and airs, thus allowing the player to benefit from the Celestial Catalytic Staff's damage boost with minimal impact on runecrafting demands. With either staff choice, binding a Celestial Surgebox is HIGHLY recommended.


 * Also worth considering, an Empowered Fire Staff can be crafted with relative ease by a player with at least 70 woodcutting (to chop corpsethorn branches ), 78 fletching (to fletch a corpsethorn staff ), and 80 runecrafting (to imbue the staff into an Empowered Fire Staff), while the Celestial Catalytic Staff can only be received as a drop.

Trivia

 * The staff's examine text states that it is a tier 3 staff. This is correct, as the tier 1 and 2 staves are the catalytic staff and empowered catalytic staff, respectively. However, the staff is sometimes referred to as a "tier 11 staff", in keeping with the tier patterns for other level-99 equipment.
 * The celestial catalytic staff resembles the chaotic staff in appearance.

Celestial catalytic staff