Staff of light


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The staff of light is a one-handed staff that requires 75 Magic and 75 Attack to wield. It is obtained as a unique drop from ice strykewyrms, which require 93 Slayer to kill. The golden parts of the staff can be recoloured by Xuan for a price of 2,000 Loyalty Points.

The staff of light features a number of properties that are very useful to mages:
 * It boosts Magic damage by 15%, the second largest boost in the game after the chaotic staff's 20% boost.
 * When a combat spell is cast with the staff, there is a 1/8 (12.5%) chance that the staff will negate the rune cost for that spell. This chance increases to 20% when wearing combat robes, and 50% when wearing battle robes.
 * The staff of light can be used instead of a slayer staff to cast Slayer Dart.
 * It has the fifth highest Magic accuracy bonus among staves at +17, behind Zuriel's staff and Chaotic staff (+18) and the master wand and polypore staff (+20).
 * The staff has a special attack, called Power of Light, that envelopes the user in a shield of light which will reduce all melee damage by 50% for one minute. This special also stacks with the Protect/Deflect Melee prayers. (But note Verac the Defiled has a chance to hit full damage through the special, this only happens when his set effect is activated.) The special attack uses 100% of the bar, and the effect will run out if the staff of light is unequipped before the minute is up.

The staff of light is also notable for its offensive melee stats, which are unusually high for a Magic weapon. Its stats are comparable to the dragon longsword, the Longsword has 3+ better stab bonuses, but the staff has +1 better slash and strength bonus in addition to the magic damage boost and accuracy. It is the third strongest in strength bonus one-handed non-degrading weapon in the game (behind the abyssal whip and dragon battleaxe), and second most slash-accurate (behind Abyssal Whip, tying with Korasi's sword and Dragon battleaxe) one-handed non-degrading weapon in the game.

Change colour
In addition, it is now also possible to have your Staff of Light in a different colour, by spending 2,000 Loyalty points, as of 21 September 2011. The parts that are recoloured are the gold areas of the Staff. Available colours for the Staff of light are green, baby blue, light red and a brighter yellow. According to Mod Rathe, the light yellow will be changed to be an inverted version of the original, where the blade and the middle part of the handle will be gold, while the two other parts of the handle will become silver.

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Trivia

 * The rune-saving ability does not work while casting the Storm of Armadyl with this staff.
 * The drop rate is the same as that of an Abyssal whip from an Abyssal demon.
 * This is one of only two staves with a special attack - the other being the Penance trident.
 * When the special effect wears off, the player gets the message "The power of the light fades. Your resistance to melee attacks return to normal."
 * The Staff of light appears to be a combination of the Saradomin sword and Saradomin staff, although it does not provide protection from Saradomin followers in the God Wars Dungeon.
 * There used to be a glitch with the special attack of the staff. People would lend out the staff to a player, then the player to whom it was lent would use the special, return the item, and go to the duel arena. Most of the cases were staking glitches as this would give the player an unfair advantage while boxing or doing something similar to that. This has been fixed.
 * Initially, recolouring the Staff would cause a glitch where the Special Attack would not work until you engaged in combat. This was hotfixed on the same day.
 * There is currently a glitch where if you colour a Staff of Light, then look on the Items Kept on Death, it says the staff is worth 10,000,000 coins.
 * Upon release of recolouring of the staff, It was revealed that the yellow version was supposed to be the colours inverted, (yellow blade, silver handle). This is now being looked into.
 * If a player uses the special attack while equipped with a Divine spirit shield, all melee damage inflicted is reduced by a total of 80%.
 * Even though Crumble Undead is technically a combat spell, the Staff of light does not negate the rune cost for that spell.