Ancient staff



The Ancient staff is a one-handed staff that, when wielded, increases damage done by magic spells by 10%. It requires 50 Attack and Magic to wield. This weapon can only be wielded after the Desert Treasure quest. The staff may be bought only once (after completion of the Desert Treasure quest) from Eblis, south of the bandit camp, for 80,000 coins. It is also dropped by mummies in the pyramid and the chaos tunnels.

This staff has the symbol of Zaros as its head. It is the third strongest in terms of melee bonuses, behind the Staff of light and the Toktz-mej-tal. This allows players with 50 attack and strength a better alternative to train with than rune weaponry, as it hits higher and is roughly the same speed. However, if a monster has high crush defence then it may be wiser to use a Rune Scimitar or other high slash bonus weapons.

The Ancient staff has a very soft price because it is easy to obtain one of them (except trading) however hard to obtain after then. This staff is therefore very commonly merchanted by Merchanting clans to make money.

Trivia

 * The Ancient Staff is one of two items with a negative prayer bonus, the other being Zanik's crossbow.
 * When dropped on the ground, the head looks smaller than when it is wielded.
 * With the release of the Fist of Guthix minigame, the demand of ancient staves sky-rocketed, as players are able to cast high level Ancient Magicks spells such as Ice Barrage without paying for the runes, since they are obtained for free during the game, and the crowded nature of the game makes it more efficient to autocast the spells rather than cast them manually. At that point, you had to be wielding the ancient staff to autocast Ancient Magicks.
 * On 2 September 2009, this staff was amongst the few to receive the ability to cause 10% more damage with spells.
 * The ancient staff is one of the few items which are said to be connected to the god Zaros.

Ancient staff