Staff of light


 * Sol redirects here, for the Dungeoneering reward, see Scroll of life.

The Staff of light is a unique drop from Ice strykewyrms. It's a one-handed magic staff requiring 75 Attack and 75 Magic to wield. The Staff of light can be used as a Slayer staff to cast the Magic Dart spell. It has stats comparable to the Dragon longsword along with magic bonus. The staff has a +15% magic damage bonus, 5% more than most other magic damage-boosting staves, with the exception of the Chaotic staff.

The staff has a Special attack called Power of Light. When activated, this special attack reduces any melee damage (including magical melee) that is received by 50% for one minute. If the staff is unequipped during this time, the effect is lost (In order to prevent Melee/Ranged users from abusing the staff's special attack). The staff also has a special rune-saving ability; while wielded, there is a 1/8 (12.5%) chance that any combat spell cast with this staff will not use up any runes. When worn with a full complement of Combat Robes, the Staff of Light will activate its rune saving ability approximately 1/5 casts or 20%. When worn with a full complement of Battle Robes, the Staff of Light will activate its rune-saving ability on 50% of your casts, in addition to the catalyst-saving effects of the Battle Robes.It is the strongest one handed non degradeble weapon

Warning: The staff of light has a low alchemy value and will be lost to many other items that have a significantly lower GE price, so use caution when bringing the staff to dangerous areas such as PVP.

Combat and magic styles
The Staff of light gives the fourth best magic attack bonus for any one handed weapon after the Celestial Catalytic Staff or Master wand(+20), and Zuriel's staff, Corrupt Zuriel's staff or Chaotic Staff (+18). The Penance trident has a magic attack bonus equal to that of the Staff of light. The Staff of light gives the fifth best magic damage bonus of 15% (the Celestial catalytic staff gives 30%, the Doomcore staff gives 25%, the Empowered catalytic staff and the chaotic staff provide a +20% damage bonus, and the Catalytic Staff gives a 15% bonus, and the Master wand provides a +10% bonus). Together with Zuriel's staff (or the corrupt version) and the chaotic staff it has the best strength bonus for any magic staff. While most magic staves offer a good crush attack bonus, the Staff of light has very good stab and slash attack bonuses. This is particularly useful against melee players who switch to Black d'hide armour to protect against mages, since slash attacks are very effective against dragonhide.

Trivia

 * The blade tip of the staff looks bigger in the inventory than when it is wielded.
 * The Staff of Light experienced a bug as of June 24, 2010 as the new update was brought in; the bug caused the special attack of the staff to be defective, showing the message "you need the Staff of light equipped to do that."
 * There was a glitch where The Staff of Light's rune saving ability worked in free to play; This has since been fixed.
 * The bladed part of the staff looks like a smaller version of a Saradomin Sword, also the hand-guard looks like the symbol of Saradomin when viewed from the top of the staff downward. Confusing people who have seen it thinking they can get it from Saradomin boss room in God Wars, this is not true.
 * The Staff of Light and the Godsword hilt have a similar examine information.
 * This item could not be lent out for the first 8 days after its release. However, an update on February 16 2010 changed that.
 * The Forge regent's special ability, Inferno, can be used to deactivate the special attack by unequipping the staff.
 * The drop rate is the same as that of an Abyssal whip from an Abyssal demon.
 * The Staff of Light acts more like a glaive or halberd in function due to the bladed tip, as opposed to a staff. However it is most comparable to a spetum due to the blade being double edged.
 * The Staff of Light's special attack appears to be similar to the power Vanstrom Klause uses to defend himself.
 * The abbreviations of the Staff of Light, Sol, spells the Latin, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish and Norwegian word for the Sun, although this is probably just a coincidence.
 * On the day of release, the Grand Exchange price for the staff of light was 10m but players were buying it in junk trades for over 100m.
 * Despite the Staff of Light's lack of a crush attack bonus, its defensive attack style is crush; it is unknown whether this is a glitch or not.
 * When casting a combat spell with the Staff of Light, the user thrusts it in the opposite direction, with its bottom section facing the front. This may be a glitch.
 * Although the Staff of Light resembles a Saradomin item, it will not protect you from Saradomin creatures in the God Wars Dungeon, nor will it change you in Castle wars entering the Guthix or Zamorak portal. This means that this item isn't related to Saradomin, unlike the similar-looking Saradomin sword.