Staff (weapon type)

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Slot	2-handed
Style	Magic
Speed	Average (3.6s)

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Staves are magical weapons. Elemental staves are unlimited sources of certain runes when casting magic spells, depending on the element of the staff, and are popular because they save money spent on runes.

All staves give Magic accuracy bonuses. Battlestaves are upgraded versions of normal staves, and mystic staves are enchanted battlestaves. Some battlestaves and mystic staves supply two kinds of runes instead of one: water and fire runes for steam staves, earth and fire runes for lava staves and water and earth runes for mud staves.

Some staves are required to cast certain spells. Examples of this are the slayer's staff or the staff of light, either of which is used to cast the Slayer Dart spell, and the Polypore staff which is required to cast polypore strike spell. There are also three staves called the God staves obtained from the Mage Arena minigame. There are also several miscellaneous staves in RuneScape. All existing staves are listed and linked in the table below.

With the exception of white staves, basic staves have no requirements to wield. White staves require the completion of the Wanted! quest as well as level 25 Magic in order to wield them.

Rune-saving value

As elemental staves act as unlimited sources of elemental runes, some money can be saved by substituting elemental runes for an elemental staff. The following table displays the number of runes that must be saved by an elemental staff in order to break even.

The mystical staff (up to tier 75) is not listed. As of the Build-A-Fayre event in April 2017, the mystical staff provides an infinite amount of fire, water, and earth runes and the staff originally costs nothing, unless lost where it costs 75,000-500,000 coins to reclaim from Diango.

Staff		Cost	Rune cost	Break-even point
	Staff of air	2,013	90	22
	Staff of water	1,868	25	75
	Staff of earth	1,812	18	101
	Staff of fire	1,842	159	12
	Air battlestaff	8,114	90	90
	Water battlestaff	7,974	25	319
	Earth battlestaff	8,028	18	446
	Fire battlestaff	8,011	159	50
	Mystic air staff	24,179	90	269
	Mystic water staff	23,871	25	955
	Mystic earth staff	24,346	18	1353
	Mystic fire staff	24,235	159	152
	Armadyl battlestaff	17,828,844	90	198098
	Camel staff	43,174,962	159	271541

Bonuses table

Item		Level	Main-hand			Off-hand			Attributes			Style bonus			Price
			Style	Dmg	Acc	Style	Dmg	Acc
	Staff	1	None	-	150	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	1,273
	Staff of air	1	None	-	150	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	2,013
	Staff of water	1	None	-	150	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	1,868
	Staff of earth	1	None	-	150	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	1,812
	Staff of fire	1	None	-	150	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	1,842
	Tower mindspike	1	None	-	160	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Rune Mysteries Quest
	Mindspike	1	None	-	202	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Drop only
	White magic staff	25	None	-	381	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	7,333
	Battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	3,012
	Steam battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	12,443
	Air battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	8,114
	Water battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	7,974
	Earth battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	8,028
	Fire battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	8,011
	Lava battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	9,062
	Mud battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	15,757
	Elemental battlestaff	30	None	-	454	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	1,664,044
	Mystic air staff	40	None	-	628	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	24,179
	Mystic water staff	40	None	-	628	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	23,871
	Mystic earth staff	40	None	-	628	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	24,346
	Mystic fire staff	40	None	-	628	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	24,235
	Mystic lava staff	40	None	-	628	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	48,123
	Mystic mud staff	40	None	-	628	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	57,710
	Mystic steam staff	40	None	-	628	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	55,073
	Law staff	45	None	-	734	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	10,000 Dungeoneering tokens
	Sacred clay staff	50	None	-	850	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	26 Stealing creation points
	Ancient staff	50	None	-	850	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	135,580
	Lunar staff	65	None	-	850	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	30,000gp from Oneiromancer
	Nature staff	53	None	-	928	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	12,500 Dungeoneering tokens
	Gravite staff	55	None	-	983	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	40,000 Dungeoneering tokens
	Guthix staff	60	None	-	1132	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Mage Arena Minigame
	Saradomin staff	60	None	-	1132	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Mage Arena Minigame
	Zamorak staff	60	None	-	1132	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Mage Arena Minigame
	Dragon battlestaff	60	None	-	1132	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	309,497
	Toktz-mej-tal	60	None	-	1132	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	122,928
	Ahrim's staff	70	None	-	1486	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	4,984,576
	Crystal staff	70	None	-	1486	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	322,787
	Blisterwood staff	70	None	-	1486	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	The Branches of Darkmeyer
	Enhanced ancient staff	75	None	-	1694	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	135,580 + Elite Desert Tasks
	Staff of light	75	None	-	1694	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	1,842,145
	Polypore staff	75	None	-	1694	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	2,363,490
	Armadyl battlestaff	77	None	-	1783	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	17,828,844
	Sunspear	78	None	-	1829	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	River of Blood
	Zuriel's staff	78	None	-	1829	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	12,452,747
	Chaotic staff	80	None	-	1924	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	200,000 Dungeoneering tokens
	Attuned crystal staff	80	None	-	1924	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	200,000 - 1,000,000
	Staff of darkness	85	None	-	2178	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	Staff of light + Wyrm heart
	Camel staff	85	None	-	2178	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	43,174,962
	Obliteration	87	None	-	2287	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	61,297,046
	Superior Zuriel's staff	88	None	-	2343	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	23,421,675
	Noxious staff	90	None	-	2458	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	165,149,827
	Staff of Sliske	92	None	-	2577	-	-	-	0	0	0	-	-	-	816,692,650

Trivia

• Many staves suffered from a graphics glitch in 2012, when the orbs on top of them disappeared. This was fixed on 17 October 2012.
• Many staves have a bug where if you attack an enemy with Lunar spells enabled, you will see a message saying you need certain runes to cast this spell.
• Staves became two-handed weapons following the Evolution of Combat update.
• The God staves allowed the casting of the three God spells before their removal with the Evolution of Combat. However, You can still use the special attack which requires 25% of your adrenaline.
• At the release of the Evolution of Combat, staffs could still cast spells. However, unlike most weapons, when casting an ability, it did not restart the timer of the cooldown, meaning players could attack a target with the basic attack, then two abilities, and then the player could use the basic spell attack on the enemy without the basic attack cooldown being restarted. Staves also had the same damage rate as a wand. This was fixed in a hidden update which resulted in the basic attack cooldown restarting every time the player did an ability, and also an increased damage boost.

See also

• Wands
• Off-hand Magical items