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Skull Staff
Skull Staff is weapon 1 of 30 for the Mage, and it drops in Lorencia.
Lore
The Skull Staff is every Mage's first staff, a rod of dark wood crowned with a small skull. Lorencia's apprentices use it because bone channels mana easily, and because a skull on the tip frightens more than any crystal could.
It is simple, yet it teaches the Mage the first lesson: mana answers courage. It falls from the creatures roaming the fields of Lorencia, and many veteran mages still keep theirs as a memento of their first spells.
Where Skull Staff drops
| Map | Requirement | Dropped by |
|---|---|---|
| Lorencia | Level 1 | Monsters |
The same item drops on Hard and Hardcore as Nightmare (+40% to flat attributes and +30% to % bonuses). On Hardcore, very rarely, it comes as Godlike (+80%) by letter.
Skull Staff stats by rarity
Base stats of a Skull Staff +0 dropped in Lorencia. Rarity changes the bonuses, and the extra options of Legendary and Ancient are rolled (shown here at the middle of the range).
| Rarity | Stats |
|---|---|
| Common | Total damage +2.1% • ATK +10 • ENE +2 • Dano +1.2% |
| Uncommon | Total damage +3.2% • ATK +15 • ENE +4 • Dano +1.6% |
| Rare | Total damage +4.2% • ATK +25 • ENE +5 • Damage +2% • 🪙 Gold +3% |
| Epic | Total damage +6.3% • ATK +40 • ENE +9 • Damage +2.3% • 🪙 Gold +4.1% |
| Legendary | Total damage +9.1% • ATK +65 • ENE +16 • Damage +2.7% • 🪙 Gold +4.9% • 🩸 Lifesteal +1.4% |
| Ancient | Total damage +12.6% • ATK +102 • ENE +25 • Damage +3.1% • 🪙 Gold +6% • 🩸 Lifesteal +1.7% • ⭐ EXP +6% |
| Primordial | Total damage +18.9% • ATK +129 • ENE +32 • Damage +3.1% • 🪙 Gold +6% • 🩸 Lifesteal +1.7% • ⭐ EXP +6% |
Forging and refining
At the Blacksmith, Upgrade tab, the item goes from +0 to +6 with Jewel of Bless (PT) (always succeeds) and from +6 to +15 with Jewel of Soul (the chance drops at each level; on failure it loses 1 level, never below +6). Each + multiplies the whole piece (+15 makes it 3.23 times stronger). From +16 to +25 is the Ancestral Upgrade (PT), which burns Ancient items. In the Migrate tab, the whole + carries over to the Nightmare or Godlike version of the same item.