Storyteller's Staff | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Strongest staff in the game? No.

Prettiest staff in the game? Hell no.

Most fun and incredibly useful staff in the game? 100%

The utility of the WA on this bad boy is tough to pass up. It trivializes mimics, enemies on the other side of walls, and some otherwise quite difficult bosses (as many previous comments have already mentioned). Throw Hidden Body into the mix and let the fun begin!

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Cheeser's staff *chefs kiss*

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I struggled to kill the Crystal Sage in the Grand Archives in one go today until I tried this staff's Weapon Art. Toxic Mist did 24 damage; the Weapon Art did 54. I disregarded this item at first but now I'll definitly keep it. The information below is questionable.

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After testing on multiple enemies, the spores do about middle damage between Poison Mist and Toxic Mist. Current version of the game on PC and on NG+1. Poison does between 7-11 on average, Toxic does between 20-25 on average and the spores does between 12-16 on average

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Soo, this little staff can apply the equivalent of scarlet rot from elden ring, with only 12 Int, and you don't need to upgrade it? Awesome

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Would the poison be considered "miasma" in this case? Since it's more potent than Poison or Toxic?

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SL1 NG+7 main weapon against Gael

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I got this staff on my first character and on my first time going through the Road of Sacrifices. I had no idea it was so OP before searching about it later on. It has become my go to staff, the poison weapon art is insanely useful.

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Gael killer

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Elden ring needs to let us out certain AOWs on staffs, only having spinning weapon is bad

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Can you use the WA on SL1 with 10 intelligence?

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Really sad that elden ring doesn’t have a AOW similar to this, poison mist isn’t the best

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How does this combine with normal poison? If I use this to build an enemy's poison bar to 50% and then finish with a normal poison weapon, which poison will be applied, the strong one or the normal one?

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It's NOT stronger than toxic mist I have tested on multiple enemies.

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Hi Wolnir, I really don't feel like fighting you today, so I'm just gonna exploit your vulnerability to poison. Do you happen to know anyone called Draconic Tree Sentinel, by the way? No? Alright.

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Keep in mind every class is a scholar's ring away from using this, even a warrior with no attunement slots

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ring around the rosy gravetender greatwolf

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This carried my sorcery build through Freide's fight.
(In second phaze, combined with Pestilent Mist which are both casted on Ariandel does an innane amount of damage)
I used Homing Soulmass to stun her/knock her out of her stupid invisibility, then rushed and spammed Farron sword. When she slowed down, I used the chance to stack the poison from this on her, which by itself could kill her if you're a dodging god (or less than 30 equipload+carthus blood ring).
Third phaze, as she's on the ground, cast Pestilent Mist then as she rises, the poison from this. She'll take a chunk of damage and take poison for the rest of the fight. Roll through her attacks then spam Farron sword. If you run out of FP and have Heysel Pick equipped as an extra tool, it actually does good damage alone too.

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Why combine this with toxic mist when you could use that spell slot for pestilent mercury?

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This doesn't do a thing to the Curse-Rotted Greatwood.

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But is it effective against midir..

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"Let me tell you a story about earthen peak" - the WA.

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Great for offing the giant crabs easily first encounter just go to the farron bonfire, then when reentering the woods look slightly left to spot two small trees, get the crabs attention and get em stuck and poisoned
You need to keep hitting their big meaty claws to prevent burrowing, but their attacks are all locked on the trees and you can get their bubbles stuck right into the tree as well

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Pretty good weapon i must say, almost half the bosses can be poisoned, it's a good pressure tool for pvp and you can just combine it with hidden body and cheese a good part of The enemies in this game.

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Does x/200 + 7 damage per second for 90 seconds where x is the enemy's maximum hp.

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Ahh, the cheese staff!

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Amygdala's head? More like a peanut

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"I fear no man. But tha thing... it scares me." -Gael, Slave Knight

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Great for my assassin build in the off-hand swap slot to keep the pressure on with one of the more potent poison saps, and doubles up as a staff for sneaking spells such as Spook and Hidden Body, while applying pressure up-close with fast bleed weapons, and a bow for mid-long range.
Might be far from the best, but doubles up for the stealth assassin type of run I'm going for.

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Pretty good to use on Gael even on NG+++++
Just run around the broken wall with the arch and smoke him with this.

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Correct name: "Crystal Sage Cheese" staff

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Poor man's poisoning weapon also great for low lvl builds

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bane of halflight lmao,

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Hello everyone. It is my first DS game and I was a bit afraid of fighting the dancer fair and square, so I tried using the poison spores to cheese her. She went through the cloud 10 times without taking any damage. I tried embered and unembered with the same results. Poison mist did not work at all either. Has anyone already had the same experience? Am I doing anything bad?

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The Poison Spores will kill Mimics cheesily. They do'nt even get up. Just stand a few meters away, aim down, cast and watch their health go down.

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Get. ****ed. Wolnir.

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This thing was the real mvp in my fight against Gael today. I never thought that there could be an impossible fight for me in these games (besides NG+ cycles 4 kings) but Gael proofed me otherwise. This Staff helped me so much! (And before you ask, I'm at level 420 something, so he hits hard. REALLY Hard!)

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storyteller staff buildup is actually slower than poison mist from my test. tried both out against firekeeper and it takes like about a second of her inside the poison mist to get poisoned and a little bit longer than that in poison spores to get poisoned, though poison spores does deal more damage. can anyone else confirm this? i know in one of the patches they nerfed acid surge, maybe they nerfed poison spores as well?

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I'm trying to use it, but my character doesn't know how to. Any advice? I have enough in Strength and Intelligence and using pyromancy. First time player

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to summarise for anybody reading this in the future: this WA stacks with toxic (but not poison since that's what it builds up (yet is also better than standard poison)), and does best damage against enemies with large healthpools, as it's damage scales with the max hp of the enemy. against high-HP foes, like gael for example, this is far superior to toxic (but use both if you can). for more "conclusive" answers, i recommend you watch dangitjm's video on using poison in pvp/pve - https://youtu.be/QHNO7__TXJk - , or this video on the storyteller's staff specifically - https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ - . i would personally recommend dangitjm's video ;)

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this page shows the staff having a Spell Buff of 60, but I was playing today and mine has a Spell Buff of 100

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I upgraded the staff to +9 and my pyro hand to +9. Toxic mist hits the corvians outside the chapel in ashes for 22 ticks, and the staff for 9 ticks. Not even close, but the damage stacks, so it's still cool to use in combo with the mist. I wonder if the staffs WA got nerfed or perhaps I'm doing something wrong or not taking something else into account, for the info on this page to be correct. I'm interested to see if anyone can clear this up for me.

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I'm not sure this info is accurate. I'm testing on enemies now using a +9 pyro hand and toxic mist, and the non upgraded STS and the toxic mist kills the Corvians at least x2 faster. I'm guessing that my 30 30 intel/faith with the upgraded pyro hand must be the difference. I still plan to use it because it apparently stacks with toxic mist. I saw a video of someone beating Gael just using this staff and the toxic mist pyro, it was crazy.

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bane of regeneration builds

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Its weapon art combined with pestilent mist might be a true nightmare for tanks or slow enemies

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So, is there any point in upgrading this if you're just using it for cheese?

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Just one thing to note. The Poison Spores damage only outclasses Toxic Mist on bosses or deep in NG+. Poison Spores starts at 10 damage/tic and grows quickly, Toxic Mist starts at 21 damage/tic and grows much slower. Also, Poison Spores goes up into the air whereas Toxic Mist stays near the ground. Very important depending on the size of your target, for example, you can't use Poison Spores on Mimics while they are pretending to be chests, but Toxic Mist hits them. Overall, Poison Spores is best on bosses, Toxic Mist is better for trash. Or, just Hidden Body and stack them both.

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Kills NG+6 Grand Archives in two poison casts, 5520 HP

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Apparently (with some searching around on reddit and comments on wiki) the WA for this builds poison meter, not toxic. With this information you could use both this and toxic mist(the pyromancy) to quite a devastating effect, I'd imagine. Haven't tested this, but could be very useful info

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Okay we already know this thing has an incredible WA, but as a Sorcerer's Staff, is it any good?

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The Storyteller’s Staffs poison spores weapon art absolutely destroys bosses like Halflight and Gael. It’s dropped by the Corvian Storyteller‘s in the Road of Sacrifice area.

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Killing Gael with Harpy Farts. So glad I held onto one of these, I almost sold it because of the way the WA doesn’t level.

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***** you Gael

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3/17/19 Update. Storytellers WA did 72 dmg p/t to Wolnor, Toxic Mist 35. Entrance to Smouldering like Mimic 17, Toxic Mist did 24. I won't bother with other results, Toxic Mist gets about double base in NG+, my guess is so it keeps up with HP increase. They didn't bother tweaking Scaling for ST WA. I'd like to think this was intentional but it means it'll be useless except on maybe 2 Bosses beyond NG++ defeating the point of even having it as a in-game option. Heck of a oversight.

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3/16/19. Update; Tested Toxic Mist on first Mimic in Lothric in NG+. 23 p/t and S.T did 15. Will post back later with Cathedral Mimic and a few other tests. Should be noted this is the lowest HP Mimic but it may indicate there's a tiered scaling beyond NG.

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2/26/2019. This is to clear up some misinformation and poor test results. Though this thing is not a magic "Red Button" when dealing with enemies it's incredibly useful when used correctly and tactically. Poison/Toxic Mist for example, it's damage does NOT scale like S.T W.A does. Poison Mist on Guru's around "Old King's Antechamber" Bonfire does 7 damage per tick. Storyteller's does 10 damage per tick. I won't give away anymore tricks but on certain enemies it does 40+ damage, though casting W.A, dodging and hitting build up means most never even try to find out.

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I liked the sound of this and was able to farm 2x of them in less than 15 minutes without any additional luck boosting items or equipment. On the latest patch however this item seems to do no greater damage than atleast poison mist however does poison faster but only by a marginal degree we're talking 15% if i'm being generous. If this is too much for you to read then here's an example. Enemy poisoned via the storytellers staff after 1m [ | | | | | | | | ] hp same -# per second Enemy poisoned via poison mist after 1m [ | | | | | | | | | | ] hp @ same -# per second

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I tested this myself. Poison spores FA is weaker than toxic mist. Toxic mist ticked for 1403 damage with a standard pyro glove +8, while poison spores with a base storyteller's staff and 12 int ticked for 1254 damage on the lothric spear knight upstairs from the dragon barracks on NG. Is there any way possible to boost the damage frodm either one?

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FA is super useful against the Cathedral Knights.

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For those interested, the Farron Ring works with the weapon art. Lowers from 20 FP to 15 FP. The Dusk Crown Ring has no effect on it.

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This weapon is a beast against the slave knight imo. You can cheese him with the wall and this staff, And if you want to use mercury spell, it burns through that healthbar. Also just for fun if your a badass and can pull it off the WA effectively in PVP cheers to you mate, it’s hilarious. Most people don’t keep toxic antidote on the belt espicially tryhards.

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Took 6 tries with 490 item discovery

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A poor trade for Dark Fog. I really miss that spell and the fun you could have with it using a poison infused Bat Staff.

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The information above is false, about the poison damage on the staff. It is not "superior" to poison or toxic mist, except in the case of something with high hp. Poison spores scales drastically with the opponents maximum hp, so it USED to be better then poison mist, even in pvp. Now, it is quite a bit weaker (tested on players with roughly 2000 hp) then poison mist UNTIL the enemy has about 4000 hp or higher, which then it is marginally better. bosses like pontiff on higher NG's will make it scale much much higher, as high as 113 per tick, whereas normal poison mist will still be about 16-18 damage.

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ive got it in the first storyteller enemy in my life also im mage so >:D

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Added poison buildup rate per tick in cloud

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Does reinforcing this weapon affect its WS(Poison Spores)?

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I got this just progressing through the swamp after killing like 3 storytellers on my pyromancer. 7 luck no buffs almost lost it

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Easily the rarest drop in the game. In the 2000+ hours I've put into this game, I've gotten this item 1 time...

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I'm on NG+3 atm and the staff's weapon art isn't working on the black knights in untended graves. Iirc it worked properly in the previous cycles. Is anyone else getting this issue?

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Head's up this was nerfed, not sure when. Just tried it on several enemies and in every case it did less damage than the toxic from poop by a good amount. About 1/3 the damage per tick.

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its freaking hitler's staff

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Do you have to meet the intelligence requirement to use staff WA now? None of the staff WA are working on my characters that don't meet the requirements.

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This thing is a wonder vs Gael.
- Getting an application on phase 1 in probably hardest bit, may take a few casts due to his erratic movement.
- The toxic will be cleared when it transitions to phase 2
- In phase 2 just back peddle from him while dropping clouds. Gael's Crossbow can be dangerous due to the only cast time for the Toxic WA.
- Alternatively, separate yourself from the boss using indestructible parts of the terrain.The Toxic cloud should spawn on the other side of the object while he swings into it.

Ended up killing him with 2 applications + a few soul spears to clean up.
You could very realistically kill him using the Toxic Spores alone if you go for a third cast.

On a side note, as of 17/5/17- the damage vs Old Demon King seems to have been reduced, it now "only" deals about 40~50% of his life as opposed to 90% in a single application.

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Just beat Gael at SL1 because of this make sure you use it in this fight if you are struggling takes 3 poison procs to win.

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It seems to be nerfed, only doing around 30 damage a second rather than the thousands it once did.

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Best way to beat Gael

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Dropping rate: with 114 item discovery it took me about 60 runs. I got 2 hollow gems besides the staff.

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After playing around with that staff just see that poisoning phantoms with it is really difficult, specially other players, did anyone managed to poison an opponent in a pvp match with this staff special?

Also, while being really good to kill some bosses (due the fact that damage it does scales with the boss HP) I found some bosses were close to impossible to get poisoned with it.

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Can poison be built up by other sources, then triggered by the staves WA to get the bonus damage?

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This reminds me of Lobos jr. Kappa Staff.

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This is, really, for casters, your single best bet for MANY of the mobs we have to try and kill. Little gas, run your butt off, and they WILL die. Time consuming, but isn't that better then banging your bleeping head over and over?

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For what duration does it poison foes?

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Is this staff good for deacons of the deep. Im on my second character (a sorcerer) and i always die in part two of deacons?

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Combine with Hidden Body and most things will die in one easy application. Knight Slayer Tsorig didn't last long. It's also not a bad staff in of itself, which is nice, but really you can often swap out in a lot of situations.

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Great for killing Mimics, they don't even agro...

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So I gave this staff to Pickle Pee the first time through (I didn't know how strong the poison was), and now I can't seem to get it to drop in NG+. Anyone else have that issue?

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I took out nearly all of pontiffs health with its weapon skill.

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It seems the spore weapon art for this staff does not work without meeting the minimum requirements first. At 9 Intelligence, using the weapon art does not release a cloud of spores despite costing FP.

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but a staff is a staff and so I'd like to know where it scales in the grand scheme of all the other staffs for spell-slinging.

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Does the weapon art stack with regular poison?

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How well does this staff work against bosses? According to the wiki it did 54 dmg/sec on Pontiff and a previous comment stated that it last a massive amount of time. Does anyone know how long the spell last? To me it seems pretty OP just poison the boss then run away shooting great souls arrow at him.

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The spell buff is 100, not 60

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Tried this out for my luck character (bleed build) I use spook/chameleon but I wanted to see how useful the poison art was.Tested it on the caster mob near the Nameless King bonfire that summons Ricard the Naked.+0 upgrade / 40 luck - 2 casts+10 upgrade / 40 luck - 2 casts+10 upgrade / 14 (base|Thief) luck - 2 castsSeems to have it's own independent build up.

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Its higher than my mist spell coming off my +7 pyro hand. I'm not sure if that matters but still, I thought at first they buffed poison damage. I wonder if the art scales off the staff?

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...you're gonna get this weapon a lot whether you like it or not, since these same Corvians drop hollow gems with infuriating rarity.That said, I can see it being useful since it comes with poison mist basically. Seems like a neat toy to try, when I work around my disdain for it since I have to sell so many of them.

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The poison damage seems really low, but it lasts a massive amount of time. Great for larger enemies. Slowly whittles away their health and one application is likely to last the entire fight. Considering how nice this is I am really torn between this awesome special or another staff that has a higher spell buff.

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Anyone know how to use the specials on the staffs?

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