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Powered staff



Primary type							Magic
Secondary type							N/A

Attack speed

4 ticks (2.4 seconds)

Powered staves are a category of magic weapons that possess a built-in magic spell that can be used regardless of the spellbook the player is using. The built-in spells give no base experience and grants the player 2 Magic experience per damage dealt.

They are typically charged with runes or coins to automatically cast magic projectiles. Unlike other Magic weapons, they cannot be used to autocast spells. In addition, they have an attack speed of 4, faster than other magic weapons, which have an attack speed of 5. The Tumeken's shadow, however, has an attack speed of 5 and the Eye of ayak has an attack speed of 3.

Powered staff spells cannot be cast upon other players in the Wilderness, except for Thammaron's sceptre and the accursed sceptre. The only way that they can be used against other players is during the Castle Wars, TzHaar Fight Pit, and Soul Wars minigames, as well as the Clan Wars minigame if the clan leaders enable it.

Combat styles

	Attack type	Weapon style	Level boost
Accurate	Magic	Accurate	+3 Magic
Accurate	Magic	Accurate	+3 Magic
Longrange	Magic	Longrange	+1 Magic, +3 Defence

List of powered staves

Item		Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
Item
	Starter staff	0	0	0	10	0	2	3	1	10	0	0	0%	0	0	1.814
	Warped sceptre	0	0	0	12	0	2	3	1	12	0	0	0%	0	0	1.814
	Bone staff	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	2.267
	Trident of the seas	0	0	0	15	0	2	3	1	15	0	0	0%	0	0	1.814
	Thammaron's sceptre	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	0	20	0	0	0%	0	0	0.198
	Trident of the seas (e)	0	0	0	15	0	2	3	1	15	0	0	0%	0	0	1.814
	Accursed sceptre	0	0	0	22	0	0	0	0	20	0	0	0%	0	0	0.198
	Trident of the swamp	0	0	0	25	0	2	3	1	15	0	0	0%	0	0	1.814
	Trident of the swamp (e)	0	0	0	25	0	2	3	1	15	0	0	0%	0	0	1.814
	Dawnbringer	0	0	0	25	0	2	3	1	15	0	0	0%	0	0	1.500
	Sanguinesti staff	0	0	0	25	-4	2	3	1	15	0	0	0%	0	0	1.500
	Eye of ayak	0	0	0	30	0	1	5	5	10	0	0	0%	0	2	2.000
	Tumeken's shadow	0	0	0	35	0	0	0	0	20	0	0	0%	0	1	5.000
	Crystal staff (basic)	0	0	0	84	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	0	1	1.360
	Crystal staff (attuned)	0	0	0	128	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	0	2	1.360
	Crystal staff (perfected)	0	0	0	184	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	0	3	1.360

Maximum hit

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Charge costs

	Resource	Cost/Charge	Charges Held	Total Cost to Charge	Casts/Hr	Cost/Hr
Warped sceptre	2× Chaos rune 5× Earth rune	237	20000	4,740,000	1500	355,500
Bone staff	1× Chaos rune	106	20000	2,120,000	1500	159,000
Trident of the seas (e)	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 10	326	20000	6,520,000	1500	489,000
Trident of the seas	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 10	326	2500	815,000	1500	489,000
Trident of the swamp (e)	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 1× Zulrah's scales	473	20000	9,460,000	1500	709,500
Trident of the swamp	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 1× Zulrah's scales	473	2500	1,182,500	1500	709,500
Sanguinesti staff	2× Blood rune	748	20000	14,960,000	1500	1,122,000
Eye of ayak	1× Demon tear	302	50000	15,100,000	2000	604,000
Tumeken's shadow	2× Soul rune 5× Chaos rune	1,290	20000	25,800,000	1200	1,548,000
Thammaron's sceptre	1× Revenant ether	172	17000	2,924,000	1500	258,000
Accursed sceptre	1× Revenant ether	172	17000	2,924,000	1500	258,000

Trivia

There are two identical "Accurate" combat styles on powered staves. This is because prior to an update on 21 February 2019, the game did not remember the selected combat style of the previous weapon equipped, and would attempt to move selection to the same position where the style was located. For example, having the "Rapid" style on a bow and switching to a spear would result in it being on the "Swipe" style.
- This proved to be an inconvenience when switching between a powered staff and another weapon, which would often force the staff into the "Longrange" style due to it being in the same position as the "Rapid" style on ranged weapons, and forcing ranged weapons to the "Accurate" style if players switched back to the "Accurate" style on a powered staff. Forgetting to switch the styles back to "Accurate" on a powered staff would result in gaining Defence experience which some players, especially one-defence pures, did not wish to gain, due to being on the "Longrange" style.
- This was remedied in an update on 24 September 2015 by giving powered staves a second identical "Accurate" style to prevent it from switching the combat style for other weapons. However, this was made obsolete with the update that gave the game the ability to remember active combat styles for different types of weapons.

Weapons

Melee

Stab	Pickaxe Harpoon Dagger Sword Hasta Spear Partisan
Slash	Sickle Machete Axe Claws Cutlass Scimitar Scythe Longsword Battleaxe Whip Two-handed sword Halberd
Crush	Banner Blackjack Cane Polestaff Mace Maul Warhammer

Magic

Ranged

	Shortbow Longbow Composite bow Crossbow Ballista
Thrown	Dart Throwing knife Thrownaxe Chinchompa Blowpipe

Other

Magic weapons

Staves

	Staff ⁽⁺⁴⁾ Magic ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Bob the Cat ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Iban's ^(u) ^(o) ^(uo) ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ White ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Slayer's ^(e) ⁽⁺¹²⁾ Twinflame ⁽⁺¹²⁾ Ancient ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Bryophyta's ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Toktz-mej-tal ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Thammaron's (a) ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Ahrim's ^(echo) ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Nightmare ⁽⁺¹⁶⁾ Zuriel's ⁽⁺¹⁸⁾ Accursed (a) ⁽⁺²²⁾ Purging ⁽⁺³⁷⁾
Elemental staves	Air ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Water ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Earth ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Fire ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
God staves	Guthix ⁽⁺⁶⁾ Saradomin ⁽⁺⁶⁾ Zamorak ⁽⁺⁶⁾

Battlestaves

Battlestaff ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Air ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Water ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Earth ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Fire ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Lava ^(or) ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Mud ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Steam ^(or) ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Smoke ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Mist ⁽⁺¹²⁾
Dust ⁽⁺¹²⁾

Mystic staves

Air ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Water ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Earth ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Fire ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Lava ^(or) ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Mud ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Steam ^(or) ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Smoke ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Mist ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾
Dust ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾

Powered staves

	Starter staff ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾ Warped sceptre ⁽⁺¹²⁾ Bone staff ⁽⁺¹⁴⁾ Thammaron's sceptre ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Trident of the seas ^(e) ^(o) ^(eo) ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾ Accursed sceptre ⁽⁺²²⁾ Trident of the swamp ^(e) ^(o) ^(eo) ⁽⁺²⁵⁾ Sanguinesti staff ^(holy) ⁽⁺²⁵⁾ Dawnbringer ⁽⁺²⁵⁾ Eye of ayak ⁽⁺³⁰⁾ Tumeken's shadow ⁽⁺³⁵⁾
The Gauntlet	Crystal staff (basic) ⁽⁺⁸⁴⁾ Crystal staff (attuned) ⁽⁺¹²⁸⁾ Crystal staff (perfected) ⁽⁺¹⁸⁴⁾

Bladed staves

Staff of the dead ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾
Staff of light ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾
Staff of balance ⁽⁺¹⁷⁾
Toxic staff of the dead ⁽⁺²⁵⁾
Blue moon ⁽⁺³⁰⁾

Wands

Beginner ⁽⁺⁵⁾
Apprentice ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Teacher ⁽⁺¹⁵⁾
Dragon hunter ⁽⁺¹⁶⁾
Master ⁽⁺²⁰⁾
3rd age ⁽⁺²⁰⁾
Kodai ⁽⁺²⁸⁾

Croziers

Ancient ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Armadyl ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Bandos ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Guthix ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Saradomin ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Zamorak ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾

Other

Cursed goblin staff ⁽⁺⁰⁾
Salamanders ⁽⁺⁰⁾
Rod of ivandis ⁽⁺⁴⁾
Ivandis flail ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Blisterwood flail ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Void knight mace ⁽⁺⁸⁾
Dramen ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Skull sceptre ⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁽⁺¹⁰⁾
Lunar ⁽⁺¹³⁾
Ancient sceptre _{(smoke) (shadow) (blood) (ice)} ⁽⁺²⁰⁾

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