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Black Witch's Staff+10 Stats
					0										100
					220(*263)(*205)										10
					220(*205)(*205)										15
					220(*205)(*205)										30
					220(*205)(*263)										2.5
Requirements & Bonus
-				-				20				20
A				C				B				A
Weapon Type								Stave
Attack Type								Spell/Strike
Enchantable								No
Special								No

*When infused: 212 magic dmg/287 elemental dmg

Black Witch's Staff is a weapon in Dark Souls 2.

Staff used by Leydia Witches. Imbued with a special magic, making it a catalyst for sorceries, miracles, and hexes.

Leydia apostles are adept at magic, and wielded unique weapons, but were deemed blasphemous and slaughtered.

Effect: Use Sorceries, Miracles, and Hexes. 

Acquired From

• Peculiar Kindalur
• Leydia Witch
• Mimic drop in Aldia's Keep (trapped in a cage in the Main Hall)

Hints and Tips:

• This staff can be used to cast sorceries, miracles and all hexes, making it the most versatile staff in the game.

• Extremely useful for allowing multiple different utility/buffs across all forms of sorcery with only using 1 slot in your equipment screen. Since buffs do not scale in Dark Souls 2, this staff is perfect as a non-primary utility/buff casting option on the go. ("Utility" as in useful for all non-offensive forms of sorcery like repair, hush, force, great magic shield, resonant flesh and others if the player does not want to use this as a primary sorcery option or any use magic but just wants to buff.)
• You can also infuse the staff to make it be dedicated to specific magic, for instance infuse with Darknight Stone to make it Hex dedicated, and Faintstone to make it Sorcery dedicated.
• Dark Black Witch's Staff is actually a decent staff for hexers, while being inferior to Sunset Staff, the ability of casting both Hex Miracle and Hex Sorcery cannot be overlooked, and it's actually superior to Dark Idol's Chime.
• Thanks to the staff's versatility, you can perform extremely powerful combos that are impossible with normal staves.
• A notable surprise tactic is to use this staff to cast Profound Still and then go for other spell casting to gain advantage over caster opponents.
• However, even after infusion, the scaling is inferior to Lizard Staff, Sunset Staff and Staff of Wisdom.
• Although inferior magic infused with 52 int still grant 441 magic bns, only 53 less than a magic staff of wisdom
• The sheer varieties and combinations of spells you can cast with the Black Witch's Staff mitigates for the inferior scaling however.
• Lightning scaling reaches B upon +10, but it cannot be infused with Boltstone, meaning that it is not quite as good as a lightning miracle chime.
• curiosity testing showed that the staff produced a staff striking sound when functioning as a chime for many miracles and hex based miracles.
• Sanctum Shield shares similiar feature of this staff, can be used for casting sorceries, miracles and all hexes as well, but the scaling is inferior to this staff.
• Oddly, the bashing damage of this staff is actually quite decent due to its multiple attack values bonus.
• The staff has fire damage and scaling which is odd considering it can't cast pyromancies.

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Black Witch's Staff Upgrades

	Attack ValuesBonus						Parameter Bonus						Auxiliary Effects		Damage Reduction (%)					Cast Speed
Name
Black Witch's Staff	0	110	110	110	110	100 10			A	C	C	A	-	-	25.0	30.0	20.0	20.0	20.0	120
Black Witch's Staff +10	-	220	220	220	220	^	-	-	A	C	B	A	-	-	25	30	20	20	20	120
Magic	-	131	102	102	102	^	-	-	A	C	C	A	-	-	24.1	35	19.1	19.1	19.1	120
Magic +10	-	263	205	205	205	^	-	-	A	C	B	A	-	-	24.1	35	19.1	19.1	19.1	120
Dark	-	102	102	102	131	^	-	-	A	C	C	A	-	-	24.1	29.1	19.1	19.1	26.6	120
Dark +10	-	205	205	205	263	^	-	-	A	C	B	A	-	-	24.1	29.1	19.1	19.1	26.6	120

• Note: Requires normal titanite shards to upgrade. Enchantable with faintstone or darkstone.
• Note: Efficient for using hexes, given how it works as both a chime and a staff.

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