*When infused: 212 magic dmg/287 elemental dmg
Black Witch's Staff is a Staff and one of the available Weapons in Dark Souls 2. Black Witch's Staff is a versatile staff used by the Leydia Witches, imbued with special magic that allows it to be a catalyst for sorceries, miracles, and hexes. The staff's unique properties allow you to cast a wide variety of spells from different schools of magic, making it an invaluable tool for any magic user. You can also infuse it with different stones to specialize in specific types of magic.
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.
How to get Black Witch's Staff in Dark Souls 2
- Peculiar Kindalur
- Leydia Witch
- Mimic drop in Aldia's Keep (trapped in a cage in the Main Hall)
DS2 Black Witch's Staff 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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DS2 Black Witch's Staff Upgrades Table
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| 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.
Dark Souls II Black Witch's Staff Table Key
Anonymousjust know there's a timeline where this can cast pyros too to justify its fire aspect and i'll be forever miserable it's not this one
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Had to raise my bandit's faith and intellect for the Navalaan questline and found myself able to use this when I went to the shulva. Helped a ton when clearing those spiders there.
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Stick with sorceries and hexes for offensive spells with this staff. The notably inferior lightning scaling means you're best off using heals and buffs, as far as miracles go.
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Hands down most versatile casting tool in the game, great for hex and melee combos, as well as the ability to heal. Casting AoEs like dark fog, Darkstorm, Profound Still and of course, scraps of life can be used to create distance and subsequently pull a great heal excerpt out of your ass, also being able to cast sorceries is just nice as a utility, but it should always be dark imo
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Definitely the best non spell user catalyst, completely useless for spell builds tho.
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Listen to me... Y'all are fools. This staff is f***ing epic. It literally casts ALL sorceries, hexes, and miracles. Including those hexes that require chimes. So this + PF = all spells available to be cast.
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Overrated. This page's text was written by a fanboy, who clearly was writing with one hand on the keyboard and the other on his wang out of excitement for this weapon.
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In case people are wondering, the various resistances enemies have against some types of elemental damage vs others can cause the actual damage to be much lower. The versatility of the weapon is not to be underestimated though. The raw damage posted may be high (in my case, around 1.5k) would only be possible on an enemy with no elemental damage resistance. Even so, One thing i like to do is toss on the clutch rings, and abyss ring, and use hexes to pull, then pummel the enemy to death. Pop a repair, and i'm good to go for next round. The crown of the Iron King keeps my spells up pretty high, so i don't have much to worry about. In a disturbing number of cases, I can do more with a melee swing, than I manage with a Hex!
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Why this thing have fire damage if it can't cast Pyromancies
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I need alot of jelping understanding this weapon, the player status tells me it can do 1400 damage, but i can figure out how to do more than 333 damage against a variety of npc enemies
The Staff can be aquired by lighting all four fireplaces in Aldia's Keep and defeating the Red Phantoms that appear on each one. The Bone Dragon in the first Hallway will then trigger it's animation and drops Aldia's Key. With this key it is possible to open a door on the way the boss and use a lever that loosens all creatures in the keep. One of the wooden Mimics in the hallway then finally drops the staff!
I just got Black Witch's Staff near the front of Undead Crypt.
The two witch's that throw hexes at you can drop it apparently...
Interested to check this thing out due the sheer versatility.
I was using Sunset Staff with 30/30 in INT & Faith.
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