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Iban's staff

Released							3 March 2003 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							Underground Pass
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Wield, Check, Drop
Worn options							Check
Examine							An ancient staff, formerly the property of Iban.
Values
Value							42,500 coins
High alch							25,500 coins
Low alch							17,000 coins
Weight							2.267 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							1409
Link							MOID

Iban's staff is a staff used to cast Iban Blast. It is obtained by defeating the evil mage Iban at the end of the Underground Pass quest. Iban's staff requires 50 Magic and 50 Attack to wield. Casting Iban Blast on a monster consumes one charge from the staff and casting it on another player consumes two charges. Casting other spells, like Fire Blast, does not consume any charges. The maximum hit with Iban Blast is 25.

If Iban's staff is lost, Koftik will give a broken staff to the player. It must then be brought to the Dark Mage with 200,000 coins to repair it. If Iban's staff is not protected on death (including PvP), it will be sent to a gravestone.

The Dark Mage in West Ardougne will upgrade an Iban's staff to an Iban's staff (u) for 200,000 coins, which increases the charges it holds to 2,500 instead of 120 and fully charges the staff. A broken Iban's staff can also be repaired and upgraded at the same time for 400,000 coins.

As a melee weapon, the Iban staff is equivalent to a mystic staff.

Upgrading Iban's staff or wielding an Iban's staff (u) is a medium Ardougne Diary task.

Combat stats

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Attack bonuses
+10	-1	+40	+10	+0
Defence bonuses

+2	+3	+1	+10	+0
Other bonuses				Slot

+50	+0	+0%	+0	List

	Attack type	Weapon style	Attack speed	Range	Level boost
Bash	Crush	Accurate	5 ticks (3.0s)	1 tile	+3 Attack
Pound	Crush	Aggressive			+3 Strength
Focus	Crush	Defensive			+3 Defence
Spell	Magic	Defensive Autocast	5 ticks (3.0s)	10 tiles	None
Spell	Magic	Autocast	5 ticks (3.0s)	10 tiles	None

Autocasting options
Standard spellbook	^[a]
Arceuus spellbook
Ancient Magicks

^ Includes Iban Blast.

Products

Item		Members	Skills	XP	Materials
	Iban's staff (o)		None	None	1 × Iban's staff 1 × Demonic staff ornament kit
	Iban's staff (u)		None	None	1 × Iban's staff 200,000 × Coins

Recharging

An Iban's staff or its upgraded variant can be recharged for free by using it on the well where the paladin's badges are dropped in the Underground Pass (not the Well of Voyage that you may first come to).

For directions on how to access the well, see here.

Alternatively, players can pay the Dark Mage in West Ardougne 100,000 coins to charge the standard staff or 250,000 coins to charge the upgraded staff.

Comparison between other magic weapons

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Name		Level(s) required	Magic attack	Magic damage	Price	Notes
	Tumeken's shadow	85	+35	N/A	789,606,420	Requires ⁵ ² per charge of the built-in spell. Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level and can hit up to 34 at 99 without any magic damage bonus. Has a passive effect which triples magic attack bonus and magic damage from the player's worn equipment. The magic damage increase is capped at a total of 100%. Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff.
	Eye of Ayak	83	+30	N/A	39,848,949	Requires either ¹ ² or 1 per charge of the built-in spell. Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level and can hit up to 27 at 99 without any magic damage bonus. Is the fastest Magic weapon in the game with an attack speed of 3 ticks. Has a special attack which consumes 50% of the player's special attack energy and drains the target's Magic defence bonus. Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff.
	Harmonised Nightmare staff	82 50	+16	+15%	542,177,636	Can autocast standard spells only. Standard spells attack one tick faster, matching the speed of a powered staff. Otherwise possesses identical bonuses and benefits to the Nightmare staff.
	Volatile Nightmare staff	82 50	+16	+15%	60,440,670	Can autocast both Ancient Magicks and standard spells. Has a special attack which consumes 55% of the player's special attack energy and deals a high amount of damage with 50% increased accuracy. This attack does not consume runes. Otherwise possesses identical bonuses and benefits to the Nightmare staff.
	Eldritch Nightmare staff	82 50	+16	+15%	135,332,923	Can autocast both Ancient Magicks and standard spells. Has a special attack which consumes 55% of the player's special attack energy and deals a high amount of damage, restoring the player's prayer points by 50% of the damage dealt. This attack does not consume runes. Otherwise possesses identical bonuses and benefits to the Nightmare staff.
	Sanguinesti staff	82	+25	N/A	17,101,663	Slightly stronger than the trident of the swamp, with the same stats but able to hit two damage higher. Requires ² per charge of the built-in spell. Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level and can hit up to 33 at 99 . Has a 1 in 5 chance to deal 8 additional damage and heal the wielder by half the damage dealt. Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff.
	Holy Sanguinesti staff	82	+25	N/A	17,101,663
	Kodai wand	80	+28	+15%	55,851,116	Can autocast Ancient Magicks, Arceuus spells, and standard spells. Provides unlimited water runes while equipped. When a combat spell is cast with the wand, there is a 15% chance that the wand will negate the rune cost for that spell.
	Trident of the Swamp	78	+25	N/A	3,113,831	Has the same benefits as the Trident of the seas, but with +10 more magic attack bonus. Requires ⁵ ¹ ¹ and 1 Zulrah scale (instead of coins) per charge of the built-in spell, and can hold up to 2,500 charges. The enhanced version can hold up to 20,000 charges, but requires 10 kraken tentacles to create. Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level and can hit up to 31 at 99 . Has 25% chance to inflict venom on the target. Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff.
	Trident of the Swamp (e)	78	+25	N/A	5,389,295
	Purging staff	77 50	+37	+10%	39,382,649^{[n 1]}	Can autocast Arceuus spells and standard spells. Untradeable; created from a tormented synapse, iron bar, and battlestaff with 74 Crafting. Has a passive effect that doubles the bonuses of demonbane spells and extends the duration of Mark of Darkness. Currently offers the highest magic attack bonus and magic defence of any magic weapon.
	Toxic Staff of the Dead	75	+25	+15%	7,798,449	Can autocast Flames of Zamorak, Magic Dart, Crumble Undead, Arceuus spells, and standard spells. Has the same benefits as the Staff of the Dead, but with +8 more magic attack bonus. Requires Zulrah's scales to recharge (up to 11,000). Has 25% chance to inflict venom on an opponent.
	Staff of Light	75	+17	+15%	4,833,084	Can autocast Saradomin Strike, Magic Dart, Crumble Undead, and standard spells. Counts as both a Saradomin AND Zamorak item in God Wars. Otherwise possesses identical bonuses and benefits to the Staff of the Dead excluding ability to autocast Flames of Zamorak or Arceuus spells.
	Staff of Balance	75	+17	+15%	24,236,215	Can autocast Claws of Guthix, Magic Dart, Crumble Undead, and standard spells. Otherwise possesses identical bonuses and benefits to the Staff of the Dead excluding ability to autocast Flames of Zamorak or Arceuus spells.
	Staff of the Dead	75	+17	+15%	4,729,311	Can autocast Flames of Zamorak, Magic Dart, Crumble Undead, Arceuus spells, and standard spells. Has a special attack that halves all melee damage the player takes for one minute, which stacks with the PvP damage reduction effect of the Protect from Melee prayer. This consumes 100% of the player's special attack. When a combat spell is cast with the staff, there is a 1/8 (12.5%) chance that the staff will negate the rune cost for that spell. Currently the strongest staff when used as a melee weapon, surpassing the Ancient staff and Iban's staff, and provides +17 magic defence. Counts as a Zamorakian item in God Wars.
	Trident of the Seas	75	+15	N/A	40,034	Has its own built-in spell, requiring charges which cost ⁵ ¹ ¹ runes and 10 coins per cast. Can hold up to 2,500 charges. The enhanced version can hold up to 20,000 charges, but requires 10 kraken tentacles to create. Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level and can hit up to 28 at 99 . Has a weapon speed of 4 (same as scimitars/whip), while all other forms of combat magic only have 5 (same as longswords). Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff.
	Trident of the Seas (e)	75	+15	N/A	2,614,071
	Slayer's staff (e)	75 55	+12	N/A	24,989^{[n 2]}	Can autocast Magic Dart, Crumble Undead, Arceuus spells, and the Wave and Surge spells. Has 2,500 charges and is recharged with a Slayer's enchantment. If used to cast Magic Dart on the player's Slayer task, max hit is 13 + (player's magic level / 6), rounded down, and uses 1 charge from the staff on a hit. Otherwise provides the same benefits as the Slayer's staff.
	Blue Moon spear	75 70	+30	+5%	336,745	Can autocast Ancient Magicks, Arceuus spells, and standard spells. Gain the Frostweaver set effect when used with the Blue moon armour set.
	Nightmare staff	72 50	+16	+15%	29,843,093	Can autocast both Ancient Magicks and standard spells.
	Ahrim's staff	70 70	+15	+5%	132,862	Can autocast Arceuus spells and standard spells. Can autocast Ancient Magicks if equipped with Ahrim the Blighted's equipment and the Amulet of the Damned.
	Ancient sceptre	70 60 50	+20	+10%	60,993	Can autocast Ancient Magicks, and enhances the effects of said spellbook by 10%. Also can autocast standard spells. Requires Secrets of the North completion in order to create by speaking to Eblis to combine an ancient staff with an ancient icon.
	Accursed sceptre	70	+22	N/A	2,781,383	While charged, an additional 50% magic accuracy and damage boost is applied when attacking any NPC in the Wilderness. This effect will stack with a Slayer helmet or a Salve amulet and their variants, but not both simultaneously. Has a special attack which consumes 50% of the player's special attack energy and deals an attack with 50% increased damage and accuracy. Upon a successful hit, drains the target's Defence and Magic by 15%. Standard version: Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level. Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff. Autocast version: Can autocast Flames of Zamorak, standard spells and Ancient Magicks.
	Accursed sceptre (a)	70	+22	N/A	2,781,383
	Dragon hunter wand	65	+16	+10%	10,289,010	Can autocast Ancient Magicks and standard spells. The wand has a passive effect that increases accuracy by 75% and damage by 40% when fighting dragons (excluding Elvarg and revenant dragons) and other draconic creatures, such as wyrms, wyverns, and hydras.
	Warped sceptre	62	+12	N/A	89,322	Requires ⁵ ² per charge of the built-in spell. Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level and can hit up to 24 at 99 without any magic damage bonus. Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff.
	Master wand	60	+20	+10%	5,664,485	Can autocast Ancient Magicks, Arceuus spells, and standard spells. Requires 240 Telekinetic, 240 Alchemist, 2400 Enchantment and 240 Graveyard points, and a teacher wand equipped or in the player's inventory, to purchase from the Mage Training Arena. Thus it does not cost much besides the time and runes spent in the Mage Training Arena.
	Thammaron's sceptre	60	+15	N/A	2,682,586	While charged, an additional 50% magic accuracy and damage boost is applied when attacking any NPC in the Wilderness. This effect will stack with a Slayer helmet or a Salve amulet and their variants, but not both simultaneously. Standard version: Built-in spell damage scales with the player's Magic level. Because the spell is built-in, the player does not need to carry its runes in their inventory and can use Arceuus spellbook, Lunar spells, or Ancient Magicks while wielding this staff. Autocast version: Can autocast Flames of Zamorak, standard spells and Ancient Magicks.
	Thammaron's sceptre (a)	60	+15	N/A	2,682,586
	Twinflame staff	60	+12	+10%^{[n 3]}	9,486,730	Can autocast standard spells, but at a slightly slower rate than other staves (6 ticks/3.6 seconds instead of 5 ticks/3.0 seconds). Provides unlimited fire and water runes. Grants a 10% accuracy and damage boost for combat spells on the standard spellbook. Will automatically cast the appropriate elemental spell for an NPC with a different elemental weakness that what the player is currently autocasting, assuming they have the runes and Magic level to do so. All Bolt, Blast, and Wave spells casted fire a second spell that deals 40% of the damage dealt by the first, rounded down.
	God staves	60	+6	N/A	80,000	Required to cast god spells, but cannot be used to autocast them. Those who have 80 and the respective God cape can use the Charge spell, which increases the God spell's damage by 50%.
	Iban's staff	50	+10	N/A	200,000^{[n 4]}	Only staff able to cast Iban Blast. Can autocast Iban Blast and standard spells. Has 120 charges (2,500 if upgraded). One charge is used when casting Iban Blast on an NPC and two are used when casting it on another player. Iban Blast has a max hit of 25.
	Iban's staff (u)	50	+10	N/A	400,000^{[n 5]}
	Ancient staff	50	+15	N/A	60,993	Can autocast both Ancient Magicks and standard spells.
	Slayer's staff	50 55	+12	N/A	23,874	Can autocast Magic Dart, Crumble Undead, Arceuus spells, and the Wave and Surge spells. Runes required to cast Magic Dart are very cheap compared to spells of a similar level. Maximum hit of Magic Dart is 10 + (player's magic level / 10), rounded down.
	Void knight mace	42 22	+8	N/A	Untradeable^{[n 6]}	Can autocast Claws of Guthix, Crumble Undead, and the Wave and Surge spells.
	Mystic smoke staff	40	+14	+10%^{[n 3]}	1,962,993	Can autocast standard spells. Provides unlimited fire and air runes. Grants a 10% accuracy and damage boost for combat spells on the standard spellbook.
	Smoke battlestaff	30	+12	+10%^{[n 3]}	1,905,086
	Salamanders	30 (Green)	N/A	N/A	102	Unique and versatile two-handed weapons that facilitate the use of all three combat styles. Cannot autocast spells, but instead have their own unique magic attack, similar to how powered staves have built-in spells. Damage done by salamanders is calculated by a unique formula using a hidden "magic damage bonus" unique to each lizard type.
		50 (Orange)			156
		60 (Red)			40
		70 (Black)			330
		80 (Tecu)			393,893
	Croziers	60	+10	N/A	3,598	Can autocast standard spells. Have a notable Prayer boost of +6.
	Skull sceptre	1	+10	N/A	Untradeable	Can autocast Arceuus spells and standard spells. Additionally, the imbued version can autocast Crumble Undead.
	Skull sceptre (i)	1	+10	N/A	Untradeable
	Elemental staves	1 (Basic)	+10	N/A	912	Can autocast standard spells. Provide unlimited runes of their respective elements. Elemental staves (air, water, earth and fire) provide one type of rune. Combination staves (lava, mud, mist, dust, steam and smoke) provide two types of runes.
		30 (Battlestaff)	+12		8,857
		40 (Mystic staff)	+14		24,890
^ Untradeable; price is of the tormented synapse, iron bar, and battlestaff used to create the staff. ^ Reverts to standard Slayer's staff when it runs out of charges, and needs to have a Slayer's enchantment reapplied. ^ ^3.0 ^3.1 Is not shown on Equipment Stats, and applies only to the standard spellbook. ^ Cost to repair the broken staff. ^ Cost to repair the broken staff and upgrade it to Iban's staff (u), which holds 2,500 charges instead of 120. ^ Costs 250 Void Knight commendation points.

Treasure Trails

Tier	Emotes	STASH location	Items	Cost
Master	Dance (clue)	South-west corner in Iban's Temple/Well of Voyage		120,909

Used in recommended equipment

Rank	Method
5	Dagannoth Kings/Strategies (Tribrid (All Kings))
4	Zulrah/Strategies (Magic (Diary kill))
5	Metal dragons/Strategies (Magic)
4	Revenants/Strategies (Magic)
5	Deranged archaeologist/Strategies (Magic)
4	Scurrius/Strategies (Magic (mid level))

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Changes

Date	Changes
6 August 2020 (Update)	Players are notified as the weapon charges approach zero.
31 August 2017 (Update \| poll)	The Dark Mage of West Ardougne is offering a new service of recharging Iban staves, once you've completed Underground Pass, thus saving you from an arduous trek down the Pass itself.
21 August 2014 (Update \| poll)	Iban's staff can now autocast the Iban Blast spell.
24 July 2014 (Update \| poll)	The Dark Mage found in West Ardougne can now offer players a magical-wizardy upgrade to their Iban staff that will allow it to hold 2,500 charges.
27 September 2006 (Update)	A "Check" option was added to see the number of remaining charges.
7 – 14 March 2005	The item was renamed from "Staff of iban" to "Iban's staff". The item's examine was changed from "A highly magical staff." to "An ancient staff, formerly the property of Iban." The broken version was renamed from "Broken iban staff" to "Iban's staff". The broken version's examine was changed from "The staff is unusable in this state." to "I'll need to get this repaired before I can use it."
21 June 2004 (Update)	Fixed a bug which meant that Iban's staff could be wielded at level 49, despite stating a requirement of 50.

Gallery (historical)



RuneScape 2 Beta	29 March 2004 – present

Trivia

Every time the player equips Iban's staff, the game chat will state You equip the staff of Iban.
There was an infamous belief that dropping Iban's staff would cause it to break. The belief originated from RuneScape 2 and was evident for sometime during the early days of Old School RuneScape.
Players can no longer obtain multiple staves by using the drop trick when killing a Disciple of Iban to collect multiple broken Iban's staff due to the changes that came with the release of Prifddinas.