Powered staves

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

Item		Attack Bonuses					Defence Bonuses					Other
	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

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Item		Resource	Cost/Charge	Charges Held	Total Cost to Charge	Casts/Hr	Cost/Hr
	Warped sceptre	2× Chaos rune 5× Earth rune	240	20000	4,800,000	1500	360,000
	Bone staff	1× Chaos rune	105	20000	2,100,000	1500	157,500
	Trident of the Seas (e)	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 10	328	20000	6,560,000	1500	492,000
	Trident of the Seas	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 10	328	2500	820,000	1500	492,000
	Trident of the Swamp (e)	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 1× Zulrah's scales	476	20000	9,520,000	1500	714,000
	Trident of the Swamp	1× Death rune 1× Chaos rune 5× Fire rune 1× Zulrah's scales	476	2500	1,190,000	1500	714,000
	Sanguinesti staff	2× Blood rune	668	20000	13,360,000	1500	1,002,000
	Eye of Ayak	1× Demon tear	250	50000	12,500,000	2000	500,000
	Tumeken's shadow	2× Soul rune 5× Chaos rune	1,307	20000	26,140,000	1200	1,568,400
	Thammaron's sceptre	1× Revenant ether	173	17000	2,941,000	1500	259,500
	Accursed sceptre	1× Revenant ether	173	17000	2,941,000	1500	259,500

• 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 (due to being on the "Longrange" style) which some players, especially one-defence pures, did not wish to gain.
  • 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.