Iron Soul Dungeon Staff Build Guide

The craft

The 80% is the part that catches people out. A failed craft consumes the ore, so the effective cost of a staff is around 12.5 ore rather than 10 — and unlike light weapons, you cannot afford to reroll a staff repeatedly hunting sub-stats. Bank ore before you start rather than crafting the moment you can afford one attempt.

There are 27 staffs in the weapon database, which is the second-largest category in the game after light and heavy weapons.

Stat targets for a staff build

• Critical chance: 80-90%. Staffs sit between light weapons (65-90%) and heavy weapons (90-100%). Do not start stacking crit until Tier 3 — it is expensive early and the returns arrive late.
• Skill Damage over Attack Bonus. Staff damage comes disproportionately from abilities, and Skill Damage rolls most often on staffs anyway. Cap at about four rolls.
• Health Bonus rolls heavily on staffs. Useful, but the guidance is a maximum of two rolls before it starts costing you damage.
• Avoid Base Attack Bonus entirely. It only raises standard attack damage — the least relevant damage source for a staff. Details on the sub-stat page.

Scrolls

Magic scrolls are the staff-class scroll line, and the equipped scroll is one of the four sub-stat carriers alongside weapon, armour and pet. The scroll list groups all 14 by weapon class. Individual scroll effects are not published on the official wiki yet, so this site does not list numbers for them.

Ore choice

Staff crafts use the same multiplier rules as everything else — the higher the ore level, the better the base stats, with hell-mode variants usually carrying a higher multiplier (ore table). Because you get fewer attempts than a light-weapon main does, use your better ore here rather than saving it.

Once you have a staff worth keeping, blessing it to +3 is risk-free and cheap: run the numbers in the blessing calculator.