Elden Ring Staff Locations

In Elden Ring, there are two primary forms of spellcasting: sorceries and incantations. Incantations scale primarily with Faith, and require Sacred Seal weapons to utilize. Sorceries, on the other hand, scale primarily with Intelligence, and require Staff weapons to utilize. While Incantations offer a bit more diversity, Sorceries tend to be the optimal choice for raw damage-dealing capacity, though your ability to deal that damage is directly proportional to how effectively your Staff slings spells. If you’re not sure what the best Staff for you is, then clearly the solution is to get all of them! Here are all of the Staff locations in Elden Ring.

There are a variety of different Glintstone Staves to choose from in Elden Ring, each with different scalings, requirements, flat damage capabilities, and special abilities. To help you find the Staff that gels best with your playstyle, here’s a list of all of the Staves in Elden Ring, the locations for where to find them, and an abridged explanation of their capabilities.

Elden Ring Staff Locations

Astrologer’s Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 166
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT C
• Requirements: STR 7, INT 16
• No special skill

Starting equipment for the Astrologer class, can also be purchased from the Merchant in Liurnia of the Lakes for 800 Runes.

Glintstone Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 163
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT C
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 10
• No special skill

Starting equipment for the Prisoner class, can also be dropped by Noble Sorcerers in Caria Manor.

Academy Glintstone Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 130
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT B
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 28
• No special skill

Looted off of Thops’s body in the Academy of Raya Lucaria after finishing his questline.

Carian Regal Scepter

• Sorcery Scaling: 140
• Stat Scalings: STR E, DEX E, INT B
• Requirements: STR 8, DEX 10, INT 60
• Special skill: Spinning Weapon: Spins your weapon around your body.
• Passive: boosts full moon sorcery.

Obtained in exchange for the Remembrance of The Full Moon Queen at Roundtable Hold, obtained after defeating Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon.

Demi-Human Queen’s Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 114
• Stat Scalings: STR D, INT C
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 10
• No special skill

Dropped by the Demi-Human Queen in the Demi-Human Forest Ruins in the Weeping Peninsula.

Digger’s Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 141
• Stat Scalings: STR D, INT C
• Requirements: STR 8, INT 12
• No special skill
• Passive: boosts Stonedigger sorcery

Dropped by Sorcerer Miners in various Crystal Cave areas.

Azur’s Glintstone Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 166
• Stat Scalings: STR D, INT B
• Requirements: STR 10, INT 52
• No special skill
• Passive: Reduces spellcasting times, but spells cost more FP

Found on the ground of the crystal-covered room at the end of the hall on the second floor of the Church of the Cuckoo’s in the Academy of Raya Lucaria.

Carian Glintstone Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 163
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT C
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 24, DEX 8
• No special skill
• Passive: boosts Sword sorcery

Looted off a corpse in the Carian Study Hall in Liurnia of the Lakes.

Staff of Loss

• Sorcery Scaling: 154
• Stat Scalings: STR E, DEX E, INT C
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 14, DEX 12
• No special skill
• Passive: boosts Invisibility sorcery

Looted off a corpse hanging off a balcony in Sellia, Town of Sorcery in Caelid. 

Meteorite Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 262
• Stat Scalings: STR D, INT S
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 18
• No special skill
• Passive: boosts Gravity sorcery

Looted off a corpse hanging off a balcony in the Street of Sages Ruins in Caelid.

Lusat’s Glintstone Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 179
• Stat Scalings: STR D, INT B
• Requirements: STR 10, INT 52
• No special skill
• Passive: Increases strength of spells, but increases FP cost

Found in a chest north of the Nox Swordstress & Nox Priest’s boss chamber in Sellia, Town of Sorcery in Caelid.

Crystal Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 168
• Stat Scalings: STR D, INT B
• Requirements: STR 8, INT 48
• No special skill
• Passive: Boosts Crystallian sorceries

Found in a chest in the Academy Crystal Cave in Liurnia of the Lakes. It’s past a fog wall that’s guarded by a sorcerer, then behind an illusory rock wall in the following hallway.

Staff of the Guilty

• Sorcery Scaling: 127
• Stat Scalings: STR D, FAI C
• Requirements: STR 8, FAI 12
• No special skill
• Passive: Boosts Thorn sorcery, builds blood loss if you smack someone with it

Occasionally drops from defeated Fire Monks in Fort Laiedd on Mt. Gelmir.

Prince of Death’s Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 144
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT D, FAI D
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 18, FAI 18
• No special skill
• Passive: Boosts Death sorceries

Found in a tower near the large tree near the Deeproot Depths Site of Grace underground.

Carian Glintblade Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 131
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT C, DEX E
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 22, DEX 12
• No special skill
• Passive: Boosts Glintblade sorceries

Found on the top floor of the Highway Lookout Tower in Liurnia of the Lakes.

Rotten Crystal Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: 168
• Stat Scalings: STR D, INT B
• Requirements: STR 8, INT 48
• No special skill
• Passive: Boosts Crystallian sorceries, builds Scarlet Rot if you smack someone with it

Dropped by defeated Crystallian Mages in the legacy dungeon, Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree.

Gelmir Glintstone Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: Unknown
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT D, FAI D
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 14, FAI 14
• No special skill
• Passive: Boosts Lava sorceries

Rarely dropped by Man-Serpent above the throne room of Volcano Manor. 

Albinauric Staff

• Sorcery Scaling: Unknown
• Stat Scalings: STR E, INT D, ARC C
• Requirements: STR 6, INT 10, ARC 12
• No special skill

Guarded by an Omenkiller in Volcano Manor near the Guest Hall Site of Grace