Albinauric Staff is a Glintstone Staff in Elden Ring. The Albinauric Staff scales primarily with Intelligence and Arcane, with minor scaling in Strength, and is a potent catalyst Weapon for Arcane-heavy characters willing to incorporate Sorceries into their toolkit.
Short staff with a blue glintstone embedded. Wielded by the albinaurics of old.
The albinaurics harbor a secret; they cast sorcery with their innate arcaneness.
Where to Find Albinauric Staff in Elden Ring
The Albinauric Staff weapon can be found at the following location:
- Found in Volcano Manor near the Guest Hall site of grace. Exit the room containing the grace, turn left, then turn left again, heading down the hall with the Caged Albinauric hanging from the ceiling. Go up both flights of stairs, then exit the building through the northern entrance, which is guarded by a Man-Serpent. Outside, make a left (west), then make another left where you will see a ladder leading onto the roof. Climb up the ladder, and then continuing straight ahead, you will see a ledge below, with an open doorway and lit lantern. Jump down onto the ledge and enter the room. The Albinauric Staff, along with the Albinauric Mask, is inside a room with an Omenkiller. [Map Link]
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Elden Ring Albinauric Staff Notes & Tips
- Weapon Skill: No Skill
- This weapon can be infused with the Ash of War: Spinning Weapon.
- Can't be buffed by Magic or Consumables
- Albinauric Staff can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones
- Hemorrhage buildup is increased from thorn sorceries while casting with this staff.
- This Staff has Sorcery Scaling 297 at +25 while at 80 Arcane and 10 Intelligence.
- This Staff has Sorcery Scaling 373 at +25 while at 80 Arcane and 80 Intelligence.
- 10 Int requirement allows you to use the FP-efficient Glintstone Pebble spell as an Arcane character during early-to-mid game, if ranged Magic damage and absolute minimum secondary stat investment are of concern.
- Sell Value:
100. - NOTE: As of Patch 1.09, the scaling values of this weapon were changed. Please refer to the Upgrades Table of this weapon below.
- Other notes and player tips go here.
Moveset & Videos in Elden Ring for Albinauric Staff
Albinauric Staff PvP Poise Damage Values in Elden Ring
Patch 1.10 adjusted PVP Poise Damage of all Weapons including some Spells and Incantations. Please take note that these adjustments are exclusive to PVP.
One-Handed Attacks
- 1H R1 (1/2/3/4/5/6 Attacks): 54/54/108/--/--/--
- 1H R2 (1/2 Attacks): --
- 1H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): --
- 1H R1 Jumping: 81
- 1h R2 Jumping: 216
Two-Handed Attacks
- 2H R1 (1/2/3/4/5/6 Attacks): 70.2/70.2/140.4/--/--/--
- 2H R2 (1/2 Attacks): --
- 2H Charged R2 (1/2 Attacks): --
- 2H R1 Jumping: 105.3
- 2h R2 Jumping: 237.6
Albinauric Staff Upgrades in Elden Ring
Please see the Upgrades page to understand the weapon bolstering process.
Requires regular reinforcement with Smithing Stone [1], Smithing Stone [2], Smithing Stone [3], Smithing Stone [4], Smithing Stone [5], Smithing Stone [6], Smithing Stone [7], Smithing Stone [8], and Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
Sorcery Scaling is based on Int stat. The Int of the character with the staff equipped at the time of posting the Sor Scaling is located in the (Int) to the right of the scaling amount. This will help to give a general idea of what staves are better at various Int levels until MAX is achieved.
The Sorcery Scaling displayed on this table shows Minimum Requirement and Intelligence / Arcane 80 as xx-yy.
| Attack Power | Stat Scaling | Passive Effects | Damage Reduction (%) | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albinauric Staff | Phy | Sor Scaling* | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Sta | Str | Dex | Int | Fai | Arc | Any | Phy | Mag | Fir | Lit | Hol | Bst | Rst |
| Standard | 17 | 107 - 191 | - | - | - | - | 19 | E | - | D | - | C | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +1 | 17 | 108 - 198 | - | - | - | - | 19 | E | - | D | - | C | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +2 | 18 | 108 - 205 | - | - | - | - | 20 | E | - | D | - | C | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +3 | 18 | 109 - 213 | - | - | - | - | 21 | E | - | D | - | C | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +4 | 19 | 109 - 220 | - | - | - | - | 22 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +5 | 19 | 110 - 227 | - | - | - | - | 22 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +6 | 20 | 110 - 234 | - | - | - | - | 23 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +7 | 20 | 111 - 242 | - | - | - | - | 24 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +8 | 21 | 112 - 249 | - | - | - | - | 25 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +9 | 21 | 112 - 256 | - | - | - | - | 25 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +10 | 22 | 113 - 264 | - | - | - | - | 26 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +11 | 22 | 113 - 271 | - | - | - | - | 27 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +12 | 23 | 114 - 278 | - | - | - | - | 28 | E | - | D | - | B | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +13 | 23 | 115 - 286 | - | - | - | - | 28 | E | - | C | - | A | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +14 | 24 | 115 - 293 | - | - | - | - | 29 | D | - | C | - | A | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +15 | 24 | 116 - 300 | - | - | - | - | 30 | D | - | C | - | A | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +16 | 25 | 116 - 307 | - | - | - | - | 31 | D | - | C | - | A | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +17 | 25 | 117 - 315 | - | - | - | - | 31 | D | - | C | - | A | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +18 | 26 | 118 - 322 | - | - | - | - | 32 | D | - | C | - | A | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +19 | 26 | 118 - 329 | - | - | - | - | 33 | D | - | C | - | S | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +20 | 27 | 119 - 337 | - | - | - | - | 34 | D | - | C | - | S | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +21 | 27 | 119 - 344 | - | - | - | - | 34 | D | - | C | - | S | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +22 | 28 | 120 - 351 | - | - | - | - | 35 | D | - | C | - | S | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +23 | 28 | 121 - 359 | - | - | - | - | 36 | D | - | C | - | S | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +24 | 29 | 121 - 366 | - | - | - | - | 37 | D | - | C | - | S | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
| Standard +25 | 29 | 122 - 373 | - | - | - | - | 38 | D(36) | - | B(90) | - | S(210) | - | 23 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 9 |
AnonymousThe trolls harbor a secret; they jump on top of foes with their innate bigness.

AnonymousI don’t know why but for a really long time I thought this staff was cut content

AnonymousIt's a shame how little there is for int/arc, int/faith and faith/arc builds. This scales so poorly, your better off using the carian regal scepter since bleed sorceries aren't good. There are few status sorceries and none of them are arc required spells. No weapons to use that scale int and arc. Many of the spells in game should be int/faith but aren't to make spells more accessible for faith, as if it didn't have the most accessibility on it to begin with. No starting classes, even with confessor being a useless class for stats since it's lowest is 9 arc and int.

AnonymousFun fact: this weapon has the lowest AR of any weapon, shield, staff, or seal in the entire game

AnonymousFor those who want weapons that pair well with this staff, for base game the clayman harpoon is the only weapon that can possibly scale with both int and arc and can be found very early in the game. For dlc the bloodfiend fork and bloodfiend arm can both be made to scale with int and arc too and both are found early in the dlc, but the arm has a hefty 28 str requirement.

AnonymousNotice how the arcane (you know the stat that increases DISCOVERY) staff is looted by a standard location, but a bunch of others not associated with the attribute that increases item discovery must be farmed? Mikhail Zakovic you truly are a cruel man

AnonymousYou may use it for your little thorn spells but I use it for my awesome cool amazing beautiful bubble sorceries. Works great with occult clayman harpoon too, literally perfect synergy. Land octopus helm and the astrologer armor for the awesomest hydromancer build ever.

AnonymousLow-level incantations have a (pretty justified) reputation for being great on an arc build, but a little bit of int investment is great as well. 19int gets you glintstone nail and carian slicer, which are fantastic, and 14fth gets you catch flame and other low-level spells, you could even bump it up to 16 for fire serpent. Arcane essentially lets you funnel sorcery, incant and weapon scaling into a single stat and then pump that stat to infinity, if you use it like that it's a monster.

AnonymousThis and the Dragon Communion Seal turns Arcane builds into Hybrid casters with enough minimal Intelligence and Faith investment. 16 Int 14 Faith I find is a good amount of investment, lets you cast things like Rancorcall, Bloodboon, and Unseen Form. Bloodflame Talons into Catch Flame, Swarm of Flies and Magic Glintblade, Carian Slicer, Swift Glintstone Shard, and gimmicky stuff like Whirl, O Flame! and Magic Downpour.

AnonymousPair this with Bloody Helice for crazy mixups with your casting using the Helice's Ash. Am I gonna cast Glintblade's & then spin into the R2 or am I gonna follow with the Carian thrust spell, what about Adula Blade, or double spin into a Comet blast or a big hammer bonk? Who knows? But the advantage is to keep people guessing & also have a good rundown or get away tool with your casting. At 72 Arcane & 48 Int it sits at a comfy 354 & the Helice sits at a good 604 with Salza's Hood & Rakasha chest piece.

AnonymousI like to farm aubinairics in Liurnia and walk inside Volcano Manor wearing Albinauric Mask and Dirty Mail.

AnonymousThis and occult clayman harpoon sounds like the beginning of an interesting Drowned Witch build

AnonymousIf you're using this with Albinauric Head, and using any throns magics...
Then, you are All Being Naughtics.
AnonymousOkay, so if Character Planner is correct, ypu can get 324 Spellbuff with 60 ARC and 32 INT; moreover, this opens up a considerable list of spells. But to make things even wilder, if you go 60 ARC/32 INT/26 FTH, you essentially have access to the vast majority of Thorn, Death, Oracular, Magma, Dynasty, and Dragon Communion Spells/Incantations, as well as a very healthy selection of standard spells/Incantations. What's more, you can score 320+ Spellbuff on a weightless Dragon Communion Seal as well. Throw on a Greathood for +2 INT/FTH, and you'll unlock access to an even wider selection of Spell/Incantations.
For a RL 150 character, boasting the above stats, pick prophet. Go 40 VIG, 40 MND, 9 END, 12 STR, 10 DEX, 32 INT, 26 FTH, and 60 ARC. Use an Occult infused Clayman Harpoon. Always use Godfrey Icon, Radagon Icon, and Two-headed Turtle Talismans. Otherwise the rest of your kit is whatever you want.
For a grand total of 8 weight Units, you'll have a 600 AR Spear, and a 320+ Spell buff Seal/Staff, as well as the widest selection of spells at RL 150. That's higher spell buff than what you would get if you went 40/40 INT/FTH with Gelmir, Prince of Death, or Great Beyond Staves.
I've been told ARC/FTH is the single worst build in tge game, but... I'm beginning to think the naysayers lack the necessary FAITH to pull the set off.
AnonymousThis is for low int arc users that want to dip with carian slicer, gavel of haima, greatblade phalanx etc, if you level int some more, consider either the maternal staff, or just the carian regal scepter.

AnonymousMight actually have been worth running if they hadn't nuke nerfed the status build up of this. Oh well just Fromsoft things...

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AnonymousPeople really need to stop comparing this thing to the Carian Regal Scepter. It’s like walking into a car dealership and comparing everything to the Ferrari on the rotating stand. The Carian Regal Scepter is designed to have the best Sorcery Scaling in the game without any gimmicks, of course this thing is worse than it in that respect. However, this thing’s gimmick that makes up for that is it scales with arcane, allowing arcane builds extreme versatility. Arcane builds get Bleed, Poison, high melee damage, nukes (dragon breaths), pew pew int sorceries, increased farming ability, and versatile incantations like weapon buffs or swarm of flies. Not only do they get access to all of this, but they do it extremely well, with only small sacrifices in optimization in things like damage. Also, the reason the staff’s arcane scaling doesn’t apply bonuses to status effects in spells is because that’s not how arcane or casting tools work. Bloodflame Blade’s bleed doesn’t scale arcane even with the Communion Seal. In fact, its damage scales off faith. This thing is purely for giving arcane builds a good option to get access to the high damage per second sorceries while still having very good scaling compared to most staves. This means that arcane builds have the most options of any build in the game, and can therefore be the deadliest build of any in the game due to the ridiculous amount of counters they can pull out of their back pocket. — The Fist of Fury

AnonymousRemember that spell buffs only scale with their corresponding attribute, so while putting scholar's armament on the ripple blade or halberd sounded good you're getting very little benefit with minimum intelligence

AnonymousBeen having a bit of fun with this. 80 arc 14 int gives 300 sorcery which gives decent damage output for pebble spam, trash control with Glintstone arc and slicer. 80 arc 10 fth gives the dragon Seal 311 scaling enabling you to rock socks with the Bayle incants and allows you to get 621 ar on the ripple blade (after Tear Mask damage reduction), whilst also making blood grease very effective.

AnonymousThis is my go to staff, I have 50 int 80 arcane and 60faith. I use the thorns Spells boosted by guilty staff and alberichs set us the albinauric staff boosts my blood build up. I also have the dragon communion seal with dragon claw and bayles tyranny, and for melee damage I use the good old rivers of blood

AnonymousI wouldn't recommend you build your character like this, but at +10 and at 40/40/40 Int/Fai/Arc this is 311 sorcery scaling.
Would complement the frenzied flame seal at 300+ Incant scaling if you also have decent strength. So these two are for the jack of all trades out there.
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AnonymousThe recent takes here on this staff are terrible.
20% more bleed on ranged bleed spells that pve can’t dodge on already good arcane builds.
Terrible theory crafting posts.
AnonymousErm... Not sure what these comments are on about. This staff softcaps at 30INT/45ARC with over 300 scaling. Do the math, this thing is a beast. It scales better than Regal Scepter, you guys are just going too high in level.

AnonymousI tested this with 80 intelligence and 80 arcane, +25. Performance is the same as Regal Scepter +10 with 80 intelligence. I would say that due to the very high investment for a more easily achieved reward, this is not useful for either arcane or intelligence users.

AnonymousI tested this with 80 intelligence and 80 arcane, +25. Performance is the same as Regal Scepter +10 with 80 intelligence. I would say that due to the very high investment for a more easily achieved reward, this is not useful for either arcane or intelligence users.

AnonymousCame back to this staff recently. The subpar scaling would make sense if there were a lot more status effects and spells to inflict them. Even then it would need some kind of built in bonus to justify it in comparison to applying the status via weapon infusion, ammunition, or craftable items.

AnonymousMost pointless staff in the game. The bleed build up boost is barely noticeable so you're still better off dual wielding staff of the guilty on a pure faith build which has an ok scaling but gets the double boost. It doesn't boost claymen sorceries (why?), and using the arcane scaling on basic sorceries when staff of the guilty has slightly better scaling when both are at 10 int and 80 of their respective stats but faith actually has an entire catalog of incantation. Pure Arcane has the Bayle incantations. That's it. And if you're splitting with int already, I don't see the point of triple dipping with faith for dragon communion and have your stat spread be a mess. Let's face it, arcane just has better synergy with faith. It doesn't synergizes well at all with intelligence.

Anonymous327 Sorcery Scaling at +25 with 45 Int & Arc. It's not the most in the world, but that's still on par with a +10 Regal Scepter at 70 Int (which gets 330 scaling). That's really not bad, for a staff that's dunked on so often and so heavily. If anything I'd say the lack of status-bases sorceries is the biggest thing holding it back. I'll gladly take a bit less scaling for more build-up.
I'm just saying, FromSoft: Death Sorceries that deal holy damage and that proc Deathblight on basic mobs. Don't care if they have Faith requirements, I'd run them.
AnonymousThe limited number of int/arc options in elden ring is disappointing considering how there was an entire school of sorceries dedicated to int/luck in ds3.

AnonymousFolks say that scaling barely changed, but that isn't the full story. The new softcap is 43 instead of 45, and you get more scaling from 30-45 and less after.
This means it is better now to reach 43 arcane and then level int past 30. It also gives a better investment path post 150, and leaves a small tradeoff between hitting 50 for ash scaling or levelling alt scaler for spells.
That is, ff you are min-maxxing this (and if you are reading the wiki, and not interested in that, what exactly are you doing?)
AnonymousHas anyone noticed a difference in sorcery scaling with this staff? It was one of the staffs buffed today in June 20th 2024 patch

AnonymousThis is the most versatile staff in the game imo. Imagine having a pretty equal leveled char with dex 30-40 int 30-40, faith 25 and arcane 45 you can run this and dragon seal and are now able to run spells and incants with each around 300 spellscaling. also have options for bleed and poison infusions. so you can nearly use everything you pick up (beside STR based stuff) in the game and test it.

AnonymousThis is single handled the most versatile staff in the game.
Imagine: you have an relatively equal leveled char. dex 30-40 int 32 faith 25 and arcane 45 (with tears and talismans) you can use incants with dragon com. seal scaling about 300 and sorcerys with this staff scaling about 300 in the same build. thats crazy.
AnonymousAt max stats, this is the 3rd highest scaling staff at a flat 400 scaling, only being outperformed by Lusat’s and Prince of Death’s

AnonymousSo it does not make the clayman sorcery stronger? Because they require arcane.

Does this affect the self bleed buildup on aberrant sorceries?

Anonymous
AnonymousHemorrhage build up is INCREASED from Aberrant sorceries
From what I understand this increase is pretty negligible and both sorceries are pretty niche
AnonymousCombine this with Rivers of Blood for a fun and disgustingly powerful frost/bleed build that melts in PvE. Level arcane to at least 40-ish, and int to 32 for abdula's moonblade, 18 dex for RoB. Use abdula's plus icecrag/mist to proc frostbite, and then use RoB, which resets the frostbite with its fire damage while building bleed at the same time. Rinse, wash, repeat, and dance on the frostbitten, burnt, bloodless, corpses of your enemies.

Anonymoushead right from the grace not left, there's nothing there to your left. I got confused for a sec I thought there was some illusory wall and I was getting trolled lol

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Anonymousokay but I need to know what the heck is the albinaurics' "innate arcaneness"
It kinda sounds dumb no? Is it just me?
Like "Blastoise harbors a secret, it shoots hydrocannons with its innate wetness"
It feels redundant to me
Anonymousoh wow I just equipped this thing and man it’s adorably small. Perfect since I’m planning on just using it for pebble on my arc build. It’s such a cute little sidearm.

AnonymousI think it should be way more powerful, since It's a split scaling staff, like the Prince of Death's staff.

AnonymousInt|Fai|Arc build sound strange, but not so bad to think.
Note: After softcap we get only +1 or so scaling from every lvl up.
Arcane staff with 31 int softcap and 45 for arcane. For 1 more level in int we get Adula`s blade and +1 scaling. If we really don`t want to invest in INT our stat might be 14(slicer,arc, glintblade and maiden`s mist), 25(Haima`s CABOOM) or 27(Carian Piercer and shard spiral).
Dragon seal with 30 fai and 45 for arcane. There is no actual need for more faith, except Placidusax ruin on 36 and Howl of Shabriri on 33.
If we really dont want to invest in faith our stat maybe 17(basic dragon incantations and lightning spells) and 23-24 for almost every dragon communion incantations.
Albinauris weapons have 11|11 and 12|12 req in str|dex. With some invest in dex we get Rivers of blood and Eocaid(12|18). With even bigger invest in str|dex(+5-6 lvl) we get Occult Halberd|Bloody helice|Naginata
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All of this obtainable on lvl 120-150.
AnonymousI just tested with a friend, and at 70 arc with two of these staves, one cast of briars of sin (just hitting lb once and not three full times), caused him 60% bleed buildup, and about 40% bleed and slightly more damage with one Albinuaric Staff and one staff of the guilty. I'm gonna say with Briars, pick a focus. Either they need to be primarily upfront damage for you, or just forget the damage and go for the max bleed buildup, but don't bother trying to do both. Both work well. On my level 300 with PoD staff and 403 sorc scaling, both briars sorceries do great damage but little bleed - sin can kill 50 vig opponents with a full three hit cast. On my level 150 arcane build, with arcane at 70 and either alb staff x2 or x1+guilty, and faith at 25, they do noticably less damage (still decent), but *lots* more bleed.

Anonymouswish this boosted bubble spells. the small bubbles in particular really need it, they're so trash

AnonymousBefore chain casting was removed, this was the choice staff for a fun Marika's soreseal build. You need Int/Arc to do good damage with this staff, and Arc will help build up bleed with Briar sorceries, but you also need Fth to cast Briar sorceries, so while we're in the neighborhood why not sprinkle in Death and Magma? Shard Spiral into Briars of Sin was a super good combo, but it's impossible now. Could still be fun if you want to do a dedicated caster run and have as many options as possible, but it's not at all good anymore, if it ever was. Too many stats required, not enough payoff

AnonymousWhat Briars Of Sin and Briars Of Punishment are good with this staff? Holy blood... loss slow but HOLY BLOOD LOSS!

Anonymous
AnonymousDoes this staff scale equal to the Dragon Communion Seal? I get about 320 incant scaling with the seal at 45/45 FAI/ARC. Will I get the same with the staff at 45/45 INT/ARC?

Is Death Blight buildup from Fia's Mist affected by arcane scaling with this?
...there really aren't many spells that inflict any status, let alone one that isn't frostbite.
This staff actually pairs really nicely with Dragon Communition seal.
Just int/ arc is not that amazing, as the only thing you really get for doing it is getting to use Greater Oracle bubble, which isn't that great. At that point you are better off just going pure int.
However, Arc/ Int/ Fth is actually pretty interesting combo, because it gives you a lot of spells to play around with. This combo gets you access to Golden Vow (Fantastic for any hybrid build), Dragon Communition skills, as well as Thorn Sorceries. I would only recommend primarily focusing on Arcane, and getting FTH/ INT just high enough to meet incantation/ sorcery requirements that you plan to use, as the stat gains are very small past 30 int/ fth.
My current hybrid has 28 FTH, 35 intelligence and 45 arcane, which lets me use all of the skills that I mentioned above, while still having 310+ incantation scaling with the Dragon Communition seal, and 310+ sorcery scaling with Albinauric staff respectively.
Cool thing about Arcane is that it's probably the easiest stat to boost, with equipment like Silver Tear Mask (+8 arcane for basically free), so assuming you picked Wretch (Actually optimal choice for this sort of build), you only need 18+ 25+ 27 attribute points to get this stat split, which equals 70 points invested.
A pure int/ pure fth builds will need 80 int/ 80 fth for optimal performance, achieving 370+/ 350+ sorcery/ incantation scaling respectively, with Regal scepter/ Erdtree seal. This means that a hybid int/fth/ arc is actually not too far behind in either scaling, while getting to use both catalysts instead of just 1, in addition to getting the status effect build up from Arcane investment.
AnonymousDespite the nerf to how it behaves with Thorn Sorceries this staff is still excellent as a Sorcery casting tool, you're missing out on so much potential if you just use this with 10 Intelligence and Glintstone Pebble.
At 22 Intelligence and 45 Arcane, enough Int to use Glintblade Phalanx, this staff hits a Sorcery Scaling of 285, for comparison the Gelmir Glintstone Staff at 45/45 Int/Fth hits 280 Sorcery Scaling, so for 23 less points into Intelligence you have a Staff that outperforms the strongest Glintstone Staff on a hybrid caster build ignoring the boosts that casting tools get with certain spell types.
At 18 Intelligence and 45 Arcane it has a Sorcery Scaling of 274, so the best way to use this staff is to go to 45 Arcane and set aside enough Intelligence for the Sorceries that you want to use, some good breakpoints are;
14 Intelligence: Carian Slicer, Night Maiden's Mist and Magic Glintblade
16 Intelligence: Great Glintstone Shard and Unseen Form (utility)
18 Intelligence: Rock Sling and Night Shard
22 Intelligence: Glintblade Phalanx
23 Intelligence: Ambush Shard
25 Intelligence: Cannon/Gavel of Haima and Great Oracular Bubble
26 Intelligence: Loretta's Greatbow
27 Intelligence: Carian Piercer and Shard Spiral
30 Intelligence: Meteorite
32 Intelligence: Adula's Moonblade
While you can viably to to 45/45 Intelligence/Arcane if you want to, however the gains in Sorcery Scaling drop off quite badly starting at 30 Intelligence (going from 30 Int to 45 Int only grants you 18 more Sorcery Scaling, going from 307 to 325). Unless you really want spells like Night Comet, Collapsing Stars, Carian Phalanx, Glintstone Cometshard, or Stars of Ruin, those stat points are better served elsewhere on your build like in Vigor or Mind.
While Intelligence/Arcane doesn't have the same synergy that Faith/Arcane does, on it's own it's just a powerful tool for casting Sorceries when built correctly, complement it with a Clayman's Harpoon down the Occult Affinity/Infusion and you'll be hitting rather hard.
Not everything about Arcane needs to be about inflicting Bleed, Poison or Madness you know, sure it's the main selling point, but it's not the only thing that Arcane allows you to do. Sometimes it's just about hitting things rather hard, and this staff allows you to hit things quite hard with Magic.
10 INT requirement allows you to use Glintstone Pebble as an Arcane character and not waste any more points into INT. I see this as an absolute win!

AnonymousThis staff being nerfed is just a causality. It is so niche it probably got nerfed as a side effect of Dragon Communion Seal being too strong. It would be nice if From would compensate the nerf with some damage buffs, but I guess that's just copium, my meme build will be just a little more memey from now on.

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Anonymousman it really seems like sorcery got the short end of the stick in this game

AnonymousLike that they just nerfed this after people finally found a purpose for it a week ago.

AnonymousStatus buildup reduced with this thing in latest patch. From is trying to make you not want to use this.

Anonymousnow that they nerfed the status buildup on this, is it worth to use for thorn sorceries?

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AnonymousI don't understand, I wanted to do a blood mage, I need arcane for the blood proc, and faith to use the spells, but this scales with intelligence??? what a mess

AnonymousAs of 08 April 2022:
At 34 INT/31FTH/50ARC (Silver Tear Mask+Marika's Soarseal) this staff at +25 has 316 Sorcery Scaling, a +10INT/+10 FTH physick brings it up to 328.
Prince of Death+25 at 50INT/47FTH/14ARC (Greathood+Marika's Soarseal) has 280, a +10INT/+10 FTH physick brings it up to 320.
As a RL125 dueling stave for Hybrid casting this is vastly superior by 36 Incant scaling with without a physick, with the same physick it still outscales it by 18 Incant Scaling. Both are using the exact same stat investment into casting stats using the best overall stat boosting headgear for Incant Scaling (using the +6 INT Twinsage Crown is 284 without physick, 324 with, which is +4 Incant scaling for a higher penalty, that is still worse than this staff).
For RL150 or higher builds the Prince of Death Staff will out scale this, as this hard caps at 45INT/45ARC, where the Death Staff scales better after 45INT/45FTH. Death Spells, if you really like them will also generally do more damage using the Prince of Death staff. But for general purpose, lower-level capped builds, I recommend instead going for Arcane over more INT/FTH as it pairs well with the Dragon Communion Talisman (which is about 20-30 Incant scaling worse than the Golden Order talisman if you eschew arcane).
AnonymousAt max stats: Albinauric staff has 400 sorcery scalling, while Prince of Death has 448, Lusat 430 and Carian Scepter 388.
Only worth using on an arcane build or using the thorn sorcery as it does not boost frost build up.
So what I'm seeing, since this staff has Arcane scaling, anything that procs off of it is potentially better? If it's true it certainly has very good potential in the related builds. But so far I think I'd be better off with Carian Regal so I can get a better overall stat spread.

Anonymousthe same problem like prince of death staff, only worse, it needs 80int and 80 arc to be exactly the same as CRS(373), both prince of death's staff and this one should be buffed a little by lowering its softcap so you still need more points but not like 47 or 70 more points to make it equal to CRS.

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Anonymous"A decent amount of effort went into the dragon communion seal but its staff counterpart seems tacked on and underwhelming."
All weapon buffing incantations are currently broken when scaling off of anything other than faith, so the Dragon Communion Seal is actually far less useful than this staff IMO.
AnonymousCan somebody confirm if this staff with high Arcane builds up Death faster with Fia's Mist?

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1.03 at 60 int 58 arcane, this staff provides 343 spell scaling... which rivals the carian royal at 76 int which has 356 spell scaling. This opens up a very broad spectrum of spells and incantations, scaling things like swarm, dragon incantations, while keeping regular sorceries nearly as powerful... If you're willing to go beyond the 150-160 level range outside the pvp meta, you could potentially see better scaling than the regal.

AnonymousA decent amount of effort went into the dragon communion seal but its staff counterpart seems tacked on and underwhelming.

AnonymousA decent amount of effort went into the dragon communion seal but its staff counterpart seems tacked on and underwhelming.

AnonymousThis staff PROCS the thorn sorceries bleed better than guilty.

AnonymousI mean you could make a blood mage with briar of sin and punishment with a 45/45 build...bit of an outliner build and only two spells. Maybe even add bloody halice to the mix of it but seems like it would be very stat heavy since it those spells cost hp instead of FP.

Anonymousdoes anyone know how much sorc scaling this staff have at +25 post patch?

AnonymousDoes this increase buildup (via arcane scaling) like the Dragon Communion seal does?

AnonymousI read online the soft caps for sorceries in INT are 60 and 80 and in ARC 30 and 45. Does that mean there is no reason to get ARC over 45 when using this staff or is this information wrong?

AnonymousI read online the soft caps for sorceries in INT are 60 and 80 and in ARC 30 and 45. Does that mean there is no reason to get ARC over 45 when using this staff or is this information wrong?

Anonymous290 sorcery scaling at 14 INT 70 ARC at +25, in case you just wanted to shoot pebbles and use slicer I guess. For some reference carian regal scepter has 330 at 70 int.

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Anonymousanyone know how the 80 INT/80 ARC scaling for this staff compares to 80 INT/80 FTH for the Prince of Death's Staff?

I'm curious what the intended use for this is. Like, obviously Arcane builds, lets not be pedantic, but I don't know where the overlap is between Arcane bleed builds and sorceries, especially if you still need to meet the Int prereqs for them. Would be nice if there were more than two Sorceries that have Arcane prereqs, like how the whole Dragon Communion system relies on Arcane and as such the Dragon Communion Seal has a distinct and obvious purpose. Alby staff just has some bubbles.
Ah well. I suppose there could be some handy edge case where this would have utility over other staves. Maybe a bleed build using Scholar's Armament and Night Maiden's Mist for a low-Int hybrid caster?
AnonymousAre thorn sorceries worth upgrading this thing? I havent tried them but it seems like just 2 variants of the same spell

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Anonymoushttps://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Interactive+Map?id=4524&lat=-90.8125&lng=60.41737&zoom=8&code=mapA is the location

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AnonymousAs a blood arcane build, I felt like I wasted my starting class as prisoner until I found this. It has great scaling, allowing very low int investment for the tricky times you need to cheese something from afar or deal with ranged enemies.

AnonymousThis staff is excellent if you build around it, except for one problem - it appears that the arcane stat's bonus is not taken into account for weapon buff spells. Maybe it's linked to the same problem that causes many arcane-scaling weapons to not have damage scaling? Attack spells and such all seem to scale properly, however.

AnonymousWondering where to find and / or farm this? I'm guessing it will drop off the albinaurics wielding staves?

AnonymousSuprisingly strong staff and because the best sorceries are basically the basic ones, this allows arc builds to cast those to great effect without requiring much int.


This, plus dragon communion seal, plus occult infusion is why Arcane is quickly becoming my favourite build. You can make everything scale off one stat and run really varied builds.
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