Staff of the Guilty | Elden Ring Wiki

Staff of the Guilty is a Glintstone Staff in Elden Ring. The Staff of the Guilty scales primarily with Faith and is a good Weapon for inflicting bleed using thorn sorcery.

A heretical staff fashioned from a smoldering, withered sapling that turns the blood of sacrifices pierced by it into glintstone. Similar to hex magic. Sorceries are scaled with faith rather than intelligence when wielding this staff which enhances Thorn sorceries in particular.

Elden Ring Staff of the Guilty Table of Contents

1. Where to Find Staff of the Guilty in Elden Ring
2. Elden Ring Staff of the Guilty in Elden Ring
3. Relevant Builds for Staff of the Guilty in Elden Ring
4. Elden Ring Staff of the Guilty Damage Poise
5. Elden Ring Staff of the Guilty Upgrades

Where to Find Staff of the Guilty in Elden Ring

• Drops only from Thorn Sorcerers wielding blazing staves, not from Thorn Sorcerers wielding smoldering staves.
• Fort Laiedd: Can be dropped by the Thorn Sorcerers at Fort Laiedd, though it is rare (2% base).
• Guardians' Garrison: There are several Thorn Sorcerers on the slope leading up to the garrison.
• Liurnia of the Lakes: The Thorn Sorcerer that drops Briars of Sin to the northwest of the Artist's Shack site of grace has a low chance to drop this staff.

Elden Ring Staff of the Guilty 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
• Staff of the Guilty can be upgraded by using Smithing Stones.
• Does not scale with intelligence, though any spell's minimum required intelligence is still needed when using the staff.
• Boosts the damage of Thorn Sorceries by 20%. Thorn sorceries include Briars of Punishment, Briars of Sin, and Impenetrable Thorns.
• Due to its subpar scaling, this staff is best used in the off-hand while power-stancing with the Albinauric Staff in the main hand, which scales with Arcane and thus boosts the bleed buildup of the thorn sorceries. On the other hand, for pure Faith builds with more than 60 Faith and low Intelligence stat, this staff is invaluable for casting thorn sorceries in terms of raw damage output.
• At 80 Faith, the Staff of the Guilty has 305 Sorcery Scaling.
• Sell Value: 100
• Base drop rate is 2% (at 100 Discovery).
• 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 Staff of the Guilty

Elden Ring Builds that use Staff of the Guilty

One of our builds uses Staff of the Guilty as its main weapon: Sanguine Spellblade Build (level 150-200, ARC).

Staff of the Guilty 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.

Staff of the Guilty 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 for this staff is based on Faith stat, unlike other staffs. The Sor Scaling reflected in the table below takes data from a user with 24 Faith; you may see different numbers at different Faith levels.

The Sorcery Scaling displayed on this table shows Minimum Requirement and Faith 80 as xx-yy.