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My dumb brain is confused as to why I'm not seeing this staff outperform my Academy Glintstone Staff. With an unupgraded AGS and a +1 CGS, both staves have 136 Sorcery Scaling and do almost exactly the same damage with the Carian Slicer Sorcery (I'm seeing a difference of 1 damage point). What am I missing here?

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is the lusat staff better then this for carian sorceries at 80 int

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Is this better with lower or higher levels in Int? I have 50 Int for my battle mage character and all the sword sorceries do more damage on my Academy Glintstone Staff so I'm wondering if it works best on a dedicated build or not

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This would have been better if it was a sword hilt made of glintstone.

I'm imagining a sword hilt shaped catalyst that massively boosts sword sorceries (30%) but massively nerfs all other sorceries (50 - 70%).

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Do I need to upgrade it if I'm just using it for the sword sorcery bonus (I dual wield it)?

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Slaps with 40 int

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At 27 int (minimum for piercer) a +8 staff does exactly the same damage as meteorite, testing with carian slicer

My Meteorite staff (161 sorc) does: 208/209 to Exile, 249/250 to commoner. 210 to gatefront giant, 126 to greatshield-using soldier, 124 to schoolhouse classroom mage.

My +8 carian glintstone staff (144 sorc) does 208/209 to exile, 249/250 to commoner, 210 to gatefront giant, 126 to greatshield-using soldier, 125 to schoolhouse classroom mage.

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Good for casting SWORDceries.
Hehehehehe...

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At 40 int The glintstone staff +15 is 2 points less scaling than the meteorite staff
The amount of work I had to go through to get near same scaling before altus has been 2 hours of bullshit.

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I tested the statement "At +10 upgrade and 30 INT this Staff will outperform the Meteorite Staff when using Carian Sword Sorceries" on a Banished Knight (the one at the Cathedral of Drake comunion), and at 35 INT the Meteoric staff deals more damage still with Carian greatsword than the Carian Glintstone staff (+10).

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I always get confused with this staff and carian glintblade staff, so many times i've upgraded the wrong one

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The scaling values did NOT change.

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I feel like this was an opportunity to make a more unique looking staff given the purpose. Kinda sad it’s just another stick with a gem on top

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No mention if you need the inverted statue to get to this staff. Meaning: No mention if you can get this staff before proceeding with Seluvis or not.

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Can't see the point of making glintblade sorceries two different categories.

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Making a pure slicer pvp build, which one does more damage? 2 carian glinstone staves? Or lusat right hand + carian glinstone staff off-hand?

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This staff can be infused with the AoW Spinning Weapon, despite what the article says. Probably needs corrected.

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Would this be better than Academy Glintstone or Carian Regal outside dual wielding staves(just offhanding the staff) when casting sword sorceries? or does Academy still beat it. Currently 55 Int and plan to enjoy Adula's Moonblade and Comet Azure. This is PVE btw.

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Lusat still better

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Surprisingly to me, this staff outperforms the Carian Regal Scepter at moderately high intelligence. My int/dex build leaves me with 60 points into intelligence, and a fully upgraded Carian Glintstone Staff yields higher spellbuff than the Carian Regal Scepter. I think it's still a couple of points behind the Academy Staff, however, the difference is more than made up for by the buff to Carian Slicer, so if you regularily use Carian Slicer (which you should), then this is the strongest staff in the game at moderately high int.

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I got to Mountaintops before I realized it was this staff that boosts the sword sorceries and not the glintblade staff. For ****'s sake.

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@15Nov2022, are you intentionally being ignorant? Like what are you even going on about with your pointless comment?

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it can take ashes of war, just not a lot, and has better scaling than higher int requiring staves up to int level 70.

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>Glintsone
>Boosts swords

Okay?

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I swear to god this used to boost Loretta’s spells. There weren’t any patch notes about it that I saw, just one day they needed it. Anyone else or am I crazy?!

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Best sword in the game

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little fun thing for a melee pure caster with this - offhand azur's staff and radagon icon, max casting speed even with minimum dex for most classes. then you just chop them into little magic pieces.

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What is the difference between this staff and the carian blade staff...thingy? The other staff that Claims to boost carian sorceries? Which one does the Carian Knight in Raya Lucaria use?

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My favorite staff in terms of design. Love it's simplistic look. Also love how it enhances my favorite type of sorceries, the melee ones.

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It's not mentioned but this staff appears to boost the damage of Loretta's Greatbow too. Tested on Meotorite Staff(173 Sorc Scaling) and Glinstone Staff +12 (163 Sorc scaling) to compare. Attributes at 32Int 20Str. Bow did 299 damage with Meteorite but 350 with Glinstone Staff. like 17.5% damage increase - a little more than the 15% boost advertised.

Maybe you Smarty Charlies on here can point out an X Factor skewing the results here but it makes sense Glinstone Staff would affect Loretta's - it's very "Carian-esque" in appearance comparing to greatsword, piercer, slicer.

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Perfect for my Battlemage build

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I honestly much prefer using this to dual wielding staffs, I like the playstyle of a spellblade, with a Godskin Stitcher or Helphen's Steeple, my favourite weapon. The variety of adding a weapon to your spells more than makes up for the superior damage of Carian+Lusats.

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I never tested it before patch 1.04, but as of today at least, Gavel of Haima IS boosted by this staff.

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Just did some testing (and I don't know if it's already been mentioned) but the much like with Azur's Glintstone Staff you don't have to actually cast the spell through your Carian Glintstone Staff in order to get the +15% damage boost, just carry it in your other hand!

An especially potent combo if you have this in your main hand, Lusat's in your offhand, and then cast Adula's Moonblade through the Lusat's staff to enjoy the higher Sorcery scaling!

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WP_A_1310 in the files.

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Just found this staff at the top of the Luirna Highway North watch tower.

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Does anyone know if the sword sorc boost is greater than the additional scaling you could get from Academy Glintstone Staff at 60 int? 304 vs CGS's 291 (according to below comment) + sword sorc boost. Would the boost still result in higher damage on sword sorcs or does the additional raw sorc scaling from AGS make up for it?

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291 at +25 with 60 Int. Boosts Slicer, Piercer AND Moonblade.

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This, or lusat for blade spells?.

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According to the INT staff scaling list, this is the forth best staff (no drawback) with 291 scaling at 60 Int, just shy of Academy Glinestone's 304 scaling. However, it has a 15% boost on some of the most useful carian sword sorcery, like the slicer and piercer. So this might actually be the best staff for SL125 PVP

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if youre gonna go pure int sword sorceries and youre goal is 80 int, use this for early/mid game, then switch to Carian Regal Scepter once you reach 80 int. at 80 int with sword sorceries, CRS +10 actually does a bit more damage than a CGS +25.
tested with Carian Slicer on the giant miranda flower at Waypoint ruins, with graven mass talisman and magic scorpion charm
CRS +10: 722 damage
CGS +25: 716 damage

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Does it boost carian grandeur ?

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Did some quick tests wielding 2 of this staff and it appears you get the benefit of both their passive, still won’t out perform off handing this w azurs but it’s only about 10% less

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Tested at 60 int 40 dex on the albinaurics next to the palace approach ledge-road grace, a carian glintstone staff at +19 boosts glintblade sorceries past the carian regal scepter at +10.
Carian Glintstone Staff +19: One swing of Carian Slicer does 424
Carian Regal Scepter +10: One swing of Carian Slicer does 417

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Tested and confirmed that Adula's Moonblade is boosted by this staff, edited to add it to the list.

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Boosts Carian Sword sorcery by exactly 15%.

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I noticed that my scaling for this staff was pretty close to my meteorite staff, so I did my own tests. Against the same enemy (wolves):

Slicer:
CGS+14 (183 scaling): 352 damage
Meteorite (188 scaling): 320 damage

Greatsword:
CGS: 552 damage
Meteorite: 500 damage

Piercer:
CGS: 595 damage
Meteorite: 539 damage

So this seems to confirm it's around a 10% damage boost.
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You DO NOT need to do anything with any quests to get this staff. Simply enter the tower, don’t get blasted by the mage and go up the stairs. Very straightforward

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After reading some comments and learning that staves/scepters in the off-hand applies their bonus a full mage build would be dual wielding staves. It's pretty cool.

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78 INT

At the same enemy, randomly picked Ancestral Warrior, the type with a bow equipped by default and switch to a double-handed axe for melee. Trying Carian Slicer.

Carian Glintstone Staff +12 -> Sorcery Scaling 247 -> 424 dmg
Crystal Staff +5 -> Sorcery Scaling 272 -> 419 dmg
(Meteorite Staff has 269 Sorcery Scaling at 78 INT.)

So it seems the Carian buff is multiplicative after everything else. And due to diminishing return from adding more Sorcery Scaling to the already high Sorcery Scaling of Meteorite Staff (if you have high Intelligence), the Carian buff outperforms.

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I assume you have to progress to where you can flip the tower to obtain this?

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To avoid any confusion: If you use the GLINTSTONE staff, this will buff the Carian sword spells.
This is limited to the Carian Slicer, Carian Greatsword, and Carian Piercer.

If you plan to make those spells your primary source of damage, use this.

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So this is for the spells that conjure swords you'd swing with? And not to the sword like glintblade sorceries that work like homing soul mass.

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HUGE TIP:

Staffs spell buffs will buff spells not being used in your Offhand. So for example: You cannot upgrade the Meteorite Staff, but if you upgrade the Carian Regal Sceptor, and have the Meteorite staff in your Offhand, the Meteorite staff will buff the Meteorite Spells casted by the Upgraded Sceptor in your casting hand. This works for all the staffs. So save all your stones, upgrade one staff and use the others to buff w/e spell class you need. Im here for you all

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this stave need only 22 int. but you must use meteorite staff, is better than this.

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this stave need only 22 int. but you must use meteorite staff, is better than this.

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Does this boost carian phalanx?

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this boost all sword sorceries or at least the frost blade

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Is this worth for INT based melee characters sometimes using blade spells ? How does the scaling change when upgraded ?

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Meteorite staff in right and CARIAN GLINTSTONE in left.
carian slicer - 443 dmg with meteorite and 509 with both (47 int).

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Seems to be not working for now, with the carian staff at +10 and 36 int my meteorite staff outperforms in at all of the sword sorceries (slicer, greatsword, and piercer)

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does it work with moonblade too or does it work only with spells that have carion in the name ?

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The bonus still work if you use other staff while having this one on the other hand, that means you don't even need to upgrade this and could just use the meteor staff for better scaling.

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Does the passive affect Magic Glintblade and Glintblade Phalanx also?

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Turns into scaling at +14. Even at +14 it only has a 241 scaling which is lower than Carian sceptre +6.

When looking into staves I would suggest the following:

Take azure if you want to have tiny bit more cast speed for tiny bit more FP cost
Take Lusat if you want 10%~ more damage for 50% more FP cost
Take Carian scepter if you want a strong staff with normal costs (full moon sorcery buffed but fullmoon ability cannot be chosen if you take scepter)

Meteorite is insane and will probably be best in slot with gravity rock spell until you get into the +7 +8 Somber stones

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Did my own tests on the Captain at Gatefront Ruins. Carian Slicer results with three different catalysts @ 30 INT
- Glintstone Staff +6 (Sorc scaling 144): 147 dmg
- Carian Glintstone Staff +1 (132): 153 dmg
- Meteorite Staff (168): 178 dmg

Carian Greatsword results, same criteria
- Glintstone Staff +6: 230 dmg
- Carian Glintstone Staff +1: 236 dmg
- Meteorite Staff: 278 dmg

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Did my own tests on the Captain at Gatefront Ruins. Carian Slicer results with three different catalysts @ 30 INT
- Glintstone Staff +6 (Sorc scaling 144): 147 dmg
- Carian Glintstone Staff +1 (132): 153 dmg (147+6)
- Meteorite Staff (168): 178 dmg (147 + 31)

Carian Greatsword results, same criteria
- Glintstone Staff +6: 230 dmg
- Carian Glintstone Staff +1: 236 dmg (230+6)
- Meteorite Staff: 278 dmg (230+48)

Would love to see numbers with a better upgraded CGS but alas, smithing stones have an abysmally low droprate

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Did some testing on the Captain at Gatefront Ruins. Carian Slicer results with three different catalysts @ 30 INT
- Glintstone Staff +6 (Sorc scaling 144): 147 dmg
- Carian Glintstone Staff +1 (132): 153 dmg (147+6)
- Meteorite Staff (168): 178 dmg (147+31)

Carian Greatsword results, same criteria
- Glintstone Staff +6: 230 dmg
- Carian Glintstone Staff +1: 236 dmg (230+6)
- Meteorite Staff: 278 dmg (230+48)

This test proves that the boost provided by CGS is not insubstantial, beating out +12 Sorcery scaling from Glintstone Staff +6. However, as mentioned in a previous comment, it doesn't seem like it can top a more significant difference in scaling. Depending on how far we can upgrade CGS it could be better, but if it caps at +10 then better to stick with Meteorite Staff.

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Tested out this staff at +10 with Carion Slicer and Carion Great Sword vs the Meteor staff and Meteor staff still does more damage. Boost either doesn't work or is very small. Sorc scaling was Meteor 218 vs Carion Staff 194.

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Passive is a bit more specific, "Boosts CARIAN sword sorcery", non-cariannsword sorceries are unnafected

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Location: Carian Study Hall, floor with the elevator leading to last invader Precessor Mirriam teleport spot, on a toombstone

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