Spell staff - Revision history

Ion frigate at 04:15, 18 July 2013

2013-07-18T04:15:05Z

Ion frigate at 03:57, 18 July 2013

2013-07-18T03:57:19Z

Ion frigate: it's 0.1

2013-07-18T03:56:38Z

it's 0.1

Ion frigate at 03:49, 18 July 2013

2013-07-18T03:49:26Z

Ion frigate: Just relied on one of these to get a HECj quite far before he got killed by a blade trap

2013-07-18T03:49:03Z

Just relied on one of these to get a HECj quite far before he got killed by a blade trap

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A '''spell staff''' is a long-obsolete type of [[magical staff]], and was the precursor the [[rod]].

==Mechanics==
Similar to rods, spell staves had a set list of spells that they could cast. However, instead of casting from their own mana reservoir, they cast from the player's. However, the spells cast required only (MP/2 + 1) MP to cast, and incurred no hunger cost. Needless to say, these were powerful items, granting the player access to cheap, hungerless spells. Moreover, using these staves still trained spell skills, as the Evocations skill did not even exist yet.

==History==

These were reworked into rods at some point very early in Crawl's history, possibly even before DCSS.

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−	These were reworked into rods in the very first version of [[DCSS]].	+	These were reworked into rods at some point before DCSS, and given their own mana reservoir in the very first version of DCSS (0.1).

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−	These were reworked into rods ~~at some point~~ very ~~early in Crawl's history, possibly even before~~ DCSS.	+	These were reworked into rods in the very first version of [[DCSS]].

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-A '''spell staff''' is a long-obsolete type of [[magical staff]], and was the precursor the [[rod]].
+A '''spell staff''' is a long-obsolete type of [[magical staff]], and was the precursor of the [[rod]].
 ==Mechanics==

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 ==Mechanics==
-Similar to rods, spell staves had a set list of spells that they could cast.  However, instead of casting from their own mana reservoir, they cast from the player's.  However, the spells cast required only (MP/2 + 1) MP to cast, and incurred no hunger cost.  Needless to say, these were powerful items, granting the player access to cheap, hungerless spells.  Moreover, using these staves still trained spell skills, as the Evocations skill did not even exist yet.
+Similar to rods, spell staves had a set list of spells that they could cast.  However, instead of casting from their own mana reservoir, they cast from the player's.  Spells cast required only (MP/2 + 1) MP to cast, and incurred no hunger cost.  Needless to say, these were powerful items, granting the player access to cheap, hungerless spells.  Moreover, using these staves still trained spell skills, as the Evocations skill did not even exist yet.
 ==History==
 These were reworked into rods at some point very early in Crawl's history, possibly even before DCSS.