Academy Glintstone Staff

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Schoolhouse Classroom

Before you go

• Keep Thops alive and give him the spare Academy Glintstone Key found inside Raya Lucaria Academy.

1. Speak to Thops at the Church of Irith, just southwest of the Lake-Facing Cliffs Site of Grace. He wants to return to the academy, but he will not take the first key you need to enter it yourself.
2. Get your own Academy Glintstone Key from behind Glintstone Dragon Smarag, on the small island west of the academy. You can pick it up without killing the dragon. Use the key at the academy's sealed entrance and progress to the Red Wolf of Radagon. Defeat it to unlock the Debate Parlor Site of Grace.
3. For your first visit, start at Debate Parlor and enter the courtyard. Go left up the broken stone slope and the stairs past the sorcerers. Jump over the left railing, climb the lower stairway, then jump the next left railing onto the roofs.
4. Follow the roofs south past two marionettes and climb the ladder. Cross the high walkway past the flying marionettes and sorcerer, then follow the ledge around the right side of the tower and drop onto the next roof.
5. Keep descending the roofs toward the marionette archers. Use the lower ledge beside their tower, then follow it around to the ladder facing the large Church of the Cuckoo roof. Jump across to that roof instead of climbing the ladder.
6. Enter an open church window onto the rafters. Drop onto the lower beam and the chandelier carrying the spare Academy Glintstone Key, then onto the upper walkway. Do not drop all the way to the floor.
7. Return to Thops at the Church of Irith and give him the spare key. Rest or reload the area after finishing his dialogue, then travel to Schoolhouse Classroom. Leave through the western archway and turn right outside. Thops is seated at a desk there. Search his body for the staff.

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Schoolhouse Classroom

1. From Schoolhouse Classroom, go up the short stairs into the corridor. Watch for the pale-robed swordsman patrolling past the doorway, then turn right toward the western hall.
2. The two staff-carrying sorcerers reading in the hall are the targets for Raya Lucarian Robe, Sorcerer Manchettes and Sorcerer Leggings. Draw them back toward the classroom one at a time if both start casting.
3. Defeat the staff-carrying sorcerers and collect their dropped loot. Academy Glintstone Staff has a 2% base chance at 100 Discovery from these carriers.
4. Rest at Schoolhouse Classroom to repeat. The pale sword-and-shield Lazuli Sorcerer is a different enemy and is not the target for this staff.

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Lake-Facing Cliffs

1. Killing Thops at the Church of Irith also gives you the staff, but it ends his quest. Use his quest route above if you want to complete his story and collect its other rewards.