Azur's Glintstone Staff

StrikeSomber Smithing Stone—Unique skill

Staff of the primeval glintstone sorcerer Azur. Only those who have glimpsed what lies beyond the wisdom of stone may wield it.

Attack rating—At your attributes

Weight4Equip load units

Requires10Str52Int

Passive buildup—At your attributes

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Staff of the primeval glintstone sorcerer Azur. Only those who have glimpsed what lies beyond the wisdom of stone may wield it.

Reduces casting time of all sorceries, but consumes additional FP.

No SkillFP pending · Unique skill

This armament has no skill. If the armament in the other hand has a skill, that skill will be used instead.Ash of War: No Skill

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LocationRaya Lucaria Academy, Church of the Cuckoo

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Debate Parlor

Before you go

Enter the academy with an Academy Glintstone Key and defeat the Red Wolf of Radagon.

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.
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.
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.
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.
Clear the enemies on the upper walkways and kick down the ladder to the main church. This gives you a short return route from Church of the Cuckoo for later attempts.
Take the eastern passage from the upper walkways and defeat the High Page in the long corridor. Enter the room beyond and collect Azur's Glintstone Staff beside the purple crystals and stone mass of faces.
Once you have lowered the church ladder, later visits can start from Church of the Cuckoo. Rennala and Sellen's quest are not required for this staff.

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Requires 10 Strength and 52 Intelligence, and weighs 4. Its Sorcery Scaling uses Intelligence, reaching 362 at +10 and 80 Intelligence.
While held in an active hand, it adds the equivalent of 40 Dexterity toward casting speed. This affects both sorceries and incantations, including spells cast with a different tool in your other hand.
Raises all sorcery FP costs by 20% while held. Incantations receive the casting-speed benefit without that sorcery cost penalty, so a seal user can hold it in the other hand for faster casting.
Casting speed reaches its normal limit at 70 combined actual and virtual Dexterity. At 30 actual Dexterity, this staff alone reaches that limit; Radagon Icon's extra 30 virtual Dexterity is then unnecessary for casting speed.
Two copies do not give 80 virtual Dexterity. The speed benefit also does not depend on upgrading the staff, and it is not an extra damage multiplier or a 40% reduction to every spell animation.
Its held casting-speed effect can work even without the Intelligence needed to cast through it. You still need a working casting tool, the spell's own requirements and enough FP.
Using Lusat's Glintstone Staff in the other hand combines the sorcery cost penalties to 80% above normal before rounding. You can gain speed and stronger casting, but the FP cost rises sharply.
Upgrade it with Somber Smithing Stones to +10. It has No Skill, cannot use a replacement Ash of War and cannot be coated with grease or a weapon enchantment.

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