Inquisitor staff

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Inquisitor staff



Release																				30 March 2020 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No

Properties

Tradeable																				Yes
Stacks in bank																				Yes
Equipable																				Yes
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				Yes
Noteable																				Yes
Destroy																				Drop
Examine																				A lethal staff. It is stronger against targets that attack with melee.

Options ^[?]

Backpack																				Wield, Check charges
Equipped																				Check charges

Values

Value																				800,000 coins
High alch																				480,000 coins
Low alch																				320,000 coins
On death																				Reclaimable Value: 105,942,921 Reclaim: 105,942
Weight																				2 kg

Grand Exchange

Exchange																				105,942,921 coins (info)
Buy limit																				2
Volume																				25
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Advanced data

Item ID																				49982
Links																				MRID • recipe

The Inquisitor staff is a tier 80 staff. It requires level 80 Magic to wield. The components are obtained from Archaeology, requiring a minimum level of 114 (boostable) in order to be created due to the praetorian staff's requirement. However, the staff is tradeable and may be purchased from the Grand Exchange or other players. It can be used without the Archaeology requirement needed to obtain components. It also requires a Runecrafting level of 93 (boostable) to be assembled.

The staff can be augmented using an augmentor, creating the augmented Inquisitor staff. This weapon is the magic equivalent of the terrasaur maul and the hexhunter bow.

The Inquisitor staff gives no boost against other players in PvP situations.

This item degrades to a broken, repairable state over 60,000 charges of combat. The base repair cost is 2,000,000 coins for a full repair, which is scaled to how damaged it is. It can be repaired by a character capable of repairing equipment, or for less on an armour stand or whetstone.

The staff was used by the Inquisitors, a subsect of the Zarosian Secret Police.

Combat stats[edit | edit source]

Class		Slot
Requirements		Degrades
80		60,000 charges
Magic
Tier
80
	Auto		Ability
Damage	0.0		1152
Accuracy	1924
Style	Spell-casting
Range	8
Speed	6 ticks (3.6s)
Attributes				Damage reduction
Armour			0.0	PvM: 0%		PvP: 0%
Life points			0	Style bonuses
Prayer			0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Upgrades[edit | edit source]

The damage-boosting effect of the Inquisitor staff can be permanently upgraded by 5% (from +12.5% to +17.5% damage) by imbuing the enchantment of affliction.

Passive effect[edit | edit source]

The staff has a passive effect called Dark Wither that provides bonuses when used against melee classed enemies or targets that have a weakness to the selected spell type:

+12.5% damage boost against melee-classed enemies.
+10% hit chance boost against melee-classed enemies.
+5 affinity buff on targets that have a weakness to the appropriately selected elemental spell (air, earth, fire, or water). This buff is independent from the other two passive effects.^[1]

Although spell damage is capped at level 80 due to the staff's tier, the passive effect greatly increases the effective accuracy and damage to levels surpassing most other staves in the game. This means that even when using the Inquisitor staff on melee-classed enemies, spells that scale past level 80 won't deal any more damage than spells capped at level 80 damage. This interaction greatly increases the damage of spells that are normally much weaker, such as Blood Burst (which scales up to level 79 damage) dealing almost identical damage to Blood Barrage (which is restricted to level 80 damage due to the staff's tier).

Recommended bosses[edit | edit source]

The Inquisitor staff affects the following boss fights. Due to its boost against melee-classed bosses, it performs with about tier 97 damage, but can have as low as tier 94 damage if it is not used alongside other boosts such as potions, prayers, damage boosting auras, and power armour.^{[n 1]} If the +5 affinity boost does not come into play, for the majority of places where accuracy matters, the Inquisitor staff's effective accuracy tier ranges between tier 89 and tier 92.

Boss	Area	Staff tier	Notes
Commander Zilyana	God Wars Dungeon (GWD1)	T97	Best-in-slot staff against Zilyana.
K'ril Tsutsaroth		T97	Best-in-slot staff against K'ril.
General Graardor		T97	Best-in-slot staff against Graardor.
Nex: Angel of Death		T97	Best-in-slot staff against Nex AOD and the pillars, but falls back to T80 for the minions.
Nex AOD minions		T80
Vindicta	The Heart of Gielinor (GWD2)	T97	Best-in-slot staff against Vindicta (both forms).
Helwyr		T97	Best-in-slot staff against Helwyr.
Telos, the Warden		T97	Best-in-slot staff against Telos. Supported for all 5 phases.
Corrupt anima-golem		T97
Pure anima-golem		T97
Volcanic anima-golem		T97
Solak (arms and legs)	The Lost Grove	T97	Best-in-slot staff against Solak. Supported for almost all mechanics.
Blight afflicted core		T97
Volatile rootling		T97
Erethdor		T80
Vorago	Borehole	T97	Best-in-slot staff against Vorago. Supported for almost all mechanics.
Scopulus		T97
Vitalis		T80
Araxxor	Araxyte hive	T97	Best-in-slot staff against the melee form of Araxxor, but falls back to T80 against Araxxi (phase 4). Araxxi is also highly resistant towards Magic attacks with her affinities.
Araxxi	Araxyte hive	T80
Beastmaster Durzag	Liberation of Mazcab	T97	Best-in-slot staff against BM but falls back to T80 for some of the pets. Does not work on Yakamaru so needs a weapon switch if full raids are done.
Airut		T97
Charger		T97
Cormes		T80
Krar		T97
Tuz		T80
Yakamaru		T80
Har-Aken	Fight Kiln	T97	Best-in-slot staff against Har-Aken (head only) and all melee-based enemies in the Fight Kiln. Falls back to T80 against TokHaar-Jad.
TokHaar-Jad	Fight Kiln	T80
TzKal-Zuk	TzekHaar Front	T97	Best-in-slot staff against TzKal-Zuk. Also works against all melee-based TzekHaar creatures and all killable creatures in the challenge waves. Falls back to T80 against TzekHaar-Jad and TzekHaar-Aken's tentacles.
Volatile TzekHaar-Hur		T97
TzekHaar-Jad		T80
Unbreakable TzekHaar-Ket		T97
TzekHaar-Aken		T97
Conduit of Ful		T97
Kalphite King (melee form)	Exiled Kalphite Hive	T97	Best-in-slot staff against the Kalphite King's melee form.
King Black Dragon	King Black Dragon's Lair	T97	Best-in-slot staff against KBD.
Queen Black Dragon	Grotworm Lair	T97	Best-in-slot staff against QBD.
Dagannoth Rex	Waterbirth Island Dungeon	T97
Orikalka	Rex Matriarchs	T97
Giant Mole	Falador Mole Lair	T97

It works when fighting the Memory of Nomad.

Not recommended bosses[edit | edit source]

Boss	Area	Staff tier	Notes
Kree'arra	God Wars Dungeon (GWD1)	T80
Nex		T97	Not recommended because Deflect Magic is used every other kill (always the first when an instance is created/re-entered). Nex's bodyguards are also immune to magic damage.
Nex minions		T80
Avaryss, the Unceasing	The Heart of Gielinor (GWD2)	T97	Not recommended because it drops to T80 against Nymora.
Nymora, the Vengeful		T80	Not recommended because it drops to T80 against Nymora.
Gregorovic		T80
Kerapac, the bound	Elder God Wars Dungeon (EGWD)	T80
Arch-Glacor	Elder God Wars Dungeon (EGWD)	T80	Works against Arch-Glacor's Icy Arms during the Exposed Core mechanic and the melee minions, but does not work against the Arch-Glacor itself.
Dharok the Wretched	Barrows	T97	Only recommended for melee brothers and Linza. In Barrows: Rise of the Six, Karil can drain Magic levels (reducing accuracy) and Ahrim takes 50% less damage from magic attacks while floating.
Guthan the Infested		T97
Torag the Corrupted		T97
Verac the Defiled		T97
Ahrim the Blighted		T80
Karil the Tainted		T80
Akrisae the Doomed		T80
Linza the Disgraced		T97
Corporeal Beast	Corporeal Beast's Lair	T97	Though the effect works, its damage is still reduced by 50% like any other weapon that is not a spear or hasta.
TzTok-Jad	TzHaar Fight Cave	T80	Works against Tz-Kih, Tz-Kek and Yt-MejKot, but all other creatures including Jad itself are unaffected.
Kalphite Queen	Kalphite Hive	T80	Due to how the mechanics are for Kalphite Queen's Phase 2, the effect of the staff does not trigger.
Exiled Kalphite Queen	Exiled Kalphite Hive	T80

Slayer monsters[edit | edit source]

The following creatures and bosses are melee in nature, and thus are affected by the Inquisitor staff's boosts. Please note that this list is incomplete. For a complete list see Susceptible to inquisitor staff.

Abyssal beasts
Abyssal demons
Acheron mammoths
Airut (while using melee attacks)
Akhs (including the crocodile, gorilla, imperial warrior, scarab, salawa and feline ones)
Armoured phantoms
Automaton Guardians
Bladed muspahs
Bound skeletons
Corrupted creatures (limited to the kalphite guardians, scarabs, scorpions and workers)
Crystal Shapeshifters (while using melee attacks)
Dagannoths (melee variant)
Dark beasts
Dinosaurs (all types: feral, brutish, venomous, and ripper dinosaurs)
Devil's snares
Fetid zombies
Gargoyles
Crypt spiders and their giant form
Glacors (including the main ones and the enduring, sapping and unstable glacytes)
Icelords (melee variant)
Kal'gerion demons
Lava strykewyrms
Living wyverns
Metal dragons (all types: bronze, iron, steel, mithril, adamant and rune dragons, although not effective against the latter during their first phase)
Moss golems
Nightmares
Nodon guards, engineers and enforcers
Profane Scabarites
Revenants (all types)
Ripper Demons
Shadow creatures
Skeletal wyverns
Spiritual warriors
Suqah
Tormented demons (while using melee attacks)
Turoths (ineffective due to restrictions, however)

Damage analysis[edit | edit source]

Due to one or more updates, this article may be out of date.

Reason: enchantment of affliction granting a additional 5% damage increase
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The Inquisitor staff provides a significant damage and accuracy boost against the following bosses, even when compared to a T92 staff of Sliske or a T90 noxious staff weapon.

The Inquisitor staff is 3.5% stronger than the staff of Sliske against melee-classed bosses, regardless of rotation.

The following table provides detailed analysis of the DPM (damage per minute) and hitchance increase when using the Inquisitor staff compared to T92 and T90 staves.^[2]

Hitchances in the following table assumes that you have:

Boss	Boosts	Effective DPM Increase			Effective Hitchance
		Inquisitor vs. T92		T92 vs. T90	Inquisitor	T92	T90
		Staff Only	4TAA	T92 vs. T90	Inquisitor	T92	T90
Telos	No boosts	2.9%	1.2%	3.2%	90.5%	91.0%	89.3%
Telos	GStaff special	1.8%	0.1%	3.3%	96.7%	98.3%	96.4%
Telos	SWH special	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	105% +	105% +	105% +
Telos	Nihil	2.3%	0.6%	3.4%	94.1%	95.2%	93.3%
Telos	Nihil, GStaff special	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	100.7%	102.8%	100.8%
Telos	Nihil, SWH special	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	105% +	105% +	105% +
Nex: Angel of Death	No boosts	3.9%	2.1%	3.5%	84.3%	84.0%	82.2%
Nex: Angel of Death	SWH special	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	105% +	105% +	105% +
Nex: Angel of Death	GStaff special, SWH special	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	105% +	105% +	105% +
Solak	No boosts	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	105% +	105% +	105% +
Vindicta	No boosts	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	105% +	105% +	105% +
Vorago	Nihil	4.0%	2.3%	3.6%	79.9%	79.5%	77.7%
Vorago	Nihil, GStaff special	3.4%	1.6%	3.7%	83.3%	83.4%	81.5%
Vorago	Nihil, SWH special	2.6%	0.8%	3.6%	88.6%	89.4%	87.4%
Vorago	Nihil, GStaff special, SWH special	2.1%	0.3%	3.6%	92.1%	93.4%	91.3%
Barrows: Rise of the Six	Nihil	2.8%	1.1%	3.5%	87.7%	88.3%	86.4%
Barrows: Rise of the Six	Nihil, Berserk Ess	2.8%	1.1%	3.5%	90.0%	90.6%	88.7%
Barrows: Rise of the Six	Nihil, Ess, Reaper(30)	2.8%	1.1%	3.4%	93.0%	93.6%	91.7%
Araxxor	No boosts	1.3%	-0.4%	3.8%	97.1%	99.2%	96.8%
Araxxor	GStaff special	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	100.2%	102.7%	100.3%
Araxxor	Reaper(30)	3.5%	1.8%	1.5%	100.1%	102.2%	99.8%
Araxxor	GStaff special	3.5%	1.8%	1.3%	101.0%	103.7%	101.2%

Notes

Additional Assumptions based on a variety of boss specific rotations were used for the above calculations:

T92 weapons increase average damage output by 28 over T90 weapons, which results in a ~1.3% damage gain over a rotation, the 118 accuracy gain is reflected in hitchances above
~50% of damage in a typical 4TAA rotation can be done with your 2H weapon, so in the table above, "Inquisitor 4TAA" means that 50% of the damage will come from the Inquisitor staff, and the other 50% will come from your dual-wield T92 weapon.
T92 vs T90 vary by approximately the same percentages regardless of rotation so dual-wield/2-handed doesn't matter
Guthix staff and SWH hitchances are shown with the initial defence drain (-5% and -30%, respectively) that is applied for bosses not immune to drains

Creation[edit | edit source]

Requirements
Members		Yes
Ticks		5 (3s)
Skill		Level	Experience
Runecrafting		93 ^(b)	1,000
Crafting		93 ^(b)	1,000
Material		Quantity	Cost
	Praetorian staff	1	^{[r 1]}573,958
	Inquisitor's staff ornament	1	49,449,059
	Inquisitor's staff rod	1	50,245,961
	Inquisitor's staff censer	1	49,925,769
Total cost			150,194,747
Output		Quantity	Cost
	Inquisitor staff	1	105,942,921
Profit			−44,251,826

^ Calculated value given on the item page (generally based on GE prices of ingredients): [show/hide formula] 36 × Price(Imperial steel) + 58 × Price(Ancient vis) + 30 × Price(Zarosian insignia) + 100 × Price(Death rune).

Products[edit | edit source]

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Sources[edit | edit source]

Inquisitor staff pieces are only obtained while excavating spots in the Kharid-et Dig Site; the rates below are based on success of gathering materials.

Level	Spot	Drop chance for a random piece ^[3]^[4]		Drop chance for a specific piece
Level	Spot	Pylon inactive	Pylon active	Pylon inactive	Pylon active
Any	Any spot in Kharid-et Dig Site's main fortress or prison block	N/A	1/1,000,000	N/A	1/3,000,000
107	Ancient magick munitions	1/100,000	1/90,000	1/300,000	1/270,000
114	Praetorian remains	1/75,000	1/67,500	1/225,000	1/202,500
118	War table debris	1/50,000	1/45,000	1/150,000	1/135,000

In addition, a single Inquisitor staff piece is awarded when completing the Zarosian IV collection for the first time, which requires Archaeology level 118 (can be boosted).

The staff pieces are not dropped in order; they are dropped randomly. However, Soran will swap staff pieces for other pieces of the player's choosing for a price of 10,000,000 coins per exchange.

Repair[edit | edit source]

The Inquisitor staff has 60,000 charges of combat. This item costs at most 2,000,000 coins to repair completely. The repair cost is calculated by the degradation percentage rounded down (e.g. with 75.5% charge remaining, a full repair would only cost 500,000 coins). It may be repaired through a variety of methods.

Non-player characters[edit source]

These methods cost more as they do not consider the player's Smithing level for a repair discount.

Bob—the axe seller in Lumbridge
Tindel Marchant—the weapon and armour repairman at Port Khazard
Dunstan—the smith in Burthorpe
Squire—in the workshop area of the Void Knights' Outpost

Improved methods[edit source]

These methods provide a repair cost discount of 0.5% per Smithing level (including boosts):

An armour stand in a player-owned house
A whetstone, which can be used anywhere
The Item Repair ability of a legendary pet, which can be used once per hour

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Usage cost[edit | edit source]

Per hour
Combat charges	60,000
Method	Repair NPC, armour stand, whetstone
Item(s) consumed	2,000,000 x Coins^{[uc 1]}
Total GE price	2,000,000
Average rate^{[uc 2]}	60,000
High rate^{[uc 3]}	120,000
Maximum rate^{[uc 4]}	200,000

^ Cost at armour stand and whetstone is reduced by 0.5% per Smithing level (Reductions of 50% at 99 Smithing, 55.5% at 110 Smithing).
^ 1,800 charges per hour.
^ 3,600 charges per hour.
^ 6,000 charges per hour.

Comparison with other magical weapons[edit | edit source]

Disassembly[edit | edit source]

Inquisitor staff

Disassembly category

Staves

Disassembly XP

24.0

Item quantity required

1

Material count

12

Base junk chance

2.3%

Special materials

1 ×

Rumbling components

Always

Common materials

Stave parts

35/100

Magic parts

30/100

Padded parts

30/100

Rare materials

Powerful components

3/100

Imbued components

2/100

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Update history[edit | edit source]

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

update 4 July 2022 (Update):
- The Inquisitor staff can be further upgraded with the Enchantment of affliction, which permanently boosts the staff's prowess.

patch 4 July 2022 (Update):
- Added Tooltips for the Inquisitor Staff

patch 10 May 2021 (Update):
- The Inquisitor Staff (broken) can no longer be keepsaked.

hotfix 22 June 2020:
- Players can no longer skip the 10m cost to trade in an Inquisitor Staff piece by cancelling/failing their bankpin attempt.^[5]

patch 22 June 2020 (Update):
- Players can now swap Inquisitor staff pieces with Soran for 10 million coins each. Use the piece you wish to trade on Soran to begin the exchange.

update 1 June 2020 (Update):
- The passive effects of the hexhunter bow, terrasaur maul and Inquisitors staff will now behave as expected when fighting the Kalphite King.

patch 27 April 2020 (Update):
- Inquisitor staff pieces, annihilation spear tips, and dragon mattocks will now all fire friends and clan broadcast messages.

patch 14 April 2020 (Update):
- Fixed an issue where the Inquisitor Staff damage boost was not applying to some attacks.

update 30 March 2020 (Update):
- Added to game.

Notes[edit | edit source]

^ Tier 97 is an estimate as this changes based on various buffs and other worn equipment. The 12.5% damage boost is a multiplier that is applied to the player's base ability damage. For example if, you're 99 magic without any armour bonus or potion boosts, then: $D a m a g e = 3.75 (99) + m i n (14.4 (80), 1788) + 1.5 (0)$ , thus: $D a m a g e = (1523) \times 1.125$ where 1.125 is the Inquisitor staff buff which results in an effective base ability damage of 1713.

References[edit | edit source]

^ Jagex. Mod Sponge's Twitter account. 19 April 2022. (Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.) Mod Sponge: "He will not, the affinity change is explicitly weakness based. (if telos was ranged but had a fire weakness, IStaff would give affinity buff despite not giving the other buffs)"
^ TriGator. Analysis of Inquisitor Staff vs. T92 vs. T90 in various PvM Scenarios. Reddit. 13 April 2020. (Archived from the original on 31 October 2020.)
^ Jagex. "RuneScape Data in 2020 - Weekly Highlight (April 2020)." (43:28), YouTube video. 4 May 2020.
^ Jagex. Drop Rates: Inquisitor's Staff Pieces. 4 May 2020. (Archived from the original on 28 September 2020.)
^ Jagex. RuneScape's Twitter account. 22 June 2020. (Archived from the original on 31 October 2020.) RuneScape: "#RSHotfix: Players can no longer skip the 10m cost to trade in an Inquisitor Staff piece by cancelling/failing their bankpin attempt."

[4] Calculated value given on the item page (generally based on GE prices of ingredients): [show/hide formula] 36 × Price(Imperial steel) + 58 × Price(Ancient vis) + 30 × Price(Zarosian insignia) + 100 × Price(Death rune).

[smithing-7] Cost at armour stand and whetstone is reduced by 0.5% per Smithing level (Reductions of 50% at 99 Smithing, 55.5% at 110 Smithing).

[rate1-8] 1,800 charges per hour.

[rate2-9] 3,600 charges per hour.

[rate3-10] 6,000 charges per hour.

[tier97-2] Tier 97 is an estimate as this changes based on various buffs and other worn equipment. The 12.5% damage boost is a multiplier that is applied to the player's base ability damage. For example if, you're 99 magic without any armour bonus or potion boosts, then: $D a m a g e = 3.75 (99) + m i n (14.4 (80), 1788) + 1.5 (0)$ , thus: $D a m a g e = (1523) \times 1.125$ where 1.125 is the Inquisitor staff buff which results in an effective base ability damage of 1713.

[1] Jagex. Mod Sponge's Twitter account. 19 April 2022. (Archived from the original on 19 April 2022.) Mod Sponge: "He will not, the affinity change is explicitly weakness based. (if telos was ranged but had a fire weakness, IStaff would give affinity buff despite not giving the other buffs)"

[3] TriGator. Analysis of Inquisitor Staff vs. T92 vs. T90 in various PvM Scenarios. Reddit. 13 April 2020. (Archived from the original on 31 October 2020.)

[5] Jagex. "RuneScape Data in 2020 - Weekly Highlight (April 2020)." (43:28), YouTube video. 4 May 2020.

[6] Jagex. Drop Rates: Inquisitor's Staff Pieces. 4 May 2020. (Archived from the original on 28 September 2020.)

[11] Jagex. RuneScape's Twitter account. 22 June 2020. (Archived from the original on 31 October 2020.) RuneScape: "#RSHotfix: Players can no longer skip the 10m cost to trade in an Inquisitor Staff piece by cancelling/failing their bankpin attempt."

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v • d • e RS3 Inquisitor staff
Pieces	Praetorian staff ^(Damaged) Ornament Rod Censer Restored ^(Augmented)
Collection	Zarosian IV Soran, Emissary of Zaros
Sources	Kharid-et Dig Site Ancient magick munitions Praetorian remains War table debris

v • d • e RS3 Susceptibilities
Style	Hexhunter bow ^(Augmented) Terrasaur maul ^(Augmented) Inquisitor staff ^(Augmented)
Banes	Bane ammunition Abyssal bane equipment Basiliskbane ammunition Revenant bane equipment Wallasalkibane ammunition
Slayer	Dragon slayer ^(bane) Demon slayer ^{(Darklight • Holy water)} Undead slayer ^{(Salve amulet • (e))} Ghost hunter equipment
Other	Balmung ^{(Achromatic, Cobalt, Crimson, Viridian, Augmented)} Blisterwood Brutal arrows Gadderhammer Necklace of Salamancy Keris ^{(Primed • Augmented primed)} Consecrated keris ^(Augmented)

Inquisitor staff

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Combat stats[edit | edit source]

Upgrades[edit | edit source]

Passive effect[edit | edit source]

Recommended bosses[edit | edit source]

Not recommended bosses[edit | edit source]

Slayer monsters[edit | edit source]

Damage analysis[edit | edit source]

Creation[edit | edit source]

Products[edit | edit source]

Sources[edit | edit source]

Repair[edit | edit source]

Non-player characters[edit source]

Improved methods[edit source]

Usage cost[edit | edit source]

Comparison with other magical weapons[edit | edit source]

Disassembly[edit | edit source]

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Update history[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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