Magic Staves

Magic staves cast Elemental and blood magic, and they are the only class that does not run on stamina. A staff spends eitr, and eitr comes from food and nowhere else.

Combat

Pros

• Damage types that physical resistances do not touch. Fire has the most weaknesses of any type in the game, and lightning is the least resisted: very few enemies resist it.
• Ranged attacks without ammunition. Eitr regenerates on its own, so there is nothing to carry and no bill after a fight.
• It runs off a different bar entirely, so a mage keeps full stamina for dodging, sprinting and blocking while spending Eitr on damage.
• Blood magic is the game's only support class. It gives summons and shields rather than damage, and because its cost is a share of your current health, it cannot kill you.

Cons

• No Eitr bar means no spells. Without eitr-infused food the staff shows "Eitr required" and does nothing at all, which makes the class hostage to your cooking.
• Eitr regeneration stops completely while you swim and drops to 0.8x while you block, so a sea crossing or a defensive fight leaves a mage empty.
• You level separate skills, Elemental and Blood, and each one governs both the damage and the cost of its own half.
• It arrives in the sixth biome, so nothing earlier in a playthrough can be solved this way.

Builds

Food is the build. Eitr comes only from eitr-infused food, so a mage gives up a food slot that a melee character would spend on health or stamina. That trade is the real decision, not which staff you carry.

Pick Elemental for damage and Blood for the team. Elemental spends pure Eitr on offence. Blood spends Eitr plus a percentage of your current health on summons and shields, which is why it is the only thing in Valheim that helps other players directly.

Regeneration rewards spending. Eitr comes back at 2 a second when the bar is full and 4 when it is empty, so a mage who holds half a bar in reserve regenerates at the slowest rate available. Being Rested doubles it outright.

Keep a shield and a one-hander on your hotbar. Block armour on the staves themselves is 48 across the class, and nothing regenerates while you swim away from a fight you could not finish.

Staves are made at the Galdr table and the Frost Foundry.

The skills are Elemental magic and Blood magic, and both level by use rather than by choice.

Best Magic Staves

Build	Weapon	Image	Key Figure
Hardest hitter	Trollstav		500 damage across all types
Best guard	Dead Raiser		48 block armour
Most knockback	Dundr		210 knockback

Notes

• Eitr starts regenerating one second after you stop spending it, at 2 a second on a full bar rising to 4 on an empty one.
• Swimming stops Eitr regeneration entirely and blocking cuts it to 0.8x, while Rested adds 100% and resting adds 300%.
• Blood magic costs a percentage of your current health rather than your maximum, so it can never bring you to zero.

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All Magic Staves

*stats displayed are item's base values. See upgrades under each item for item stats per level.

Name	Image	Blunt	Chop	Pickaxe	Elemental Damage	Block	Weight	Durability	Crafting Materials	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Dead Raiser		-	-	-	-	48	0.3	200	10x Bone fragments 16x Refined eitr 4x Skeleton trophy	Galdr table	spawn StaffSkeleton
Staff of Protection		-	-	-	-	48	0.3	200	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Blood clot 16x Refined eitr	Galdr table	spawn StaffShield
Dundr		-	-	-	20 Lightning	48	1.5	200	10x Ashwood 4x Flametal 3x Celestial feather 1x Bloodstone	Galdr table	spawn StaffLightning
Staff of Frost		-	-	-	30 Frost	48	0.3	200	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Freeze gland 16x Refined eitr	Galdr table	spawn StaffIceShards
Lightning Strike		-	-	-	300 Lightning	48	0.3	400	1x Cast: Lightning Strike 5x Liquid Frost	Frost Foundry	spawn StaffThunderBlood
Echo Spike		-	-	-	-	48	0.3	400	1x Cast: Echo Spike 5x Liquid Frost	Frost Foundry	spawn StaffOrbofAhri
Northern Vengeance		-	-	-	-	48	0.3	400	1x Cast: Northern Vengeance 5x Liquid Frost	Frost Foundry	spawn StaffFrostOrbs
Spirit Caller		-	-	-	-	48	0.3	400	1x Cast: Spirit Caller 5x Liquid Frost	Frost Foundry	spawn StaffSpiritCaller
Staff of Fracturing		12	-	-	12 Fire	48	0.3	200	15x Charred bone 5x Ashwood 8x Proustite powder	Galdr table	spawn StaffClusterbomb
Staff of the Wild		20	-	-	20 Poison	48	0.3	200	15x Ashwood 10x Fiddlehead 3x Celestial feather 1x Jade	Galdr table	spawn StaffGreenRoots
Trollstav		-	100	100	300 Fire	48	0.3	200	15x Charred bone 1x Troll trophy 3x Flametal 1x Bloodstone	Galdr table	spawn StaffRedTroll
Staff of Embers		120	-	-	120 Fire	48	0.3	200	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Surtling core 16x Refined eitr	Galdr table	spawn StaffFireball

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