Staff of Frost

Staff of Frost

A staff as cold as the three-year winter that will herald the end of times.
Type	Magic Staff
Damage	30 Frost
Stamina	-
Block	48 block armour 2x parry bonus 20 block force
Weight	0.3
Durability	200
Crafting Station	Galdr table
Station Level	1
Crafting Materials	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Freeze gland 16x Refined eitr
Biome	Mistlands
Spawn ID	`spawn StaffIceShards`

The Staff of Frost is a magic staff in Valheim, dealing 30 frost. At 30 total damage it is 4th of the 8 magic staves, so it is a step on the ladder rather than the top of it. Frost damage hurts Blob, Oozer and Serpent more than most things, which is what to carry it for.

How to Craft

Crafted at Galdr table, station level 1.
Costs 20x Yggdrasil wood, 4x Freeze gland, 16x Refined eitr at quality 1.
Materials can be found in the Mistlands biome.

When to Use It

Mid game. It needs Mistlands materials and a Black forge, so it is behind Yagluth and the sea crossing after him. 2 biomes still sit past this one: the Ashlands and the Deep North both carry better gear.

Upgrades

Upgraded 3 times after crafting, each level wanting the station built one step further up than the last. Every figure quoted elsewhere on this wiki is quality 1, so this is the ladder your own copy is somewhere on:

Quality	Crafting Station	Frost	Durability	Resources
1	Galdr table (Level 1)	30	200	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Freeze gland 16x Refined eitr
2	Galdr table (Level 2)	32	250	10x Yggdrasil wood 2x Freeze gland 8x Refined eitr
3	Galdr table (Level 3)	34	300	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Freeze gland 16x Refined eitr
4	Galdr table (Level 4)	36	350	30x Yggdrasil wood 6x Freeze gland 24x Refined eitr

Properties

Deliberately inaccurate, and that is the design. It sprays freezing shards quickly and loosely, so its effective range is short. What redeems it is that everything hit is slowed by Frost, which cuts movement and turn speed.

So it holds a swarm off rather than killing it fast. Small quick things a fireball would miss get hit repeatedly and kept at arm's length, which is exactly the Tick and Seeker Brood problem in the Mistlands.

Damage and cost both scale with Elemental magic. The figures in the table are the floor: the skill raises what the staff does and lowers what it spends, so the same staff is a different weapon at skill 80.

Notes

The head glows light blue at all times and raises your visibility while sneaking by about 20%. There is no secondary attack on any magic weapon.

All Magic Staves

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

Name	Blunt	Chop	Pickaxe	Fire	Frost	Lightning	Poison	Block	Weight	Durability	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	-	48	1.5	200	10x Ashwood 4x Flametal 3x Celestial feather 1x Bloodstone	Galdr table	`spawn StaffLightning`
Staff of Fracturing	12	-	-	12	-	-	-	48	0.3	200	15x Charred bone 5x Ashwood 8x Proustite powder	Galdr table	`spawn StaffClusterbomb`
Staff of Frost	-	-	-	-	30	-	-	48	0.3	200	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Freeze gland 16x Refined eitr	Galdr table	`spawn StaffIceShards`
Staff of the Wild	20	-	-	-	-	-	20	48	0.3	200	15x Ashwood 10x Fiddlehead 3x Celestial feather 1x Jade	Galdr table	`spawn StaffGreenRoots`
Staff of Embers	120	-	-	120	-	-	-	48	0.3	200	20x Yggdrasil wood 4x Surtling core 16x Refined eitr	Galdr table	`spawn StaffFireball`
Trollstav	-	100	100	300	-	-	-	48	0.3	200	15x Charred bone 1x Troll trophy 3x Flametal 1x Bloodstone	Galdr table	`spawn StaffRedTroll`

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