Staff of Protection

Staff of Protection

For a slight blood offering it will protect the caster in a magical shell.
Type	Magic Staff
Damage	-
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 Blood clot 16x Refined eitr
Biome	Mistlands
Spawn ID	`spawn StaffShield`

The Staff of Protection is a magic staff in Valheim, carrying 48 block armour, or 96 when used to parry at its 2x bonus. It deals no damage at all: casting it wraps the caster, nearby players and tamed creatures in a barrier that absorbs damage.

How to Craft

Crafted at Galdr table, station level 1.
Costs 20x Yggdrasil wood, 4x Blood clot, 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	Duration		Blood Magic 0	Blood Magic 100	Per Level	Durability
1	Galdr table (Level 1)	60	200	700	5	200	20 Yggdrasil wood 4 Blood clot 16 Refined eitr	-
2	Galdr table (Level 2)	120	200	700	5	250	10 Yggdrasil wood 2 Blood clot 8 Refined eitr	-
3	Galdr table (Level 3)	180	200	700	5	300	20 Yggdrasil wood 4 Blood clot 16 Refined eitr	-
4	Galdr table (Level 4)	240	200	700	5	350	30 Yggdrasil wood 6 Blood clot 24 Refined eitr	-

Properties

60 Eitr and up to 40% of your current health. Not maximum health, so it cannot kill you, and the barrier's size scales with Blood magic.

A barriered player can always parry. Regardless of weapon, maximum health or stagger limit, and even if the attack breaks the barrier doing it. That makes 2-star late-game enemies parryable, and a parried enemy is staggered and takes double damage. It is the single most useful thing in the class.

Recast on broken barriers, not damaged ones. A recast resets the barrier's duration but not its absorption, so topping up someone whose shield is half gone achieves almost nothing. In a fight, prioritise whoever has lost theirs entirely.

Notes

The barrier is raw hit points with a damage gate. It inherits none of the target's armour, resistances or immunities, so it absorbs elemental damage exactly as well as physical.
It works on tamed creatures and on a Skelett as readily as on a player.

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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