magic staff question

by **Clyde Sullins** on June 18th, 2011, 1:53 am

so ive got a few questions about magical staffs, and was hoping someone could help me out, since the wiki page does not mention money at all.

now i was wondering about how much one would cost. now obviously a higher quality one would be really expensive, but about how much would a cheaper one be. im just looking for a reasonable idea here, are we talking 100 gm or maybe less, or 1,000 gm or more, for a basic one of MC1 with no additions?

what would be the cheaper end of the spectrum here, and how much more would a decent one cost.

i was also wondering something about magecrafting one. i see that it requires a competent level magecrafter, and the lore of staffmaking, but i was wondering about how much the raw materials would cost, for just a basic magic staff of level MC1, to make it.

so for instance if i had the skill to do it myself, how much money would i need to make one?

by **Kit Rowan** on June 18th, 2011, 1:58 am

One thousand gold mizas is the cost in raw materials to make a magecrafted item of the first levels. If you bought it, then chances are it would cost you more than that. So it will be at least one thousand.

by **Clyde Sullins** on June 18th, 2011, 2:27 am

1,000 gm to make even a low level magic staff?!!! wow, that is really expensive...

i was hoping it would be a bit less.... ow well...

it seems like it would take a really long time to get one then.... and im sure buying one, even an old one, would not be much cheaper....

by **Vapis** on June 21st, 2011, 3:54 pm

An old one would probably be even more costly, depending on the age.

by **Clyde Sullins** on June 21st, 2011, 5:21 pm

Vapis wrote:An old one would probably be even more costly, depending on the age.

not necessarily, since old also means it has more wear and tear and even damage. if it was made really well to begin with it will be more costly, but a older well used one would not be worth as much, and would also given the chance of breaking.

that is what i was meaning. though i do know wonder about the magic plate. it says it is also made through magecrafting, though i hope they make the article on it soon. since right now there is no info on it.

by **Vapis** on June 21st, 2011, 5:42 pm

I was thinking of a really old one, or one made well that's power increased with age when I said that, though I understand what you're saying.

by **Clyde Sullins** on June 21st, 2011, 6:26 pm

true, but any ones that are REALLY OLD ones that survived from before the Valt, would have a high MC and be expensive even if new.

though i do not know if magic staffs get more powerful as they age, im not sure if that applies to that. who knows.

by **Kit Rowan** on June 21st, 2011, 8:01 pm

Magic staffs make modern magician's mouths water. Even the dullest, most useless staff is held only by the most powerful wizards of post-valterrian Mizahar. Not a lot of people have a staff at all, and when they do, and it's a real staff, then it's a mark of an experienced wizard or at least a wizard with a lot of money. Even old staffs would be guarded jealously if they still had their magic properties and if they lost value it would be because those properties were gone. In which case you'd be better off grabbing a faux-staff and having done with it.

Even if you found someone willing to give you their old staff at discount it would be what, eight hundred gold mizas?

Also you should keep in mind that magecrafting is expensive by design. It is supposed to be expensive, supposed to blow people away. These are not common items. They are relics from an ancient past or cobbled together with second-hand knowledge of when people could do it better.

They're supposed to be hard to get. And if you want one it will be a huge ordeal to get your hands on one.