| Staff of corruption dissemination ( ( ) | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Item Type | Melee weapon |
| Artifact? | No |
| Weight | 40s |
| Danger Level | 1 |
| Material | Wood |
Staff of corruption dissemination is a melee weapon and one of the Magic staves. When zapped, it emits a 4/3/1 radius burst of corruption, depending on B/U/C status. The PC and monsters within the radius will be corrupted, and items on the ground have a chance to be cursed. Fully corrupting a monster takes 2-18 zaps of a blessed staff (more for an uncursed or cursed one), with the exact number depending on the size of the monster.
The staff has typical stats of (+0, 1d10). As with all of the magic staves, it can be generated with prefixes and suffixes.
| Blessed | Uncursed | Cursed |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 400 | 800 |
Desirability[]
Staves of corruption dissemination can occasionally be useful to curse items that are more valuable with that status, such as potions of raw chaos, potions of invisibility, and potions of raw mana. They are not sufficiently corrupting to be of use against problematic monsters.
Guaranteed/Common sources[]
They can be found in the same ways as any generic loot.
Greater Identify information[]
------------- uncursed staff of corruption dissemination (+0, 1d10)------------ When used in melee combat it grants a +0 bonus to hit and causes 1d10 points of damage. When used in ranged combat it grants a +0 bonus to hit and causes 1d4 points of damage. It on average recharges in 50-400 turns (depending on other factors).