Watchdog's Staff

Large stone staff embedded with glintstone. Wielded by Erdtree Burial Watchdogs who protect catacombs.
The Watchdogs, battered and broken over their lengthy tenure, rule the catacombs and are even said to command the imps.

The Watchdog's Staff weapon can be found at the following location:

• Located in Road's End CatacombsGrace in Liurnia of the LakesRegion [Elden Ring Map Link]

  • From the lever, travel down both flights of stairs. Turn around, and hit an illusory wall that gets you to a hidden room that's underneath the grassy platform between both flights of stairs. The Staff is picked up from the corpse in this hidden room.

• Weapon Skill: Sorcery of the Crozier

• This weapon cannot be infused with Ashes of War.

• Cannot be enchanted with Magic nor buffed by Consumables.

• Watchdog's Staff can be upgraded by using Somber Smithing Stones.

• Sell Value: 200 Runes.

• Sorcery of the Crozier at +10 does a total of 1369 Magic damage. This damage scales only with weapon upgrade level.

  • This also makes for a powerful homing ranged damage option for melee builds that otherwise have minimal spellcasting investment.

  • Projectile tracking may behave oddly against enemies with large hitboxes or multiple lock-on points.

• AoW can be boosted by: Ritual Sword Talisman, Magic Scorpion Charm, and Golden Vow.

• The Ash of War IS boosted now by Spellblade Set, as of 1.07

• Shard of Alexander DOES now boost the damage of this ability as of 1.07

• AoW damage does not decrease with any equipment that lowers weapon AR.

• NOTE: As of Patch 1.08, Colossal Weapons poise damage has been reduced.

• NOTE: As of Patch 1.09, the scaling values of this weapon were changed. Please refer to the Upgrades Table of this weapon below.

• Other notes and player tips go here.