Pillar of the Caged God Iron StaffWarstaff Physical Damage: 14-42 Critical Strike Chance: 6.40% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+18% Chance to BlockAttack Damage while wielding a Staff1% increased Area of Effect per 20 Intelligence 1% increased Attack Speed per 10 Dexterity 16% increased Physical Weapon Damage per 10 StrengthForged to rule the waves and tide Destined to serve the monkey's paw Strong as a tower of iron Deft as the needle doubt
Pillar of the Caged God is a uniqueIron StaffIron StaffWarstaff Physical Damage: 14-42 Critical Strike Chance: 6.40% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+18% Chance to BlockAttack Damage while wielding a Staff.
The bonuses to attack damage, attack speed, and area of effect are global, and stack additively with other sources of increased attack damage, attack speed, and area of effect radius.
Damage Scaling
Strength - Pillar of the caged god can scale increased physical damage modifiers to much higher levels than most builds by having large amounts of strength. When combined with large amounts of flat added physical damage from non-weapon sources, it can scale damage competitive with high damage rare staves. Some examples of large sources of flat added physical are:
Bloodthirst support adds 2% of your life as flat added physical damage to weapons.
Example: A very high strength stacking build with average % increased life has 8,000 total life. (8,000 X .02) = 160 Flat added physical weapon damage.
Party - Having an ally with large average flat physical damage weapon use Rallying CryRallying CryWarcry, AoE, Duration Level: (1-20) Cost: (15-19) Mana Cooldown Time: 8.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Use Time: 0.80 sec AoE Radius: 60Requires Level 24Performs a warcry, taunting nearby enemies to attack the user and exerting subsequent attacks. Gives nearby Allies a buff based on the damage of your weapon.Base duration is (5.00-5.90) seconds (0-38)% increased Warcry Speed Counts total Power of Enemies and Allies in Range Buff grants Added Attack Damage equal to 3% of the Damage of your Main Hand Weapon per 5 Power, up to a maximum of 20% Buff has 100% more Effect on your Minions Exerts the next 5 Melee Attacks you perform Exerted Attacks deal 5% more Damage per affected Ally, to a maximum of 25%
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (2-40)% increased Cooldown Recovery RatePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. near you to give you 20% of the weapon's damage.
Example: A player with a high damage karui axe that does 700 average physical damage per hit. (700*.2) = 140 flat average added physical damage.
Items - See physical damage page for items with high flat added physical damage.
Ascendancy - Champion ascendancy passive can gives flat added physical damage per impale on enemies you hit.
Attacks - Some attack skills add flat physical damage.
Strength - See Strength page for more info about getting high strength.
Item acquisition
Pillar of the Caged God can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.
Recipes
Pillar of the Caged God can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
6
The TowerThe Tower6StaffA tower built of the strongest stone is not eternal; a towering intellect is not enlightened.
Random staff
A
4
Atziri's ArsenalAtziri's Arsenal4Weapon CorruptedIn the prison of all sins, will you grasp godhood or sorrow? Only hope lies under the shadows.
Random corruptedweapon
A
7
PrejudicePrejudice7Item Influenced ItemOne who is blinded by their past may only see a sliver of the present.
Random influenced item
A
6
Costly CurioCostly Curio6Item Double-Influenced Item"Oh no, I couldn't possibly afford this fine artefact. I'm... just looking."
Jack in the BoxJack in the Box4ItemTurn the crank, close your eyes, and pray to the gods for a pleasant surprise.
Random item
A
1
Singular IncubatorSingular IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Unique item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.
Random item
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Long StaffLong StaffStaff Physical Damage: 24-41 Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 18, 35 Str, 35 Int+18% Chance to BlockAttack Damage while wielding a Staff
18
+12% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff
1% increased Area of Effect per 20 Intelligence
1% increased Attack Speed per 10 Dexterity
10% increased Physical Weapon Damage per 10 Strength
Design attribution
Pillar of the Caged God was created by supporter QixunZ26.
The flavour text suggests that the staff was "destined to serve the monkey's paw". This draws parallels to the Ruyi Jingu Bang, a magical staff wielded by Sun Wukong, a figure of classical Chinese literature who was trapped for 500 years by Buddha in the story Journey to the West. (A "Caged God".)
Several Staves are now classified as Warstaves. Warstaves can no longer roll caster-related modifiers, while Staves retain their old mod generation behaviour.
Now on the Iron StaffIron StaffWarstaff Physical Damage: 14-42 Critical Strike Chance: 6.40% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+18% Chance to BlockAttack Damage while wielding a Staff basetype.
Iron StaffIron StaffWarstaff
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Rallying CryRallying CryWarcry, AoE, Duration
near you to give you 20% of the weapon's damage.
The Tower
The Tower
6StaffA tower built of the strongest stone is not eternal; a towering intellect is not enlightened.
Atziri's Arsenal
4Weapon
Prejudice
7Item
Costly Curio
6Item
Arrogance of the Vaal
8Item
Jack in the Box
4ItemTurn the crank, 
Singular IncubatorSingular IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Unique item to an equippable item
The Void
1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Compare each legacy variant to the current variant.
Long StaffLong StaffStaff
