Pillar of the Caged God

Pillar of the Caged God
Iron StaffWarstaff
Physical Damage: 14-42
Critical Strike Chance: 7.60%
Attacks per Second: 1.30
Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+20% Chance to Block Attack 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

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6x Alchemy ShardWeapon DPS
Physical: 36.4
Phys+Chaos: 36.4
Total: 36.4Metadata
Item class: Warstaff

Pillar of the Caged God is a unique Iron StaffIron StaffWarstaff
Physical Damage: 14-42
Critical Strike Chance: 7.60%
Attacks per Second: 1.30
Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff.

Mechanics

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. Nearby allies gain a buff based on the damage of your weapon.Base duration is (2.50-3.40) seconds
  (0-38)% increased Warcry Speed
  Counts total Power of Enemies and Allies in Range
  Buff grants Added Attack Damage equal to 4% of the Damage of your Main
  Hand Weapon per 5 Power, counting a maximum of 30 Power
  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 corrupted weapon	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."	Random double-influenced item	A
8	Arrogance of the VaalArrogance of the Vaal8Item Two-Implicit CorruptedDiscovery can lead to beauty, or it can lead to ruin.	Random two-implicit corrupted item	A
4	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.	Random divination card set exchange	A

Legacy variants

Pillar of the Caged God has legacy variants.

Version discontinued	Base item		Stats Compare each legacy variant to the current variant. Stat line – Same as current variant Stat line – Different from current variant
3.25.0	Iron StaffIron StaffWarstaff Physical Damage: 14-42 Critical Strike Chance: 7.60% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff	13	+18% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff 1% increased Area of Effect per 20 Intelligence 1% increased Attack Speed per 10 Dexterity 16% increased Physical Weapon Damage per 10 Strength
3.7.0	Long StaffLong StaffStaff Physical Damage: 24-41 Critical Strike Chance: 7.50% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 18, 35 Str, 35 Int+20% Chance to Block Spell Damage while wielding a Staff	18	+18% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff 1% increased Area of Effect per 20 Intelligence 1% increased Attack Speed per 10 Dexterity 16% increased Physical Weapon Damage per 10 Strength
2.6.0	Long StaffLong StaffStaff Physical Damage: 24-41 Critical Strike Chance: 7.50% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 18, 35 Str, 35 Int+20% Chance to Block Spell 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 16% increased Physical Weapon Damage per 10 Strength
1.0.0	Long StaffLong StaffStaff Physical Damage: 24-41 Critical Strike Chance: 7.50% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 18, 35 Str, 35 Int+20% Chance to Block Spell 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".)

Alternate artwork

Race Season Eight prize for reaching 14 RP.

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  Alt Art Pillar of the Caged God (2)

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	This item's basetype's implicit modifier was changed.
3.8.0	Several Staves are now classified as Warstaves. Warstaves can no longer roll caster-related modifiers, while Staves retain their old mod generation behaviour.
3.7.0	Now on the Iron StaffIron StaffWarstaff Physical Damage: 14-42 Critical Strike Chance: 7.60% Attacks per Second: 1.30 Weapon Range: 1.3 metresRequires Level 13, 27 Str, 27 Int+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff basetype.
3.3.0	Added 3D art.
2.6.0	Base type implicit mod increased to 18% Chance to Block (up from 12%) Base type critical strike chance decreased to 6% (down from 6.4%).
1.1.5	Added 3D art for the Season Eight alternate art rewards.
1.0.0	Increased Physical Damage per 10 Strength has been increased from 10% to 16%. Using a Divine Orb on an existing version will roll new mods in the new ranges.
0.10.5	Introduced to the game.