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Comment by Khayos

Is there a difference between this and Inscribed Serpent Staff?

Comment by 427323

the real shocker though, is that from the looks of it, this is made with inscription! finally something useful from that profession that isn't glyphs :p

Comment by 665258

This item is an upgrade from Rain Poppy Staff that scribes can make.

Comment by Maliander

This healer staff is created by scribes.Unlike the off-hands, it binds on account rather than equip, meaning it can be used by the scribe itself or any of your other characters, but cannot be sold on the auction house or traded to other players.

Ingredient breakdown:

1 Rain Poppy Staff
1 Plain Wooden Staff
8 Ink of Dreams
2 Spirit of Harmony
3 Rain Poppy
20 Starlight Ink
5 Spirit of Harmony
20 Scroll of Wisdom
20 daily cooldowns
20 Light Parchment
60 Ink of Dreams

Total base materials:
20 daily cooldowns
20 Light Parchment (Scribe parchment)
68 Ink of Dreams (MoP Common ink)
20 Starlight Ink (MoP Uncommon ink)
3 Rain Poppy (MoP herb)
7 Spirit of Harmony (World drop)
1 Plain Wooden Staff (Scribe vendor)

Spirit of Harmony is created by combining 10 Mote of Harmony, which are world drops in all MoP zones and, like the Spirit, BoP. This complicates using lower-level alts to craft this for your main.

Scroll of Wisdom is acquired from from daily research (Scroll of Wisdom). Once none of your current or future characters have a use for this staff, you can recover half of the Scrolls used to craft this staff: the quest Inscribed Crane Staff destroys the staff in return for 10 Scrolls.

Overview of all Scribe created epic weapons:

Inscribed Jade Fan (caster DPS off-hand, BoE)
Inscribed Red Fan (healer off-hand, BoE)
Inscribed Crane Staff (healer staff, BoA)
Inscribed Serpent Staff (caster DPS staff, BoA)
Inscribed Tiger Staff (agility staff, BoA)

Comment by rabnab

This might be made into the healers version of the scribes staff, since Inscribed Red Fan is also called after a crane.

EDIT: now verified, this is the healers equivalent.

Comment by laxu

i hope the model for this is just a place holder altho i fear it's not

Comment by 168962

This item may be turned in - via Inscribed Crane Staff, which is started by right clicking on the item - for 10 Scroll of Wisdom returned to you. Note that you will lose your staff in the process, but it will help towards crafting a more powerful weapon that will (hopefully) be implemented with future patches.

Comment by Raevenne

Sadly, "Binds to Battle.net account" still really means "you can send this to an alt, but only an alt on the same server". :-(

Comment by 125795

I compared the top 4 candidates for casual players(with monk healing statweights) as of 12th of October 2012, and this is the rank they got:

(1741 points) Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker (with the legendary +500 int gem)
(1629 points) Jin'ya, Orb of the Waterspeaker (without gem)
(1544 points) Inscribed Crane Staff
(1374 points) Malevolent Gladiator's Energy Staff
(1365 points) Gustwalker Staff

As you can see, if you(as a mistweaver monk) already have Gustwalker Staff, and are thinking about upgrading to the PvP staff for PvE, don't bother, it differs so little. You would most likely get more bang for the buck buying some other PvP item for the conquest points if you are intent on doing so for PvE purposes.

BoA inscription staff is a good option before you can get the Raidfinder staff, but it requires 20x daily cooldowns to make, and will no doubt be very expensive. On the pluss side, you can just send it to an alt when you do get an upgrade, or deliver it as a quest item to get some of the mats back.

With the introduction of PvP power (which increase healing/damage done in PvP zones), and the old familiar Resilience (which reduce damage you take from other players), its really hard to say if the Raidfinder staff (with or without gem) will be seen at all in the Arena scene this season. I suspect that with the new PvP power stat, legendaries(yes, I know its just a gem now) will be a thing of the past in the PvP world.

Comment by sixth

Staff is bugged and never actually gets crafted. A quest to destroy it is what you will see
and when you turn it in expecting to get your staff, the staff is destroyed.

DO NOT TURN IN QUEST. Make a ticket if you cannot find your new staff in your bags.

Comment by nealj121

Took me awhile to make it, eventually got the 20 scrolls (mostly from daily scroll making), created it, had no problems unlike some others have said, and I just love it (the eyes glow) for my lil goblin shammy. The staff is a little big for her tho, lol.

It SHOULD be NOTED ---- when you make the staff, you have it and its in your inventory bags. You will also see the yellow exclamation point quest marker with it. DO NOT RIGHT CLICK TO START THE QUEST --- UNTIL --- you are ready to destroy the staff to get 10 scrolls back. Once you destroy the staff, its gone.

Comment by Yavanna

I made this staff mainly for use with my resto druid who is NOT a scribe. You can accept the quest on your scribe and then the item becomes the staff until such time you redeem it for scrolls. However when I sent it to my druid it was in his bags again as the quest item and could not be equipped by right clicking on it!

I typed "/equip Inscribed Crane Staff" and it worked. Hope this helps someone else get round the problem

It's nice that Blizz thought about making some scrolls redeemable but this seemed to be a silly way of going about it for a BOA.

Comment by arebarchik

Because I feel the comments below didn't emphasize this enough:

DO NOT RIGHT CLICK THIS STAFF TO EQUIP!

Right clicking (currently) will start a quest used to DESTROY the staff

There is (currently) no "Confirm that you want to complete this quest and destroy the staff" before the staff disappears.

When you make this staff, drag it onto your character weapon slot to equip.

While all of you do know how to abandon quests (there's a button when you click the quest in your log) - in this case it pays to be extra careful and not even start it. You might forget about it and simply turn it in while doing your dailies.

I expect that Blizzard will soon change this item to no longer function in this way, but until that time please heed my warning. Many of us have made this mistake and I'm sure their GMs are getting bored of restoring this item and soon will be fed up and stop doing it.

Lets hope that by that time they take the quest off the staff and make it a "vendor buy" using the staff as currency for 10 Scroll of Wisdom.

Comment by fresh816163

so, patch 5.1 came out today and with it item upgrading. I was wondering if Since this staff is BoA, can you upgrade it with the valor from one toon and send it to another while maintaining the upgrade. ~~If anyone tries this out, please respond with accurate information.~~

Confirmed: Upgrade is maintained when you trade this item between characters.

Comment by 1046768

DO NOT turn in the completed staff for the quest. Your reward is 10 scrolls of wisdom (which makes no sense, it take 20 to make it plus a total of 7 Spirits of Harmony making from scratch) You WILL lose the staff!

So ticked off at Blizz for this.

Comment by Arikara

Looks rather like Terezi's Dragon Cane.

Comment by kinigit

It is possible to get Spirit of Harmony on low level characters. The Sealed Crate found in Shipwreck Debris pools on Darkmoon Island during Darkmoon Fair drop Mote of Harmony at about an 8% drop rate.

My level 80 scribe started fishing for 50 Mote of Harmony at level 1 fishing. It took several hours. I ended up at 311 fishing.

To give an idea of how long this will take for planning purposes; I earned the 1000 fish achievement and I fished approximately 750 Shipwreck Debris pools. Moving between the pools significantly increases the time it takes so don't just mentally calculate how long 311 fishing or 1000 casts would take.

I recommend you stock up on Elixir of Water Walking during the 3 weeks off time leading up to the Darkmoon Faire. You are also going to want to start using your daily cooldown to make Scroll of Wisdom as soon as possible because you are going to need 20 of them - it would suck to farm the 5 Spirit of Harmony only to realize you still have to spend 20 days making Scroll of Wisdoms.

Comment by rooter

Can you upgrade this staff with valor points and still pass it to your alts with the increased stats? It seems like that wouldn't work.

Comment by emogeddon

Can I send this weapon to another toon on a different server?

Comment by Maruset

Probably the more useful of the two caster staves for people with lots of alts. Druids, Priests, and Shaman can use this to heal and still get hit in dps specs, whereas the Inscribed Serpent Staff has hit built into it, better for mages and locks but not as useful for healing

Edit: Forgot about monk healers. This staff is obviously better for them, too

Comment by 65948

As of 5.2 you can no longer get quest for 10 scrolls.I guess Blizzard changed that so people no longer lose their staffs.On other hand its bad if you want to craft other version and need to farm those bloody 20 scrolls:(

Comment by oscarucb

This crafted item is bind-on-account (BoA). This means you must learn the pattern and craft the item on the same account as the toon who wants to wear it.

The BoP Craft Confirm addon helps save you from accidentally crafting BoA/BoP items that you intend to trade or auction.

Comment by 770376

This staff show a 0/2 availability to upgrade to a level 484 stat by turning in two sets of 250 valor points, but how and where is this done? THX

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Inscribed Crane Staff

Item Level 476
Binds to account

Two-Hand	Staff

4,895 - 7,343 Damage	Speed 3.30

(1,854 damage per second)
+1,522 Stamina
+1,015 Intellect
+677 Spirit
+5,813 Spell Power
+677 Mastery
Durability 120 / 120

Requires Level 90

Sell Price: 69 68 56

Inscribed Crane Staff

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