Best Staff Weapon Build in Dynasty Warriors: Origins

This build guide explains the key aspects of playing with the Staff weapon in Dynasty Warriors: Origins (DWO): battle arts, traits, accessories, and gems.

Dynasty Warriors Origins (DWO) is a big game with many things to learn and explore, including 10 different weapons to choose from, determining your build and playstyle. DWO is set in ancient China during the Three Kingdoms era. You play as a hero without a name, on a journey to uncover your identity and help different groups through battles and conversations. Along the way, you’ll slowly learn about essential features like riding horses, using guards, planning tactics, mastering battle arts, and teaming up with companions. This guide will explain how to use the Staff build, what are the best combos, battle arts, skills, and gear.

Staff Weapon Overview in Dynasty Warriors: Origins

The Staff weapon emphasizes the knock-up stun lock potential of combat. What makes the Staff unique is the ease of knocking up officers and enemies. Once an enemy is knocked into the air (airborne), they won’t be able to attack back, which makes it easy to score hits. In essence, the Staff acts like a better spear, with more mobility and airborne potential. Picking the staff is a great choice for one-on-one duels or officers battles due to the crowd control potential.

The weapon’s downsides are lacking high-damage battle arts and weak combos outside of airborne attacks. This build suggests multiple battle arts (skills) outside of the Staff to complement its weaknesses. Moreover, you will depend entirely on knocking enemies into the air to take advantage of the build and playstyle. However, the Staff is for you if you want lightning-fast strikes and mobility with stun potential.

Staff Build Pros	Staff Build Cons
Mobility	Lacks high damage Battle Arts
Airborne Attacks	Airborne Dependent
One-vs-One	Weak Combos

Staff Weapon Build Features and Mechanics in DWO

We will explore all the various components of the overpowered Staff build in Dynasty Warriors Origins. Not all of these variables will be available immediately if you’re a new player. Moreover, you can unlock new content after completing the game, so expect some battle arts, tactics, and gear to come later as you progress. However, we have beginner and advanced setups to guide you through the story campaign. The following list presents all the essential Staff Build Features and Mechanics in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Best Battle Arts
  • Vaulting Leap
  • Double Wave Slam
  • [Sp.] Power Shot
  • Peacebringer
• Weapon Traits
  • Boost Musou Guage
  • Grants a very small chance of generating a whirlwind when attacking
  • Increases the drop rate of weapons (farming)
• Best Combo: Block and Strong Attack
• Gems: Vortex Gem (airborne damage), or Ascendance Gem (block)
• Accessories: Red Dragon’s Talon, and Dragon’s Spleen
• Horse: Birch
• Tactics: Flaming Volley, Encirclement, Mounted Charge
• Companion: Guo Jia, Sun Shangxiang

How to Unlock the Staff Weapon

To unlock the Staff, complete the Assassination of Dong Zhuo battle. Staves are a powerful, versatile weapon that allows you to make quick strikes against multiple enemies. You can spin a staff relentlessly, clearing out a space around you and forcing enemies to keep their distance. Once unlocked, you can purchase upgraded weapons from the store and find them throughout various battles. Below are the staffs you can buy at the store:

Weapon	Grade	Attack
Battle Staff	1	22
Battle Staff EX	2	42
Red Rush Staff	3	80
Red Rush Staff EX	4	136
Basilisk Staff	5	204
Basilisk Staff EX	6	264
Crimson Cloud	7	326

Best Battle Arts for Staff Weapon

Double Wave Slam, Brutal Barrage, and Vaulting Leap are the best battle arts for the spear. Double Wave Slam acts as your high-cost area damage skill meant for destroying officers’ fortitude. Costing five bravery, this ability hits multiple times, quickly, in an area in front of you. Additionally, consider using the Peacebringer battle art once unlocked in the Mastery Rank skill tree. This is another high-damage ability that delays damage in a 360 radius. Moreover, Peacebringer knocks enemies into the air, the cornerstone of the staff weapons playstyle.

Brutal Barrage is also helpful because its decent damage, radius, and lower cost. Vaulting Leap is recommended because it only costs one bravery and knocks enemies into the air. Ensure officers do not have red fortitude (above their health bar) to knock them in the air.

You have two options for interruption skills called special battle arts: [Sp.] Palm Strike or [Sp.] Power Shot. The strength of a palm strike is that it costs only one bravery. Therefore, you always want to have at least one bravery (resource for skills) in the tank to interrupt an enemy if needed. The alternative is Power Shot. This is unlocked in the expert skill tree later in the game. While it costs two bravery, it launches at range and is a better interrupt skill against harder bosses later in the game.

Battle Arts are actions or skills used in combat consuming Barvery, the resource required to use them. Bravery is the octagon icon in the lower left of your screen (orange). You can increase the total amount of Bravery and how you gain it through skill passives, portables, and weapon traits. You can master skills by using them, gaining an additional effect like reduced bravery cost, more range, or increased damage.

Beginner Staff Battle Arts

Arts	Name	Description
Left	Ruinous Wave	Quick attacks send enemies flying
Up	Brutal Barrage	Perform shockwave attack in front of you
Right	[Sp.] Palm Strike	Focus your bravery into a palm strike which can stop and stagger enemies
Down	Whirlwind Kick	Unleash a swinging kick with blinding speed, disappear and invulnerable while active

• Ruinous Wave: low-cost attack in front of you that knocks back enemies (two bravery).
• Brutal Barrage: good quick burst skill that can shred fortitude on officers (three bravery).
• [Sp.] Palm Strike: Special Battle Art interrupt in melee range (one bravery).
• Whirlwind Kick: mobility skill that allows you to keep pressure on targets and low cost (one bravery).

Advanced Staff Battle Arts

Arts	Name	Description
Left	Vaulting Leap	Leap up launching enemies in the air
Up	Double Wave Slam	Slam staff and produces shockwave
Right	[Sp.] Power Shot	Fire one powerful arrow can be done midair and interrupts
Down	Peacebringer	Erupts the ground knocking enemies into the air

• Vaulting Leap: knock-up skill, useful when officers have low fortitude and can be controlled in air (one bravery).
• Double Wave Slam: high-cost, good damage, and quick animation (five bravery).
• [Sp.] Power Shot: ranged interrupt that can be done while mid-air (two bravery).
• Peacebringer: longer animation but does good damage in a 360 radius helpful for AOE situations (six bravery).

Best Staff Skills and Passives

The best skills talents are Meat Bun Glutton, Item Investor, Perfect Evade, Extreme Musou Attack, and Rage Restored. Meat Bun Glutton increases your overall healing potential and is vital for survivability. Once fully upgraded, you can obtain 6 meat buns per battle and refill them with pots in towns. Item Investor allows you to carry one more portable (consumable) to each fight, and fully maxed gives you four. This is helpful when you need to heal allies, burst down a boss, or obtain bravery on demand later in the game.

The most important skills and combat goal is to boost your Musou meter so you can enter Rage more frequently. Once in Rage form, you can heal while doing damage, become immune to damage, max out your bravery, and are essentially god mode for 15 or so seconds. Therefore, talents that enable you to heal more, like Rage Restored Upgrade, or stay in Rage longer, like Prolonged Rage, are the best. Lastly, the Extreme Musou Attack allows a companion to activate rage simultaneously, giving you twice the effect on a Musou attack.

Skills and Passives List

Name	Tree	Description	Skill Points
Whirlwind Kick	Knight-Errant Rank	Unleash a swinging kick with blinding speed.	20
Chain Evade	Knight-Errant Rank	Enables you to evade repeatedly	30
Meat Bun Glutton	Knight-Errant Rank	Enables you to hold more meatbuns.	50
Perfect Evade	Adept Rank	Grants bravery when evading just as the opponent attacks	50
Meat Perceiver	Adept Rank	Allows you to see meat buns with Sacred Bird	40
Army of One	Adept Rank	Boosts Musou Guage after 1k kills	60
Item Investor	Expert Rank	Hold +1 portable	50
Extreme Musou Attack	Expert Rank	Enables Extreme Musou Attacks with Companions	80
[Sp.] Power Shot	Expert Rank	Skill that interrupts at range two bravery cost	100
Meat Bun Glutton	Mastery Rank	Enables you to hold more meatbuns.	70
Peacebringer	Mastery Rank	Unlocks battle art	70
Accessories Artisan	Mastery Rank	Equip +1 accessory	80
Meat Bun Glutton	Hero Rank	Enables you to hold more meatbuns.	70
Item Investor	Hero Rank	Hold +1 portable	70
Endurance Accumulation Increase	Hero Rank	Increase Endurance Accumulation	120
Bolster Bravery	Musou Rank	Increase Bravery gain 10%	100
Prolonged Rage	Musou Rank	5% less drain in rage mode	200
Rage Restored Upgrade	Musou Rank	Restores HP when landing attacks in rage	200

Weapon Traits for Staff Weapon

The best weapon traits are extending input for parries, boosting damage to officers, increasing Musou Guage, and increasing the drop rate of weapons. Below is a list of our favorite traits for beginners and advanced players in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

Beginner

• Grants a very small chance of obtaining a meat bun from a defeated enemy.
• Boost Bravery Gain.
• Boosts Battle Art strength
• Increase drop rate of Nectar Water (increase bravery).

Advanced

• Grants a 10% chance of not draining bravery gauge when activating a battle art.
• Extends the input window for parries
• Boosts damage to officers.
• Boost Musou Guage.
• Grants a very small chance of generating a whirlwind when attacking
• Increases the drop rate of weapons (farming).
• Boosts attack by 30% after a perfect evade.

Your weapon comes equipped with a grade and a number. The Grade indicates its rarity, with beginning weapons at 1, and epic at 7. You can increase the damage of your weapon by leveling it, and therefore, you will see a +number. Traits are randomly assigned to weapons, and the diamond shape indicates how many traits a weapon can have. However, you can unlock the reforge option at the weapon shop after beating the campaign. This allows you to take unused weapons and repurpose the traits to a more powerful weapon.

Best Staff Weapon Combos in DWO

The best combo for the Staff weapon is pressing Block and Strong Attack simultaneously. You will launch enemies into the air, then can jump up and press consecutive normal attacks to stay airborne. The entire premise of the staff is to launch enemies into the air, then light attack from there. You can strong attack while in the air to drive forward in a sweeping motion, which is helpful for mobility without costing bravery.

The main damaging attack combo is six normal attacks in a row. This combo won’t do tons of damage, but the animations are fast, and it’s a good way to build bravery quickly. Once you have bravery, attempt to knock the fortitude down from the primary officer or enemy.

The last combo is holding the strong attack which does a mobile spin attack. This can be helpful, but remember to let go as an enemy approaches so you can parry or evade when attacked.

Best Gems for Staff Weapon

Vortex is the best gem for the Staff weapon because it boosts damage to targets knocked into the air. Using your combo and battle arts, you should focus most of your attack power on knock-ups and attacks while airborne. You will have little pressure when targets are in the air, and it’s safe gameplay. However, if you struggle with survivability or in larger fights, consider the Ascendance gem, which gives a percentage-based chance to block incoming officers’ attacks automatically. Early in the game, the Wellspring gem can be helpful because you gain health upon killing 100 targets. With a low meat bun supply, this can make a big difference in big campaign battles.

Gems are accessories that grant special effects to weapon attacks. You can obtain Gems by using Pyroxene, a material found in the open world, to create them.

Best Accessories for Staff Weapon

Red Dragon’s Talon and Dragon’s Spleen are the best accessories for the Staff build because they help with Musou and enter rage more frequently. Red Dragon’s Talon increases your Musou Gauge accumulation by 10% and stacks with other bonuses like portable items granting additional resources. Dragon’s Spleen is helpful because you gain Musou Guage when attacked.

Beginners should consider a health increase accessory or Ravenous Spirit Amulet. This accessory heals you by 5% when defeating an officer. Early in the game, you limited meat buns, and any extra heal can be a lifesaver.

Below are the best accessories for the Staff weapon build in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Red Dragon’s Talon (advanced): Increases Musou Gauge accumulation by 10%
• Dragon’s Spleen (advanced): Slightly increase your Musou Gauge when you are attacked.
• Ziluan’s Sash (beginner): boosts health by 3%.
• Ravenous Spirit Amulet (beginner): restores health by 5% when an officer has been defeated.

You can increase your accessory to two via the Accessories Artisan skill passive in the Mastery Rank tree.

Best Horse for Staff Weapon

The best horse is Birch because it increases your charge maximum distance by 20% and staggers enemies when you summon the horse. Ultimately, you want high speed, endurance, and longer charging to reach locations faster. To level your mount, simply select from the equipment menu and take into battles with you.

Best Tactics for Staff Weapon

The best tactics for a Staff build are Mounted Charge, Flaming Volley, and Encirclement. Mounted Charge is a massive damage, cooldown tactic that hits many enemies in a wide radius. This is ideal to open up with when entering from a far distance into a large opening with many enemies facing you. The same strategy can be employed with Flaming Volley, however, with a much faster cooldown of 240 seconds. To trigger this tactic, look for the high ground when entering a large field area. Lastly, the Encirclement tactic is for tough boss challenges requiring a distraction. This will send allies and guards to swarm an officer and harness them. Consider this a flex skill, but essentially in tough boss battles.

Below are the recommended tactics for a Staff build in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Flaming Volley: unleash a powerful fire arrow volley, 240-second cooldown.
• Encirclement: Surround the enemy before unleashing an attack, 210-second cooldown.
• Mounted Charge: Perform a fearsome cavalry charge, 420-second cooldown.

To activate a tactic, look for a blue line indicating “Dramatic Success.” Using a tactic with a blue (not white) appearance can lower enemies’ morale and do increased damage. Therefore, when charging into combat, immediately hit Eagle Eye when you see a blue line appear as you approach.

Best Portable Items for Staff Weapon

The best portable consumable items are Incense of Vitality and Spirit Pill. Incense of Vitality heals you for 70% of your health and everyone around you. This includes officers, companions, and allies. Therefore, Incense of Vitality should be used in battles with multiple allies, and survival is required for victory. Pay attention to victory conditions before the battle starts; it’s not just you as a main character. The second best consumable one-time use is Spirit Pill, which grants Musou Gauge resources. Therefore, you can use the Spirit Pill to gain enough resources to enter rage more frequently, granting you god mode for a limited time.

Below are the recommended portable consumable items for a Staff build in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

• Meat Buns: Restore some of your health
• Strength Potion: Increase your attack by 60% for a limited time.
• Incense of Vitality: Restores Health by 70% for you and nearby allies.
• Spirit Pill: Restores some of your Musou Gauge.
• Arbogreen (progression): Increases proficiency gained by 200% until you defeat 100 enemies.
• Crimson Cress (progression): Grants you 20 skill points

Portable items are consumables granting effects and are one-time-use items. You can buy them at stores or earn them through various quests. Additionally, skill passives can increase your effectiveness with meat buns, capacity, and storage of items. These are critical to select as you progress and obtain more portable items.

Best Companion for Staff Weapon

The best companion for Staff build is Guo Jia or Sun Shangxiang. Guo Jia uses a sword and once a strong area damage attack, Divine Eagle Dance. Once summoned, you can activate this battle art for massive AOE damage in a 360 radius. This attack will also destroy the fortitude of officers and will help make up for the lack of AOE in the staff.

The secondary option is Sun Shangxiang, who uses the wheels weapon and has more range than Guo Jia. She comes equipped with Twin Tiger Blast, one of the most powerful battle arts in the game, and even more AOE damage and range than Guo Jia. However, the bravery cost is high, so use it sparingly or the companion will despawn.

Companions can be selected in the battle preparation menu and come with important battle arts and skills. Look for a blue line connecting you to a “Battle Chain Art.” When in range and active, if you cast a battle art (regardless of cost), the companion will follow up with another attack of their own. The battle art UI menu lights up blue, indicating a Battle Chain Art is ready. This is essentially a way to increase damage passively when a companion is near.

Best tips and tricks for Staff Weapon

Below are the best 10 tips and tricks for using the Staff Weapon in Dynasty Warriors Origins:

1. Rage: The easiest way to dominate DWO is via Rage and Musco Meter; always try to build this gauge when in doubt.
2. Battle Arts Setup: Make sure to have one high-cost, low-cost, and mobility battle art to start the game.
3. Interrupt: Always save at least one bravery in reserve to interrupt incoming battle arts from enemies with Palm Strike.
4. Build Bravery: Don’t automatically use bravery and battle arts; saving up is okay when fighting an easy officer.
5. Mobility: Use a combination of evading, jumping, and Whirlwind Kick battle art to stay near enemies.
6. Weapon Traits: Look for weapon traits that fit your build, not just increase your attack power.
7. Increase Portable: Take skill talents that increase your meat buns, portable items, and healing effectiveness since healing is limited.
8. Combo: Look to stun, parry, or evade an attacker, then perform a six-button long combo, knocking the enemy in the air.
9. Companions: Use your companion’s two most important abilities: Extreme Musco Attack (yellow line) and Battle Chain Arts (blue line).
10. Tactics: Look for a blue line indicating a Tactic can be used for Dramatic Success to increase effectiveness.

Build Summary – Best Staff Weapon in Dynasty Warriors Origins

FAQs about Staff Weapon Build Dynasty Warriors: Origins

Is Staff weapon good in Dynasty Warriors: Origins?

Yes, the Staff weapon is good if you focus on knocking enemies into the air and then chain-attacking them with a combo. The Staff is an improved, faster Spear with more crowd control potential.

What are the best alternatives for Staff Weapon in Dynasty Warriors: Origins?

The Lance or the Spear are similar weapons to the Staff. The Spear is slower but more defensive, while the Lance has more offensive potential.

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