Phat Loot Phriday: Golden Staff of the Sin'dorei
by Mike Schramm 
Jun 20th 2008 at 9:00PM
Yup, that's it. This baby is pretty much tops if you are a healer who wants to max out Spirit and healing and all of those other good stats that help you keep others alive. This is the kind of staff that even makes Tanks go all Keanu: "whoah."
Name: Golden Staff of the Sin'dorei (WowDB, Thottbot, Wowhead)
Type: Epic Two-hand Staff
Damage/Speed: 146-338 / 3.20 (75.6 DPS)
Abilities:
- +60 Stamina, +54 Intellect, +57 Spirit. Yeah.
- Red and two Blue sockets, nicely fitted with some +22 healing gems and/or +10 Spirit gems and you're talking about some real power. +4 Spirit socket bonus.
- Improves spell haste rating by 32
- +550 healing, +183 spell damage. Yes, you read that right -- 550 healing. Not since right before the last expansion has there been a staff this nice in comparison to other gear, and even if you could match the healing on a one-hand/offhand combo (you probably can, if you get the right gear and enchants together), the Spirit bonuses on this baby are going to give that duo a run for the money. Take a good look, because this is the kind of stuff that's going to be dropping in endgame raids at level 80.
- Sin'dorei, you should know by now (we're almost to the next expansion), means Blood Elves, or "children of the Blood" in Thalassian. And yes, the staff looks just like the one in the BC art, as seen above. This is very BC staff, if not the most defining staff of this expansion. Look for a lot less gold and green and a lot more blue and black in WotLK.
You can drool, though. And in ten levels, when we're all working through Naxx again, maybe you can convince your raid to go back and help you get it.
Getting Rid of It: Sells to vendors for 20g 54s 93s and disenchants into a Void Crystal. But look how shiny! Have a good weekend.
Filed under: Druid, Priest, Shaman, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Blood Elves, Lore
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kenny Jun 20th 2008 10:03PM
in before "this loot is too phat"
frank Jun 21st 2008 1:41AM
I agree, this loot is too phat. My server has one guild doing full clears in Sunwell (Deus Vox woo). I bet most servers don't even have that. (Wowjutsu has 30 guilds worldwide that have Kil'jaeden kills).
I'd rather these articles apply to the masses instead of the top 0.01%.
Besides, you aren't exactly shocking anyone here... What? The end boss of the entire expansion drops a really good staff? No way!
I'd much rather see articles of really cool lower level items that can still be useful to higher level toons (like water-breathing staves or toy transformation items) or exceptional drops from lower level tier content/pvp (things that are hard to replace due to being above and beyond the tier level they drop in).
/2cents
kenny Jun 21st 2008 9:31PM
WHHOOOOOOOSSSHHHHHHH
Steerpike Jun 20th 2008 10:03PM
The mace that drops from Kil'jaeden also has 550 +healing. Combine that with the shield from M'uru, so Paladins and Shaman can have healing sweetness too.
Joseph Jun 20th 2008 10:28PM
I sex someone long time for this staff.
Max Jun 20th 2008 10:33PM
It's funny. The staff is pictured with Kael, a mage, and yet the staff is for healers. Think it's kinda gay that casters are getting bullied into main-hand/off-hand combos lately.
Chris Jun 20th 2008 10:39PM
Really? I think it's rather straight.
Reinard Jun 20th 2008 11:11PM
That's not Kael. Also, it's pretty straight, I agree with Chris.
Cetha Jun 21st 2008 2:00AM
i completely agree...a caster has a staff..the end..what kind of caster wanders around with a dagger and a light bulb on the end of a stick
SpaceDog Jun 21st 2008 6:23AM
Choose your adjectives more wisely. You give off a bad impression.
Nogun Jun 20th 2008 10:47PM
If output so Healing and haste is what you are after,
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34335 550 healing 23 haste
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34206 70 healing 22 haste
Is far superior, all what staves seem to offer is slightly superior base stats (stam, int, spi) and let's face it, nobody is really after that or people would socket it.
The price of having a cooler looking weapon I suppose.
kr3wman Jun 21st 2008 12:06AM
Still a great weapon for priests because of the amount of Spirit. Or druid, if they don't want to waste the haste.
Steerpike Jun 21st 2008 3:40PM
These would only be good for Paladins and Shaman. Druids and Priest like a lot of spirit in their healing gear.
Ayrianna Jun 21st 2008 2:54AM
...Or in 10 levels, you can go raid Naxxramus for a staff that will be comparable to this?
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but at least 90% of the gear in Kara is comparable- if not better- than the gear from later Vanilla Naxx.
Radiophonic Jun 21st 2008 5:22AM
Give me spell hit or give me death. :P
Great staff though, not really for dps types but the stats are there anyway.
Procris Jun 21st 2008 6:40AM
Maybe i fail to understand what "phat loot" Friday is all about but Kil'jaeden is a boss that realistically hardly anyone viewing WoWinsider is going to ever kill. Its uber loot aright but i think loot that most people can obtain would be more up everyone's alley and more helpful.
Max Jun 21st 2008 1:10PM
"Choose your adjectives more wisely. You give off a bad impression."
Yeah, thanks mom.