Dragon's Dogma 2: Best Archistaves

Capcom's Dragon's Dogma 2, an expansive and sprawling, seamlessly open-world, RPG offers players a flexible combat and class system with a lot of variety. Dragon's Dogma 2 has a variety of kinds of weapon for players to use, ranging from the mundane sword and shield combo to more fantastical items such as the Mage staff and the Mystic Spearhand's fearsome Duospear. The powerful Sorcerer vocation uses the archistaff, a ranged magickal weapon, to rain down fire and lightning on unsuspecting foes. Here are the ten best archistaves in the game.

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10 Favored Branches

It's Free

• Where to find: In the Depleted Ore Mine north of Harve Village

Favored Branches is an easy to acquire archistaff available in the very early parts of the game, essentially as soon as the player as access to Harve Village. Harve Village is encountered during the main story quest, and Favored Branches can be found in the Depleted Ore Mine to its north.

Being a free archistaff, this is a great find for the cash-strapped Sorcerer. Harve Village is also where a couple of side quests take place, and it has a port crystal, so it's a great place to check out anyway.

9 Craos Tine

It Can Be Acquired Several Ways And It's Element Is Fire

• Where to find: Craos Tine can be purchased in Grisha's Armory in Sacred Arbor, or can be found as a rare drop from battling a Wight

Craos Tine is a great choice of archistaff during the early to mid-game thanks to its easy availability and good stats. Players can purchase it directly after gaining access to the Elvish settlement of Sacred Arbor, or failing that, can attempt to find it as a drop from the powerful Wight enemy type encountered at night.

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Craos Tine is relatively easy to acquire and offers the Fire element, too, so it can be a great choice to consider.

8 Plucked Heart

A Strong Weapon With A Modest Price Tag

• Where to find: Celeste's Smithy in Checkpoint Rest Town, or Awaran's Arms in Bakbattahl

Plucked Heart is a powerful archistaff that also makes for one of of the best early game archistaves too. Available from Celeste's Smithy just a short oxcart ride away from Vernworth, players with a bit of spare gold can acquire Plucked Heart soon after reaching Vernworth right at the start of the game.

Its stats are very good, especially early on, so it might be difficult to find a better option until later on in the game.

7 Talarian White

A Great Way To Access Holy

• Where to find: Grisha's Armory in Sacred Arbor

Talarian White is a powerful archistaff available from Grisha's Armory in Sacred Arbor. This archistaff is a great option for Sorcerers because it grants access to the Holy element, an element usually reserved for the Mage vocation.

Definitely a good option for a Sorcerer Arisen who wants the ability to deal Holy damage without a dedicated Mage Pawn.

6 Solar Providence

Solar Powered Magick

• Where to find: Awaran's Arms in Bakbattahl

Solar Providence is a great mid-game archistaff. Available from Awaran's Arms in Bakbattahl, Solar Providence has great stats.

It's a little harder to acquire than some other options as access to Battahl is much more difficult at the start of the game, but it's a fantastic choice for players who snuck in or followed the main quest to Battahl.

5 Anathema

Can Silence Enemies

• Where to find: Very rare drop from Lich, can also be found inside a chest in Dragonsbreath Tower

Anathema can be very difficult to acquire since it's a rare drop from the Lich enemy, or otherwise available inside one chest in Dragonsbreath Tower, accessible during the main story quest.

But this powerful archistaff comes with a chance to cast the Silence Debilitation on enemies, which is a nice bonus on top of its fantastic Magick stat. The only downside is how rare this archistaff is.

4 Bane Archistaff

The Bane Of All Enemies

• Where to find: Volcanic Island Armory in the Volcanic Island Camp; also found at a variety of merchants in the endgame, including Celeste's Smithy, Awaran's Arms, and Roderick's Smithy

The Bane Archistaff is a great choice of archistaff but it's difficult to find because it's mostly gated to the endgame.

Before the official endgame it can be found in two locations, but these locations are quite far across the map from early game locales. But the Bane Archistaff is definitely worth it, boasting a whopping 345 Magick. That said, many players may find themselves waiting until endgame to use this archistaff, but it is worth the effort it takes to get.

3 Lion-Lord's Archistaff

Expensive, But Worth It

• Where to find: Grisha's Armory in Sacred Arbor

Lion-Lord's Archistaff is one of the best archistaves in the game, and it's available really early on to players with enough gold.

Lion-Lord's Archistaff can be purchased from Grisha's Armory and its stats make it an absolute monster in the mid-game, with power that doesn't drop off until much later. This all comes with a pretty steep price, especially in early game, but the power boost can be worth shelling out the gold.

2 Caged Fury

Open The Cage, Release The Fury

• Where to find: Roderick's Smithy, Grisha's Armory, Celeste's Smithy, Awaran's Arms, Brokkr's Smithy (all endgame only)

Caged Fury is a fantastic archistaff with great stats, but it doesn't drop from any enemies, and it's only available in the endgame for a quite high price of 68000G. This means many players won't ever encounter it, but it's powerful and can be purchased for a very reasonable price considering when it becomes available.

Still, it's a great choice for that point in the game and offers the second-highest Magick stats of any base archistaff, and without having to shell out any Wyrmslife Crystals.

1 Dragon's Wit

The Ultimate Weapon

• Where to find: Bay Wayside Shrine in the endgame, purchasable for Wyrmslife Crystals

The best archistaff in the game, Dragon's Wit boasts a massive 440 Magick stat. It's easily the Sorcerer's greatest companion, but unfortunately, it's hard to acquire.

This is an endgame weapon purchasable only with Wyrmslife Crystals from the Dragonforged at a very steep cost. By this point in the game Wyrmslife Crystals aren't as hard to acquire as they were previously, but it's still a big ask.

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