- Author: GideonAI
- Date: September 30, 2019
- Updated: March 28, 2025
- Expansion: WoW Classic
This guide will take a look at the Staff of Horrors, a unique staff with an interesting on-hit ability that applies Curse to your target. We’ll examine the proc rate of the Curse, as well as how that impacts threat. You can learn more in the video below, or read on to see a detailed written explanation.
Detailed Weapon Stats
- 7% Chance-on-hit to instantly cast Curse of Weakness
- 28 Threat on-target from the Curse
- +0.6 Threat-Per-Second on average from Curses
In-Depth Explanation
The Staff of Horrors is an Uncommon rarity Staff. Its unique chance-on-hit ability will occasionally cause you to cast Curse on your current target and reduce its damage by 5 for 2 minutes.
I spent a long time hitting things (1,818 times) with this weapon and it cursed 128 times altogether. From that testing alone, we can see it has a 7% chance-on-hit to curse. 7% equals an average of 1.4 curses every minute for this weapon, which has an attack speed of 3.4 seconds. In sustained combat, the curse should remain active as it is very likely to re-curse before its 2 minute duration expires.
While I was unable to confirm the exact amount of threat this ability will do, I have tested and confirmed that most other debuffs will apply a base amount of threat equal to the level the debuff was learned at times 2. So a debuff learned at level 60 deals 120 threat, and this debuff is supposedly a level 14 debuff and therefore should cause 28 threat.
The Staff of Horrors drops off of Skeletal Horrors in Duskwood at a very low rate. It becomes Soulbound on equip so you can often find it on the Auction House.
Thanks for reading, and remember, go crazy!
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