 | Name | Staff of the Scarlet Sands |
| Family | Weapon, Polearm |
| Rarity |  |
| Conversion Exp | 300000 |
| Base Attack | 44.34 |
| Substat Type | Critical Rate % |
| Base Substat | 9.6% |
| Weapon Affix | Heat Haze at Horizon's End |
| Affix Description | The equipping character gains 52% of their Elemental Mastery as bonus ATK. When an Elemental Skill hits opponents, the Dream of the Scarlet Sands effect will be gained for 10s: The equipping character will gain 28% of their Elemental Mastery as bonus ATK. Max 3 stacks. |
| Description | One of a paired set of scepters fashioned from obsidian. Legend has it that these staves grant the right to lead the people of the desert, but no retainer now lives who can verify the proper appearance of these regalia. |
| Weapon Ascension Materials | |
10000
114 responses to “Staff of the Scarlet Sands”
Does the passive have internal coldown for stacking? Would it work well with Arlecchino? I’m kinda limited in options for her
Wow, you’re really hyperbolic over moderate value differences of gacha game items.
is this weapon good for EM Raiden?
no. dragon’s bane will always be better for full EM raiden as an off-field hyperbloom driver
They’re just confidently wrong. Yes, it’s one of her best weapons, period. Also, even “for hyper bloom” you’re still hitting targets with dendro on them which means more aggravation than wrong answers like the one above.
So you’d rather have a weapon that boosts her skill damage while sacrificing her Hyperbloom damage. LMAO
If you’re talking about the 36% dmg bonus of the dragon’s bane you are actually wrong. The dragon’s bane passive doesn’t increase hyperbloom damage. The dragon’s bane makes you do more dmg to enemy’s effected by hydro or pyro, but this is only bonus damage simular as hydro dmg bonus. So the hyperbloom damage doesn’t change, but the skill dmg does change. For EM raiden you want the highest EM possible. The next thing you want is crit, atk%, elementaldmgbonus. But the amount of stats you get from this staff is actually insane. I really wonder what would end up dealing the most damage.
They weren’t talking about the weapon passive of Dragon’s Bane. It’s pretty common knowledge at this point that that passive only works while you’re on-field and it doesn’t affect reactions. What they’re talking about is that Staff of the Scarlet Sands provides NOTHING for Raiden in a post-Dendro world. Raiden’s personal damage is entirely irrelevant in all of her best Dendro teams. She only needs ONE stat… Elemental Mastery. Max it out, and if you still have room in your build, max it out some more. Atk%, Crit, Energy Recharge, Elemental DMG Bonus… literally all things that she was designed around are useless for Raiden in Hyperbloom.
The only time you would change this is if you’re running Raiden as a driver for like a Quicken team or something. Then Staff of the Scarlet Sands would be a good choice. But good luck with that. Balancing all of Raiden’s stat needs to be an effective main-DPS in Quicken is going to be a nightmare compared to other Electro characters that can drive for Quicken better than she can.
Point is, what they’re saying is that boosting Raiden’s personal damage does nothing for her compared to what she could get by just equipping Dragon’s Bane for its massive EM bonus.
If somehow, you manage to get some absolutely cracked sub-stats, then cool, but otherwise, just focus on getting that EM/EM/EM Gilded Dreams or Flower of Paradise Lost sets. And Dragon’s Bane, a weapon that provides an insane amount of EM, is the first step… at least until we get a decent 5* EM weapon.