Staff of Fire

The Staff of Fire is one of four buildable Elemental Staffs in the Apocalypse DLC map Origins.

The Staff of Fire shoots three balls of molten rock, horizontally, when fired, which will cause zombies near the impact zone to burn, stunning them in pain before either burning up or recovering depending on how close they were to the blast radius; in that case the zombie will definitely die if shot it again.

Once upgraded to the Kagutsuchi's Blood, it functions the same as its previous version, except with a bigger blast radius and any zombies hit point blank range will be vaporized. You can also hold down the firing button in order to charge it up, at the cost of more ammo per charged shot. When charged and released, it fires three fireballs, horizontally like the previous version. However, any zombie nearby will be incinerated and it will last on the floor/wall for a few seconds, before it explodes in a bigger fireball.

Furthermore, the Kagutsuchi's Blood has a melee attack that involves swiping with the spikes on the head of the staff. This attack is a one hit kill until approximately round 16. If Thunder Fists is equipped, the Thunder Fists melee attack overrides the staff melee attack.

After upgrading, it gains a secondary "attachment" called Sekhmet's Vigor which when activated by pressing right on the D-Pad, will cause the player to flip the staff and use the bottom end. This can be used to revive a downed player by "shooting" him/her directly. The "vigor" is a slow-moving ball, which will travel in a straight line. It is recommended to make your shots count, because it is very easy to miss with this weapon.

How to Obtain
There are 4 parts of the staff that the player must get, along with an elemental gem needed in order to craft the staff. The player must complete a series of steps receive the parts. In order to receive one part, the player must kill the Panzer Soldat, which will drop a staff part the first time it is killed. Another part is obtained by shooting down a glowing yellow plane from the air; doing so will cause a staff part to drop down. The third staff part is obtained after powering Generator 6, appearing as a reward from the Rituals of the Ancients box nearby.

In order to reach the elemental gem in The Crazy Place, one must first find the red record and the Gramophone. The red record can be found in three places, either on the burning seats in the church, near Generator 6, or on stacked boxes visible after the Mark IV Tank has left. The Gramophone is always located inside the Excavation Zone, on the floor. Once both are obtained, the player must go into the Fire tunnel, located just to the right of the door to the first (spawn) room when going there from the path from Generator 3, and hold the action button on the table at the end of the tunnel to open the gateway to The Crazy Place. Once there, the player must go to the Fire "pedestal" and hold the action button to receive the fire elemental gem.

Once all the items are gathered, the player must go down the ramp into the excavation zone and place the gramophone on the table when having the black record, which can be found around the outside of the excavation zone, with one location being right next to the excavation zone sign. After a few seconds, the floor around the center pillar will collapse into a staircase, which will lead you to the bottom. At the very bottom, the player must go to the statue that corresponds with the element and craft the staff there, after which any player can pick up the staff via the action button.

Upgrading the Staff
Once the player has picked up the Staff of Fire, he/she must return to The Crazy Place, and solve the riddle located on the Fire part of the map, where the gateway back is located. The player simply has to use the staff to kill zombies while they are on the metal grates in order to light up the nearby cauldrons. One will know it is working when zombies explode into a cloud of smoke on death, and the cauldrons with the symbols will all be lit and once all 4 are done, an audio cue by Samantha will signify that the riddle has been solved.

Once the riddle in The Crazy Place has been completed, the player must return to the original realm and solve the riddle there. On the basement floor of the church, there are several



unlit torches with several numbers on them, along with an unlit torch with a bloodstain below it (which represents the number 4). Using patterns found on the main church floor walls, the player must convert those patterns using the ternary numeral system into numbers. Using the symbols that are lit up and having converted them, the player must now use the Staff of Fire to light up the corresponding torches in the basement. The symbols (from left to right) are: 11, 5, 9, 7, 6, 3, and 4.

The player now has to return to the bottom of the Excavation Zone, where in the middle as you look up there is now a fire ball orb. Now in the lower section of the Excavation Zone align the disks above the fire ball orb via the four switches scattered around in this same area so that all the gems are red. The player with the Staff of Fire must shoot the fire ball orb, which will cause the ball to fly into the air and return to The Crazy Place. You may shoot the Fire ball before aligning the disks which has been done on solo but not confirmed on multiplayer yet. Once done, the player must now go back to The Crazy Place, where the staff can be placed onto the Fire pedestal. The player must kill zombies nearby the Fire pedestal, so that the zombie "souls" get attracted to the staff and power it up. After killing a fair amount of zombies, an audio cue by Samantha will indicate to the player that the staff is powered up and upgraded to Kagutsuchi's Blood. The staff can now be picked up by any player.

Trivia

 * The Staff of Fire is held by Takeo Masaki in the Origins poster.
 * The Staff of Fire is Takeo's favorite staff, as stated through a few of his quotes. This is somewhat stereotypical of Japanese people. Seeing as dragons, fire, etc is largely part of Japanese culture.
 * The upgraded Staff of Fire is named after the Japanese God of Fire, Kagutsuchi.
 * If the player has the Staff of Fire and dives to prone while using PhD Flopper, the explosion will set the zombies on fire.
 * When upgrading the Staff of Fire, and performing the crazy challenge, the challenge is the zombie bodies being absorbed and not the souls. For example, when one staff's challenges are completed and the said staff is within the crazy pedistal, the souls are absorbed and the bodies are consumed by the pots.
 * Like all the elemental staves, the Staff of Fire, when upgraded to Kagutsuchi's Blood, gets a powerful melee attack which is a one-hit kill to about round 16.
 * With that, two blades once concealed within the staff will now extend out, altering its appearance, and allowing you to perform the melee attack.