Battlestaff

The elven battlestaff is a new weapon added in the update beta 25, it resembles a shaft with 2 blades on either side and is a fairly usefull weapon for good aligned players.

Stats

There is 3 types of battlestaffs/battlestaves 1 for each elven faction, so there is High-elven, Galadhrim and Wood-elven. The staff does just as much damage as an elven sword, to be precise: +7 attack damage. But while swords only have 100% range the Elven battlestaves have 150%, similar to a spear making it a great semi-ranged weapon (don't start throwing it around, unlike a spear you can't actually fling it at someones head trying to chop it clean off.) The weapon also has a slight downside though, to make it a bit more balanced it got a negative speed boost, so instead of the 100% of a sword it only has 67% speed. Doesn't make it less cool looking though.

Crafting

The crafting of battlestaves is slightly odd since the recipe doesn't actually resemble the weapon itself, rather it uses the same shape as the dunlending trident and the near harad pole axe and thus requires 3 elven steel ingots and 2 sticks, (If you're crafting a Galadhrim one you WILL need mallorn sticks.)