Bonzo's Staff

Bonzo's Staff is a Dungeon Sword that is obtainable from defeating the Catacombs Floor 1 boss Bonzo. It can only be obtained from Diamond, Emerald, and Obsidian Chests. Alternatively, it can be unlocked under Collections after obtaining 150 Bonzo kills.

The base magic damage is 1000, with an Ability Scaling of 0.2.

When its ability is used, it launches a slow-moving balloon that stops on the first mob hit. This ability has no cooldown, meaning you can launch more balloons the more you click, and you can constantly launch balloons at a relatively fast rate if you hold down right-click. The balloon will launch the player away if the player is in the explosion radius. This gives Bonzo's staff the use of being able to get the crystals in Floor 7 quickly by blasting oneself onto the crystals.

The cost to obtain a staff from any chest is the original chest price plus 2m coins. If one is grinding Floor 1 for a staff, it is recommended to carry at least 2.5m coins in the bank at all times. However, for non ironman players, it is instead recommended to just buy a Bonzo's Staff from the Auction House as it is the same price, if not cheaper.

The chances for getting the staff from each chest are around 0.5% from Diamond and Emerald chests, but 1% from obsidian chest.

Like most other abilities, most enchants don't affect the damage, with exceptions include smite, execute, and giant killer.

This is generally considered to be worse than a Frozen Scythe as it is less accurate than the frozen scythe, as well as doing less damage because of lower intelligence scaling. However, it is better than a Frozen Scythe inside dungeons due to its damage being buffed inside dungeons.

You can upgrade the Bonzo's Staff using 8 Bonzo Fragments surrounding a Bonzo's staff in a crafting table to increase the staff with 50 and increasing the Ability Damage by 100.

Trivia

 * When upgraded with fragments the Item ID changes to STARRED_BONZO_STAFF