Treat Staff  

Well, I see others have posted this... But I was surprised when it happened to me just now. XD I was beating on a maggot in Oztroja, skilling up with the staff.
I was going to put it away after the fight, and finished the crawler with a WS... Suddenly, the screen went black - I wondered if I was going to jail or something. o.O And... Then I was back in Jeuno. Whoops.

So yeah, completely random. ^^; Guess if you need a warp, just round up some Too Weaks and look at something else.

I was in this grassy place, fighting this HUGE ass ram, and i popped it in de head, it got mad. it hit me back, i ran away. i hit it in the face with the staff in vengence. i got warp home, angry. hp low, hungry.

Last year was bamm war in one or 2 hits. no yellow no tp no moon phase. But last year my staf skill was 0 cause i started playing last year. Hoping it's not fudged up like get skill point warp >.> hoping not but that's about the only difference i can see.

My guess is that SE changed the latent requirements. No idea what they are yet, I'm trying a few things...

mnk50/25war i killed aobut 200 mobs in sandy and not warping and i have yellow HP + its halloween event....

Maybe it ran out of batterys XD

Welp, i remember it warping me as a lvl 12 BST, when i was right outside the gates of Bastok. I have tried it several times as WAR, or RDM and i get nothing. I havent taken note of the time of day in game i tried to use it, though. :(

Latent Effect: Blood Warp (it seems) XD

Yeah i was just wondering if i could get some extra clarification on this.. several posts say it works at night, some say it doesnt... Anything is worth a shot, right?

Edited, Tue Feb 21 23:09:28 2006

but as I was about to say. It's not too bad for any lvl 1 mage. still 5hp and 5 mp. it's better that the warp doesn't work for that case. and I know I'm pointing out the obvios.

1 smack, 1 warp :)
15:03 First Quarter Moon, Darksday
used against DC-- Funguar

Edited, Sun Oct 30 03:07:16 2005

Ok, I have a few things to say from my experience. One, Halloween is over, it still works. I've used it many times to warp now, and you don't need low HP. I've wacked a mob 2 hits and warped. A friend told me it needs to be night time, and the one time it didn't work for me it was daytime. I keep the fight going all day into night, and at 19:50 I warped. Also I seem to warp faster on tougher mobs, too weak seem to take a little while, Tough I warped in a few hits. Hope this helps^^

I was busy farming today and eventually got a full inventory and had this staff on me. I didn't wanna use my Cudgel since it has a 24HR recast. So I equipped my staff and went to work on a Crawler. One nearby linked so I just kept at it. I went two entire battles and didn't trigger it once. So then I tried on some Goblins. Dropped down into the orange in HP and it still refused to Warp me.

Darksday, Waxing Crescent 36%.

EDIT: I didn't realize there were so many other posts when I posted this... >< But yea, skip this and stick with Warp Cudgels...

Eventually I actually killed one Goblin and just used my Warp Cudgel anyway. That's not the only time this dumb staff has failed me. If you're looking for reliability, better off to get a couple Warp Cudgels, sub BLM, get a Warp II, or use some other method. I did this as a WHM51/THF15 since I was farming.

Edited, Sat Aug 27 04:31:22 2005

the damn thing doesn't warp anymore. I tried beating on things for nearly an hour several times the past few days and nothing. oh well, I've still got conquest points.

Now that the event is over, can anyone confirm that the staff is not working now? I have heard both stories of it working, and not working. Any information on this would be appreciated :)

I tried when I was mining, wanted a free warp back. Fought orcs for at least 20 mins. No warp. >.<

Edited, Mon Nov 15 13:53:10 2004

i am very angried by what square have done. they basically advertised this item to us and we all went and got it because it was really cool, and then they went and made it sh*t as soon as the event was over. what the hell is the point of us spending 50grand for a staff which does sh*t all?

we should all be given refunds for the cash we spent on the grapes and stuff, and the item should be changed back. i would have rather just bought a warp cudgel for 30k rather than spending days getting this thing and a sh*t load of cash.

my 2 cents. square: u guys are a-holes a lot of the time -_-

From what I understand you have to have Full HP and MP and (while your at 100% HP & MP) you hit the monster he hits (or misses or casts a spell on) you and you warp (assuming you don't die)


It seemed to work for me on NOV. 1st... then again I might be mistaken

Stupid gimped staff, I wasted alot of money on this crap >.>
The true comment on it should be:

Treat Staff
(Staff) All Races
DMG:1 Delay:356 HP+5 MP+5
Latent effect during Halloween event: "Warp"
Lv.1 All Jobs

Edited, Thu Nov 4 09:48:55 2004

Hey all

Regarding Treat Staff's Latent activation..

I dont think it's deactivated outside of Halloween. Or at least, I certainly hope not.

If you check the stats on Horror Head & Horror Head II, they say that at a certain time (Darksday + Night time + Full Moon if memory serves) = Enmity + / - 50. What if that were the case for the latent activation of Treat Staff?

I have yet to try this; it would take a LONG TIME to sit out and plan this out, but my theory is this.. according to my calculations, once a month Vanadiel time (about every 30 hours real time, for about an hour, HOPEFULLY if it works out) there should be a Darksday with some sort of Full Moon... or close enough for it to activate, if it follows the same lunar calendar as real time (and if there are really 7 days in the Vanadiel calendar).

Does this make sense with anyone? Has anyone actually been able to activate Treat Staff since Halloween? I see stories of people spending upwards of 200k to get just SOME of the items and it scares me.. I probably spent about 15k... which I think is alot for items that I might not even be able to use.. but as far as others mentioning emailing Square Enix? I would prefer that they did somewhat fun things like these and gave things out every once in a while, rather than not caring and ending the seasonal / holiday events like this because people complain that they dont always work.

(Note: this does not mean I dont agree with those people, but let's face it, when SE is involved, you cant always get what you want..)

Any thoughts / information about anything I've mentioned? I hope to hear your thoughts in the responses, as this is my first post on Allakhazam, and FFXI is pretty much the ONLY computer game I play..

Bernimitzu
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Daynamitzu - Ifrit - 25 WHM / 13 BLM, Rank 5 San D'Orian

Player since August 2004

it makes sense. its a halloween event, for ur treat u got the staff an it worked for a while. Now you get the trick.

Last year's Treat staves also got gimped after the event. The latent effect was only active on certain combinations of day and moon setting. Something like: Full Moon + Lightsday.

ok, so they must have deactivated it, I useually get warped after 30 secs to a min of maleeing with it, today I spent 30 mins with it and was never warped, SE sucks if they deactivated it, that makes it pretty worthless if you don't have a low lvl mage.

I'm hearing rumors that SE has deactivated the Treat Staff, now that the Halloween event is over. Can anyone confirm this? If they did, then I'm going to have do some serious thinking tonight...

This is by far the greatest staff ever offered. I'm a RDM/WHM but also lvl RNG and BRD and just carrying this staff along for the ride saves so much in the way of warps like when I get stuck out in Altepa...

And it's WAY better than the Treat Staff II... They have 10 warps limited before recharging, all I have to do is fight a easy prey and after two hits, ZIP, back to HP!

It's a bit late, but I'm hoping this info can still help some. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong trying to get my items. You must equip, or not equip the items your given to get more. If you want Pumpkinhead I or II, or Trick staff I or II make sure you have no halloween gear equipped in your head or weapon slots. If you're wearing Pumpkinhead II, you will never recieve the first one. Instead you'll be given Horror Head II. What you want to wear is as follows...


To get:

Treat staff, wear the trick staff
Treat staff II, wear Trick staff II
Horror Head, wear Pumpkinhead
Horror Head II, wear Pumpkinhead II
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Trick Staff - wear non halloween weapon or nothing
Trick Staff II - non halloween weapon/nothing
Pumpkinhead - non Halloween hat/nothing
Pumpkinhead II - non Halloween hat/nothing


Of course if you have the hat you want, but are still stuck on staves, you can equip either the Horror Head or Horror Head 2. They should stop giving you hats at that point, and only pass out Lanterns or staves. Same should work the other way, wear a Treat I or II staff and only get hats and lanterns.

It still takes some time to get them items knowing this, but it should work for everyone. I wasted 200k + trying to figure out my mistake on my main, and have gotten the items for at least 5 alts for less than 50k since figuring it out. I hope it's not too late for ppl to get this info and find their Halloween gear. Good luck to all~! ^-^

I'm going absolutely nuts trying to get this thing. Have spent almost 45k on sweets but no avail. To people that already have this sucker, do you remember at all what (if any) of the other items you were wearing when you got this thing?

I can't get it! >=( Yesterday I got Trick Staff, Trick Staff II, Pumpkin Head, and Pumpkin Head II. Today I got about 20 Jack-O-Lanterns....

BTW, Will the "Latent Effect: Warp" stop working after the Halloween thing is over? That's what some people are saying, and that would be bad...

Ok...My results:

1 - Engauge the enemy

2 - You & the enemy "MUST" make contact with each other. (You have to strike it, and it has to strike you)

3 - Once you and the mob have connected with each other you have: WARP DELAY

Example 1:

Western Altep I SATA an Antican (IT-mob)-so I hit it. Of couse he hit me back. I use Perfect dodge, and count down 30 seconds - POOF (I warp)

Example 2:

South Gustaberg I attack a land worm (weak-mob) - I hit it, but it never hits me back (evasion too high). - Dud, I do not Warp

Example 3:

Valkrum Dunes I attack a Snipper (weak-mob)-
I hit it, and it hits me back (no perfect dodge this time) I count 30 seconds - Poof (warp back home)

That's my study so far.