Ice/flame staff is worse than unfinished. It says WIP for a reason.

Just a fair warning for anyone else who like me was really looking forward to trying magic. It IS technically in the game, but if you even manage to find the rare ruby and sapphires necessary to make it, it is not worth crafting.

Crafting it is fairly expensive as you need to have made it to thorium to craft the Arcanist Workbench and the staves themselves require a ruby and sapphire each. I really struggled to find any until I eventually found a treasure hoard structure in the underground area of a volcano. The gems are extremely rare.

For ammo the staves use Essence of Ice and Fire respective to their types. There is a mana section under stats so hopefully this changes soon, because it is not even worth the cost of firing it currently.

The staves do about 10ish damage per shot. The fire staff can do a bit more since you can build up shots and then use a charge attack to do 40 damage and use up all your charges at once. It also prevents you from firing afterwards until enough time has passed for another shot to recharge.

In their current state magic is outperformed by the first couple tiers of bows. Arrows are cheap and Essences are mob drops.

The only nice thing I can say is that the animations and effect that are in there look cool. I really could even get a feel for if magic was going to be fun or not. I hope they make each type feel unique and not just different flavors of damage.