Caster Staff vs Attack Staff?

Newbie question, trying to craft a staff for Essence Drain, looking at a list of modifiers here:https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/List_of_caster_staff_modifiers

I only find the mod I'm looking for (+% to Non-Ailment Chaos Damage Over Time Multiplier) when I look under "Caster Staves" clicking on "Attack Staves" I don't see it. So clearly I need a caster staff to craft what I'm wanting, but thus far I haven't figured out how to tell the difference. I'm probably missing something simple and hoping someone with some experience could point me in the right direction. Thank you!

They separated staves into Caster and Attack categories at the beginning of this league, so it's still very new. GGG said they would rename attack staves as "War Staves" in the near future to clarify the difference.

Here's a list of War Staves that you should avoid if you want spell damage: Iron Staff, Coiled Staff, Vile Staff, Military Staff, Serpentine Staff, Foul Staff, Ezomyte Staff, Maelström Staff and Judgement Staff

Hope this helps and best of luck crafting your perfect staff!

Thank you!!!

Working on setting this up for ED.

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DoubleU wrote:

Working on setting this up for ED.

A good rare has much better mods. A disintegrating anarchist's paragon's staff blows that unique out of the water on just prefixes. Then you can just craft cast speed + arcane surge on kill.

With that said, I'm just using jank multimod wands and run ED in my armor.