Talk:Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown/@comment-35577121-20180514035102/@comment-204.99.118.9-20190326002927

So far we know that it increases Ainz's already very high stats as well as allowing him to cast certain spells for free and allowing him enhancements to his racial classes. There are also, presumably, a lot of abilities the staff has that we've not seen or heard of yet, since Ainz says the summons he shows Aura and Mare are just a fraction of the staff's power.

In short, yes, Ainz would be much more powerful with the staff. However, the staff is arguably more valuable locked up as opposed to being out and about being used by Ainz to fight New Worlders. First of all, Ainz really doesn't need the staff. No one in the New World that we've seen is even level 80, much less Ainz's level of 100. Most importantly, should the staff be destroyed, the guild "Ainz Ooal Gown" will cease to exist. While it's not explicitly stated, it is thought that this could mean that all of the Custom NPCs and items in the Great Tomb of Nazarick would disappear and be replaced with the default dungeon that AOG conquered back in Yggdrasil. Obviously, Ainz doesn't want this to happen since he would lose a significant amount of his available power, but also because the guild is a testament to his friends. In a very real sense, the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown is a symbol of the guild itself, and should it be destroyed, the entire guild, the combined work of his friends and what could be considered the life's work of Ainz himself, would be gone as well.