The Short Fuse is a Demon Unique staff with no boss attached: it drops anywhere in Hell, most often from H1 up (rarer below that home difficulty, never above it), and nowhere else. Every copy is item level 110, and there 0.2% of what falls comes up Unique. It is built on Perfect Tidelight Staff — step 6 of the Tidelight Staff line, item level 80 and up.

It always rolls the same numbers: +102 Power, +12% Attack Speed, +102 Power, +18% Cooldown Recovery, +42% Spell Damage, +34% Cooldown Recovery and +42% Storm Damage.

One Unique drop in 40 is a Mythical copy: the same item carrying 15–25% Mythical Energy that boosts every stat on it and can never be changed; the 15% floor is 10 times as common as the perfect 25%.

On top of that it carries The Short Fuse — Overload recharges twice as fast and casts 25% quicker, but hits 35% softer: spend Conduit constantly.

Wearing it hands you Aether Beam and Overload.

“Burns fast, burns often, burns you if you hold it.”