The Scepter joins the Dungeon wand and Stave in the class of magic weapons. It is made out of rose quartz, wood, and Demiselite, making it available in progression just after you research Demiselite Metalworking, but it doesn't require lots of precious metal like the Pneu-Matic Substrate Cannon or The Amenbreaker.
Its main use is simple but effective healing spells, but if you're willing to look into the basic spell-crafting preliminaries for Stave usage early, you can make it hold up a defense spell instead.
Similarly, with those same preliminaries, you can make the Dungeon Wand cast a different offensive spell of your crafting.
The Stave is still superior since it can handle 2 spells at the same time, which can be upgraded to 3, and potentially overclocked to 4 with clever enough spell-crafting.