If you already have the Boots of Speed there is a pretty easy tactic I used at level 11 to get the staff.
Use a Scrol of Protection from Magic after you are in the room. Then, use a Cloudkill wand to put out some clouds (You can use these even with the pro-magic scroll). Run around in a few circles, staying away from the melee types in the bunch.
Once the mage dies (doesn't take very long) loot the staff and go invisible. If you have the Cloak of Non-Detection, the liches true sight won't be able to reveal you, and nothing in the room will see you through your invis.
Finish up by taking your time meleeing what is left, using the staff to re-invis yourself, until everything is dead. One note is I didn't bother to kill the vamp down there. He regened way too fast for me to kill him.
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