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Revision as of 20:54, 5 June 2022

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Eltex skullcap

Eltex skullcap

A tight skullcap designed for psychic focusing. It provides no physical protection, but its special materials enhance the wearer's psychic sensitivity and dissipate neural heat.

Base Stats

Type
Gear – Clothing
Market Value
500 Silver
Mass
0.8 kg
HP
80

Apparel

Insulation - Cold
0 °C (0 °F)
Insulation - Heat
0 °C (0 °F)
Armor - Sharp
0%
Armor - Blunt
0%
Armor - Heat
0%
Coverage
Head, Left Ear, Right Ear
Layer
Headgear
Technical
thingCategories
Headgear
thingSetMakerTags
RewardStandardMidFreq
defaultOutfitTags
Soldier
tags
Psychic
tradeTags
PsychicApparel


Introduced by the Royalty DLC, the Eltex skullcap allows psychic pawns to be more effective, improving the strength and cooldown of their Psycasts.

Acquisition

This item cannot be crafted but only purchased through trade or received as a quest reward.

Analysis

Offering no protection, no insulation, and low HP, the eltex skullcap is obviously neither a frontline helmet nor utility clothing. Instead it is exclusively focused on one task - buffing a psycaster. It offers the second largest buff to Psychic Sensitivity of any item, beaten only by the Eltex staff, and the second largest buff to Neural heat recovery rate, second only to persona weapons with the Neural Cooling trait. On a pawn with maximum psylink, the gain to neural heat maximum is significant. A legendary skullcap offers enough additional neural heat capacity enough to entirely absorb the heat gain or of six casts of the 1st level Burden, or one cast of the 5th level Invisibility, while also offering faster regeneration.

However, in exchange it leaves the wearer's head completely unprotected. Loss of the head is obviously fatal, damage to the eyes significantly impairs effectiveness and damage to the brain is permanent and devastating even when not fatal. Care must be taken to keep the wearer out of harms way and if possible, a shield belt is recommended.

Compared to the Eltex helmet the skullcap is essentially a complete upgrade. While the helmet does offer some armor and some insulation, it is so little that the armor piercing of almost all weapons in the game is sufficient to completely invalidate it, while the insulation gain is negligible. With effectively nothing to gain in return, there is little reason to choose the inferior buffs to psychic abilities that the helmet offers.

Compared to prestige power helmets, the skullcap offers significantly better psychic buffs, while the helmets offer significant protection up to and including the best available in-game. Thus, the role of the particular psycaster is the determining factor, with a front-line psycasting fighter preferring the prestige helmets, while the support-oriented psycaster will prefer the skullcap.

Eltex skullcaps also appease the headwear requirements of all nobles.

An eltex skullcap improves a pawn's base neural heat recovery rate by 0.091 heat per second, though this will be modified by their psylink level, and increases their Psychic Sensitivity by an amount dependent on the quality.

Stats table

  • Eltex skullcap Eltex skullcap Sharp Blunt Heat HP Insulation
    - Cold     		Insulation
    - Heat     		Market Value
    Quality
    Awful 0% 0% 0% 80 -0 °C (0 °F) +0 °C (0 °F) 250 Silver
    Poor 0% 0% 0% 80 -0 °C (0 °F) +0 °C (0 °F) 375 Silver
    Normal 0% 0% 0% 80 -0 °C (0 °F) +0 °C (0 °F) 500 Silver
    Good 0% 0% 0% 80 -0 °C (0 °F) +0 °C (0 °F) 625 Silver
    Excellent 0% 0% 0% 80 -0 °C (0 °F) +0 °C (0 °F) 750 Silver
    Masterwork 0% 0% 0% 80 -0 °C (0 °F) +0 °C (0 °F) 1250 Silver
    Legendary 0% 0% 0% 80 -0 °C (0 °F) +0 °C (0 °F) 2500 Silver

    For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.

  • Quality Awful Poor Normal Good Excellent Masterwork Legendary
    Psychic Sensitivity +20% +26% +33% +40% +46% +53% +60%
    Neural Heat Limit [Lvl] +16 +21 +27 +32 +37 +42 +48
    Base Neural Heat Recovery Rate +0.091/s +0.091/s +0.091/s +0.091/s +0.091/s +0.091/s +0.091/s
    Effective Neural Heat Recovery Rate [Lvl] +0.148/s +0.148/s +0.148/s +0.148/s +0.148/s +0.148/s +0.148/s
    • ^Lvl Assuming Psylink level 6

    Version history

    Apparel
    Torso | Clothing
    Button-down shirt • T-shirt (Kid Content added by the Biotech DLC) • Tribalwear (Kid Content added by the Biotech DLC)
    Content added by the Royalty DLC
    Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt
    Content added by the Ideology DLC
    Slave collar
    Content added by the Biotech DLC
    Sash • Kid romper
    Armor
    Flak vest
    Legs | Clothing
    Pants (Kid Content added by the Biotech DLC)
    Armor
    Flak pants
    Shell | Clothing
    Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid Content added by the Biotech DLC) • Robe
    Content added by the Royalty DLC
    Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe
    Content added by the Ideology DLC
    Burka • Slave body strap
    Content added by the Biotech DLC
    Heavy bandolier
    Content added by the Anomaly DLC
    Lab coat
    Armor
    Flak jacket • Marine armor (Prestige Content added by the Royalty DLC, Grenadier Content added by the Royalty DLC) • Plate armor • Recon armor (Prestige Content added by the Royalty DLC, Locust Content added by the Royalty DLC, Mechlord Content added by the Biotech DLC) • Cataphract armor Content added by the Royalty DLC (Prestige Content added by the Royalty DLC, Phoenix Content added by the Royalty DLC)
    Head | Clothing
    Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Hood • Psychic foil helmet • Tuque • Tribal headdress • Veil • War mask
    Content added by the Royalty DLC
    Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat
    Content added by the Ideology DLC
    Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask
    Content added by the Biotech DLC
    Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask • Face mask
    Content added by the Anomaly DLC
    Ceremonial hood • Ritual mask
    Armor
    Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet Content added by the Royalty DLC) • Recon helmet (Prestige Content added by the Royalty DLC, Mechlord Content added by the Biotech DLC) • Simple helmet (Kid Content added by the Biotech DLC) • Cataphract helmet Content added by the Royalty DLC (Prestige Content added by the Royalty DLC) • Gunlink Content added by the Royalty DLC • Integrator headset Content added by the Biotech DLC • Mechcommander helmet Content added by the Biotech DLC

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