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The eltex staff is a melee weapon added by the Royalty DLC that improves psychic sensitivity and makes psycasters more effective.

It is one of a set of eltex items with similar effects.

Acquisition

Eltex staffs cannot be crafted. Instead can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant or obtained as a quest reward. Additionally, Imperial Bestowers always spawn with an eltex staff.

Summary

Eltex staves improve the wielder's Psychic Sensitivity and base neural heat recovery rate, by an additive amount dependent on quality. The increase in Psychic Sensitivity also increases the neural heat limit. The increases are shown in the table below:

Quality	Awful	Poor	Normal	Good	Excellent	Masterwork	Legendary
Psychic Sensitivity	+25%	+33%	+42%	+50%	+58%	+66%	+75%
Neural Heat Limit	+20	+26	+33	+40	+46	+53	+60
Base Neural Heat Recovery Rate	+0.083/s	+0.083/s	+0.083/s	+0.083/s	+0.083/s	+0.083/s	+0.083/s
Effective Neural Heat Recovery Rate	+0.135/s	+0.135/s	+0.135/s	+0.135/s	+0.135/s	+0.135/s	+0.135/s

Note that eltex staves are unabled to be wielded by pawns incapable of violence.

Analysis

Despite its description claiming that "it is a solid melee weapon", an eltex staff is weaker than a piece of wood. It is clearly meant for psycast focused characters, allowing for more casts and longer effect durations.

With a full psycaster set (eltex robe, eltex shirt, eltex vest, eltex helmet), your pawn will have little armor. It's a good idea to keep them in the back as a "support" pawn.

Attack table

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Attacks

Eltex staff			Head (Blunt)					Human: Left & right fist (Blunt)					HP	Value
Quality	DPS^[1]	AP^[1]	Dam.	Cool.	AP	DPS	Chance^[2]	Dam.	Cool.	AP	DPS	Chance^[2]	HP	Value
Awful	3.98	12.6%	9.6	2.6s	14.4%	3.69	25%	8.2	2s	12%	4.1	2× 37.5%	100	1000
Poor	4.12	13.4%	10.8	2.6s	16.2%	4.15	33.33%	8.2	2s	12%	4.1	2× 33.33%	100	1500
Normal	4.51	16.5%	12	2.6s	18%	4.62	75%	8.2	2s	12%	4.1	2× 12.5%	100	2000
Good	4.88	17.85%	13.2	2.6s	19.8%	5.08	75%	8.2	2s	12%	4.1	2× 12.5%	100	2500
Excellent	5.24	19.2%	14.4	2.6s	21.6%	5.54	75%	8.2	2s	12%	4.1	2× 12.5%	100	3000
Masterwork	6.16	22.58%	17.4	2.6s	26.1%	6.69	75%	8.2	2s	12%	4.1	2× 12.5%	100	4000
Legendary	6.9	25.28%	19.8	2.6s	29.7%	7.62	75%	8.2	2s	12%	4.1	2× 12.5%	100	5000

^{For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.}

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the wielder if the weapon is wielded by some other than a baseline human.
↑ Chance for attack to be selected, assuming the weapon is wielded by a baseline human. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the wielder

Version history

Royalty DLC Release - Added.
1.1.2647 - Renamed from Psyfocus staff to Eltex staff.
1.2.2719 - Psychic sensitivity now scales with quality.

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic: Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval: Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra: Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised: Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic: Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval: Nerve spiker

Industrial: Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer: Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables: Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables: EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid: Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures: Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons: Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons: Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor

[Actual-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the wielder if the weapon is wielded by some other than a baseline human.

[Chance-2] Chance for attack to be selected, assuming the weapon is wielded by a baseline human. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the wielder

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 Eltex staffs cannot be crafted. Instead can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant or obtained as a quest reward.
 Additionally, [[Empire#Bestower|Imperial Bestowers]] always spawn with an eltex staff.
+==Summary==
+Eltex staves improve the wielder's [[Psychic Sensitivity]] and base [[Psycasts#Neural Heat Recover Rate|neural heat recovery rate]], by an additive amount dependent on [[quality]]. The increase in Psychic Sensitivity also increases the neural heat limit. The increases are shown in the table below:
+{{Psychic Sensitivity Quality Table|0.50|0.083}}
+Note that eltex staves are unabled to be wielded by pawns incapable of violence.
 == Analysis ==
-A normal [[quality]] eltex staff improves a pawn's [[Psychic Sensitivity]] by 42%, and improves the [[Psycasts#Neural Heat Recover Rate|neural heat recovery rate]] by 2.5 per 30 seconds. This sensitivity buff scales with quality making for a powerful buff to a psycaster's abilities especially at higher qualities. However its potential as a weapon is limited with the second lowest DPS of any melee weapon, just barely better than [[Beer]]. The eltex staff cannot be equipped by a pawn incapable of violence.
+Despite its description claiming that "it is a solid melee weapon", an eltex staff is weaker than a piece of [[wood]]. It is clearly meant for psycast focused characters, allowing for more casts and longer effect durations.
-As the eltex staff makes a rather poor melee weapon, and with a full psycaster set ([[eltex robe]], [[eltex shirt]], [[eltex vest]], [[eltex helmet]]) your pawn will have little armor, it's a good idea to keep them in the back as a "support" pawn.
+With a full psycaster set ([[eltex robe]], [[eltex shirt]], [[eltex vest]], [[eltex helmet]]), your pawn will have little armor. It's a good idea to keep them in the back as a "support" pawn.
-An eltex staff improves a pawn's base [[Psycasts#Neural Heat Recovery Rate|neural heat recovery rate]] by 0.083 heat per second, though this will be modified by their psylink level, and increases their [[Psychic Sensitivity]] by an amount dependent on the quality.
 {{Weapon Quality Table}}
-{{Psychic Sensitivity Quality Table|0.50|0.083}}
 == Version history ==
 * [[Royalty DLC]] Release - Added.