Eltex skullcap
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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
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
- 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
|
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  |
| Poor | 0% | 0% | 0% | 80 | -0 °C (0 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 375 |
| Normal | 0% | 0% | 0% | 80 | -0 °C (0 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 500 |
| Good | 0% | 0% | 0% | 80 | -0 °C (0 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 625 |
| Excellent | 0% | 0% | 0% | 80 | -0 °C (0 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 750 |
| Masterwork | 0% | 0% | 0% | 80 | -0 °C (0 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 1250 |
| Legendary | 0% | 0% | 0% | 80 | -0 °C (0 °F) | +0 °C (0 °F) | 2500 |
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
- 1.2.2753 - Introduced.
- Torso | Clothing
- Button-down shirt • T-shirt (Kid
) • Tribalwear (Kid ) 
- Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt
- Slave collar
- Sash • Kid romper
- Armor
- Flak vest
- Legs | Clothing
- Pants (Kid )
- Armor
- Flak pants
- Shell | Clothing
- Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid ) • Robe
- Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe
- Burka • Slave body strap
- Heavy bandolier
- Lab coat
- Armor
- Flak jacket • Marine armor (Prestige , Grenadier ) • Plate armor • Recon armor (Prestige , Locust , Mechlord ) • Cataphract armor (Prestige , Phoenix )
- Head | Clothing
- Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Hood • Psychic foil helmet • Tuque • Tribal headdress • Veil • War mask
- Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat
- Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask
- Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask • Face mask
- Ceremonial hood • Ritual mask
- Armor
- Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet ) • Recon helmet (Prestige , Mechlord ) • Simple helmet (Kid ) • Cataphract helmet (Prestige ) • Gunlink • Integrator headset • Mechcommander helmet