Equipment rack

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$ 180.00 Commerce Value 0 lbs. Weight
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - equipment rack

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Carbide mounting rods scaffold a gyroscopic shelf designed for extra baggage.

You gain an additional Back equipment slot.

Target body parts: Body
License points: 3
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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equipment rack is moderate cost cybernetic which upon installation grants the user an additional worn on back slot.

The second worn on back slot functions as any other extra equipment slot. Meaning, that while the user is able to equip up to two back items at a time, the provided AV and DV of certain pieces of equipment such as the Praetorian's cloak will be halved and only reach baseline effectiveness if two are worn simultaneously.

Additionally, the second slot allows the user to wear a single gigantic item such as chassis plate or sail from the Great Machine.

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Can be obtained quite early and can remain useful throughout the game.
• Having an additional worn on back slot provides exceptional utility.
• Can be used to wear equipment which provides flight like mechanical wings or gyrocopter backpack with another item simultaneously, removing the inconvenience of having to equip and unequip gear items when looking to fly.

Disadvantages

• Since the player only has one body slot, using an equipment rack prevents the player from using more specialized cybernetics like the biodynamic power plant or high-fidelity matter recompositer.
• Can negatively impact survivability during the early and midgame due to halving the protection value of cloaks.
• Moderate cost can be a bit prohibitive depending on the user's license tier and build goals.
• Some items can alternatively be equipped multiple times by using a high-powered magnet to magnetize them. Freeing up the highly competitive body slot for other implants such as magnetic core, stasis entangler or matter recompositer.

Notable synergistic gear

Various gear items provide strong utility if equipped twice or in conjunction with other items worn on the back slot.

Item	Utlitly
gas tumbler	Having multiple gas tumblers especially when overloaded greatly increases the density of any gas generated by the user, improving the effectiveness and overall damage potential of various gas-releasing effects. Boosted gas-releasing effects include but are not limited to: the normality gas emitted by anomaly fumigator, the plasma from spaser rifles and spaser pistols as well as any gas produced by a detonated or thrown grenade.
nylon bodypack or molly netting	Can be equipped twice for the addtional 40% or 32% boost to carryweight, or used by itself for a moderate boost to carryweight alongside another back item.
rainboweave cloak	Having two equipped rainbowweave cloaks grants the user an effective 75% chance to deflect light-based attacks. Providing strong protection against certain foes which often utilize light-based attacks, such as the Lithifying Gaze used by lithofexes, the energy weapons often possessed byreef hermits or some of the turrets spawned by dynamic turret tinkers in higher-tier zones.
helping hands	Two equipped helping hands provide the user with 4 additional hand and arm slots, both allowing the user to more easily use certain gear items like wrist calcs and slip rings and greatly improving the damage potential of Multiweapon Fighting compositions. A damage output which can be further bolstered by installing giant hands in order to wield several two-handed weapons at once.
grassy yurtmat	Having two yurtmats equipped provides the user with +4DV whenever they are standing in foliage. Eligible foliage can be easily produced by dropping and standing within a plastic tree, allowing the user to benefit from a sizeable boost to DV anywhere they desire.
powered exoskeleton	Two can be equipped for a +4 bonus to Strength, with the additional benefit of allowing the user to utilize a wide variety of mods. Such mods include but are not limited to: gesticulating, lanterned, nav, fitted with cleats and spring-loaded.
palladium mesh tabard	Having two tabards equipped provides the user with a baseline +60 to compute power, improving the effectiveness of various cybernetics, most notably those which have their cooldowns halved upon achieving 50 compute power such as stasis projector or onboard recoiler.
ape fur cloak	Having two equipped provides the user with a +30 cold resistance, useful for those looking to traverse Bethesda Susa while lacking in more effective options.
kaleidocera cape	Having two equipped kaleidocera capes provides the user with a +40 to their elemental resistances which can be raised to full immunity by equipping the circle of light in the chord of Rermadon and one other piece of kaleidocera equipment like kaleidocera krakows or kaleidocera muffs.

Acquistion

By nature of being a cybernetic implant, it is not necessarily guaranteed to find equipment rack in a given playthrough, especially when the relatively limited availability of cybernetics (compared to other items) is taken into consideration. However, despite this scarcity, there are specific places where the user can look in order to maximize their chances of a successful acquisition.

• Due to equipment rack being considered a mid-tier implant, the following sources provide the greatest odds of finding a copy:
  • Ezra's tinkerer Yla Haj who offers a non-restocking selection of 6-8 cybernetics taken from the tier 5 cybernetics drop table.
  • village tinkers from villages which happen to spawn in mid-tier zones such as jungles, Rivers or banana groves can, upon restock, sometimes offer 2-4 implants taken from the zone's corresponding cybernetics table.
  • Historical sites which spawn in mid-tier zones like the mountains or Rainbow Wood, have a chance of containing becoming nooks which each hold 1-2 zone-tier appropriate implants. The locations of such historical sites can be obtained with some reliability by water-ritualing legendary members of the Putus Templar and trading for secrets.
  • The cybernetics ward on strata 13 of Bethesda Susa contains 4 becoming nooks which together provide 4-8 implants taken from the tier 4 cybernetics drop table.
  • Certain lower-ranking members of the Putus Templar such as Knight Templars, Banner-Knight Templars and Gunner-Knight Templars have a 25% chance of spawning with the implanted prefix. Which, when killed and butchered drop cybernetics pulled from the cybernetics 4 table at 80% efficiency.

• Alternatively, if the user would rather guarantee eventual access to a copy of equipment rack, they can take the following action:
  • Under normal circumstances, the guaranteed gutsmonger present at the Six Day Stilt only provides a restocking inventory of 6-8 implants taken from the cybernetics 1 drop table. However, gutsmongers, unlike most other merchants, adjust the tier of their wares to correspond with whatever zone they are currently standing within. This essentially means, that if the user were to make a gutsmonger a follower, such as by using the Proselytize skill or a love injector, the user could then transport said gutsmonger to a mid-tier location such as Ezra, in order to have access to a permanent and restocking source of mid-tier implants.
  • The newly transported gutsmonger can then be cloned with a rebuked cloneling in order to massively increase the number of cybernetics available each restock. Allowing the user with enough dedicated farms to eventually obtain any implant of any tier.

Tips

• The implant can be used to wear a piece of back equipment while using a gun rack or one of the four cathedras.
• If the user were be infected with itchy skin and unable to treat the condition, equipment rack can be installed temporarily as a potential fungal infection cure. Since if the infection were to manifest on the extra slot provided by the implant, the implant could be uninstalled and reinstalled in order to then remove the infection permanently.
• The schematics for some worn on back items can be obtained from mid and high-tier schemasofts.