Prayer rod

prayer rod

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	1d5+56-10 (Avg: 8) Electric
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	ElementalDamage [5], Stun effect [5]
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	Prayer Rod
	Items MeleeWeapons
Extra Info: Made out of Metal EMP sensitive Power load-sensitive An Energy cell is required to power this item
Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

prayer rod

A long slate rod flares out at the collar to hold capacitors and an electrified corm for searing liturgy to memory.

Strength Bonus Cap: 2
Weapon Class: Cudgel (dazes on critical hit)
Causes 1d5+5 electric damage on hit.

Perfect

The prayer rod is a weapon that is notable for its unusually high base elemental damage. It does, on average, 8 electric damage per hit. As described on the melee combat page, elemental damage from weapons is applied on any successful hit, even if the weapon does not penetrate.

When powered, a prayer rod has a 25% chance to stun an enemy for 1 turn.

Obtaining

The prayer rod can be:

• Found as random loot in mid-tier or high-tier zones or occasionally equipped by creatures.
• Found in the inventory of Mechanimist catechists.
• Crafted with the Tinker II skill, after obtaining the required schematic.

Considerations

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

• The prayer rod truly shines after adding multiple additional elemental damage mods to it. Those mods will stack with the weapon's default elemental damage, making for a very powerful weapon that effectively ignores AV and can be used successfully against even end-game creatures.
• When modded with the Electrified mod, the prayer rod can potentially trigger the Whenever you deal electric damage, there's a 25% chance... cooking effect twice from a single hit.
• As the prayer rod doesn't need to penetrate to deal its elemental damage, it can be particularly useful to an agility-based Cudgel build with low strength.
  • This also makes it useful as a backup weapon for any agility based build, as obtaining Cudgel Proficiency only takes 50 skill points.

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.202.98.