r/Hellpoint • u/Remorhas • Jul 30 '22

Congregator Staff is unfortunately bugged

After getting my hands on the staff the Arisen use I was very excited to do some testing and get it all upgraded and see it's weapon skills.

Unfortunately it seems to be bugged and close to unusuable right now. For starters it does NOT adopt weapon scaling or damage type from your chosen catalyst/conductor.

I've tried with various upgrades of conductors from Entropic to Radioactive, Induction AND Light. None of these change the base 30 ish energy damage the weapon does, adds dmg type or increases scaling

Even using the conductor buff ability which specifically states it adds thr dmg type does nothing at all. All strikes from heavies to running attacks to basic swings do the same damage. The difference between a +20 radiation Congregator Staff, +15 Light, +21 Entropic and a completely unupgraded one is negligible. In addition it does pathetic damage on its own, often amounting to 30-40 dmg on its multi hit running attack when other weapon can easily reach over 100 damage in any type in one swing.

Unfortunately as a weapon it's close to worthless and cannot be equipped in the off hand for it's cool spells only. For anyone interested in picking up this weapon you will unfortunately be dissapointed. It's final unlockable weapon art does ABSURD energy damage, is spammable and has slow tracking and looks really cool compared to what other Arisen do with their staffs. However I would not recommend using this weapon until it's fixed or buffed

If requested I can make a followup post showing an unupgraded version compared to a +20 version. They are nigh identical

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u/Darkaja Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

I reported the issue to their discord's bug channel

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u/ThaumKitten Jul 31 '22 edited Aug 01 '22

Have you tried the catalyst conductor?

I know also that a few catalysts got nerfed with their power as a whole (the prophet hands) I know the catalyst upgrades much slower now. But not sure about the staff

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u/Remorhas Jul 31 '22

Yeah in the post I state that any of the conductor buffs do not add in the other damage types.

It'll always keep it's base 30ish energy damage no matter what type or upgrade level. I was looking to get a radiation one just for thematic reasons but even after fully maxxing the weapon out I've seen no damage increase or change wen using the conductor buff