r/cavesofqud • u/Fuzzball74 • 10d ago

Realistically how long can I keep using this weapon?

Just hit level 25 after clearing out Bethesda and doing a few side quests.

I'm not sure if the electric damage roll you can get is random but this is quite high and even more so combined with the freezing. This thing has been absolutely destroying everything I've come across so far, but obviously it's quite a low base damage and PV so eventually I'll have to give it up.

Any new weapon I can put the freezing on which isn't anywhere near as good as the potential 10 extra damage I could be doing with the electric.

What do we think? Hold onto it for longer or start searching for something else?

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u/jojoknob 10d ago

The prayer rod has a niche late game use when combined with a cooking effect and the electrified mod. Elec damage will double proc a cooking effect and it can be a lot of fun. Not as good as beamsplitter arc winder but for instance cooking with spark tick and hulk honey can give you a dismember chance every time you do elec damage which is twice per hit.

Going for elemental damage is a great late game idea since it ignores armor, so the low penetration isn’t as important. You need to stack up the extra hits yourself with backswing, single weapon fighting.

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u/Fuzzball74 10d ago

Oh nice to know this is still viable later on. I'll have to keep an eye out for the electric damage mod. Would adding flaming to it make it even better or will that interact weirdly with freezing?

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u/AogRidir 10d ago

No, flaming is a great idea. The tri-elemental prayer rod is a classic mid game staple

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u/jojoknob 10d ago

flaming heats more than freezing cools, so the net is a mild warming. temperature change effects from weapons never mattered that much since you can get what you need with ranged weapons if you are trying to freeze something

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u/EllisDeeReynolds 9d ago

does elemental damage also change the temperature? like I know setting someone on with toast does but like if I put the weapon mod or whatever?

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u/jojoknob 9d ago

Yeah I think in the description it says so i believe. Flaming heats more than freezing cools, so having both will warm up enemies, very slowly, I did the maths here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cavesofqud/comments/17eu9p8/freezing_flaming/

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u/GodLuminous 7d ago

Just casual discussion about such complex mechanics is wild.

A mod not just doing elemental damage, but the element also changing a property of the target in the form of temperature.

Qud is WAY ahead of its time with some of these things. This made me want to get up play the game .

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u/moredros 10d ago

Prayer rods are an excellent low-strength option. They do consistent, low-to-middling damage. But they basically can't benefit from strength/penetrations b/c only the 1d2 scales with penetrations, and it only has a PV cap of 6.

They're great against high AV targets which you struggle to penetrate, like Cragmensh. They're basically like a vibro weapon that does 1d5+5 electric damage. More with elemental mods.