Super Cattle Prod

Revision as of 03:45, 14 December 2010

Super Cattle Prod
A Farmer's Best Friend model cattle prod from Wattz Electronics. This model has been upgraded to increase the electrical discharge.
Damage	20 - 32
Single	AP: 3, Range: 1.
Single	AP: 3, Range: 1.
n/a
Damage type	Electr
Ammo	Small Energy Cells
Ammo capacity	20
St. required	4
Type	Single-handed
Weight	1360 grams
Base price	2535 caps

Crafting table
x 1
Requirements	Profession: Energy Expert: 2
Resources	1 x and 1 x
Tools	and
XP	0

Super Cattle Prod (SCP for short) is the best friend of melee fighter.

A few words about the weapon

• It is the only weapon (for now) that has electrical type of damage (along with regular Cattle Prod of course)
• SCP is most efficient against Metal armor and metal Armor Mark II, because it deals 100% damage to the wearer of the first and a bit reducted (10/1 DR/DT) to the wearer of the second.
• Just good weapon for PvP and PvE (animals usually have low electrical resistance).

It's good because...

• It's death animation is awesome.
• It has Accurate perk, which adds 20% chance-to-hit with this weapon.
• Electrical resistance can not be boosted by Drugs , so SCP deals the same amount of damage to Psycho-drugged as it would to non-drugged. All other melee weapons have Normal type of damage, so killing druggies in good armor without use of SCP becomes very hard task for melee fighter.
• Electrical resistance is (in average) lower than or equal to Normal resistance of Armors (with one exception).

One exception

Tesla armor has 90% electrical and only 20% normal damage reduction. So you'd better always have some Ripper, Super Sledge or Power Fist to face it. However those, who wear tesla armor usually are drugged too and have 80-90%(without\with Toughness Perk) Normal damage resistance.

How to get

Problems:

• Merchants rarely sell SCP.
• Players usually do not sell this too(because energy experts usually have no need in it - they craft shooting things for themselves or for their friends/gang members).
• To craft it you should get Profession: Energy Expert:2, which needs good Char Point (Intelligence) and Skill Point (Energy Weapons & Science) investments, which are not always acceptable for melee character.

Good part:

• If you decided to get Profession: Energy Expert - the crafting of SCP will be pretty easy (for high level chars only, because you will still need to get some high-quality resources from unprotected mines).
• You can always try to find some energy experts in good-populated cities and ask to do one for you (of course this will cost good amount of caps).
• If you are member of one of the Player-driven factions - you can always ask friends to make one for you. If you aren't - you can always join one.

Kind of compairsion to other melee weapons

• Min. Damage is 5 points higher than Ripper's (Max. Damage is same for both).
• Average Damage is 1 point lower than Super Sledge's , but SCP's AP cost is point 1 lower.