[DEVBLOG#233] Persona Eltex Staves! (Patreon)

Hey everyone and welcome to a brand new development blog.

Someone suggested to me that we should make Eltex Staff customizable, similar to how Vanilla Persona Weapons Expanded allows us to customize plasma swords, zeushammers, monoswords and now also toxblades.

Not a bad idea, I figured, but there is a slight hiccup! Eltex Staff doesn't have a persona weapon variant. Of course, we can easily change it.

In fact, not only the upcoming update to Vanilla Persona Weapons Expanded will add customizable Eltex Staff, it will also give an additional perk to having an Eltex Staff with a persona built in: A single psycast can be imbued in the staff.

Similar to how Psyrings work in Vanilla Psycasts Expanded, a Persona Eltex Staff can have a psycast imbued in it, allowing the user of this staff to cast this psycast without having to unlock it.

This means that when you reach the rank of a baron, you can choose to receive an Eltex Staff, and then not only select the type of Persona on it, but also a Psycast that will be imbued in it.

You will still need to be a psycaster. The Psycast will still cost neural heat and psyfocus to cast. But at least you don't need to unlock it!

Whilst it's only a small bonus for vanilla users, as the psycast selection is weak and limited, it's a huge boon for users of Vanilla Psycasts Expanded - you will be able to choose a psycast from the entire selection of psycasts in the mod. Do you need your baron to be able to reverse engineer stuff? Pick Reverse Engineer! Have some of your family members perished in the recent combat? Pick Resurrect!

You don't need to meet level requirements of psycasts unlocked this way. You can literally select any psycast in the mod, including those from locked paths, such as wildspeaker or archotechist.

Just like before, the customization of the Eltex Staff consists of:

x15 different Staff graphics

x15 different Head graphics

x15 different Crystal graphics

And just like before, I'd like to give you guys and gals the ability to name them. So, I will post the graphics with numbers below, and you can simply write fitting names for them.

I will catch you soon with some more information about our upcoming mods and plans!