Understand Cataclysmic Gate
Useful when…
- Use when seeking an area that deals the listed Heat damage per second and applies guaranteed Heat and Radiation status effects.
- Rank it to extend the area effect duration from 5 to 10 seconds.
Attack and area effect
The augment has Wisp and two spectral images cast a single blast of Sol Gate, leaving an area that deals 500 Heat Damage per second. The area lasts 5 seconds at rank 0, 8 seconds at rank 2, and 10 seconds at rank 3, with guaranteed Heat and Radiation Status Effects. The supplied effect describes one blast followed by an area; it does not describe continuous Sol Gate firing during that duration.
Equipment and rank
Cataclysmic Gate is a standard Wisp augment with Zenurik polarity, base drain 6, and maximum rank 3. Its listed upgrade costs are 30, 60, and 120 Endo plus 1,449, 2,898, and 5,796 credits. The listed rank improvement is duration; the damage-per-second value and guaranteed Heat and Radiation effects remain the same in the supplied rank entries.
Other Wisp augment choices
Fused Reservoir adds a fourth Reservoir providing all three effects at 200% more Energy cost. Critical Surge instead concerns teleporting to a Reservoir and granting primary weapon critical chance based on distance traveled, with its own Energy cost and duration. These augments support different abilities and objectives from Sol Gate's area attack.
Limitations
The area effect lasts for a bounded duration, up to 10 seconds at the listed maximum rank. Its described attack is a single blast, not an ongoing beam attack. The input does not state area size or additional scaling, so those should not be inferred from the listed damage and duration.
Limitations and tradeoffs
- The effect is an augment for Sol Gate and occupies a standard mod slot.
- Its area duration increases with rank, while listed damage per second remains 500.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Reading the area duration as the duration of continuous Sol Gate firing.