Pathocyst

The Pathocyst is an Glaive that is the signature weapon of the Zealoid Prelate, boasting innate damage and high status chance, and releases Maggots when attacking enemies or when thrown.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily damage.
*Can be wielded in-tandem with a single-handed secondary weapon.
*Holding the melee button throws the glaive, which can bounce up to three times or travels up to 30 meters before returning to the user, damaging anyone in its path. Meleeing while the glaive is in mid-flight commands it to return.
**Primary and secondary weapons can be fired and reloaded normally with a thrown glaive, and retrieving the glaive does not interrupt these actions. Additional throws can also be "buffered" while the glaive is in mid-flight.
**Thrown glaive is silent.
**Thrown glaive has no punch through.
**Heavy Attacks while the glaive is in mid-flight produce a 4.9 meter explosion and forces the glaive to return.
***Explosion inflicts a guaranteed proc.
***Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
***No Damage Falloff.
***Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
***Explosion has a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
**Cannot use melee attacks or block while the glaive is in mid-flight.
**During flight or when striking an enemy, the glaive drops Infested pods which quickly hatch into Maggots that last for 7 seconds and will fight alongside the player.
***Maggots can latch onto enemies and stagger them.
***Maggots may also appear on any normal attack done to enemies.
***Maggots alerts enemies, despite the weapon being silent.
*Can use the Glaive-exclusive mods , , , (), (), and .
*Stance slot has polarity, matching , and (Conclave only) stance.
*Innate and polarities.
==Notes==
*Acquired blueprints can be sold for each while its components can be sold for each.
*Maggots spawned by the Pathocyst do not interact with 's abilities or the Strain Mod Set.
*Spawned maggots do not benefit from elemental boost augments such as , they can benefit from some ally-related buffs such as 's .
*Leveling the Pathocyst through stealth can be very challenging, due to maggots spawning sometimes through stealth finishers, and many more spawning through thrown attacks, which will alert enemies. Exploding maggots, while dealing low damage, may immediately thrust enemies out of a 'sleep state' (eg Sleep Arrow from or ) with no wakeup animation, who may then see dead bodies.
**It is important to mod the weapon with attack speed and finisher damage to ensure one-shot kills on enemies, but also extra awareness of which enemies in range are asleep or out of visual range, and which are not. Maggots may also suddenly sprint very quickly, darting around a corner if they detect enemies and then getting shot at, alerting the area.
*Properties of exploding Maggots:
**Explosions have 0% crit chance and status chance. (More testing required to find out damage type).
**Explosion damage can be increased through base Damage and Melee Damage modifiers such as 's , 's , 's passive, 's , 's , ' 's , 's and , 's , 's passive, focus tree, , , , , 
**Maggot damage is not enhanced by combo multiplier, faction damage modifiers, elemental modifiers, or physical damage modifiers.
**Maggots spawn at the same level as the weapon's current rank. For Example, a rank 24 Pathocyst will spawn level 24 Maggots.
==Tips==
*The main benefit of the spawned maggots is crowd control; Enemies will be briefly distracted by running maggots or stunned when they manage to latch onto them, but due to their limited life span they won't last long.
*Modding the Pathocyst with high-status chance and damage will extend the duration of the stun when maggots latch, assuming the cold damage procs. This can slightly boost the effectiveness of latched maggots.
==Media==
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Where to farm Pathocyst! (Warframe)
==Patch History==
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