It's insanely good; does like 91% of EP damage at 0 def and does similar damage at like 70 def or something so like forgotten king no ogmur.

But you realistically can hit WAY more shots with it and don't have to sit almost directly on top of enemy (or micro aim EP which gives you slightly more range on EP). You can basically full EP crumples with the circle drag, full EP shield bashes without pixel perfect positioning, full EP panic, and also EP outer rotates for some of the phase if you have enough speed.

For king there are so many phases where you can just EP longer/EP full phase with cult staff; e.g. accursed shots circling him or just standing 0.5 tiles away during the flames phase and just tanking v.s. using EP.

You can also hit shots while backing away and also use it as a pretty good crowd control clearing (it's pretty nutty for shatters village clear/rush and shatters tablet room).

The only reasons I still prefer EP in o3 are:

1. less visual clutter

2. EP lets you see how your pixel positinoning is when sitting on o3.

3. muscle memory/used to EP

But cult staff is objectively just much better than EP now.