Is Erudition Missile supposed to work even without Egonergy?

The major damage comes from Juiced Up Payload, which operates with Egonergy.

I’m guessing you’ve already checked, and the text doesn’t update. Not that I would have expected it to. The ability doubled your AA damage with Egonergy cost on each cast.

So when you have 0 purply energy, you simply don’t deal the additional damage. Seems pretty straight forward to me?