Core Details

Tier: Lunar

Categories: AI Blacklist, Brother Blacklist

Description: On taking damage, bleed everything around 50m of you for 3s for 480% base damage (+480% base damage per stack). Damage is .2x effective on you.

Details

The Double Sided Sword is an item in the Rulers of the Red Plane mod for Risk of Rain 2.

When hit, it inflicts Bleed on you and all enemies with 50 meters. It lasts for (3 * the proc coefficient of the attack) seconds, doing 40% damage (+40% per stack) per tick per stack of bleed to enemies and 8% damage (+8% per stack) per tick per stack of bleed to you. There are 4 ticks per second. Bleed time is refreshed when a stack with a longer duration is applied.

Tips

• Don't stack too high, unless you're crazy. You can easily overwhelm yourself with too many high damage stacks of bleed.
• While damage will be hugely beneficial AoE, especially early game, you effectively remove your one shot protection. Keep this in mind when facing foes that deal more damage than 90% of your health.
  • However, a Power Elixir could save you from bleeding out.
• Lesser wisps apply up to three stacks of bleed with their shotgun attack.
• This does trigger razorwire. Have fun! It's op but hey that's a lunar for you.
• Damage over time effects do not trigger this item, as neither do any attacks with no proc coefficient .
• The damage doesn't scale off your max health, so increasing it will increase your potential damage output with this.
  • But it will also prevent shield regen, but effectively only delay the regen by 3 seconds on hit.
• Don't get lazered. You will die.

Dev Thoughts

I came up with this idea so quickly. I don't know if it's really that good or not, but I'm sure that atleast a few people will have fun with it(especially with razorwire teeheeheehee). It has a lot of potential to be overpowered, but I feel like that's part of the fun of lunars. Additionally I didn't realize at first, but the amount of interesting interactions is really cool to me. If you don't like this item though, I'd love to hear your feedback.

Lore

Blood.

Everything bleeds. The vermin you protect, the golems, the dunepeople, creations of soul, every helpless creature dies simply upon losing enough blood. There is no way around it. Even my creations bleed. As do you.

The imps were of inspiration. Their natural anti-coagulants made them lethal to the plagues you choose to protect. You brought this to my attention. I have to thank your obsession on hunting them down. You may have thought they were too weak to be more than an annoyance. They're organically made, and in low quanitity too. They require physical contact. The stronger found a way to inflict this at a range; however, primitive methods are used. But the potential is higher than you anticipated.

Or maybe you just forgot. I see everything you do. And you do receive these. I know of it.

Or maybe you just ignore. Just know that you will fail. Your fainthearted attempts to keep me at bay are ineffective. You will fail.