Roll of Pennies has an extremely small niche in RoR2. This rework transforms Roll of Pennies from solely an early-game speedup to a synergistic defensive item, notably working very well alongside Ghor's Tome or Brittle Crown. In later game scenarios, stacking it can grant consistent damage reduction, despite late-game gold scaling having been nerfed. Inspired by kking17's FlatItemBuff.

Aside from the obvious problem of tying item activation to levelups, Warbanner suffers immensely from not having much control over where and when you place one. With this rework, you always get one exactly where you want it: at your current location when you start attacking enemies.

Taken from Risky_Lives' RiskyMod, this change makes Bison Steak useful on all survivors without changing its role of flat bonus health. This is always a buff, but how much of one depends on the survivor you are playing as - Huntress only gains 27 health, while MUL-T gains a whopping 60!

Haha get it, because fire? Anyways, Fireworks are solid but it can be hard to notice their impact and they've kind of gotten powercrept as survivors are just so much stronger by default nowadays. They also stack relatively poorly, and this change helps allieviate all three issues. A lingering DoT effect will make their impact more noticeable as you can clearly see which enemies have been damaged by them, and this also opens up new synergies with Ignition Tank.

Bungus is a great healing item but is held back by how punishing it is to stand still in Risk of Rain 2. This buff will allow the user to get some quick burst healing while staggering their movement, and also emphasizes its use on allies.

Eclipse Lite just needs to stack a bit better. Like, 1/4th of the initial bonus? Seriously?

Not quite the glory of its RoR1 days, but enemies killed within a decent range of you will be healing you directly, rather than forcing you to run around to pick up the orbs.

Power Elixir is way too inconsistent. While there are other changes that I have tried experimenting with (such as making it weaker but refreshing on each stage), I found in testing that in Risk of Rain 2's gameplay loop, you really don't need bursts of healing all too frequently. So instead, I have decided to make a few tweaks in the hopes at making it more reliable in preventing death without making it on par with a revive.

Sticky Bomb, while fun and fairly reliable, is also pretty weak for its status as a common damage item, especially one that doesn't have its own proc coefficient. A small damage boost should help it feel more valuable.

There were several options considered for a stun grenade buff; I went with this one because it felt good to play with and would ensure that the item can still find use on slower, heavy hitting survivors. The stacking damage bonus makes its overall damage profile scale close to linearly despite the diminishing returns on its proc chance. This change is inspired by Groove_Salad's Groove_Salad vs the Game.

Topaz Brooch has a horrible habit of not being worth picking up in the late game unless you have several of them, simply due to barrier decay scaling based on maximum health. This aims to fix that by making the initial stack slightly scale with your maximum health, allowing it to still be valuable even if you aren't lucky enough to find too many of them.

This item just keeps getting nerfed each patch, huh. While it still provides acceptable defensive synergy with armor, its long cooldown makes it unreliable and not worth stacking. These changes will hopefully make it into the powerful, synergistic defensive item that it deserves to be.

Considering how easy it is to keep uptime on this item, the bonuses it provides are way too much. Even with this nerf, it can still grant 25% damage at the first stack, and becomes even more effective the more you stack it.

Gasoline is a monster of crowd control, possibly being the single strongest white item on the first stack. People seem to overlook it a lot due to Will-o'-the-Wisp existing and being is just as powerful as it is. Gasoline is receiving a base damage nerf (it will not single-handedly one-shot Lesser Wisps at equal level now) as well as reducing the range to scale identically to Will-o'-the-Wisp.

Oddly-Shaped Opal, especially on the first stack, is incredibly powerful, and I find that it contributes a bit too much in terms of survivability rather than being just a single tool at my disposal.

While I originally had planned on reworking this item, I think it's actually pretty balanced in its current state. It does, however, feel really clunky when the buff count only updates every 3 seconds, so it will now provide a much smoother update as enemies move in and out of range.

This item has gone back and forth between over and under-powered quite a few times. I believe that right now it's a bit overtuned in the amount of movement speed it grants, but that it should be a bit easier to keep buff uptime without stockpiling orbs for later (which is a feature that I personally dislike).