While Bandolier is not a bad item, it has a consistency problem due to not being able to easily control when you restock your skills. This fixes that by giving it value even when your skills are off cooldown.

Breaching Fin's player-side cooldown makes it a bit antisynergistic with bands, which have a similar cooldown system but are not ideal to proc at the same time. For some reason, I also always found the player-side cooldown to be... well, boring. Therefore, it is going back to a random activation chance, but with its much more valuable effect compared to the old Knockback Fin.

Chance Doll is both a really powerful item, and also has absurdly limited stacking. It also doesn't really alleviate any of the annoyances that Shrines of Chance cause, so I am granting it an additional bonus on the first stack while toning down its main effect a bit. It's also no longer affected by luck, as a general rule to make Clover/Purity not affect your item drops.

Death Mark has 2 problems: the first is that reaching 4 debuffs on a target to activate it tends to be pretty hard until the late game unless playing on specific characters. Secondly, the item stacks incredibly poorly. While lowering the activation requirement is tempting, I think a much more interesting rework is to keep its high investment cost but make it not quite so worthless when you're still a couple debuffs short. Risk of Rain 2 needs to have certain items that have specific but incredibly potent synergies to allow for build variety, and Death Mark is one of them.

This thing gives way, way, way too much speed it's absolutely absurd. That being said, its stacking was horrible and it took way too long to charge up, so these charges are aimed at making it feel more dynamic.

Risk of Rain Returns had exactly the right idea with making this item worthwhile, so I am simply porting over the changes made there, with a few values tweaked to better fit with Risk of Rain 2's gameplay.

This fixes so many weird interactions with infusion and makes it feel really unique. After being maxed out, your health now turns from red back to green, and there's no longer any weirdness involving scrapping infusions and then picking one up later (which, as cool as it is, is really unintuitive).

Lepton Daisy is really inconsistent, so making it occur more often and even occur while outside the teleporter radius or while the teleporter is at 99% should help it solidify its niche as keeping you healthy during holdout zones.

This change is inspired by Risky_Lives' RiskyMod. Especially now that Unstable Transmitter has been added, Stealthkit has a very miniscule niche and doesn't feel very interesting to use. This change, reverting it to its early access state with improved chances, will help it stand out more and get value more often.

Unstable Transmitter got too harsh of a nerf, and yet still remains too complicated. I am removing its (generally useless) bleed synergy and returning it to a cooldown-based effect, only without the things that made the cooldown truly busted.

Berzerker's Pauldron *feels* like it should be really strong, but due to a lack of feedback and how difficult it can be to trigger the effects in the heat of the moment, it usually ends up being extremely niche. These changes make it more reliable and also give more feedback to the player. It also allows it to be triggered via a single use of Forgive Me Please, which in my opinion is a very useful low-level synergy.

Not only is the Box of Dynamite a bit weak for an inconsistent drone-based damage bonus, but it stacks horribly, barely even a third of the original for something that only scales in base damage.

Harvester's Scythe is functionally extremely similar to Leeching Seed, which has received a buff of its own. In order to make it more distinct, its healing now scales with the damage of the attack, letting it get value on high burst damage survivors (especially railgunner). Additionally, we need more ways to get stackable crit chance, no matter how small.

Ignition Tank is one of the few items that is completely useless on its own, and this is a problem in my opinion. This rework gives it a purpose in helping finish off low health enemies with a unique debuff infliction condition (not your boring "chance to inflict debuff on hit").

Leeching Seed is so bad that even doubling its effects isn't worth it. In order to keep it valuable when this mod is geared towards the halved healing modifier of Eclipse and Hailstorm, it needs to also partially ignore proc coefficient.

Prayer Beads' stacking makes it optimal to repeatedly pick them up and scrap them one stack at a time. While this is unique, it's not unintuitive nor is it fun. Now it's just as valid to carry a lot of prayer beads and let them all gain experience together before scrapping them for a massive boost.

This change lets Predatory Instincts get value even on survivors without high crit or that don't attack very fast. And of course, same with Harvester's Scythe, we need more ways to get stackable crit chance, no matter how small. The buff stacking change was taken from Risky_Lives' RiskyTweaks.

Red Whip seems to be neglected by a large portion of the community. While I certainly don't think it's as bad as a lot of people do, I do agree that it has some major flaws. The biggest change is greatly expanding the list of "non-combat skills" to include every single skill that either deals no damage or is used for mobility purposes. This, along with a very small stat buff, should make Red Whip a viable option on all survivors, not just those who lack mobility to begin with.

Shurikens is a conceptually good item that sucks because the poor targeting. This change just makes it actually feel good to use.

The biggest change here is the knockback. While its addition in SOTV helped the turrets survive longer, it also meant that they pushed enemies out of range within seconds. In order to not contribute to the overall ally cap problem, they now no longer contribute to the ally cap but have a spawn cap of 5 per player.

At high stacks, wax quail was completely uncontrollable. Now, higher stacks allow you to control your momentum in the air slightly better, making it not such a hindrance.

AtG Missile is one of the strongest green items, but nerfing its damage feels... wrong. It's not really broken on its own, just consistently good. It only really becomes busted in full proc builds, so that's what I'm nerfing here.

This thing gives way, way, way too much speed it's absolutely absurd. That being said, its stacking was horrible and it took way too long to charge up, so these charges are aimed at making it feel more dynamic.

The elemental bands are so strong that they warp the meta around what does and doesn't reach the 400% damage threshold. This is an indicator of an item that is much too strong.

Same as above. The elemental bands are so strong that they warp the meta around what does and doesn't reach the 400% damage threshold. This is an indicator of an item that is much too strong.

Will-o'-the-wisp is another of the strongest green items. A large part of that is that it scales incredibly well in both damage and range, feeding on-kill chains. The other part of is that its proc coefficient allows it to get more value than should be warranted for its position in the game. Both of these factors are being heavily nerfed.

Stop stealing my money.

More linear stacking, please. That being said, the armor this thing provides is a bit crazy, so I'm toning it down just a bit.

Luminous Shot scaling with damage dealt rather than base damage is extremely awkward, leading to it not having much effect on characters like Captain while being completely broken on False Son. It is now going to deal base damage but has received a substantial damage buff, greatly increasing its consistency.

The goal of this nerf is to keep Guillotine from trivializing late game runs while making it more worthwhile in the early to mid-game.

With the number of things that are tracked by buffs nowadays, Rose Buckler sticks out like a sore thumb.