No matter the balance changes I make, Happiest Mask will always be a bit of an oddity among red items due to the inconsistency of using enemies tailored to fight the player against other enemies. Therefore, I'm making it a boss item, filling the conveniently missing space of a teleporter drop for Hordes of Many so that yellow items can more reasonably be obtained when using the Artifact of Kin. It will also now be a bit weaker, but a lot more reliable, with frequent ghost spawning for shorter durations.

Ben's Raincoat is extremely disappointing in its current state. While its release version was extremely broken and not fun to use, the current version barely does anything before going on cooldown. With this buff, it can now build up while not in danger and then block multiple debuffs in a row, with the barrier being more impactful as well.

Frost Relic is in a weird place. It's really powerful, don't get me wrong, but it also feels kind of annoying to use, and is frequently overshadowed by the more consistent Unstable Tesla Coil. In order to make it stand out more, it now applies the new frost debuff to enemies around you, potentially freezing groups of enemies while you are in combat. It's the same as Chef's frost debuff, which means it has received the change to not be able to build up frost on already frozen enemies.

Pocket ICBM is way too powerful when you have many missile items, but is also completely useless on its own. To counteract the latter, it has been given a unique missile effect of its own, allowing it to self-synergize. On the other hand, its scaling has been reduced to effectively increase the power of missiles by 100% per stack rather than 200%, but done in a very fun way.

Aegis is probably the worst red item due to needing multiple stacks to actually get going. Along with a buff to its main function, it now can scale with regen, allowing it to be more easily built up and causing it to decay slower. It also has an added benefit of granting armor while the player has any barrier, mostly to ensure that it remains valuable when stacked.

Bottled Chaos is a bit feeble, as a single extra equipment effect has questionable value. As such, it's getting a bit of extra self-synergy with a cooldown reduction. As for the now-blacklisted equipment, Gnarled Woodsprite is just a worse Foreign Fruit when it comes to the activation effect, Volcanic Egg is generally detrimental when it triggers, and Seed of Life, while very funny, is too unpredictable. Any revive needs to be clear when it triggers, which is why apart from self-revive effects, ally revives always require some sort of dedicated input/interaction. Bottled Chaos randomly triggering the effect completely undermines this.

This is implemented via a dependency mod, SnappierStalks, which makes Brainstalks much more fun and powerful.

Dio's tends to be lackluster due to not helping a failing run actually get back into things. While it's not a huge amount, Dio's will now grant a small boost to your build after use.

Laser Scope is now grouped with the other crit synergy items in granting a small passive crit bonus, except stacking better due to being a red item. That being said, this item will probably receive a larger rework in the future, as even at max crit the bonus it provides is generally worse than other red items.

N'Kuhana's Opinion is really only held back by the sparsity of healing effects, and the lack of functionality on its own. This small change fixes both of these, making the item far more reliable.

Wake of Vultures is fun but the buffs are too short-lived to be all that meaningful, especially given that many elite types aren't super impactful when used by the player. This buff makes each elite kill matter more.

Brilliant Behemoth outclasses a lot of other legendary damage items at first stack due to how high the damage bonus is, despite not being intended to be a single target damage item.

Ceremonial Dagger is scarily powerful with their perfect homing and their absurd range. I don't want to remove the proc coefficient completely, but a 0.3 proc coefficient balances out to on average 1 proc per killed enemy rather than 3. They are also getting their range toned down quite a bit to reduce instances of the game playing itself.

Runic Lens is way too powerful for how well it scales, as it was an average of 60% increased total damage on hits that dealt only 100% damage, and its average damage bonus increases the more damage you dealt in a single hit. While still incredibly strong, it has been toned back a bit, and it will no longer be able to trigger stupidly high damage procs either.

Spare Drone Parts is just... absurd. It's already one of the best damage items if you have 1 or 2 drones, but it goes to being a free win when used on Engineer or if the player also has Empathy Cores. The attack speed and cooldown reduction really should not be applied to allies that were designed to be strong without it, and Engineer Turrets really don't need a chaingun to essentially give them a second primary attack.

Slightly reduce Unstable Tesla Coil's power at base, as it is an incredibly strong AOE option.

War Bonds is incredibly overtuned and way too effective on the final bosses. It needs several nerfs to bring it back in line, but keeps its core identity of being a gold-scaling boss killer, plus an additional fun synergy with Pocket ICBM.

Electric Boomerang is really confusingly worded, but really the only thing wrong with it is that it deals base damage rather than total damage, limiting its use to only high proc, low damage survivors like Commando or Nailgun MUL-T. This is no longer the case, though its application in proc chains has been nerfed, like most other chance-on-hit items.

Head Stompers is extremely underrated, it just needs to stack better. It's nearly impossible to use the special ability off cooldown even on the first stack, so instead the explosion will become stronger with more stacks. Proc coefficient is removed to prevent random AtG missiles from flying off and instakilling bosses from across the map, something that is very funny but feels too random.

Stacking has been altered because the guaranteed large monster item drop is the most important part of the first stack, and then subsequent stacks are not as useful. It's also no longer affected by luck, as a general rule to make Clover/Purity not affect your item drops.