Items - Lunar

Updated a day ago

Reworks

Effigy of Grief

- Maximum number of totems reduced from 5 to 1 (reusing the equipment always repositions the effigy).
- Radius increased from 15m to 20m.
Comments:

Effigy of Grief is good while you don't need to move into the affected area, but sucks otherwise. Reducing the number of totems, while in theory a nerf, makes it a lot easier to reposition poorly-placed totems. This equipment now allows you to micromanage a slow field and move it to wherever you need it most.

Buffs

Glowing Meteorite

- Cooldown reduced from 140s to 100s.
- Meteor rain duration reduced from 20s to 12s.
- Meteor telegraphs no longer disappear halfway through, and are also slightly brighter.
- Base damage increased from 600% to 800%.
- Meteors use sweet spot damage falloff instead of linear, generally resulting in higher, more consistent damage.
- Meteor spawn rate increased by ~10% on average (the actual formula is kinda complicated, but not worth going into).
- Meteors can no longer roll for crit (if they succeed the roll then every single Meteor in the storm will deal double damage).
Comments:

Meteor has the potential to be so much more than just a troll item. With these changes, it results in higher damage within a shorter duration so that players aren't forced to dodge meteors for a century, and the meteors have more consistent telegraphs so that they aren't as annoying.

Nerfs

Spinel Tonic

- Attack speed bonus reduced from 70% to 30%.
Comments:

Tonic is just a liiiittle stronger than I'm comfortable with, so I'm toning back its attack speed bonus. All of tonic's bonuses are multiplicative, so the actual bonuses you receive are even more than what's on the label, and it already straight-up doubles your damage.

Tweaks

Corpsebloom

- Interaction with healing modifiers fixed, will no longer multiply healing twice with Rejuvenation Rack or divide healing twice with Eclipse 5 difficulty modifiers.
Comments:

This is mostly to fix the Eclipse interaction that makes the item actively detrimental, but I think removing its crazy synergy with Rejuvenation Rack is also a good thing for consistency.