Heretic

Heretic deserves a chance to shine in the spotlight. This character is so cool but I never actually play them because when I pick a survivor when starting, that's usually the survivor I actually want to play, not some other character that I have to gamble into swapping to partway through a run. It's a cool concept to unlock the character, sure, but quoting the words of a friend, "I just wanna play as the bird".

Base Character (rework)

- Now accessible as a selectable character via Moffein's Heretic mod as a soft dependency.
  - This mod reduces Heretic's base health from 440 to 110 and base damage from 18 to 12 (AKA normal survivor values).
  - Technically it also changes health regen but I do my own thing with that.
- Heretic base regen set to -0.75 (-0.15), giving her a slow but constant health drain.
- Negative base health regeneration is no longer affected by Drizzle/Monsoon regen multipliers (positive regen bonuses still are).
- Picking up the first stack of each item of Heresy before having the Mark of Heresy (full transformation) increases this negative regen by 33%.
- Now has tips in the Overview section of the character select screen.
- Character AI completely rewritten to be much more capable (in vanilla it's literally copied from Commando and it doesn't fit at all).
  - Makes Goobo Jr. pretty strong on Heretic.
- Various visuals adjusted:
  - Now falls in a drop pod like most survivors.
  - Character select/spawn animation screenshake and effects toned down to reasonable levels.

Lunar Primary | Hungering Gaze (buff)

- Recharge rate now affected by attack speed.

Lunar Secondary | Slicing Maelstrom (buff)

- AOE radius increased from 5m to 7m (ending blast radius unchanged at 14m).
- AOE proc coefficient increased from 0.2 to 0.5.
- (Indirect) Rooted debuff can now be transferred by Noxious Thorn.

Lunar Utility | Shadowfade (rework)

- Cooldown increased from 6s to 8s.
- Healing per tick very slightly increased (from 18.2% to 21% over the duration).
- Movement speed bonus reduced from 30% to 25%, but forces sprint while active.
- Now grants 200% increased airborne acceleration.
- Can no longer use midair jumps while in use (they would be much less effective anyways due to the acceleration).

Lunar Special | Ruin (tweak)

- (Indirect) Ruin debuff can now be transferred by Noxious Thorn (does not trigger if stacks are detonated).