In the current version of the game, Ben's Raincoat uses a five second recharge system. For the first fifty days of the Survivors of the Void expansion, it had the following constant effect instead:

Whenever you would receive a debuff, prevent it. Increases maximum health by 100 (+100 per stack).

This behavior has been completely restored using code from the original version. The only exception is that it no longer negates permanent curse, since this was deemed unacceptable by the Eclipse community, leading (in part) to the item's demise.

Though other alternatives already exist, they omit the capability to affect a debuff with indefinite duration, such as the slow applied by Power Mode and Corrupted Drown. Furthermore, language support is lacking and they have redundant dependencies or buff the item unnecessarily.