KrisTheHero
New member
I play Pocket, and I really love the character and how well rounded their kit is, but the problem I'm finding is that there are absolutely NO sustain options for them unless you build into gun.
While gun builds are fun, spirit builds, and especially burst spirit builds like Pocket, don't have any strong, cheap sustain items like gun builds do. This means that basically every burst spirit character has to rely heavily on mobility to get in and get out, but there's so much CC and movement silencing abilities in the game now, it's very difficult to compete with how viable gun builds are.
Fury trance is absolutely amazing on gun carries and is just a mini Vampiric Burst but instead of healing outright it gives resistances and fire rate at the cost of a silence. Bullet lifesteal is, in my opinion, just better than spirit lifesteal since bullet damage is far more consistent than spirit damage and much easier to optimize with fire rate, damage bonuses, and magazine size increases. The only really powerful item for burst spirit is Infuser and that's a 6400 item that only lasts 6 seconds, which may be more than Vampiric Burst, but is harder to optimize for because you have to time it for the very start of any potential spirit damage combo.
What I propose is a 3200 green item that is basically just infuser, but imbued into one ability, with of course less spirit lifesteal. The item's stats would look something like this:
Infuser-Lite - 3200 souls
18% Spirit Lifesteal
+100 Bonus health
+6 Spirit power
Passive - 14 seconds
+10 Imbued Ability Spirit power
Imbue an ability with permanent spirit power. When that ability is used gain 50% spirit lifesteal.
I used Surge Of Power, Infuser, And Bullet/Spirit Lifesteal for the inspiration for this ability.
While gun builds are fun, spirit builds, and especially burst spirit builds like Pocket, don't have any strong, cheap sustain items like gun builds do. This means that basically every burst spirit character has to rely heavily on mobility to get in and get out, but there's so much CC and movement silencing abilities in the game now, it's very difficult to compete with how viable gun builds are.
Fury trance is absolutely amazing on gun carries and is just a mini Vampiric Burst but instead of healing outright it gives resistances and fire rate at the cost of a silence. Bullet lifesteal is, in my opinion, just better than spirit lifesteal since bullet damage is far more consistent than spirit damage and much easier to optimize with fire rate, damage bonuses, and magazine size increases. The only really powerful item for burst spirit is Infuser and that's a 6400 item that only lasts 6 seconds, which may be more than Vampiric Burst, but is harder to optimize for because you have to time it for the very start of any potential spirit damage combo.
What I propose is a 3200 green item that is basically just infuser, but imbued into one ability, with of course less spirit lifesteal. The item's stats would look something like this:
Infuser-Lite - 3200 souls
18% Spirit Lifesteal
+100 Bonus health
+6 Spirit power
Passive - 14 seconds
+10 Imbued Ability Spirit power
Imbue an ability with permanent spirit power. When that ability is used gain 50% spirit lifesteal.
I used Surge Of Power, Infuser, And Bullet/Spirit Lifesteal for the inspiration for this ability.
