Hero's Sword - Explosive T4 capstone for charge based builds

[The Last Eagle Flies]

Outside of Extra Charge and its upgrade Rapid Recharge, there's no other way to directly boost or play around charges. The intention of this item is to provide an explosive opening when playing around with charge based abilities, providing you with a hefty bonus of various stats and a small spirit resist shred for the first charge of your volley. Careful managing of one's charges could also give you a significant power boost, as opposed to blasting someone with all of your charges as fast as possible.

This doesn't build from the previously mentioned items for a reason. It serves as an additional big item for charge builds and a situational lategame item for hybrid or gun builds, who might be looking to round out their slots.

The stats are iterated mainly from Arcane Surge and the flat Spirit bonus provided by Boundless Spirit. Mind you that Boundless Spirit gives you 65 Spirit ALWAYS, this is just for a single casting once in a while, depending on how you manage your charges.

I wasn't entirely sure about the actual stats on the item itself. A bonus charge is given and the cooldown reduction goes nice with that. The weapon damage and movespeed are mainly to round this out as a more flexible item not just for spirit builds.

The tool I used for the item preview has not been updated, so it says T3. But this is absolutely intended to be a standalone T4 item. The name is a reference to the OG Legend of Zelda games, where Link could blast waves of energy from his sword when at full health. This follows similar reasoning.

 

[ReportingBugs]

A very natural well serving purpose of an extra upgrade to the charge item build path. Just to ask, what is the exact conditions of the bonus stats? When you have full charges and you do anything, including on first cast on full charges? I'm thinking how much you can get out of Hero's Sword with Haze?

 

[The Last Eagle Flies]

A very natural well serving purpose of an extra upgrade to the charge item build path. Just to ask, what is the exact conditions of the bonus stats? When you have full charges and you do anything, including on first cast on full charges? I'm thinking how much you can get out of Hero's Sword with Haze?

Let's say you are Grey Talon have have three charges on your Charged Shot. The bonuses would apply to Charged Shot whenever you are at 3/3 charges, which would include the first charge. So you would need to wait the 14~ second cooldown between charge replenish to benefit from this again, when you are at 3/3 charges again.

I made this quick mockup of how it could be shown in the UI, now that I started thinking about the clarity of this.

 

[ReportingBugs]

Let's say you are Grey Talon have have three charges on your Charged Shot. The bonuses would apply to Charged Shot whenever you are at 3/3 charges, which would include the first charge. So you would need to wait the 14~ second cooldown between charge replenish to benefit from this again, when you are at 3/3 charges again.

I made this quick mockup of how it could be shown in the UI, now that I started thinking about the clarity of this.
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So with Haze, it makes the phase out stronger and last much much longer. 0.5*1.3*1.33 = 0.86 seconds of phasing out at maximum.

Neat.