Item in which you imbue an ability so you can HMC with it

[koffi_duck]

Vitality / Spirit(maybe) Item
Price: 3,000 SOULS

Stats
+ 1 Sprint Speed
+ 7% Bullet Resist
+ 40% Heavy Melee Distance

Imbue an ability with the capability to cancel Heavy Melee attacks

 

[koffi_duck]

if melee distance stacking ends up being a problem a possible solution could be:

Melee Charge Upgrade path to this item


Name: Psychic Cancel (no idea tbh)
COMPONENTS:
Melee Charge
+10% Weapon dmg
+ 75 Bonus Health
+ 50% Heavy Melee Distance

Passive:
Your next Heavy Melee attack against an enemy deals increased damage and either reload your weapon weapon instantly or give you up to +110% bonus ammo. Only activates when Bonus Ammo is not full.
+25% Bonus Heavy Damage

Passive:
Imbue an ability with the capability to cancel Heavy Melee attacks

 

[Rosgath]

I like the concept. There are obviously some abilities that will be substantially better for this (like Warden's Willpower, Abrams 1 or 2, Shiv knives, etc) but it presents an interesting concept.

 

[koffi_duck]

There are obviously some abilities that will be substantially better for this (like Warden's Willpower, Abrams 1 or 2, Shiv knives, etc).

I completely forgot about charge abilities, hah. The item could have a cooldown added to balance it. It could be the same as fleetfoot of 20 secs

As with warden willpower, maybe when you cancel it, it limits you to a certain speed level? or when cancelling abilities that add speed the values are not counted, or even the speed that abilities add is added like 3 seconds after the cancel is used

that would kind of ruin the fun of it though imo, some items work better on some characters than others, so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for this one to be balanced that way, plus scaling certain items with other combinations of items or abilities is part of the fun of this game's item system I think. Definitely a point of debate to see how much it breaks things down