Mana skin and Mirror shield (Spirit damage defense items)

[Mazino]

Reason for the item:

Currently with spirit damage dominating the games in the late stages of the game compared to bullet damage , there is not much counter play to heavy burst spirit damage such as now changed Haze ultimate dealing spirit damage, Lash ground strike late game damage, Bebop echo shard bomb build without building debuff remover, aswell as other AOE (Area of effect) type spells that are very dominant in a 6 vs 6 team fights.

For bullet damage there is Metal skin as well as Return fire (which is 80% bullet damage reflect and only 30% spirit damage reflect)
In Late game (50-60min games) Improved spirit armor feels like it barely does anything with how currently spirit damage is balanced.

These are my item suggestions to maybe provide more options for defense items vs spirit based damage.

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1ST ITEM

Mana skin: ​

• Spirit Item
• Cost 3,000 souls
• Tier III item
• Upgrade from Extra spirit

Stats:

• +200 Health
• +6 Spirit power
• +2 Health regen

Active:

• Become immune to incoming spirit damage
• Duration 3s (Scales with duration increasing items)
• Cooldown 30s
• Move speed reduced by 1m/s

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2ND ITEM
Mirror shield:

• Spirit item
• Costs 6,200 souls
• Tier IV item

Stats:

• Spirit resist 8%
• Cooldown reduction 5%

Active:

• Nullify incoming spirit damage based abilities and return 80% of the damage to the attacker
• Duration 4s
• Cooldown 45s

 

[gibnewitems]

The reason why metal skin exists is because gun builds have very little downtime compared to spirit builds, which usually have to deal with cooldowns. As for the stats, 200 hp is incredibly high for a tier 3 spirit item. The only tier 3 that's higher is fortitude, a vitality item who's sole gimmick is regen and a fuck ton of health. Getting to negate burst combos that usually requires quite a lot of set up for 3000 souls already exists in the main game. It's call ethereal shift. It's far more balanced and fair to fight than a hypothetical metal skin but spirit concept could ever be.