Matador - Tier 4 Weapon Item

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Matador
Weapon Tier 4
Components: Slowing Bullets
§7250 Souls

• +12 Spirit Power
• +16% Fire Rate
• +10% Spirit Resist

Passive:

Your bullets build up focus on enemies. After reaching max focus, slow the focused enemy's move speed and unlock a single charge of this item's active

• 15% Movement Slow (Conditional)
• 1.5s Slow Duration
• 90 Max Stacks
• 3 Max Charges

Active (9.75s Cooldown):

Recover 1 stamina and gain a movement speed boost.

• +1 Stamina
• +35% Move Speed
• 3s Move Speed Duration

Goal was to design a tier 4 weapon item that provides utility to movement instead of a damage or fire rate steroid. Also making slowing bullets build into glass cannon is such a clown idea. This item should make a little more sense building out of slowing bullets.

 

[Дедлокер]

Also making slowing bullets build into glass cannon is such a clown idea. This item should make a little more sense building out of slowing bullets.

I think the only reason they did it was to make it cost more, thought i would have probably made it build from Swift Striker. Maybe make it so that the focused enemies can`t use mobility items and abilities? Othervise good idea.

 

[nathanieljbrill]

I don't understand why it slows less than slowing bullets. Otherwise cool idea. I love how you're giving charges to an active.

 

[Дедлокер]

I don't understand why it slows less than slowing bullets. Otherwise cool idea. I love how you're giving charges to an active.

I think he meant that this item has slowing bullets effects and then the second passive on top. So it is extra slowing on the base slowing bullets.

 

[Rosgath]

Is it weird that I like this item way too much? I feel like it would be a lot of fun to use and would reduce the need to build bonus stamina or Kinetic dash on some Weapon builds that need to be super mobile

 

[gibnewitems]

New items got added to the developer console, so I am going through my old concepts for some housekeeping. There's some confusion about my item concept that I would like to address. Originally, i intended for the slowing effect to just be 15%. I have the slowing bullets there mostly so the item is more expensive. I don't believe that upgrades should always give more or equal to what you've put into them. Going from 25% on hit slow to 15% conditional slow is just a tradeoff, and I believe tradeoffs are an important tool for developing good items. However, I do see that the way that this item handles it only added confusion in what would otherwise be my single most well-received item concept to date.

If I were making this item today:

1. Scrapping the slowing bullets requirement
2. Lowering the slow to 10% to account for stacking slowing bullets being possible
3. Maybe some slow resist (under ten percent) added to the active.