Spirt Snatch - 3k Soul Spirit Strike Upgrade

First, some preamble. Skip if you only care about the item:

Spirit Strike, at least on melee builds, is one of the better scaling 500 soul items. This is because of its Spirit Resist Reduction, which is an effect that scales well into later stages of the game. That being said, it still starts to fall off as you reach the mid to late game, and it becomes increasingly difficult for many characters to justify dedicating an entire slot to it as opposed to a more expensive but more valuable Spirit item.

Melee combat actually has a lot more depth than some players give it credit for, such as through parry-baiting and melee-baiting, so I think it's important for it to be able to scale into later stages of the game. An upgrade to Spirit Strike, however, also allows us to push melee builds in a way that isn't as beneficial to characters like Abrams because of how those characters care less about the Spirit stat, meaning we can also diversify melee builds with this and create more potential for a wider variety of characters to make investments in a specific melee item without going all-in.

Spirit Snatch:
  • Spirit item
  • Upgrades from Spirit Strike
  • Costs 3,000 Souls (3,500 without Spirit Strike)

Stat Bonuses:
  • +20% Melee Damage
  • +8% Spirit Resist
  • +1.5 Health Regen
  • +1m/s Sprint Speed

Passive (6.5s Cooldown):
When you perform a Light or Heavy Melee attack against a hero, deal extra Spirit Damage with the attack. This reduces the target's Spirit Resist and temporarily steals Spirit Power from the target. Additional hits from this ability reset the duration for previously stolen Spirit Power from that target.

  • 75 Spirit Damage (0.7 Spirit Scaling)
  • -14% Spirit Resist
  • 4 Spirit Power stolen on Light Melee, 8 Spirit Power stolen on Heavy Melee
  • 11s Duration
 
Not a bad idea at all, I love adding depth to melee combat since it's truly the most slept on part of Deadlock in most games. I feel like losing 8 spirit power isn't going to be as powerful as it should feel, especially as a temporary loss. Maybe a fully charged melee should deprive 30 power? More of a genuine consequence and would more reliably change damage thresholds that scale with spirit power to change up combat as much as a 3000-soul item should.
 
Not a bad idea at all, I love adding depth to melee combat since it's truly the most slept on part of Deadlock in most games. I feel like losing 8 spirit power isn't going to be as powerful as it should feel, especially as a temporary loss. Maybe a fully charged melee should deprive 30 power? More of a genuine consequence and would more reliably change damage thresholds that scale with spirit power to change up combat as much as a 3000-soul item should.
Appreciate the feedback. I was also thinking that the Spirit Steal might warrant a buff but I think 30 is way too much considering that it's currently intended for the steal to be stackable with successive hits from the ability (i.e. if you hit a target and steal 8 spirit, then hit them again when the cooldown ends, you reset the duration of the previous steal as well meaning you now have 16 stolen spirit power for at least the next 11 seconds)

I'd say the steal could at least be increased from 4/8 to 5/10 for sure.
 
Wow, I did not expect my first and only item suggestion to get put into the actual game. Kind of surreal. Thank you everyone and thanks to the developers, I'm very happy they liked the suggestion enough to turn it into a real item!
 
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