T3 Weapon item idea - Ghost Bullets

[borekas]

A fun weapon item Meant for team fighting. could also be used to farm, if it is broken for farm it might be a good idea to make it only work on enemy hero's.

 

[wilsoncat.VS]

From my experience with paige, this item would need negatives to avoid everyone buying this item. Like imagine if every gun build said this item is needed (boring meta right?) Not many items grant bullet velocity so super cool add. Perhaps increase bullet velocity but then get -fire rate% (scaling off spirit maybeee); so now the firerate hungry hero needs to consider is this worth using. Does the item need to do weapon damage or what other bullet effects did you think seemed fun/useful? One thing I think of is 'Enemies pierced by bullets are slowed' something that isnt damage based to avoid everyone abusing it for the damage boost.

 

[borekas]

From my experience with paige, this item would need negatives to avoid everyone buying this item. Like imagine if every gun build said this item is needed (boring meta right?) Not many items grant bullet velocity so super cool add. Perhaps increase bullet velocity but then get -fire rate% (scaling off spirit maybeee); so now the firerate hungry hero needs to consider is this worth using. Does the item need to do weapon damage or what other bullet effects did you think seemed fun/useful? One thing I think of is 'Enemies pierced by bullets are slowed' something that isnt damage based to avoid everyone abusing it for the damage boost.

I completely agree with some of the points you said, but not all.
i think we need to consider the average use case and the best and the worst but also compare it to other 3200 souls items.at best this item grants +60% base weapon damage, which is very good, but when we compare it to other items like point blank and hollow point ward, while considering this is when you hit 6 enemies at once, only applying to the last enemy, i think it is pretty fair. in the worst case scenario fighting a 1v1, or hitting just 1 enemy, it does nothing. the average use case is hitting 2-3 people and getting a +10% base weapon damage boost and +20% which again comparing to other item in the same category is completely fine. i am definitely not against the idea of a different reward for hitting multiple enemies. about this being abused by heroes with fire rate and being in every build, i just don't see how it will happen many of the fire rate focused heroes like haze and wraith typically want to focus on 1 hero at a time. the only thing i can see it getting abused in is farming but I'm not sure since it only allows you to hit 2 creeps at a time so it might be fine, but it needs actual in game testing to know for sure. also about the bullet velocity, i absolutely agree there aren't enough ways to increase bullet velocity, but i don't think it should be more than express shot, which is THE bullet velocity item so i think +35% bullet velocity is fair.