Tesla bullets need a buff.

[IgorNL]

Some ideas for buffs that could be made to the Tesla Bullets.

1. Increase the chance from 25% to 35%.

2. Reduce the damage from 30 to 10 and increase the chance from 25% to 75%.

3. Change the passive stats from +14% fire rate to +20% fire rate.

 

[bloodfrost27]

2nd change would make it way more consistent for all weapon types to use it if they wanted to

 

[Rosgath]

I think the damage is perfectly fine where it is for a farming tool, but it does have an issue that it deals extraordinarily low damage against players. I think if any buff would be needed, it would be to simply increase the initial shock damage against players by 20 or 30. That should be plenty.

 

[nathanieljbrill]

It does seem quite silly to me that it has a maximum proc rate (which is standard) and a percentage proc chance. I say remove the proc chance, increasing proc rate and decreasing damage to compensate.

If you are changing the proc rate either by decreasing the cooldown or increasing/removing the proc chance, then as long as you keep the spirit scaling the same, we do have our Tesla bullets buff.

 

[OG3]

It should not have a maximum proc rate, as having it makes any increase to fire rate effectively result in fewer Tesla bolts per magazine.

 

[nathanieljbrill]

It should not have a maximum proc rate, as having it makes any increase to fire rate effectively result in fewer Tesla bolts per magazine

Bolts per magazine is the most worthless stat and removing a maximum proc rate would bust it for certain characters and make it worthless for most. This is not how you balance an item at all.

 

[That dude who plays Deadlock]

Another suggestion would be to make the prock chance work like toxic bullets buildup(different on characters depending on their weapon). So tallon will have like a 80% proc chance while Ivy has like 15%.