Aspect of Hestia + Spread Fire

[Kopek]

I have noticed that Spread Fire doesn't interact with the Aspect of Hestia's Empowered Shot. The Empowered Shot is just a normal, full-range single shot instead of a spread, but subsequent shots fire the spread again, which feels weird. I took the spread shot excited to fire an Empowered shotgun blast; was very sad when it just fired a normal shot.

It would be awesome if it fired a spread of 5 empowered shots.

[Xilent]

5 spamable shots with 150 base damage? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you add Aphrodite boons and chaos boons you’ll one shot everything.

[Goomy]

Compromise = middle shot does 150 damage, side shots do 10?

[Kopek]

Originally posted by Xilent:

5 spamable shots with 150 base damage? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you add Aphrodite boons and chaos boons you’ll one shot everything.

I wouldn't expect it to be the full bonus, but I absolutely think it should interact with it. The current behavior feels like a bug.

Originally posted by Goomy:

Compromise = middle shot does 150 damage, side shots do 10?

That could be reasonable. You still get that bonus shot, and you still get the shotgun blast.

I could also see the shotgun taking a damage hit for its increase in total shots by default. You still get the advantage of applying things like chill and hangover multiple times.

Another shotgun solution in League of Legends was for additional pellet hits on a single target to deal 20% damage rather than full damage, so you still benefit from those pointblank shots, just not multiplicatively.

[Salmoni]

I'd like at least to have an AOE attack with the damage of Hestia bonus, doesn't have to apply more then once per enemy or something (in order to keep some balance) but like this feel outright bad, coming from other roguelikes (tboi) i've grown to love interaction between bonuses, and besides the balancing point, from a design point i don't see why the two shouldn't interact together.

[DJDiceZ]

It's unsatisfying but i get the logic. It's more than likely intended.