Wake of Vultures- The Worst Item in Game?

[Leave_Eye_6]

Me and my friends have noticed that when you kill and energy/ electric based Elite, the Wake of Vultures will turn half of your Health into Shield but only for about a 10 second duration, after that, your Shield disappears and you are left with half of your health until you can regain it, presuming you have a hefty amount of healing items. This is quite literally game breaking at HAHAHA levels in the game where absorbing energy/ electric elites make you susceptible to being killed in a single hit by nearly every larger mob in the game. Why does it not add shield to your already prevalent health? Has anyone used this with Transcendence? Am I missing it's use or is it really bad? It's gotten to the point where we skip over the item entirely because it marks you for dead.

[Mr Windblade]

Yes - but it's on their list to be patched so that this doesn't keep happening.

[Leiton]

It works fantastically with Transcendence, as you don't lose half of your health/shield. Otherwise don't pick up until it's fixed.

Worst relic in the game has to go to Frost Relic for me. Completely unusable on anyone but Engi and Merc, and even on those two you're better of with any other item. Monster Tooth close second.

[FuturistDreamer]

I figured that everything that requires the Lunar Coins falls into the category of "worthless piece of junk". I think they should just get rid of those items and let you use the coins to change the red/green items that are up for exchange/sale in the bazaar. The only reason to get the Lunar Coin items is for the Moon Worshiper achievement.

[ComatosePhoenix]

Personally warbanner, getting one early on is alright but I think I'd rather have any other item in most circumstances.

[Typisch]

Originally posted by FuturistDreamer:

I figured that everything that requires the Lunar Coins falls into the category of "worthless piece of junk". I think they should just get rid of those items and let you use the coins to change the red/green items that are up for exchange/sale in the bazaar. The only reason to get the Lunar Coin items is for the Moon Worshiper achievement.

transcendence, shaped glass and gesture of the drowned are fine

[ComatosePhoenix]

Brittle crown can be pretty good too, just need to spend the money as fast as you can to minimize the amount you lose from the downside.

[ViperV]

playing on monsoon and this ♥♥♥♥ drops thrice on you via legendary chest is infuriating. i wonder if there's a way to mod-remove it from the drop list.

[Leave_Eye_6]

Originally posted by Typisch:

Originally posted by FuturistDreamer:

I figured that everything that requires the Lunar Coins falls into the category of "worthless piece of junk". I think they should just get rid of those items and let you use the coins to change the red/green items that are up for exchange/sale in the bazaar. The only reason to get the Lunar Coin items is for the Moon Worshiper achievement.

transcendence, shaped glass and gesture of the drowned are fine

I have to disagree as well, got my first Deicide using a quad Shaped Glass build, and one for my buddy while he was Mercenary using a triple Transcendence build with lots of Shield Generators. Only problem with the Lunar items is they're lukewarm unless you have multiples. Being kind of weak doing pretty high damage is ok, but if you're gonna get one hit KO'd anyways, might as well go for gold and stack them high.

I do agree that it would be nice to have a Rare item exchanger in the Newt Shop because I've only seen one 3D printer for the Regenerative Rack after my 3rd loop but otherwise none. Seems like if you accidentally pick up the WoV you're doomed with no option to get rid of it. Although if they are indeed working on fixing the way WoV works I really wouldn't mind. I think all other rare items are useful except maybe the Frost Relic because of it's ability to cause slowing and it's pretty pitiful range. I agree that it's truly only good with Engineer or MAYBE Mercenary if you have a ludicrous amount of speed buffs. I don't think an item of the highest rarity should have a lunar-esque negative effect which kind of makes it the worst of the bunch otherwise.

[Leave_Eye_6]

Originally posted by ViperV:

playing on monsoon and this ♥♥♥♥ drops thrice on you via legendary chest is infuriating. i wonder if there's a way to mod-remove it from the drop list.

I actually did have that on a Deicide run I was doing for my friend. Incredibly disheartening doing 2 loop arounds and 3 of the 4 legendary chests had a WoV inside. It honestly is so game breaking we don't even bother picking it up.

[JHarlequin]

It isn't easy to be set and able to recover half your health after the effect goes away. If you can't handle the missing health, then you obviously are doing something wrong.

Still, several other elite effects are somewhat lackluster and so in general the item never gives you any particularly impressive ability. When you find it as a normal drop, then it is probably fine, but avoid buying it as it just isn't special enough. The lost health is not really a problem.

[Stahlfrau]

Let's be real, once this item is fixed, it will simply be tied with the crowdfunder for the worst item in the game.

[Hotslice]

I fixed it along with other commonly reported issues https://thunderstore.io/package/hotslice/BalanceMod/