Rage Core

[woven lily]

(skill, 25 seconds cooldown. Pure )

This bundle of crystals is vibrating so violently it almost looks like it's angry at you. Adorable.

"Releases a small explosion around you; if used within 2 seconds of getting hit, the explosion deals a critical hit, is much larger and deals more damage depending on the damage you took."

The normal base damage is 100 and explosion radius will be about Infantry Grenade's radius around you. If you use the Rage Core within 2 seconds after getting hit, the explosion will be slightly larger than Rhythm n' Bouzouki's final critical hit.

As for the damage in that scenario, the base damage (enemy attacks have base damage too) of the hit you took times 20 will be added to the normal base damage of the skill. So, if you got hit by an attack with 10 base damage, like a Zombie's basic melee, that'll add 200 damage, meaning you could use the Rage Core to deal 300 base damage total.

This is a pretty fast skill in terms of use time, but not instant so you won't be able to pop it during a roll like you can with the likes of Blade Dance.

This doesn't get activated by DoT effects. If you got hit more than once 2 seconds before using the skill, it uses the higher base damage attack to calculate its own damage.

[grand shuttle]

holy hell ssc suggestion

[woven lily]

If it's unbalanced or you wanna improve it lmk. This is mostly to give Brut more of whatever it was trying to do with Vengeance and Spite Sword (2 items total wohoo)

[grand shuttle]

and its brutality

and it has 25s cooldown

lmfao

ill bite

[woven lily]

Props to people who either read extremely fast or just upvote after 3 sentences

[hard hill]

I read fast ig

[grand shuttle]

idk

[hard hill]

I just think the added damage multiplier is a bit high

[grand shuttle]

WoD has different ranges i think too

for proj deflect and enemy hit

but idk

[woven lily]

This game

[torpid igloo]

Not a brut player but would love to see this added

[grand shuttle]

i need to lab

more

[woven lily]

Whatever just imagine infantry grenade coming from your liver for the noncrit

[spring oak]

If the damage is reduced via Damage Reduction, does the skill use the original incoming damage, or the reduced damage? Hopefully the original, that'd be a good incentive to take things like Vengeance, Berserker, items with damage reduction instead of damage bonus (e.g. corrupted power).

[torpid igloo]

Kidney stones be like

[spring oak]

the slightly awkward thing about this is it would kill the enemy that just hit you instead of letting you hit it manually for rallying up the lost health. But could be good against elites/bosses.

[torpid igloo]

(Yes I know they don’t come from the liver)

[woven lily]

...sure, base damage. There aren't many sources of damage resist in the game anyways and the biggest one will basically be a "lets fucking go I got this colorless"

[woven lily]

I'm not so sure

This has a pretty long cooldown plus you need to get hit, and brut isn't particularly tanky

but will this finally make face flask better than queen's rapier

[hard hill]

that's true

does the cooldown need to be that long though ?

brutality skills tend to have a shorter cd

[woven lily]

Eh, exceptions for that are fine. There are some brut skills with 20 seconds cooldown already, and I guess vampirism with 30 seconds.

[hard hill]

mhm yeah it's actually a good thing you're right, this way you have to use it at the right moment, after the right hit, and you should not get hit too often anyway

[grand shuttle]

i dont know about this one

partially because im not so sure of the whole idea of taking hits to activate an item

brutalitys identity rn is a mess

[hard hill]

rage core kinda sounds like some weird edgy music genre

[grand shuttle]

nah i dont think i care much for this one