Lady Geist

Lady Geist
Initial Stats
Weapon
"Johann's Gift"
DPS	55
Bullet Damage	25
Ammo	13
Bullets per sec	2.22
Light Melee	63
Heavy Melee	116
Falloff Range	22m → 58m
Vitality
Health	650
Health Regen	1
Bullet Resist	0%
Spirit Resist	0%
Move Speed	6 m/s
Sprint Speed	1 m/s
Stamina	3
Power Increases
+2.10 Base Bullet Damage
+3.4 Base Melee Damage
+41 Base Health

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Sacrifices health then drains it back
Expending health to achieve devastating effects is the source of Lady Geist’s power. When running low, she can drain the life out of her rivals.

An old-time socialite with a necromantic pact, Lady Geist is a terrifying foe that consumes her own health for her abilities while draining the life away from enemies. Sacrificing her life force to launch Essence Bombs and blood shards of Malice, Lady Geist can make up the lost health with a Life Drain tether to a nearby opponent. After being brought low by her own abilities or enemy attacks, she can conduct a Soul Exchange and swap health with her opponent, making them vulnerable to followup attacks from her revolver.

The Toast of the Town, Lady Geist was famed by all and invited to every ball and gala in the city... until her beauty faded in her old age and left her with only memories and stories of her glory. In desperation, she formed a pact with a powerful spirit and bound it by powerful wards until she was safe and young again. All she needs to do now is feed on the life force of her fellows to maintain her beauty... and hope desperately that the Oathkeeper will stay bound.

Abilities

Essence Bomb

Sacrifice some of your health to launch a bomb that deals damage after a brief arm time. Self damage is Spirit and can be mitigated.

Range:

7m

Cooldown:

10.5s

Damage: 100 (x1.2)

Self Damage: 30 (x2)

Arming Duration: 0.5s

1 • +2m Radius

2 • +60 Damage

5 • Bombs leave a toxic mess on the ground, dealing 26% of the original damage per second, for 6s.

Life Drain

Create a tether that drains enemy health over time and heals you. Target must be in line of sight and within max range to drain. You can shoot and use other abilities during the drain, but your movement speed is reduced by half. Press [2] to cancel.

Range:

20m

Duration:

2s

Cooldown:

42s

Damage Per Second: 35 (x0.6)

Max Tether Range: 30m

1 • +20 Damage Per Second

2 • +2s Duration

5 • Enemy is Silenced while being Life Drained (requires line of sight)

Malice

Sacrifice some of your health to launch blood shards that apply a stack of Malice. Each stack slows the victim and increases the damage they take from you. The slow effect decreases over time.

Cooldown:

6.25s

Health To Damage: 32 (x0.7)

Blood Shards: 3

Max Stacks: 5

Damage Amplification: 15%

Move Slow: 20%

Debuff Duration: 16s

Slow Duration: 6s

1 • -2.75s Cooldown

2 • +40 Health To Damage

5 • +6 Blood Shards

Soul Exchange

Swaps health levels with an enemy target. There is a minimum health percentage that enemies can be brought down to and a minimum amount of health received based on the victim's current health.

Range:

7m

Duration:

0.2s

Cooldown:

170s

Enemy Min Health: 30%

Min Health Received: 30%

1 • -38s Cooldown

2 • -10% Enemy Min Health

5 • On cast, +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resist for 8s.

Background

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A FATE'S TALE:

Once, Lady Jeanne Geist was the toast of the town. But as time passed and her beauty faded she found herself further and further from her glory days in High Society until finally she was nothing more than a frail woman in a nursing home, telling stories of a glorious past. And that’s when Oathkeeper revealed himself. A powerful spirit from another plane, Oathkeeper offered her a path to reclaim her past glories… he could restore her youth; all she had to do was drain the essence of the living to sustain herself.

Geist was torn. Obviously murder was ghoulish business, and undoubtedly Oathkeeper was not an entity that could be trusted… but still, the thought of having a second chance of reliving her youth was too good to pass up. And so she concocted a plan; after making a pact with Oathkeeper she would bind and ward him, limiting his influence and pull over her. Oathkeeper would still get fed; but on her terms, not his.

However, as years have turned to decades; the strength of the Ward has weakened, and Oathkeeper hungers more than he ever has in the past...

Update history

Patch	Changes
Update: September 12, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Essence Bomb T3 Damage Increased: 22% → 26%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Essence Bomb Spirit scaling Increased: 1.05 → 1.15. - Fixed a recent bug with File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Malice That caused multiple blood shards to be absorbed by 1 hero rather than pass through and hit others (it didn't stack that way in any case). - Self damage no longer consumes shields (general change).
Update: August 16, 2024	- Fixed Lady Geist not being able to jump during File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Life Drain.
Update: August 15, 2024	- Improved effects around Lady Geist File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Soul Exchange To help with clarity.
Update: August 01, 2024	- Base sprint Reduced: 2 → 1.
Update: July 18, 2024	- Base bullet damage Reduced: 28 → 25. - Bullet damage growth Increased: 1.84 → 2.1. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Essence Bomb T2 Reduced: +70 → +60. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Essence Bomb T3 Increased: 20% → 22%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Life Drain Self slow Reduced: -40% → -25%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Soul Exchange Can be cast on enemies that are lower health. It will always steal a minimum of 30% of their current health.
Update: June 27, 2024	- Updated Lady Geist weapon sounds.
Update: June 20, 2024	- Fixed the unit target UI not showing up for instant-cast abilities (MoKrill ult, Lady Geist ult, Bebop bomb). - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Essence Bomb No longer starts decaying the arm time while in the air. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Essence Bomb Arm time Reduced: 1s → 0.5s (this is a nerf for long distance bombs). - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Soul Exchange T3 Changed: After swap gain +40% Fire Rate and +40% Spirit Resistance for 8s.
Update: May 30, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Soul Exchange Cast time Reduced: 0.5 → 0.2.
Update: May 23, 2024	- Improved visibility of Lady Geist’s bullet and travel path. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Soul Exchange Cast time Reduced: 0.65s → 0.5s. - Fixed File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Malice Clipping aggressively against map geometry edges.
Update: May 16, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Soul Exchange Now uses a new instant cast mechanism. When you are in range there is a valid target indicator.
Update: May 10, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Malice Now comes out quicker and no longer slows you.
Update: May 03, 2024	- Blood Bomb Damage Increased: 80 → 100. - Blood Bomb T2 Damage Increased: +65 → +70. - Blood Bomb Tooltip fixed to reference the correct self damage type and that it can be reduced with armor. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Malice Damage amp per shard Increased: 10% → 15%.

Trivia

• Lady Geist seems to be the only left-handed hero in the roster, shooting her weapon with her left hand. Although this may be because of her ethereal-looking right arm.
• In the game files Lady Geist is referred to as Ghost. Likely an early development build name.