Improved Burst

Improved Burst
Cost		3,500
Tier		3
Shop Bonus		+12 Spirit Power
COMPONENTS: Mystic Burst
+100 Spirit Shield Health
+8% Weapon Damage
Passive
Abilities deal bonus Spirit Damage if they deal 175 damage or more in a single hit. Targets are immune to the effects of Improved Burst for 5s after taking damage from it. +8% Max Health Bonus Damage (Conditional)

Improved Burst is a Tier 3 Spirit Item which grants Spirit Shield Health and Weapon Damage to the purchasing hero.

It has a passive which causes additional Spirit Damage to enemies who receive a single instance of ability spirit damage above a certain threshold from the purchasing hero.

It can be purchased from the Shop for  3,500 (its Component, Mystic Burst, makes up  500 of the cost).

Notes

• Some forms of Spirit Amp applied by items count as separate damage instances and thus don't contribute to the single hit such as Escalating Exposure.
• When the target is hit with spirit damage, the damage value which is compared against the triggering threshold is the base damage value prior to any increases or decreases from damage amp, damage reduction, spirit resistance, and spirit resistance reduction.
  • Damage amp and spirit resist reduction will not help you in achieving the damage threshold to trigger the passive.
  • Damage reduction and the target's spirit resistance will not prevent the passive from triggering when it otherwise would.
• Interaction with spirit shields: The triggering of the additional damage is entirely unaffected by the target's spirit shields (or lack thereof).
• The additional damage, and the ability which triggered the additional damage, are applied to the target as separate instances of damage. The additional damage from Improved Burst is dealt after the original spell damage. This has implications for abilities or effects that rely on single instances of damage, for example:
  • Vindicta uses assassinate on an enemy Warden. The baseline Assassinate on its own is not enough damage to kill the Warden, but the increased damage (due to the additional damage from triggering Improved Burst) is enough to secure the kill. Since the additional damage from triggering Improved Burst is applied after the Assassinate, it is technically the item's damage which secures the kill, not the Assassinate. Thus, Vindicta will not receive bonus souls from Assassinate's passive.

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• Lady Geist
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Update history

Main article: Update history

Update	Changes
November 7, 2024	Now triggers on your base damage, rather than how much the target receives. Max HP damage reduced from 9% to 8%.
November 1, 2024	Damage threshold requirement reduced from 200 to 175.
October 24, 2024	Max HP Damage increased from 7% to 9%. Damage threshold requirement increased from 125 to 200.