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| Cost |  3,500
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| Tier | 3 | ||
| +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. | |||
Upgrades From: Mystic Burst
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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.
Notes
- In order to trigger the additional damage, the triggering spirit damage must exceed the threshold after damage reduction calculations, including spirit armor and damage reductions (e.g. from Inhibitor).
- Interaction with spirit shields: The additional damage will only trigger if the initial spell deals more than the threshold amount to the targets health, not including any shields. If the target's shield absorbs the full amount of the initial spell's damage, the additional damage will not trigger.
- 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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Update history
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View the full update history: Tankbuster/Update history
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Weapon
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Alchemical Fire • 
Ballistic Enchantment • 
Berserker • 
Blood Tribute • 
Burst Fire • 
Cultist Sacrifice • 
Escalating Resilience • 
Express Shot • 
Headhunter • 
Heroic Aura • 
Hollow Point • 
Hunter's Aura • 
Point Blank • 
Shadow Weave • 
Sharpshooter • 
Spirit Rend • 
Tesla Bullets • 
Toxic Bullets • 
Weighted Shots 6400
Vitality
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1600
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6400
Cheat Death • 
Colossus • 
Divine Barrier • 
Diviner's Kevlar • 
Healing Tempo • 
Indomitable • 
Infuser • 
Inhibitor • 
Juggernaut • 
Leech • 
Phantom Strike • 
Plated Armor • 
Siphon Bullets • 
Spellbreaker • 
Unstoppable • 
Vampiric Burst • 
Witchmail
Spirit
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