New blue item: Radiator

As we know, whenever you fire a weapon there is a built-in cooldown before you can fire any weapon again. It's like... 2 seconds or so I think? 2.5 seconds maybe?

Proposing a new blue item, the Radiator, which reduces this cooldown and enables faster comboing.Would be an especially good item for Shooters, maybe even good enough to break the dominance of the few blue items that we see 99% of Shooters using.

Disclaimer: I don't currently play a Shooter. (But I have been annoyed by that cooldown like 10,000+ times.)

 

flaregunBOOMcya
Would be my motto.

 

Yeah I can see how it would be good for a speeder too but there would no doubt be some kind of minimum cooldown still just like for example there is a max speed.

 

So not weapon cooldowns, but the cooldown between shots. I like the idea and the name is perfect. Just be sure you consider 3 standard cannons would then act like a machine gun.

 

Nope

 

yes sometimes iw ant to shoot out my torpedo after my mortar just to to hit the enemy ship when he is frozen but the cooldown between weapons is too large

 

then give it a cool down too like the echo sabre from dota 2

 

anything to nerf it a bit

 

It's not at all like the echo sabre, unless every item in every game that reduces cooldown is like the echo sabre. And echo sabre isn't really a proper CD item, it's a more like a special ability item. It gives you a temp buff that you can run around with waiting to use.

I'm not sure why it needs a nerf when it hasn't even been implemented lol... as I said there would probably be some kind of hard minimum cooldown.

 

Maybe the radiator item has a long cooldown itself like 15 seconds or longer

 

I find this just a one more way to make op shooters even more op. Think about it, monster shooters shooting rapid fire to you (it would be as 1-1,5sec cooldown wouldn't be enough to stop them shooting as it is about the time it takes to change a weapon) so this would just create a problem and a topic to complain. If this would be 2 slot point item, it would not be widely used as big shield is something you simply can't drop out so easily in big leagues.

- No thanks

(Don't take it personally, it sounds great but simply would be too powerful as shooters already are big hp, quite fast and they would probably just trade bandage/std shield for radiator)

 

what if you change the radiator to all weapons fire at once but you will experience longer cool down? lol

 

Tier 5 legendary of one of these and BOOM,
shooters with 5 standard cannons just keep spamming
nice idea BTW

 

That would make even more people use the shoiter

 

I have a suggestion.
Radiator will lower the global cooldown but for this item cooldown will be directly proportional to no. Of red slots. So more the Red Slot , More the cooldown(it still be less then normal cooldown).
So it won't overpower Shooter but will be quite effective on Ships with less Red Slots.
Also i suggest put Radiator in violet item category along with gear lube and rudder.

 

Don't you mean the more red slots, the less cool down reduction

 

Yes..thats what i mean...
More The Red Slot, Less Effective The Radiator

 

To everyone saying it is op, you realise you have to give up a blue item for it, right?

Anyway, I love the idea but one question I have is how upgrading this would work? 2.5 seconds is a very small number to work with when we're talking reductions. Even if a t5 legendary reduced global cooldown by 1.5 seconds (1s global cooldown) the difference between level 40 and 50 would be so miniscule that it'd likely be unnoticeable. The only way this would work as an upgradeable item is if it also affected the actual cooldowns of items as well, and I'm talking tiny reductions, like at best, legendary 50, it should reduce all cooldowns by like 15%, including global cooldown.

Another idea would be to add global perks that can be applied to any usable item which reduces its global cooldown by 0.1/0.2/0.3 seconds (4 epic perks on 1 item reduces global cooldown to 1.3 seconds, but only after using that item). Perks are not upgradeable so this is much easier to work with, and while it sounds OP to have a 1.3s global cooldown, the strength of an item is very dependent on its perks so you'd be giving up quite a bit of power for it. I'd definitely slap these on items like flare guns, frost items, and generally any other combo item.