Boots of Bloodthirst
“ | Wearing these creepy boots fills you with a lust for carnage stronger than your body can handle! | ” |
Boots of Bloodthirst are shoes that provide an extraordinary ASPD and CSPD boost, but come with a debilitating HP drain.
The shoes can be obtained from northern Pumpkin Woods, which can be accessed using Super Fertilizer on the sprout in western Woods. On the left side of the level, there will be a demon that will drain your HP if you grab the health orb. Enduring the damage will calm the demon and make them grant you the boots.
Effect
Upon using a Basic Attack or casting a skill, the user is inflicted with a 6% MaxHP/s (capped at a minimum 60 HP/s) drain for 3 seconds. Successive attacks and skills will refresh the duration, but the minimal drain (for one single attack) will total 18% MaxHP (or at least 180 HP).
Due to the minimal drain of 60 HP/s, this effect will empty the HP bar much faster on low max health characters.
The drain inflicted by the effect is nonlethal - it will not damage the user below 1 HP.
Utility skills, and some skills such as Berserker Style, Shadow Clone, Frosty Friend, and Cloud Strike will not trigger the HP drain.
Tips
- Since the HP drained per frame is rounded down and capped to a minimum of 1 HP / frame, it will actually take at least 2000 Max HP to experience a drain higher than 1 HP / frame.
- Save this item for when you have a high amount of Max HP, as at any point below that, the draining effect will be stronger percentage-wise due to the minimum drain of 60 HP / second.
- This item is extremely dangerous to use during Boss fights, as it will quickly reduce you to 1 HP before you can deal any significant damage. Consider using this item to accelerate grinding instead, as healing is easy to come by there
- The HP drain doesn't affect Barrier. You can use it to survive a few hits while being at the nonlethal limit