Gell's gravitambourine
| Type | Miscellaneous item |
|---|---|
| Name | gell's gravitambourine |
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| A copper and tungsten tambourine that vibrates excitedly in your hands, as if eager to be used.
Just as music brings people together, shaking it with the proper rhythm will draw a large group of monsters into a narrow space and hold any hostile ones in place for a short time with inescapable waves of crushing gravity. The area of effect and duration increases with Evocations skill. |
A gell's gravitambourine is smite-targeted in a large radius, which scales with Evocations, and tries to pull every monster in that radius into as small an area as possible, then holds non-friendly ones in place there for several turns, as well as dealing some immediate (non-collision-based) damage to them.
This item is mutually exclusive with the phial of floods. Like with other miscellaneous evocables, only 1 gravitambourine (or phial of floods) will spawn in a given game.
Useful Info
The radius of the gravitambourine's effect increases with Evocations skill, as well as its collision damage. The radius starts at 2, increasing to radius 3 above 9.5 Evocations, and radius 4 above 23.2 Evocations.
Strategy
Its damage may be rather mediocre, but Gell's gravitambourine is a powerful escape evoker, particularly at moderate to high Evocations, as it can be used to reliably remove monsters from melee range and hold them away from you for several turns, while you can dispatch them from a distance or escape.
If you are surrounded by monsters near a staircase, you can activate this item before taking the stairs to guarantee that enemies won't follow you to the other floor.
History
- Added in 0.32. Alternates with the phial of floods.
