Hey Dungeoneers,
The next Shattered Pixel Dungeon update will include a new trinket! It's a simpler one this time, with more of a cute aesthetic. It's a little reference to a favorite ferret.
The Ferret Tuft boosts evasion for all characters, including both allies and enemies! That might sound like a mixed bag, but keep in mind that there are lots of ways to counter enemy evasion: magic, most ability attacks, surprise attacks, etc. You'll need to make more use of these than usual to benefit from the trinket, but the extra defensive power can be well worth it.
(Image Description: An image showing the item info window for the new Ferret Tuft item. It reads: "Ferret Tuft +3: A tuft of silky white ferret fur, held together by a lime green ribbon tied into a bow. Ferrets are known for their agility, mischievousness, and lack of integrity. Some of that power seems to radiate from the trinket, enhancing the evasion of anything nearby. At its current level this trinket will increase the evasion of all characters by 60%.")
The rare enemies and trinket look great so far! Can we temporarily cancel this effect by throwing it away from the bag? I think that's extremely important to make this trinket usable, as wand charges are finite. And does the evasion boost work multiplicatively and stacks with ring of evasion, rogue freerunner evasion boost, etc?
Looks like this trinket will benefit a lot for mage, cleric, rogue cloak + evasion, and duelist's many guaranteed hits. Unfortunately warrior doesn't benefit as much from this trinket compared to the others.
Currently the evasion boost does stack muliplicatively, although I do reserve the right to change that to additive in the future (code for evasion/acc boosts is starting to need a refactor anyway)
Yes it will be possible to drop the trinket, although juggling items is generally not a strategy that I want to encourage. If it becomes a common strat I will likely implement a cooldown so that the evasion boost still applies for a bit after dropping.
I see! I think this trinket in particular needs to be juggled like Newt Eye, it's a playstyle I personally love. Mage, Cleric, and Duelist have plenty of guaranteed hits and they won't need to juggle as much, but I feel the other 3 classes will find it very hard to use this, wands/doors etc can only be used so much against multiple enemies. A "defensive playstyle for all entities" effect is generally more advantageous to dungeon enemies, as they tend to summon etc and overwhelm. It's dangerous and I'd probably only use this trinket if I can juggle! It's very nice if the evasion boost stack multiplicatively for evasion builds