Gell's gravitambourine

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.

It can hold up to 2 charges.

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, even if they're constricting you, 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.

Scrolls of immolation synergize particularly well with this item, as enemies will be brought into a dense cluster and subsequently explode each other. Scrolls of poison also work well, especially against monsters that have no ranged attacks.

History

• Added in 0.32, replacing the spell Gell's Gravitas. Alternates with the phial of floods.