Glowing Meteorite

The  is a returning equipment in Risk of Rain 2.

When activated, the world darkens for 20 seconds and "meteors" rain down across the map, hurting all characters indiscriminately. Glowing blue rings indicate where the meteors will strike, giving players a chance to navigate through them safely (although the random nature of the strikes means that damage is sometimes unavoidable).

Each meteorite deals 600% damage to both players and monsters with a proc coefficient of 1.0, suffering from linear damage falloff.

Tips

 * makes her jumps much more floaty than other characters', making dodging meteor strikes easier; a full-height jump followed by a hover can easily avoid most meteor strikes that don't land directly on top of her.
 * For extra security, Artificer can use to fly high above the ground, allowing her to rain down destruction with impunity.
 * The can help the player dodge meteor strikes and recover any HP they may have lost. This becomes especially effective when stacking the Strides, enabling the player to spend large amounts of time invulnerable while the meteors fall.
 * The is particularly effective at recharging the Glowing Meteorite's cooldown, as any kill scored by the meteors will instantly reduce its cooldown. Given the high damage of the meteors and the fact that they attack all across the map, just a single use of the Glowing Meteorite will be almost sure to score several kills.
 * If the player is confident in their ability to navigate the meteors, giving the Glowing Meteorite to an can devastate enemies easily. Due to the Equipment Drone's large cooldown reduction, it will automatically use the Meteorite approximately every 28 seconds. This strategy becomes progressively more dangerous as the run goes on, however, since Equipment Drones use the ambient run level and not the player's level.
 * For reference, an Equipment Drone has the same base damage stat as a, and each meteor strike inflicts more damage than a single Brass Contraption spike ball (600% versus 500%). In long runs, dying to the Equipment Drone becomes a very real possibility as its stats increase.

Version History

 * Early Access Content Update 5
 * Major Content
 * Added New Item Lore Entry:

Trivia

 * The Glowing Meteorite is (currently) the only returning equipment from Risk of Rain 1 that was changed from a regular equipment to a lunar equipment.
 * Using this equipment in multiplayer can be detrimental to other players without movement options, especially on smaller environments.