Gesture of the Drowned

The  is a lunar item in Risk of Rain 2.

The first Gesture of the Drowned reduces the holder's equipment cooldown by half, but activates it as soon as it is ready.

Subsequent Gestures reduce equipment cooldown by 15% each, the same amount as a.

Math
The equipment cooldown is determined by the formula


 * If the player has any, add that amount to the amount of Gestures of the Drowned (as long as the player has at least one Gesture).

Interactions

 * Only active equipment will be activated by this item. The secondary equipment will not be used until it is swapped to via . This can be exploited to avoid the automatic activation for certain items, such as the.


 * will not fire unless it has a target.
 * If multiple charges are stored with, all charges will be rapidly used back-to-back when a target is acquired.


 * will be always active, making it virtually impossible to buy anything, since all gold gained will be spent almost immediately.


 * In conjunction with enough Fuel Cells and/or additional Gestures (or and enough kills before the effect expires), it is possible to keep certain item or equipment buffs active continuously.
 * This includes, , , , , (for interactables within range), ,  (multiple uses stack),  (multiple uses stack), , and  (since the effect will never end, the player will never be afflicted with Tonic Afflictions, until they swap equipment).

Version History

 * Anniversary Update
 * Major Content
 * Added New Lore Entry: Gesture of the Drowned
 * Quality of Life
 * Update visuals to match other assets


 * Early Access Scorched Acres Content Update
 * Gameplay Changes
 * Cooldown Reduction: 50%(+50% per stack) ⇒ 50% (+15% per stack)
 * GoTD, unlike most other Lunar items, doesn’t have stacking drawbacks, and should therefore stack more like a Tier 2 in power.
 * Bug Fixes
 * Fix equipment targets not being updated at the moment of firing (i.e not being able to select targets with Gesture)


 * Early Access Patch (Build ID No.3830295)
 * Bug Fixes
 * Picking up new equipment with Gesture of the Drowned no longer fires every frame

Trivia

 * The item being a nautilus shell and the item's title containing "Drowned" could possibly be a reference to a challenge from the original Risk of Rain, "Sleepin' With The..." in which the player had to kill 20 Whorls by drowning them. Additionally, to "drown" the Whorls, the player needed to knock them off of cliffs. The unlock requirement for this item requires the player to do the same to 20 Hermit Crabs, another shelled creature.