Ricochet (trait)

Pistol shots have a chance to bounce to an additional target. Pistol range is increased. — In-game description

Ricochet

Specialization

Trickery (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

5 Hero points

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Ricochet

Pistol shots have a chance to bounce to an additional target. Pistol range is increased.

 Trigger Chance: 50%

 Maximum Additional Bounces: 3

 Range Increase: 150

— In-game description

Related skills

Main hand pistol

•   Vital Shot
  •   Sneak Attack
•   Bola Shot

Dual wield - no offhand

•   Repeater

Dual wield - pistol offhand

•   Unload

Dual wield - dagger mainhand

•   Shadow Shot

Offhand pistol

•   Head Shot

Notes

• Prior to the removal of this historical trait, two tooltips appeared above Sneak Attack - both the traited and untraited tooltip versions.
• An animation showed bullets bouncing towards out of range enemies, these enemies were not however hit and this was purely cosmetic effect.
• Bullets can never hit the same target twice.
• Each of the 8 bullets shot by Unload have a 50% chance to bounce, meaning this skill can potentially hit up to 32 times if all of the bullets bounce the maximum of 3 times.
• Bullets apply skill effects with each bounce, such as bleeding from Vital Shot and daze from Head Shot.
• Each bounce has a separate chance to critically hit and trigger on-critical-hit effects.
• Shadow Shot gains 300 bonus range, not the stated 150.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: This trait has been removed from the game.
September 09, 2014	This trait now increases the range of all pistol skills by 150 in addition to giving bullets a chance to bounce to another target. Fixed an issue that caused tertiary bounces to travel a much shorter distance than intended. These will now travel the full distance.
June 25, 2013	The chance to bounce for this trait has been increased from 25% to 50%.
December 14, 2012	Increased bounce chance from 5% to 20%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ricochet has been added to the game.