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Killer Instinct is a brutality-scaling mutation which reduces the cooldown of skills when killing an enemy with a melee weapon.

Details[]

  • Scroll Cap: 25
  • Special Effects:
    • Each enemy killed with melee attacks reduces the cooldown of Skills. Enemies killed by projectiles or status effects do not activate the cooldown reduction.
  • Scaling: 0.4 + 0.11 × (stat - 1) seconds
Number of stats 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25+ ...
Mutation effect 0.4s 0.51s 0.62s 0.73s 0.84s 0.95s 1.1s 1.2s 1.3s 1.4s 1.5s 1.6s 1.7s 1.8s 1.9s 2.1s 2.2s 2.3s 2.4s 2.5s 2.6s 2.7s 2.8s 2.9s 3s ...

Notes[]

  • Only activates when an enemy dies to a melee attack.

History[]

  • 1.1: Introduced.
Mutations
Brutality
Killer Instinct'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Vengeance'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Melee'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Sadismremoved'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Open Wounds'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Tainted Flask'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Adrenaline'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Frenzy'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Scheme'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Fireworks Technicianremoved'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Initiative'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Predator'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000001-QINU`"'• Porcupack
Tactics
Support'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Parting Gift'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Tranquility'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Ripper'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Ranger's Gear'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Barbed Tips'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Point Blank'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Efficiencyremoved'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Networking'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Crow's Foot'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Tactical Retreat'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Hunter's Instinct'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000003-QINU`"'• Acrobatipack
Survival
Soldier's Resistance'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Berserker'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Blind Faith'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Counterattack'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• What Doesn't Kill Me'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Necromancy'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Extended Healing'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Gastronomy'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Spite'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Heart of Ice'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Kill Rhythm'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000005-QINU`"'• Armadillopack
Colorless
Ygdar Orus Li Ox'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Recovery'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Emergency Triage'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Velocity'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Dead Inside'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Alienation'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Acceptance'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Masochist'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Disengagement'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• No Mercy'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Instinct of the Master of Arms'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Ammo'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Gold Plating'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Get Rich Quick'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Midas' Blood'"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000007-QINU`"'• Wish
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