Overview
- Orbital Strike is an Uplink Device type trinket activated by the Player Character to support them in combat by dealing a large amount of damage to a targeted enemy and all other enemies in that target's vicinity. Lair System access is necessary to use these trinkets, to initialize them via the Base Mainframe, and to obtain them from the Base Dispenser. Some trinkets are awarded from Events or Story Arcs content.
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Uplink Device · trinket · Player Character · Lair System · Base · Mainframe · Dispenser · Events · Story ArcsObtained from
- Base Dispenser
Details
- Level 1 - Calls down an Orbital Strike that deals damage to your target and nearby enemies.
- Level 2 - Calls down an Orbital Strike that deals increased damage to your target and nearby enemies.
- Level 3 - Calls down an Orbital Strike that deals massive damage to your target and nearby enemies.
Elite Uplink Device
- Various Elite Uplink Devices unleash unique versions of Orbital Strike with different mechanics. They are identified by the "Elite Uplink Device" in their names and are of Legendary rarity rather than Epic rarity.
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- For a comprehensive list of the various versions of this trinket, see the page:
- Uplink Device
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Uplink DeviceNotes
- 4 minutes cooldown.
- The Orbital Strike deals damage against all targets in a small radius, apparently based on a formula that uses the player's Combat Rating. This is further modified by a Damage Modifier specific to the Uplink Device. At 400 Combat Rating, using a basic Uplink Device, Boosted, deals 97047 damage per hit for five hits, or 485235 damage total.
- This damage is not reduced when hitting multiple opponents (always at full damage), has no randomization, and cannot crit (although visually it uses a white hitsplat same as weapon attacks). It is generally unaffected by damage boosts.
- Boost II additionally roots and stuns all targets hit (this triggers Ally: House of Legends Bot's passive effect).
- Orbital Strike can be aimed at a target or at the player's location. The maximum range is exactly the same range as when the targeting reticle on an opponent turns red instead of grey. If used outside of maximum range, it will be used at the player's location.
- The stun targeting is technically separate from the damage; if a mob outside of maximum range is targeted, the stun zone can occur around that mob, while the damage zone occurs around the player.
- A number of bosses, including Terra in Titans: H.I.V.E. Reborn and The Merciless in Metal Pt. I: False Idols, have mechanics that specifically counter Orbital Strikes, discouraging their use.
- Certain boss mechanics that reduce all damage taken will also further reduce damage from Orbital Strikes, like Deadly Isis in SoBA: Godseye Pyramid with all orbs, or Neron in SoBA: Neron's Underworld at the beginning of the battle.
- Orbital Strike can target targetable objects, subject to the same damage cap of regular attacks.
- The Dead King's Scepter artifact can be used to boost the effects of Orbital Strikes.
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Combat Rating · hitsplat · Ally: House of Legends Bot · Terra · Titans: H.I.V.E. Reborn · The Merciless · Metal Pt. I: False Idols · SoBA: Godseye Pyramid · SoBA: Neron's Underworld · Dead King's ScepterTrivia
- Previously, it deals damage against all targets in a small radius equal to a percentage of their maximum health (25% default, 35% Boost I, and 45% Boost II) in 5 hits over 2 seconds (or 5%, 7%, and 9% per hit), reduced for bosses. The smallest amount of damage an Orbital Strike can deal in one hit is 10. Targets with less than 200 maximum health are immune to its damage, but not Boost II's control effects. After the damage formula change, Orbital Strikes can now one-shot low level mobs.; Orange Lanterns in the open-world Christmas event, which normally reduces all damage taken to 1 and have 6 total health, can still be damaged by Orbital Strikes (at 1 damage).
- Previously, Sparring Targets in the Watchtower and League Halls take reduced damage, but not the Sparring Targets in House of Legends. The latter took 2160000 damage per hit at max rank, indicating that they have 240000000 (24 million) maximum health.
- There are many versions of the device. Once a unique device has been equipped, it becomes integrated and untradeable, and can be retrieved infinitely from the Base Dispenser like the regular version.
- There are many bosses with attacks that resemble an Orbital Strike of their theme, like Dawnbreaker, Darkfather, and Ultraviolet Nightmare. However, those attack do not use the same damage formula but rather often does massive or one-shot damage if not evaded.