I

Active

Healing Rite

Emotional Support Healing Rite. Buy when low.

I

Mystic Burst

+50% cloak damage in lane.

II

Active

Cold Front

Your fifth ability, use it often!

II

Spirit Shielding

Great into burst lanes like Mina, Yamato or Talon. Check alternatices below.

III

Torment Pulse

Gives us sustained damage for chasing down kills and incredibly fast jungle clear.

III

Stamina Mastery

More movement upgrades.

I

Imbue

Mystic Expansion

Makes hitting Affliction easy.

I

Rebuttal

If your lane is super punch heavy, especially vs Viscous if you can parry Puddle Punch.

II

Reactive Barrier

Great into stun lanes like Bebop, Abrams or Haze.

II

Healbane

Helps 1v1 sustain characters before our ult is levelled up. Sellable for Spirit Burn.

II

Weapon Shielding

Great into weapon spam lanes like Abrams, Billy, McGinnis. A little less versatile than the other barriers.

III

Greater Expansion

Extra range for those late-game teamfights.

II

Imbue

Compress Cooldown

More Affliction more often.

IV

Spirit Burn

Healing reduction and bonus damage over time. If you can proc this on multiple people, you will likely win the teamfight.

IV

Diviner's Kevlar

Massive barrier and spirit power for causing an impact in teamfights.

IV

Active

Arctic Blast

Stun people in close range to land your abilities and keep them in Alch Fire.

III

Tankbuster

True Spirit damage lets us deal with high resist heroes.

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

We usually get four actives so this gives us a ton of value.

I

Monster Rounds

Weapon investment and wave shove early.

II

Kinetic Dash

Extra stamina and solid fire rate boost.

III

Point Blank

Great for close-range sustained fights.

IV

Spellslinger

BANG BANG BANG BANG

II

Mystic Vulnerability

Easy to apply resist shred. 8% Spirit Resist is also useful.

III

Active

Alchemical Fire

Massive bullet resist reduction, also applies all our spirit damage debuffs . A real teamfight winner if played right.

IV

Escalating Exposure

Unlimited money late-game item, buy basically everything before this.

II

Active

Slowing Hex

Great for locking people down if they're able to escape us.

II

Suppressor

Surprisingly good base stats and a strong anti-gun item. Good if you're against a ton of fire rate characters.

III

Active

Disarming Hex

With gun appearing more and more, this stops them pressing their button.

IV

Active

Cursed Relic

Shut down a single target.

IV

Cheat Death

Good into heavy cc if you just need to Afflict, survive and get out. Sort of required against Mo / Dynamo.

IV

Plated Armor

Good against heavy on-hit teams.

IV

Spellbreaker

Big late game anti-burst item.

IV

Active

Unstoppable

For when you need to deal with late-game chaos.

IV

Active

Ethereal Shift

Strong invulnerability, especially with Torment Pulse.

I

Extra Stamina

Get moving!

II

Debuff Reducer

Good into small CCs or if you're upgrading into Unstoppable.

III

Active

Dispel Magic

Great into any heavy CC / Debuff team.

III

Active

Majestic Leap

Your main way of engaging, use it to stack Barrage and evaluate the fight. Still good after the nerfs.

III

Active

Warp Stone

Get out of there fast! Bullet Resist is also useful.