I

Extra Regen

just a lot of regen in lane. Good for brawlers/fighters like shiv

I

Extra Charge

one more knife. You don't need to upgrade this unless you want to commit to knife build. Sell for slots

II

Active

Cold Front

Good early flat damage, wave clear, and slow. Usually want to sell later for better items.

II

Improved Spirit

just a lot of spirit for spike

I

Imbue [E]

Mystic Expansion

trying out for dash, feels nice. Can buy whatever else if you don't want to ball.

II

Healbane

Anti heal and heal on kill. Good for most of the game, but sell late when out of slots.

II

Enchanter's Emblem

great stats now, we get around 30% spirit res with our other items. Sell for spirit res later if out of slots

II

Active

Restorative Locket

spirit res, heal, and restores stam. should be good in general

III

Torment Pulse

Always good if you can stay close or vs melee/close range heroes. Can replace with with whatever other tempo item you need

III

Active

Warp Stone

Chase/disengage tool. Could maybe skip or replace if you're really confident in your M2 movement

I

Active

Healing Rite

you kinda just want to survive until decay spike, this lets us do so while running boxes as well.

II

Imbue [E]

Compress Cooldown

To enable dash resets, buy when you max dash

III

Bullet Resilience

default item for gun damage, or look at metal skin vs haze/silver/ven. Warp is also an option here

III

Greater Expansion

Gives more spirit res and makes dash and ult very strong. Also buffs all items. Can just buy something else if you want

III

Superior Cooldown

dash resets, knives, and bloodletting uptime.

IV

Imbue [E]

Mystic Reverb

This transitions us to a dash build, healing us and slowing to help the echo dash hit. Great value if you're hitting multiple dash resets.

III

Spirit Resilience

Don't need to rush this early since hp will be lower and you get a good amount of resist from your other items already. Sell enchanters for this

III

Active

Dispel Magic

Almost a core item now with all the debuff slop around (slow hexes, silence waves, decays, haze, mirage, infern, etc.).

III

Counterspell

op if you remember to use it, blocks cc, any ability, including ults if you're locked in. Good for mid contest. MUST BUY INTO POCKET ULT.

II

Reactive Barrier

Really strong if there's cc that will proc it every fight.

II

Debuff Reducer

debuff resist/cc reduction, good against pocket, mo, infern. Builds into spellbreak/unstoppable

IV

Active

Unstoppable

anti cc, also good for punching rejuv crystal

IV

Transcendent Cooldown

uptime for actives and more torment procs.

IV

Plated Armor

buy for heroes who do damage through on hit effects, (infern, mina, mirage, haze, wraith, etc.) or item bullet procs (tesla, toxic, lucky shot, inhibitor)

IV

Witchmail

great for dashing and tanking with more bloodletting uptime.

IV

Boundless Spirit

Big damage amp for abilities + items. Good if slot locked.

IV

Active

Infuser

Good option for dashing but has less uptime than reverb and takes an active slot. probably good though

IV

Spellbreaker

if spirit burst is still a problem. Gives debuff resist

IV

Active

Ethereal Shift

just makes you really hard to kill and clears your deferred damage

IV

Active

Divine Barrier

Better debuff remover, get super late or if pocket is a big problem/

IV

Active

Arctic Blast

good damage and cc to confirm echo dash if you want to upgrade cold front, but the other items in this section are just better most of the time.

IV

Active

Phantom Strike

To engage on easy targets

III

Active

Silence Wave

This item is still very strong. The silence is really valuable and this does flat damage for rage that can also be amped if you already have rage.

III

Active

Decay

Rage generation, scales well, and easy to use. Scaling got nerfed by ~27% but it's still really good if you struggle with building rage.

III

Rapid Recharge

+1 knife and a bit of cooldown. Good if you want to commit to knife build or if they don't buy dispel

III

Radiant Regeneration

The Dark Lord.

III

Tankbuster

Much better option now with health buffed.

III

Imbue [E]

Surge of Power

could be good, dash has good scaling, move speed is always good, fire rate synergizes well with hybrid.

II

Imbue [E]

Duration Extender

Gives one extra tick for knives, not bad but T3's just offer more value with better slot efficiency

III

Superior Duration

Works on literally everything on shiv, making you do more damage and tankier since it buffs bloodletting. Also buffs all items.

II

Mystic Vulnerability

decent sub for cold front or inproved spirit if you value the shred and resist this gives

IV

Escalating Exposure

Good shred and damage amp to help knives scale into the late game if you want to stick with knife build. Also good for dashing.

II

Suppressor

idk, item is good

I

Spirit Strike

not bad to hit early investments

I

Rebuttal

burgerbox

I

Extra Health

lot of hp for 800 souls, can buy in lane if needed

II

Active

Return Fire

very good early for strong gun heroes if you need to counter them, sell for resists later

II

Battle Vest

cheap bullet res

II

Spirit Lifesteal

Can buy if you want the early sustain instead of resto locket

II

Healing Booster

could be good with radiant now that it works with bloodletting

III

Active

Metal Skin

for burst gun heroes like haze, silver, maybe venator

III

Fortitude

Still fine but there are better options. You get good sustain anyway from heal troopers