Gopher Gold

Gopher Gold is a trinket that changes how orbs behave when fired: every shot gains additional Multiball layers while simultaneously reducing the damage each orb deals. It appears as an effect that modifies orb stats and is applied to all orbs the player launches.

When equipped, each orb receives +{[NEW_MATRY_MULTIBALL]} Multiball. This causes an orb to split into additional projectiles upon firing, increasing the number of contacts and chances to trigger on-hit effects or hit multiple enemies. To balance that increase in quantity, each orb’s damage is reduced by {[NEW_MATRY_REG_DMG]} to regular hit damage and {[NEW_MATRY_CRIT_DMG]} to critical hit damage.

• Multiball stacks directly onto each orb at the moment of firing; effects that scale with the number of projectiles (area coverage, status applications, on-hit procs) benefit from this increase.
• Because damage per orb is lowered, Gopher Gold favors builds that rely on many hits, status stacking, or effects triggered per projectile rather than single high-damage strikes. It pairs well with passives or relics that buff on-hit triggers, apply crowd-control, or scale with hit count.
• Avoid combining Gopher Gold with items that require high single-orb damage (armor-piercing, single-target burst modifiers), since the reduced per-orb damage undermines those synergies.
• Positioning and angles become more valuable: the extra projectiles make it easier to hit multiple targets or cover wide hitboxes, so use shots that maximize spread to exploit the increased projectile count.
• Interactions that alter Multiball (other sources of splits or mirrors) stack additively with this effect and can create very large numbers of projectiles; monitor performance and collision behavior when combined.

Gopher Gold is best used in runs that emphasize many small hits, crowd control, or procs-per-hit strategies rather than pure single-target DPS.