Mental Mantle

Mental Mantle is a consumable trinket that deals incremental direct damage to a chosen enemy whenever a set number of pegs are activated. It triggers repeatedly during a single shot: each time the configured activation count is reached, Mental Mantle immediately deals 1 damage to the targeted enemy. The effect applies during peg resolution for the shot that activated it and does not require additional player input once selected.

Mental Mantle scales by counting peg activations rather than total pegs hit or remaining pegs. For example, if the Mantle's threshold is N, then every time N pegs are activated (cumulatively within that shot), the Mantle produces one tick of 1 damage; if the shot activates 2N pegs, it deals 2 damage, and so on. The damage is applied instantly at each threshold, which can interact with enemy mechanics that trigger on damage or on-death effects mid-resolution.

Practical notes and usage:

• Mental Mantle is best paired with shots or builds that reliably activate many pegs in a single drop (burst peg multipliers, multi-bounce shots, or dense peg clusters) so the threshold is reached multiple times.
• Because damage is applied immediately when each threshold is met, Mental Mantle can contribute to finishing off enemies during peg resolution and can trigger effects that depend on damage occurring at specific moments.
• The trinket’s damage per threshold is fixed at 1, so stacking multiple sources that increase peg activations or lowering the threshold is the primary way to raise total damage output from Mental Mantle.
• Mental Mantle targets a single chosen enemy each shot; its ticks all apply to that target rather than being distributed among multiple enemies.