The Ibistick

Mysterious Artifact is a piece of Epic (4-star) gear that can be evolved into a Legendary (5-star) gear, The Ibistick. The unevolved form can be earned by ranking top 5% in Online Battle seasons.

Effects

 * The Ibistick.PNG% - 30% DAMAGE BOOST to special 1
 * 10% - 30% DAMAGE BOOST to special 2
 * 10% - 20% POWER GENERATION increase
 * [EVOLVED] 5% - 10% damage DOT added on special

Mechanics
The DOT is based on your opponent's maximum health, regardless of tapping/swiping, blocking, or anything else. When freshly evolved using a special (not super) burns 1% of enemy maximum health every second for 5 seconds. The burning damage is not affected by Catwoman/Batman Returns, or any other damage boost other than bleed (+20% per stack of bleed), but the burning will trigger silver and bronze Catwoman's passives.

The burn will be applied to the opponent present at the end of the special, even if they haven't actually been hit by the special. This means you can knock out an opponent with the last hit and still burn the next opponent that tags in.

Harley Quinn's special 2, regardless of which item you pick, will apply the burning as normal. However, Aquaman/Prime's Atlantean Hero will not apply burning on use.

If you use Harley's s2 while your opponent is already burning, the damage over time will be converted to deal yellow (special) damage (normal burns are unaffected and will continue to deal white damage). Additionally, as it is possible to block during enemy Harley's s2, Static will gain power as if he blocked an s2 (1 full bar of power) and Wonder Woman/Regime will gain a small amount of power for every hit of the damage over time she "blocked" despite that damage is not actually reduced.

Strategy
The Ibistick is an unorthodox piece of gear that supports multiple playstyles, unlike, for example The Batmobile that has a very narrow purpose.

The Ibistick grants a very powerful special damage boost; +30% to both specials when most 3/4-star gear grants only +18% to special 1 or 2. On the other hand, the burn damage over time is useful in that it grants any support character a means to deal damage based on enemy strength rather than their (lacking) own. As this is affected by bleed, this is especially noticeable on Aquaman or Catwoman, allowing them to shred a much stronger opponent surprisingly quickly.