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Battery is a straightforward tempo booster: increasing Attack Speed by 8% helps more hits land in the same window, which benefits sustained-fire weapons and “on-hit” effects. Attack Speed doesn’t alter raw damage per hit; it raises your damage throughput by letting your weapons act more frequently.
Attack Speed scales especially well once your area coverage and projectile count are adequate—then speeding up delivery yields visible gains.
Raise Cooldown Tome to Level 5. Once reached, Battery enters your item pool for future runs.
Effect (+8% Attack Speed) and unlock (Cooldown Tome Lv. 5) corroborated by multiple independent sources.
These rapid or chain-hit weapons tend to showcase Attack Speed gains particularly well:
Frequent projectiles benefit from tighter firing intervals.
Stuns/chain hits feel stronger with faster procs.
Boomerang style benefits from more casts per window.