Sensory Overload

Sensory Overload (Weapon) locks the cat into its weapon slot and nothing else. The cat's senses fixate so hard on whatever weapon it is holding that it cannot tolerate anything else touching its body; head, face, neck, and trinket slots all become unusable. Players most commonly see this variant arrive through the Monkey Paw event's "An immensely powerful item" wish when the paw materializes a weapon, after which the cat sheds every other piece of gear to focus on the new toy.

In practice this is one of the most painful gear restrictions in the game, because armor, trinkets, and collars account for a huge amount of a cat's survivability, stat bonuses, and utility. Without face or head armor the cat takes far more damage, without a trinket it loses whatever passive carried its build, and without neck gear it loses spell support. The upside is that the one weapon the cat wears can be extraordinary, and stacking weapon-scaling abilities on a single fist-fighter or gunslinger can still produce a surprisingly dangerous unit. Weapon-buffing passives and support spells from allies go a long way toward keeping the cat alive.

Sensory Overload (Weapon) is heritable, so it can cross into the breeding pool, and it can also be applied with a Disorder Syringe from the Organ Grinder or be inflicted by the Monkey Paw. Because the disorder essentially redefines how the cat is built, decide quickly whether to commit to a weapon-only specialist or cure the disorder at your next opportunity. On a cat without a plan, Sensory Overload (Weapon) is one of the fastest ways to fall behind the curve; on a cat with a legendary weapon and the right class kit, it can become the core of a surprisingly tuned build.