Flicker Strike

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percept707 wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Dispater wrote:

Using FS as a main attack was a fun and unique way to play and build your character. I hope that cooldown-less FS will make a return in some form :P

The cooldown can be bypassed with frenzy charges. With a little effort a player can barely ever be restricted by the cooldown.

Since the last admin response was 4 years ago I know this won't get any feedback but here goes anyways.

Having a cooldown on the ability is imo no longer needed. If you don't use another frenzy charge generator besides blood rage you cannot maintain consistently UNLESS you use a Terminus or a Oro's Sacrifice. This is imo a pointless barrier and adds a non needed challenge when designing your flicker build.

I've played a lot of flicker lately. I've done both Oro's and Terminus, as well as dual wield swords and daggers, thanks to The Green Nightmare.

The problem is that if you decide to go Terminus you can do all content except for bosses, with just Flicker. You can also use cwdt-blade vortex but it's not 100% uptime on all bosses.

With Oro's you CAN have 100% uptime because you can use Resolute Tech and always hit, to always apply a burn AND you can get 3 frenzy charges from 1 multistrike. This makes Oro's the best and without a doubt most consistent build to play. Completely towers over all else.

Then you have dual wield, which I personally love and think is the best build path, but without a doubt the most expensive AND the most inconsistent. With blood rage and green nightmare I never run out of charges while clearing. On bosses I have to use Frenzy in order to be able to get frenzy charges, so I can continue to flicker. There are plenty of times where I have died because I was using frenzy and got hit hard, followed by more hits that I couldn't leech through. This almost never ever happens with Terminus and 100% does not happen with Oro's.

So you take this ridiculous requirement to design a build and compare it to say Sunder, or Cyclone, or hell even Frost Blades and realize they can pump out not only more damage, but the damage is never going to stop due to some requirement built into their skill and you start to realize the only players that play Flicker Strike are those that love how the skill functions, even with it's blatant yet obscure drawbacks.

I know you guys need to make money and are pumping out new content and fixing bugs, but a lot of the old skill gems need some facelifts. Screw the concept of "that's what makes it unique." It makes the skill harder to use and unappealing.

Some other points:

-With multistrike allow me to focus down my main target with all 3 hits. No more jumping around until the selected target is dead. It's silly and adds to the ridiculous amounts of chaos and inconsistencies with the skill. Boss fights are a great example. I want to kill the boss, not its adds. If I wanted to kill the adds I could just target the ground and ride the lightning.
-Desync obviously. You guys have done an amazing job improving it but desync is still very noticable with flicker.
-Make it so if your cursor is out of LOS of your enemy, you will still flicker to a enemy near you. It's so frustrating stopping right behind a box and selecting an enemy that breaks the los to you on the otherside and getting rekt.

If you read this, thank you for reading. I'll check back every year to see if this post has gotten a response.

Patch 3.0