Freeze on strongbox is bugged/flawed

I use blink arrow to move away from a strongbox when I open it. However when I encounter this:



blink arrow does not work as I am instantly frozen and can't move away. Thus any strongbox that has "freezes you when activated" I have to avoid. All other strongbox affects do not prevent blink arrow from working so it's a logic flaw to allow freeze to prevent blink arrow from working. This makes all freeze strongboxes un-openable as I'm evasion archer and must blink arrow or get mobbed to death.

Huh?

Does exactly what it tells it does. Use an anti-freeze flask, problem solved....?

ya, freeze flask or lightning warp, I use both on every character tbh. Make sure its a duration flask of some kind, a utility, not a mana or life flask.

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Freezes you WHEN ACTIVATED

Sorry, what exactly did you expect this mod will do?
You click the box - you're frozen. WHERE IS THE FLAW IN LOGIC you've mentioned?

Closed beta player who doesn't use anti-status flasks...
Other your threads made recently made me think: if it's still the original account creator or was it sold\given to someone else.
Because early posts and recent posts from the OP feels like it's 2 different people.

Or, maybe, you were so fed up with game that you've decided to spit out your frustration in an uncontrollable way...
Seriously, though, burnt out - move forward, stop torturing yourself with this game and other players by creating unhealthy atmosphere with the creation of such threads.

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HarukaTeno wrote:

Closed beta player who doesn't use anti-status flasks...

Could be a returning player. Fancy flasks were not even around yet during early open beta!

And the timing is inconsistent with different effects. Explosions and poison clouds and corpse explosions and... well.. everything except the freezing gives the player the opportunity to teleport away after opening.

As it currently is it may be worded differently to make that clear but I personally never notice such things because I usually do not read things like that while playing the game. No time!

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SudianX wrote:

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HarukaTeno wrote:

Closed beta player who doesn't use anti-status flasks...

Could be a returning player. Fancy flasks were not even around yet during early open beta!

And the timing is inconsistent with different effects. Explosions and poison clouds and corpse explosions and... well.. everything except the freezing gives the player the opportunity to teleport away after opening.

As it currently is it may be worded differently to make that clear but I personally never notice such things because I usually do not read things like that while playing the game. No time!

Well it is consistent. Status effects applied by the strongbox are applied on opening, there are only two Ignite and Freeze, but curses are also applied on opening, which are similar. All damage the box does is delayed, because you should have time to get away from it. And also curses may also remove the ability to teleport away.

However you can simply use Lightning Warp before opening the box, because it only interrupts the spellcast, if the spell is already cast teleport happens regardless, but a freeze immunity flask is the best option not because it helps a lot but it is likely a good thing to have in other situations.

LockBox's have always had some problems.

Major one that for me atleast, has been mostly fixed with the client optimizations. Is that, they don't 'trust' players not to cheat, so don't 'pre-load' the monsters into ram.
So even pressing flasks, then pressing the box, teleing away. You can very often 'tele back & fall over dead'. Where the client loads the data and ignores uploading your commands.

Huge fix's for this have been to only play PoE off a SSD. For a while --noasync added on loading the .exe helped a pile.

BUT, for me, it's not been a issue since the mulit-threading patch. And wasn't a problem on 'most' lockbox's a patch or 2 before that. (Tho exiles, and things like that lightning storm if I hadn't encounted it on a mob before would still suck at times, even worse with totems with buffs poping out.)


The 'anti-freeze' flask is odv esentual. Not on a mana or life flask as it will 'ware out' when they at 100%.

BUT, the not soo odv is, STUN!
If you get hit in the face hard, as you open the lockbox, your tele button won't always work, as your stunned.
Armor Flasks (Granite with 100% inc armor are super sexy) can help, but it dosen't have to be phys to stunn you.


There HAS been added a GODLY super sexy flask!


This flask deals with Frozen, Chill, & STUN!
Bang this baby, click & tele away!

Jesus Christ, just use an anti freeze flask when you open the strongbox lol

Arrowneous... u trollin right?

But seriously, this situation is exactly the reason that a utility flask "of heat" is pretty essential for everyone. I cannot imagine playing without a "heat" and "staunching" flask at all times...