Diamond Flask Balance : My Opinion

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Xendran wrote:

CI Crit build + 4 diamonds + Surgeon's granite.

What could possibly go wrong with the balance.

Lets throw in a Magnate while we're at it. What could possibly go wrong!

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Idioticus wrote:

I don't like this at all.

The only people who can use these are those who don't need to worry about defense, and those who already have high (30%+) crit chance.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say 99% of melee cannot use this, because they either need healing/armor/res or because they use RT or because they have a low crit chance, so they won't benefit much from this anyway.

This is a huge buff to ranged, especially spell casters.

GJ GGG, doing everything in your power to screw melee over.

lol... you're funny. Melee has been buffed heavily and casters(besides freezing pulse and discharge) need some love. If you are a crit build this flask will be nice, but definitely not game-breaking like it was before. Your assumptions about melee not being able to use this are only assumptions. If you are geared and specced correctly you do not need 5 defensive flasks.

well this topic is off roading.

With the OP: The flask being based on duration keeps the balance between 2h and 1h crits. If you set it to a certain number it means 2h weapons will be superior to 1h as a .95 aps 2h weapon getting 4-6 crits is much more powerful than a 2.16 aps weapon doing the same. Basing it off duration means both will do roughly the same amount of damage over the same time.

Also it would have to be duration based some way. Otherwise you just get something like discharge, turn on the flask and you get 4-6 lucky rolls on discharge when it only needs 1 per screen. Meaning by the time you've used all your luck rolls you've refilled the flask completely, just watch how often you cast discharge or anything to avoid using the flask roll.

Is there an official word that diamond flasks will return?

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Poutsos wrote:

Is there an official word that diamond flasks will return?

Yep

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nhargobange wrote:

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Poutsos wrote:

Is there an official word that diamond flasks will return?

Yep

Thanks

Weren't diamond flasks specifically unable to roll with surgeons?

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Wooser69 wrote:

Weren't diamond flasks specifically unable to roll with surgeons?

Yes, they cannot roll Surgeon's.
You can, however, get Surgeon's Granites (or other flasks) and they will be up nearly 100% of the time since you'll be critting non-stop.

An offensive oriented flask is a game changer for ranged dps builds. Sadly only fairly high crit builds can really take advantage of this one.