Face Flask?

[Tetrafish_21]

Another suicide ite... I mean, a "health recovery item" that has to be used instantaneously, or you're as good as dead?

[Creep Gnome]

It does like 5 self-damage. If you're dying to face flask you're waiting way too long to use it.

[IIMeyer]

I think that the flask, on the contrary, is an imba item with the "Recovery" mutation

[DAN-di-WARhol]

I can't actually figure out what good it does. Every time I use it I just lose health. I don't seem to gain anything.

[DP9A]

Originally posted by DAN-di-WARhol:

I can't actually figure out what good it does. Every time I use it I just lose health. I don't seem to gain anything.

It transforms part of your missing health into recoverable health. Iirc it doesn't stop your kill streak either si you can use it with the spite sword to get free crits without having to receive actual damage.

[21's bitch]

It seems incredibly good to me, at least on 5BC, i feel almost immortal with it.

It's also a key element for some builds and "on-hit" stuff.

Edit: forgot to mention it has amazing affixes too.

[DAN-di-WARhol]

Hmmm. Tried it, but it didn't seem to work at all for me. Nothing happened.

[Kokoa]

Originally posted by Tetrafish_21:

Another suicide ite... I mean, a "health recovery item" that has to be used instantaneously, or you're as good as dead?

i mean why are people so mean to this item!!!! it is a way safer vampirism with the added combo of self damage, it procs the vengeance mutation, the spite sword crits, everything that interacts with self-damage, and most importantly does NOT lower the kill streak!!!! i mean thats broken for Brutality builds ALONE!

[Kokoa]

Originally posted by DAN-di-WARhol:

I can't actually figure out what good it does. Every time I use it I just lose health. I don't seem to gain anything.

basically its a self damage thing, its useful if u wanna recover HP as it puts 30% of your missing health as recovery! you can basically gain back your Hp using it! its only viable for melee builds as ranged weapons are most of the time slower, plus it is a Brutality item so you wont get much use out of it in a ranged build unless its legendary or colorless.

[DAN-di-WARhol]

That's all good in theory, but that's not what happened. I didn't gain any health. Just lost 5. Perhaps it was a bug or something. I'll give it another go if I find it again.

[Tetrafish_21]

Just using it alone you're -5 health.

Use it and then attack within the limited number of frames to recover X amount of health (up to 30%?)

I think you'd need a group to be on the other side of a door, activate Face Flask, break door stunning enemies, and hopefully kill them before the effect dissipates. Or smash down on them.

But not all levels have doors, or there is a type of enemy that senses you and attacks you remotely.

Would it work while, say, a turret was active? Or if I threw a bomb? This is for melee only kills, right?

I'd be interested in what the number of enemies would need to be to get that much more health back. Like,

Use FF: -5 lost, kill 1 enemy = __% health regained.
Use FF: -5 lost, kill 5 enemies = __% health regained.
Use FF: -5 lost, kill 10 enemies = __% health regained.

At any rate, these questions seem to be baiting a 'Well, why don't you try it and see?' answer. It does at least have me thinking. Obviously, there's work and risk involved after using it. I guess I don't quite understand what the optimal situation would be FOR using it. Or I'm mistaken in thinking you have to be super fast after using it.

[21's bitch]

Originally posted by DAN-di-WARhol:

That's all good in theory, but that's not what happened. I didn't gain any health. Just lost 5. Perhaps it was a bug or something. I'll give it another go if I find it again.

If you don't know how recovery works check the wiki they prob have a section for tons of mechanics in this game.

Originally posted by Tetrafish_21:

Just using it alone you're -5% health.

It does literally 5 damage, not 5%.

Edit: it's just a recovery item, as i said above if you're not familiar with how it works the wiki might have some stuff. It's basically just an orange bar on your health, and while that's active (decreases over time, can triple(?) duration with a mutation) dealing damage heals you back up.

https://deadcells.fandom.com/wiki/Mechanics#Recovery