What's the point of the face flask?

[Jesse4060]

I don't get it.

[DeathWantsMore]

Free heals *cough cough*
Frantic Sword *cough*

[Jesse4060]

How is it free heals? The frantic sword I get if you wanna waste an eternity spamming the button but all it does is deal 5 damage to you. Is there some hidden perk of it that the game doesn't tell you?

[21's bitch]

Just know that it is so overpowered right now that they're planning on removing its healing aspect entirely.

[injected11]

Originally posted by Jesse4060:

How is it free heals? The frantic sword I get if you wanna waste an eternity spamming the button but all it does is deal 5 damage to you. Is there some hidden perk of it that the game doesn't tell you?

You use the flask, it does a measly 5 damage while converting 20+% of your missing health into recovery. Do damage while the bar is orange, and you get green health back.

There's a weapon that gives guaranteed crits if you've recently taken damage. There is a mutation that increase damage output and reduce damage taken when you've recently taken damage, and another that reduces ability cooldowns whenever you deal critical hits. Combine all this with healing and it's definitely OP af, which is why they are nerfing it to remove the healing soon.

[travistotle]

Originally posted by injected11:

Originally posted by Jesse4060:

How is it free heals? The frantic sword I get if you wanna waste an eternity spamming the button but all it does is deal 5 damage to you. Is there some hidden perk of it that the game doesn't tell you?

You use the flask, it does a measly 5 damage while converting 20+% of your missing health into recovery. Do damage while the bar is orange, and you get green health back.

There's a weapon that gives guaranteed crits if you've recently taken damage. There is a mutation that increase damage output and reduce damage taken when you've recently taken damage, and another that reduces ability cooldowns whenever you deal critical hits. Combine all this with healing and it's definitely OP af, which is why they are nerfing it to remove the healing soon.

Has anyone actually heard that nerfing the healing is indeed their outright plan, or are they just going on the fact that it's no longer healing on the Switch version, which is something they confirmed was more of a bug than anything else? I personally think if they're going to be changing anything about it, it might be the flask no longer activating Vengeance, other than that it could very well see them keeping it as is.

[DeathWantsMore]

Originally posted by Jesse4060:

How is it free heals? The frantic sword I get if you wanna waste an eternity spamming the button but all it does is deal 5 damage to you. Is there some hidden perk of it that the game doesn't tell you?

Oh, I meant Spite Sword, silly me.

Face Flask is already nerfed on Nintedo Switch, it doesn't heal anymore. Now it's only combos good with Spite Sword and Vengeance. Still good tho.

[DeathWantsMore]

Originally posted by travistotle:

Has anyone actually heard that nerfing the healing is indeed their outright plan, or are they just going on the fact that it's no longer healing on the Switch version, which is something they confirmed was more of a bug than anything else? I personally think if they're going to be changing anything about it, it might be the flask no longer activating Vengeance, other than that it could very well see them keeping it as is.

I mean, it's broken af. I ran through 5BC with FF and SS rocking Dead Inside / Vengeance mutations and it was a breeze, even considering that 5BC is a true hell nowadays. It's just crazy OP.

[Jesse4060]

Originally posted by DeathWantsMore:

Originally posted by Jesse4060:

How is it free heals? The frantic sword I get if you wanna waste an eternity spamming the button but all it does is deal 5 damage to you. Is there some hidden perk of it that the game doesn't tell you?

Oh, I meant Spite Sword, silly me.

Face Flask is already nerfed on Nintedo Switch, it doesn't heal anymore. Now it's only combos good with Spite Sword and Vengeance. Still good tho.

That explains it, I'm playing on Nintendo Switch. I also didn't think to use vengeance as well.

[injected11]

Originally posted by travistotle:

Originally posted by injected11:

You use the flask, it does a measly 5 damage while converting 20+% of your missing health into recovery. Do damage while the bar is orange, and you get green health back.

There's a weapon that gives guaranteed crits if you've recently taken damage. There is a mutation that increase damage output and reduce damage taken when you've recently taken damage, and another that reduces ability cooldowns whenever you deal critical hits. Combine all this with healing and it's definitely OP af, which is why they are nerfing it to remove the healing soon.

Has anyone actually heard that nerfing the healing is indeed their outright plan, or are they just going on the fact that it's no longer healing on the Switch version, which is something they confirmed was more of a bug than anything else? I personally think if they're going to be changing anything about it, it might be the flask no longer activating Vengeance, other than that it could very well see them keeping it as is.

The nerf was confirmed be an Evil Empire dev on Discord. They're removing the recovery.

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadcells/comments/r98310/so_you_know_the_face_flask_bug_that_is_on_the/