Sekhemas Traps - flame throwers - instant death - not fun
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Particularly the flame throwers that shoot in a straight line
i am a sorceress, and if i touch these it basically stun locks me and kills me, but normally it feels like 1 second to kill me? i think these should not stun lock you but to make it worse, I had the affliction "take 5% mana life shield on hit" Which is normally manageable but more tough. I have 4600 mana and that is my entire pool Last night with this affliction I touched the flames and before i even registered i touched them I was dead - I also had full honor, even when i died my honor was full These don't act like "flame balls" they are more like lazer beams that do 100 hits per second, and it is NOT fun or fair how these murder you, maybe add invincibility frames to these? The reason i died is 100% cause it hit me 10-20 times in 1/10th of a second or less. Every other trap in sekhemas does damage but is manageable generally. but these are just unfair, overpowered and un fun. Even the spinning flamethrowers are manageable, the exploding ones, manageable. The time based ones... manageable. What's worse about the flame line lazer launchers... is that there is a room or 2 where dozens of these exist in on location and you have to perfectly space your rolls and one tap is death. Last bumped on Feb 26, 2025, 3:52:36 AM
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" out of curiosity, are you aware that you can dodge roll through them and take 0 damage? Otherwise, get a shield switch, and put shield charge in your gem slots, shield charge has invincibility frames, you can charge right through without taking damage |
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" You mean using mechanics in the game????? fuck that I'm just gonna stand in damage and complain when i die |
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" That affliction is bugged, and there are a few things that'll make it basically drop you to a sliver of health/mana/shield. Never, ever take it, and if you are forced to for whatever reason, get rid of it as quickly as possible. Because that affliction combined with anything else hitting you or a DoT is game over. And that said, I don't have much trouble with those traps, even with ES based characters. In the grand scheme of the many annoying traps that make Guantlet the worst room type, they're probably the second least annoying. |
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I've played a sorceress, a mercenary and a witch and I've never once been stun locked by amy of the traps, so no idea what your problem is.
That affliction with the 5% on the other hand is indeed a no-go. It also killed me in one if my runs, so I no longer take it. Learn from your mistakes. |
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" Yes i am fully aware, and i have dodge rolled through them 100s of times, but these specific traps can kill you in a millisecond There is that one room with like 40 of these things in a grid, and some are so close theres 2 body widths between them. This game is fun, i'm having tons of fun, i'm not complaining about traps in general, i think they're a good mechanic, i am just saying when they tap me and i insta die, it's a bit concerning I mean I died faster than mario stubbing his toe. So sure everyone can say "oh he's just b***hing and moaning" but i assure you i am not. these traps are the only thing that has killed me in a long while besides a t4 xest (is that how you spell it?) lol. |
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" I have many times, but this was ridiculous lol. nothing else in sekhemas has killed me in weeks. it's specifically just the straight shooting traps, and only if i touch them i instantly die. My guess with the 5% issue is that it's not bugged so much, as my health and mana are the same pool, so it takes 10% per hit, but in this case, the "straight flame throwers" hit me 10x in 1/8th of a second. it wasn't like hit hit hit hit. watching them hit you like the other types of flame throwers (the spinning ones) This was just instant full health gone before i could even react or try to react, i tapped it and died. I really should record a video of it to prove it. Last edited by Skwerl23#3580 on Feb 19, 2025, 2:53:07 PM
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" Thanks for judging me without knowing anything. good job. |
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I have experienced the exact same problem more than once now. I found this thread looking for evidence that it's happening to others. I have had those flamethrowers kill me instantly on my last two runs. I start with full ES (3500), full mana (4800) and die instantaneously if it touches me. I'm not stun locked, I'm just instantly dead.
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