Caustic Mana flask must be fixed

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Drakier wrote:

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tqp wrote:

has absolutly nothing to do with making choises. who chose to kill itself by using a mana flask? it only happens accidental. and where is the excuse that you only die when the auras take exactly 100%? btw. with ci u die from every % aura

not every player wanna read all the game mechanics just to make sure that there is not the wrong mana flask which can kill him. more over there are players from all around the world who wont understand every word written in english and who just wanna play and kill some mobs

u wanna say that everyone who doesnt read every single mod on every flask and every item correctly should die or rip his hc char by activating an aura or use a flask?

it wont add spice.. it slows the game down and people get frustrated

I'm pretty sure I prefaced my statement with "I don't know about the Aura in a blood magic map to be honest." So with a CI and Blood Magic, I just don't know the answer.

As for the choice to kill yourself, of course you're not going to choose it... but it makes you pay attention to stuff... and it gives users choices for things. You can't have the positive without the negative. A Caustic Flask TAKES from health and GIVES to mana. You can't have the "GIVE to mana" portion without the "TAKE from health" portion. And the real world doesn't always have "warning: this will kill you, so I'm not letting you do it".

It is up to the user to understand the mechanics and if you choose to play a low-health character, that is something you really need to pay attention to. Anything that involves removing health WILL kill you on a CI character. It's a play-style choice. No one is forcing you to be a CI character, and no one is forcing you to use caustic flasks.

Trust me.. I know people don't read. It happens all the time. We constantly get questions about "Why can't I do any damage?!" only to find out the user took Ancestral Bond and didn't READ the keystone. Not my problem, not GGG's problem. It's the user's problem. This game isn't supposed to be easy. This isn't "carebears". It's Path of Exile.

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Josephoenix wrote:

I think the biggest issue ppl have been having is: their inability to READ!!!

If players would learn to READ... GGG and everyone one else would have fewer problems

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Drakier wrote:

Trust me.. I know people don't read. It happens all the time. We constantly get questions about "Why can't I do any damage?!" only to find out the user took Ancestral Bond and didn't READ the keystone. Not my problem, not GGG's problem. It's the user's problem. This game isn't supposed to be easy. This isn't "carebears". It's Path of Exile.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

The game shouldn't be catering the illiterate.

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Roykratos wrote:

I just think they could warn us a little bit clearer. I tought the flask would work like the lifesteal issue. If u have CI the monsters can't leech your life, therefore killing you. Just lost my lvl 59 Shadow at Hardcore because I used a Caustic flask and I tough it would follow the lifesteal line of thinking. Really tought my CI would protect me from a direct life hit as the definition of CI, if I'm not mistaken goes something like: "Energy shield acts as an additional hit point pool on top of life. If you have any energy shield remaining when you take damage, the damage is subtracted from the energy shield first. Damage is only applied to life once all energy shield is depleted. The exception to this is chaos damage, which ignores energy shield."


It was my fault, I won't deny that, I misunderstood the flask effect and the mechanics of the game. But I lost a character that took me long time to build and I was satisfied with what I achieved. To lose him, not for a boss, not for any monster, but for a flask is just way too frustrating. I really tought my ES would act as a extension of my life and take the direct hit first... but it didn't happened that way.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

Why does everyone keep bumping this thread? To yell at the OP (who clearly isn't a native English speaker) for being bad at reading English a year ago?

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yhateful wrote:

Welcome to old school game mechanics. You may call them bad, but for the target audience of this game they add spice and feeling to the game.

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CanHasPants wrote:

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yhateful wrote:

Welcome to old school game mechanics. You may call them bad, but for the target audience of this game they add spice and feeling to the game.

<3

I'd like to see the reception Ghosts 'n Goblins would get if it were released today (the game I've ragequit more times than all others combined). I still haven't beaten the last stage on the second difficulty, and suddenly that really bothers me :3