My assumption was that they were a modification of the Ambushing daggers: I figured it was "any weapon you want," but with those low numbers, also "no need for amubush."
(Those inflict a stated of "poisoned!" at X/round, dissipating at 1/round, where "X" == HP damage inflicted when you strike from hiding.
So if you see, " ... 55 points of damage!", you did 55hp damage with the swing, AND it is now poisoned at 55/round, so it will take 55 damage soon; then it will take 54 damage; then it will take 53 [you see where this is going].)

If you can put it on any weapon you want, and not have the requirement of leaping from ambush, "5-15 poison" (that basically happens every swing) is pretty darn good, especially with today's MStrike.

Yes, I realize that people are down on the "damage over time" model--and the gassy poison flares of old, which only happened "as often as a flare happens" are pretty much complete suckage--but something like this would be a good way to change that perception.

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(And besides, if they suck so bad... leaves more spots for me to get one of them in line, amiright?!?!)

1) Effective on EVERY swing--as the ambushers do, assuming you strike from, you know... ambush--including straight melee, or the same crap-shoot as normal elemental flares?

2) Any chance of getting an ambusher in there? I'm still looking to make my pair.... <cough>

Given that elemental flares can get up into the 70-range and include chance of instant "disable or kill"...

Wyrom, i) random chance of ii) only 5-15 dissipating at 1-3 [presumably these are blocks of 5-at-1] iii) damage-over-time has its three strikes and is working hard to get ejected from the park.

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Now, if they were "five to fifteen [of my notional blocks of 5-at-1]", then we might have something.
(That would be a "possible" range of "25-dissipating-at-5" [total 70 damage] up to "75-dissipating-at-15" [net 225 damage].)

Still not stellar--because of that whole "random chance of a flare" issue--but not something to sneeze at, either.

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Unless there are additional details of this ancient script that make it more attractive? Like maybe it works on "percent of base HP"?
(15+12+9+6+3 == 45% of total HP lost, on a maxxed flare, after a total of 6 rounds [including the initial strike])

"Given that elemental flares can get up into the 70-range and include chance of instant "disable or kill"...

Wyrom, i) random chance of ii) only 5-15 dissipating at 1-3 [presumably these are blocks of 5-at-1] iii) damage-over-time has its three strikes and is working hard to get ejected from the park." -- Me, #297

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Sadly, Darconas, it looks like what got delivered came down to nearly exactly as underwhelming as the early projections said it was, from Wyrom's description.

(I would have done it on my weapon had I won the spin, simply for thematic reasons--I already have one of the standard poison gas flares on a gladius, and an Ambushing dagger--but I was not exactly seeking it out with malice aforethought.)

Snake flares need the same sort of love that greater elemental flares got.

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Wyrom, were the poison flares just raffled from Premie Fest the same as the poison flares from this CCF? It looks like the new poison flares got upgraded and improved. Any chance the CCF ones can also be changed - as it stands now they're quite horrible whereas the new ones look actually good.

<It looks like the new poison flares got upgraded and improved.>

If this is true, I'm a bit bummed. I din't bother buying tickets for them because of how underwhelming others had said they were and hadn't seen anything about changes being made to them...

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