#Face Flask Rework

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grizzled cedar
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Face Flask is one of the most boring items in the game currently. It's borderline useless aside from hard synergies with Vengeance and [Spite Sword](<https://deadcells.wiki.gg/Spite_Sword), and overshadows all other options for triggering those items in the process. Those items also weren't balanced to have such easy activation, making it quite a bit overtuned.

I suggest the following changes to make it less powerful and more dynamic.

  • Now has survival scaling along with brutality.
  • On use, takes 5 percent of max health instead of just 5 health.
  • In exchange, grants a percentage of your max health as temporary health (like the kind given by Tonic and Barricade), scaling with scrolls (~30% - ~65%) for ~9 seconds.
  • Cooldown increased from 10s to 12s.

This keeps its usage as a tool for activating damage synergies, while giving it a more significant cooldown and an additional use case for gaining temporary health. It would have a use over Tonic, as it fills in proportion max health rather than missing health, and has a much shorter cooldown.

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real monolith
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So the legendary would just become an upgrade basically?

grizzled cedar
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oh wait what does the legendary affix do?

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oh right it's like 70% for 2s

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ig that would just be added on top of the existing BHP but last way shorter

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maybe reduction in the amount

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idk

dapper loom
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This sounds dumb and only good for bosses

real monolith
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I do think the bonus health duration and maybe amount is too short

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Especially for how much hp you are sacrificing

foggy lichen
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Dead cells fans resisting the urge to rework everything

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Also it works like it does cause of blasphemous lore

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In the game it's a healing flask/blood vial, but the beheaded can't heal from blood SO he just damages himself with the broken glass like a dumbass

winged turtle
foggy lichen
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But the change wouldn't make much sense

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Just delete it and add the mía culpa betrollshrug

winged turtle
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crossover items dont havw to make much sense

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see hard lighr sword being nothing like it is in hld

foggy lichen
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But most others do

winged turtle
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it being an actual item is probably more important than the theming

foggy lichen
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I agree that the face flask wasn't the Best thing to pick from blasp tho

winged turtle
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anyway about the actual suggestion

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ihh

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i dont think anyone would use this ever lmao

severe ledge
severe ledge
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face flask as an item doesn’t really need to exist
its effect can go to something else like vamp

foggy lichen
severe ledge
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they made it into a joke

foggy lichen
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Yeah

severe ledge
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i’d at least like it to do something from blasphemous
like the rosary bead that makes your attacks shoot projectiles after flasking

winged turtle
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shrapnel axes in shambles

severe ledge
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there’s a rosary bead that gives flasking iframes that would be silly i think

winged turtle
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triage v2

real monolith
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A global shield skill would be interesting, if op

winged turtle
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isnt that just cocoon

real monolith
winged turtle
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most global shields last as long as cocoon anyway betrollshrug

winged turtle
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would it do anything else

severe ledge
real monolith
foggy lichen
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Healing from blood when

severe ledge
real monolith
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Also like

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If face flask granted a global shield for any length of time, it would still be kinda like bonus health with sacrificing your hp, just to be immortal for a few seconds

winged turtle
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except it lasts quite a bit

real monolith
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Cool

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Just give that to face flask except with a small health loss

severe ledge
real monolith
severe ledge
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i mostly meant it as a secondary effect

grizzled cedar