Flicker Strike

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casval776 wrote:

I think the biggest problem with Flicker Strike is that it's design and appeal aren't the same. In that, I mean it's supposed to be an assassin-esque backstab type of skill. However, Flicker Strike isn't a blink and it isn't a teleport, it's just rapid movement. That should probably be fixed unless it was intended to do that in the first place. Too many times have I tried to Flicker Strike out of danger only to eat a few projectiles on the trajectory.

There's only two other problems I see with Flicker: Destination and being stunned. When you Flicker Strike a mob, you can appear on any side of them. 9/10 times you'll be sitting there like an idiot for a few seconds while you figure out where you ended up and where to position your cursor. The other problem is being stunned. Currently farming Fellshrine on my Witch and whenever I get stunned by an Archer while using Flicker, it goes on cooldown without doing anything.
To be honest, I wasn't aware this skill had a cast time, even if it was really small, it's long enough to have it countered by nearly any attack. Kinda forces any build using Flicker Strike to invest in Chayula.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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casval776 wrote:

Flicker Strike isn't a blink and it isn't a teleport, it's just rapid movement.

That is not the case. Flicker Strike removes you from the old position in the world, and places you at the new one. You do not cover any intervening terrain.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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casval776 wrote:

Flicker Strike isn't a blink and it isn't a teleport, it's just rapid movement.

That is not the case. Flicker Strike removes you from the old position in the world, and places you at the new one. You do not cover any intervening terrain.

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Strill wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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casval776 wrote:

Flicker Strike isn't a blink and it isn't a teleport, it's just rapid movement.

That is not the case. Flicker Strike removes you from the old position in the world, and places you at the new one. You do not cover any intervening terrain.

That's strange. It certainly seems like I get hit by intervening projectiles when I flicker strike.

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Exiledtyrant wrote:

is this skill ever better than just maintaining charges with frenzy and then dual striking if you dual wield?

I had been ignoring flicker strike for weeks but i finally decided to use it and I really enjoy the skill I just question if it is even worth using if dual strike will always out dps it under the same frenzy scenario


**Update

It would seem that flicker strike needs it's dps Upped to compete with other dex single target melee skills.

I tried to use flicker for as long as possible but dual strike had finally beat it out by such a large margin it wasn't even feasible to use anymore.

Dual strike while under frenzy never loses it's damage or attack speed bonus and can apply 2 crits / on hit effects

Flicker strike is the only single target attack I know of that gets worse as you use it.

right now expending 3 charges reduces flickers damage by 64% attack speed and 24% damage.

I don't have hard numbers because there's no damage log that I can look at but the 3-4 charge damage between flicker strike and dual strike is significant. After hours of play swapping the skills I could see hp bars just don't move in same way

I would propose that flicker strike still use a charge based system but instead of expending frenzy charges it could expend "Flicker charges" that are built every time you gather a frenzy charge.

At least then if you went full frenzy build you would have a significant gain in the attack speed area to hopefully compete with a sustained frenzy build using dual strike.