Sorry if this has been asked and answered before. Searching didn’t help me.
I’ve been using a Flavor of Time on my GoD build since the beginning. I know that some people like Squirts. A non-ancient one just dropped for me with decent stats so I’m giving it a try. Not too bad. Wish I had the same stats on an ancient, but we’ll see what the grinding brings.
“While not taking damage, your damage is increased by up to 100% and damage taken is increased by up to 50%.”
I’m not exactly sure how to interpret that. From my perspective, when I take damage, it happens instantly. When an arrow hits me, the damage doesn’t start and then last for half a second until the damage is fully inflicted. So during the course of one second of game play, I’m taking damage for one nanosecond and not taking damage for the rest of the time, right? Obviously not right, otherwise that stat wouldn’t specify “while not taking damage”, because the odds against my hits coinciding with their hits are astronomical.
Does Squirts not benefit only if I’m taking slow damage, like standing in a poison puddle? Since it isn’t mentioned, I’m assuming that previously taken damage doesn’t count, right? i.e., I don’t have to be at full health?
At maximum stacks, your hero will be doing 100% more damage but the first attack that hits you will do 50% more damage to you than it would have otherwise done. So, if a mob would usually hit you for 250,000 damage, with max stacks, you’d take 375,000 damage instead. After you’ve taken damage, the stacks reset and start building back up again.
This is why some builds that use Squirt’s also utilise items that generate shields / mitigation buffs, so that the first attack that hits you takes health off your shield, rather than your health pool. For a DH, as an example, Fortress Ballista.
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Pardon my ignorance, but how do I know the current level of my “stacks”? fwiw, I do have Fan of Knives / Bladed Armor
The number of stacks is shown on your buff bar…
https://i.imgur.com/xN0LGL2.jpg
Each stack corresponds to an extra 10% damage done, and 5% damage taken.
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Bladed Armor isn’t a shield. It just increases your Armor, i.e. more damage reduction. I.e. you take less damage when hit, but even a tiny damage will still remove Squirt stacks.
On contrast, a shield absorbs damage before you take the excess. If the damage taken is less than the sheld, then you take zero damage, and therefore Squirt stacks won’t drop.
Though, Bladed Armor gives more “touchness” to your shield (if you have any).
FYI, my speed farm build use Squirt + Molten Wildebeest’s Gizzard gem because I want to use Yang bow rather than Fortress Ballista.
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What in the hell is a Squirts?
Squirt is the little girl vendor in town of Act II.
She has a necklace called Squirt’s Necklace, of course. The necklace is Not For Sale; you can’t find it on her shelves.
On the topic of what damage removes the buff, ANY damage does so. If you lose as much as a single HP from anything, the buff resets. It starts stacking a few seconds after you haven’t taken any damage.
As mentioned, damage absorbed by shields do not cause you to lose stacks, which is why Fortress Ballista is prefered when using Squirts.
With all that said, keep in mind that Flavor of Time and Squirts are roughly equal, with Flavor of Time perhaps being better at higher GRs
With all that said, keep in mind that Flavor of Time and Squirts are roughly equal, with Flavor of Time perhaps being better at higher GRs
Not really. FoT has an additional main stat which will almost always be Cooldown (who really would roll off cooldown and keep movement speed? Possibly a toon that doesn’t need cooldown, but still). Squirts just gets you killed at higher GR’s. The increased damage with it is nice to have, but you get 1 shotted by almost anything and even when FB shield is up. You have to be extremely careful with mob types using Squirts. No orbiter, lightning enchanted, mortar in addition to skipping Juggernaut, Waller and Shielding. I used to run Squirts with FB & Dawn, but switching to Dawn + Valla’s + FoT decreases the mobs you need to skip therefore decreasing your overall GR time and I’ve been able to push a few GR’s higher with it without much fishing at all.