DUSKRUIN NEWS: GM Nyxus announced the New Combat Flourishes, Warding Flares, are now on sale in The Annex, at Duskruin, for weapons and armor! Additional certificates can be added for +5 to the flare or +5 seconds to the time on the flare. These are TD flares! Details:
Text of Discord Post follows:
GM Nyxus
[Duskruin] New Combat Flourishes – Steel/Glaes/Adamantine Skin Flares; Warding Flares
on 1 Feb 2025 11:24 AM
from the Official GemStoneIV Discord
on #event-announcements channel
Steel Skin Flares and Warding Flares will debut at the February ’25 run of Duskruin!
Steel Skin Flares
Steel Skin Flares are a combat flourish that can be applied to weapons (including bows), runestaves, and UCS armaments. It has a standard flare chance to provide +10 CER damage padding for 60 seconds. This effect is refreshable and does not stack with itself or bubble flares. Steel Skin Flares can be upgraded +2 CER at a time, up to +50 CER. Upon reaching 25 CER, the flourish will become Glaes Skin Flares, and upon reaching 50 CER the flourish will become Adamantine Skin Flares. The change of material is cosmetic only.
You exhale in pain as your skin rapidly hardens into a shimmering barrier of steel!
You exhale in pain as your skin rapidly hardens into a seamless barrier of glaes!
You exhale in pain as your skin rapidly hardens into a peerless barrier of adamantine!
Warding Flares
Warding Flares are a combat flourish that can be applied to shields and armor. It has a standard flare chance to provide +10 TD for 10 seconds. This effect is refreshable and does not stack with itself or banshee flares. Warding Flares can be upgraded +5 TD at a time, up to +50 TD. Warding Flares can also be upgraded +5 seconds at a time, up to 60 seconds.
You hear a deafening wail as a ghostly white vapor surrounds you, swirling around your vultite armor!
Combat Flourishes – General Context
Combat flourishes are a special type of script that occupy their own slot alongside other scripts, and have near universal compatibility with other scripts. A single item can have multiple flourishes. By default only one combat flourish can be active at a time, and the player can swap between active combat flourishes, but there is sometimes a purchaseable service available to unlock multiple active combat flourishes on a single item.
GM Nyxus clarified in the discussion:
Banshee flares are not becoming a flourish. There is a new flourish, however, and it is pretty similar to banshee flares. It is called Warding Flares. It can be added to shields and armor. It does not stack with banshee flares, but overall uptime of the two will be increased due to having multiple scripts proc’ing.
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