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Flickering Flame

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One of the new patch 2.4 Runewords, Flickering Flame uses a 3 socketed Helm base and is well-suited to Fire Iron Wolves, and Fire Druids/Sorceresses.

As of 2.5, this runeword is often paired with Flame Rift, as the runeword's Resist Fire aura will offset the resistance penalty of the charm and the runeword's -10-15% to Enemy Fire Resistance will augment the charm's Sundering property.

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Flickering Flame

Teebling Admin

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

War The Wise

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Through 2.4 PTR testing this also works extremely well on an Auradin setup.

mockingbirdreal

4 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Resist Fire Aura (85% at lvl 4 - 106% at lvl 8) can compensate the lack of Fire Resist from Spirit.

Sherloc09

3 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Currently theory crafting a Martial Arts Assassin build that specialized in Tiger Strike with Dragon Tail Finisher. Those familiar with Dragon Tail know that it takes the attack’s physical damage and adds to it a fire component aoe explosion equal to a multiple of the physical damage. An attack with 7,000 physical damage can equal 50,000 damage or more in aoe Fireball like explosion. With Amplify Damage first reducing a monsters physical resistance and a sunder charm plus facets, Phoenix, and or Infinity lowing a monsters fire resistance, the possible damage outcome can be in the hundreds of thousands. If you use Flickering Flame as your Helm, you completely offset the fire res issues of a sundering charm, and gain a big boost to Dragon Tail since it’s a fire based attack. Couple these with dual Phoenix and a the reaper’s toll merc, or Phoenix Lacerator and Infinity merc to trounce even p8 baddies in a single Dragon Tail finisher, regardless of players count — uniques and bosses excluded.

atari

3 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Besides the Fire Spells of the Sorceress the following skills benefit from +x To Fire Skills

Amazon

Assassin

Druid

Necromancer

Paladin

Holy Fire

Warlock

atari

3 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Flickering Flame was ladder only during Patch 2.4 and Patch 2.5 (Ladder Season 1 & 2). Since Patch 2.6 (Ladder Season 3) it is possible to create Flickering Flame in non-ladder.

Aelanwyr

2 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

A comparable alternative for Druids is Ravenlore.

fredkid

2 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

- Resist Fire 4:
Radius (yards): 14.6
Resist Fire %: 85
% To Maximum Fire Resistance: 4

- Resist Fire 8:
Radius (yards): 20
Resist Fire %: 106
% To Maximum Fire Resistance: 8

fredkid

2 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

Remember that you gain the benefits of another character's Resist Fire aura.
So you may put Flickering Flame on your Merc to gain 85-106% Fire Resistant without dedicating any equipment in yourself to protect you from fire

(Thanks @uuee for the tip

)

But don't forget that only one aura of each type may affect the character (so no much reason to put Flickering Flame on you and on your Merc

)

DasNarf

2 years ago (pre-Resurrected)

This runeword can be an attractive option for summoner classes, placed on an act 1 or act 3 fire merc, since minions can gain immunity against fire. Very useful if you are planning to run Travincal or Chaos Sanctuary regularly.

Another (more obvious) use is for fire classes (Sorceress, Druid, Assassin) to counteract the penalty of Flame Rift.

The best use of this item is on a Dragondin, no doubt. This little runeword is able to render all party members and mercs almost immune to fire, if you have maxed Resist Fire by yourself! Absolutely amazing!

Scellis24

1 year ago (pre-Resurrected)

Throw this on your act 2 merc with The Reaper's Toll and he easily handles the high council during trav runs!

Another great option for act 2 mercs for Travincal runs is Kira's Guardian and Guardian Angel armor.

Knappogue

6 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

The odds of getting a perfect roll are 1/780 or 0.13%.

NoraViVi

1 month ago (pre-Resurrected)

Fire Warlock will use this runeword at the fullest potential. Thanks to mitigating -fire resist from Fire Sunder Charm, add +fire skills, and -fire resistance towards enenies.