Why Does Flame Dash Have Charges?

None of the other movement abilities are limited in this way, why is this one?

Good question.

It's by far the best movement skill in the game, it needs a drawback or every other movement gem would be obsolete.

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ajo schrieb:

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beaniac schrieb:

It's by far the best movement skill in the game, it needs a drawback or every other movement gem would be obsolete.

Best? I've always considered it worse than anything else. Care to explain why it's the best?

IMO the attack based movementskills are much better since they can trigger fortify. Leapslam is literally a chargeless flamedash with fortify.

Only scenario when I would pick flamedash is when I use wands and cant pick up lightning warp due to increased skill effect duration on tree.

You can't leap slam if you are ranged.

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beaniac schrieb:

It's by far the best movement skill in the game, it needs a drawback or every other movement gem would be obsolete.

The best? The stupid skill has charges, it has CHARGES, and once again has charges, and doesn't even cast if my friggin mouse isn't within a 5 pixel radius from the center of my body. Have you ever tried to use flame dash on Pillars of Arun? I'd rather run Hall of Grandmasters with 1 link heavy strike

Rangers may not have leap slam but blink arrow is pretty close eventually. Literally everything is better than flame dash

On 20/20 I don't even notice the cooldown.
Flame Dash IS the best movement skill in the game.

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ajo schrieb:

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beaniac schrieb:

It's by far the best movement skill in the game, it needs a drawback or every other movement gem would be obsolete.

Best? I've always considered it worse than anything else. Care to explain why it's the best?

It used to be one of the worse movement skills but it got buffed to have better cast speed, better cooldown recovery, and much better range. The cooldown is the only drawback now instead of having several drawbacks.

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ajo schrieb:

But flamedash was claimed to be "by far the best movementskill in the game". Obviously you would use such powerful skill on both melee and ranged.

Nobody's stopping you.

A better question is why don't other movement skills have charges.

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I guess it's because flamedash is somehow considered to be the best movementskill by far.

It had a cooldown when it was worse than most of the movement skills.