Automate your Flasks and SAVE Your Hands / Wrists - 3.18 Sentinel

[@lusca_costa]

Flask automation was one of the best features that came out on 3.15, Flask piano is no more

[@HapsyD9]

Small note on the crafting part. If you want the armour or evasion rolls more easily, use the defense crafts from harvest.

[@tmnumber1]

Thx. I did not know that

[@nlb137]

Can you use the ele crafts to get higher chances of the ailment immune/effect ones?

[@alirizareisoglu]

its my second season and it was by far the best advice that directly changed the gameplay for me!

[@stephennetu]

Christ, I skipped a few leagues (kind of, as in just didn't really metagame) and had no idea those crafting options existed in the bench. Thank you so much!!!

[@samuryebread1065]

How do you unlock them? They aren't showing up for me....

[@DarKSpideR99]

If you don't want to spend your Instilling orb just get Mageblood. Works fine as well.

[@JayBigDadyCy]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nidus9997]

lmao

[@SpudNug69]

That's my plan, saving up for one. At 27c right now so shouldn't take much longer

[@thalon3707]

Considered it, but my build would get worse a lot by doing so

[@goldenhate6649]

@@thalon3707 yeah, not an option for ignite builds

[@dennisb5802]

This is a huge help. 600 hours and I still only use a life flask as needed despite knowing it makes my runs harder/longer.

[@jean-lucdoucet7700]

I remember asking about this on stream a couple days ago. Thanks for the more in depth guide BD!

[@Dez1730]

Thank you for this video. New to poe and its by far the least new player friendly game I've seen. These guides are making it wayyyyy easier

[@superking___]

I think it's better to have "Use when flask charges are full" on one of your utilities and then "Use when adjacent" on the rest of them to the left. This way, while they are automated you will always have half charges on things like jade/granite and if you need them you can just press the "Use when full" flask and it will trigger all of them.

[@dv487]

How can I do that ? Which item or craft way I have to do to get this function on a flask ? Cheers

[@whowhatwherewhen5820]

I needed something like this, I stopped progressing yesterday because my wrists were tired, this is the first thing I'll do when I log in later.

[@leonman112]

In case anyone is watching this in 2024 (3.24 Necropolis): -The max charges gain when hit by enemy is now 3 -Your flask needs to be ilvl 80+, hold Alt while mousing over your flask to see its item level

[@d2junkieef807]

You forgot to mention that the item level of the flask is very important to roll certain mods , the higher the item level the better mods you can roll

[@ramazankaya9545]

Well u just need at least a ilvl80 then u can Rolle 7 charges gained

[@benegesserit9838]

ohh fuck me:(

[@Crazozourus]

I remember when I was working as a lumberjack shifting 10-12 tones of timber every day and now my hands hurt from playing video game. "I'm old Gandalf." - Bilbo.

[@hitlord]

Holy hell, when they added the Orbs for the automation I thought they sucked because you still had to keep rolling for the god damn right mod... Fast forward to today, and I was still fucking rolling for the mod like a god damn chump, because I had no idea they added them as crafts. Honestly, thank you for this.

[@samuryebread1065]

Do you have to unlock the crafting somehow? I don't see it when I put my flask in....

[@hitlord]

@@samuryebread1065 No idea, I just learned it exists through this video. Hopefully someone answers you, because I want to know for next league.

[@originallizzah]

I have accessibility issues due to severe joint issues and carpal tunnel on both sides, if it weren't for flasks I'd be able to play so many other builds. Every league my boyfriend says "We will get a Mageblood so you can play" and looks so desperate and sad and worried for me. It's too bad one of the most expensive and difficult to obtain Unique items is the only true answer for players with accessibility issues. Instilling orbs help and I am able to enjoy the game on "1 button builds" but will never be able to play most builds due to pain. We've gotten to where flasks are my main source of pain. As a community, healthy gamers alongside gamers with accessibility struggles: we deserve better. Period. All of us. I don't want what I have for my fellow gamers; my arm/wrist/hand issues are a result of being on the computer all day sometimes for work (I write), school (I write even more), or what should be nice fun relaxing gaming. Whether you have a diagnosed disorder or just start to wonder why does my hand hurt SO MUCH after a few hours of your fav game, we ALL deserve better. Not a near unobtainable Unique that is their best solution for healthy gameplay.

[@SilentButDudley]

Just use macros on a mouse. It’s “bannable” but they don’t check unless you actually say publicly you are using it, ie a streamer or on the PoE site. I can’t be bothered to have pain while playing the game, so I just do it.

[@MilesMontgomery-pj4xc]

Wow, who knew a duck would know this!? That's why you're the Big Ducks!

[@EL70CINE]

I love simplified videos, following you right now ! And following a Twitch too

[@djJaXx101]

Thanks super helpful. I had problems with my right hand. Its the thousands of clicks an hour, especially when your making 6links or transferring inventories. I bit the bullet and created a left click macro using standard mouse software. Its sooo helpful. I dont care if its against GGG's TOS I feel its morally acceptable to break the TOS for health reasons. I used the macro for 6 to 12 months and no problems (except sometimes if you hold it down too long, the game auto boots you)

[@adrianvelmont4020]

SAVE YO HANDS, SAVE YO WRISTS

[@charasmaticenigma101]

I can deal with the pain to my hands and my wrists but my mind will never recover.

[@brandonkruse6412]

One minor recommendation is to keep your chill/frozen protection flask with “used when chilled” , I can’t tell you how many times my flasks were out and I froze to death from a Harbinger pack. If you’ve got some % of ailment avoidance, you’d probably be okay spamming it but I prefer to keep a second Quicksilver just for use when chilled.

[@KleytonClementino]

Ducks, this was a really helpful videos, thanks a buch, man!

[@donthateit]

Awsome explanation, greatly appreciated, new sub

[@craigclement5520]

Thank you very much. My hands hurt...POE is fun but the pain is real

[@sammycool77]

I'm quite the novice at this game and this my friend is a game-changer for me lol. Thanks for that.

[@algorithman2129]

You just skipped one info: Where to get the flask crafting recipes? :)

[@FlorinLupas-l1w]

Thank you, I am new to POE and this will help a lot.

[@Atreta]

My deadeye build is critical based, so I've rolled % chance to get charges on critical strike and used when charges reach full.

[@SokarEntertainment]

Lol I was like "Wait did I forget to turn off FTL?"

[@FlareFluff]

You can scour(white items only need 4 quality items for 20% even maps), then use 4 baubles(buy for 8 whetstone each at any blacksmiths last page, so 32 whetstone(8 ea)/trade up 96 armor scrap(24 ea)( per flask) then enchant then alt till you get a good prefix(t1 or t2 and certain mods only available at certain ilvls)(you can get a suffix at einhart to pick an immunity you dont have yet for free) or prefix and suffix. you can make really good curency (10-50c per) with charge on damage take,/charge on crit prefixes or t1-2 speed prefix on higher lvl 20 quality flasks for just a few alts! This works best early in the league because some people love to jsut buy their flasks instead of messing with them. its good cheap gambling while waiting for trades as well. check out poeninja what to rolls to watch for.

[@porous9]

Great info, thanks! Luckily I have no muscle memory to contend with. I have never done flask piano, I tried repeatedly and just couldn't do it. So this would be a way to actually benefit from flasks without needing to active them every few seconds.

[@JayBigDadyCy]

I don't know why. Maybe because I'm a.musician or because I played MMos for a long time, but I like "piano'ing" my flasks. I've been doing it for so long it would be difficult to not do it anymore. Perhaps my fingers are more dextrous than most idk. I don't use my wrists at all (which are actually kind of shit).

[@rkexiled7802]

Damn, Ive been using short immunity flasks without charge gain on hit. Switched and mapping feels so much safer smoother. Thanks for the vid!

[@leptonsoup337]

Fast forward to 3.19... hey! My wrists are GREAT now!

[@mathewbenford2981]

here from 2024 this is an excellent video

[@Luftbubblan]

Wow, thats a nice change. I was playing with controller for a but and was like, 2 flasks will be very hard for me to use, that sucks. This changes everything :D This should be an "option" imo.

[@craynak]

Where do I farm / acquire flask crafts from? Amazing video!

[@Noxxvideos]

My boy’s beard is looking crispy! Thanks for the video homie.

[@Soei23]

Damn! This must be one of THE most useful vids I've ever seen. And yes, I hate using flasks too. :-)

[@ideasonscribe]

Well this video is the easiest I've ever been convinced to subscribe.

[@mattpili]

Great reminder to do the flask

[@ThaGamingMisfit]

I'm amazed they didn't touch this for 3 patches, and I'm happy they didn't. Add Pathfinder's Master Surgeon to this and we might be somewhat gucci versus these rares !

[@thalon3707]

It totally works, made exactly those flasks for my pathfinder and safely running Red maps at 3.5k life

[@eliascarlsson2624]

Really nice video, thanks alot. Really Helped!

[@murilohenrique9115]

Thanks for the great vid mate ❤

[@ArcAngelVD6]

When and where do you unlock the recipe to craft "use when full" from the crafting bench?

[@BigDucks]

I actually have no idea as I've never not had them. Typically it should say in the undiscovered section where you get the unlock from.

[@ArcAngelVD6]

@@BigDucks as you say that im over here like "😰 there's a undiscovered section???!"

[@superking___]

You find the recipe in Oriath after you finish the campaign.

[@hellshock2646]

@@superking___ wdym oriath? it's karui shores not oriath

[@Chock.]

Thank you so much!

[@arcadus]

hand/wrist pain is why i'm hoping ggg fixes controller support for pc. it's really nice for the most part but it's lacking severely and is just bugged in some cases

[@Keln02]

The drop rate of instilling and such is just painfully low. Thus hurting my wrists in the farm process edit: where do you get the flask recipes?

[@tmnumber1]

Betrayal i believe

[@samuryebread1065]

@@tmnumber1 is it?

[@xdivineHART]

Thank you!

[@son1k783]

Wow this is huge. I'm running a minion build (skeleton mages), is the 'get a charge on hit' on flask viable for a minion build? Since my minions are getting hit all the time, but myself not so often. Thanks!

[@bankaibum82]

Amazing vid man thx ducks

[@drunkensp1der1]

Always learning from your vids, had no idea i could use the bench for flasks. Now, lets talk about this build of yours.

[@VitchAndVorty]

The new flask enchantment is the best technology for Pathfinder. lol

[@cyliemyrus]

300 OoA gone and did not see a single "gain x charges..."

[@shaddolf6662]

I've never had a problem with my left (flask) hand, my right (mouse) hand gets the issues

[@MonologueMusicals]

I've used 10 times the orbs you did in this video and I haven't seen that prefix once

[@villixtv5769]

great tip thank you !

[@zaetayo]

man was gonna fix my flasks and realize ggg have made white flasks only get 2% quality per glassblower bauble now....

[@Ruzzy23]

Thanks for that. Very helpful. I'm playing on console for the forseeable future and the flask change was really nice. Good info about how to craft them too. How come Einhar crafts are not as good anymore? Also how important is item level?

[@FAFOAerial]

Meanwhile I rolled 200 times and best I could do was 13% charge on crit.

[@anthonyg6083]

definitely helpful

[@michaelscotthawthorn7871]

What about minion builds that don't get hit often? Is there a way to automate when YOU hit an enemy? Or enemy kills?

[@Markness]

Very educational and helpful. Appreciated as I can now save my wrist power for fapping!

[@andrew5207]

What do you need to accomplish to unlock the “use when charges reach full” bench-craft?

[@circaen]

Honestly, it's not even the same game once you set up auto flasking. Crazy how much faster mapping becomes.

[@deception1829]

Where to get the flask crafting recipes?

[@kebrus]

is this no longer possible, it seems like the maximum is 3 changes on hit, am I wrong?

[@buraiyen]

Just in case anyone sees this, I can confirm that the max now is 3 changes. It got nerfed

[@WheresTheAnyKey1]

if i am evasion based, gain charges when hit by enemy isn't that good for me? or does the hit still "count" and i take no damage. not sure how that works.

[@BigDucks]

It won't be as good but is still very solid. Spells will still hit and you do get hit occasionally still.

[@conqueror345]

The most pain a PoE player gets is definetly emotional, wrists come after.

[@CuddleUTube]

any way i can deal with a unique mana flask as mana stacker build? i need to activate that every 5sec.. its such a pain in the ass

[@alexmcd378]

Reminder that poe controller support is pretty decent these days. Not perfect, but it really helps with the hand pain

[@knightofvirtue613]

I came to say this! Playing on the controller makes this game SO enjoyable. This control scheme makes it easier to play while reducing hand strain. Once I got the layout configured, I was impressed. Any build can be played with a controller.

[@Nik3600]

How do you get these crafts?

[@xzs432]

can you make a life flask trigger when reaching low life?

[@SuperLPGaming]

To be fair, my brain also take damage.

[@shroomiyt8396]

The healthy build

[@Phonobox]

wow thanks :) its a new game whit this craft ! :)

[@bgh12g]

while this serves as a great video to learn.. it was honestly the final straw in the POE gambling-craft simulator. i cant take much more of grinding for objects only to waste them all and never see a result. cya guys Stay strong!

[@yevheniibatiievskyi]

is there any automatic Mana flasks in POE ?

[@teosimoes7728]

Which item level the Flask must to be to hit the best mods?

[@rotony1]

What is that slot in inventory below your weapon?

[@BuzzaB77]

I have a nooob question, if my build is evasion based (trying the zizz/xai phys poison trapper) is this still effective? as in, does evasion actually avoid the hits so the flasks won't charge? or do the hits still count but the 'evasion' waives the damage type of thing?

[@yevheniibatiievskyi]

What is this build your character ?

[@benten5251]

does it work well if I have very high eva 80% build?

[@donaldesf7823]

What pop up is that your using the trading thing

[@termochila4985]

my lower back is leagues worse than my hands, and I have tendonitis in both wrists lol

[@AzeriathGaming]

My question as lvl 80 with 5 chaos orbs is... How the he'll do I get instilling orbs 😂

[@raygo44]

Wouldn't "used when adjacent flask is used" be better even tho you would have to use 1 flask manually to trigger others? Used when charges are full will stop activating if you are not killing anything like if you stopped to pick up some loot and then moved onto next pack of mobs.

[@Xqvvzts]

You can then automate one flask with the trigger of your choice. The others will then be triggered by it.

[@raygo44]

@@Xqvvzts I know that. I am just asking if "used when adjacent flask is used" would be more versatile and better than "Used when charges are full"

[@ramazankaya9545]

Depends on what build u playing a pathfinder gain charges all the time and with good clear speed u should have a big problem with that

[@Xqvvzts]

@@raygo44 That's what I mean. You put 3 flasks on 'used when adjacent flask is used' and then the remaining one is the one you can put anything you want on. You can even experiment with different triggers at the cost of only changing one flask

[@mechaphoenix6022]

Useful

[@karisrahl4444]

We have Mageblood at home

[@lonniehursey4048]

i spent 500 orbs and i only got 1 charge when hit. Got it multiple times but 1 was the max

[@htdiana6263]

If you haven't learned this yet. You need higher item level flasks for better prefixes/suffixes. iLvl 29+ for 1 when hit iLvl 63+ for 2 iLvl 80+ for 3

[@pant333ra1]

I was making alot of money crafting ilvl 85 flasks last league

[@michereff16]

Is this possible/viable to do while leveling? I'm new to the game and currently at lv54.

[@zombiejesus7445]

Super dumb that macros are "against the ToS"... Too bad! I still use a 1 button macro for all my flasks anyways. I have been since around Blight and won't stop

[@marcillefan]

could you share the macro?

[@zombiejesus7445]

@@marcillefan they make keyboards you can rebind a key. Usually you can make that 1 key do multiple actions. I have a razer tartarus. So I can record a macro to hit 1,2,3,4,5 in real time. Then program that single key to use that macro. You can do the same if you have auras on your back weapon. So it will switch to your back weapon, hit the keys to apply your auras and switch back to your main weapon with 1 click

[@Athacalus]

Simple macros are in "grey" zone. But it is not automation that can give you a real edge over other players. BUT, if you start skills usage automation it is not "fighting bad design", its just cheating and finding excuses.

[@pokemonbill]

How does the gain life flask when hit work with block? Do you still get the charges if you block?

[@lucasoyarzun9902]

Yes

[@thalon3707]

Yes, you still get hit

[@Athacalus]

Yes. All block, tanky characters can have constant flasks uptime. In boss fights that depends - can you survive most hits?

[@fokusmok7]

But this method You will never się full flasks... If they are half full, they will bot be used. I have other method. Set flasks to use when adjacent is used. Ten You click only obce, and all your flasks are used on moment that You need most

[@juanduque7983]

now for some builds that are NOT uniques and/or 6/5 links

[@Intiriel]

Does the "Activate when you hit a rare enemy" work with trap builds?

[@BigDucks]

Traps are a separate entity so I don't think they do.

[@ОлегВасягин]

I used AHK long script too))) 1-2-3-4-5 delay 5 sec)

[@Allesmann2]

cool ty :)

[@AngelTheMages]

Where do u get those bench crafts?

[@davep5788]

They are added automatically.