Flare Affinity

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Flare Affinity is a Combat Flourish, updated in August 2024. It boosts the effectiveness of weapons with ability slot flares. Weapons with flare affinity will have their flares fire more often. Flares that deal damage will also receive 4 bonus critical ranks, delivering a critical between rank 5 and 9 inclusive.

The flare rate increase of the Flare Affinity Combat Flourish does work in conjunction with the flare rate increase of the Supercharger items and BOOST SUPERCHARGE login reward.

The increased frequency is the same as Item Superchargers. The increased potency causes all the flares to be rank 5-9 (before padding, resistance, randomization, etc).[1]

Flare Affinity will also increase the frequency and potency of a bane flare.


Common Flares Modified
Cold flares Frequency Potency
Fire flares Frequency Potency
Lightning flares Frequency Potency
Vacuum (void) flares Frequency Potency
Vibration (earth, impact) flares Frequency Potency
Uncommon Flares Modified
Acid flares Frequency Potency
Disintegration flares Frequency Potency
Disruption flares Frequency Potency
Plasma flares Frequency Potency
Steam flares Frequency Potency
Rare Flares Modified
Acuity flares [weapons *runestaffs] Frequency +25 AS, +15 CS
Air flares Frequency Potency
Dispel flares Frequency Potency
Grapple flares Frequency Potency
Magma flares Frequency Potency
Mana flares [weapons *runestaffs] Frequency only -
Mechanical (three varieties: slash, puncture, crush) flares
Unbalance flares Frequency Potency
Water (krush) flares Frequency Potency

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