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Flares are a common attribute that armor, shields, weapons, and runestaves throughout Elanthia possess. A flare can be anything that benefits the wielder functionally in combat either offensively or defensively that is NOT manually activated by the wielder via a verb trap. Flares can be determined empirically or through a bard loresong; however, scripted flares will NOT typically show up in an item's loresong.

This article is organized to align with the Categories in item properties.

Category B Flares

Category B flares, as officially defined, are categorized into three groups: common, uncommon, and rare. Common and uncommon flares can be found on items in the treasure system, while rare flares are typically only offered through special merchant services at festivals and pay events. They might also be called "traditional" or "standard" flares, for which presence of the flare means an item cannot be blessed.

Flares can injure a target for between 1 to 60 health points, averaging about 20 per flare, and typically causing minor (level 1) wounds.

Common Flares

Common flares include all flares that can be obtained via Elemental Blade (411) and low level mana and acuity runestaff flares. They are also the most likely to be sold off-the-shelf in an event merchant shop. Common flares have a standard rate of 1 per 5 (20%) for weapons and 1 per 8 (12.5%) for runestaffs.

Flare	Description	Type	Loresong ID
Cold	Also known as "water" or "ice" flares, these flares are effective on fire-type creatures. See also rhimar	Elemental	Power of an ice elemental
Fire	Effective on cold-type or water-type creatures, as well as trolls and most undead. Most forms of trolls take double damage. Also may be referred to as Heat. See also drake and drakar	Elemental	Power of a fire elemental
Vacuum	Also known as "void" or "air" flares, these flares are found on coraesine weapons	Elemental	Power of a dark substance
Vibration	Also known as "earth" or "impact" flares, these flares are effective on earth-type creatures, such as pyrothags. See also gornar	Elemental	Power of an earth elemental
Lightning	Effective on most creatures, but when used in water-filled rooms, may conduct back to the user. See also feras and zorchar	Hybrid Elemental	Power of a lightning bolt
Acuity 1x-4x	Set bonus upon triggering of +5 AS/+3 CS or +10/+6 or +15/+9 or +20/+12 depending on level (x)	Runestaff	Focus their magical prowess for a single cast
Mana +1-+2	Returns 1 or 2 mana upon triggering (even upon casting defensive spells), depending on plus (+)	Runestaff	Infused with mana

Uncommon Flares

Uncommon flares include the remaining hybrid elements, spiritual-based flares, as well as mid-levels of mana and acuity.

Flare	Description	Type	Loresong ID
Acid		Hybrid Elemental	Power of a corrosive substance
Steam	More effective on undead	Hybrid Elemental	Infused with a steaming substance
Disintegration	Similar to Disintegrate (705)	Sorcerous	Infused with a disintegrating substance
Disruption	Similar to Mana Disruption (702), can be found in pure black ora weapons	Sorcerous	Infused with a disrupting substance
Holy water	Available only through Bless (304) and sometimes permablessing, these flares behave like acid on undead and (harmless but visible) water on living creatures	Spiritual
Plasma	Effective on undead, available through Consecrate (1604)	Spiritual	Power of a flaming substance
Acuity 5x-6x	Set bonus of +25 AS/+15 CS or +30/+18, depending on level (x)	Runestaff	Focus their magical prowess for a single cast
Mana +3-+4	Returns 3 or 4 mana upon triggering (even upon casting defensive spells), depending on plus (+)	Runestaff	Infused with mana

Rare Flares

Rare flares include mechanical, force, high level mana and acuity, and dispel. The designation also included scripted flares from Category D that also take up the Category B property. The list of those flares is incomplete.

Mechanical flares also exist as a functional Category D script, which is NOT the same as these Category B flares.

Flare	Description	Type	Loresong ID
Crushing	Applicable only to rods	Mechanical
Piercing	Applicable only to spikes	Mechanical
Slashing	Applicable only to blades	Mechanical
Grapple	Tendril of force. Have a high potential to knockdown/stun targets with very little likelihood of fatal criticals	Force
Unbalance	Burst of force. Have a very high likelihood of knocking down a target	Force
Acuity 7x-10x	Set bonus of +35 AS/+21 CS or +40/+24 or +45/+27 or +50/+30, depending on level (x)	Runestaff	Focus their magical prowess for a single cast
Mana +5	Returns 5 mana upon triggering (even upon casting defensive spells)	Runestaff	Infused with mana
Dispel	Removes a spell from the target	Dispel	Power of a strange anti-magical substance
Greater elemental	Weapon has the chance to flare naturally, flare the special scripted double-flare, or both at once	Script (Cat. D)
Realm	Flares change based on the realm where the wielder is hunting	Script (Cat. D)
Rotating	Give the wielder a choice of whatever flares are built into the weapon.	Script (Cat. D)
Snake	A Special flare type with a pit-headed viper and fluff verbs	Script (Cat. D)

Unclassified Flares

These are flares that are fairly unknown in regards to their properties and hence are listed as unclassified until further information is discovered to properly identify commonality.

Flare	Description	Type	Loresong ID
Air
Magma			Infused with a molten substance
Water	Deals water themed crush damage to a target.	Mechanical
Psychic	Unique flare found on low steel items

Category C Flares

Category C Flares consist of flares added via bane weapon services. The bane flares will only trigger against certain creatures or groups of creatures, and be in the form of a Category B flare, the exact one being the service winner's choice and also dependent upon on what the service options were.

Category D Flares

Category D flares, as officially defined, are item scripts, also referred to as "specialty flares." See above Category B rare flares for Category D scripts that will fill both categories. All of these are considered rare services and unlikely to appear outside of pay events.

Flare	Description	Type
Banshee	Shields and runestaves only. Imparts bonus TD and bolt DS to wielder	Script
Blink	Allows the wielder to infuse a spell they are capable of learning into the weapon. Flares cast the spell for no mana	Script
Blood	The flare of a Parasitic Weapon does slashing damage	Script
Briar	Stores wielder's blood to flare grapple damage	Script
Bubble	Provide the wielder with temporary damage padding for approximately one minute. Padding levels range from heavy to phenomenal.	Script
Chronomage	15% chance to triple attack for additional 1 second RT	Script
Ethereal chain	Puncture-based flare	Script
Immolation		Script
Ironwright	Gives holy flares when an item is blessed (no matter the profession) as well as a selection of two or three other flares (for example, acid/impact/web). The other flares are activated by casting a related spell at the weapon after it has been blessed (e.g. Hurl Boulder for impact). The flares last until the bless wears off. This flare occupies the script slot, not the flare slot	Script
Knockout	A	Script
Poison	Temporary poison flares, which flare occasionally, and the kind of poison flares that flare every hit. Also, there are serpent flares that can have special effects when poisoning the target	Script
Polearm rebalance	Also known a "poleaxe flares." They inflict a critical from the crush table as damage when they flare, and have the potential for a second "flare" which trips the target. If you have 50 ranks of MOC and the flare activates, you have a 33% chance of also doing the second "flare". If you have 100 ranks of MOC and the flare activates, you have a 66% chance of also doing the second "flare". It is possible to bless weapons with this flare (that would be blessable without it)	Script
Rot	Is compatible with some other Category D scripts so that an item can have both	Script
Shadowdeath	These flares do only blood-loss type damage, no wounds. Only found on "black alloy" weapons	Script
Vial	Produces a vial that returns a small amount of mana, health, or spirit (depending on the type) when triggered	Script

Methods of Obtaining Flares

Flares can be added to weapons that do not previously have flares by a variety of methods. There are some methods that do not require a merchant, such as the paladin spell Sanctify (1625), the cleric spell Bless Item (304) (when cast by a cleric with 40 or more ranks in the Cleric Base), or the minor elemental spell Elemental Blade (411). Each of these spells have restrictions on which weapons they can be cast on and still add the flares. To add flares to a weapon that is magical or non-blessable, one would require the services of a special merchant. A merchant might add standard flares (which would be heat, cold, vibration, lightning, or acid flares). Very rarely will they add other, non-standard flares.

Premium subscribers can add one standard flare from awarded Premium points at a cost of 300 points + 300 points per item enchant. For example, the cost to add acid flares to a 5x (+25) longsword would be 300 + (300 * 5 ) = 1800 premium points.

Armor Flares

Flares can be added to armor and armor accessories, often referred to as reactive flares. Generally, these flares are considered defensive in nature, as they only react when the character is struck by an attacker. However, certain combat maneuvers will implement these flares in an offensive manner, such as Sweep, Bearhug, and Shield Bash. Reactive flares can be added to full armor, shields, and piece armor (leg greaves, helmets, etc.). It is believed that all armor flares are both reactive and offensive in nature, in that they may flare when the wearer of flared armor is struck, and they may flare when a combat maneuver that can use armor flares is used. Piece armors will only flare when the body part they cover is struck or the combat maneuver makes contact with the covered body part -- for example, when a character uses Sweep, the legs make contact with the enemy, and therefore if the character is wearing flaring leg greaves, it has a chance to flare.

Reactive flares can be added to shields and armor, but not armor accessories, through the Premium points system.

Resources

• Armor and Weapon Moods (saved post)
• Runestaff saved posts
• Tykus' flare data