Essence of desolation says flasks are equipped

Flasks are not equipped, so the wording on Essence of Desolation's Belt mod " Equipped Magic Flasks have 30% increased effect on you if no Flasks are Adjacent to them" does not make sense. The word "Equipped" should simply be removed altogether from it.
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flasks are equipped, this isn't a bug. GGG has even mentioned equipping flasks do things all the way back to patch 1.2.3 patch notes https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1069885#p8968615

also there is a megathread for things you think are typos, also the wording makes sense because the position of where the flask is equipped matters.
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flasks are equipped, this isn't a bug. GGG has even mentioned equipping flasks do things all the way back to patch 1.2.3 patch notes https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1069885#p8968615

also there is a megathread for things you think are typos, also the wording makes sense because the position of where the flask is equipped matters.



flasks are not equipment, but "equipped"


They should just fixed the wording
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flasks are equipped, this isn't a bug. GGG has even mentioned equipping flasks do things all the way back to patch 1.2.3 patch notes https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1069885#p8968615

also there is a megathread for things you think are typos, also the wording makes sense because the position of where the flask is equipped matters.

So you're saying that the wording on Voll's Vision is false?

And no, I didn't want to consider this a typo, as I don't think they accidentally typed something they didn't intend to type while typing it. I think this wording was used deliberately, but without properly looking into if it was correct or not and whether it conflicted with existing usage of the word.
And yes, you made me trade for a Voll's Vision just to double check that which I already knew.
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bidoblob#8864 wrote:
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flasks are equipped, this isn't a bug. GGG has even mentioned equipping flasks do things all the way back to patch 1.2.3 patch notes https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1069885#p8968615

also there is a megathread for things you think are typos, also the wording makes sense because the position of where the flask is equipped matters.

So you're saying that the wording on Voll's Vision is false?

And no, I didn't want to consider this a typo, as I don't think they accidentally typed something they didn't intend to type while typing it. I think this wording was used deliberately, but without properly looking into if it was correct or not and whether it conflicted with existing usage of the word.
And yes, you made me trade for a Voll's Vision just to double check that which I already knew.


Voll's Vision only cares about equipment items, things like flasks, heist trinket, random league mechanic things(such as grafts in keepers league) are equipped, but not considered equipment

of anything it is voll's vision that needs a wording update(to equipped equipment items).
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bidoblob#8864 wrote:
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flasks are equipped, this isn't a bug. GGG has even mentioned equipping flasks do things all the way back to patch 1.2.3 patch notes https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1069885#p8968615

also there is a megathread for things you think are typos, also the wording makes sense because the position of where the flask is equipped matters.

So you're saying that the wording on Voll's Vision is false?

And no, I didn't want to consider this a typo, as I don't think they accidentally typed something they didn't intend to type while typing it. I think this wording was used deliberately, but without properly looking into if it was correct or not and whether it conflicted with existing usage of the word.
And yes, you made me trade for a Voll's Vision just to double check that which I already knew.


Voll's Vision only cares about equipment items, things like flasks, heist trinket, random league mechanic things(such as grafts in keepers league) are equipped, but not considered equipment

of anything it is voll's vision that needs a wording update(to equipped equipment items).


Can you actually make any example of anything else in the game using the word "Equipped" in this manner? Because I can find more examples of it not counting flasks. And I'm getting really tired of trading for them just to double check that which I already know.
Players deal 10% less Damage per Equipped Item
Players' Minions deal 10% less Damage per Item Equipped by their Master
2% increased Intelligence for each Unique Item Equipped
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/37np2h/comment/croez4l/
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Mark_GGG

11y ago
GGG
Items equipped directly to your character count, with the exception of flasks. Gems are socketed into other items, not equipped directly, and Jewels are in the tree, not equipped, so will not count. Flasks don't count due to technical limitations, and probably wouldn't anyway due to the fact you can trivially have 5 of them for balance reasons (we don't want things that count equipped things to always just mean you use flasks). If it helps keep it straight in your head, you could consider the flasks to be "slotted" into your belt similar to gems in a weapon, rather than directly on the character, I guess?

I guess "equipped" in relation to flasks does not mean the game term "equipped", but simply means "wearable", "slotted".

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