Your running windows 8...i' joking but yea y u no switch bac?

What about when shadow fire falls all around you, so that you are perfectly healthy but trapped? If you're solo, then there is no way to escape. I once had to abandon an FSC trip for that reason.

I think that the level designers intended for us to extinguish the fire with water actively, rather than letting it accumulate. And to not walk where it is falling of course.

And you complain about fire trap, look at ice trap and ice lumber. Trap can catch you and you will die. If lumber broke your shield, you will die too.

It's funny how people are salty when they get trapped and murdered by an attack as well as when monsters don't get trapped and murdered by a similar attack that they've launched. I am of course mentioning the tortofists, and claims that invincitinks are inapropriate on them.

As for the actual problem, I've only had it happen to me a few time and I really don't believe that it's a legitimate concern for the developers. If they could fix it easily, then yes, it would make sense for them to. Unfortunately, I doubt that there is an easy fix for this considering how shadow fire is used in a lot of other situations where extinguishing it or allowing the player extra mobility would be game breaking. The best fix would be to hard code revives (including emergency ones) to remove shadow fire but only on the vanaduke fight, and even that isn't entirely fool proof.

the light on the floor shows where the debris animation is,
the fire can land within a 5* haze bombs range if the light from what I've seen

I was not advising players to put out the fire actively. When I fight Vanaduke, I ignore the fire as long as possible, just as you say.

That's how I got into the predicament described in post #4. In retrospect, I should have put out just a little bit of fire a little earlier. But I ignored all of the fire for too long, got trapped, and had to abandon the mission.

Um. Yes.......The thing about it is that people suggest that it should hit with all of its might, with no invincitinks. This would decimate anything that you got stuck on it, much as Vanaduke's fire decimates you on that rare occasion.

And knights do have invincitinks, they just don't sound or let you clip through walls to escape. That's why in lockdown cutters always miss with a large portion of their swing, sudaruska's charge does ~half damage, and blitz needle doesn't just decimate anyone that comes near it.

Are you sure?

Most of the time I only get hurt once whenever I run into a trap. Not having invincibility frames there would make me take a huge amount of damage, every possible frame.

This has happened to me on solo runs *sadface* But honestly there are lots of insta-death scenarios in the game that you can't get out of without help (or paying way too much to the revive fairy). Like getting cornered or something. I now pay extra special attention when fighting enemies with a rush attack as if they bounce you into a corner it's over... likewise with VD I pay a *lot* of attention when the floor starts glowing before the lava falls

Personally I find all of the little glitches in the game endearing and interesting... like shield cancelling for example. Do you think the Dev team sat down and said you know what, lets make it so that using your shield makes your knight recover from attacks faster! Probably not, but they probably did figure out that people wanted to shield in a timely fashion. The point I'm trying to get to is it adds depth, and skill to an otherwise pretty basic game play. Other techniques like the "Lunge", turning off AA to make the most out of brandish/alchemer charges so on and so forth add something IMHO. Back when the game started I remember clearly talking among friends and being super excited figuring out stuff like this.

but to each their own