If you take a literal one shot the basalt is in fact notably stronger.
Basalt vs granite flask.
Granite flask granite flask lasts 4 00 seconds consumes 30 of 60 charges on use 3000 to armour requires level 27 right click to drink.
Basalt is mafic while granite is felsic.
It depends on the size of the hits you want to tank your current armour stats and what other sources of phys reduction you already have end charges aa etc.
Refills as you kill monsters.
The reliability of 20 additive pdr.
Jade is in my opinion always superior for evasion builds due to keeping the benefits while moving.
The key difference between basalt and granite is that basalt is mostly occurring on ocean floors while granite is in the crust of the earth in all continents.
Basalt granite with inc armour during flask effect granite is better in generall if you have low base armour since the scaling with armour is better on the lower armour ratings basalt is the better choice when you already have high base armour.
If you activate the jade flask initially you get a 20 movement speed bonus.
Theres no definitive answer.
Basalt flask lasts 4 50 seconds consumes 40 of 60 charges on use 15 additional physical damage reduction 20 of melee physical damage taken reflected to attacker requires level 40 right click to drink.
The cloud is nice for bosses but you really shouldn t be trying to face tank bosses with evasion.
Depending on the properties like hardness toughness specific heat capacity porosity etc rocks are resistant to heat wear impact etc granite is heat resistant wear resistant whereas basalt is heat resistant pressure resistant wear resistant.
The actual effectiveness of either flask varies with how much base armour and armour modifiers you have.
Duration 4s with 100 armour.
Granite is superior to basalt for weaker enemy hits.
Earth contains three kinds of rocks namely igneous rocks sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks.
Basalt is superior to granite against spike damage.
For low armor chars.
As a general rule granite will be better against multiple smaller phys hits but basalt works better against giant slams.
Can only hold charges while in belt.
Refills as you kill monsters.
To be perfectly fair i overestimated granites against completely ludicrous single hit damage.
Basalt is common on both earth and other solar system bodies such as the moon and mars while granite is only common on earth and rare elsewhere in the solar system.
Basalt is volcanic or extrusive forming at the surface while granite is plutonic or intrusive forming beneath the surface.
