Post aura rage here. I will lock any other aura thread I see.

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fortyb4five wrote:

The community on this game are a bunch of babies geesh.

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BlazEm wrote:

+1 to new aura's, much better than the old disco party, Wraeclast is supposed to be a dark place.

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zZzbynek wrote:

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Aixius wrote:

Despite the F2P nature of PoE, I've always felt like I was playing a high-quality game with nice visuals and sounds. The auras, in particular, looked very nice and were a boon to screenshots that I posted to community forums when trying to promote PoE during closed beta.

These new auras should have been part of a "low FX" option for people with low-end systems instead of being rolled out across the board. Reducing the visual clutter around minions and party members I completely understand, but replacing the great-looking aura effects around our characters with (frankly) budget effects does a disservice to both your players and the game as a whole.



You guys have "continued to incrementally improve the art, effects and environments and audio" and the game has looked and sounded better and better with each patch; please don't start undoing all that work.

+1

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Milchut wrote:

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philosoaper wrote:

there's not much radiating or eminating with the new "thin line that doesn't really tell you much that moves around the character and looks like an effect from 2003"-ras

You know, if you're actually going to try a semantic argument, you should know that literally every source regarding the abstract concept of an 'aura' refers to it as a very faint spiritual thing that only the enlightened can see in the first place, if at all. So if anything, the new auras are closer to the 'Correct' definition of Aura.
When MOST people (people before the advent of the computer) speak of saints and prophets, they mention the faint and nigh-imperceptible 'halo' that surrounded them.

Rather than the blinding form of Zeus that prompted them to kowtow and shield their eyes, lest his incandescence boil their frame to ash. Which is more comparable to the old auras.

In classical parlance, especially in an art-historical context, this is what an aura is.


Those slight yellow brush strokes against the neutral brown of the tree. The little 'halo' there? that's the extent of an aura, when you hear it talked about among astrology enthusiasts and gallery roamers--
That faint light is the sign of an immensely powerful mortal. A small sign to indicate great inner power.
And I'm reading too far into it now, but I want to keep that for our exiles.

The only time you see larger ones are when some church figure decided he'd throw a lot of literal gold at your altarpiece, or the artist was trying to depict an Angel appearing or some other aspect of God with a capital "G"

On that note, I'm all for the monsters we face being the only ones with the old auras.