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

I agree, these new auras look terrible. Please revert them back, or give us the options to use the old ones. Or possibly create new ones that are based on the old designs, just smaller and more transparent. I don't understand why GGG would scrap such beautiful designs just to replace them with a bunch of rotating swirls.

Why making old auras an option is a bad idea:

There will be probably many more changes to the way things look. not only auras, but probably areas, armour models and so on.

Giving an option to go to an older version of things for everything will just be insane!

Imagine!

Options:
- old auras
- old majestic plate texture
- old copper armor template
- old some_area look
- old some_other area look
- old light inside some_area
- old texture on this stuuf
- old texture on some other stuff
- old shield artwork
- old some_skill effect
- old some_other skill effect

etc.. more and more with every patch

You just have to accept the changes or make some reasonable arguments against them (not: "me no like itz")

I love the look of the new auras!

Much better performance wise, and much more fitting with the setting and general art direction of PoE. I always thought the old auras made the game look like a circus.

Thank you for this excellent change :-)

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So after the update removing the majority of the detail on auras, I was thinking that I prefer if it was the way it was before. But I understand that people would rather have it simplified. So, my idea is to give the option to have the auras the way they were, or the updated way. It could be a simple tick box in the options menu, under graphics or UI. Just my two cents into auras.

Wrath and anger looks worse than i can handwrite it in paint (which is TERRIBLE by the way lol).

Make both versions (old and new) as an option! I will gladly use old look when i play in solo at ALL times. New look looks like its being made by some D- kid game dev team.

I'm a summoner myself, and while I'm not horrible put off by the change to the way the auras LOOK, I'm really annoyed that only one aura shows on allies. It'd make more sense to me if it was the other way around, with auras simply not displaying UNLESS they're on allies (they display on the buff bar at the top).

I currently can't play this character because I rely on making sure my minions are in range of my auras and all I can see is a little red ring here and there. One solution that I think would be awesome would be a way to toggle a display that shows the edge of your aura radius (the lowest range aura only, not several rings).

Maybe there's a middle ground? Not quite as simple as they are now, but less detailed than they were previously. The main change being a brightness and noticeability increase.
I might be overestimating how complicated the previous animations actually were, though. They might have been shockingly simple.


I like the auras on -other- things to be more simple. As the originator of the aura, either is fine by me. But I don't care to see every one of our party's 20 zombies covered in Anger, Wrath, and Hatred balloons.

After playing for a couple of days I can say the change to performance is non-existant in my case. My FPS still drop to 15 in areas where they dropped before the patch.

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guidoo wrote:

After playing for a couple of days I can say the change to performance is non-existant in my case. My FPS still drop to 15 in areas where they dropped before the patch.

What's your case? There are a lot of extremes here. Are you partying? Summoning a lot of creatures? Keeping up one aura on yourself alone? Four auras on yourself and your best friend?

It's probably important as Beta testers to keep this kind of thing in mind when we post in the feedback forums.