Curse on Hit, Hypothetical Curse Aura: Make them count separately from manual cast curses.

First, I like the concept of Curse on Hit. But the opportunity cost of 2 gems is too high, there needs to be a significant benefit here. My suggestion is counting CoH separately from your max of cast curses. Meaning you could use CoH and a separate manual cast curse to double curse. Further, while I like the idea of a Curse Aura support, I think it would encounter the same problem as CoH. Curse auras, therefore, should also be counted separately from cast and CoH curses. In fact, curse auras should be treated as auras, that can stack indefinitely, not as capped curses.

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Pretty nice.
But if i have 4 curses on 1 CoH? Shoud its stack? 1 weak strike -> 4 curses for ~10 seconds -> profit...
Shoud stack CoH curses from multiple players?

I purposefully left that open ended. If CoH has its own separate but equal cap, depending on gear and passives, then you might quickly get ridiculous curse stacking i.e. players with a curse cap of 2 could cast 2 manual curses and then CoH an additional 2 for quadruple curse.

Although we're talking a significant socket and passive/gear investment to make that work. If that is overpowered and can't be balanced by traditional means (jacking up mana costs) then we could keep the CoH cap separate from manual cast curses such that you could only ever CoH a single additional curse.