[BUG]? The Covenant + Aura reservation

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MesostelZe wrote:

If the lack of increased mana cost weren't intended, then why wouldn't the item description read "All gems are supported by level # Blood Magic", or include an explicit cost multiplier?

It seems to be doing what's on the tin. You equip the item, you have Blood Magic, you cast the auras, their properties (including their cost) are determined by your passives and their statistics at the time of casting.

I think treating this as a special case would certainly be pretty weird and undesirable. So if there's an unintended aspect of it, then it has to be that auras have their properties determined entirely at the time when they are cast.

Personally, I think the present mechanic is actually good, and apart from the mechanics being easy to understand, allowing this kind of trickery opens up some options which are really cool, not just in this case, but in the future in general with various uniques being able to manipulate the properties of auras when worn during the cast.

Maybe the game is a little harder to balance this way, and if you think the problems with balance are too hard to solve, then fine, but I think this is a mechanic which is otherwise worth preserving, because it opens up more potential complexity and diversity, being able to extract some additional creative use from uniques that would otherwise sit in your stash or be traded away because they don't really have a place on the character.

The only thing which I think perhaps ought to change is that auras are presently not preserved through a logout/login cycle, so if you do something like this, you not only have to repeat the ritual when the gem levels, but also every time you log in. It would be nice to log in with the same auras on your character as were active when you logged out.

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MesostelZe wrote:

If the lack of increased mana cost weren't intended, then why wouldn't the item description read "All gems are supported by level # Blood Magic", or include an explicit cost multiplier?

It seems to be doing what's on the tin. You equip the item, you have Blood Magic, you cast the auras, their properties (including their cost) are determined by your passives and their statistics at the time of casting.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

No, it shouldn't. That would lead to always summoning with no supports, then adding supports afterwards to increase their damage/life/etc at no penalty since you already paid the mana cost without an multipliers on it.