Aura Stacking Might Be Broken

I hope they don't nerf it. As a casual, the only hope I have of seeing all the content is to do so in Standard, but I enjoy playing the Leagues so that is where my playtime focus generally is. I just recently noticed I have enough currency (maybe 25 exalts worth after two plus years of playtime) in Standard to make one, excellent build and chose an aura stacker. All those leagues of currency will be gone if this build is nerfed.

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mathewb wrote:

They cost to omuch to make work - not sure they get nerfed at all.

Just my 2 cents.

-Matt.

They cost a lot because they OP AF. It's like when I started a Mjölnir was 45 EX because LL discharge was the thing to be. Now they are a chaos item. It's all supply and demand. Like nebulis wasnt worth shit until aura stacking delirium brought.

I think they will nerf tree reservation nodes, possibly remove jewel mana reserve corruptions. beyond that I don't think anything else needs to change.

Even if you reduce the mana reserve given by tree nodes 4-5%, that might completely break apart most aura stacking builds that already reserve all mana (or +life) to get damage AND defenses. Take away a few % reserve here and there and you leave aura stackers short on 1-2 aura spots that might be crucial for either defense or damage.

I can also see prism guardian getting a nerf to its inherent 25% reduced mana reservation. Make that 20 or 15%. Frankly, its overdue for a nerf considering the 25% has been around since 1.1 and yet there are far more auras now than there ever were back then.

Aura effect doesn't really need to be nerfed provided reserve gets nerfed. It just needs to be way harder or impossible to fit in x # of auras in any build.

Aura stacker works only because a build manage to get all the right ingredients in place. If the RMR or limiting RMR in jewel or toning down some of the unique mana reserved, this build will not be as OP and definitely not many will build it. Just look at Herald stacker. How many build them this league?

By toning down the RMR means a build will need Voices which have RMR corruption and how many do you see in the game? This will reduce the number of player who will actually build a decent build.

GGG will definitely tone some of it down for AS as this build has more players building them than Herald stacker in previous league.

Carrion golem and AS will be the main nerf GGG hit.

I don't know why your listing carrion golem as a seperate build the non aura stacking version is solid but its nothing to run screaming about just highlights what the whole threads about.

I don't care if you have 5000 mirrors at your disposal, nobody should be able to break the game this way. The nerf bat will come hard and fast, like a choo choo train.

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Melychath wrote:

I hope they don't nerf it. As a casual, the only hope I have of seeing all the content is to do so in Standard, but I enjoy playing the Leagues so that is where my playtime focus generally is. I just recently noticed I have enough currency (maybe 25 exalts worth after two plus years of playtime) in Standard to make one, excellent build and chose an aura stacker. All those leagues of currency will be gone if this build is nerfed.

You need closer to 300ex to know what an aura stacker really feels like...

I ran one in Delirium, it was fun but I'm always looking to try something new and not revisit builds I've already played out for a league.

I'm completly against nerfing rmr in the tree because the tree has to have meaningfull stuffs. Not everybody checks on youtube guide, the tree needs to have meaning.

Aura stacking, like previous herald stuffs should be destroyed, this should not be in the game, at least not this way.

They should make it so you can only have 1 free aura for CI/LL then it takes ES for each other aura(??) like blood magic lol

That would hurt :D

Also idk how good this build is but every other build ive played sucks (to me they cant even kill sirus or do t16 del maps)

Maybe buff other builds to be good instead of nerfing one thats good to get worse like every other build

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teknik1200 wrote:

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Melychath wrote:

I hope they don't nerf it. As a casual, the only hope I have of seeing all the content is to do so in Standard, but I enjoy playing the Leagues so that is where my playtime focus generally is. I just recently noticed I have enough currency (maybe 25 exalts worth after two plus years of playtime) in Standard to make one, excellent build and chose an aura stacker. All those leagues of currency will be gone if this build is nerfed.

You need closer to 300ex to know what an aura stacker really feels like...

I ran one in Delirium, it was fun but I'm always looking to try something new and not revisit builds I've already played out for a league.

I believe you. I'm following a guide that suggests it can be started for as little as 50ex. I'm playing on Xbox and have acquired most of the gear, key parts of it in League, so I'm waiting for my toon to get sent to Standard to give this thing a whirl. It'd be disappointing to not even get to try it out after all the effort should it be nerfed before 3.13 starts.