Aura Stacking Might Be Broken

this build cost a fortune just becose its OP and HALF server play this unbalanced crap. hope nerf is comming cus its need it badly. GGG should made all cluster jewels limited to 1. Its the easiest (and proly the best one) way to nerf all op cluster builds

My money is on Saqawal's Nest that will take a nerf, either on stats, either on mana reservation. They might do something about stacking mana reservation corrupted jewels as well, for example corruptions of same type on jewels will no longer stack.

The 6% aura effect cluster jewels might take a hit, but I don't expect them to be nerfed to the ground. Maybe limit their effect on allies, or change 6% aura effect to 5%.

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6_din_49 wrote:

My money is on Saqawal's Nest that will take a nerf, either on stats, either on mana reservation.

The 6% aura effect cluster jewels might take a hit as well, but they are expensive as hell, so I don't expect them to be nerfed to the ground.

What good does nerfing Saqawal's do? Half the aurastackers are going low life with Shavs.

https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?class=Ascendant&item=Call-of-the-Brotherhood,Nebulis,Might-of-the-Meek,Conquerors-Efficiency,Voices

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Dkodr wrote:

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6_din_49 wrote:

My money is on Saqawal's Nest that will take a nerf, either on stats, either on mana reservation.

The 6% aura effect cluster jewels might take a hit as well, but they are expensive as hell, so I don't expect them to be nerfed to the ground.

What good does nerfing Saqawal's do? Half the aurastackers are going low life with Shavs.

https://poe.ninja/challenge/builds?class=Ascendant&item=Call-of-the-Brotherhood,Nebulis,Might-of-the-Meek,Conquerors-Efficiency,Voices

And the other half are running CI with Prism Guardian.

Only 21% of stackers with CI and Saqawals use Prism Guardian.

My point is - nerfing Saqawal's won't do anything as players then just will go low life.

I keep hearing the same arguments i heard before Herald stacking was nerfed.

"But its expensive let me break the game"

No. The game was never balanced around cost of a build. Whenever there were cheezy overpowered shit no matter if 2 chaos or 2 mirrors it got nerfed. Expect no different from aura effect stacking and mana reserve reduction. Its simple as that.

Besides aura effect stacking gear is expensive because its massively broken overpowered and therefore everyone and their grandma either plays one or saving up for one. Simple supply and demand.

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xMustard wrote:

i classify a build as failed because of currency cost because again, it cannot even operate until a certain investment. and that certain investment is probably out of the reach of 95%+ of players (complete guess btw).

Idk this is a silly description. Every build is failed until you put enough currency into it to be successful.

It would be like calling babies failed humans because they are future adolescents and potential adults. Like, this description wouldn't be wrong but it would really miss the point.

My biggest gripe isn't aura stacking (haven't played such a build at all myself) but the way they nerf anything in this game usually ends up destroying fair and balanced builds other people have made, which often have nothing to do with the problem supposedly addressed.

GGG just lacks the skill to balance things so they'd better focus on different things. I'm worried because this has been a never-ending cycle and it seems as if people don't notice.

Devs also for some unknown reason like to play god. They make changes for the sake of change, whether it has any improving effect on gameplay or not.

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Hokek wrote:

this build cost a fortune just becose its OP and HALF server play this unbalanced crap. hope nerf is comming cus its need it badly. GGG should made all cluster jewels limited to 1. Its the easiest (and proly the best one) way to nerf all op cluster builds

Making all cluster jewels limited to 1 is the wrong way to nerf. Just get rid of RMR as a corruption on jewels, slightly nerf all sources of increased effect of aura on the cluster jewels and everywhere else. And maybe limit voices to 1.

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CaptinSupreem wrote:

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+1, exactly my thoughts, man.