Eternal Blessing Support allows free pride reservation, stacking with other auras, intended?

The new support gem "Eternal Blessing" allows you to reserve pride (mana free) while running your auras normally. The reason for this is, Pride only effects enemies in your vicinity and not the caster. A free 50% reservation is incredibly powerful and completely mandatory for physical builds...Is this an intended interaction?

Unfortunately, it looks like it's a bug, as per a Reddit post from Mark.

So, it will likely be fixed shortly.

Interestingly, when I restructured my character around it working, I spotted a flaw I'd had in my design.

When it is fixed, I'm going to have a DPS, resistances, attributes, or mana problem. However, I'll still try to build around the change I'd made. I'm sure I'll figure it out, even though I can't think off the top of my head what I'll do. At worst, I'll have a much smoother game play with less damage, but I'm hoping I can resolve that.

Thanks for hunting down that reddit post and replying. I would have never seen it otherwise. Suspicion confirmed.