The only thing need to nerf is aura bot.

Aura bots mechanics is quite unfair for single players.

Players get free all Auras with massive increased aura effect if they have an aura bot in their team.

When players in a team with aura bots, they'd easily loot all contents. Then they had hundreds or thousands of Ex orbs to build their own characters.

Then you balanced your game to theses thousand-Exs players, this is unfair.

So, my suggestion:

You benefit from ally players' auras only if you have the same aura enabled by yourself.

This is fair. Free to get all auras is too disgusting.

nonsense

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LiMA6 wrote:

nonsense

It makes sense. It's much better to nerf something, then makes more bds unviable.

I think the problem with auras is anyone can stack lots of it, which sounds great, but it forces everyone to play auras even if they do not like it. If a player do not play aura, I find it hard to imagine they can clear half of POE contents. At this rate, POE will become a monotonous game that everyone must play aura.

I can't even begin to imagine how much further Aura Bot will obliterate the game if Aura Bot becomes the trend.

imho, the intention of auras was that each player run 1 major aura and 1 minor aura (50% res+25/35%), then when partied each player would benefit each other.

the problem became where ONE player can run 1 gazillion auras thanks to reservation reductions.

the recent "rework" balanced this "A LITTLE"

i have many friends who play without aurabot and still make many mirrors every league (i do also just not up to 10-20 mirrors like them)

Nah I think it is fine that pure aurabots exist to a certain extent. Before, people could run all auras and on top of it deal more damage than any other build. Now that was a huge issue.

All content is currently 100% possible to do without running an aura bot. Even 100% delirious juiced maps(handful of builds). The closest you come to a "solo" aurabot clearer is the various minion builds(spiders, mages etc) and they run a very limited amount of auras that benefit their minions.

For a pure aurabot it takes a decent investment to make a 2 man group faster/better than 2 damage dealers. I can marginally agreee that for full groups aurabots still can be quite a powerhouse but nothing that can't be tuned with looking at aura effect nodes/clusters and as GGG has said they want the playstyle to be in the game just not to be the only way to play groups.

Also saying that they get "free all auras" is simply not true. Pure aurabots generally run 14-15ish auras at max with a couple hundred exalt budget where some of those auras are very low reservation cost ones. You will find 0 aurabots that run all auras. You need 2 aurabots to achieve that these days. Also claiming that aurabots has a huge impact on, or even destroys the fun, of solo players is just flat out silly.

in fact, i'm calling for a buff to aurabots in this thread. few leagues ago, aurabots were really fun to build.

Determination/grace/mana reservation efficiency... Should have to give up something when taking these and not just get them on top of an offensive aura.

Fortification behavior or reducing stacks....

Somethings gotta happen. Way too tanky with millions of damage now a days.

Personally will move away from trade league since its just a meme at this point.

also, the only thing that needs nerfing are all league starters. give more power to items