Lower purity of elements reservation

Dear GGG,
Please lower the purity of elements mana reservation as it doesn't offer much value for such a cost.
I think 30% would be fair, 50% is too much.

Edit: just realised I should have posted this in gem feedback section but posted here by mistake as it's a suggestion but I have no way of deleting.

I've been thinking that for several leagues, it definitely needs to be a 25% aura or scale in ma a cost like some of the others.

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EstocSlayer wrote:

Dear GGG,
Please lower the purity of elements mana reservation as it doesn't offer much value for such a cost.
I think 30% would be fair, 50% is too much.

Edit: just realised I should have posted this in gem feedback section but posted here by mistake as it's a suggestion but I have no way of deleting.

the fact that purity of element give ailment immunity make its worth a lot more

Purity of Elements is quite okay with 50% reservation, it grants a buttload of all elemental resistances on top of 100% ailment avoidance. To get 100% ailment avoidance you'd need to dedicate 3 gear suffixes which is quite a steep price.

I'd say add a mastery to elemental ailment clusters - PoE has 25% increased MRE. Just like Determination and Grace.

What needs a reduction of MR are the single-element auras. 35% is too much, 25% would feel okay for them. They have the added benefit of +%max res which is stackable with others to reach 90% but that's a different cattle of fish. Skill gems (auras especially) shouldn't be balanced around a specific combination of expensive uniques. They need to be good on their own.

The Aura has a kinda niche value.

On the right side of the tree you can usually get 100% Avoidance with one gear roll.

On the left side of the tree it's wise to push 85+% Max Res in which case Shock is tolerable and you can be immune to Chill/Frozen with a gear roll. You can pretty much ignore Ignite also.

So the question I ask myself is, what build is this aura for?

purity of elements gives all 3 resists, plus ailment immunity

vs purity of SPECIFIC element, giving +max resist and NO ailment immunity.

the max res being so valuable, i think purity of elements could come down to 35%.


and 'who is purity of elements for' --- i used this (and needed it tbh) on my level 99 occultist from last league. which they bricked by removing the 15% reservation mastery....



with archnem becoming so ubiquitous, i honestly think ALL defensive auras should be cheap. 50% is absurd for auras that basically feel mandatory right now.

While Purity of Elements gives a ton of all res, I'm also hesitant to use it to cap out my res because one minus aura effect somewhere and you are suddenly not res capped.

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Thror2k5 wrote:

with archnem becoming so ubiquitous, i honestly think ALL defensive auras should be cheap. 50% is absurd for auras that basically feel mandatory right now.

Probably the main issue. I have to run grace and determination on an ES build just to not get melted, no idea when the game reached this sad state. I never needed BOTH.

I would find it really really hard to justify lowering purity of elements...

1) 35% all resists (lvl 21)
2) 100% all ailment immunity

These two stats alone are worth MORE than determination and grace from a pure base defensive value. Determination/Grace happen to be more effective overall in the end because they are one of the few sources of multiplicative bonuses to those defenses and the gear rolls just don't offer enough. Resistances on the other hand are given at HIGHER values on gear rolls and have a cap.

But

If you use purity of elements you save: 3 individual resist rolls on gear (or passive points on the tree) plus all extra mods required for ailment immunity. This allows freedom of flasks, freedom of passive tree, and freedom of gear. Singular purities do not offer this (hence the lower mana reservation) and even Determination/Grace don't offer this kind of value back to your build if you opt in/out.

Since it has a cap in usefulness though, the benefits tend to dwindle on more appropriately geared builds, or more flexible characters. It should still have 50% reservation though because it supplants so many other things when it is useful to you. You can potentially get the same or more than a full damage aura from the gear mods and tree passives you gain by running purity. That is HUGE.

Go post this in the feedback for that gem.