If you are nerfing auras you need to buff Eldritch Battery

Well my ci crit dagger with Anger,Wrath, Hated, Discipline and grace is fucked.

ha..hahah..............

EK was already weak. It needs a buff regardless.

Aura stacking was always game breaking and should be fixed in the following way:

Lower the insane % cost of auras (40% for one aura, really?) But rather make auras weaker when stacking them.

Example:



OR

Add a maximum of Auras you can benefit from.

Regardless, something needs to be done so people have incentive to go EK, without Aura stacking being a factor for making it OP.

Some people like me feel that EK is too weak, but would like to make a build with it. Unfortunately Aura stacking "exploiters" are ruining the chance of a buff on EK for us others that dont stack many auras.

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ionface wrote:

inb4 unique which gives Mana Shield

A unique is indeed coming with mana shield in 1.0.0, that's where mana shield originally is from.

You forget the path "buff aura effect"

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Eldritch Battery was already used effectively and proved powerful in the right builds before auras were added to the game. It will almost certainly still be useful for characters that want to spec into running multiple auras. Plus, it gets a boost in functionality for those who make the trek across the tree to take it in combination with the new Mana Shield, since your ES converted to mana can still provide some defence.

Have any plan to deal with Life/Mana leech + Mana shield build ?

If anything is going to need a buff with the aura change, it's the Blood Magic keystone.

That thing was already a laughing stock at the end game where u can just use blood magic gems, now if many of the auras it could run become % based and even more important, it gets even worse.

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BerMalBerIst1 wrote:

Pure Pwnage

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Are you sure?


I don't see how 300 mana is going to save anybody after 90% of it is reserved running 2 auras.



@grave


I don't think there will be a blood magic keystone in the new tree.

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Dunnzo wrote:

Well my ci crit dagger with Anger,Wrath, Hated, Discipline and grace is fucked.

Have you considered that they also said they while they're increasing the costs of the auras, they're also buffing the EFFECTS of them? It might be possible that even if you can't run Anger, Wrath, AND Hatred anymore, after the buffs, running just 2 of them might be enough.