Aura ranking

1. Purity of Lightning
2. Purity of Ice
3. Purity of Fire

Everyone benefits from these 3 auras, but Lightning damage is the most dangerous, Cold damage can freeze you if it does enough but ignite damage is mostly negligible and fire resistance is mostly to protect yourself from the skill damage itself, rather than ignite which Arctic Armour also covers so.

4. Grace
5. Hatred

Grace benefits almost every build.
Hatred, while it doesn't benefit every build it makes the builds that do benefit from it, scale insanely.

6. Discipline

Discipline benefits a lot of builds one way or another.

7. Wrath
8. Anger

Wrath and Anger provide a big DPS increase for builds that can use them.

9. Determination

Determination adds a lot of armour, but only if you have any at all.

10. Purity of Elements

Purity of Elements really helps in those Elemental Weakness maps.

11. Clarity

Clarity is OK for the mana based builds, also increases survivability with EB/MoM.

12. Haste

While most builds are affected by the speed, that doesn't mean they can sustain mana costs.

13. Vitality

VP/CI builds don't benefit from this at all, the life regen value is extremely low, this aura is nothing more than an "icing on the cake" aura.

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Kenzorz wrote:

13. Vitality
the life regen value is extremely low, this aura is nothing more than an "icing on the cake" aura.

Shh! Quiet! You can hear low intelligence fanbozzz and again prove a broken build and how strong zombies/summoners. Of course they are strong and without any aura, because they very buged and easy to cheat with +1 tabula and swap to any fine chest w/o any links and 1s, and many other way how OP summoners.

We must NOT say anything about how bad for MOST 95% builds there aura, or low intelligence fanbozzz will come and start fight.

GGG must rework aura for summoners or fix bugs with swaping gems and etc, that make summoners OP as ****!

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TreeOfDead wrote:

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Kenzorz wrote:

13. Vitality
the life regen value is extremely low, this aura is nothing more than an "icing on the cake" aura.

Shh! Quiet! You can hear low intelligence fanbozzz and again prove a broken build and how strong zombies/summoners. Of course they are strong and without any aura, because they very buged and easy to cheat with +1 tabula and swap to any fine chest w/o any links and 1s, and many other way how OP summoners.

We must NOT say anything about how bad for MOST 95% builds there aura, or low intelligence fanbozzz will come and start fight.

GGG must rework aura for summoners or fix bugs with swaping gems and etc, that make summoners OP as ****!

while vitality IS underpowered, its not just summoners using it. RFers get as much vit and aura nodes as they can to get their regen, and people sometimes use it to counter blood rage when using life (usually not in the endgame tho)

I think the problem with vitality is that buffing it will make RF become OP.

I think It's very hard to organize auras into a linear ranking. Some auras are general use(purity of X, grace, clarity), whereas others are godly under the right circumstances(Determination with high base armour or coupled with grace). Others still Are basically mandatory for certain types of builds, but useless for all others(Disciplines, Anger, Wrath). Honestly I think what build you're using has much more barring when selecting auras then "which is the strongest"- it's like comparing prverbial apples to oranges.