Anger, Wrath, Grace nerf

When I still played this game, a lot of months ago, I ran an LA ranger with reduced reserved Anger, Wrath, Grace on blood magic.

Now I play, rebuild my entire character to find out that Anger, Wrath and Grace now reserve a lot of % of your mana (in my case health).

So I guess LA rangers got massively screwed over? My character is unplayable WITHOUT auras as well as with the new current auras.

How did they compensate the aura nerf?


Regards,
Yocairo

It really is the wrong forum, but, there are now 4 aura passive clusters around the tree for improved power and mana reduction.

Overall auras are more powerful now, they actually got boosted.

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Crackmonster wrote:

It really is the wrong forum, but, there are now 4 aura passive clusters around the tree for improved power and mana reduction.

Overall auras are more powerful now, they actually got boosted.

Sorry, just realized I posted it in feedback. Can a Forum Mod move this topic to the appropriate section?

Also, yes the auras got buffed, but I can't run the three seperate ones anymore so I'm not sure how I would get the same damage/armour now.

I think that change was made at release, so surely you should have a full respec available to you. You just need to take some reduced mana reserved nodes (about 25% worth) and use a Reduced Mana gem.

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mark1030 wrote:

I think that change was made at release, so surely you should have a full respec available to you. You just need to take some reduced mana reserved nodes (about 25% worth) and use a Reduced Mana gem.

Well I don't know what it was done, but yes I had a respec available.
However I also state in the OP that I just got done copying my old build to it..

So now my respec points are done.

Guessing you went for the old classic Blood magic LA build from the days of yore? BM is pretty much unusable these days :/

They actually got hugely buffed in many ways. They got twice as good and you can further buff them by 100%+ from the passives(making them 4 times as strong pre-release).

You can definitely make an aura bow character but it's not built the same way it used to be. You mainly want to get many aura nodes. Other versions may also use crit.

You will have to rethink your strategy. If you want to run the auras, the only way is to take % reduced reservation and using reduced mana, however, thats not the best way to do it. Much better just forget about that imortal LA BM build, which now is broken, and invest in phys nodes instead with LG, or full crit if you have a Windripper. If you are playing standard, evasion is much better option for an archer than iron reflexes, which, imo, is a silly choice for a ranged char.

You were not the only one that didn't read the patch notes and tried to remake an aura based BM char, as 2 of my guildmates also lost their free respec over the same mistake.

Thanks guys. I did waste my full respec, yes.

I guess I'll just postpone this game until I've got enough time to actually create a new build.