1.3.0 Patch Notes

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Shodokan123 wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Wijis wrote:

Isnt this a huge nerf on totems with the defensive auras restriction?

No.

It literally changed from "No auras can ever apply to totems" to "defensive auras, and degen aura effects (ground fire, etc) can apply to totems".

Having the ability for the defensive auras to apply tot totems seems to me like it more than counteracts them dying to ground fire sometimes. Certainly it's not "a huge nerf"

And it means poison arrow/fire trap/RF characters aren't completely unable to kill monster totems with their main skill for silly reasons.

The one thing this does not touch on is hatered with SWT. Since SWT is technically a totem, the only reason i can see it still working is that it reads "spell" in the gem description.

Summoned Totems - even the ones with the support built-in like SWT - work by using your skills, not their own. The totem summoned by shockwave totem, just like a spell totem from the support gem, has never been able to be affected by the Hatred aura, because the skill it's using comes from you, and uses your stats, not it's own. This is all still true, and will not change - it's fundamental to how totems work.

The shockwave skill comes from you, so will get the extra cold damage if YOU are in the aura's effect, not the totem. Putting the totem in that auras effect can't do anything, because the skill the totem is using is on you, from your gem, not on the totem.

None of that mechanic has changed, and those kinds of auras fundamentally can never apply to summoned totems because they apply to skills, and the totems have no skills of their own. They'll continue to affect those skills whole the aura is affecting the player with the skill as they always have.

The change is that defensive auras, which - in contrast - don't apply to skills, can now apply to totems when they could not before, and the same with aura-style degen effects.