The Purity / New Elemental Aura Changes

hmmmm. if they added chaos resist to the new purity i might not hate it so much.

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Nithryok wrote:

I for one think this change is stupid, I don't even use purity and I think it is dumpster. And WTF where's my chaos res aura!!!!!!!!?

I think one of the reasons that there is not a chaos res aura is so that it is a lot harder to get resistance for than the elements. If they do release a chaos res aura then it better be pretty darn costly to run.

what about adding chaos resist to purity but like... 50% as much as the other resists get?

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ckay27 wrote:

I like the aura changes, I have generally never really relied on purity anyway though. Normally when I do run purity, its for one resist anyway and nothing to do with +2 max. If my build requires +2max, I take the node. I certainly will have all 3 auras on my alternate weapon set though, one for piety temple boss, one for crematorium map boss and one for asphyxia map boss (or any boss that is elementally themed for that matter). I realy don't understand the high volume of complaints, people just don't like change I guess. People will soon realise tghough, that purity was never essential.

Purity is fairly essential for several builds. Take Facebreakers with BoR and Meginord. That means no resistances from:
Helmet
Chest
Gloves
1 10-20% resist from belt.

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reboticon wrote:

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ckay27 wrote:

I like the aura changes, I have generally never really relied on purity anyway though. Normally when I do run purity, its for one resist anyway and nothing to do with +2 max. If my build requires +2max, I take the node. I certainly will have all 3 auras on my alternate weapon set though, one for piety temple boss, one for crematorium map boss and one for asphyxia map boss (or any boss that is elementally themed for that matter). I realy don't understand the high volume of complaints, people just don't like change I guess. People will soon realise tghough, that purity was never essential.

Purity is fairly essential for several builds. Take Facebreakers with BoR and Meginord. That means no resistances from:
Helmet
Chest
Gloves
1 10-20% resist from belt.

Time for new uniques and meta.

chaos resistance is kind of underwhelming considering most chaos mobs die instantly and are somewhat rare.

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Nephalim wrote:

chaos resistance is kind of underwhelming considering most chaos mobs die instantly and are somewhat rare.

Oh I know but wouldn't some chaos res be a better consolation than "sorry... we're fucking you over" ?

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Nephalim wrote:

The end game bosses dont drop anything for loot and maps once every maybe 20 kills so there is literally no reason to ever run them.

I can agree with you there Neph...I'll take a pack of wild blues over an Unique or Boss any day.

I think it's kinda wasted to run all the time.
Haste buffs practically everyone, but things like Wrath only affect certain specs.
This remains true with most gem auras, but to much greater extent here.

First, the "best" players (including elitists) are almost always capped anyways, diminishing any gains most of the time.
You see this especially with Clarity - people either run Clarity or some form of regeneration - practically every spec is self-maintaining, so running it buffs 1-2 people (or maybe even zero).
This is just as true with resists - they're already capped. Many people that run higher maps are even overcapped with 185 ele res all to be immune to equilibrium or curses (but not both).

Haste is simply hands down the best overall gem aura to run at all times.
The only time these auras can be useful (and actually massively useful) is against completely insane bosses with huge elemental damage.
-12% damage to one element? That's nothing. But that's an absolute shit ton against things like Megaera.

Why would they do that ? Playing summoner it was the only thing viable to give minions some kind of magic resist, now am I suppose to get necromantic aegis and get destroyed by a random blast ? Or run the 3 aura's ? Kinda dissapointed :l