mental oak
It's horrible game design having auras be as powerful and reliable they are, and having them be on a low active timer, and with a 5x as long CD. (10x if you didn't use 100% extend)
It's time this gets re-visted and re-worked because I can guarentee you, no one likes how auras work currently. 🙂
Edit: Implementing a vis wax cost or something of the sort to switch auras is acceptable.
potent maple
Solution already exists, you buy aura refreshes with marks of war, and for plenty of auras used you don't even need the highest tier but rather T2-T3 so it's even cheap in terms of marks...
I don't see a problem with how auras work right now, at most I'd add the refreshes to some existing skilling-oriented shops - PoF bean shop perhaps? Aside from that it's fine as is.
mental oak
It takes 3 hours to get enough Marks of War to reset a T3 aura. Zerk/Mani/Reckless last 30 minutes with a 5 hour cooldown. 1 hour with 100% extend. you're not able to upkeep using only 1 aura you wish to use.
potent maple
It takes 3 hours to get enough Marks of War to reset a T3 aura. Zerk/Mani/Reckle...
It takes 3 hours if you have no wars blessing tier upgrades.
It's also not really a bad thing that they aren't self-sustaining, and most people do several bosses in different occasions using different auras, allowing them to build up marks of war for if/when they want to dig deep and maintain one aura for several hours.. most auras already lasts for an hour by default with 'only' a 3 hour CD.
It doesn't need to be changed and I don't think it should be, aside from aura refreshes getting a skilling-related source (no, super rare drop table doesn't count)
fluid crag
I agree with this, also there needs to be another way for normal accounts to obtain auras besides just loyalty points, they know how bad it is hence why they gave GIM's access to all auras right off the bat.
potent maple
I'll agree with loyalty points change
pliant swift
Agree with loyalty pt change.
Disagree with adjusting cooldowns. (What else would I spend my marks on??)
mental oak
Agree with loyalty pt change.
Disagree with adjusting cooldowns. (What else wou...
There shouldn’t be cooldowns in the first place. Why should forcing people to utilize an aura because it’s active, or not wanting to do something that requires a specific aura because its on cooldown, be a thing. It’s not player friendly, and it makes for a constricting gameplay loop that is completely unnecessary. Auras are powerful in their own right, and are a staple in PvM. Any argument that goes against players freely utilizing an aura to maximize combat efficiency isn’t something you can argue towards. Makes no sense.
mental oak
Agree with loyalty pt change.
Disagree with adjusting cooldowns. (What else wou...
Also, MoW need a look-at too. The only thing to really spend them on is aura resets. Which again, should not exist.
foggy kindle
also skilling auras are just poorly done entirely. essentially 4 hours at the longest and then get wrecked nerd.
distant steeple
I assume this post is only talking about removing cooldown from “standard” auras; Dwarven Instinct for example should still have a CD.
mental oak
I assume this post is only talking about removing cooldown from “standard” auras...
Yeah what I’m suggesting does not work for every aura in the game, but a general idea for most auras, not all, there are exceptions.
paper gyro
Just delete all auras.