Quote:I don't mean this sarcastically, but do you have any other ideas to make those auras attractive? The best I can come up with so far is make the Resistance Aura branch more like the Amazon's Passive and Magic branch. Things like Meditation and Redemption would remain a selectable aura, but consider making those 3 resists aura into either a passive, an elemental mastery, or both.
I thought about that long ago.
There are two ways of achieving that result:
1- Balance the game in such a way that about half the time, defense is preferable to offense.
Tricky, but maybe doable.
2- Since players naturally favour offense over defense, give even defensive skills some offensive punch.
There would be for instance two easy ways of achieving that with the resistance auras.
First, rename them "Cold Shield", "Fire Shield", "Lightning Shield".
Then either:
1- Every ally in the radius gets elemental resistance, elemental absorb.
Every foe in the radius gets hit with elemental damage.
(in other words, transfer the splash damage from the offensive auras to the defensive auras).
or:
2- Every ally in the radius gets elemental resistance, elemental absorb.
Every ally in the radius also gets "elemental thorns": foes hitting them (or even merely attacking them) take elemental damage (could be a fixed amount, or a returned %).
I would also probably remove Salvation altogether (it has its uses, to counter Conviction enchanted bosses for instance, but that's not enough to urge people to invest heavily in it and use it as a main aura) and replace it with a "Magic Shield" aura along the same lines, but this time dealing with "magic" damage.