Disgusted with Paladins 1.10

[Ignatz]

Yeah, if AR really meant something. As is, Blessed aim is entirely useless as a skill except on mercs. Cause if you're built to need the skill, you're losing your aura slot to something that's replaced by a good ring or charm or two. And if you're not, then you're self sufficient, and going from 84 to 86% to hit isn't going to make a darn difference to anybody.

The way I see it, Paladins suffer from poor skill design in general. The auras are a good idea that are permanently crippled by their mutually exclusive nature. Then, defensive auras are twice as bad since "killing games" are based on offense, not defense. You're just flat out rewarded more by investing in offense than defense. Making really, really poor skills, like the resistance auras into passive masteries is as big a cop out as I can think of in the patch.

I've seen at least a half dozen suggestions for making the resist auras useful and I think it's pure unwillingness to reprogram things significantly that keeps them from being implemented. For instance, anybody argue that any of these wouldn't be an improvement?:

- Make resist auras add absorb % (and to those fearing broken levels of absorb, think about the limitations of having a single elem absorb type taking up your aura slot)
- Make resist auras lower the resistance of monsters, making for a fun group skill with other casters that would still be variantish, but at least usable
- Make them add to max resists. Simple.
- Make them entirely passive. Seperate elemental passives would be fun, since you'd be able to perfect-fit your resists with your gear
- Make them multiply elem damage...such that they'd be good complements to vengeance, holy fire/shock/freeze, a good elem weapon, etc as well as adding resists...essentially turning your pally into a Elemental specialist in a particular type of elem damage. Sort of a thematic approach that boosts both defense and offense.
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