Disgusted with Paladins 1.10

[WarBlade]

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)

This is wishful thinking gone mad and the people who continue to suggest it seem to miss the realization that every skill point invested will boost their Resistance while simultaneously squashing their absorb number. ie there would be two conflicting mechanics packed into the one skill. This creates a diminishing returns situation while the absorb also becomes an ad hoc "Increase Maximum Resist", unless the values are high enough to push the percentage past 50%, which I doubt Blizzard would ever do. You may as well stick to Increase Maximum Resistance suggestions.

- 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

I'm guessing here you've forgotton what "defensive" means, yeah? Or for that matter Conviction has the potential to slam all three elemental auras into the minimum cap just on its own.

- Make them add to max resists. Simple.

Aha! B) And there it is.

- Make them entirely passive. Seperate elemental passives would be fun, since you'd be able to perfect-fit your resists with your gear

. . . :unsure: Hmm no, but there's a kernel of a good idea in there somewhere . . .

- 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.

Thematic approaches are what is screwing over the Paladin synergies already.