Kinda ironic that one of the best looking skills is one of the most rarely used. Though ill say that blizzard goofed up majorly with making skillls which such limited application. Why should people take them at all, since there is general skills that does the job better? Instead of such too narrowly specialized ones. The same can be said about the entire defensive skilltree, you loose out on offense if you dont use an offensive aura...where fanatisism and conviction is the big hitters. Hard to get around them in any way.
What they should do is to offer something substantial to make you choose a limited aura or skill. I am thinking especially about Holy Bolt, where in the screenshot teaser it did around 5500 damage with both synergies, and healed around 500 with synergy for a LOW mana cost. Now that was something worth considering, if you could be able to gun down undead so easilly. Blizzard did say that undeadslaying skills would be worth having in 1.10. But im disheartened by how nerfed holy bolt seems in the 1.10 beta, compared to the teaser screenshot, where it in beta only gets 17% increased magic damage, compared to 50% per synergy point in the teaser, and reaches around 1200 damage and 150 healing, patethic. I really hope its an old beta version we have gotten, that perhaps was a stable version, but still bugged alot. And i thought a holy bolter would be a real blessing for a party if he could smash up undead, thinking oblivion knights, and heal members. As 1.10 is so party oriented, and about 5500 damage per shot, should be what is needed to get the edge on hell difficulty. The gain should be worth the tradeoff to invest in a limited skill, to make it viable, instead of a fringe build for those who is bored with the game.
What they should do is to offer something substantial to make you choose a limited aura or skill. I am thinking especially about Holy Bolt, where in the screenshot teaser it did around 5500 damage with both synergies, and healed around 500 with synergy for a LOW mana cost. Now that was something worth considering, if you could be able to gun down undead so easilly. Blizzard did say that undeadslaying skills would be worth having in 1.10. But im disheartened by how nerfed holy bolt seems in the 1.10 beta, compared to the teaser screenshot, where it in beta only gets 17% increased magic damage, compared to 50% per synergy point in the teaser, and reaches around 1200 damage and 150 healing, patethic. I really hope its an old beta version we have gotten, that perhaps was a stable version, but still bugged alot. And i thought a holy bolter would be a real blessing for a party if he could smash up undead, thinking oblivion knights, and heal members. As 1.10 is so party oriented, and about 5500 damage per shot, should be what is needed to get the edge on hell difficulty. The gain should be worth the tradeoff to invest in a limited skill, to make it viable, instead of a fringe build for those who is bored with the game.