08-28-2004, 02:36 AM
You're correct -- if multiple auras are granted from runewords, they will stack, just as if you have two allied pallys using different auras at the same time.
What doesn't stack are multiple auras being actively rotated by one pally. In previous patches, a pally could turn on holy freeze to "tag" enemies with the chill effect, then switch to fanatacism to rip through the now slowed monsters. Or swap between concentration and defiance. Nowadays, switching auras during combat is usually a waste of effort -- you can only have the benefits of one aura at a time.
Such a distinction is important for a build such as a defiant, because one of the "neccessary" skills -- defiance -- is not an offensive aura. The lack of any offensive aura takes a huge bite out of a pally's effectiveness. In 1.09 defiants could combat this by "flashing" between defiance and, say, concentration.
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It's one of the reasons the new runewords that grant auras are, in my opinion, so icky. Blizzard simultaneously tells pallys they may only benefit from one aura at a time... unless they have access to the new runewords. So we've made things tougher, but provided an obvious loophole and tied it to items we know will be heavily duped. Bravo.
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gekko
What doesn't stack are multiple auras being actively rotated by one pally. In previous patches, a pally could turn on holy freeze to "tag" enemies with the chill effect, then switch to fanatacism to rip through the now slowed monsters. Or swap between concentration and defiance. Nowadays, switching auras during combat is usually a waste of effort -- you can only have the benefits of one aura at a time.
Such a distinction is important for a build such as a defiant, because one of the "neccessary" skills -- defiance -- is not an offensive aura. The lack of any offensive aura takes a huge bite out of a pally's effectiveness. In 1.09 defiants could combat this by "flashing" between defiance and, say, concentration.
[rant]
It's one of the reasons the new runewords that grant auras are, in my opinion, so icky. Blizzard simultaneously tells pallys they may only benefit from one aura at a time... unless they have access to the new runewords. So we've made things tougher, but provided an obvious loophole and tied it to items we know will be heavily duped. Bravo.
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gekko
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