Aura Reservation and Reduced Mana Support Gem Change

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Ungriim wrote:

I feel like if empower was an almost free gem like reduced mana then there would be the same argument on this thread....but still everyone uses it.

Thing is empower is optional , you dont even need lvl 4 and you can always use anything else like leech , added damage support gems or whatever but enlighten is not optional, its a must and there's no other way around.

And thats making angry most of people here (including me).

Don't do it. You are fixing something that is not broken.

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BIGLITRO wrote:

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Ungriim wrote:

I feel like if empower was an almost free gem like reduced mana then there would be the same argument on this thread....but still everyone uses it.

Thing is empower is optional , you dont even need lvl 4 and you can always use anything else like leech , added damage support gems or whatever but enlighten is not optional, its a must and there's no other way around.

And thats making angry most of people here (including me).

Pretty sure in the original posts they state their intention is to make auras less mana intensive WITHOUT needing reduced mana gems AND they give the option to reduce reservations further with enlighten

They should eliminate enlighten as the reduced mana substitute. Make people choose among aura tradeoffs. Otherwise everyone will be right back to desperately wanting a top level gem (red mana/enlighten, whatever you want to name it, it's the same thing).

Auras are too powerful not to have as many as possible. Everyone will want enlighten now, it will just be harder for everyone to get.

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... You are fixing something that is not broken.

...and creating another problem!!

I am not really sure what GGG are doing??

I think this is a great change! it is too easy to stack tons of auras right now. And to people who complain about colors - if you corrupted and crafted perfect gear for you you can afford lil more vorici crafts to make gear right colors again.

Changes like these mean that the game is alive and you should adapt to new things instead of clinging to the past.

Come on people, Stop whining, do some maths and researchs before you whine about changes:

https://poe.mikelat.com/beta/

The amount of reservations are same. Or almost same. You just neeed Enlighten in order to make a OP late game build which is a good decision for races. Get a shavs drop > get low life > win the race. GGG is against that.

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Rupenus wrote:

Come on people, Stop whining, do some maths and researchs before you whine about changes:

https://poe.mikelat.com/beta/

The amount of reservations are same. Or almost same. You just neeed Enlighten in order to make a OP late game build which is a good decision for races. Get a shavs drop > get low life > win the race. GGG is against that.

You're wrong, not even close to being the same!!! With no reduce mana gem in play, and even with the aura reserve amounts changed...aura's are being supported by a lvl7 or 8 reduced mana gem...in fact you need a lvl 5 corrupted gem to even get close to a lvl 20 reduced mana gem...and even then you never reach that 71%, most people will not even get a lvl 4 at 88%...so idk what you're going on about!

lvl20 reduced mana gives 71%

Enlighten
1 > 100%
2 > 96%
3 > 92%
4 > 88%
5 > 84%

Have you ever come across anyone who at endgame used a reduced mana to cast skills? I sure haven't.. Maybe during the build phase when you don't have the gear or nodes on the tree required to run your full chain of gems.. but that is it.

Remove this functionality you might just as well remove the gem. Changing it to a different gem is.. well what is the point?

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Rupenus wrote:

Come on people, Stop whining, do some maths and researchs before you whine about changes:

https://poe.mikelat.com/beta/

The amount of reservations are same. Or almost same. You just neeed Enlighten in order to make a OP late game build which is a good decision for races. Get a shavs drop > get low life > win the race. GGG is against that.

simple solution, just disable such drops during races...