Tame Beast Auras

With the addition of Tame Beast and some Beasts having powerful Auras like Hase, doesnt that make them mandatory on pretty much every build?

I mean who wouldnt want a haste aura ?

Personally i dont like minions, i dont want to have minions with auras, if its an ascendancy gimmick sure but not like this.
Why do i need to be "forced" to get this aura through a minion?

The aura is very unfortunate because they have to make the companion basically useless trash just to allow the aura. It's a super lame concept to just have a walking aurabot with you. Only reason there are companion damage nodes on the tree is so lightning storm can do more damage.

Also don't forget the range of the aura are like 3m so you need to be inside of them but they die way too often.

If you wish to get anything out of your companions you need to spec heavily into companion presence range and then do no damage as all your points are into companions

Minion nodes don't seem to work for companions BTW

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Kashou#2868 wrote:

The aura is very unfortunate because they have to make the companion basically useless trash just to allow the aura. It's a super lame concept to just have a walking aurabot with you. Only reason there are companion damage nodes on the tree is so lightning storm can do more damage.

thats what i mean though.. and not everyone wants to play with minions, why not just make the aura an actual aura instead

The downside is they eat a % of spirit instead of flat so its difficult to fit them in without sacrificing a lot. Not to mention until you find the perfect one with life regen etc you have to fix them via passive tree points.

Modt popular build in the game uses roa, which means you have to take major downsides to gain a second companion in the form of the keystone or chest + sceptre offhand losing tons of def or off in the process to get enough spirit.

Haste aura and phys damage aura are pretty bad on builds that have invested in damage already. Do not forget that it gives "increased phys damage/attack speed", not "more".

Invulnerability aura is 100% going to get nerfed. 5s of invuln every 10s => You can attain 100% invulnerability duration with double companion.

Ele res aura and temporal bubble are strong but not enough for you to take companion for.

Energy shield aura is probably pretty strong, but havent tested it yet. Unsure how it scales with increases to energy shield.


Companions are good, but I wouldn't call them busted outside invulnerability aura. They have low damage, high cost and it is hard to see what is going on with their effects blocking the view. I tried some companions with damage modifiers (poison, ignite on hit, burning ground, volatelite plants, lighting storm) but even then the damage isn't anything to write home about.

I imagine people will slowly deviate towards lower % reservation cost companions.

They should really bring merces from D2 with auras and good stuff.

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AugerSpectroscopy#1884 wrote:

Companions are good, but I wouldn't call them busted outside invulnerability aura. They have low damage, high cost and it is hard to see what is going on with their effects blocking the view. I tried some companions with damage modifiers (poison, ignite on hit, burning ground, volatelite plants, lighting storm) but even then the damage isn't anything to write home about.

I imagine people will slowly deviate towards lower % reservation cost companions.

Im not concerned if they are "busted", im just concerned that they will be mandatory on every build because of auras that are not otherwise obtainable and i dont want every build to be forced into minions