Companion Auras has a lot of issues and weaknesses.

I'm very disappointed about playing Companion builds and the reason is only Auras issues.

Physical Damage Aura: 200k DPS build only to gain 2k more DPS with Aura boost. Guys are you proud with this implementation? Clearly doesn't worth the effort spent 60 spirit for nothing... You supposed to bring something that helps fighting not just staring and admiring it.

Invulnerability Aura: Why the heck i can't increase time by using a support gem that increases effect duration. Why so punishing? For 1,5-3 more sec? Respectively and for cooldown time.

Energy Shield Aura: The size of Aura area has too low space to synergize with attacks especially if Companion is slow paced. It's impossible to make the benefit be usable and as Extra punishment ES starts to reload instead of added as full amount when re-entering the Aura's area. It's double punishment. Furthermore i noticed sometimes when i exceed the Aura's area, my few Chars ES points are vanishing without reason just to show up imidiately if i take more distance from Companion. Literately sucks.


The worst experience in my life while playing 2 decades RPG games and didn't encounter so far such an awful mechanism.

I will give you a thumbs up for this post. I barely can take a bonus during flights when trying to combine Companion's aura with my skills. Aura's area is very small and doesn't do any significant change in overall damage or defence. Need a lot of improvements in 0.5.0 patch.