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Has this had the intended result?

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Chris wrote:

As they no longer work with Reduced Mana, we can make reservation costs less mana intensive for characters that previously wouldn't have access to Reduced Mana, and reduce socket pressure for players that previously would have needed a Reduced Mana support to reach the same reservation levels.
Enlighten becomes a much more desirable support. It now gives an option for end-game builds that are willing to give up sockets to reduce reservation, without the support being so impactful that every build that uses auras feels that it's absolutely necessary.
Reduced Mana can have much higher values than previously, making it a better choice for reducing skill mana costs.

So, from my point of view:
'make reservation costs less mana intensive' - nope, or did I miss smth?
'Enlighten becomes a much more desirable support' - nope, 'a little'<>'much'. It became much more valuable though; maybe that's what it was supposed to mean.
'Reduced Mana <becomes> a better choice for reducing skill mana costs' - nope, if you need reduced cost you get it on the tree and use some dmg/leech/pen/whatever support in that red slot (I'm sure there are some builds that use it but is their number higher than before? srsly very much doubt it) edit or you just slap BM in there, problem solved

And worst change is putting almost all bosses in new version of maps into fucking small areas, where you can't kite well or dodge stuff. What a terrible idiot invented that I want say to him: dude flick you, seriously flick you very much.

Last edited by silumit on Feb 24, 2016, 10:28:27 AM

Posted by
silumit
on Feb 24, 2016, 5:26:57 AM

The announcement is confusing. Reduced mana doesn't affect mana reservation, but he is talking as if it does currently. Wtf?

Posted by
Taeryanor
on Feb 24, 2016, 7:33:33 AM

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The announcement is confusing. Reduced mana doesn't affect mana reservation, but he is talking as if it does currently. Wtf?

This announcement is almost a year old.

Posted by
on Feb 24, 2016, 8:17:31 AM

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GGG good job on arctic armour, it finally is worth using
But its really bad job on what you did with enlighten taking place for reduced mana
this gem is too rare, takes too long to gain experience and in reality has to be vaaled where you have so slim chances of aining this bloody lvl 4 that it costs 15+ exalts. Not something obtainable for many casual players.
It would be much better if reduced mana still worked with auras.
It would give us options

well it wouldn't give you options, not really, because RM is much more mana reservation than enlighten.
lvl 1 reduced mana = 25% reduced mana
lvl 4 enlighten = 88% mana multiplier
having RM work again with auras would make enlighten pretty much useless again.

Posted by
on Feb 24, 2016, 2:06:24 PM

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GGG good job on arctic armour, it finally is worth using
But its really bad job on what you did with enlighten taking place for reduced mana
this gem is too rare, takes too long to gain experience and in reality has to be vaaled where you have so slim chances of aining this bloody lvl 4 that it costs 15+ exalts. Not something obtainable for many casual players.
It would be much better if reduced mana still worked with auras.
It would give us options

well it wouldn't give you options, not really, because RM is much more mana reservation than enlighten.
lvl 1 reduced mana = 25% reduced mana
lvl 4 enlighten = 88% mana multiplier
having RM work again with auras would make enlighten pretty much useless again.

On its own, yes. Then you stack them.

Posted by
Hemmingfish
on Feb 26, 2016, 4:47:40 AM

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GGG good job on arctic armour, it finally is worth using
But its really bad job on what you did with enlighten taking place for reduced mana
this gem is too rare, takes too long to gain experience and in reality has to be vaaled where you have so slim chances of aining this bloody lvl 4 that it costs 15+ exalts. Not something obtainable for many casual players.
It would be much better if reduced mana still worked with auras.
It would give us options

well it wouldn't give you options, not really, because RM is much more mana reservation than enlighten.
lvl 1 reduced mana = 25% reduced mana
lvl 4 enlighten = 88% mana multiplier
having RM work again with auras would make enlighten pretty much useless again.

On its own, yes. Then you stack them.

Precisely.
But not just that. For casuals who wants to run many auras RM will be just fine, for hardcore players who wants to dedicate i.e. 6l to auras they just add enlighten.
Now we only have the (not at full potential) hardcore version, that ain't healthy

Posted by
Augillac
on Feb 27, 2016, 7:51:33 PM

RM with aura - melee problem solve(grace+iron reflex, and you don't drop hatred/etc)

Posted by
availablex
on Feb 28, 2016, 7:32:35 AM