Aura of Insanity's mez being affected by purple patch

[WindDemon21]

As the title suggests, it's being affected by the purple patch which it shouldn't be, which pretty much invalidates the power and requires mez slotting (to which you have to wait till 47 for for hamis, why we need universal mez IO sets for earlier levels) just to keep it at the same or slightly higher mag. This should not be the case. Clearly the bug lies in the "enhancements increase mag of the power not duration", but i'd assume it's still a bug and not intended nonetheless as it basically forces the power to be max enhanced against higher level foes just to keep it doing anything.

[Auroxis]

Much like how slotting in the power affects magnitude rather than duration, I believe this is the intended behavior specifically for this power, aura of madness, and the new cloak of fear.

 

One Mez HO/D-Sync can get you to where +0 bosses and +3 lieutenants are impacted, and if you want to go all-out on mez slotting to affect +3 bosses that's possible, though requires a lot of dedicated slots. You can also choose not to invest in mez at all and only affect minions at +3, which focuses on the damage aura aspect of it (useful for brutes).

 

[WindDemon21]

3 minutes ago, Auroxis said:

Much like how slotting in the power affects magnitude rather than duration, I believe this is the intended behavior specifically for this power, aura of madness, and the new cloak of fear.

 

One Mez HO/D-Sync can get you to where +0 bosses and +3 lieutenants are impacted, and if you want to go all-out on mez slotting to affect +3 bosses that's possible, though requires a lot of dedicated slots. You can also choose not to invest in mez at all and only affect minions at +3, which focuses on the damage aura aspect of it (useful for brutes).

 

Nah that would be a LARGE margin of the power getting significantly weaker to being pretty much useless unless you max slot it with only /mez Hamis to max its stats for it to ever work properly in the later game if that was the case. I'm pretty sure it has to be a bug because that's way too specific and late game use for the power otherwise it wouldn't make sense.

[macskull]

The behavior you’re describing is exactly how the power is supposed to work. No bug here.

[Shin Magmus]

   You'd have to be insane to like this aura.  Give me a real Danage Aura please. 

[WindDemon21]

On 8/9/2025 at 10:44 AM, macskull said:

The behavior you’re describing is exactly how the power is supposed to work. No bug here.

The devs stated as such? Seems extremely odd to me for it to have to be enhanced to do its core function, which you can only do one at a time until Hami's no less which is at 47 which is part of the main issue here as well, but seems odd to have to enhance it for it to do it's normal function. The only thing i can think here is that not slotting would allow the damage at higher enemy levels if you don't slot it i guess is the intent.

 

Still though makes the power kinda a mess since it takes +2s just to get the damage to work on lt's, which makes slotting it extra awkward, and again kinda require hami's where the damage is only affecting less than half of the mob. The power really is kinda just a mess for this, i'd much rather it do no damage and work more properly for it's control, but since others may want the damage, i'd settle for hamis' using the same pool like IOs do so you can slot them at any level. Lots of powers that need that "mez" status that covers more than one attribute. We could also use a few "universal mez" sets for this specific reason as well.

[Riverdusk]

I doubt that's a bug, but that'd be up to the devs of course if they designed the power with that in mind or not.

 

I do agree a universal mez IO set would be cool so that kind of thing would be available more easily before level 50.  Controllers and Doms get them with their ATO's, but don't see an issue having one available to everyone.  Would also be handy for things like dark servant and MM lich where I also often will slot a mez hami or two.  

 

 

[macskull]

40 minutes ago, WindDemon21 said:

The devs stated as such?

Yes. Either enhancements affect the duration and the duration is affected by level differences, or enhancements affect the magnitude and the magnitude is affected by level differences.

[Championess]

1 hour ago, Riverdusk said:

I do agree a universal mez IO set would be cool so that kind of thing would be available more easily before level 50.  Controllers and Doms get them with their ATO's, but don't see an issue having one available to everyone. 

 

Firstly before we go concocting a cover all mez set I'd like to see the ATs that do get those have theirs reworked so that one isn't trash.

 

As for Aura its working very well for me.  I slotted 2 53 acc/mez, 4 Basilisk and I went Vigor Radial.  You'll have a pulsing field around you where any random mez it puts out will be 8 mag except for the stun at 7, which dommie controls don't even get that kind of aoe control let alone every second.  Then the lingering after debuffs are nice, especially the sleep aspect.

 

Slotting for damage or procs here would be a waste.  On beta I first slotted a full set of Contagious Confusion and wasn't entirely sold.  I redid my build to that and it was doing fantastic things.

Edited Wednesday at 08:00 PM by Championess

[macskull]

I do sort of agree with the premise that it sucks you can’t optimize slotting on it until you’re relatively high level. Seems like there’s a misconception about exactly when that is, though - Hami-o’s are not the only special acc/mez enhancements. You can get them as low as level 35 through the Aeon strike force, 38 through the abandoned sewers trial, and 39 through the Eden trial.

Edited Thursday at 12:41 AM by macskull

[WindDemon21]

46 minutes ago, macskull said:

I do sort of agree with the premise that it sucks you can’t optimize slotting on it until you’re relatively high level. Seems like there’s a misconception about exactly when that is, though - Hami-o’s are not the only special acc/mez enhancements. You can get them as low as level 35 through the Aeon strike force, 38 through the abandoned sewers trial, and 39 through the Eden trial.

Except those are so rare that they open foe the level you need/can use them though hardly anyone does those, but the big issue is that they should just all use the same pool, and be able to be upgraded by the upgrade button.

[lemming]

I went with Cupid's Crush full six slots.  It seems to work pretty well for me.

[WindDemon21]

On 8/13/2025 at 11:20 PM, lemming said:

I went with Cupid's Crush full six slots.  It seems to work pretty well for me.

Really wish they'd fix that set. To create a new one with a proc, but then give it over 100% recharge ruining the proc is just dumb.