Auras from Items Broken

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Hello there. Auras from Items, including endgame runewords are completely bugged. The issues vary from mildly-annoying to bricking the Runeword’s appeal completely. Below I’ll talk about Dream and Dragon RWs:

Dream Runeword and Holy Shock aura:

Last week I put together a Dream runeword for my Zealot. The Holy Shock aura keeps turning off for half a second (with the damage reduction clearly reflected on the character sheet) and switching back on. This happens like every 5-10 seconds. Added lightning damage to attacks is completely removed and the AoE lightning damage from the area is as well. This had led to some deaths in fights where I’d actually kill the monster with the Zeal strikes if the aura hadnt turned off.

I also have an Azurewrath equipped, and the Sanctuary aura behaves the same way.

Picking up items from the ground, interacting with them on the inventory (clicking) and/or dropping items to the ground also causes the auras to turn off in a somewhat predictable pattern as well.

Everytime the auras “turn on” again, they’ll make their skill sound, and the sounds stack. So you can imagine how it feels after a while…

Dragon Runeword, Holy Fire Aura and Hydra Proc (CTC):

The aura behaves in pretty much the same pattern, turning on and off at random and on a predictable pattern when clicking any item, anywhere, anytime.

The greatest problem here is that Hydras that spawn are DE-spawned at random. Sometimes they’ll spawn and before even firing their first volley, they’ll disappear, others will last 2 seconds, others 5 seconds, some will last the for whole duration (default 10 seconds).

Now, I’m unsure if the Hydra’s de-spawning problem is related to Auras’ issue, as I’ve found google results for inconsistent Hydra despawns. So this one might be a legacy bug made worse with whatever bricking inventory/items/auras interaction.

There seems to be some relation between engaging in combat and hydras despawning, for after some testing, it seems that I stop attacking enemies, most hydras tend to last their full duration. Would greatly appreciate fixes.

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I have the same problem with my dream rune word.

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Bump for visibility, definitely a problem.

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Getting the same here with my Tesladin with Hand of Justice. The Auras flip on and off based on how I equip the items. If I equip them really fast, they turn on every second, If I equip them slowly with one item at a time, they don’t do it as often.

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Same here. I made a insight stave and self equiped it. The Meditation aura disappear when casting spell, and back again after 3 to 5 sec

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same issue here to keep this visible, extremly annoying bug

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bumping this game breaking bull sh!t

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same sh…t here! blizzard is so fu…ing incompetent…

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Seeing this problem myself with nearly any item that grants an aura. Runeword or Unique. This needs attention. The sound alone will drive you crazy. Worse still is the items don’t function at full potential.

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This bug seems to not only limited to item movements, pickups, and potion usage. While standing still, my aura keeps going on and off. The damage difference is very noticeable when the aura is off when using Zeal.

Can we get some acknowledgement on this being looked at?

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The sound is annoying . The damage is missing. Definitly a bug . PLZ BLIZZARD FIX

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This needs a fix ASAP, it is clearly game breaking. They work fine on mercenaries, but not on player. I put on a Dragon Runeword armor and get the on and off issue while my mercenary with the same armor didn’t have that issue. Seeing the first post, it almost looks like the game thinks that you are removing the item piece and reequipping them (giving the on and off issue) since the Hydra is disappearing randomly too (only removing the procing item could cause the hydra to disappear).

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Same problem. Also using dual Dream runewords. Come on. Listen to the community and tell us you’re looking into it.

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Bumping for visability

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same problem here - especially with the “Phoenix” runeword… turning on off redemption aura is so sound-wise-annoying -.-

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Still affected. Please fix!

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This is happening to me. Ready to quit the game over this after bricking 2 Jah runes into dreams.

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Any worn aura on your character will do this. I’ve seen the time off on a worn Insight staff seem to perhaps depend on game lag or buffs on your character or something because it can be off for just .5-1sec every 5-10 secs, or off for half of the time… Makes worn auras on your character pretty terrible :confused:

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The constant sound from applying the aura again and again is HORRIBLE.
Almost makes me not want to use any auras granted by items.

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I sold my dreams immediately after realizing this… so sad… i wanted to be a tesladin… i invested so much into this before realizing this was happening… that sound is almost there to remind you how much this sucks… every 3 seconds. Life is pain when you play blizzard games.

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