Hey all!
At first, I didn’t want to engage actual changes to our Auras, mostly because I didn’t think I’d do well.
HOWEVER, having read through this entire Paladin discussion, including how designers treated the Paladin class since WoW’s first launch…I’m ready to throw a few new Aura ideas out there. I tend to dislike making concepts too powerful, because I don’t want to go overboard or seem entirely hack and slash. In this case though, Blizzard owes us for putting up with all this.
The concepts I’ve posted yesterday focus specifically on class fantasy; I’m not an M+ player. In the Summary area below, are the Auras I’ve come up with. The italicized portion in the description is the personal effect for your Paladin while your Aura is active.
Summary
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Retribution Aura: Everyone sharing your Aura gains 5% Critical Damage. *Your Holy and Radiant attack critical hits immediately follow up with a Holy Strike for 10% of the same damage (cannot chain off itself). *
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Crusader Aura: Everyone sharing your Aura gains 10% moving speed, 20% when mounted. *Every second Crusader Strike charges you forward 6yds and has a 15% chance to trigger once more on the same target, for 75% normal damage. *
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Devotion Aura: Everyone shares their Racial Magic Resistance modifier with each party member, adding +4% to it and to Versatility. If a race does not have a Racial Magic Resistance modifier, they share an additional point of Versatility. *Your Paladin gains +5% Block and damage reduction. *
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Concentration Aura: Interrupt, Silence and Fear effects are 30% shorter on those who share your Aura. *Enemies entering or within your Consecration are prevented from causing critical effects for 4 seconds. *
The following is my concept for a new Aura, for Justiciars, more physically oriented Paladins.
- Justiciar Aura: Everyone sharing your Aura gains a chance to Parry equal to your Block or Dodge (whichever is higher). *When you successfully Parry, you immediately riposte with a blessed silver blade, returning 5% unmitigated damage of the Parried attack back on the target. *
The rest of my conceptual Paladin rebuild works around our Auras defining our Consecrations, Seals, and personal buffs we’d receive during Forbearance. It’s a shameless plug, I know, apologies for that. My thread post is lengthy, but only because I wanted to be thorough. I would really appreciate some criticism from anyone who’s read through it!