Post aura rage here. I will lock any other aura thread I see.

Spell effects play a very important role in make a game appealing. I'm already getting a bit bored with the game, but losing my spell effects such as Lightning Arrow and now Auras certainly doesn't help.

Please listen to the majority of the players and add a spell effects option. Hell I'd even buy my original Lightning Arrow from the cash shop.

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Peanutz wrote:

...Please listen to the majority of the players...

No. This is never a good idea. But something should be done for the current ones.

If you are keeping the new auras at least make them thicker and glowing. At the moment you can't even differentiate them from each other.

i actually like the new clarity better and don't care about some of the other changes, but i really miss the old purity/haste.

+1 for a config option of course, and i'd love it if the config was aura-specific so we can mix and match to minmax prettiness! (or, for example, to pick the auras we really want to know about so that they stand out while reducing visual lag.) this game is about customization, right? ;)

I came on forums to post feedback for first time really...I hate the new aura simplicity. I loved the old auras...at least allow us to choose between "complex" or "simple." It's just slightly harder to distinguish between auras and I personally find the simple effects kind of ugly. Just my opinon :)

omfg really? why locking other forums with aura rage. shesh the smell of dead fish....

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DEVS, PLEASE READ THIS!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<

Please, we just need a dev here to say: "we are going to add an option to choose old or new auras" and all the problems are gone, so easy!

If there's tons os players that didnt like at all the new auras (including me), why harm the gameplay fun for these people in a way to increase the game performance on low end pc's.

Make a option and both sides will enjoy, actually, to make it perfect, make a gui tab named auras and let us decide which aura can be seen and the looks of them (old or new).

This is what the players want, don't be like Blizzard that forces the players to enjoy what they want, give us what we asked, it's so much easier and you will gain so much credit and credibility for it.

Sorry if I made some english mistakes, i'm from Brazil.

Bottom line, thanks GGG, we really love your game, so respect this and give us what WE WANT AND NOT WHAT YOU THINK WE WANT.

It's completely disheartening to see a game take steps backward in fidelity before it's even out of beta

I'm naive and ignorant to game design but I would think a lower graphics option instead of a complete replacement would be the obvious and natural action to fix this performance problem I've never had or heard complaints of

When I started playing this I thought things like SLI support or better texture packs would be the natural updates, not simplifying effects like LA and removing auras

Yeah the new auras do look completely awful, please make a it so that in the settings "High" brigs back the old aura looks, and "Medium" would make them look scaled down alot, for compute performances of some people obviously.

I LOVE the aura changes! I am happy to be able to play with less lag and crashes. it probably should've been an option to reduce auras, but I won't complain. I am very happy with these changes!

Now all we need is a way to hide other peoples summons, less particle effects options, and an option to hide rain effects. I would really love to farm docks, but can't in party due to the rain effects sucking up what little left of my processing memory I have.

I have a pretty good computer too. It can run any other game with at least medium quality smoothly, but not this game for some odd reason.

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newbihack wrote:

omfg really? why locking other forums with aura rage. shesh the smell of dead fish....

Because having 50 topics discussing the same issue serves no purpose. The same way there's a unified thread for looting, there's now a unified thread for aura feedback.

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Milchut wrote:

What's your case? There are a lot of extremes here. Are you partying? Summoning a lot of creatures? Keeping up one aura on yourself alone? Four auras on yourself and your best friend?

It's probably important as Beta testers to keep this kind of thing in mind when we post in the feedback forums.

Makes sense, although it will probably be useless information.
I play solo, with 3 zombies and 2 spork totems at 2.33 casts per second. I use clarity, discipline, grace, haste and either purity, vitality or determination.
My FPS' still go to hell in docks, still fine everywhere else.

Also maybe related, but unlikely, before the aura patch my game had never crashed, now every now and then when zoning I get a '.exe has stopped working' crash.