Physical Damage Aura?

It seems striking to me that there aren't any auras that strictly improve physical damage focused builds. The only one is haste, and it's kind of lame (and even that one isn't strictly for physical damage).

All other auras are such that they alter defenses or do something beneficial by adding/converting elemental damage.

Is there a design reason for this? Or is it just a glaring hole in the active skill list right now?

Having an aura which adds flat or % physical damage would be really, really nice.

Hatred does do that, but it converts it to cold... well, I suppose that's alright. It's just, even with all the relatively recent physical damage buffs, certain weapon types (such as bows) are extremely biased towards elemental damage right now.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Haste technically does this. The damage it adds is cold, but is added as a direct % of your physical damage.

Hatred*

Although haste technically does it as well, since it increases your speed, and therefore damage, by 10%.

Still, i'd like to see a physical damage aura in the same vein as anger/wrath

Would like to see this, too.

Please do it, and without initial 40% mana reserve ;) More like increased physical damage at the cost of lowered armor/defence for example.

Umm Phys damage increese aura( even by flat amount) could be really overpowered.
Remember with hatred aura and added fire damage support they do work with physical increeses.
so your end damage would be :
base damage*incresed physical damage + base damage * Hatred bonus * (incresed physical damage + incresed lighting damage + incressed + increesed elemental bonus)
So your physical damage passives already increese your damge with hartred aura.

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Xendran wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

Haste technically does this. The damage it adds is cold, but is added as a direct % of your physical damage.

Hatred*

Although haste technically does it as well, since it increases your speed, and therefore damage, by 10%.

Still, i'd like to see a physical damage aura in the same vein as anger/wrath

I would too as a facebreaker!!! I can just imagine how much of an increase adding 30-40 phys damage would be :P

Since we already have a bunch of +damage auras, if any specific physical damage one were added I'd prefer it had more behavioural differences, not just a different coloured damage effect. For example, an aura that gives your attacks minor physical splash damage.

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GusTheCrocodile wrote:

Since we already have a bunch of +damage auras, if any specific physical damage one were added I'd prefer it had more behavioural differences, not just a different coloured damage effect. For example, an aura that gives your attacks minor physical splash damage.

lol, "Extra gore aura", Level it up and it adds more gore.

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Metronomy wrote:

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GusTheCrocodile wrote:

Since we already have a bunch of +damage auras, if any specific physical damage one were added I'd prefer it had more behavioural differences, not just a different coloured damage effect. For example, an aura that gives your attacks minor physical splash damage.

lol, "Extra gore aura", Level it up and it adds more gore.

This is now necessary.