BM and Auras - one of GGG's better jokes

Yup, Needz Moar life. Especially if you are going to be running auras off of life,and using dominating blow which is the most mana/life intensive gem in the game. You are looking at well over 100hp lost each attack. You are way better off taking that huge circle of life nodes and then trying to fill in minion damage passives/etc. This is a lesson most people learn the hard way, btw. (my first char got DESTROYED)

At this point I've probably hi-jacked the thread via derail :P
I planned to use this weapon eventually because my life leech should then support the mana cost rather efficiently.
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Kongor%27s_Undying_Rage

Well, after trying out running Grace on my BM trapper, I must say I felt weaker with the Aura than without it. In the end, I respecced out of reduced reservation nodes and invested more into %hp nodes and it just seems more viable option. 20% of health for one aura is just too much.

Just a quick idea. What if BM would work more like Eldritch battery?
Now you loose all the mana, all of the second resource is just lost. What if your Mana is added to your life pool? BM Keystone would be a very nice option, it would be quite different and distinct, yet similar to the BM support gem and with the additional life it would be quite possible to use auras with 30% or more life reservation.
It would be a real option to consider BM keystone instead of the BM support, because it has something unique and powerfull.

I use the BM keystone and more often than not I feel I gimped my character with that decision. But I stick to my pure fire, pure life, pure METAL marauder! :-D

It would have to have some modifier, because realistically you could have 4k life and 200 mana, getting 200 additional health won't help much when your aura eats up 20% of your life.

I am convinced a new passive behind BM needs some serious buff, at least 50% less, if not 60%. Otherwise, no one will take BM. Luckily I'm a trapper so I really don't need that many auras, grace/purity could help, but I can live without them. But there's no way I would take BM with any other character with the things as they are right now. And I used to love BM.

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Odoakar wrote:

It would have to have some modifier, because realistically you could have 4k life and 200 mana, getting 200 additional health won't help much when your aura eats up 20% of your life.

I am convinced a new passive behind BM needs some serious buff, at least 50% less, if not 60%. Otherwise, no one will take BM. Luckily I'm a trapper so I really don't need that many auras, grace/purity could help, but I can live without them. But there's no way I would take BM with any other character with the things as they are right now. And I used to love BM.

If they made it reduced instead of a less modifier, it would stack with other modifiers for a lot higher of a value.

In fact if you were dedicated to it you could get the modifier down to literally 1% under those circumstances.

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Odoakar wrote:

It would have to have some modifier, because realistically you could have 4k life and 200 mana, getting 200 additional health won't help much when your aura eats up 20% of your life.

I am convinced a new passive behind BM needs some serious buff, at least 50% less, if not 60%. Otherwise, no one will take BM. Luckily I'm a trapper so I really don't need that many auras, grace/purity could help, but I can live without them. But there's no way I would take BM with any other character with the things as they are right now. And I used to love BM.

Agreed. Guess it would be hopeless OP if the mana would add to base life and got affected by the +%life nodes? :-P

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Epicly_Curious wrote:

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Odoakar wrote:

It would have to have some modifier, because realistically you could have 4k life and 200 mana, getting 200 additional health won't help much when your aura eats up 20% of your life.

I am convinced a new passive behind BM needs some serious buff, at least 50% less, if not 60%. Otherwise, no one will take BM. Luckily I'm a trapper so I really don't need that many auras, grace/purity could help, but I can live without them. But there's no way I would take BM with any other character with the things as they are right now. And I used to love BM.

If they made it reduced instead of a less modifier, it would stack with other modifiers for a lot higher of a value.

In fact if you were dedicated to it you could get the modifier down to literally 1% under those circumstances.

It would seems so...

Let's say you have 30% less reservation from Notable and 55% reduced reservation from passives.

Aura reservation = 60 * (1 - 0,55) * 0,7 = 18,99% mana reserved.

If Notable was 30% reduced and not less, you would have:

Aura reservation = 60 * (1 - 0,55 - 0,3) = 9%

This seem counter-intuitive to me, maybe I'm calculating this incorrectly?:/

/Agree
the 30%less mana raserved from auras behind BM is a joke, srsly.
Why not "80%less mana reserved - can't more than 2 aura", or 60% less mana reserved ?

just attach a blood magic gem to a clarity already