Comments on: Aura Mastery

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:58:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

Arenas and their free-for-all-pvp didn’t even cross my mind! (You can see right away that my natural inclination for PvP is somewhat lacking.) That opens a lot of possibilities for testing things.

By: Protopethunter

Protopethunter — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:48:16 +0000

You said you cant test that last piece because you cant find a horde toon to help you. You can go to any of the free for all arenas like Gurubashi Arena, Dire Maul Arena, Nagrand Arena, or the arena in Blade’s Edge (I cant remember the name of it.) and bring one of your alliance friends with a silence. Just remember that you need to be in party with the paladin and your designated silencer cannot be in party.

BTW I recommend either the Nagrand arena or the Blade’s Edge ones because you could then do it quietly without too many people trying to grief you.

By: Khraden

Khraden — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:38:24 +0000

I have used it since it came out, if not just for the super mount speed. Though I have yet to fight the Lich King, I’m sure that it would be helpful if you have a Pally tank on the Raging Spirits. As if you have a Holy Pally they could pop AM with Conc up, and allow him to keep threat up and damage upkeep on the Raging Spirits… just a suggestion.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:28:51 +0000

Great tips!

You really need to start your own blog to keep all these great suggestions in one place!

By: Joe Ego

Joe Ego — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:38:41 +0000

Oh, almost forgot: get your paladins to chain aura mastery with crusader aura on the charge in A.V.

By: Joe Ego

Joe Ego — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:37:23 +0000

AM uses for your Holy & Ret paladins:

1) Super Crusader Aura while mounted. Theoretically usable on Valithria, but you’d better have good aim on those orbs.

2) Shadow Resist on Festergut’s exhale if people haven’t picked up 3 innoculates. Also good before 1 inhale just to resist more damage.

3) Frost Resist on Deathwhisper’s second phase.

4) Frost Resist on Marrowgar’s “fire”.

Remember to trade off with other paladins because the effects won’t stack. Priest Shadow resist is still good for stuff like Festergut just to ensure coverage but AM will take precedence when it is active.

By: Brangwen

Brangwen — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:47:20 +0000

Yep! Spot on.
This leads to aura twisting, if you are really clever.

For example think about freya and her adds.
One add has fire damage, one has a silence effect, one has frost (IIRC).

You are the only pally in the raid. You throw up fire resist for the little adds, you then swap to frost for the 3 adds and when the big add with mushrooms comes along, you throw up conc and use AM so people can cast and move to a mushroom at the same time.

Another example is if you have a few pallies in the raid and a fire burst every minute or so. One pally has fire up and uses AM to cover off the burst, then you swap auras to that the other pally has AM not on CD ready for the next burst.

Use it sensibly as often as you can.

Also, it improves EVERY AURA by 100%… a 60% increase in flight speed on that rusted proto drake is AWESOME! HAHAHA! ZOOOM!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:04:23 +0000

Thanks for the clarification!

That’s another thing I never stopped to think about, but it’s true, if there’s no crucial moment in the fight to save it for, there’s no reason to not use it at every opportunity. I’m going to condition myself to do that from now on too.

By: Tarinae

Tarinae — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:00:07 +0000

I may respec. I had taken it out to put it in in my ret tree but I didn’t have a use for it at the time. I wasn’t using it so I put it in a more effective talent for the moment.

By: Codi

Codi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:56:25 +0000

That’s correct about Concentration Aura. It must be the aura the AM using paladin has up.

AM is so great. People who don’t take it and use it are really missing out. I’m still trying to condition myself to use it every CD, even if it’s only in conjunction with Devo aura. (Extra armor for the tanks, yay!) I’m going to try testing it on Marrowgar during his storms to see if the increase of DPS from Ret aura is worth it.