Thoughts on Aurena?

[Arc]

She feels kinda weak solo
You kill yourself to do damage that isn't that good and her healing also isn't that good and it scales off magic for one ability and phys for another

[Amicus]

The one time I played her, I felt that I really needed to lean into the increased healing on low health, and supplement with other abilities when the health dance wasn't working out.

Then I seemed to kinda break the main damage skill by finding a "heal for % of damage dealt" essence. Pumped levels into the skill and the essence, and I was barely losing any health while spamming monstrous damage. I'll be chasing that high again later.

[Mitzruti]

In comparison to Mist? yeah, she's terrible, but so is everyone else because Mist is OP.

Golden Burst can be made to work. but like Amicus said, it's pretty heavily dependant on getting that lifesteal essence to offset the self damage. tbh, I'm not sure if it'd stand up in nightmare tho, the healing penalty would hit it harder than any other build.

her dash spell is just kind of junk tho. I usually replace it with shadow walk or blink as soon as i can.

alternatively, you can dust her spells and go all in on her passive, picking up ASPD whenever you can and grabbing spells that apply attack effects.
She can also work as a generic mage that's way more durable than Yubar. I had a run where i just did all frost shields and glacial stomps that was hilarious facetanking everything.

(tangentially related spoiler: the essence from the 300% health as max shields thing is pretty terrible, so you'd be better off not unlocking it. If they removed the cooldown from it it'd be pretty great for ranged characters tho)

[wieboldt]

(tangentially related spoiler: the essence from the 300% health as max shields thing is pretty terrible, so you'd be better off not unlocking it. If they removed the cooldown from it it'd be pretty great for ranged characters tho) [/quote] how did you get this. ive been trying do i have to loop with all the shield stuff and level it as high as it will go?

[Tim]

I found her really strong the few times I played her.

Even if you use the first skill as if it has a 3.5 second cooldown (not stacking its passive) that's incredible for on-hit concepts with no investment! And you can optionally spam it to burst down problem targets. Unless you're looping, you don't need all your skills to be invested, and even IF you're looping, you can wait a WHILE before a skill with a competitively short cooldown shows up.

Her passive is strong enough that leveling that up almost exclusively and using memories as concept-sticks works, and then when you get auto-attack boosts? To the moon, baby!

And as Mitzruti mentioned, she works well as a tanky mage.

[Arc]

Originally posted by wieboldt:

(tangentially related spoiler: the essence from the 300% health as max shields thing is pretty terrible, so you'd be better off not unlocking it. If they removed the cooldown from it it'd be pretty great for ranged characters tho)

how did you get this. ive been trying do i have to loop with all the shield stuff and level it as high as it will go? [/quote]
the what
i dont see anything in anyones tree or any run modifier thats anything like this

Originally posted by Tim:

Her passive is strong enough that leveling that up almost exclusively and using memories as concept-sticks works, and then when you get auto-attack boosts? To the moon, baby!
.

A problem with the game in general is that investing into passives tends to lead to them outscaling the game so you just gen more armor/hp than enemies can do damage

[Mitzruti]

Originally posted by wieboldt:

(tangentially related spoiler: the essence from the 300% health as max shields thing is pretty terrible, so you'd be better off not unlocking it. If they removed the cooldown from it it'd be pretty great for ranged characters tho)

how did you get this. ive been trying do i have to loop with all the shield stuff and level it as high as it will go? [/quote]

upgraded glacial stomp as much as i could, essence of predation and just... farming hunters until AP got high enough. turns out they don't give much xp, so you can just keep grinding without worrying about your HP going up. I had about 1k HP and nearly 400 hunter kills.
I also had a couple frost shields, which mainly helped with staying alive until stomp's cooldown got low enough.

[ELX-Sevazinho☄]

the problem is that she is only good with golden burst + clemency and something else, until it get more lifesteal than you loose health will be a pain to play

[Matez]

She's op. Endgame without first skill. Just pick attack speed and heal skills/gems and she's unkillable upgrade passive from start if you don't have nothing better. Yes, it would mean she's not a healer but still she's kinda not a healer lol. But ye Mist op cuz way more dodge options so to upgrade it for Aurena try to get gems that increases spell cast and put it on R.

[Hexerin]

Aurena is insanely strong (clears every boss in under a second, ignoring the forced invuln phases on Nyx of course), but her overall kit could definitely use some tweaks and a bit of QoL polish. I've been holding off on doing a full write-up on her until we see what her skill tree looks like at release.

[notPerma]

strongest character in the game if you get clemency for golden burst, but if you don't then its a miserable run.

[Hexerin]

Originally posted by notPerma:

strongest character in the game if you get clemency for golden burst, but if you don't then its a miserable run.

Alternatively, just learn how her kit works. She can full heal off just a few enemies.

[notPerma]

Originally posted by Hexerin:

Originally posted by notPerma:

strongest character in the game if you get clemency for golden burst, but if you don't then its a miserable run.

Alternatively, just learn how her kit works. She can full heal off just a few enemies.

Teach

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she really needs an atk spd and move spd buff

[duc]

i find her very strong especially when you upgrade her passive, hysteria aurena clears anything.

[Tentakeltier🦑]

Last game with 3 friends everyone died to the third boss and my Aurena just kept healing herself so much the boss couldn't even do anything to her.

I.. love her. :)