Cleric Question

[Taurean]

I`ve been thinking about Paladins and their PrayerMeditationCleansing synergys.

Say if you max those three auras. If you use the act 2 normal combat merc, and he is, say lvl 90, what lvl Prayer aura would he have? As i`ve figured it, i remember reading that their Might aura is equal to their Merc lvl2 and then divided by three .. am i right? If i am right, that would equal a lvl 15 Prayer aura.

So if you use a lvl 16 Meditation Insight runeword, and if your merc has a lvl 15 Prayer aura, and you use lvl 40 Cleansing aura (If you include a lot of + To Defensive Auras from items), how would this work out?

You would also have lvl 40 Meditation and Prayer, but would your mercs auras override the synergy bonuses from your Paladin`s auras

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[Corned-Beef]

Never Really Thought about that.. But only way 2 see is Too expirament..

[saracen85]

Say if you max those three auras. If you use the act 2 normal combat merc, and he is, say lvl 90, what lvl Prayer aura would he have? As i`ve figured it, i remember reading that their Might aura is equal to their Merc lvl2 and then divided by three .. am i right? If i am right, that would equal a lvl 15 Prayer aura.

AB is currently upgrading, so i can't provide you the link.. but i'm pretty sure there are other merc guides containing the list of merc stats that you can refer to..


So if you use a lvl 16 Meditation Insight runeword, and if your merc has a lvl 15 Prayer aura, and you use lvl 40 Cleansing aura (If you include a lot of + To Defensive Auras from items), how would this work out?

iirc,
you'll get prayer bonus from cleansing. you'll get prayer bonus meditation (from wielding insight). so, if your prayer level provides 20life per 2 seconds, overall you'll get 40 life per 2seconds.

if your merc provides 15life per 2seconds, it'll also benefit you as well.


You would also have lvl 40 Meditation and Prayer, but would your mercs auras override the synergy bonuses from your Paladin`s auras


it should all add up. more info here;

http://www.mannm.org/d2library/faqtoids/skills_eng.html#aura

[Taurean]

Great stuff, saracen =D It says that they all sum up - so i guess you could make a Huge life regen bonus... I was thinking of how cool it would be to beef up those three auras, use Cleansing to synergize your act 2 merc`s already synergized Prayer and Meditation auras .. and join baal-runs xD ppl would make big eyes when they see their life refilling fast, automatically ^_^

[theOG22093]

If that works the way it should, me being a huge pvm fan,I would definetly make one.

[saracen85]

1. your skills won't synergize your merc's prayers.. his prayer levels is independent of yours.

2. maxing cleansing is a waste. 1pt is enough to enjoy the prayer synergy. put those points somewhere else that's more useful.

[Taurean]

Alright .. I`ll try it out as soon as i get the opportunity

[N V]

One thing I have been thinking of, if a mercs prayer aura can synergies it's meditation aura from item, Can't you do the same if you equip insight?

Let's take two examples and assume med aura gets synergised by your own prayer.

First prayer merc with insight and a char running lvl 1 cleansing with lvl 20 prayer.

That would result in you healing 25 hp per 2 sec with cleansing and merc (with lvl 15 prayer and lvl 16 med aura) healing 32 points per sec, so 57 points per 2 sec.

If you can use prayer to synergy med aura when you yourself have insight equiped we get:

25 points per 2 sec from cleansing and 25 points per 2 sec from med resulting in 50 points every 2 sec.

Not difficult to see which ones best, but we can add tons of +skills to help boost our auras.

Now let's assume you have a char with lvl 16 med aura from insight, maxed prayer, 1 point in med and cleansing. Equip is 3 def aura amu, 3 def aura circlet, CoH or other +2 skill armor, HoTo (not the optimal but it works), 2x soj, arach and spirit shield. In inven we have torch, anni and 9 def skillers. Now we have +14 all skills and +15 def skills.

Meditation now heals 104 hp per 2 sec and so does cleansing. That is 208 points per 2 sec. Then we can have a prayer merc which will add another 16 points for a total of 224 points per 2 sec.

I tried to find a way to have all 3 auras active, but didn't find any, But to best utelize all three you would need 2 identical palas, 1 running prayer/cleansing and using insight, the other using prayer/cleansing. This also opens up for other possiblities like the pala not using insight can have exile for defiance aura that will help all party members, and can have a merc with might and pride (melee party) or holy freeze and infinity (caster party). I don't know what the other pala will be using though. Perhaps a act 1 merc with faith for melee and for casters...?

In a melee party it would be prayer, meditation and cleansing giving a total of 312 hp per 2 sec and might, conc and fana. All this from 2 chars :D

With 2 palas you will be getting