yeh purity can give a total of +10 to prayer, +7 to prayer (perf roll but I only got +6
) and +3 def auras.
I use a +3 prayer +2 holy bolt HOTO, helps my res, and boosts my dex to keep my at an easy max block. Its no problem getting one into every aura. Before purity is available its nice to have conviction etc. especialy as you usualy wont have purity till early/mid hell.
I pretty much never need to run prayer and rarely do. Its mainly to provide a good heal boost to meditation on equip. I am usualy always running an offensive aura against trash (convic/fana/conc/holy freeze. It makes things move along alot quicker and such high heal is overkill against most trash mobs. Against bosses with high ele damage i`ll run a resist aura to keep everyone from taking very heavy damage and minimise the need to heal many people all at the same time. It lets me focus on the one or 2 main tanks. It can sometimes be hard to make your bolts hit the target you want due to random summons etc. Thats why its good to have very high heal prayer to keep the ranged builds who can suffer from bosses AoE from needing potions. When I done hell diablo with a few friends for the first time we got along without using a single potion. Its a little harder to keep that record if the group is 6-8 players though. I have all my skill quests in all difficultys still to get also so I could max hammer damage pretty easily if i could be bothered puting the time in. I dont play him alone though as I didnt bother leveling a merc and I hate leveling them anyway. I only need to use him for main groups or when someone asks for him. Glorified walking potion FTW! That being said:
I keep saying this but people are still missing it sometimes. Don't use cleansing along with medi aura on equip. Your medi aura gets the bonus from cleansing and the cleansing reduce curse duration is ALWAYS active as long as you have medi on equip and a point in cleansing. If you use cleansing and medi the % wont stack together. The radius of cleansing will be shitty compared to prayer and you will lose out on the extra life regen from prayer. The regen is very handy as its a constant stream of health instead of just having the pulse every 2 secs to heal you. Any healer who runs cleansing along with meditation on equip is very misguided and is not utilising the full power of prayer (massive radius etc.)
I tested the reduce duration last season and it was the same then too, yet I always seen people running cleansing.
even after repeatedly telling them it is a waste of time if you have medi on equip. It is alot more noticable when the levels of cleansing are very high. I dont remember my exact cleansing level but its over 30 with 1 point in. Since its % curse/poison reduction synergie is a soft point synergie it gets very strong. If you run a healer run around an area with alot of curses (zaka fort is good) with a point in cleansing. Run prayer and a Medi aura on equip item (insight). check the duration of the curse roughly. then take the insight off and just run prayer. You will see that the medi has the reduction % on it already. Then run both cleansing and medi and check the time you are cursed for again. It wont change from when you were running prayer as long as you have medi on equip.
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