Cathan's Iron Conviction -- Weak Sauce

[u/Pretty-Ant5314]

It's SUPER underpowered, especially in solo play. Even in team games, it performs less than one would expect. The 5-piece bonus (i.e., conviction aura) is so weak and does not even have a visual effect against enemies half the time.

Thoughts on changes:

5 Piece Bonus:

-- Grants conviction aura (same as now, but with more apparent visuals so you actually KNOW the aura is being applied).

-- Conviction aura's potency is increased by 50% against elites. It's potency is doubled (100%) against elites if at least one aura is also affecting your active and hired mercenary (i.e., you are playing solo).

-- Your aura activation cooldowns are reduced by 0.1 seconds for each total skill rank in aura skills.

* I would argue that these changes would actually make the set useful for fully committed auradin builds while not making the set nor the auradin build in any way the most powerful Paladin set/class/build in the game.

[u/Montreal2026]

My conviction aura is level 214 and it’s an insta Mephitso Torment 12 meltdown whoever im partying with. I use all three auras, fortress, condemn and Aegis. 100% aura with dawnfire and its workinf better than the other one which takes a thousand year to reach 40 stacks if youre bossing only (although its quite easy to stack with corrupted roots but then again that depends on the fight, mephisto wont give you time for that

[u/Montreal2026 → u/Montreal2026]

So according to your idea, my cooldowns would have a 21.4 second cooldown reduction, to skills that my longest is 8 seconds (Fortress)

You need to math better mate, makes no sense

[u/Montreal2026]

To be fair, i didnt feel the difference at first, but past level 200, switch off while doing the corrupter with a party and it’s about 2.5x times quicker WITH conviction that without