what's this??

[nuttydoctor]

Hello everybody...been on holidays and there seems to be a new "slot " or symbol or something in the top left hand corner of the equipment window....what's the story here??

[SwreeTak]

It is a new equipment slot for a new type of items called Auras. These new items are a reward from the Member's Loyalty Program. You can read more about this latest update by clicking on this link.

[AHappySeeker]

If you're stuck on which is the best, get Reverence.

[Quyneax]

Erm no? If you want a good aura, consider that Reverence only really works when you're short on inventory space and sharpshooter can't help you, e.g. non-Nex/Kree bosshunting.

[Quest_Cape_K]

Reverence is good in areas that you use a lot of prayer points such as pietying slayer tasks.

Each aura has their own uses and you should only get one if you want one and only if it is somewhat useful to you.

[Quyneax]

Piety+protect prayer on a slayer task uses around 15 ppots per hour? So you're saving yourself a nice total of 3 pots per hour? That's 10k gp every time you activate the aura, oh my.

[Quest_Cape_K]

Was there a need for that sarcastic comment?

The spaces that the 3 prayer potions took up could be used for something else.

What if someone was pietying in bandos armour? That would use up more prayer potions than if they were wearing proselyte so prayer bonus should be thought about when using reverence as well.

Reverence also increases the amount of prayer points restored.

[The Observer]

To be fair, the auras don't add a massive amount of element to your gameplay. Knockout is useful, but it only adds like 5-6 kills per hour. Sharpshooter is only a 3% increase, but it obviously depends on what you're killing. If you're slaying then it's not really a massive advantage to you unless you happen to be ranging all of your tasks (and even then, only a 3% increase).

 

So I wouldn't shed too many tears about which one to buy. I personally bought the Reverence prayer because of the fact it was 400 points marked down from 5000. I wouldn't be able to buy it if I didn't. The way the points are rewarded anyway shouldn't completely deteriorate the chances of getting another one anyway.

[Quyneax]

Was there a need for that sarcastic comment?

The spaces that the 3 prayer potions took up could be used for something else.

What if someone was pietying in bandos armour? That would use up more prayer potions than if they were wearing proselyte so prayer bonus should be thought about when using reverence as well.

Reverence also increases the amount of prayer points restored.

I've been using turmoil in Bandos + fire cape for ages now, and I was naturally assuming Bandos (with sw cape/ardy 3 when using prot prays perhaps) - granted piety drains more than turmoil, but it's still about half a pray point per second drained. That means you'll use 1800/hr. Normally, that's about 75 doses max (at 70 prayer). With the aura, you'd drain say 15% less, that's 270 less. 1530/27 = 57, a little less maybe. So you save 18 doses, which is maybe five pray pots or 17k saved. Yes you do save 5 spaces as well, but when slaying you will not need that space - there isn't a task you'd take a full hour on (besides abyssals, where you can easily use a BOB, and maybe black demons/waterfiends, but I doubt reverence is going to allow you to last there by itself as you protect pray as well).

 

Now with turmoil, it's 1350/hr normally, 45 doses (at 95 prayer). With the aura that becomes about 35 doses, a little less again. Now you're saving 2.5 ppots for 9k gp.

 

If you were using high prayer gear, like Bandos + sw cape instead, it'd be 1100 points/hr to start with, becoming ~940 after the aura. That's about 8 doses saved, 7k gp.

 

For bosshunting the matter is different - your inventory space is precious. But so is your damage output, and GWD has altars as well. For bosses you range on (Nex, Kree) you also have fairly low accuracy, making sharpshooter a good candidate. Which essentially leaves reverence for those bosses your gp/hr is influenced mainly by staying power. DKS is one, no aura (besides knock-out but that's not too good) really allows you to go to a higher population world. Graardor, K'ril and Zilyana are all behind a killcount door so you will benefit from reverence, but of those, two bosses are only ever hunter for fun (a good reason to get an aura, but not a general reason).

[Quest_Cape_K]

At 76 prayer, I was getting an extra 3 prayer points per dose, that's an increase of 12 prayer points per potion with reverence.

Why don't we just let the people in the meta-game discussion sort this.

Edited June 30, 2011 by Soul_For_Me

[Quyneax]

Well we're at it now anyway, might as well finish it. And yes I took 3 points per dose into account for all levels, that's what I heard basically.

[IHasChicken]

I personally would hold off buying an aura unless you're ABSOLUTELY sure you will use it (I Nex a lot, so Sharpshooter was the obvious choice for me,) or some numbers have been crunched and tests have been done.

 

The sale lasts for 2 weeks, so by that time there will be enough evidence to prove or disprove the effectiveness of each aura, and what their usages all are.

 

It would also depend heavily on your style of playing.

 

So just hold off for a while, or try to give us more information about what you like doing in RS, and we can tell you from the preliminary evidence what would be the best choice for you.

[AHappySeeker]

Ugh, that was derp of me. I should have said "safest" instead of "best". You're right.

[n64jive]

I hope they add more uses to Aura that are not only member's Loyalty specific. Seems like a good concept to wasted on something that SHOULD be limited due to it's nature.