Best Auras?

[Sinkhan]

For overall combat utility, which auras are best? I have less interest in gimmick/skilling auras unless someone contends that they're significantly better than all other auras.

 

I've narrowed it down to:

 

Reverence: bought when discounted, seemed like the most worthwhile at the time, but not sure now. Worth upgrading?

Vampyrism: Good for sustaining, less reliance on food/healing methods

Penance: I could see this being useful for multicombat scenarios where you're taking multiple types of damage

Inspiration: 50% increased regen with 100% accuracy rapid darts, 25% with speed 6 weapons like crapier/whip)

(Greater)Sharpshooter: Could be good for ranged bosses, but I don't personally boss so can't speak on it

 

I could also maybe see the surefooted one being ok for people who just barely met the requirements for a course, but would fail a ton without the aura.

[Sy_Accursed]

Given that half of these auras came out today and all; we have to go on is jagex description its impossible to say.

Give it a few days for solid data and numbers to be gathered.

[Quyneax]

Reverence: good for things with long banking times (Arma/Sara gwd & dks mainly).

Vampyrism: could probably be enough to sustain a pro DKer without brews for ages.

Penance: main staying power determinant, again at dks, is prayer. Also at Arma gwd.

Inspiration: .2% special bar per hit = 5 hits for 1%, which is 12 seconds with rapier/storm of armadyl, 15 seconds with cls/handcannon/crossbow/magic, 18 seconds with cmaul.

Sharpshooter: only Nex and Kree have enough ranged defence, probably worth using w/ rubies.

[JeRambo]

What about for slayer? Upgraded reverence?

[Quyneax]

For slayer I don't think any of them are useful at all. Inspiration might work for each claw special hit (.8% special regained) which would mean around 300% extra special gained per hour (~1500 hits).

[Troacctid]

Depending on how exactly it works, Equilibrium should give the best DPS boost.

[Quyneax]

Depending on how exactly it works, Equilibrium should give the best DPS boost.

From overkill reduction? I can't do the math myself but I imagine a ~160 minimum hit with rapier is good for KOs.

[Powerfrog]

Equilibrium will lessen overkill and be more useful for slayer and killing lots of weak things like chaos druids.

 

Vampire along with soulsplit will allow you to camp most of runescape without any food. Hitting a 500 with it and soulsplit heals you for 125 lifepoints. Few creatures other than bosses can damage you faster than you can heal with this and good stats/equipment.

 

Penance along with soulsplit = godmode. Get damaged? Soulsplit heals it. Soulsplit drains your prayer? Penance replenishes it. You would literally not need any food or prayer pots for the majority of runescape. Just flick soulsplit when damaged.

[Quyneax]

^I was skeptical when I read that last thing but it's true. Storm of Armadyl has so much dps that it'll outheal as much as 75 damage per tick, which is 15 prayer per tick, which covers both ss and several leech curses.

[Sinkhan]

So I guess bossing 1 hour at a time would become a lot easier with penance.

 

Also, how does equilibrium help anything other than storm of armadyl or anything that has a base minimum hit? I was under the impression that even a cmaul with top gear, turmoil, and ovls could still hit a 1.

[Quyneax]

It doesn't say it increases min hit by 25% - it says it increases it by 'the same amount' which I take to mean the amount your max hit is reduced by, not the same percentage, because otherwise it would be entirely useless, because all min hits are lower than max hits (ikr :blink:).

[Sinkhan]

Oh if it does take 25% off your max and then add it to you min that would be hella good. Probably going to be the next aura I buy then since I don't boss at all yet.