Battle mage guide

I find blue aura to be pretty useful. You'd definately notice the shave off in damage when it's on. If you're able to kill things just as fast with it, you'd be saving some pots on the way when you're accidently bumping into things.

Activate blue aura with blood drain = not much use for HP pots, or on the other hand you can use dark/yellow aura with conversion for survivability. Things like these just make battlemages more versatile in a sense and gives you more options when it comes to training. Conversion is good yet costly on MP pots. If funding and potting is no problem, then you can do whatever fits your style.

'If you're able to kill things just as fast with it'. This is the problem. The only situtations in which this would occur is when you've max speed through equips (yellow aura), are wearing a fast (4) staff and 1 hit everything(dark aura). Then there is other stuff which dark aura can increase like reaper, teleport, chains. Combine this with the DoT effect and you sometimes might have a 'free' kill. Or you've 3 Battlemages which strangely stick together which is probably only the case at bosses and then almost never. Oww and don't forget that those bosses can't 1/1 because that kills you! The only time I've used blue aura since I've been a Battlemage was today when I was walking to zak to do prequests and I could use yellow aura+dark sight esque skill and blue aura+body boost in conjunction to minimize pot use since I had short to none hp pots on me and that jump quest hurts. Ended up having to walk back again but that's not the point. The point is that blue aura seems to have very litte use, sadly.

I've to say though that I'm planning on maxing advance blue aura seeing as I don't use chains for their stun or damage. And there can always be more trivial situations like stated above that might require its use. Hopefully bosses in the future that require strategy like the alien pq I've done to death, loved and missed.