Blessing Support

Mechanics

Supported aura skills reserve your mana for a very short duration and grant their effect for a longer duration. It adds a cast time to the auras. Both the mana reservation and aura duration are affected by Skill Effect Duration. Auras can be supported other support gems. helps to activate the Low life condition. turns Curses into temporary auras.

Cannot support or .

Interactions

• Auras supported by blessing support reserve mana and therefore do not count as spent mana. This only matters for bonuses to mana spent recently from things like .

• Mana Builds - Some game mechanics encourage certain builds to not reserve any mana, because they use most or all of their mana. Some examples include: Mind over matter, , and .
  • Blessing support allows these builds to have up to 4 auras without permanently reserving any mana, so long as they are recast when their duration expires.
  • Increasing the duration will make the recasting of auras occur less often.
  • Increasing the duration will increase the time that the mana is considered temporarily reserved also, however the base duration is so low that the difference is negligible.

• Temporary Auras - All socketed auras are temporary and therefore not permanently reserving mana. This allows players to use more auras while under the effect of Supreme Ego.

Drop restrictions

Blessing Support currently is not granted by a Support Gem.

Related unique items

These unique items have the Socketed Gems are Supported by Level # Blessing modifier, which supports socketed gems with Blessing Support.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.14.0	Development Manifesto Quote - "...reservation skills no longer have an associated cost by default, so you don't need the current mana available to reserve a skill..." As a result of this, Blessing support will no longer require mana to cast auras and it will no longer count as spent mana for things that gain benefits from spending mana recently.
3.6.0	Blessing Support has been added to the game.