Aura of Pain

Abbreviation: AOP
Prerequisites: Circle 50, and Heighten Pain
Slot Cost: 2
Type: cyclic / debilitation, area of effect
Difficulty: advanced
Prep (min/max): 6 / 31
Skill Range (min/max): 250 / 1000
Valid Spell Target: Group, Area
Duration (min/max): Indefinite
Pulse Timing: 14 seconds

Aura of Pain can be toggled on/off. Aura of pain acts as an area effect heighten pain.

It would be a nice addition to the necromancers toolkit as an alternative to USOL when you want to run a combat cyclic that is more low key then hurling acid at everything in a room but still effective as an aid to murderkilling.

Would be mechanically to the cleric spell hydrahex, and I noticed blood magic book doesn't have any meta spells yet.

I'd go further actually, and propose a Metaspell that is exactly HYH (Aura of Stuff) and could be slotted with HP, VoD, or maybe even PV.

Alternatively, I'd love for VoD to be an aoe (cyclic?) that doesn't pull you from hiding when it pulses. I wager virtually no one ever uses VoD.

Those would be cool. Especially the sniped debil. Spell snipe was the necros survival perk would really be nice to see it fleshed out to more/all spells. VOD honestly needs a bump of some kind, if it actually blinded targets it would get used.

Since were the only survival prime that doesn't get regular snipe which isn't limited to one weapon.

>Eh, I don't think that's end of story, but, ok!

The more powerful and signature AOE's have special restrictions (undead-only for Harm Horde) or prevent movement (Fire rain). Single-target attacks from range either pull from hiding (normal TM) or are heavily restricted and require strict skillchecks (snipe).

Allowing AOE's in hiding is effectively impossible if you want to maintain any sense of the current game balance, unless the skill check were so ridiculous as to make the spell essentially useless to you unless you're back-training by 250+ ranks.

But hey, if you want to spend 3 spell slots on a useless AOE-from-hiding spell to kill field goblins with, more power to you I guess.

Oh necro hex would be great!

Could be used in conjunction with heighten pain for an AOE cyclic debil, Viscous Solution into a cyclic, and visions of darkness into a aoe cyclic as well. One debil option from each book turned into a cyclic option.