i was invited to the private test realm and have been playing since yesterday evening & can confirm this is the new mechanic

so if hephaisto has conviction it keeps it?

confirmed!!!



Yes, exactly. You need to hunt for the exact heyphatso you want instead of binding random cursed ones hoping it'll roll the right aura.

okay i am a bigger noob than i thought
Since ROTW i always played like that and searched for an hour after a death for the correct one.
So you can play fire warlock with inisght on merc and hephaisto + sunder and you can farm everything?

Yes, it doesn't look like fire warlock was really nerfed all that much. Should still be really strong.

And that's good, so you're already used to searching for a very specific heyphatso. A lot of people were just looking for cursed heyphatso without aura and binding it hoping to roll the right aura upon binding. It was a much faster way to get the right one. But now that won't really be possible... You'll have to hunt for the exact one you want now.

until some one tested on ptr, I'm not convince you get to keep conviction they literally said its remove from the pool

Yes, removed from the pool of auras that can be added through bind demon.
But yes, it would be nice to have someone go on PTR and confirm it. But I'm 99% sure they mean the random aura that can roll.

my thought exactly , consume risky with those idiots running suddenly at least on consoles , even with turning back to bind one

The pool of auras provided from bind demon, they’re not removing conviction off monsters from the game lol

Not worried till I have patch to deal with.

That being said, as mentioned as long as can still keep aura that is active before bind, it’s not an issue for most.

It’s the 15 hard points in bind and at least 10 hard in mastery that is going to definetely change things.