In the aura announcement it was mentioned that Malevolence [...] provides [...] a small bonus to skill effect duration.
Lightning Warp to be used as a main movement skill requires most of the reduced duration modifiers to feel good, and avoiding any increased duration modifiers, including this new aura.
LW is already at a disadvantage in performance and investments required compared to other movement skills, and mostly fills a gap where those can't be used such as pure casters without attack speed using Staves/Bows.
It also suffers from current meta where so many spells are popular that need increased duration (Winter Orb, BV, Storm brand), so LW in these builds don't have any viability.
In my opinion it would be nice to give it more options to stack reduced skill effect duration (even at 100% reduced it has a hard coded minimum duration), or rework it to be cast speed based. Without affecting other skills that stack reduced duration for DPS, it could get a threshold jewel that only affects LW.
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