Guild Wars 2

First off, I have to say that this is one of my personal favorite abilities for the elementalist. I’ve been running a support auramancer for just over a month now after scrounging up the gear, and in my honest opinion, it’s pretty fun.

My problems with it that this trait doesn’t seem to stack up very well with other similar party buff abilities such as Venomous Aura, Inspiring Banners and so forth.

There is no current AoE ring to show how close party members should be to receive these buffs, and honestly I don’t know how one could implement this, because an Elementalist with this trait would have to have an AoE indicator around them permanently. Another problem arises that the AoE on this specific trait is incredibly small, and still will prioritize NPC’s and non-party/squad/guild. If I remember right, there was a patch that specifically addressed player buffs prioritizing players if possible, but it doesn’t seem to work with Powerful Auras. Also, it seems the AoE target cap is limited at 4, including yourself (either that, or the 5th member doesn’t gain any visual notification?).

I love this ability, but considering that banners and venoms give stats, secondary effects or heals and conditions respectively, a simple boon stacking elementalist could definitely use some love.

Awesome Auramancer Checklist:
Aura share AoE size too small
Party/Non-NPC prioritize buffs
Player cap confirmation in tooltip.

Other skills also don’t display range, should this trait? That’s generally something that comes with being skilled at the game; estimating range. The range isn’t too big indeed but under the right circumstances it’s amazing (in PvP team fights on a point for example). Essentially you’re asking for a buff which it really doesn’t need (I use it myself too so it’s not that I don’t know what I’m talking about ).

You should be using this with Zephyr’s Boon and Elemental Shielding to give it extra stats, it’s stupidly powerful that way.

I don’t know about the prioritization stuff. If it indeed targets NPCs over players that would need a change, but it certainly doesn’t need a buff.

Celly.5912:

Other skills also don’t display range, should this trait? That’s generally something that comes with being skilled at the game; estimating range. The range isn’t too big indeed but under the right circumstances it’s amazing (in PvP team fights on a point for example). Essentially you’re asking for a buff which it really doesn’t need (I use it myself too so it’s not that I don’t know what I’m talking about ).

You should be using this with Zephyr’s Boon and Elemental Shielding to give it extra stats, it’s stupidly powerful that way.

I don’t know about the prioritization stuff. If it indeed targets NPCs over players that would need a change, but it certainly doesn’t need a buff.

Yes, other skills don’t display range, except for similar skills as I mentioned that rely on other players being near you to receive the benefits. Right now as-is, shared auras require you to be almost touching the other player, and no matter of ‘skill’ is going to make 2 players move near each other if they don’t have to.

Just because I didn’t mention I was using zephyr’s and shielding, doesn’t mean I’m not. that’s entirely the whole purpose. I would like to reliably give my party these 3 buffs consistently. An AoE indicator while not necessary would help other players, while just making the AoE effect bigger would just be all around better.

If its share effect was as big as banners or venom share, this wouldn’t be a problem. Right now, you need to be hugging other people to share auras.