Guild Wars 2

I’ve been wondering for awhile now as to why player classes do not seem to get auras when traits seem to indicate something should be an aura… A for instance would be the Warrior Trait to give power to your allies. instead of it being an aura, it’s just a random buff you apply to them that goes away after a set time. In Theory it achieves the same thing, but in reality this leads to a constant flash from all the buff bars over and over because the duration of it has it almost always flashing and it keeps refreshing itself so you just see more flashing.

It’s already shown with things like Lava or (certain areas with) Poison that the Anet team has the ability to make Auras (When you enter Lava, you get a buff, when you leave, it goes away). Why not make the player skills that give passive buffs like that into auras? It’d cut down on annoying flashing and probably make it a bit easier to understand if it was just passively active (Similar to Guardian buffs) than active only in battle.

Personally, I’d rather see the little flashing icons than to have them stack on multiple auras.

If you’ve ever been in a huge WvW battle with all 3 servers players stacked up in SM’s great hall, you’d understand. It’s already very graphic intensive from all of the AoE’s going off. Add auras to all that mess and it could, potentially, become 100x worse.

It took me awhile to understand what you were asking due to the use of the word “Aura”. In this game, Auras are an Elementalist skill system.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aura

HunterGreen.8071:

Personally, I’d rather see the little flashing icons than to have them stack on multiple auras.

If you’ve ever been in a huge WvW battle with all 3 servers players stacked up in SM’s great hall, you’d understand. It’s already very graphic intensive from all of the AoE’s going off. Add auras to all that mess and it could, potentially, become 100x worse.

I don’t mean change visuals, just the buff bar

Toxyn.9608:

It took me awhile to understand what you were asking due to the use of the word “Aura”. In this game, Auras are an Elementalist skill system.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aura

Does it matter what Aura means in this game? It’s a universal term that I think you can figure out. Just because it’s a skillset type doesn’t mean the actual use of the word gets voided.

Copain.1926:

Toxyn.9608:

It took me awhile to understand what you were asking due to the use of the word “Aura”. In this game, Auras are an Elementalist skill system.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aura

Does it matter what Aura means in this game? It’s a universal term that I think you can figure out. Just because it’s a skillset type doesn’t mean the actual use of the word gets voided.

It does make it highly confusing for people like me who are used to GW2 but don’t play other MMOs. Maybe it’s also because I’m tired but I have absolutely no idea what you mean by “aura”, unless you mean all skills which buff allies.

Can someone explain what it means in the context of this thread please?

Sounds like he means a persistent bubble rather than a pulse. He wants a bubble that automatically applies it as a permanence as long as someone is in the bubble, rather than having the effect pulse in order to refresh itself and apply. Insofar as coding goes, it’s the same exact thing, though. It’s just a matter of whether this refresh is visible to the player.

It is just silly for a warrior to create their own aura.

Danikat.8537:

It does make it highly confusing for people like me who are used to GW2 but don’t play other MMOs. Maybe it’s also because I’m tired but I have absolutely no idea what you mean by “aura”, unless you mean all skills which buff allies.

Can someone explain what it means in the context of this thread please?

It means that anyone who comes close to the person gets the buff and lose it when they leave instead of it randomly applying a buff that last for 7 seconds.

runeblade.7514:

It is just silly for a warrior to create their own aura.

They already have what amounts to one…?