Guild Wars 2

On my tempest elementalist i try to play aura build but i have a problem with duration of it.
I attempt to apply same aura more than once ( shout , Unstable Conduit trait and some other way) to add some extra time to aura duration but it doesn’t increase.
When i apply same aura the duration of second overwrite the first.
Obviously this issue make aura build unplayable.

I want know if this feature is a bug or is a wonted.
Thanks all for attention

Only frost aura stacks all the others do not.

Jski.6180:

Only frost aura stacks all the others do not.

Has been like this since the start of the game. And we don’t even know if frost aura is buggy or if the other 3 are. So much developer communication!

bug or feature? pls dev reply me

august.8016:

bug or feature? pls dev reply me

Well auras use to act like boons and where effected by boon strips and boon duration you could have an aura up all the time. I think when they removed boon duration from auras it changed a lot of how auras worked. For some reason frost aura kind of stacks the others seems to just reapply on the last effects duration.

The way tempest plays duration of auras is not that important its more about pushing out auras for heals and some buffs. It would be nice to have all auras stack in duration it just may over do it as in having nearly all auras types up all the time witch is kind of on the op side of things.
So i am favor of cap duration at 10 sec for all auras but make the effects of the auras have one more passive such as giving lighting auras crit dmg + earth auras giving -20% crit hits on you frost aura has its -10% dmg taken fire auras has -20% condition duration (all though that seems bugged) light aura maybe a healing power + and or out going healing effect + (all though i would love to see water auras have this effect).

Imho aura is very good choiche to create a usable tempest build for pvp wvw but now duration is a huge problem.
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First of all, some aura give a boon associated with duration like this:

grants boon each time you are struck ( __ second cooldown per attacker).

If all aura have stack duration like light and frost , tempest become only spec can access and share this powerful irremovable buff for a decent time for appreciate it.
( Right now tempest and simple ele can already obtain on purpose all auras types up at same time. Is suffice waste all cooldown. I dont think is OP now and even after stack in duration. Activation timer limiter block it to become to too powerful)
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Latter, if stack become on duration for all aura, current primary effect like:

Stun nearby attacking foes with an electric shock (only once per 2 seconds for each attacker).

become more powerful too if duration can reach the activation timer.
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In the end i hope anet can correct this issue for give meaning to aura trait on tempest spec and on the whole to all aura.