Guild Wars 2

It is currently possible to go 2,1,1,3,0 and share all the aura bonuses with signets with allies. That’s swiftness, fury and protection. (This along with rune of radiance seemed to really support a small group in WvW.)

I’m trying to achieve the same result with Specializations with little or no opportunity cost.

My conclusion:
+Water is a given for Powerful Auras.
+Fire and Earth allows for Protection and now access to Written in Stone (signets with reduced cooldown and always active passives.)
-Forfeit Zephyr’s Boon (Swiftness and Fury).
+Gain Fury from Persisting Flames though instead
+Might from One with Fire (but will probably need to run Burning Fire)
+Air Signet Passive never goes away
-no group speed though.

—Other Theories—
Water has the new Frost Aura minor for a weaker protection. Requires that Powerful Auras not be limited to Weapon Skills.
Fire For Conjurer+One with Fire (Water line for some condi cleanse)
Air for Zephyr’s Boon, could see a lot of Shocking Aura uptime now.
-Forfeit Written in Stone

Air, Earth, Water,
+all bonuses
-nothing on signet use or fire attunement

Anything I haven’t considered?

Going to do the same with a protection build which was 3,0,1,1,2 with cantrip cooldown and arcane cooldown (shield, blasts, burning fire, armor of earth)

Specialize in Fire, Earth, Arcane.
+Earth’s Embrace and Elemental Shielding Can’t choose more than one adept now. I’d choose as I keep Armor of Earth on my skill bar.
+Geomancer’s Training
+Elemental Contingency/Final Shielding
+Diamond Skin or Stone Heart
-Cantrip reduction
(Diamond Skin would be good as the build was condition weak before)
Lava Font merge allows for Power Overwhelming or Burning Precision which is new

Fire, Water, Arcane,
-Earth Line Protection
+Water Condi Removal (Could maybe swap out Burning Fire, but 3>1, or 3=3 if stop drop and roll is picked up but that’s 2 to 1 traits.
+Bountiful Power

Getting a lot out of these Earth and Fire changes now that attributes are out of the equation.

Water is useless for you. You can only share auras from weapon skills, making aura-share really bad. I think the new direction kills your build. Sorry.

BlackBeard.2873:

Water is useless for you. You can only share auras from weapon skills, making aura-share really bad. I think the new direction kills your build. Sorry.

The current game has the same tooltip but signet share actually works. It should probably read as Skill Use, but the wiki says trait auras work as well, so that water adept one should be good. You just can’t share combo auras, light aura from radiance runes, and I don’t think Arcane Resurrection shares beyond the revived either.

BlackBeard.2873:

Water is useless for you. You can only share auras from weapon skills, making aura-share really bad. I think the new direction kills your build. Sorry.

They did say that they’re thinking about making it share all auras you gain.

Laraley.7695:

BlackBeard.2873:

Water is useless for you. You can only share auras from weapon skills, making aura-share really bad. I think the new direction kills your build. Sorry.

They did say that they’re thinking about making it share all auras you gain.

“All Auras you gain”. Leap on those Fire Fields!