Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

I play ele since begining, I have tried every weapon and have always used the D/D or S/D
I prefer D/D for the mobility anyway since the S/D had been nerfed last year.

So I was doing some test, and I couldn’t get why

I play a sharing aura build with D/D with a 0-10-0-30-30 and have +90% boon duration.

So first test:
Frost Aura apply 8-9 secondes of fury and swiftness
Shock Aura apply 18-19 secondes of fury and swiftness
Fire Aura apply 8-9 secondes of fury and swiftness

why this difference between the aura ? isn’t suppose to be the same ??

there is no real manuel, tooltip in this game… we have to test everything ourself so anyone has the same ?

Hmmm… good question, I know a change was made to shocking aura recently but it is strange. I hope in future patches we don’t see a reduction to the base boon durations from shocking aura to bring it in line.

it is probably because Frost Aura and Fire Aura can be done with Combo Fields (fire aura can’t be comboed to be aoe).
So if frost aura has Shock aura durations it would be way too powerful to aoe blast for your group. But I don’t think Shock aura should have shorter durations with the ~10s base.

you are probably right.

anyone has tried applying with over 100% boon duration, if yes what are the result but firstly can we go over 100% or is the limit ?

Sabull.5670:

it is probably because Frost Aura and Fire Aura can be done with Combo Fields (fire aura can’t be comboed to be aoe).
So if frost aura has Shock aura durations it would be way too powerful to aoe blast for your group. But I don’t think Shock aura should have shorter durations with the ~10s base.

Interesting… by that logic Magnetic Aura sould also have the long swiftness duration. Can anyone test it?

pmnt.4067:

Sabull.5670:

it is probably because Frost Aura and Fire Aura can be done with Combo Fields (fire aura can’t be comboed to be aoe).
So if frost aura has Shock aura durations it would be way too powerful to aoe blast for your group. But I don’t think Shock aura should have shorter durations with the ~10s base.

Interesting… by that logic Magnetic Aura sould also have the long swiftness duration. Can anyone test it?

I tested it, it gives the short duration swiftness

Magnetic Aura can also be obtained by (Earth?) Runes.

You need 6 Superior Rune[s] of the Earth and to be at -20 health, loose 40%boon duration from the set monk/water don’t think s worth it

I think you’re overthinking the reasoning behind Shocking Aura giving a better bonus.
It’s in Air Magic, and it grants Swiftness with the trait. Thus it is better than the others at that.

The best aura gives the best boons. Makes sense.

It also depends on how you are testing it. If you have elemental attunement, you gain swiftness when you swap to air. If you are swapping to air then testing the shock aura, the swiftness from EA and the shock aura might stack and appear to give the shock aura a longer swiftness duration

Zephyr’s boon always gave twice as much swiftness/fury for shocking aura as it did for frost/fire/magnetic. This is presumably because it’s an air trait and our trait lines tend to favor whatever attunement they match.

Sepreh.5924:

It also depends on how you are testing it. If you have elemental attunement, you gain swiftness when you swap to air. If you are swapping to air then testing the shock aura, the swiftness from EA and the shock aura might stack and appear to give the shock aura a longer swiftness duration

That doesn’t account for the increased Fury duration though. Perhaps it is Zephyr’s Boon in Air as mentioned above but that seems like a convenient explanation. Colour me perturbed.

Read the wiki http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zephyr%27s_Boon

There we go, thank you Nemec!

So is presumably the first explanation who is correct cause we can gain the other via combo. it makes sense

Seed.5714:

So is presumably the first explanation who is correct cause we can gain the other via combo. it makes sense

Nah, we already mentioned magnetic aura can’t be gained from combo, so it isn’t that.