Guild Wars 2

3 and 1/2 secs feels like nothing. Even with 50% boon dur thats only 1 and 1/4 sec more making it 4 3/4 secs which isnt much esp for 50% boon dur

Protection boons usually doesn’t run very high uptimes anyways, and elementalists have an abundance of protection sources anyways. D/D and D/F eles especially have quite a few sources for aura procs as well.

D/D and D/F can use:
Frost Aura: Water #4 skill (Dagger offhand)
Shocking Aura: Lightning #3 skill
Fire Aura: Fire #5 (Focus offhand) and Earth #3 Magnetic Leap though a fire field
If with a mesmer, they can use ethereal fields and use the aforementioned leap through there and…
Frozen Burst/Earthquake/Magnetic Wave: Water #3 and Earth #4 (For both dagger and focus) respectively for Chaos Aura.

Eles can also proc protecion from their Armor of Earth cantrip (From the Earth III trait as well) As well as a protection proc if traited 20 into arcana with the VIII Elemental Attunement Trait.

(I’m not going to get into using certain rune sets that can proc auras since that’s pretty situational, but certain runes can proc auras as well that you can benefit from this trait)

If you can cycle a good amount of these protection procs with decent boon uptime, elementalists can run near perma protection. Believe me, I dueled a celestial ele last night using this trait and 50% boon duration from Rune of the Water and he had nearly permanent protection, and admittedly kicked my ele’s kitten throughly since I couldn’t sustain as well as him and I was running a burstier build but with the near perma protection I couldn’t dent his HP very much.

Colt.9051:

Frozen Burst/Earthquake/Magnetic Wave: Water #3 and Earth #4 (For both dagger and focus) respectively for Chaos Aura.

Chaos armor does not count as an aura. :-/

All the other things he said were spot on though. It’s still one of the traits that gives the highest protection uptime of all professions. If combined with elemental attunement and armor of earth you have insane protection uptime.

Wasn’t that protection boon only from auras gained by weapon skills?

Mystogan.4157:

3 and 1/2 secs feels like nothing. Even with 50% boon dur thats only 1 and 1/4 sec more making it 4 3/4 secs which isnt much esp for 50% boon dur

Add in armor of earth, trait and skill, runes of the grove, 20-30 in arcana and ya got y’rself near permanent protection up-time for the duration of most tpvp duels/fights. If it doesn’t last long enough it just means you need to switch to more dps so you can take down your assigned target quicker.

so basically put traits runes skills all for one boon

Even without the runes, the protection uptime this adept trait gives is actually pretty nice. Shocking Aura and Fire/Frost Aura both give protection through the trait. Any auras that are granted via blast or leap finisher also grant protection. I personally run this trait alot when I’m front lining in wvw.