Guild Wars 2

with an auramancer group running D/F or at least 2-3 ppl running that and 2 others with staff, would it be effective to run an auramancer group mainly fire shield with powerful aura? Im talking about for medium-heavy PvE and not so much WvW cuz ive heard that it’s not quite as effective…
But you could maintain fire shield 24/7 if every1 did run D/F auras.

The only thing those “fire shields” are going to do is protect you from the flame you’re about to receive, and if you’re lucky it may even net you some might!

Well thats about perma prot, fury and swiftness but….not sure what else is charming about it.

ensoriki.5789:

Well thats about perma prot, fury and swiftness but….not sure what else is charming about it.

that’s exactly what I mean about an auramancer group. I chose fireshield, because it has the most accessibility for elementalists. Perma Protection would be a little hard, but it can be done. swiftness and fury is pretty much 100% guarantee with the build. But with perm fireshield, realistically you might be able to maintain like 7-15 stacks of might in any mob… so, yeah

But you’re also in a group that’s likely to have their own Fury/Protection boons too. So you don’t have to stress to keep up the boons all by yourself. You can just be the guy that turns their temporary boon into permanent ones by extending their duration. ;-)

Fire shield doesn’t last long enough, burning stacks duration not intensity, and you’d have to have a crazy spec like 20/10/10/30/0 to pull it off. Have fun playing Ele with no arcane…

Just think for a moment

What would you do if 5 eles all with permanent dazing shield (And a mesmer with null field because >stability) came at you? What would you even do?

Writetyper.1985:

Just think for a moment

What would you do if 5 eles all with permanent dazing shield (And a mesmer with null field because >stability) came at you? What would you even do?

Permastealth

The 5 eles would have to time their shields perfectly, but I agree it would be tough to harm them. Once the opponent runs out of stability they’d be home free. And that’s just 1 aura they can pull off. Imagine having fire aura and frost aura on top of that.

Dunno why this 5 ele group but perma swiftness and protection is nearly achieved by two 30 arcane eles doing attune spam rotation. Which is perfecty reasonable for 30 arcane DDing and might stacking. I would much rather have 2 of those than 5 of signet spammers :P. Caps the fury too ofc, unless others are doing single attunement.

I agree with Sabull a bit, but i’d kind of want to stay away from 30 arcane for a while and @ mjharrison, i never said anything about burning stacking intensity lol. But I’m not talking about full signet utilities, if each person had like 2 or 3 signets TOPS. (2 would be fine) and maybe ran superior runes of the fire, or maybe sup runes of earth instead…i dunno, i just like auras alot now, i dunno why.

say every1 ran d/f and 2 signets, easy fire shield sustain… if som1 dies, res them with arcane resurrection in water. every1 gets 7 secs of frost aura…so on and so forth. But is it so crazy to think this?

I think 3 eles would be enough (D/F for Fire/schocking, D/D for Frost/Shocking, and Staff for Magnetic/combo Ice) Each set compensates the weaknesses of the others. Played and synchronized well, this setup is absolutely gorgeous to play and watch.

Writetyper.1985:

Just think for a moment

What would you do if 5 eles all with permanent dazing shield (And a mesmer with null field because >stability) came at you? What would you even do?

Add some staff mesmers with null field and/or feedback… o_O you got eles with magnetic grasp +leap and comet Blast…combine those 2 and you got 7 seconds of chaos armor and you got a squad of chaos armor ele’s running around

Or you can have 2 more outside else with Lightning hammer+ conjurer constantly spamming 1 when chaos shield starts to run low/if an etheral field is still up.

I ’d prefer the mesmer for the extra pink aura.

there needs to be a poison shield, a dark shield (applying only blind,) there should be a torment shield, a reflect/retaliation shield, blade shield, there should be a meat-shield ftw! sacrifice your teammate to use them as a shield to absorb all incoming damage XD

oh and p.s…

(MAKE OBSIDIAN FLESH AS AURA!!!!!! ITS NOT OP AT ALL! It’ll be THE BALANCE we elementalists are looking for! vote O.F. aura!!!!)

CMstorm.8679:

there needs to be a poison shield, a dark shield (applying only blind,) there should be a torment shield, a reflect/retaliation shield, blade shield, there should be a meat-shield ftw! sacrifice your teammate to use them as a shield to absorb all incoming damage XD

sounds like a new profession to me