Guild Wars 2

Just a question, does anyone know if magnetic aura increases the size of your hitbox? to reflect things in a wider path than your body?

Doubtful, would be pretty hard to test, one way that might work testing is having two people set up. One person standing still using magnetic aura, and another person running like 900 range away in a parallel line shooting projectiles, so that some miss and some hit, and test whether more hit when the persons using magnetic aura or not. The way magnetic wave works though is there is no fancy big bubble image and it works the same way as reflecting for eles so I think the big bubble is just this added effect.

Yeah I think I just have to test this, was just hoping someone else had already tried it to save me the time :p

While testing this, it might also be worth looking at whether height differences affect projectiles by a lot - tiny asura are already harder to spot and read in PvP than other races, but if they have higher projectile avoidance as well that’d be madness. The only pro to being bigger would be that you could cover smaller allies with a big reflective hitbox.

tbh I think the only reason I was thinking it reflected the whole area was that I play asura so I’m a bunch smaller than the actual hitbox

no clue.. this skill needs protection though so ‘elemental shielding’ would be a worthwhile trait for staff elementalists

cheshirefox.7026:

no clue.. this skill needs protection though so ‘elemental shielding’ would be a worthwhile trait for staff elementalists

Hm? The auramancy traits can actually work pretty well on Staff, if you’re willing to use blast finishers in that fun ice field to stack up AoE prot/swift/fury… but it’s really not worth taking this trait over Earth’s Embrace most of the time (especially not for just Magnetic Aura), since that gives both prot and stability and will proc cantrip traits too.