Guild Wars 2

With all this tempest things I was looking at how auras work and they are not really working as I would expect. So if someone can correct me on what I may be missing I will be glad:

1) Powerfull Aura (trait) & Frost Aura problem

Dagger (water) 4 gives you frost aura for 7 secs (as intended) vs 5 secs to other players. But then dagger 3 (air) gives you a shock aura both to you and your friends exactly the same amount of secs (4). Even Magnetic aura (staff 3 earth) and fire aura (focus 5 in fire) work “fine” and give you and your friendlys the same amount. So it feels like frost aura is not working as expected….

Then…

2) In a strange coincidense the “flash freeze” (frost aura for you and your friends) shout is the only one who works with the trait giving other players the full 10 secs of frost aura from the skill and the trait. Both “Feel the burn” and “shock and aftershock” give you and your friendlys 5 secs as if you werent traited.

Auras are bugged and do not properly stack, except for frost aura.

Aura-share only sharing 5s from the dagger frost aura is confusing, but aura-share is honestly just bad as a trait. It isn’t GM-worthy and nobody uses it, that is why nobody has noticed that oddity yet.

Yes there seems to be many bug things:

- If you use flash freeze (5secs) & daggers frost aura (7secs) without the trait the amount of frost aura only increases to only 10secs.

- BUT using both skills with the trait work far funnier on friendlys: the Cd starts on 10, goes to 5, and then the aura is like “reapplied” for other 10 secs. Pseudo working as intended if the dagger frost aura was of 5 secs.

About the aura share:

It may be worthy if aura durations stack (maybe with a limit to dont make it totally OP as they cant be removed), Powerfull aura+ shouts bugs are fixed and Elemental Bastion is tweaked. I think that the devs wanted to make the aura share ele a viable thing that can compete with the classic d/d. And they are not THAT far in my opinion.

i made this alitle awile ago it befor tempest was testable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIQ7hYz5kPY

Indeed with the staff spam the bug is weirder and it clearly re-apllies the frost aura.

The fun part is that it makes traits like “elemental shielding” (protection) or zephyrs boon (fury and swiftness) far more interesting. The bad is that the benefits are for other players so the ele still couldn’t really use all that needed protection. (fury and swiftness are nice but we can allready have them)

with tempest earth an water you keep frost aura perma up on ele