Tempest - Midline Auramancer

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The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good.

Focused on: Control, Support, Healing.

Designed for:

World vs World

Overview

Auramancer provides high survivability and team support through auras and group healing.

Skill Bar

Dagger/FocusHealingUtilityElite

Weapon Variants

Staff

Staff/

Brings a powerful "ground game" of combo fields and area CC, but in exchange for a large decrease in personal defensive skills, largely from the Focus. Strong option for large scale open field, weaker in GvG/small scale.

Skill Variants

Utility

• For Elemental Surge Arcane variant.
• Versatile personal stability
• Team support defensive option.
• Personal defensive option with utility for rez/stomping.
• for
  builds.

Specializations

Main

Variants

• If you find yourself having issues being focused.

Variants

• Optimal in GvG. Lose slight healing and frost aura uptime to gain AoE cleanse for Burn/Chill on a 10s CD.
• Additional personal survivability at the cost of group utility.
• For staff variant.
• for extra condition hate.
• Highest over time heals per second at the loss of burst healing

• For
  variant.

Variants

Variants

Swap Earth to Arcane to lose group Protection uptime and personal defense in exchange for high healing and condi clear on dodge rolls in water or a powerful CC from

in Earth attunement.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Monk

18x

Healing WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

• Add Nomad's for more personal defense, Cleric's or Magi's for more healing power and Celestial or Crusader's for an offensive set.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Concentration

  9

  Superior Sigil of Concentration

  Boons you apply last 33% longer for 7 seconds when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
• Superior Sigil of Energy

  9

  Superior Sigil of Energy

  Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
• Superior Sigil of Renewal

  9

  Superior Sigil of Renewal

  Heal Nearby Allies on Weapon Swap (360 radius). (Cooldown: 9s)

Runes

• Be aware of boon duration if swapping runes.
• Superior Rune of Durability

  Superior Rune of Durability

  (1): +25 Toughness (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Toughness (4): 25% chance when struck to grant nearby allies protection and regeneration for 3 seconds and resistance for 1 second. (Cooldown: 20 seconds) (5): +100 Toughness (6): +15% Boon Duration; +125 Vitality
  Defensive option with boon duration.
• Superior Rune of the Trooper

  Superior Rune of the Trooper

  (1): +25 Vitality (2): +35 Toughness (3): +50 Vitality (4): +65 Toughness (5): +100 Vitality (6): Shouts remove a condition from each affected ally.
  Defensive option with condition cleanse.

Consumables

Food

• Delicious Rice Ball

  Delicious Rice Ball

  Nourishment (30m):

  100 Healing Power+10% Healing Effectiveness (Outgoing)+25% Magic Find during Lunar New Year

  Consumable

Utility

• Bountiful Maintenance Oil

  Bountiful Maintenance Oil

  Nourishment (30 m):

  Gain 0.6% Outgoing Healing Increase for Every 100 Healing PowerGain 0.8% Outgoing Healing Increase for Every 100 Concentration+10% Experience from Kills

  Consumable

Usage

General:

• Try to avoid putting yourself in situations where you will need to swap attunement without overloading.
  accounts for a significant part of your healing output.
• If you are alone and have to run somewhere, you can stack permanent swiftness: overload an attunement and immediately switch to another one to gain
  effect. Repeat this with every attunement. If using a staff, when on Air also use
  .
• The best use of
  is when it avoids fatal damage and heals you. Use it when you anticipate significant incoming damage on you or an ally.
• Is a very powerful AoE heal for yourself and allies. Try to coordinate it with your allies so they receive each pulse of the channel to maximize the healing. The first pulse heals the most but has the smallest radius, while the other two pulses have a lower healing value but larger radius.
• Your auras do not stack in duration, try to avoid overlapping the same aura unless it is absolutely necessary for healing.
  • Pay particular attention to
    in this respect.
• You can secure stomps by activating
  or

Dagger/X

• is a leap finisher and will give an aura if used in a fire, light or ice field.
  • The aura is granted on impact, not on cast.
  • does not need to be cast on the same target as
    . As long as the grasp connects you can leap to any target.
• Your blast finishers are:
  ,
  (Aim camera directly down without a target selected to drop
  on yourself),
  and
  • Blast finishers can be used on Ice fields to give an aura in an AoE.

Staff

• You can blast your own water fields with
  by either casting
  first then quickly swapping to water and using either
  or
  before it goes off or by casting
  then immediately swapping to water and using
  on it.
• has a long cast time and by the end of it you can find yourself out of position or focused by enemies. You can avoid this in two ways:
  • Use
    after you start casting it.
  • Use the "burning retreat trick" (see GYF). This way avoids using
    but you can find yourself even further away from your zerg. Gfycat:
    Burning Retreat Trick
• 's direction is based on your where your character is looking. Turn briefly while casting the skill to aim it and effectevily blocking the passage. Gfycat:
  See GYF for explaination

Auras

• : Dagger 3 (
  ).
• :
  ,
  and
  ,
  through Ice fields and Blast Finishers on Ice fields (AoE).
• :
  , focus 5 (
  ) and
  through Fire fields.
• : Staff 3 (
  , warhorn 4 (
  - AoE).
• Any elemental aura:
  will give the aura corresponding to the attunement you are in when the buff expires,
  does the same when you finish the overload of an attunement.
  • Fire gives
    , Water gives
    , Air gives
    , Earth gives
    .
• Light Aura:
  through Light fields.

Counters and Weaknesses

• Heavily reliant on group support for stability
• Minimal condition clear, mitigated with variant traits and/or
  Superior Rune of the Trooper

  Superior Rune of the Trooper

  (1): +25 Vitality (2): +35 Toughness (3): +50 Vitality (4): +65 Toughness (5): +100 Vitality (6): Shouts remove a condition from each affected ally.

Video Guides

• YouTube:
  [vR] Crann
• YouTube:
  Ash GvG and WvW
• YouTube:
  [GS] Trembles
• YouTube:
  [GS] Miss Major