Tempest - Midline Auramancer

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Overview

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

Skill Bar

Dagger/FocusHealingUtilityElite

Weapon Variants

Staff

Staff

Healing

Utility

Elite

1

Fireball

Cast a fireball that explodes on impact and hits multiple foes.

Damage: 343

Number of Targets: 3

Radius: 180

Range: 1,200

8

Lava Font

Make lava erupt from the target area.

Damage (4x): 1,292

Number of Targets: 5

Duration: 4 seconds

Radius: 180

Combo Field: Fire

Range: 1,200

½

10

Flame Burst

Burn foes at the target location.

Damage: 40

₂Burning (6s): 1,572 Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 180

Range: 1,200

20

Burning Retreat

Quickly roll backward, leaving behind a line of fire that burns.

Damage: 40

Burning (1s): 131 Damage

Duration: 6 seconds

Evade: 1 second

Combo Field: Fire

3¾

30

Meteor Shower

Call down a meteor shower onto the target area.

Damage: 525

Number of Impacts: 24

Number of Targets: 3

Duration: 9 seconds

Damage Radius: 120

Radius: 360

Range: 1,200

¾

Water Blast

Spray a jet of water at your foe that splashes to heal nearby allies.

Damage: 121

Healing: 372

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 180

Range: 1,200

¾

4

Ice Spike

Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable.

Damage: 605

₅Vulnerability (10s): 5% Incoming Damage, 5% Incoming Condition Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 300

Range: 1,200

¾

20

Geyser

Create a geyser to heal nearby allies.

Healing: 2,424

Number of Targets: 5

Duration: 2 seconds

Radius: 240

Combo Field: Water

Range: 1,200

30

Frozen Ground

Coat the target area in ice, chilling foes that enter it.

Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

Number of Targets: 5

Duration: 5 seconds

Radius: 300

Combo Field: Ice

Range: 1,200

Unblockable

1

40

Healing Rain

Call down a healing rain on the target area, granting regeneration to allies and curing conditions once every three seconds.

₃Regeneration (4s): 1,560 Heal

Conditions Removed: 1

Number of Targets: 5

Pulses: 3

Duration: 6 seconds

Radius: 450

Combo Field: Water

Range: 1,200

¾

Chain Lightning

Hit multiple foes with arcs of chain lightning.

Damage: 266

Number of Bounces: 3

Range: 1,200

1½

10

Lightning Surge

Charge a lightning surge that damages and blinds foes near your target when it discharges.

Damage: 525

Blind (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 180

Range: 1,200

¼

25

Gust

Push foes backward with a burst of air.

Knockback: 400

Number of Targets: 5

Range: 1,200

¼

25

Windborne Speed

You and nearby allies gain swiftness, while curing crippled, immobilized, and chilled.

Swiftness (10s): 33% Movement Speed

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 300

¾

40

Static Field

Create an electrical field that stuns foes crossing it.

Damage: 202

Stun: 2 seconds

Duration: 4 seconds

Radius: 180

Combo Field: Lightning

Range: 1,200

Unblockable

¾

Stoning

Hurl a rock and weaken your foe.

Damage: 202

Weakness (3s): -50% Endurance Regeneration, 50% Fumble (Unrestricted)

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

1¼

6

Eruption

Shake the ground until it erupts and damages foes.

Damage: 504

₆Bleeding (12s): 1,584 Damage

Number of Targets: 5

Radius: 300

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 1,200

30

Magnetic Aura

Reflect projectiles with magnetic energy.

Magnetic Aura (4s): Reflect projectiles with magnetic energy.

¼

30

Unsteady Ground

Create unsteady ground that foes cannot cross.

Duration: 3 seconds

Range: 1,200

¾

30

Shock Wave

Create a shockwave that bleeds and immobilizes your target.

Damage: 202

Bleeding (20s): 440 Damage

Immobilize (2s): Unable to move.

Number of Targets: 5

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

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

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