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* {{Skill|"Feel the Burn!"}} additional access to {{Tooltip|Fire Aura}}
 
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* {{rune|Superior Rune of the Monk}} a modest healing increase at a significant loss of conditions cleansed.
 
* {{rune|Superior Rune of the Monk}} a modest healing increase at a significant loss of conditions cleansed.
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===Consumables===
 
===Consumables===
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==Usage==
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==Usage==
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===Settings===
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===General===
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* Under '''General Options / User Interface''' check '''Always show squad health bars''' and '''Always show party health bars'''. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
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* As soon as you get 25 stacks of {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Benevolence}} and get out of combat, swap back to the set without it
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* Also under '''General Options / User Interface''' turn on '''Thick party health bars'''
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* Unlike most builds in WvW, Dagger/Focus aurashare tempest can be played with a skill rotation
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** '''Thick squad health bars''' can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
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** Breaking the rotation to survive is fine, breaking it to try and access more healing or condition clear is usually suboptimal
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* Under '''Squad Options''' uncheck '''View as a grid'''. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.
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** The most important part of the rotation is maximizing the amount of swaps into {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} to proc {{Trait|Sunspot}}, {{Trait|Smothering Auras}} and {{Skill|Fire Shield}}/{{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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** The order of the non-fire attunements is not important to the rotation, change your priorities based on what you need:
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*** {{Skill|Water Attunement}} - healing and cleanse
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*** {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} - personal survivability, AoE CC, AoE {{Skill|Glyph of Renewal}}
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*** {{Skill|Air Attunement}} - anti-melee CC, projectile hate, single target CC, single target {{Skill|Glyph of Renewal}}
  
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===General===
 
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* Unlike most builds in WvW, the Dagger/Focus aurashare tempest can be played optimally with a skill rotation. The goal is to provide all of your unique buffs as quickly as possible whilst cleansing as many conditions as possible. As such, this build will explain the goals we are trying to achieve with our skills.
 
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* The following rotation allows for us to continuously cleanse incoming conditions by using a combination of {{trait|Smothering Auras}} and {{trait|Powerful Aura}}. We get the majority of our auras to share from {{trait|Sunspot}} and {{trait|Unstable Conduit}}.
 
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* Overloading every attunement you enter (besides fire) will give your {{skill|Transmute Fire}} enough time to recharge. You want to bounce in and out of {{skill|Fire Attunement}} as quickly as possible to share fire aura, detonate it and leave. The rest of these skills are just for damage which is not your role or your setup.
 
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** Do not ever {{Skill|Overload Fire}}. This will stop you from being able to bounce in and out of fire and will massively limit your condition cleanse over time.
 
  
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===Rotation===
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* Start the fight in {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
 
* Start the fight in {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
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* {{Skill|Shocking Aura}} -> {{Skill|Transmute Lightning}}
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# {{Skill|Shocking Aura}} -> {{Skill|Transmute Lightning}}
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* {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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# {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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# {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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** {{Skill|Fire Shield}}
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# {{Skill|Fire Shield}}
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# {{Skill|Water Attunement}}
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# Use skills 2 through 5 as needed until-
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# {{Skill|Overload Water}}
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# {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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# {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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# {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}
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# Use skills 2 through 5 as needed until-
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# {{Skill|Overload Earth}}
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# {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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# {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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# {{Skill|Fire Shield}} If available
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# {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
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# {{Skill|Shocking Aura}} -> {{Skill|Transmute Lightning}}
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# Use skills 2,4 and 5 until-
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# {{Skill|Overload Air}}
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# {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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# {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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# Repeat from step 5.
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* If at any stage your group is not engaged or is standing back, not needing to be cleansed or healed, simply pause and pick up again when you resume pushing or being pushed. If you have plenty of downtime, you can start from Air again.
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===Overall Priorities===
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;High
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* {{Skill|Glyph of Renewal}}
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* Condition clear
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* Healing
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;Moderate
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* CC
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;Low
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* Aura/boonshare
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====Surviving====
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* This build has moderate passive defense
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* This build has moderate mobility skill access
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** {{Skill|Burning Speed}}
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** {{Skill|Earthern Rush}}
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* This builds has low active defenses
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** {{Skill|Obsidian Flesh}}
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** {{Skill|Magnetic Wave}}
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===Detailed Explanations===
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====Glyph of Renewal====
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* Focus on reviving allies who are far away with {{Skill|Glyph of Renewal}}, don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
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* Use {{Skill|Glyph of Renewal}} in {{Skill|Air Attunement}} on single players and {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} on multiple players
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** If you can't be in a good position, don't cast in {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
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*  Under '''General Options / Combat/Movement''' turn on '''Allow Skill Retargetting''' and  set '''Ground Targetting''' to '''Instant Cast''', this will make {{Skill|Glyph of Renewal}} cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
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====Condition clear====
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* Most of your condition clear is tied up in attunements and overloads by {{Trait|Smothering Auras}}, so conserve your shouts unless you absolutely need them
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* {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} - {{Trait|Sunspot}} + {{Trait|Smothering Auras}}
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** {{Skill|Transmute Fire}} - {{Trait|Smothering Auras}}
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** {{Skill|Fire Shield}} - {{Trait|Smothering Auras}}
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* {{Skill|Water Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Overload Water}}
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* {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Shocking Aura}}
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** {{Skill|Overload Air}}
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* {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Overload Earth}} - {{Trait|Unstable Conduit}} + {{Trait|Smothering Auras}}
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* {{Skill|"Flash-Freeze!"}} - {{Trait|Smothering Auras}}
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* {{Skill|"Rebound!"}} - {{Trait|Smothering Auras}}
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* {{Skill|"Wash the Pain Away!"}}
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* {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}}
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====Healing====
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* Most of your healing will be passively applied by rotating through your attunements, applying '''aura''' skills and {{Skill|Soothing Mists}}. Your main decision is when to go into {{Skill|Water Attunement}} and when to use your '''shout''' skills
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** Enter {{Skill|Water Attunement}} when you predict heavy pressure coming in the next 10 seconds
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* {{Skill|"Rebound!"}} - only when a target would reach 0hp
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* {{Skill|"Wash the Pain Away!"}}
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* {{Skill|"Flash-Freeze!"}} - {{Trait|Elemental Bastion}}
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* {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}}
 
* {{Skill|Water Attunement}}
 
* {{Skill|Water Attunement}}
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** Use skills 2 through 5 as needed until-
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** {{Skill|Soothing Mists}}
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** {{Skill|Frozen Burst}} - water field blast
 
** {{Skill|Overload Water}}
 
** {{Skill|Overload Water}}
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* {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Cone of Cold}}
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** {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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* {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} - {{Trait|Sunspot}} + {{Trait|Elemental Bastion}}
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** {{Skill|Fire Shield}}
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* {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Shocking Aura}}
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** {{Skill|Overload Air}} - {{Trait|Unstable Conduit}} + {{Trait|Elemental Bastion}}
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* {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Magnetic Wave}} - water field blast
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** {{Skill|Overload Earth}} - {{Trait|Unstable Conduit}} + {{Trait|Elemental Bastion}}
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}}
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====CC====
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* Use your CC when:
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** Your group calls a spike:
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*** Winds - {{Skill|Winds of Disenchantment}}
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*** Wells - {{Skill|Well of Corruption}}+{{Skill|Well of Suffering}}
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*** Shades - {{Skill|Desert Shroud}}
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*** Traps - {{Skill|Procession of Blades}}+{{Skill|Test of Faith}}
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** On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
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** Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
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* {{Skill|Earthern Rush}} and {{Skill|Overload Earth}} are your strongest CCs, but be careful using them since leaving {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} locks you out of {{Skill|Obsidian Flesh}}
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* {{Skill|Gale}} is great for picking off players left behind their groups and following up on other CC
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** Make sure to check the targets boon bar for {{Tooltip|Stability}}
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* Save {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}} when {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} is avalible to CC instead
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** The {{Tooltip|Immobilize}} from {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}} hits in 600 radius
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* {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}}
 
* {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}
 
* {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}
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** Use skills 2 through 5 as needed until-
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** {{Skill|Earthern Rush}}
 
** {{Skill|Overload Earth}}
 
** {{Skill|Overload Earth}}
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* {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Ring of Earth}}
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** {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
 
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** {{Skill|Fire Shield}} If available
 
 
* {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
 
* {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Shocking Aura}} -> {{Skill|Transmute Lightning}}
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** {{Skill|Transmute Shocking Aura}}
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** Use skills 2,4 and 5 until-
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** {{Skill|Shocking Aura}}
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** {{Skill|Overload Air}}
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** {{Skill|Overload Air}} - {{Trait|Unstable Conduit}}
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* {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
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* {{Skill|Water Attunement}}
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** {{Skill|Transmute Fire}}
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** Comet
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* Continue repeating from step 6.
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** If at any stage your group is not engaged or is standing back, not needing to be cleansed or healed, simply pause and pick up again when you resume pushing or being pushed. If you have plenty of downtime, you can start from Air again.
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====Aura/boonshare====
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* Try to be in {{Skill|Air Attunement}} for melee engages to apply {{Skill|Shocking Aura}}
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** Activate {{Skill|Shocking Aura}} as soon as you enter {{Skill|Air Attunement}} so its duration doesn't overlap with {{Skill|Overload Air}} + {{Trait|Unstable Conduit}}
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* Make sure you're close to your group when leaving {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} to proc {{Skill|Flame Explusion}} {{Trait|Flame Explusion}} ({{Trait|Pyromancer's Puissance}}), it has a short range
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===Shouts===
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====Settings====
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* Use your shouts to cleanse a burst of incoming conditions whilst maintaining your usual rotation. Some of your shouts also fill unique roles. Shouts hit 5 targets with their effects and with {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Trooper}}.
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* Under '''General Options / User Interface''' check '''Always show squad health bars''' and '''Always show party health bars'''. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
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** {{Skill|"Wash the Pain Away!"}} allows you to heal yourself and allies for a large amount on demand.
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* Also under '''General Options / User Interface''' turn on '''Thick party health bars'''
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** {{Skill|"Eye of the Storm!"}} is a group stunbreak with superspeed, use it in enemy winds or when desperate for a stunbreak.
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** '''Thick squad health bars''' can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
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** {{Skill|"Rebound!"}} Can catch low health allies and prevent them from entering downstate. Use it when you think your group is under heavy pressure.
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* Under '''Squad Options''' uncheck '''View as a grid'''. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.

Revision as of 22:49, 27 February 2022

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Control, Support, Healing and Condition cleanse

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on February 27, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Aurashare provides massive outgoing condition cleanse with strong boon, aura support and healing.


Skill Bar

Dagger/Focus
Dagger/Focus
Utility


Skill Variants
You can switch any equipped shout for the utilities below, just figure which skill will bring more value for your group.
  • "Feel the Burn!" additional access to Fire Aura Fire Aura
  • "Eye of the Storm!" for a stunbreak and AOE superspeed.


Specializations


Template Code

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Equipment

Head
Minstrel
Shoulders
Minstrel
Chest
Minstrel
Hands
Minstrel
Legs
Minstrel
Feet
Minstrel
Backpiece
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Amulet
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Dagger
Minstrel
Focus
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Dagger
Minstrel
Focus
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Rune Variants
  • Rune of Superior Rune of the Monk a modest healing increase at a significant loss of conditions cleansed.


Consumables

    • personal option


Usage

General

  • As soon as you get 25 stacks of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Benevolence and get out of combat, swap back to the set without it
  • Unlike most builds in WvW, Dagger/Focus aurashare tempest can be played with a skill rotation
    • Breaking the rotation to survive is fine, breaking it to try and access more healing or condition clear is usually suboptimal
    • The most important part of the rotation is maximizing the amount of swaps into Fire Attunement to proc Sunspot, Smothering Auras and Fire Shield/Transmute Fire
    • The order of the non-fire attunements is not important to the rotation, change your priorities based on what you need:
      • Water Attunement - healing and cleanse
      • Earth Attunement - personal survivability, AoE CC, AoE Glyph of Renewal
      • Air Attunement - anti-melee CC, projectile hate, single target CC, single target Glyph of Renewal


Skill Rotation
  • Start the fight in Air Attunement
  1. Shocking Aura -> Transmute Lightning
  2. Fire Attunement
  3. Transmute Fire
  4. Fire Shield
  5. Water Attunement
  6. Use skills 2 through 5 as needed until-
  7. Overload Water
  8. Fire Attunement
  9. Transmute Fire
  10. Earth Attunement
  11. Use skills 2 through 5 as needed until-
  12. Overload Earth
  13. Fire Attunement
  14. Transmute Fire
  15. Fire Shield If available
  16. Air Attunement
  17. Shocking Aura -> Transmute Lightning
  18. Use skills 2,4 and 5 until-
  19. Overload Air
  20. Fire Attunement
  21. Transmute Fire
  22. Repeat from step 5.
  • If at any stage your group is not engaged or is standing back, not needing to be cleansed or healed, simply pause and pick up again when you resume pushing or being pushed. If you have plenty of downtime, you can start from Air again.


Overall Priorities

High
  • Glyph of Renewal
  • Condition clear
  • Healing
Moderate
  • CC
Low
  • Aura/boonshare


Surviving

  • This build has moderate passive defense
  • This build has moderate mobility skill access
    • Burning Speed
    • Earthern Rush
  • This builds has low active defenses
    • Obsidian Flesh
    • Magnetic Wave


Detailed Explanations

Glyph of Renewal

  • Focus on reviving allies who are far away with Glyph of Renewal, don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
  • Use Glyph of Renewal in Air Attunement on single players and Earth Attunement on multiple players
    • If you can't be in a good position, don't cast in Air Attunement
  • Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make Glyph of Renewal cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted


Condition clear

  • Most of your condition clear is tied up in attunements and overloads by Smothering Auras, so conserve your shouts unless you absolutely need them
Condition clear priority
  • Fire Attunement - Sunspot + Smothering Auras
    • Transmute Fire - Smothering Auras
    • Fire Shield - Smothering Auras
  • Water Attunement
    • Overload Water
  • Air Attunement
    • Shocking Aura
    • Overload Air
  • Earth Attunement
    • Overload Earth - Unstable Conduit + Smothering Auras
  • "Flash-Freeze!" - Smothering Auras
  • "Rebound!" - Smothering Auras
  • "Wash the Pain Away!"
  • "Aftershock!"


Healing

  • Most of your healing will be passively applied by rotating through your attunements, applying aura skills and Soothing Mists. Your main decision is when to go into Water Attunement and when to use your shout skills
    • Enter Water Attunement when you predict heavy pressure coming in the next 10 seconds
Healing priority
  • "Rebound!" - only when a target would reach 0hp
  • "Wash the Pain Away!"
  • "Flash-Freeze!" - Elemental Bastion
  • "Aftershock!"
  • Water Attunement
    • Soothing Mists
    • Frozen Burst - water field blast
    • Overload Water
    • Cone of Cold
  • Fire Attunement - Sunspot + Elemental Bastion
    • Fire Shield
  • Air Attunement
    • Shocking Aura
    • Overload Air - Unstable Conduit + Elemental Bastion
  • Earth Attunement
    • Magnetic Wave - water field blast
    • Overload Earth - Unstable Conduit + Elemental Bastion


CC

  • Use your CC when:
    • Your group calls a spike:
      • Winds - Winds of Disenchantment
      • Wells - Well of Corruption+Well of Suffering
      • Shades - Desert Shroud
      • Traps - Procession of Blades+Test of Faith
    • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
    • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
  • Earthern Rush and Overload Earth are your strongest CCs, but be careful using them since leaving Earth Attunement locks you out of Obsidian Flesh
  • Gale is great for picking off players left behind their groups and following up on other CC
    • Make sure to check the targets boon bar for Stability Stability
  • Save "Aftershock!" when Earth Attunement is avalible to CC instead
    • The Immobilize Immobilize from "Aftershock!" hits in 600 radius
CC priority
  • "Aftershock!"
  • Earth Attunement
    • Earthern Rush
    • Overload Earth
    • Ring of Earth
  • Air Attunement
    • Transmute Shocking Aura
    • Shocking Aura
    • Overload Air - Unstable Conduit
  • Water Attunement
    • Comet


Aura/boonshare

  • Try to be in Air Attunement for melee engages to apply Shocking Aura
    • Activate Shocking Aura as soon as you enter Air Attunement so its duration doesn't overlap with Overload Air + Unstable Conduit
  • Make sure you're close to your group when leaving Fire Attunement to proc Flame Explusion Flame Explusion (Pyromancer's Puissance), it has a short range


Settings

  • Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
  • Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
    • Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
  • Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.
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Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 2 votes.
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4 stars
Tyroxin gave this build 4 stars • June 2022
Can fill the cleanse slot of a Scrapper, but falls a bit short in the parameters relevant for public level play. Compared directly, aura utility is used much less than the stealth a Scrapper brings.
5 stars
Ryuk gave this build 5 stars • June 2022
Great construction can be used as a scraper replacement when not available

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