Tempest - Aurashare (GvG)
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Focused on: Control, Support, Healing and Condition cleanse
Designed for: WvW GvG
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on April 04, 2022 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 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.
- shortest CD shout, for slightly more heal/cleanse
- group stunbreak and AOE superspeed
- for share
- single target
Immobilize, good for small group play
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
- a modest healing increase at a significant loss of conditions cleansed.
Consumables
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- personal option
Usage
General
- As soon as you get 25 stacks of 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 to proc , and /
- The order of the non-fire attunements is not important to the rotation, roughly prioritize in this order, but change based on needs:
- - healing and cleanse
- - anti-melee CC, projectile hate, single target CC, single target
- - personal survivability, AoE CC, AoE
- Skipping or cancelling the Overload of or is fine if you need fast healing/condition cleanse
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Overall Priorities
- High
- Condition clear
- Healing
- Moderate
- CC
- Low
- Aura/boonshare
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has moderate mobility skill access
- This builds has low active defenses
- Be careful about attuning into , since you'll lose access to after leaving it
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Detailed Explanations
Glyph of Renewal
- Focus on reviving allies who are far away with , don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
- Use in on single players and on multiple players
- If you can't be in a good position, don't cast in
- Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make 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 , so conserve your shouts unless you absolutely need them
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Healing
- Most of your healing will be passively applied by rotating through your attunements, applying aura skills and . Your main decision is when to go into and when to use your shout skills
- Enter when you predict heavy pressure coming in the next 10 seconds
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CC
- Use your CC when:
- Your group calls a spike:
- Winds -
- Wells - +
- Shades -
- Traps - +
- On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
- Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
- Your group calls a spike:
- and are your strongest CCs, but be careful using them since leaving locks you out of
- 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
- Make sure to check the targets boon bar for
- Save when is avalible to CC instead
- The Immobilize from hits in 600 radius
- The
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- Try to be in for melee engages to apply
- Activate as soon as you enter so its duration doesn't overlap with +
- Make sure you're close to your group when leaving to proc , 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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