Frost Aura

Protect yourself with frost armor that reduces incoming damage by 10%. While active, it chills foes that hit you. Each attacker can be affected by this only once per second. — In-game description

Frost Aura

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Off hand dagger

Attunement

Water

Sequence

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Game link

API

5520

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Frost Aura

Protect yourself with frost armor that reduces incoming damage by 10%. While active, it chills foes that hit you. Each attacker can be affected by this only once per second.

 Frost Aura (10s): -10% Incoming Damage

 Frost Aura (4s): -10% Incoming Damage

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

 Chilled (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Smothering Auras — Fire auras have increased duration. Applying auras to allies removes conditions, and transmuting auras removes conditions from nearby allies.

Air

• Zephyr's Boon — Grant boons to allies you grant auras to.

Earth

• Elemental Shielding — Auras you grant to allies also grant protection.

Water

• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.
• Powerful Aura — Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

Tempest

• Invigorating Torrents — Auras you grant also grant regeneration and vigor.
• Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

Weaver

• Elemental Pursuit — Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.

Catalyst

• Hardened Auras — Damage reduction is increased when you grant yourself an aura. When this triggers, the duration of all stacks are refreshed.
• Empowering Auras — Gain increased outgoing damage when you grant yourself an aura. When this triggers, the duration of all stacks are refreshed.
• Elemental Epitome — Gain an aura based on your current attunement when you combo. Gain Elemental Empowerment when you grant yourself an aura. Auras can be gained this way once per attunement per interval.
• Staunch Auras — Gain stability when you grant yourself an aura.

Notes

• This skill does not separately cause the chill that is listed below the Frost Aura description in the tool-tip. This skill fact provides information about what occurs when struck by foes.

See also

• Frost Aura (effect)

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	(Undocumented) Reduced the chill duration from 2 seconds to 1 second in WvW only.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. Duration increased from 4 seconds to 10 seconds.
March 29, 2022	Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvP and WvW.
October 26, 2021	Multiplicative damage reduction enhancements have been updated to display how much damage was reduced by rather than displaying how much the damage is multiplied by. For example, protection now displays "-33% Damage" instead of "67% damage." This is not a change to functionality; it is only a change to display the bonus in a more intuitively understandable way.
October 05, 2021	All effects that provide a percentage reduction to incoming damage have been standardized to stack multiplicatively.
February 22, 2017	The recharge of this skill has been reduced from 40 seconds to 30 seconds.
December 01, 2015	The following skills have had their effects replaced with a new version to reduce visual noise: Frost Aura, Magnetic Aura, Shocking Aura, and Fire Shield.
September 09, 2014	Added a unique skill fact icon for this skill.
May 20, 2014	Added a protection skill fact when traited with Elemental Shielding. Added fury and swiftness skill facts when traited with Zephyr's Boon.
February 26, 2013	Incoming damage is reduced by 10% while under the effects of this aura. Enemies are only able to be chilled by this aura once per second. This affects all frost auras.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Frost Aura has been added to the game.