Frost Aura (effect)

Chill foes that strike you (only once per second for each attacker); incoming damage is reduced by 10%. — In-game description

Frost Aura

Effect type

Aura

Stacking

No

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Chill foes that strike you (only once per second for each attacker); incoming damage is reduced by 10%.

— In-game description

Frost Aura is an aura that chills foes and reduces damage.

Notes

• Each hit applies  Chilled for 2 seconds in PvE and PvP, or 1 second in WvW.

Related skills

Weapon skills that grant Frost Aura

•   Frost Aura — Dagger, when attuned to water
•   Elemental Explosion — Pistol
•   Frozen Ground — Staff, when attuned to water
•   Flowing Finesse — Pistol, when attuned to water and air
•   Frostfire Ward — Spear, when attuned to fire and water
•   Immutable Stone — Hammer, when attuned to earth

Healing skills that grant Frost Aura

•   Coolant Blast — Exceed

Utility skills that grant Frost Aura

•   "Flash-Freeze!" — Shout

Elite skills that grant Frost Aura

•   "Rebound!" — Shout

Profession mechanic skills that grant Frost Aura

•   Throw Enchanted Ice — Stolen skill

Pet skills that grant Frost Aura

•   Icy Screech — Juvenile White Moa

Combos that grant Frost Aura

•  Combo Field: Ice ×  Combo Finisher: Blast
•  Combo Field: Ice ×  Combo Finisher: Leap

Related traits

See also: Aura#Traits that improve auras

Traits that grant Frost Aura

• Written in Stone (Earth) — Signets continue to grant their passive bonuses while recharging. Gain an aura when you use a signet skill.
• Soothing Ice (Water) — Gain regeneration and frost aura when using a healing skill.
• Arcane Resurrection (Arcane) — Cast Geyser when you begin reviving a downed ally. Geyser now partially revives downed allies. When you begin reviving an ally, you gain an aura based on your attunement.
• Unstable Conduit (Tempest) — Overloads grant an aura based on your attunement.
• Elemental Bastion (Tempest) — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.
• Elemental Epitome (Catalyst) — 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.

Version history

For a detailed effect history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Reduced the chill duration from 2 seconds to 1 second in WvW only.
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 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Aura effects have been updated to be larger and more noticeable. The previous, more subtle aura effects are now used for auras on allies and for all characters viewed by PvP spectators when the Effect LOD option is checked in the graphics settings. Effect icons used for auras have been updated for consistency.
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 29, 2015	This aura now replaces itself as other auras do instead of stacking duration.
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.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Frost Aura has been added to the game.

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