Powerful Aura

Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies. — In-game description

Powerful Aura

Specialization

Water (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Powerful Aura

Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 600

— In-game description

Mechanics

• Shares auras with up to 5 additional targets, meaning for a maximum of 6 targets including the caster.
  • It does not increase the maximum targets for shouts like   "Feel the Burn!" from 5 to 10.
• Auras shared via this trait last 4 seconds.
• Auras granted via combos do trigger.
  •  Combo Field: Dark +  Combo Finisher: Leap =  Dark Aura
  •  Combo Field: Light +  Combo Finisher: Leap =  Light Aura
  •  Combo Field: Ethereal +  Combo Finisher: Leap =  Chaos Aura

Related skills

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

•   Frost Aura — Dagger, when attuned to water
•   Shocking Aura — Dagger, when attuned to air
•   Elemental Explosion — Pistol
•   Searing Salvo — Pistol, when attuned to fire
•   Fire Shield — Focus, when attuned to fire
•   Frozen Ground — Staff, when attuned to water
•   Magnetic Aura — Staff, when attuned to earth
•   Sand Squall — Warhorn, when attuned to earth
•   Frostfire Flurry — Pistol, when attuned to fire and water
•   Flowing Finesse — Pistol, when attuned to air and water
•   Frostfire Ward — Spear, when attuned to fire and water
•   Immutable Stone — Hammer, when attuned to earth

Bundle skills that are improved by this trait

•   Magnetic Surge — Magnetic Shield (bundle)

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

•   "Aftershock!" — Shout
•   "Feel the Burn!" — Shout
•   "Flash-Freeze!" — Shout

Elite skills that are improved by this trait

•   "Rebound!" — Shout

Trait skills that are improved by this trait

•   Sunspot — Sunspot

Related traits

Traits that are improved by this trait

Fire

• Conjurer — Gain fire aura when an ally picks up a conjured weapon.

Earth

• Written in Stone — Signets continue to grant their passive bonuses while recharging. Gain an aura when you use a signet skill.

Water

• Soothing Ice — Gain regeneration and frost aura when using a healing skill.

Arcane

• Arcane Resurrection — 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.

Tempest

• Unstable Conduit — Overloads grant an aura based on your attunement.
• Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

Catalyst

• 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.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from correctly sharing light aura.
January 26, 2016	The durations of auras this trait applies have been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
October 29, 2015	Fixed an issue that allowed this trait to double-apply boons associated with auras.
September 29, 2015	Increased the effective radius of this trait from 360 to 600.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. Changed: When you apply an aura to yourself, grant that aura to all nearby allies as well.
May 20, 2014	Updated the description of this trait to clarify that the shared auras only apply when the source is a weapon skill.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Powerful Aura has been added to the game.