Shocking Aura

Envelop yourself with electrical energy that stuns nearby foes if they attack you. Each attacker can be affected by this only once every 2 seconds. — In-game description

Shocking Aura

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand dagger

Attunement

Air

Sequence

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Game link

API

API

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10

25

 

Envelop yourself with electrical energy that stuns nearby foes if they attack you. Each attacker can be affected by this only once every 2 seconds.

  Shocking Aura (10s): Stun nearby attacking foes with an electric shock (only once per 2 seconds for each attacker).

  Shocking Aura (4s): Stun nearby attacking foes with an electric shock (only once per 2 seconds for each attacker).

  Stun: 1 second

  Defiance Break: 100

— 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.
• Stormsoul — Deal increased strike damage to disabled or defiant foes. Outgoing stun duration increased. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Aeromancer's Training — Gain ferocity, and gain additional ferocity while attuned to air. Air weapon skills get a reduced recharge time.
• Lightning Rod — Cast Lightning Rod when you disable a foe. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.

Earth

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

Water

• Powerful Aura — Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

Arcane

• Elemental Lockdown — When you disable a foe, gain a boon based upon your current attunement.

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.

Catalyst

• Hardened Auras — Damage reduction is increased when you grant yourself an aura. When this triggers, the duration of all stacks are refreshed.
• Vicious Empowerment — Gain Elemental Empowerment and might when you disable or immobilize a foe.
• 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

Bug:

The aura shared with allies via  Powerful Aura doesn't share the full duration. Only 4 seconds.

• This skill can be activated while in the air.
• The aura will only stun enemies within 240 units.
• This skill does not separately cause the stun that is listed below the Shocking Aura description in the tool-tip. This skill fact provides information about what occurs when struck by foes.
• The aura can hit enemies during attacks that evade like Unrelenting Assault and Surge of the Mists.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
August 23, 2022	(PvE only) Recharge reduced from 25 seconds to 10 seconds. Duration increased from 4 seconds to 10 seconds.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Added tooltip fact Defiance Break.
July 07, 2020	Icons for daze and stun are now displayed in light purple in skill and trait tooltips.
July 26, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented Shocking Aura's internal cooldown from being applied to downed players.
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.
November 26, 2013	The aura of this skill now applies to 5 targets when traited with Powerful Aura, down from 6.
October 15, 2013	Added the shocking aura buff to the skill fact.
May 14, 2013	This skill's icon on the buff bar now displays the same icon as the skill itself.
February 26, 2013	Updated this ability to indicate its cooldown on stunning enemies.
December 14, 2012	This aura is no longer incorrectly considered a boon. The aura will no longer be affected by boon duration, but also cannot be ripped by boon removal skills.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Shocking Aura has been added to the game.