Water Attunement

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Water Attunement

Attune to water, gaining superior support and healing abilities.

— In-game description

Hand aura of an elementalist attuned to water

Water Attunement is an elementalist attunement skill that attunes the elementalist to water. While attuned to water the elementalist's weapon skills are water magic skills.^[1] Elementalists unlock Water Attunement at level 5.

Skills by weapon[edit]

#	Skill			Description
Dagger
1	Vapor Blade	0.5½		Cast a vapor blade that inflicts vulnerability and returns to you.
2	Cone of Cold	10.5½	10	Spray an icy blast in a cone that damages foes and heals allies.
3	Frozen Burst	0.25¼	12	Detonate a burst of ice that chills nearby foes.
4	Frost Aura		10	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.
4	Transmute Frost	0.5½	10	Cause your frost aura to violently explode, healing allies and damaging foes.
5	Cleansing Wave	0.75¾	20	Heal yourself and nearby allies, curing conditions.
Pistol
1	Soothing Splash	0.5½		Shoot a bullet of water. Heal for each unique condition on the enemy.
2	Frigid Flurry	10.25¼	5	Fire a volley of icy bullets that inflict bleeding. If you have an ice bullet, consume it to heal for each strike. If not, create an ice bullet.
3	Frozen Fusillade	0.5½	15	Fire a shot that freezes the ground underneath it, creating an area that speeds up allies while slowing enemy movement. If you have an ice bullet, consume it to cause the frozen ground to shatter when it expires. If not, create an ice bullet.
Scepter
1	Ice Shards	0.75¾		Fire three ice shards at your foe.
2	Shatterstone	0.5½	3	Cast a shatterstone that will explode at the target area.
3	Water Trident	0.5½	1	Cast a water trident that damages foes. Deal more damage to chilled foes and heal for each target struck. Heal for a lesser amount for each target struck beyond the first.
Focus
4	Freezing Gust	0.5½	25	Chill your foe for a brief time.
5	Comet	0.75¾	25	Drop a comet of ice on target foe, damaging and dazing foes in the area.
Staff
1	Water Blast	0.75¾		Spray a jet of water at your foe that splashes to heal nearby allies.
2	Ice Spike	0.75¾	6	Drop a giant ice spike on foes to make them vulnerable.
3	Geyser	0.75¾	20	Create a geyser to heal nearby allies.
4	Frozen Ground		30	Coat the target area in ice, chilling foes that enter it. Grant frost aura to allies in the area.
5	Healing Rain	1	35	Call down a healing rain on the target area, granting regeneration to allies and curing conditions once every three seconds. Allies are healed for each condition removed.
Spear
1	Restorative Spear	0.75¾		Throw a spear of water at your foe that heals you when it strikes.
2	Ice Beam	1	6	Chill enemies with a beam of ice.
3	Ripple	0.75¾	15	Evade attacks and remove conditions from yourself. Your next spear skill recharges faster.
4	Undertow	0.5½	20	Conjure a whirlpool at the target location, pulling enemies in. Enemies at the center of the whirlpool are slowed.
5	Etching: Jökulhlaup	0.25¼	25	Etch a spell into the ground that invokes a glacial flood. Using a number of other skills within this etching completes the spell, unlocking its full potential.
5	Lesser Jökulhlaup	0.75¾		Invoke a glacial flood that damages enemies. Heals for each target struck.
5	Jökulhlaup	0.75¾		Invoke a glacial flood that damages enemies. Heals for each target struck.
Trident
1	Water Missile	0.5½		Launch a slow-moving homing missile.
2	Ice Globe	0.5½	8	Shoots a slow-moving orb that detonates upon impact.
3	Ice Wall	0.5½	12	Create a wall of ice that shatters when touched by enemies or when it expires, dealing heavy damage and chilling foes.
4	Undercurrent	0.75¾	25	Release a current of water to damage foes and regenerate allies.
5	Tidal Wave	10.75¾	25	Charge forward with tidal force, damaging foes and healing allies.
Warhorn (requires Tempest)
4	Tidal Surge	0.25¼	30	Send out a tidal wave that regenerates and heal[sic] allies, then knocks enemies back.
5	Water Globe	0.5½	30	Blast out a watery orb that heals allies as it travels.
Sword (requires Weaver)
1	Seiche	0.5½		Imbue your blade with water, healing yourself for each target you strike.
1	Clapotis	0.5½		Deliver a second strike that heals yourself for each target it hits.
1	Breaking Wave	0.75¾		Strike your enemies and unleash a wave that heals allies.
2	Riptide	1	12	Use the element of water to propel yourself backward and regenerate, leaving a healing area at your location.
3	Aqua Siphon	0.75¾	15	Strike an enemy and draw water from them, causing them to deliver a healing burst to your allies.
Hammer (requires Catalyst)
1	Stream Strike	0.5½		Chain. Strike your foe with a watery blow.
1	Water Rush	0.5½		Chain. Slam your foe with a rush of water.
1	Chilling Crack	0.5½		Crack the ground to chill your foes.
2	Rain of Blows	10.5½	6	Strike your foes repeatedly. Enemies hit by all strikes become chilled.
3	Icy Coil		18	Summon a projectile of ice that circles around you, damaging foes. While this projectile is active, you take reduced damage from conditions. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
4	Crashing Font	0.75¾	20	Leap at your target and strike nearby foes. Heal for each target struck. Heal for a lesser amount for each target struck beyond the first.
5	Cleansing Typhoon	0.5½	20	Strike nearby foes, cleansing a condition for each target struck.

Related traits[edit]

Water

Soothing Mist — You and nearby allies recover health while you are attuned to water.
Piercing Shards — Vulnerability you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased strike damage to vulnerable foes. Damage bonus is doubled while attuned to water.
Healing Ripple — Heal nearby allies when attuning to water. This effect will not trigger when attuning to the same element, but will be triggered by overload skills.

Arcane

Arcane Prowess — Gain boons when you switch attunements.
Arcane Restoration — Swapping attunements restores health.
Elemental Attunement — Grant a boon to nearby allies when changing attunements. Note: This effect will not trigger when attuning to the same element.
Elemental Enchantment — Gain concentration and your attunements gain reduced recharge.

Tempest

Latent Stamina — Grant vigor to nearby allies when attuning to water. Restore endurance to allies you grant vigor.

Weaver

Weaver — Your active attunement is now applied to your main hand, with the old attunement moving to your off hand. Attunement recharges are reduced. Gain access to Dual Attack and the Stance utility types.
Weaver's Prowess — Gain increased condition damage and duration for a period of time after attuning to a different element.
Elemental Polyphony — Gain attributes based on your current attunement. When dual attuned, gain both benefits.
Elements of Rage — Gain a bonus to all damage dealt for a period of time when attuned to a single element. Gain precision based on a percentage of your vitality.

Catalyst

Energized Elements — Gain energy and boons when you switch attunements. Energy can only be gained while in combat.

Notes[edit]

This skill has an instant cast time and may be cast during other actions.
This skill can be activated while in the air.

Version history[edit]

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Reduced base attunement recharge from 13 seconds to 10 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Water Attunement has been added to the game.

Trivia[edit]

A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.
When attuning to water, the character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on race and gender.

Race	Gender
Race	Male	Female
Asura	Cleansing will now begin! Turn the tide! Water!	The water's rage! Water! Wave and torrent!
Charr	Behold the ocean's power! My power will drown you! Water!	Feel the cold! Making waves! Water!
Human	Behold, the ocean's power. My power is like a tidal wave! Water!	Behold, the ocean's power! Feel Grenth's icy embrace! Water!
Norn	Drown in my power. The flow and freeze. Water!	Cold power. Feel the cold. Water!
Sylvari	Element of water, attend me! I am rain and ice! Persistent water!	Currents flow by my will! I am river and ocean! Powerful water!