Water Attunement

Water Attunement

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Attunement

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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.

Skills by weapon

	Skill	Type			Description
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.
5	Healing Rain		1	40	Call down a healing rain on the target area, granting regeneration to allies and curing conditions once every three seconds.
Dagger
1	Vapor Blade		0.5½		Cast a vapor blade that inflicts vulnerability and returns to you.
2	Cone of Cold		20.25¼	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			30	Protect yourself with frost armor that reduces incoming damage by 10%. While active, it chills foes that hit you. Each attacker can only be affected by this once per second.
5	Cleansing Wave		0.75¾	30	Heal yourself and nearby allies, curing a condition.
Scepter
1	Ice Shards		0.75¾		Fire three ice shards at your foe.
2	Shatterstone		0.5½	3	Cast a shatterstone at the target area that explodes after one second.
3	Water Trident		0.5½	20	Cast a water trident that damages foes and heals allies.
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.
Warhorn (requires Tempest)
4	Tidal Surge		0.25¼	35	Send out a tidal wave that regenerates and heal [sic] allies, then knocks enemies back.
5	Water Globe		0.5½	35	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	Seiche, Clapotis, Breaking Wave chain  Clapotis		0.5½		Deliver a second strike that heals you for each target it hits.
1	Seiche, Clapotis, Breaking Wave chain  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.
Trident
1	Water Missile		0.5½		Launch a slow-moving homing missile.
2	Ice Globe		0.5½	10	Shoot a slow-moving, detonatable orb of ice.
2	Ice Globe, Ice Globe (sequence) chain  Ice Globe				Detonate your ice globe to damage foes.
3	Ice Wall		0.5½	20	Create a wall of ice that you can shatter, chilling enemies near its location.
3	Ice Wall, Detonate (elementalist skill) chain  Detonate				Detonate your ice wall to damage and chill foes.
4	Undercurrent		10.25¼	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.

Related traits

See also: Attunement#Related traits

•  Soothing Mist — You and nearby allies regenerate health while you are attuned to water.
•  Healing Ripple — Heal nearby allies when attuning to water.
•  Piercing Shards — While attuned to water, your spells deal more damage to vulnerable foes. Vulnerability lasts longer.
•  Cleansing Wave — Remove a condition from you and your allies when attuning to water.
•  Aquamancer's Training — Deal extra damage when your health is above the threshold. Reduces recharge on all water weapon skills.
•  Latent Stamina - Apply vigor in a radius when attuning to water. Granting vigor to allies also restores a portion of endurance.

Notes

• 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

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

• When attuning to water, the character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on race and gender.

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

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.