Elemental Bastion

Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold. — In-game description

Elemental Bastion

Specialization

Tempest (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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30

40

40

Elemental Bastion

Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

 Healing: 522 (0.55)^?

 Healing: 391 (1.0)^?

 Healing: 391 (0.6)^?

 Health Threshold: 75%

 Frost Aura (4s): -10% Incoming Damage

 Alacrity (4s): +25% Skill Recharge Rate

 Number of Allied Targets: 5

 Radius: 360

— In-game description

Mechanics

• You heal allies you grant auras to always.
• In PvE only you also grant alacrity along with the healing.
• The listed internal cooldown only applies to the extra frost aura when struck below the threshold.
• When using   Powerful Aura you still only get one activation per skill and won't get a second heal.

Anomaly:

The tooltip still makes no mention of auras granting boons in PvE.

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

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 improve this trait

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.

Earth

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

Water

• Aquamancer's Training — Increase healing to other allies. Water-weapon skills gain reduced recharge.
• Powerful Aura — Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

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.

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.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 01, 2025	Reduced the healing power scaling from 0.7 to 0.6 in PvP only.
June 24, 2025	This trait causes auras to grant alacrity in addition to its previous effects in PvE only.
April 15, 2025	Reduced the healing-power scaling from 0.8 to 0.7 in PvP only.
March 19, 2024	Increased the healing coefficient from 0.8 to 1.0 in WvW only.
November 29, 2022	Increased heal attribute scaling from 0.4125 to 0.8 in WvW only.
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: Increased healing coefficient from 0.55 to 0.8 in PvP 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.
April 06, 2021	Increased heal scaling from 0.4125 to 0.55 in PvP only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Increased internal cooldown from 30 seconds to 40 seconds. Reduced base heal from 522 to 391. Reduced healing coefficient from 0.55 to 0.4125.
July 28, 2016	Fixed a bug that prevented this skill from healing allies when traited with Powerful Aura.
July 26, 2016	The base healing-per-level values for this trait have been reduced by 33%. The healing power contribution has been increased by 10%.
January 26, 2016	The duration of the frost aura this trait applies has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.
October 29, 2015	This trait can now activate when struck by missiles.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Elemental Bastion has been added to the game.