Dark Aura

Surrounded by a dark aura that reduces incoming condition damage and causes torment each time you are struck (1-second cooldown per attacker). — In-game description

Dark Aura

Effect type

Aura

Stacking

No

Game link

Effect ID

39978

Visual appearance
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Surrounded by a dark aura that reduces incoming condition damage and causes torment each time you are struck (1-second cooldown per attacker).

 Damage Reduced: 20%

₁ Torment (2s): 44 Damage, 64 Damage if Foe Is Stationary

— In-game description ^?

Related skills

Healing skills that grant Dark Aura

•   Empowering Misery — Legendary Demon Stance

Utility skills that grant Dark Aura

•   Signet of Shadows — Signet

Combos that grant Dark Aura

•  Combo Field: Dark ×  Combo Finisher: Leap
•  Combo Field: Dark ×  Combo Finisher: Blast

Related traits

See also: Aura#Traits that improve auras

Traits that grant Dark Aura

• Permeating Pestilence (Corruption) — Invoke Torment transfers conditions from you onto foes.
• Shadow Savior (Shadow Arts) — Gain dark aura when you steal. Granting yourself dark aura heals nearby allies.
• Shielding Restoration (Shadow Arts) — Grant barrier and dark aura to nearby allies when you use a healing skill.

Traits that improve Dark Aura

• Replenishing Despair (Corruption) — Siphon health from nearby enemies when you gain a dark aura. Siphon healing is reduced for each target struck beyond the first.
• Shadow Savior (Shadow Arts) — Gain dark aura when you steal. Granting yourself dark aura heals nearby allies.
• Cover of Shadow (Shadow Arts) — When you steal, create a field around yourself that grants allies protection. Granting dark aura to yourself removes a condition from nearby allies.

Notes

• The internal cooldown for the torment proc is per Dark Aura user.
• The torment applied by getting hit is attributed to each separate individual rather than whoever applied the dark aura initially.

Version history

For a detailed effect history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Blasting a dark field now grants area Dark Aura instead of area blindness.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: Aura effects have been updated to be larger and more noticeable. The previous, more subtle aura effects are now used for auras on allies and for all characters viewed by PvP spectators when the Effect LOD option is checked in the graphics settings. Effect icons used for auras have been updated for consistency.
April 23, 2019	Dark Aura has been added to the game.

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