Sand Squall

Apply protection to you and your allies, then increase the duration of all boons currently existing on you and your allies. Gain magnetic aura. — In-game description

Sand Squall

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Weapon

Warhorn

Attunement

Earth

Game link

API

29453

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0.75¾  30  

Sand Squall

Apply protection to you and your allies, then increase the duration of all boons currently existing on you and your allies. Gain magnetic aura.

 Magnetic Aura (4s): Reflect projectiles with magnetic energy.

 Protection (2s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Protection (0.5½s): -33% Incoming Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Duration Increase: 3 seconds

 Radius: 600

 Combo Finisher: Blast

— 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.

Earth

• Elemental Shielding — Auras you grant to allies also grant protection.
• Geomancer's Training — Strike damage from nearby foes is reduced. Earth weapon skills gain reduced recharge.
• Diamond Skin — Remove conditions from yourself when you successfully combo a field with a leap finisher. Remove conditions from nearby allies when you successfully combo a field with a blast finisher.

Water

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

Tempest

• Invigorating Torrents — Auras you grant also grant regeneration and vigor.
• Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection to nearby allies. Protection gains increased damage reduction.
• Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

Notes

• Magnetic Aura is only applied to the caster, unless Powerful Aura is equipped.
• The duration increase is not affected by Boon Duration.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: (Undocumented) Maximum targets reduced from 10 to 5.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced base protection duration from 2 seconds to 0.5 seconds. Reduced maximum number of targets from 10 to 5.
March 05, 2019	The increased boon duration that this skill grants has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds. The number of allies this affects has been increased from 5 to 10.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Sand Squall has been added to the game.