Aura

Aura
Date of Addition:	January 16, 2019
Locations:	Frozen Village Magma Village
Source:	Ability Teacher
Objects Affected:	Players Enemies Weapons
Level:	No official Level requirment

Aura (formerly known as Enhancement) is an ability that allows the user to coat a certain body part in black armor, improving the user's damage & defense along with letting the user bypass an Elemental Fruit's Elemental Reflex. Aura is cheap, easily obtainable, and especially useful, and as such it is recommended that new players get it as soon as possible.

To activate/deactivate Aura, the user can press the [J] key on PC, Down on the D-Pad on Console, or press a fist button on Mobile.

Obtainment

Aura can be bought for 25,000 from the Ability Teacher inside the Frozen Village cave or Magma Village.

Aura Leveling

Aura has an EXP system that allows it to be leveled up. There are two ways of gaining Aura experience (each gives one Aura EXP per action):

1. Damaging any enemies while having Aura activated, including NPCs, players, and Bosses using any sword, gun, or fighting style. This does not work with Blox Fruits, including "fruit swords" and M1s such as Light's spear.
2. Getting hit while having Aura activated (does not work if the user has Elemental Reflex).

The user's Aura will progress through five stages, each supplying visual changes and buffs to the ability. However, it will not notify the player when it progresses; the way for the user to know when their Aura progresses is to either occasionally turn it off and on again to check if it has leveled up or to change the look of their aura stage through the Aura Editor.

Upon reaching stage 5, the user will be rewarded with the title "Iron Man" #071 and will be able to change their Aura skin to another color, the recipes of which can be bought from the Barista Cousin. Skins can be changed via the Aura menu in the player's inventory, where they can also be bought with Robux.

Stages

Stages display differently depending on the player's fighting style. If the player is using Dark Step or Death Step, their Aura advancements begin at the legs rather than the arms. Buffs from previous stages carry over to future stages.

• Stages
• GIFs

Stage	Visual Aura (Arm FS/ Leg FS)	Buffs	EXP needed
0	Lower arms/legs.	Increases player's damage on non-fruit attacks by 10%	0 EXP0 EXP
1	Full arms/legs.	Increases player's damage on non-fruit attacks by 21% (stage 0 buff * 1.1)	4,000 EXP4,000 EXP
2	Full arms/legs and half torso.	Decreases all damage meant to be taken by 10% before subtracting it from the player's health.	12,000 EXP12,000 EXP
3	Full arms/legs, torso and head.	Decreases all damage meant to be taken by roughly 18% (stage 2 buff * 9%) before subtracting it from the player's health.	24,000 EXP24,000 EXP
4	Full arms/legs, full torso, head, and upper arms/legs.	Decreases all damage meant to be taken by roughly 25% (stage 3 buff * 8%) before subtracting it from the player's health.	48,000 EXP48,000 EXP
5	Full body.	Decreases all damage meant to be taken by roughly 30% (stage 4 buff * 7%) before subtracting it from the player's health.	60,000 EXP60,000 EXP

Stage	Legs	Arms
0
1
2
3
4
5

Notes

• If the player has changed their visual stage on the Aura Editor before reaching stage 5, they will not notice any visual changes on their body unless they go back to the Aura Editor and change their stages again, each time they want to check for a level-up. For example, if the player selects Stage 1, they will not notice that they unlocked Stage 2 (by selecting Stage 5, it will start showing the player's actual Aura stage again).
• Once the player has unlocked a certain stage, changing the visual appearance of the Aura to downgrade it will not cause the buffs of said stage to disappear; it purely changes the visual effect.
• Aura increases the damage on sword, gun and fighting styles.

Aura Leveling Tips

• Buddha is useful for leveling up Aura in general, as it encourages the use of fighting styles and swords, a main source of Aura EXP.
• Auto-clicking or spam-clicking using a low damage sword near low level NPCs is a good strategy, which can be enhanced with the usage of Elemental Reflex (equipping an Elemental fruit).
• A private server and extra stat points into defense can always help.
• Dark Step's [X] and [C] move hits multiple times, which are great for farming Aura EXP.

Some great locations to grind this in are:

• At the Pirate or Marine Starter islands, where low-level enemies are easily found.
  • Pirate Starter is heavily recommended, as Bandits spawn closely together in groups of seven.
  • However, if the player is AFKing while the Bandits are hitting them, it is very easy to fall off the island, as their punches have knockback.
• At the Jungle, where the Monkeys are easy to round up in the center of the island near the quest giver.

Crafting

Example of a crafting recipe.

Aura colors are craftable using Berries.

The Barista has the ability to craft the player new aura colors using recipes and Berries. Recipes can be found through the Barista Cousin, where they can be collected for free and later crafted at the cost of .

• Crafting Rare Aura recipes come with a cost of 1,500.
• Crafting Legendary Aura recipes come with a cost of 7,500.

Gallery

Trivia

• There is no relation between sea events and Aura. Turning aura off does not make sea events spawn more often.
• All swords and guns will change their color when a colored Aura is active, based on its color.
  • Some swords, when transformed with Buddha will not have the Aura effect.

Light's Spear and Ice's Trident visual is affected by Aura.

• The same goes for Awakened Dough's and Rubber's attacks. The user can also change the color of its moves with an Aura skin.

Awakened Spider’s [V] move also has different colors depending on the user’s aura color, and if their aura color slowly changes, the same would be for Spider’s [V] move, most likely because the move is webs covered in Aura shooting forward.

If you use aura your damage for guns, swords and fighting styles will slightly increase

Change History

Released in Update 1

Update 24

• Aura changed how it looks for fruits, swords, guns and its reflectance was removed.

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Update 17.3.5

• Enhancement was renamed to Aura.

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Update 3

• Enhancement stages/progression was added.

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Update 1

• Enhancement was released.