The game may be temporarily down for updates, but these quick tips may benefit players looking to play as Aura during the next beta phase.
A quick rundown of Aura: IMO she’s the medic-iest medic in game. She’s squishy, fast, and has the most versatile and powerful healing ability of all medics. Her default shotgun and speed can earn players some easy close range kills, however it, along with her default pistol, are quite useless in mid-long range duels. Mobility and aim can be saved for another guide. The main problem I found with Aura players in the recent closed beta phase is that they didn’t know how to take advantage of her abilities as a medic. Here’s a quick rundown of do’s and dont’s:
DO: Use the healing station retrieval to your advantage. When you plop down a healing station, there is a lengthy cooldown before you can create a new one (I think it was 20-30 seconds. Wish there was a database for this sort of thing). You can, however, cut over 90% the cooldown (to ~3 seconds) if you pick up a healing station you’ve already placed.
DO: Constantly reposition your healing station at safe locations near the front lines. If your squad is attacking, a healing station is useless back at your spawn. Similarly, if you’re defending, a healing station wont do your team favors if it’s somewhere your team can’t quickly access it. It’s your job as Aura to assess what location to place a healing station to be accessible to the largest number of players possible on your team.
DON’T: Try to be the topfragger on your team. “Aggressive Aura” is not a legitimate playstyle. You may be able to fend off one to two people trying to rush you down by camping your own healing station, but you shouldn’t be pushing way out for kills. This applies ESPECIALLY if you’re the team’s only medic. Your main duty is to stay alive and support the players who are more suited to get kills. When you die, your team mates are stuck waiting out the entirety of the respawn timer, during which the opposing team will surely take the opportunity to take more advanced positions and push your team further back into spawn, which is how games are lost.
DO: Pay attention for downed player and wounded player markers. The number of times I’ve seen an Aura obliviously run past a downed player is ridiculous. DB is a war of attrition and the more people you’re able to keep fighting, the higher the odds that you’ll be able to force the enemy team back. Similarly, a cross appears over players who are wounded. If possible, drop a healing station right by them, and pick it up immediately afterwards.
DON’T: Run out into the middle of a warzone to revive someone. The person you revive wont survive for more than 3 seconds, and chances are you’ll die with him.
I may edit this post with more tips later, but the TL;DR of this entire thread is “don’t be a hero, be a medic”.
