Aurena - Golden Explosion shotgun
by Gritt • Oct 4, 2025, 03:08 PM
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Golden Explosion
Ice Shield
Mass Protection
Chain Reaction
Beautiful Threat
Feathery Dash
Aurena
Expelled Sage of the Lunar Arcanum Society
Aurena is a sage from the Lunar Arcanum Society who was expelled for researching forbidden knowledge. She is a battle healer who dismantles her own life force to wield its power.
Beautiful Threat
Passive
Feathery Dash
Dash
Déjà Vu
Essence Essence of Clemency
Restoreyour Health for 4%
of the damage dealt by this Memory.
Memory configuration
Golden Explosion
Q •
Essences (3/3)
Ice Shield
W •
Essences (3/3)
Mass Protection
E •
Essences (3/3)
Chain Reaction
R •
Essences (3/3)
Constellation Slots
destruction (2/2)
3
4
life (4/4)
4
3
4
3
imagination (4/4)
4
3
3
5
flexible (8/8)
1
1
1
1
4
3
3
4
Description
Aurena is really fun to play and act more as a DPS than an actual support. She also has one of the best constellation with 8 flexible slots and really strong imagination stars to help counterbalance unlucky runs.
We will play Aurena with her Golden Explosion memory which will drain her HP to deal massive damage in cone shape, the cooldown is pretty low so we are easily tempted to spam it. This skill is pretty risky in early game since we have to spend HP to deal damage but starting with Essence of Clemency at 230% will help us reduce the cost of the spell and actually heal us instead a some point (not sure but I think past ~400% quality). We are also using Beautiful Threat to kite and deal damage in case we are low on health which will happen very often in earlier stages of the run and this passive will help us sustain with a pretty good AP scaling.
==== # Build explanation # ====
First our objective is to collect as much dream dust as possible to increase the Essence of Clemency to break even on Golden Explosion HP cost. It can be achieved pretty easily thanks to Essence of Guidance that will greatly increase the healing we get and even provide a shield which will be really useful when reaching Golden Explosion to +10/+12 with a cooldown of 0.1s making it a golden shotgun barrage. If we manage to find the Essence of Paranoia in the run, the game become pretty much a Masochist Bismuth game with flashbangs auto-casting.
For the second loadout option I chose Chain Reaction but we can also slot in Dangerous Theory, to be honest I tend to dismantle this skill pretty early on to invest in Essence of Clemency instead since this is a more flexible healing option.
For the memories we have Ice shield and Mass Protection which will help us stay alive in case we are spamming Golden Explosion a bit too much (which can happen really fast due to Essence of Paranoia auto-casting). The essences in those memories are not really important, but our goal is to have maximum utility to help us survive. Essence of Wind is pretty good since it can synergize with our passive to sustain, Essence of Rigidity slotted in Golden Explosion can also be a good option to get a shield and Divine Faith is also a good option to deal tons of damage and provide heal.
==== # Constellations # ====
Destruction
Aurena has only 2 destruction slots but this is more than enough.
Hypothesis Formation will help get us more attack speed to trigger healing from passive
Daylight is really good since we will spam Golden Explosion during the whole game
Life
Asclepius is a decent choice since we might lack healing in early game, it also synergize with Equivalent Exchange to get more gold
Autophagy and Experimental Hypothesis are used for healing and will trigger with Clemency to restore more HP%
Circulating Life is not really necessary since Golden Explosion already provide decent healing but it's still pretty good and synergize with Beautiful Threat too
Imagination
Beginner's Luck which is a no-brainer in the imagination tree to get a Déjà Vu at 230% at the start of the game
That's where Aurena's constellation really shine, Component Analysis and Fun Experiment will greatly facilitate the acquisition of gold and dream dust during the run, we can also use Efficient Extraction, Dismantle and Analyze or even Wealth Accumulation she has a lot of options here.
Flexible
Since we are running Golden Explosion as our main source of damage, we will use Dismantle, Dissolve, Understanding and Strong Bond to have an easier health economy but they are not mandatory.
Golden Mind and Master Alchemist are also nice to have if you're not planning on dismantling Chain Reaction during the run
With 8 flexible slots, you can slot in pretty much anything. I like to run Primordial Chaos to have more stats after bosses or Monstrous Charm and Black Market to have more merchant options. Since we are spending a lot of HP in the early game you can also use Second Wind which will act like Soul Prison and prevent from dying if you take fatal damage.
We will play Aurena with her Golden Explosion memory which will drain her HP to deal massive damage in cone shape, the cooldown is pretty low so we are easily tempted to spam it. This skill is pretty risky in early game since we have to spend HP to deal damage but starting with Essence of Clemency at 230% will help us reduce the cost of the spell and actually heal us instead a some point (not sure but I think past ~400% quality). We are also using Beautiful Threat to kite and deal damage in case we are low on health which will happen very often in earlier stages of the run and this passive will help us sustain with a pretty good AP scaling.
==== # Build explanation # ====
First our objective is to collect as much dream dust as possible to increase the Essence of Clemency to break even on Golden Explosion HP cost. It can be achieved pretty easily thanks to Essence of Guidance that will greatly increase the healing we get and even provide a shield which will be really useful when reaching Golden Explosion to +10/+12 with a cooldown of 0.1s making it a golden shotgun barrage. If we manage to find the Essence of Paranoia in the run, the game become pretty much a Masochist Bismuth game with flashbangs auto-casting.
For the second loadout option I chose Chain Reaction but we can also slot in Dangerous Theory, to be honest I tend to dismantle this skill pretty early on to invest in Essence of Clemency instead since this is a more flexible healing option.
For the memories we have Ice shield and Mass Protection which will help us stay alive in case we are spamming Golden Explosion a bit too much (which can happen really fast due to Essence of Paranoia auto-casting). The essences in those memories are not really important, but our goal is to have maximum utility to help us survive. Essence of Wind is pretty good since it can synergize with our passive to sustain, Essence of Rigidity slotted in Golden Explosion can also be a good option to get a shield and Divine Faith is also a good option to deal tons of damage and provide heal.
==== # Constellations # ====
Destruction
Aurena has only 2 destruction slots but this is more than enough.
Hypothesis Formation will help get us more attack speed to trigger healing from passive
Daylight is really good since we will spam Golden Explosion during the whole game
Life
Asclepius is a decent choice since we might lack healing in early game, it also synergize with Equivalent Exchange to get more gold
Autophagy and Experimental Hypothesis are used for healing and will trigger with Clemency to restore more HP%
Circulating Life is not really necessary since Golden Explosion already provide decent healing but it's still pretty good and synergize with Beautiful Threat too
Imagination
Beginner's Luck which is a no-brainer in the imagination tree to get a Déjà Vu at 230% at the start of the game
That's where Aurena's constellation really shine, Component Analysis and Fun Experiment will greatly facilitate the acquisition of gold and dream dust during the run, we can also use Efficient Extraction, Dismantle and Analyze or even Wealth Accumulation she has a lot of options here.
Flexible
Since we are running Golden Explosion as our main source of damage, we will use Dismantle, Dissolve, Understanding and Strong Bond to have an easier health economy but they are not mandatory.
Golden Mind and Master Alchemist are also nice to have if you're not planning on dismantling Chain Reaction during the run
With 8 flexible slots, you can slot in pretty much anything. I like to run Primordial Chaos to have more stats after bosses or Monstrous Charm and Black Market to have more merchant options. Since we are spending a lot of HP in the early game you can also use Second Wind which will act like Soul Prison and prevent from dying if you take fatal damage.