Build:Tempest - Condition Auramancer

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A condition Tempest build for PvP with exceptional sustain against all types of damage and moderate group support.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Focus

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

• Signet of Earth - good personal defense with a nice active.
• Signet of Water - extra sustain with Transmute Frost synergy if taking offhand Dagger.

Elite

• Conjure Fiery Greatsword - burst damage and mobility, could be a lifesaver when you're getting chased. Good in teamfights and for cleaving downed enemies.
• Tornado - teamfight CC option for certain comps, especially if you can coordinate well with your team.

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Specializations

Variants

• Blinding Ashes trades damage for a bit more sustain. Better if your allies will generate lots of Might for you.

Equipment

Scepter

Focus

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Equipment Variants

Weapons

• Offhand Dagger - changes the play pattern away from Transmute Fire synergy, shifting the sustain and damage around to different attunements for higher mobility and a more melee-oriented playstyle. Steeper learning curve, but can be quite rewarding.

Runes

• Rune of Balthazar - higher damage and health at the cost of toughness and the extra aura proc.
• Rune of Orr - anti-condi option that stacks with Signet of Water. Can take Earthen Blessing as well, but this will significantly reduce your damage, so consider swapping to Burning Rage if doing so. Only recommended if taking offhand Dagger.

Sigils

• Sigil of Energy - additional dodges against comps with fewer conditions to cleanse.
• Sigil of Escape - decent for escaping in Earth or Air.

Usage

Elite Specialization Basics

• Tempest gains access to Overloads after staying attuned to an element for a period of time. Overloads are stun breaks that pulse while channeling and have a powerful effect at the end.

• Tempests also gain access to Shouts, which have a large AoE effect that buffs allies and harms enemies.

Pros

• Surprisingly high damage, good AoE, mostly ranged. Excellent downed cleave.
• Exceptional sustain and utility, especially in protracted teamfights near allies; very hard to kill for a DPS. Good AoE healing, boon application (especially Protection and Vigor), condi cleanse, and auras.

Cons

• Heavily reliant on Burning for damage, lacks cover conditions; can struggle against builds with frequent and reliable cleanse. Low burst.
• Somewhat lacking mobility - leans heavily on Signet of Air if not taking offhand Dagger.

General

• This build is all about maintaining as close to 100% Fire Aura uptime as possible. Ideally, you will Transmute Fire each aura just before it expires. Thanks to your traits, each application will heal you, cleanse a condition, and grant defensive boons.

• Your Overloads should not be spammed or used as part of the damage rotation: they are a free stun break. While almost always worth finishing the channel, their primary use is to break stuns and allow you to kite (especially in Earth). You'd rather stay ranged and autoattack than get close enough to Overload Fire on someone, unless they are downed and you want to cleave (and only if Fire4 is on cooldown.)

• You should try to free cast in Fire attunement for as long as possible; even your autoattacks in Fire do good ranged AoE damage (and aren't blocked by projectile hate). Only switch to Earth when you're being pressured or run out of cooldowns and want to cast Hurl from inside a fire field to burst a single target.

• While Fire and Earth are your primary attunements to swap between, Air is useful (especially for opening fights) due to the quick burst, projectile denial, CC, and blind. Do not stay in Air unless you are waiting to Overload for Swiftness to rotate off a point (more on that later). Water attunement can be useful for some quick soft and hard CC and/or healing, but don't stay too long - you'll get more healing from a single aura application as you get from Water Trident.

• As with most ranged DPS, try to get the high ground and LoS/kite enemy attacks. If possible, still pop in close enough to get value from your Shout AoE and share your auras before stepping back. If an ally is being focused, get near enough to protect them and counterpressure but be prepared to swap Earth and kite away again should they switch to you.

Tips

• Start each match in Air attunement. Use Overload Air as you approach the door, then use all your blast finishers in the combo field to stack Swiftness on your team. As soon as the combo field drops, switch Fire for Dragon's Tooth and Phoenix, then switch Earth and use "Aftershock!" and Magnetic Wave.

• Use Rock Barrier for the toughness buff before entering combat or switching attunements and throw Dust Devil before switching as well.

• Don't bother casting Flamewall unless the enemy will take multiple ticks (CC'd or downed), as your autoattacks will do more against a moving target.

• Try to use your blast finishers in your Fire fields when possible for more AoE Might stacking. Your Fire fields come from Fire4 and overloading Fire.

• If taking Glyph of Elementals, use in Fire for very high damage or in Earth for Protection, Weakness application, and Immobilize. Don't forget that you can support your Elemental, including sharing auras!

• If facing an enemy that uses a lot of projectiles (Rangers, Dragon Hunters, Rifle/Pistol Engineers, etc.) save "Aftershock!" and Magnetic Wave for critical moments. Also remember that Overloading Earth grants Magnetic Aura too!