Tempest - D/W Auramancer

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Focused on: Support, Utility.

Designed for:

Conquest

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Overview

This PvP Tempest build offers might and fury sharing, boon extending, condition cleansing, direct healing, and projectile denial at the cost of less self-sustain.

Skill Bar

Dagger/WarhornHealingUtilityElite

Slot Changes

For "Wash the Pain Away!":

• - for more self-sustain and synergy with .

For "Flash-Freeze!":

• - for more access.

For Lightning Flash:

• - for invulnerability and safe-ressing/safe-stomping.

For both slots:

• - for burst healing on a short CD; requires proper targeting.

Specializations

Variant:

• - if the enemy team has intense direct damage; such as a Deadeye or a Herald.

Variant:

• - if the team needs more healing support than you need condition cleansing.
• - if you don't prioritize having a shorter cool down on and .

Specialization Changes

Replace Water with Fire if needing more damage and might than support.

• Also swap out for for Stability to ease pressure of being interrupted while channeling overloads; healing will now come from attuning to Fire.

Equipment

9

Superior Sigil of Cleansing

Remove 1 condition when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Energy

Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

Superior Rune of Sanctuary

(1): +25 Vitality (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Vitality (4): +10% Boon Duration (5): +100 Vitality (6): Gain a barrier with health equal to 20% of any heals you receive.

Mender's Amulet

+1050 Power +560 Precision +560 Vitality +1050 Healing power

Equipment Changes

Runes

• Superior Rune of the Soldier

  Superior Rune of the Soldier

  (1): +25 Vitality (2): +35 Toughness (3): +50 Vitality (4): +65 Toughness (5): +100 Vitality (6): Shouts remove a condition from each affected ally.
  - for more condition clearing.
• Superior Rune of Radiance

  Superior Rune of Radiance

  (1): +25 Vitality (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Vitality (4): +5% Boon Duration (5): +100 Vitality (6): +10% Boon Duration; increase the duration of auras you grant by +33%.
  - for longer aura duration and a slight boost to boon duration.
• Superior Rune of the Monk

  Superior Rune of the Monk

  (1): +25 Healing Power (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Healing Power (4): +10% Boon Duration (5): +100 Healing Power (6): +10% outgoing heal effectiveness to allies, +1% outgoing heal effectiveness for 3 seconds whenever granting a boon to an ally (max 10)
  - for additional outgoing healing.

Sigils

• Superior Sigil of Courage

  2

  Superior Sigil of Courage

  On hit gain might for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 2s)
  - for more might to share with allies.
• Superior Sigil of Escape

  18

  Superior Sigil of Escape

  Remove movement-impairing effects from yourself when swapping to this weapon while in combat.
  - for escaping immobilizes and other snares.

Usage

General

• Under General Options / User Interface enable "Thick party health bars" and "Always show health bars". These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.

• When playing with , every aura applied to you is also granted to nearby allies. This isn't restricted to auras on elementalists; you can use in a , for example, and share with allies. Auras cannot be applied to downed allies.

• Auras in the build:

• from Overload Air and Dagger #3 in air.
• from Overload Water, , , and .
• from Overload Fire, , + , + , and .
• from Overload Earth, , and .
• can grant any of the auras mentioned above depending on which attunement you land on when the timer is up or when someone has taken lethal damage.

Overloads

• These skills become usable once staying in the same attunement for 6 seconds; swapping to another attunement while casting an overload will put it on full cool down of 20 seconds.
• Overloads have incredibly long cast times, meaning they are incredibly susceptible to interrupts. There are ways to reduce the chance such as and .

• - This skill offers considerable Might to those allies who stand in it, inflicts burning to enemies, and deals decent damage, even with Mender's Amulet.
• - This skill is a last-resort healing skill when you, and/or allies, are low health; this is a last-resort heal and should be used only when needed. This skill does not deal damage, meaning you could cast this while an allies grants stealth.
• - This skill deals considerable damage to enemies, limited to 3 targets, inflicts Vulnerability, and grants allies a unique additional strike for their next attack.
• - This skill grants allies Protection and inflicts Crippled and Bleeding to enemies. Once the channel finishes, it inflicts Immobilize; while using , each pulse of Protection to allies activates the signet, allowing for massive healing if standing on top of allies.

Support and Sustain

• Superior Rune of Sanctuary

  Superior Rune of Sanctuary

  (1): +25 Vitality (2): +5% Boon Duration (3): +50 Vitality (4): +10% Boon Duration (5): +100 Vitality (6): Gain a barrier with health equal to 20% of any heals you receive.
  : applying auras, casting skills while having , and grant barrier regardless of being full health or not.
• All your shouts have the ability to remove conditions, if using
  Superior Rune of the Soldier

  Superior Rune of the Soldier

  (1): +25 Vitality (2): +35 Toughness (3): +50 Vitality (4): +65 Toughness (5): +100 Vitality (6): Shouts remove a condition from each affected ally.
  .
• All your auras have the ability to remove conditions, if using or the combination of with .
• All your auras also grant Protection; it can also be granted from the Overload Earth as mentioned above.
• You can share Might and Fury with .
• You can extend allies boons with .
• Attuning to Water alone heals allies while using the Water Traitline; it can also clear conditions when traited with .

• should be casted while swapping between attunements to give a little boost to healing; otherwise cast it whenever it is up.
• is a Water Field, use while it is traveling; it also heals allies while traveling.
  • Important: This skill can be blocked by skills such as due to technically being a projectile.
• is a last-resort heal, as mentioned above, and can turn the tides of a team-fight.

• Attuning to Earth alone is a massive increase to sustain while using due to becoming immune to critical hits.

• blocks projectiles for a short duration.
• is a decent mobility skill, is also a Leap Finisher.
• is a source of and Protection. It also is a support skill by increasing the duration of boons on allies by 2 seconds.
• is a Blind pulsing skill that extends out overtime to a maximum of 750 range.
• is a source of Protection and has a unique synergy with where it heals per ally granted the boon per pulse.

Swiftness Stacking

• Stack Swiftness for your team before the match starts!
• Switch to before the 10-second countdown begins; once it down, wait for allies to rush to the front and cast . You could also do -> and that could set everyone off well.
• Once you're finished, attune to .

Might Stacking

• Stack Might for your team!
• Cast and once it's finished, use and that should be enough. Additionally cast to lay down a larger Fire Field for allies to blast and use their combo finishers on in the fight.

• Your own blast finishers are: , , and .