Tempest - Condi Tempest

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage and Defense

Designed for: Open World, Open World Solo, Open World Support and Open World General

Expansions required:

This build was last updated on September 08, 2022 and is up to date for the June 30, 2022 game patch.

Overview

Condi Tempest is a condition damage based tempest build for open world that focuses on inflicting AoE Burning and Bleeding. It is naturally tanky, with good access to Protection and some Stability. It has great uptime of Might for self and allies, and good supportive options. It is very easy to learn and play.

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Dagger/Warhorn

Utility

Equipment

• Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
• This set uses gear similar to this build's instanced PVE counterpart and works well for general PVE. Viper offers the highest damage, but no defense or sustain. Consult the variants below for defensive options.

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Dagger
Viper

Warhorn
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

scepter
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Consumables

Prioritize ascended food over everything else; steak (power) and flatbread (conditions). Using cheap/budget food is perfectly acceptable in open world.

Damage

For damage, run and . Budget options are with . Run if running high toughness builds.

Defense

Use for more dodges.

Farming

Run and (or its other variants) when trying to maximize gold per hour.

Usage

Damage

The build is extremely simple and revolves around and . Use and off cooldown. Thanks to , you will not lose the passive effects of signets after using them. Use in Fire for damage, or in Air for Vulnerability.

Dagger+Warhorn

• In Fire, use + + (you can leave Fire during the casting of Drake's Breath). Use to share all the Might you generate with nearby allies.
• In water, use when you need a blast finisher (more about finishers below).
• In Air, use and . can be used for damage if you won't need the CC.
• In Earth, use , , . Use when you have boons to extend their duration.

Scepter+Warhorn

• In Fire, use + + . Phoenix and Dragon's Tooth are blast finishers (more about finishers below). Use to share all the Might you generate with nearby allies.
• In Water, use .
• In Air, use and off cooldown. can be used for damage if you won't need the CC.
• In Earth, use and ⇒ . Use when you have boons to extend their duration.

Finishers

Elementalists in general have many combo fields and finishers. These skills provide additional effects when interacting with each other. Here are some good combos you should keep in mind, you have to be near the skill to receive these effects.

• Fire fields like : use a blast finisher like to generate AoE 3 stacks of Might for 20 seconds.
• Water fields like : use a blast finisher like to create AoE 1320 healing.

You can also use combo fields to generate auras.

• Fire field + leap finisher = Fire Aura
• Frost field + blast finisher = Frost Aura

If you want to know more about combos, check the official wiki.

Elementals

Elementals are really good allies in any open world elementalist build. Their only downside is that they die when you mount up.

Glyph of Lesser Elementals

summons one elemental for 2 minutes. If you cast it off cooldown, you can have 3 elementals alive almost always.

• The Lesser Fire Elemental deals good melee range AoE strike damage and Burning, and provides Might. It has the highest AoE damage of all Lesser Elementals.
• The Lesser Ice Elemental deals very low damage and inflicts a lot of Chill (80-90% uptime) through an ice combo field.
• The Lesser Air Elemental deals great single target damage and generates Swiftness. It has the highest singe target dps of all Lesser Elementals.
• The Lesser Earth Elemental deals low damage, inflicts Weakness, and is very tanky.

Glyph of Elementals

summons one elemental for 2 minutes with the same attacks and behaviour as Lesser Elementals, but can be commanded to do an additional skill.

• The Fire Elemental can be commanded to deal damage and Burning in an AoE.
• The Ice Elemental can be commanded to deal damage in an AoE, while healing nearby allies by 6401, kocking back enemies, and removing 1 condition.
• The Air Elemental can be commanded to Stun for 1.5 seconds.
• The Earth Elemental can be commanded to inflict nearby enemies with 1 second of Immobilize and 5 seconds of Cripple, while providing 3 seconds of Protection to nearby allies.

Defense

• The best defense is always to dodge or sidestep attacks. Both and evade attacks while casting.
• You cannot dodge while doing an Overload or you will cancel it, but you can use the Swiftness from to get out of the way of telegraphed attacks.
• blocks projectiles, while Magnetic Aura from or + reflects them.
• Constantly spam skills to heal thanks to .
• You get Protection when you overload thanks to , and from (which also extends esixting boons).
• is a useful blind, very strong against groups of trash mobs.
• is great for defense, as the elemental will often draw aggro away from you. The earth elemental is quite tanky.
• Your overloads break stun.
• If using Scepter, cleanses 1 condition.
• When taking the Arcane traitline, dodging in Water attunement will cleanse conditions and provide a significant heal. Additionally, it is recommended you attunement swap often to benefit from

Sustain

You have some sustain in

• heals, cleanses conditions, and applies Regeneration.
• heals a little bit and applies Regeneration.
• heals. Remember you can blast that water field for more healing.
• , used in , creates an elemental with strong healing and condition cleanse on a short cooldown.

Crowd Control

• Melee range enemies that attack you or allies while having Shocking Aura.
• (from Ice Elemental)
• (from Air Elemental)
• ⇒
• If you need a lot of crowd control you can use so that you and an ally can use .
• You also have a lot of soft crowd control such as or .

Variants

Weapon Variants

• Scepter - Ranged alternative to mainhand dagger.
• Dagger (offhand) - Less support than warhorn but more burst damage, crowd control, and mobility.
• Focus - less damage but more utility and crowd control.
• Staff - Long ranged AoE option with high healing but reduced boon support.

Skill Variants

Healing

• - great burst heal and povides a boon.
• - the strongest heal if there are enemies in range, plus a blast finisher, but very weak healing if there are no nearby enemies.
• - weak heal, but heals in an AoE and also cleanses 1 condition.
• - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channeling time.

Utilities

• - this is an excellent skill, with the only downside being that elementals die when you mount up. Use on fire for damage, or on earth for a tanky pet.
• - area Magnetic Aura for projectile reflection, Protection, and impairs enemies, plus a blast finisher.
• - AoE burst damage from or pulsing Blinded with .
• - breaks stun and blocks 3 attacks.
• - short cooldown stun break.
• - for mobility.

Elites

• - Burst damage with skills 4 and 5, and mobility with 3, but you lose the pet elemental that can tank and do damage.
• - very situational skill that can be considered against certain bosses with oneshot attacks.

Trait Variants

• - passive defensive stunbreak; very valuable in groups.

Arcane

It is possible run Arcane over Earth for an increase to sustain.

• - More Vigor uptime.
• - Extra boons.
• - Improved revival power in groups.

Gear Variants

Budget

• Sinister + + - cheap hybrid alternative that focuses on burning while working on getting Viper.

Defense

• Dire + + - cheap defensive alternative that focuses on burning while working on getting Viper or Trailblazer.
• Trailblazer + + + - A very tanky gearset for soloing difficult content. Great synergy with .
• Celestial - A spread out gear set that doesn't excel at anything but improves versatility. Also Improves supportive capabilities by increasing healing and boon duration.
• - drastic increase to defense, replace

Video Examples

Scepter Tempest vs Chak Lobber