Tempest - D/D Aurashare
The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Control, Support, Healing and Condition cleanse
Designed for: WvW Zerg
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on February 28, 2025 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.
Overview
This build primarily fills the role of the healer and cleanser for its party.
is an exceptionally powerful revive skill - in it has the unique effect of repositioning the target, allowing the tempest to fully reset a player that went down in a bad place.
Tempest provides some 
Might provided with as well as unique auras - primarily and the very powerful .
Skill Bar
Dagger/Dagger
Dagger/Dagger
Utility
Variants
- Weapons
- Dagger/Warhorn
- Staff - see Build:Tempest_-_Staff_Support
- Utilities
- shortest CD shout, for slightly more heal/cleanse
- group stunbreak and AOE superspeed
Specializations
Template Code
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Equipment
Head
Minstrel
Shoulders
Minstrel
Chest
Minstrel
Hands
Minstrel
Legs
Minstrel
Feet
Minstrel
Backpiece
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Amulet
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Dagger
Minstrel
Dagger
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Dagger
Minstrel
Dagger
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic
Equipment Variants
- Relic
- more cleanse, but less heal
Consumables
-
- personal option
Usage
General
- As soon as you get 25 stacks of and get out of combat, swap back to the set without it
Overall Priorities
- High
- Condition clear
- Healing
- Moderate
- CC
- Low
- Aura/boonshare
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has moderate mobility skill access
- and are your main mobility skill, you want to use them when you far away from the tag to get closer, or to have active Evade if you don't have any dodge on heavy pressure case
- This build has low active defenses
- Since you lack personal stunbreaks and
Stability and you heavily rely on skills with longer casttimes, you want to position safely
- Stay close to tag, but not directly on top - within 200-300 range is close enough to quickly respond to movements and get boons without getting stuck behind
- While overloading, if needed, move further away ensure the cast finishes - has 600 radius
- is your panic button, but as healer you don't want to use it to much or your party will die. You can cancel it anytime with a weapons stow or some high priority skills like or
- Since you lack personal stunbreaks and
Active defense priority 
- Dodge
Detailed Explanations
Glyph of Renewal
Glyph of Renewal
- Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
- Focus on reviving allies who are far away with , don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
- Use in on single players and on multiple players
- If the teleportation is not needed (or actively harmful), use the glyph in for the extra heal
- If a downed ally can be safely revived by other means don't use
- If you are under the effect of you can cast in to avoid timing out
Condition clear
- should be saved for
Immobilize rather than used to proc - Keep in mind the small, 240 radius of /. Both are significant condition clear with
Condition clear priority
-
- -
- -
- - +
- - +
-
- -
- -
- - +
-
- - +
- -
- -
- -
Healing
- Most of your healing comes from and
- Avoid leaving if you predict heavy pressure coming in the next 10 seconds
- can be used twice in each if you use it as soon as you enter and again as you leave attunement
- Channeled skills like finish casting even if you leave attunement after starting the cast
- Tempests biggest burst heal skill is
- Keep in mind most of the healing is on the first pulse which has a smaller radius than the rest of the skill
- ⇒ is instant cast, meaning it provides the healing immediately and can also be used while CCed
- can be enabled by , , and, of course, . Make sure to use it as often as possible.
- A significant part of your healing comes from and blast finishers:
- Try to make your last cast in then immediately swap to or to use blasts on the field
Healing priority
- -
- ⇒
- -
- - +
-
- -
- -
-
- -
- -
CC
- Use your CC when:
- Your group calls a spike:
- Winds -
- Wells - +
- Shades -
- Traps - +
- On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
- Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
- Your group calls a spike:
- Save when is available to CC instead
- The Immobilize from hits in 600 radius
- The
CC priority
-
-
- -
- Try to be in for melee engages to apply
- Activate soon after entering so its duration doesn't overlap with +
- Make sure you're close to your group when leaving to proc , it has a short 240 radius
- can be used to cover Stability for your party if the primary providers have downtime
Settings
- Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
- Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
- Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
- Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.
Ratings
02/20/2025. Nerfed backed a bit, still pretty good. Big cleanse, big heals, high frost aura uptime. Lower amount of general utility compared to other Tempest weapon sets as well as Scrapper/Druid
Good alternative to D/F tempest, trading might for and cleanse and heals. Loses a lot of defense and utility, both are pretty marginal at very large group sizes but an issue for this build in smaller groups. Unique auras and solid CC help set it apart from druid/vindicator/scrapper.
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