Tempest - Fresh Air Tempest
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Overview
This is a tempest build focused on very high melee damage through the use of . This build can potentially supply 25 
Might to 10+ people.
- Pros
- Great burst damage
- Highly active playstyle
- Good mobility
- Cons
- Low sustain/defense
- Difficult to play well
- Strict on gear
- Poor damage at range
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
- Scepter - High burst damage and good DPS
- Mainhand Dagger - High DPS but lower burst than Scepter
- Offhand Dagger - High mobility and decent burst damage
- Warhorn - High burst damage and very strong utility
- Focus - Low damage, high defense
- Staff - Run this in zergs for good area damage
Skill Variants
- Healing Skills
- - passive sustain
- - burst heal
- - if conditions are a problem.
- - very powerful shout heal that provides significant healing to nearby allies
- Utility Skills
- - caps vuln or area blind
- - breaks stun and blocks attacks.
- - for mobility.
- - very useful for Scepter to fill spaces between cooldowns
- - projectile hate
- Can't find such skill ""Flash Freeze!""! Please refer to our skill index. - area Frost Aura, good for defense
- - low cooldown area damage, useful for tagging
- Elite Skills
- - gives you a very strong pet
- - defensive shout; good for allies
Specializations
Build Code
- Variants
- - more dodges at the cost of your passive stun break.
Water Variant
Provides high DPS and offers a small amount of sustain; comparable to Arcane.
- Variants
- / - if you need more condition cleanse
Equipment
- Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
Standard Equipment
Budget Variant
- In this variant, or provide extra defense if needed.
Variant Equipment
Gear
- Berserker's ,
Assassin's - higher DPS, much lower defense - Marauder - high DPS and a massive boost (60%) to health
Knight's , 
Soldier - often mixed with other gear for some defense; Knight's trinkets with Berserker's or Assassin's armor and weapons is a common replacement for Marauder
Runes
- - budget DPS
- , - strong options if you need extra crit chance
- , , - defensive options
- - strongest defensive rune if zerging
Sigils
- - our highest flat dps increase
- - provides more consistent Might uptime
- , - burst sigils
- - defensive option
- - for condi cleanse
Consumables
- Food
- Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions.
- - Use for general farming.
- - Use for when you need to max out magic find.
- - more sustain
- Anything - Any food is better than none, but you should prioritize the food above before using any other food.
- Utility
- , , - general farming
- - good damage option with +karma
Solo
- This food assists with more difficult content, such as bosses or bounties.
- Food
- , - defense + damage
- , - Damage
- Utility
- - Damage
Usage
Scepter vs Dagger
Each mainhand weapon provides a significant change in playstyle. It is important to consider which you would prefer to use.
Scepter
- This weapon allows you to provide very high might uptime due to its primary blast ( ) being on a relatively short cooldown. In addition, it has an extra blast over Dagger.
- Scepter does slightly less DPS than Dagger, but has much higher burst damage and access to ranged skills.
- Scepter is slightly less reliant on due to very strong skills in other attunements, such as and . This means being stuck in a different attunement for a short time is not as important, and thus makes Attunement Recharge less important to Scepter's playstyle on the whole.
Dagger
- Dagger has a simpler rotation compared to Scepter and does higher DPS, but has fewer blasts and very little access to ranged damage.
- Dagger adds a lot of mobility to the build due to and . These skills are also short-duration evades, allowing skilled players to avoid attacks more easily than Scepter.
- Dagger has easier access to Shocking Aura, which is an extremely powerful buff against trash mobs.
Fresh Air
is a unique trait within the Air Specialization that allows the elementalist to reset their cooldown on every time they crit while attuned to a different attunement. This is already quite strong due to traits like , however Tempest takes this a step further due to the interaction between Fresh Air and .
Each time you swap back to Air, you can Overload Air again after waiting for a few seconds. This provides you with a powerful buff from during which you should try to use major damage skills like and . Due to the resetting cooldown of Overload Air, this means you can have significant uptime on a 7% damage buff.
Damage
This build can operate cleanly off a simple damage priority list. We are assuming you are using Fresh Air here; if you are using , this priority list will change drastically and you should strongly consider taking or to cover cooldowns in addition to the Arcane traitline to provide faster attunement recharge.
Scepter
- / (space these out through the rotation if using Arcane)
- in air attunement (if using it)
- +
- + (attempt to land both of these in a Fire Field. It is worth using first if none is available
Dagger
- / (space these out through the rotation if using Arcane)
- in air attunement (if using it)
- (against groups, it is better not to use this)
Fiery Greatsword
If taking , you should use it any time you find yourself with no skills left to use other than auto-attacks or low-DPS skills. This is especially nice for providing higher burst damage early in the rotation.
Defense
- The best defense is always to dodge or sidestep attacks. Use the high
Vigor uptime of this build to your advantage. - To block something without interrupting , you can use .
- , used in , creates a tanky elemental that can help take pressure off you.
Sustain
- You can create a water field with and then blast it with or for area healing.
- cleanses a condition.
- You can run or to better deal with condition pressure.
- , used in , creates an elemental with strong healing and condition cleanse on a short cooldown.
- If you need healing really badly, you can run away and .
Crowd Control
- ⇒ (Dagger Only)
- (Dagger)
- (from Ice Elemental)
- (from Air Elemental)
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