Tempest - Hammer Tempest

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on April 03, 2025 and is up to date for the April 15, 2025 patch.

Overview

A build that uses Overload Air a lot

Skill Bar

Hammer

Hammer

Utility

Variants

Weapon

• Spear
• Staff

Utility

• Signet of Air can be swapped to any other defensive utility such as Armor of Earth or "Eye of the Storm!"
• "Aftershock!"
• Signet of Fire

Elite

• "Rebound!"

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Specializations

Variants

• Swaps fire, less damage but aurashares Shocking Aura

Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Accessory
Marauder

Amulet
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Hammer
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Hammer
Marauder

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relics

• Relic of Fireworks

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Fire
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Frenzy

Usage

General

• As soon as you get 25 stacks of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bloodlust and get out of combat, swap back to the Hammer without a stacking sigil

Priorities

High

• Damage

Moderate

Low

Surviving

• This build has low passive defense
• This build has low mobility skill access
• This build has moderate active defenses

Active defense priority

• Signet of Air - for Stunbreaking
• Dodge

Detailed Explanations

Damage

• Your highest priority is to use Overload Air and Overload Fire as often as possible
  • Never use Overload Water or Overload Earth
• When Fire Attunement is off cooldown use it as your second highest priority behind Air Attunement
• If Fire Attunement is on CD and you've finished Overload Air swap into Earth Attunement or Water Attunement to proc Fresh Air so you can get back into Air Attunement
  • Remember that you can swap attunement after starting any non-overload skill and it will finish casting in the new attunement
• Keep your 3 skill orbs up as often as possible, especially Crescent Wind and Flame Wheel
• Glyph of Storms should be used in Fire
• Use Conjure Fiery Greatsword while Fire Attunement is on CD immediately after casting Overload Air
  • Cast Firestorm, then use Fiery Whirl if you're in a good position for it, then immediately drop the conjure.
• Full damage priority including filler skills in the collapsed section below:

Damage priority

• Air Attunement
  • Overload Air
  • Crescent Wind
  • Hurricane of Pain
• Fire Attunement
  • Overload Fire
  • Flame Wheel
  • Glyph of Storms
  • Molten End
  • Triple Sear
  • Surging Flames
• Conjure Fiery Greatsword
  • Firestorm
  • Fiery Whirl - Situational
• Earth Attunement
  • Rocky Loop
  • Ground Pound
  • Whirling Stones
• Water Attunement
  • Icy Coil
  • Cleansing Typhoon
  • Rain of Blows