Tempest - Power DPS

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Focused on: Direct damage

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

Fresh Air Tempest relies on spamming and resetting its cooldown with . This, combined with its high damage AoE skills, makes it excel at killing adds and trash mobs. In addition, Tempest provides a lot of Vulnerability, deals excellent burst damage on large hitboxes, and provides a unique damage buff to its party through 's Static Discharge.

Skill Bar

Sword/Warhorn

Utility

Non-SotO Weapon

• Scepter is the best mainhand weapon for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
• Staff is also a viable option.

Skill Variants

Healing

• provides good healing in low damage fights (i.e. fights where you never press your healing skill).
• for a strong group heal.
• if extra condition cleanse is needed.

Utility

• or can replace

Elite

• is very similar damage (summon in Fire)

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• You should bring if Fury uptime is bad.

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Scepter
Berserker

Warhorn
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x17

Infusion
x1

Relic

• This setup relies on to reach 99,99% critical chance.

Equipment Variants

• instead of on Keep Construct.
  • Without infusions, full Berserker with Assassin shoulders will be ~20 DPS more than the recommended setup without infusions.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

Usage

Sword Rotation

Due to the strength of autoattacks on Sword, conjured weapons have much less value, so just ignore steps referring to them if not using.

Opening Burst

The opening burst focuses on using all available cooldowns.

1. Cast from afar then begin channeling . Ideally you time the cast to finish on top of the enemy the moment combat begins.
2. and swap to as soon as you begin casting.
3. Immediately swap back to to gain , and use
4. , , and
5. ,

Loop Rotation

1. If is available, use it immediately after .
   • If it is on a ~35 second cooldown, pick it up off the ground.
   • Do and drop the weapon.
2. If is available and is not, use immediately after .
   • Pick up the second Fiery Greatsword from the ground immediately after 1 loop after you have already done so with the Lightning Hammer.
   • Do , , and drop the weapon as soon as the cast bar finishes to skip the massive aftercast.
3. Cast after dropping your conjured weapon or, if you don't have one, immediately when it is available. Otherwise, autoattack and use until you can .
   • Immediately after finishing , swap to .
4. In , use or (whichever is available) then switch back to to regain .
5. Use any other cooldowns that are available in then swap to .
6. Cast , , and if it is available then return to .

• Use or (if using) off cooldown, while in .

Video example

Scepter Rotation

Opening Burst

The opening burst focuses on using all available cooldowns.

1. Cast from afar then begin channeling . Ideally you time the cast to finish on top of the enemy the moment combat begins.
2. , and swap to as soon as you begin casting.
3. ,
4. , , ,
5. ,
6. ,

Loop Rotation

• If is available, use it immediately after .
  • If it is on a ~35 second cooldown, pick it up off the ground.
  • Do , 1 auto attack chain, and drop the weapon.
• If is available and is not, use immediately after .
  • Pick up the second Fiery Greatsword from the ground immediately after 1 loop after you have already done so with the Lightning Hammer.
  • Do , , and drop the weapon as soon as the cast bar finishes to skip the massive aftercast.
• In , always cast , , , and when they are available.
  • Cast after dropping your conjured weapon or, if you don't have one, immediately when it is available.
  • Do not delay the cast of to cast . You can cast it after, and swap to your next attunement mid-cast.
  • Immediately after finishing , swap to .
• In use and then immediately return to to maintain high uptime of .
• Use any other cooldowns that are available in then swap to .
• Cast , , and if it is available then return to .
  • After every other , swap to and cast before returning to .
• If is about to expire, wait for rather than swap to .
• Use or (if using) off cooldown, while in .

Video rotation example by Roul

Staff Rotation

Video example

Notes

• Cast whenever it's available - it doesn't interrupt other channels.
• If you don't have a conjured weapon available, simply use the auto-attack in Air until your overload is ready.
• Step back from the boss before casting to maximize the hits you get from it.
• If you're unable to do the water attunement section very fast it works out to be a DPS loss, so if you're not confident in your speed you can simply skip that section.