Tempest - Power DPS

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Raids

Overview

Also known as Fresh Air Scepter/Warhorn Tempest, this is an old Heart of Thorns raid build which has now become one of the best AoE burst damage builds in the game.

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.

This guide is focused on raids. For the fractal version see Tempest - Power DPS (Fractal).

Skill Bar

Scepter/Warhorn

Utility

Skill Variants

Healing

• will provide the highest uptime in very low damage fights (i.e. fights where you never press your healing skill).
• for a strong group heal.
• if extra condition cleanse is needed.

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Specializations

Specialization Variants

• on Keep Construct.

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Assassin

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Assassin

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Scepter
Berserker

Warhorn
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x13

Infusion
x5

Equipment Variants

• instead of on Keep Construct.
• You can run full Berserker with and 3 Precise infusions. This setup does ~10 DPS more than the recommended option but is less convenient to adjust if you don't have .
  • Without infusions, full Berserker with Assassin shoulders will be ~20 DPS more than the recommended setup without infusions.

Consumables

Food

• • Switch to if you don't have .

Utility

Usage

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.
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 either or .
• If either or are available, swap to them for key skills then immediately return to to maintain high uptime of .
• Prioritize first. Cast any of the following skills if available: , , and then return to air.
  • After casting , swap to and cast before returning to .
• If your next swap to will allow you to use , and together, wait for to come off cooldown rather than delay it by swapping to .
• If is about to expire, wait for rather than swap to .
• When swapping to , cast and leave as fast as possible. Doing this slowly can be a DPS decrease over simply waiting for cooldown.

Video rotation example by Roul

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.