Tempest - Power DPS (Fractal)

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The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great.

Focused on: Direct damage.

Designed for:

Fractals

Expansions required:

Overview

Also known as Fresh Air Scepter/Warhorn Tempest, this is an old Heart of Thorns 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 fractals. For the raid version see Tempest - Power DPS.

Skill Bar

Scepter/WarhornHealingUtilityElite

Slot Changes

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.

Utilities

• over
  if you have very high Agony Resistance and get enough precision from your Mist Offensive Potion to cap crit chance.
• over
  if having trouble staying alive in high-pressure fights, or if your Overloads are getting interrupted.

Specializations

Variants

• if you aren't hitting defiance bars consistently.
• if you have no other source of vigor.
• if you need the shield.

Fire Variant

Use Fire instead of Arcane if you don't have a Chronomancer - Utility Boon Support providing you with 6 or more boons for

.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Variants

• or slaying sigils if applicable.

Usage

See Tempest - Power DPS for rotation information.

Blasting OUT OF COMBAT

Elementalist has a lot of combo fields and finishers you make use of to assist your party out of combat.

• Use
  switch to
  and use
  over the
  then
  and
  to give Swiftness to your party.

• If your party is using blast finishers in a smoke field to stealth, switch between your attunements and weapons and use skills that are blast finishers.
  • for example switch to mainhand scepter in
    and use
  • switch to offhand dagger in
    and use
  • switch to mainhand dagger in
    and use

Stacking Might

• Start in
  with Scepter/Focus
• Use
  and aim
  bellow it
• Place your character on top of the fire field and use
  in it
• Swap to
  while using
• Aim your camera above your character and cast
• Switch to dagger mainhand and use
• Swap to
  and use
• Switch to offhand dagger and use
  and

• This is going to give your party 24 stacks of might, to get 25 stacks you can use
  while
  is channeling.

Running

• Use
  for swiftness.
• Switch to offhand dagger in
  and use
  without a target.
• While in
  use
  backwards.
• Use
• In long runs cast
  and use
  and
  .