Tempest - Power DPS (Fractal)

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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 .