Tempest - Staff Support

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

Focused on: Control, Support, Healing and Condition cleanse

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on September 12, 2023 and is up to date for the September 12, 2023 game patch.

Overview

This build primarily fills the role of the healer and cleanser for its party.

is an exceptionally powerful revive skill - in it has the unique effect of repositioning the target, allowing the tempest to fully reset a player that went down in a bad place.

Tempest provides some Might provided with as well as unique auras - primarily and the very powerful .

Compared to D/X builds, staff excels at CC but has lower personal survivability.

Skill Bar

Staff

Staff

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Dagger/Dagger - see Build:Tempest_-_D/D Aurashare
• Dagger/Focus - see Build:Tempest_-_Aurashare

Utilities

• shortest CD shout, for slightly more heal/cleanse
• group stunbreak and AOE superspeed

Specializations

Variants

• ~20% healing loss, but decent Alacrity uptime

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Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Staff
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relics

Consumables

• • personal option

Usage

General

• As soon as you get 25 stacks of and get out of combat, swap back to the set without it
• Try to spend the majority of your time in so that your and are ready when needed
  • Make sure to go into as often as possible while swapping attunements to proc

Overall Priorities

High

• Condition clear
• Healing

Moderate

• Stability
• CC
• Superspeed

Low

• Aura/boonshare

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
• This builds has low active defenses
  • Since you lack personal stunbreaks and you heavily rely on skills with longer casttimes, you want to position safely
    • Stay close to tag, but not directly on top - within 200-300 range is close enough to quickly respond to movements and get boons without getting stuck behind
    • While overloading, if needed, move further away ensure the cast finishes - has 600 radius

Active defense priority

• Dodge

Detailed Explanations

Glyph of Renewal

• Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
• Focus on reviving allies who are far away with , don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
• Use in on single players and on multiple players
  • If the teleportation is not needed (or actively harmful), use the glyph in for the extra heal
• If a downed ally can be safely revived by other means don't use
• If you are under the effect of you can cast in to avoid timing out

Condition clear

• Much of your condition clear is tied up in attunements and overloads by , so conserve your shouts unless you absolutely need them
  • and each cleanse two conditions but should normally be saved for healing and Immobilize respectively

Condition clear priority

• • - +
  • - +
• - +
• • -
  • -
  • - +
• • - +
• - (+ )
• - (+ )
• - (+ )
• - (+ )

Healing

• Most of your healing comes from and
• Use and on the fields you make with and for healing or for damage mitigation if healing isn't needed
  • It is often worth swapping straight to after to land on a field
    • The timing with is somewhat tight so practice it out of combat
• Tempests biggest burst heal skill is
  • Keep in mind most of the healing is on the first pulse which only has a radius of 180
• ⇒ is instant cast, meaning it provides the healing immediately and can also be used while CCed

Healing priority

• -
  • - water/ice field blast
• - +
• • - water/ice field blast
  • ⇒

Stability

• Use as the first Stability application on ranged engages
• Other than ranged engages, try to fill any gaps in your guardian's Stability uptime, especially when your group is pushing

CC

• Use your CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds -
    • Wells - +
    • Shades -
    • Traps - +
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
• Save for when enemies have Stability
  • The Immobilize from hits in 600 radius

CC priority

• • -

Superspeed

• Focus on using when your group is pushing or disengaging from the enemy

Aura/boonshare

• Make sure you're close to your group when leaving to proc , it has a short 240 radius
• Use on your group before pushes to give

Settings

• Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
• Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
  • Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
• Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.