Tempest - Staff Support

The Official API is experiencing issues; skill, trait and item data cannot be loaded at the moment.
Note: Please note that builds will default to plain icons, these may not be as accurate. We apologize for the inconvenience.

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a Comment or on the Discussion page.

Focused on: Support, Utility.

Designed for:

Conquest

Overview

A capable (but relatively squishy) PvP Tempest meant to support allies in team fights.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Slot Changes

For the optional slot you should pick an aura of your choice:

• - counters ranged pressure and can be detonated on Earth.
• - an excellent choice against direct damage on a relatively short cooldown.
• - the weakest shout on this list, but also the most spammable. This is mainly for trait synergy, not the aura itself.

Equipment

9

Superior Sigil of Cleansing

Remove 1 condition when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

9

Superior Sigil of Energy

Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

Superior Rune of the Earth

(1): +25 Toughness (2): +10% Protection Duration (3): +50 Toughness (4): +20% Protecion Duration (5): +100 Toughness (6): +10% Incoming Heal Effectiveness; gain Protection and magnetic aura when struck by a foe. (Cooldown: 60s)

Mender's Amulet

+1050 Power +560 Precision +560 Vitality +1050 Healing power

Equipment Changes

Rune

• Superior Rune of the Soldier

  Superior Rune of the Soldier

  (1): +25 Vitality (2): +35 Toughness (3): +50 Vitality (4): +65 Toughness (5): +100 Vitality (6): Shouts remove a condition from each affected ally.
  - better cleansing.

Usage

Work in progress

General

• Under General Options / User Interface enable "Thick party health bars" and "Always show health bars". These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
• Avoid getting locked into 1v1s, always be in team fights. You depend on your allies just as much as they depend on you! Tempest's job is to keep party members alive through support, and these allies must peel for you in return (if the enemy team gets to focus you without allies counterpressuring them you'll probably end up dead).

Overloads

• These skills become available after spending at least 6 seconds in the same attunement. Switching to another attunement while overloading will interrupt the skill, yet still puts the attunement on the increased CD of 20 seconds.
• is arguably the least important one in the build, even if you can't pull off an uninterrupted overload at least it can be used as a stun breaker without hesitation.

Support and sustain

• turns every source of Regeneration into a source of condition cleansing.
• The 2 most important sources of Protection are the following:
  • - not only does it pulse this boon each second, it'll also leave behind an AoE that does the same thing after a successful overload.
  • Attuning to
    . This is instant and applies AoE Protetion, so try to attune near allies whenever possible.
• Water Attunement is where most of your non-Tempest related support comes from:
  • Always try attuning to Water next to an ally to share the healing from
    and cleansing from
    (if taken). Don't idle in it too much because you should fit as many Water swaps into a fight as possible.
  • is an okay filler when you've got nothing better to do. Make sure that you do not have an enemy targeted (and that auto targeting is disabled in the options) when using this skill, as you should either aim this at your feet or at an ally.
  • has value as a Blast finisher. Blasting
    applies AoE
    while blasting any of the Water fields on this weapon does AoE healing.
  • is a decent AoE heal and a Water field. Read more about its other applications below.
  • is yet another Water field and hands down the best source of AoE condition cleansing in the build.
  • is a last resource option, only to be used if it singlehandedly saves a team fight and you're out of options because sending Water on a longer CD is going to negatively impact your healing output.
• doesn't leave you defenseless either -
  is usable even if you're Immobilized and evades incoming attacks, on top of being a mobility skill!
• Is a very powerful AoE heal for both yourself and the team. Try to coordinate it with your allies so that they receive every pulse of the channel to maximize the healing. The first pulse heals the most but has the smallest radius, while the other two pulses have a lower healing value but larger radius.
  can be used to instantly move in and heal up teammates who are far away but need emergency healing.
• Save allies from death with
  .
  • Important: Don't use any heals on teammates who are under the effect of Rebound, use them after it was consumed or expired. The only exception is when you are absolutely certain that they won't reach 1HP over its duration for some reason.

Reviving allies

• turns
  into a rather potent rez skill, and even spawns its own Geyser when you begin to revive someone.
• The two Geysers (weapon and trait proc) stack in effectiveness!
• If you're about to die, dropping this AoE at your feet restores downed health for you, making it easier for allies to get the rez.
• turns you invulnerable, allowing you to rez without getting interrupted or killed.
  • Note: Mist Form must be activated AFTER starting to revive an ally, otherwise it won't work.

Stacking swiftness

• Stack Swiftness for your team before the game starts!
• For this you must begin on Earth Attunement. Drop
  on the exit gate - whilst channeling this skill, swap to Air Attunement and place
  on top of Eruption.
• Finish the chain with
  .

Top Streamers

• Twitch: Vallun