Tempest - Staff Tempest
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Overview
A standard staff tempest build built for high area damage at long range. This build excels in a large zerg, such as Dragonfall, Drizzlewood Coast, or LS4 Trains. An experienced Elementalist player can also make this build work in a solo roaming scenario, though it may struggle against extremely difficult enemies.
- Pros
- Low difficulty
- Long Range
- Lots of area damage
- Moderate self-might
- Cons
- Squishy
- Low single-target DPS
- Lack of sustain
Playstyle
The general playstyle of this build revolves around Elementalist's Staff's very high area damage via , and . It can deal significant area damage at 1200 range, making it ideal for running in a group or zerg. Most of your time will be spent in .
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
- Healing Skills
- - if conditions are a problem. Synergizes with covering its long channel time.
- - Powerful burst heal.
- - allows you to make good use of combo fields.
- Utility Skills
- - strong option when not zerging
- - more single-target damage than .
- - good AOE damage
- - higher damage than if you don't need the defense.
- - more mobility.
- - get out of jail free card.
- Elite Skills
- - high damage and mobility.
Specializations
Build Code
- Variants
- and - higher damage, lower defense
- - better for solo play
- - higher might uptime
Arcane Variant
Replaces fire. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage.
- use this when running with a group that grants you lots of boons.
- provides good defensive abilities on dodging while in or
- If running this variant, replace with
Equipment
- Ascended gear is not required for open world, but is recommended.
Standard Equipment
Budget Equipment
This gear does a great job of emulating Marauder's increased buffer and is both cheap and easy to obtain. You can also run full Berserker, but will need to be very careful in heavily upscaled events not to get hit.
- Variant: Full Berserker's with a defensive rune option from below works quite well as budget gear.
Variant Equipment
The gear with this build is relatively flexible.
Gear
- +DPS, -Defense: Berserker's ,
Assassin's - +Def, -DPS:
Knight's , Soldier - Do not use these as a full set. Mix them with Berserker's to provide more buffer. Usually 2-3 pieces is plenty.
Runes
- Higher DPS, lower utility: ,
- Defense: (recommended), , ,
- Other: (defense and utility, combine with
Sigils
- Defense: ,
- Alt Damage: Do not replace | ,
- Fun:
- Utility: (combine with to go zoom.
Consumables
Farming
- Food
- Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions.
- - Use for general farming.
- - Use for when you need to max out magic find.
- - more sustain
- Anything - Any food is better than none, but you should prioritize the food above before using any other food.
- Utility
- , , - general farming
- - good damage option with +karma
Solo
- This food assists with more difficult content, such as bosses or bounties.
- Food
- , - Defense/Damage
- , - Damage
- Utility
- - Damage
Usage
Damage
Use your skills. Your goal is to tag large groups of mobs quickly. , , and are your bread and butter.
- Against static groups, is an incredible damage tool. It also works very well against bosses, especially those with a large hit box.
- You can use during your channel to prevent being interrupted. You can also abuse before you cast to blind groups of mobs.
- Against static groups, is an incredible damage tool. It also works very well against bosses, especially those with a large hit box.
- and allow you to trap enemies for your AOEs.
Defense & Support
- and provide significant condition removal to both yourself and allies.
- is a decent area heal.
- is a large area blind.
Crowd Control
- and (in Lightning Hammer)
- (from Ice Elemental)
- (from Air Elemental)
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