Tempest - Staff Tempest

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

Focused on: Direct damage, Area damage, Ranged damage, Dps, Group play.

Designed for:

Open World

 

Open World Zergs

 

Open World General

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Overview

This build is focused on dealing area cleave damage at range in meta events. Its use of a staff brings decent area DPS at a very long range, making it easy to tag enemies in normal meta events such as Drizzlewood Coast and Dragonfall. Note that this is a farming build and is not designed to be used solo.

Pros

• Long range AOE
• Easy to play
• Decent cleave DPS

Cons

• Low defense
• Low sustain
• Low single target DPS

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

• - if conditions are a problem. Synergizes with covering its long channel time.
• - Powerful burst heal.

Utility Skills

• - good AOE damage
• - more single-target damage than .
• - more tagging
• - excellent stunbreak
• - more mobility.

Elite Skills

• - high damage and mobility.

Specializations

Build Code

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Variants

• - higher might uptime; use if taking this trait

Arcane Variant

Replaces fire. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage.

• use this when running with a group that grants 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, exotic works fine.

Berserker

This setup provides high damage and uses gear similar to Tempest - Power DPS, making it a good option for general PVE

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

Marauder Equipment

This set trades -10% damage for +60% health.

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

Variant Equipment

The gear with this build is relatively flexible.

Gear

• Knight's , Soldier - can be mixed with other sets for increased defense

Runes

• - provides a huge increase to sustain in a zerg
• - use with the Berserker's variant to fine-tune crit chance
• - budget option

Sigils

• - cheap offhand sigil
• - extra defense in a zerg

Consumables

These consumables increase profit per hour.

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

Usage

Damage / Tagging

• Use off cooldown on groups of enemies.
• Use and on large, static groups of enemies or bosses

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)