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, exotic works fine.
Standard Equipment
This setup provides higher damage.
Marauder Equipment
This set provides higher health (+60%) at the cost of damage (-~10%)
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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