Tempest - Staff Tempest

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Overview

A long-ranged tempest build for open world farming with a zerg. This build is primarily focused on dealing area damage in group farms and does not function well solo.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Equipment

This setup provides high damage and uses gear similar to Build:Tempest_-_Power_DPS, making it a good option for general PVE.

• Ascended gear is not required for open world, exotic works fine.
• Note the second staff is for stacking sigil purposes and is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Consumables

Food

• Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
• - farming
• - DPS
• - defense

Utility

• (and variants) - farming
• / - DPS

Usage

Damage / Tagging

• Use off cooldown on groups of enemies.
• Use and on large, static groups of enemies or bosses.
• - Useful for rapidly tagging weaker enemies.
• - Instant cast tagging of nearby enemies (if equipped).
• - Instant cast wide area tagging (If equipped).

Defense & Support

• - Powerful defensive evade and movement skill, can be used in any direction by rotating your character.
• and - Significant condition removal to both yourself and allies.
• , and - Area healing.
• - A large area blind.
• , and - Can be used on water fields for additional area healing or on fire fields for extra might.

Crowd Control

• and - For blocking moving targets (has no effect when the enemy is stationary).
• and - Soft CC options.
• - From Ice Elemental if equipped.
• - From Air Elemental if equipped.

Variants

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

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

Utility Skills

• - Good AOE damage especially if running the Arcane variant
• - More single-target damage than .
• - More tagging and AOE might
• - Excellent stunbreak
• - Mobility.

Elite Skills

• - High damage and mobility.
• - Summon which deals damage and generates might (Fire) or can provide a frontline if you are solo (Earth).

Trait Variants

• - Higher might uptime if needed.
• - Fury and swiftness if using aura traits/utilities.
• - Mobility, especially when paired with .
• - More frequent access to and a ferocity boost.
• - Additional boons when overloading, useful if running .

Arcane

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

• - Improves revive power in zergs.
• - Use this when running with a group that grants lots of boons.
• - Provides good defensive abilities on dodging while in or

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Marauder - Trades 10% damage for +60% EHP; expensive
• Knight - Defensive (trinkets only)

Runes

• - provides a huge increase to sustain in a zerg
• / - Crit-chance runes, the latter also providing more boon uptime

Sigils

• - Cheap offhand sigil
• - Extra defense in a zerg
• - Option for more self Might generation

Consumable Variants

Food

• - Damage buff against groups of weaker enemies.
• - Budget food (if not using ) for added self might generation
• / - Budget DPS food.

Utility

• - Budget DPS utility.