Build:Tempest - Support Healer

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Focused on: Healing and Support

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

A healing Tempest build for raids. This build provides extremely high AoE healing and defensive utility for a raid squad, making it a good choice as a secondary raid healer after the Druid - Boon Support Healer.

Because of the massive range of all of its skills, this build works very well as a kiter for raid mechanics, e.g. shards on Cairn or messengers on Dhuum.

Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Signet of Water may be taken instead of "Aftershock!" for an additional ranged heal/revive, or on encounters where reflects are undesirable (such as Cairn or Matthias).

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• Gale Song for some additional Protection without having to trait Earth.
• Tempestuous Aria better Might generation at the cost of Vigor.
• Stop, Drop, and Roll if you have to deal with Chilled or Burning in an encounter.

Specialization Variants

Earth

Replace Arcane with Earth if you need to provide Protection. This lets you buff allies with your shouts through Elemental Shielding.

Fire

Replace Arcane with Fire if you need condition cleanse.

Equipment

Head
Magi

Shoulders
Magi

Chest
Magi

Hands
Magi

Legs
Magi

Feet
Magi

Backpiece
Magi

Accessory
Magi

Accessory
Magi

Amulet
Magi

Ring
Magi

Ring
Magi

Staff
Magi

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Equipment Variants

Use 6x Rune of Superior Rune of the Trooper for more AoE condi clear on condition-heavy fights.

Consumables

Food

Utility

Usage

• Stay in Water Attunement and try to use Water Blast close to the boss as much as possible.
• Use your shouts for pushing some additional heal when needed, as well as holding regeneration and vigor up all the time.
• Use Geyser and on your tank or people who stay far away from you for additional healing. Remember that it revives allies, so save it if you expect someone to go down soon.
• For AoE healing on everyone use Healing Rain on the groups of people (for healing through finishers) and use Overload Water for big burst heals on everyone. Both of them give a lot of condition remove as well.
• Do not forget to dodge for more healing and condition removal.

• Crowd Control (needs some training):
  • Swap to Air Attunement and use Gust on the target and Static Field with the outer ring inside of the hitbox.
  • Switch to Earth Attunement and use Unsteady Ground slightly in front of the target as well as Shock Wave. If you can not directly switch back to Water Attunement, you can use Overload Earth for additional cripple and immobilize, including protection for your party.
  • You can also use Frozen Ground, but watch out for your own water fields there.

• Additional information for Deimos kiting:
  • Use Soothing Ice for more self sustain.
  • Keep using Water Blast on the ground under you for healing yourself.
  • Benefit from Final Shielding for additional safety, specially on challenge mode.
  • You can use Mist Form for avoiding the round smash of Deimos, if you use a tactic, where you are sometimes close to him and can not handle it.
  • For challenge mode: Rotate between "Rebound!" and Arcane Shield (over "Aftershock!") for surviving the one-shot-mechanic. You will get a lot of damage from a debuff additional to the other mechanics afterwards, so do not hesitate to ask the other healers for additional burst healing support after you used "Rebound!", since you will be low-life then. Save some of your own healing cooldowns for that as well. Further protection from the stone spirits of the druids might be also helpful.