Build:Tempest - D/D Aurashare

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

Focused on: Control, Support, Healing and Condition cleanse

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on October 09, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

This build primarily fills the role of the healer and cleanser for its party.

Glyph of Renewal is an exceptionally powerful revive skill - in Air Attunement it has the unique effect of repositioning the target, allowing the tempest to fully reset a player that went down in a bad place.

Tempest provides some Might provided with Pyromancer's Puissance as well as unique auras - primarily Frost Aura and the very powerful Shocking Aura.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Dagger

Dagger/Dagger

Utility

Variants

Weapons

• Dagger/Focus more Might/defense - see Build:Tempest_-_Aurashare
• Staff - see Build:Tempest_-_Staff_Support

Utilities

• Glyph of Renewal
• "Feel the Burn!" shortest CD shout, for slightly more heal/cleanse
• "Eye of the Storm!" group stunbreak and AOE superspeed

Specializations

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Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Dagger
Minstrel

Dagger
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Dagger
Minstrel

Dagger
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Equipment Variants

Relic

• Relic of the Trooper more cleanse, but less heal

Consumables

• • personal option

Usage

General

• As soon as you get 25 stacks of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Benevolence and get out of combat, swap back to the set without it

Overall Priorities

High

• Glyph of Renewal
• Condition clear
• Healing

Moderate

• CC

Low

• Aura/boonshare

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
  • Burning Speed and Earthen Rush are your main mobility skill, you want to use them when you far away from the tag to get closer, or to have active Evade if you don't have any dodge on heavy pressure case
• This build has low active defenses
  • Since you lack personal stunbreaks and Stability and you heavily rely on skills with longer casttimes, you want to position safely
    • Stay close to tag, but not directly on top - within 200-300 range is close enough to quickly respond to movements and get boons without getting stuck behind
    • While overloading, if needed, move further away ensure the cast finishes - Powerful Aura has 600 radius
  • Obsidian Flesh is your panic button, but as healer you don't want to use it to much or your party will die. You can cancel it anytime with a weapons stow or some high priority skills like "Wash the Pain Away!" or "Rebound!"

Active defense priority

• Dodge
• Burning Speed
• Earthen Rush
• Obsidian Flesh

Detailed Explanations

Glyph of Renewal

Glyph of Renewal

• Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make Glyph of Renewal cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
• Focus on reviving allies who are far away with Glyph of Renewal, don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
• Use Glyph of Renewal in Air Attunement on single players and Earth Attunement on multiple players
  • If the teleportation is not needed (or actively harmful), use the glyph in Water Attunement for the extra heal
• If a downed ally can be safely revived by other means don't use Glyph of Renewal
• If you are under the effect of Illusion of Life you can cast Glyph of Renewal in Fire Attunement to avoid timing out

Condition clear

• "Aftershock!" should be saved for Immobilize rather than used to proc Smothering Auras
• Keep in mind the small, 240 radius of Transmute Frost/Transmute Lightning. Both are significant condition clear with Smothering Auras

Condition clear priority

• Water Attunement
  • Cleansing Wave
  • Transmute Frost - Smothering Auras
  • Frost Aura - Smothering Auras
  • Overload Water - Unstable Conduit + Smothering Auras
• Fire Attunement - Sunspot + Smothering Auras
• Air Attunement
  • Transmute Lightning - Smothering Auras
  • Shocking Aura - Smothering Auras
  • Overload Air - Unstable Conduit + Smothering Auras
• Earth Attunement
  • Overload Earth - Unstable Conduit + Smothering Auras
• "Flash-Freeze!" - Smothering Auras
• "Rebound!" - Smothering Auras
• "Wash the Pain Away!"
• "Aftershock!" - Smothering Auras

Healing

• Most of your healing comes from Water Attunement and "Wash the Pain Away!"
  • Avoid leaving Water Attunement if you predict heavy pressure coming in the next 10 seconds
• Cone of Cold can be used twice in each Water Attunement if you use it as soon as you enter and again as you leave attunement
  • Channeled skills like Cone of Cold finish casting even if you leave attunement after starting the cast
• Tempests biggest burst heal skill is "Wash the Pain Away!"
  • Keep in mind most of the healing is on the first pulse which has a smaller radius than the rest of the skill
• Water Attunement ⇒ Healing Ripple is instant cast, meaning it provides the healing immediately and can also be used while CCed
• Transmute Frost can be enabled by Frozen Burst, Overload Water, Flash-Freeze and, of course, Frost Aura. Make sure to use it as often as possible.
• A significant part of your healing comes from Relic of Karakosa and blast finishers:
  • Frozen Burst
  • Earthquake
  • Churning Earth
  • Convergence
  • Try to make Frozen Burst your last cast in Water Attunement then immediately swap to Air Attunement or Earth Attunement to use blasts on the field

Healing priority

• "Wash the Pain Away!"
• Water Attunement - Healing Ripple
  • Cone of Cold
  • Cleansing Wave
  • Frost Aura ⇒ Transmute Frost
  • Frozen Burst - Relic of Karakosa
  • Overload Water
• Fire Attunement - Sunspot + Smothering Auras
• Air Attunement
  • Shocking Aura - Smothering Auras
  • Convergence - Relic of Karakosa
• Earth Attunement
  • Earthquake - Relic of Karakosa
  • Churning Earth - Relic of Karakosa

CC

• Use your CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds - Winds of Disenchantment
    • Wells - Well of Corruption+Well of Suffering
    • Shades - Desert Shroud
    • Traps - Procession of Blades+Test of Faith
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
• Save "Aftershock!" when Earth Attunement is available to CC instead
  • The Immobilize from "Aftershock!" hits in 600 radius

CC priority

• "Aftershock!"
• Earth Attunement
  • Earthquake
  • Overload Earth
  • Ring of Earth
• Air Attunement
  • Transmute Lightning
  • Shocking Aura
  • Overload Air - Unstable Conduit
• Water Attunement

Aura/boonshare

• Try to be in Air Attunement for melee engages to apply Shocking Aura
  • Activate Shocking Aura soon after entering Air Attunement so its duration doesn't overlap with Overload Air + Unstable Conduit
• Make sure you're close to your group when leaving Fire Attunement to proc Pyromancer's Puissance, it has a short 240 radius
• "Rebound!" can be used to cover Stability for your party if the primary providers have downtime

Settings

• Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
• Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
  • Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
• Under Squad Options uncheck View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' boons, conditions and health, enabling a better decision-making and skill management.