Build:Tempest - Power DPS

This is a placeholder build that was useful in the past. Click here to view current builds.

Focused on: Direct damage

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

Fresh Air Tempest relies on spamming Overload Air and resetting its cooldown with Fresh Air. This, combined with its high damage AoE skills, makes it excel at killing adds and trash mobs. In addition, Tempest provides a lot of Vulnerability, deals excellent burst damage on large hitboxes, and provides a unique damage buff to its party through Overload Air's Static Discharge.

Skill Bar

Sword/Warhorn

Utility

Non-SotO Weapon

• Scepter is the best mainhand weapon for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
• Staff is also a viable option.

Skill Variants

Healing

• Signet of Restoration provides good healing in low damage fights (i.e. fights where you never press your healing skill).
• "Wash the Pain Away!" for a strong group heal.
• Ether Renewal if extra condition cleanse is needed.

Utility

• "Feel the Burn!" or Arcane Blast can replace Conjure Lightning Hammer

Elite

• Glyph of Elementals is very similar damage (summon in Fire)

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• You should bring Raging Storm if Fury uptime is bad.

Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Scepter
Berserker

Warhorn
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x17

Infusion
x1

Relic

• This setup relies on to reach 99,99% critical chance.

Equipment Variants

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact instead of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Force on Keep Construct.
  • Without infusions, full Berserker with Assassin shoulders will be ~20 DPS more than the recommended setup without infusions.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

Usage

Sword Rotation

Due to the strength of autoattacks on Sword, conjured weapons have much less value, so just ignore steps referring to them if not using.

Opening Burst

The opening burst focuses on using all available cooldowns.

1. Cast Lightning Orb from afar then begin channeling Overload Air. Ideally you time the cast to finish on top of the enemy the moment combat begins.
2. Lightning Storm and swap to Water Attunement as soon as you begin casting.
3. Immediately swap back to Air Attunement to gain Fresh Air, and use Quantum Strike
4. Fire Attunement, Flame Uprising, Cauterizing Strike and Wildfire
5. Earth Attunement, Dust Storm
6. Air Attunement

Loop Rotation

1. If Conjure Lightning Hammer is available, use it immediately after Air Attunement.
   • If it is on a ~35 second cooldown, pick it up off the ground.
   • Do Invoke Lightning and drop the weapon.
2. If Conjure Fiery Greatsword is available and Conjure Lightning Hammer is not, use Conjure Fiery Greatsword immediately after Air Attunement.
   • Pick up the second Fiery Greatsword from the ground immediately after Air Attunement 1 loop after you have already done so with the Lightning Hammer.
   • Do Fiery Rush, Firestorm, and drop the weapon as soon as the cast bar finishes to skip the massive aftercast.
3. Cast Overload Air after dropping your conjured weapon or, if you don't have one, immediately when it is available. Otherwise, autoattack and use Quantum Strike until you can Overload Air.
   • Immediately after finishing Overload Air, swap to Earth Attunement.
4. In Earth Attunement, use Rust Frenzy or Dust Storm (whichever is available) then switch back to Air Attunement to regain Fresh Air.
5. Use any other cooldowns that are available in Air Attunement then swap to Fire Attunement.
6. Cast Flame Uprising, Cauterizing Strike, and Wildfire if it is available then return to Air Attunement.

• Use "Feel the Burn!" or Arcane Blast (if using) off cooldown, while in Fire Attunement.

Video example

Scepter Rotation

Opening Burst

The opening burst focuses on using all available cooldowns.

1. Cast Lightning Orb from afar then begin channeling Overload Air. Ideally you time the cast to finish on top of the enemy the moment combat begins.
2. Lightning Strike, Lightning Storm and swap to Water Attunement as soon as you begin casting.
3. Shatterstone, Water Trident
4. Fire Attunement, Phoenix, Wildfire, Dragon's Tooth
5. Earth Attunement, Dust Storm
6. Air Attunement, Lightning Strike

Loop Rotation

• If Conjure Lightning Hammer is available, use it immediately after Air Attunement.
  • If it is on a ~35 second cooldown, pick it up off the ground.
  • Do Invoke Lightning, 1 auto attack chain, and drop the weapon.
• If Conjure Fiery Greatsword is available and Conjure Lightning Hammer is not, use Conjure Fiery Greatsword immediately after Air Attunement.
  • Pick up the second Fiery Greatsword from the ground immediately after Air Attunement 1 loop after you have already done so with the Lightning Hammer.
  • Do Fiery Rush, Firestorm, and drop the weapon as soon as the cast bar finishes to skip the massive aftercast.
• In Air Attunement, always cast Lightning Strike, Lightning Orb, Lightning Storm, and Cyclone when they are available.
  • Cast Overload Air after dropping your conjured weapon or, if you don't have one, immediately when it is available.
  • Do not delay the cast of Overload Air to cast Cyclone. You can cast it after, and swap to your next attunement mid-cast.
  • Immediately after finishing Overload Air, swap to Water Attunement.
• In Water Attunement use Shatterstone and Water Trident then immediately return to Air Attunement to maintain high uptime of Fresh Air.
• Use any other cooldowns that are available in Air Attunement then swap to Fire Attunement.
• Cast Phoenix, Dragon's Tooth, and Wildfire if it is available then return to Air Attunement.
  • After every other Wildfire, swap to Earth Attunement and cast Dust Storm before returning to Air Attunement.
• If Transcendent Tempest is about to expire, wait for Overload Air rather than swap to Water Attunement.
• Use "Feel the Burn!" or Arcane Blast (if using) off cooldown, while in Fire Attunement.

Video rotation example by Roul

Staff Rotation

Video example

Notes

• Cast Lightning Strike whenever it's available - it doesn't interrupt other channels.
• If you don't have a conjured weapon available, simply use the auto-attack in Air until your overload is ready.
• Step back from the boss before casting Lightning Orb to maximize the hits you get from it.
• If you're unable to do the water attunement section very fast it works out to be a DPS loss, so if you're not confident in your speed you can simply skip that section.