Build:Tempest - Alacrity Support Power DPS

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

Focused on: Direct damage

Designed for: Raids

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Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on February 28, 2025 and is up to date for the June 24, 2025 patch.

Overview

Fresh Air Tempest relies on spamming Overload Air and resetting its cooldown with Fresh Air for both damage and Alacrity. 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.

This build provides permanent Alacrity, Fury and Swiftness. By default it only provides ~10 Might and ~35% Protection, but utility skills can help improve this at a DPS loss.

Skill Bar

Hammer

Utility

Weapon Variants

There are many weapon sets dealing similar damage, allowing you to choose whichever you prefer:

• Hammer and Sword/Dagger offer very similar damage, though Hammer has the advantage that Crescent Wind means you don't need Signet of Fire, meaning it loses less damage to take different utility skills.
• Scepter/Dagger is a moderate DPS loss, but allows for ranged damage and is the best option for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.

Be aware that Hammer uses different gear to other options.

Skill Variants

Healing

• Signet of Restoration provides good healing in low damage fights (i.e. fights where you never press your healing skill).
• Glyph of Elemental Harmony is the strongest personal heal.
• Ether Renewal if extra condition cleanse is needed.

Utility

As a support, you should be willing to trade DPS to bring group utility. Arcane Blast should be swapped out, as Glyph of Storms is higher damage and "Feel the Burn!" is important for providing Might and improving uptime of Tempestuous Aria:

• "Aftershock!" provides Aegis to allies and pads your Protection uptime.
  • Be aware that the magnetic aura applied by this ability can cause issues on some encounters.
• "Eye of the Storm!" provides Stability and Swiftness to allies.

Either of these skills will be helpful if there is a danger of being interrupted while in the middle of your overloads.

• Glyph of Lesser Elementals provides ~15 Might stacks if summoned in Fire Attunement, and deals comparable damage to Glyph of Storms (see the usage section for more details).
• Conjure Lightning Hammer can be pre-cast in fractals then swapped to another skill for extra damage.

If not running Hammer, you need to to take Signet of Fire and Glyph of Storms should be dropped for utility.

Elite

• Conjure Fiery Greatsword can be pre-cast in fractals then swapped to another skill for extra damage.
• "Rebound!" can be used to ignore certain mechanics that would otherwise down the group.

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Equipment

Hammer Equipment

Head
Diviner

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Diviner

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Diviner

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• This setup has 28% boon duration including that from Gathered Focus.
  • If you want more boon duration you can add more Diviner stats pieces up to 32% without needing to start adding more Assassin stats pieces.
  • You could theoretically run full Berserker stats pieces and rely entirely Gathered Focus, though Alacrity will be very tight.

Other Equipment

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Assassin

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Assassin

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Assassin

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Sword
Berserker

Dagger
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• This setup has 2365 precision including that from Signet of Fire.
• Against targets that can't be stunned, it is a miniscule DPS loss to run full Berserker stats gear with a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy instead of the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact.
  • With this setup you can add Diviner stats pieces up to 45% boon duration without needing to start adding more Assassin stats pieces.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

Usage

The rotation below is for maximum damage, but if you are struggling with boon provision you can add a couple of extra steps (see below).

Rotation

Opening Burst

1. Summon Glyph of Elementals in Fire Attunement before the encounter starts, and swap to Air Attunement.
2. 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. If you aren't confident in pre-casting, you can use Lightning Orb after Overload Air instead.
3. Lightning Strike and Flame Barrage during the cast of the skills above.

Loop

The rotation is very simple. After Air Attunement, you switch to Fire Attunement, use two skills, then return to Air Attunement to overload and repeat.

Fire

1. Phoenix
2. Wildfire. If not available, use Dragon's Tooth instead.
3. Air Attunement during the cast - we use the longer cast time skill second in order to spend as little time autoattacking in Air Attunement as possible.

Air

1. Use whichever of the following cooldowns are available, otherwise just autoattack
   • "Feel the Burn!"
   • Lightning Storm
   • Lightning Strike - this has no cast time, so cast during other skills. You should be able to use it twice each time you're in air.
   • Lightning Orb
2. Overload Air
3. Fire Attunement as soon as Overload Air finishes

Video example

Alacrity during downtime

Your rotation depends on you hitting enemies to trigger Fresh Air and reset Overload Air. On encounters where there are periods with nothing to hit, you should switch between your other attunements and use the overloads there as Alacrity is important to maintain at all times.

Extra boons

Heat Sync and Sand Squall are not part of the default rotation, but can be included to increase your boon uptime. Heat Sync significantly increases your Might generation, and Sand Squall provides Protection as well as extending all boons by two seconds.

You could also provide extra Protection by switching to Earth Attunement after Fire Attunement to trigger Elemental Attunement, then immediately switch to Air Attunement to not lose any time.

Fire elementals from Glyph of Lesser Elementals provide a good amount of Might while still dealing good damage. Compared to Glyph of Storms, your burst damage will be lower, but this can be partly offset if you're able to precast multiple elementals during downtime. You also need to consider that the elementals themselves might be annoying to use as they can't be controlled.

Notes

• Cast Lightning Strike whenever it's available - it doesn't interrupt other channels.
• Step back from the boss before casting Lightning Orb to maximize the hits you get from it.