Build:Tempest - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

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Focused on: Condition damage and Support

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on July 12, 2023.

Overview

This is a build focuses on Burning and has rather high power damage for a condi build, that increases with target hitbox size.

The combination of overloads and Arcane allow this build to provide 25 stacks of Might, permanent Swiftness, ~90% Protection uptime and high Fury uptime by extending it on allies via Heat Sync and Sand Squall.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Warhorn

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

• Glyph of Elemental Power will be more damage than Glyph of Storms on bosses that won't stay inside the AoE for the whole duration.
  • As Glyph of Elemental Power is instant cast, it can be used without delaying the rotation. Using both Glyph of Storms and Glyph of Lesser Elementals can end up reducing your boon output.

As a support, you should be willing to trade DPS to bring group utility. Glyph of Storms can be swapped out for:

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

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

Elite

• "Rebound!" can be used to ignore certain mechanics that would otherwise down people.
  • As you are not a healer, your allies will be left on low health after it triggers. It may be worth immediately following up with "Wash the Pain Away!".

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Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Grieving

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Grieving

Ring
Viper

Ring
Grieving

Dagger
Grieving

Warhorn
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

• This setup hits 28% boon duration without any need for concentration gear. This is sufficient to provide ~108% Alacrity uptime.
• A Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth deals almost as much damage as Sigil of Superior Sigil of Torment and is significantly cheaper - it may even be better damage on bosses with high movement uptime.
• A wide variety of runes can fit this build at only a minor DPS loss: Rune of Superior Rune of the Baelfire, Rune of Superior Rune of Balthazar, Rune of Superior Rune of the Berserker, Rune of Superior Rune of the Nightmare or Rune of Superior Rune of the Renegade would all work.
  • The goal is to hit the Burning duration cap - use of an Optimiser is recommended to find the best setup for you.

Boon duration variants

• You have a lot of options if you want more boon duration. In order from most to least efficient:
  1. Swap the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Torment for a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration
  2. Use for another ~10% boon duration
  3. Swap Grieving stats gear to Celestial stats
  4. Swap Viper stats gear to Celestial stats
  5. Swap Grieving stats gear to Diviner stats
  6. Swap Viper stats gear to Ritualist stats
• With just the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Concentration and , this will be enough boon duration for ~123% Alacrity uptime.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended alternatives

Utility

Usage

• Use Glyph of Elementals in Fire Attunement, and cast Flame Barrage off cooldown.
• Cast Signet of Fire off cooldown, but it is lower priority than weapon skills.
• If using Glyph of Elemental Power, cast it in Fire Attunement during the cast of Burning Speed so that the damage buff will affect the blast damage.

The gist of the rotation is to cycle between Fire Attunement ⇒ Air Attunement ⇒ Earth Attunement ⇒ Air Attunement, using key abilities in each attunement off cooldown until the next attunement is ready.

When you enter Fire Attunement, use Burning Speed, Wildfire and Drake's Breath, then use your key abilities as they come off cooldown. When Air Attunement is available, use one last Drake's Breath and switch (Air Attunement should become available during the cast of Drake's Breath - you can switch attunement without interrupting the skill).

Granting an aura to yourself (or allies) will trigger the damage buff from Tempestuous Aria. Overloads, Shocking Aura and Sand Squall all give you an aura, as will attuning to Fire thanks to Sunspot. The buff stacks in duration, but has a 10-second limit.

Rotation

Opener

1. Wildfire
2. Firestorm (Glyph of Storms)
3. Overload Fire
4. Burning Speed - you need to be inside your target's hitbox for the fire line to hit your target
5. Heat Sync
6. Drake's Breath - for maximum damage, you will want to back away from your target during this cast
7. Air Attunement

Loop

Air 1

1. Signet of Fire
2. Convergence
3. Shocking Aura
4. Lightning Orb - this target hits more if cast some distance back from your target
5. Earth Attunement

Earth
In Earth Attunement, you want to cast Dust Storm and Sand Squall as soon as they are available, but as their cooldown is longer than the loop, their position will vary over time. Eventually, you will need to skip them for one loop.

1. Earthen Rush
2. Ring of Earth
3. Autoattack until Overload Earth is available
4. Overload Earth
5. Ring of Earth or Signet of Fire - if Signet of Fire is available here, skip Ring of Earth
6. Air Attunement - if you used Signet of Fire in the last step, skip Air and go straight to Fire

Air 2

1. Convergence
2. Shocking Aura ⇒ Transmute Lightning
3. Signet of Fire
4. Fire Attunement

Fire

1. Burning Speed
2. Wildfire
3. Drake's Breath
4. Firestorm (Glyph of Storms)
5. Overload Fire
6. Heat Sync
7. Burning Speed
8. Drake's Breath
9. Air Attunement during the cast of Drake's Breath
10. Repeat from the start of the loop

Video example

Defiance Bars

• While in Air Attunement you can use Shocking Aura ⇒ Transmute Lightning and Cyclone.
• If you are really desperate, you can switch to Water Attunement for Tidal Surge.