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Tempest - Condi Fire DPS

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
Easy
This build was last updated on April 20, 2024.

Overview

This is a build focused on Burning Burning and offers good damage with a simple rotation. Being fully ranged gives it flexibility to deal with mechanics without losing DPS uptime, and the elementals also provide a significant amount of consistent damage.


Skill Bar

Scepter/Focus
Utility


Skill Variants

  • If you do not have time (e.g. during pre-events) to pre-cast Glyph of Lesser Elementals a few times, then Glyph of Storms may be a stronger choice.
  • Thanks to Written in Stone, Signet of Earth provides 180 toughness while it is in cooldown. If this would interfere with tanking, you can swap the skill out for Glyph of Storms.


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Specializations


Equipment

Head
Viper
Shoulders
Sinister
Chest
Viper
Hands
Sinister
Legs
Viper
Feet
Sinister
Backpiece
Sinister
Accessory
Sinister
Accessory
Sinister
Amulet
Viper
Ring
Sinister
Ring
Viper
Scepter
Viper
Focus
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
Relic
  • This setup deals almost identical damage to one using full Viper stats Viper stats gear, Rune of Superior Rune of the Trapper and a Sigil of Superior Sigil of Smoldering instead of the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bursting. This setup is identical to that used by the full Condi Tempest build, with the exception of the weapons.


Consumables

Food

  • , or ascended alternatives

Utility

    • or for a cheaper alternative

The difference in these two utilities is roughly 0.5% dps, so use what you feel you can afford.


Usage

The gist of the rotation is to camp Fire Attunement, using almost all your skills off cooldown.

  • Start with elementals summoned if possible.
  • Overload Fire is your highest priority outside of the opener (see below), followed by Flamewall, Signet of Fire then Signet of Earth.
    • Try to stand inside your target's hitbox, as this skill combos with itself, firing whirl finishers in all direction.
  • Cast all skills off cooldown, with the exception of Fire Shield and Arcane Brilliance:
    • Fire Shield is used to maintain the Tempestuous Aria buff. This buff is triggered at the start and end of Overload Fire, so you want to use Fire Shield just after the buff runs out - this will be when Overload Fire has an ~8 second cooldown remaining (assuming you have Alacrity Alacrity).
      • Spreading them out like this also ensures that you are able to use Transmute Fire twice - if both skills were used too close to each other, Transmute Fire would still be on cooldown.


Opener

  1. Signet of Fire
  2. Signet of Earth
  3. Flamewall
  4. Overload Fire


Video example

Video guide (arcane traitline)


Defiance Bars

  • Switch to Air Attunement for Gale and Blinding Flash.
  • You can also switch to Water Attunement for Comet.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 3 stars based on 1 votes.
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3 stars
OfficerAndyGentleman gave this build 3 stars • April 2024
A surprisingly solid, very simple condi DPS. If it can precast enough elementals, it can easily compete with other builds on suitable encounters.

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