Tempest - Fresh Air
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Overview
A Power Tempest build for open world. This build has good AoE damage and boon generation for self and allies, most notably
Might and
Fury. to fry your enemies with a nimbus of lightning, then do it over and over again thanks to refreshing its cooldown.
With the trait Alacrity to allies.
Template Code
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Weapon Variants
Scepter provides nice damage from range and some utility.
Sword - alternative weapon set for players with Weaponmaster Training that attacks in melee but improves mobility.
Skill Variants
Healing
provides strong burst heal and a boon based on attunement. Other alternatives are:
- - potentially the strongest heal if there are 5 enemies in range, plus a blast finisher, but very weak healing if there are no nearby enemies.
- - weak heal, but heals in an AoE and also cleanses 1 condition.
- - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channelling time.
Utilities
has low cooldown, decent damage, and provides Might.
combines damage, defense, and crowd control. Provides Magnetic Aura to reflect projectiles.
Other alternatives are:
blind trash mobs.
provides AoE damage in fire and air, while on earth it will - - spawn a small elemental army that dies when you mount up, good for fighting strong bosses.
- - additional condition cleanse.
- - for mobility.
- Your overloads break stun when cast, but if you want a dedicated stun break you can use
Stability.
, which also blocks 3 attacks, or for invulnerability, or for
Elites
Knockback, on Air for a
Stun, or on Earth for defense.
- - very situational skill that can be considered against certain bosses with oneshot attacks.
Specializations
- Variants
Fury, requires .
- if you lack - - when playing in groups to support allies.
Stability from may cause you to be interrupted while using an Overload, so be careful about that.
- sacrifices defense for extra damage. The loss of Alacrity. You can technically provide permanent alacrity with only the bonus concentration of , but this isn't realistic in real fights. This trait works best if you can acquire more concentration from food or gear like
Diviner.
- useful in groups to provide allies with
Equipment
This build uses the same gear as power weaver and power catalyst for ease of gearing.
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
x6
- is almost identical to . Either can be used.
- You can use to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, to start combat with boons, or for a little extra defense.
- Equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford.
- In open world, you can consider using
Marauder gear instead of Berserker to sacrifice a small amount of damage for a massive health increase. If doing so, switch your runes to . The amulet can be
Dragon. With this gear set you no longer need and can use another damage or utility skill instead.
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- /
Defense
Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Usage
Damage
resets the cooldown of every time you critically strike while attuned to a different attunement. This includes resetting the cooldown of . Thus, the idea behind the build is to use Overload Air, attune to another element and maybe use some skills of that element, and then return to Air, triggering , the extra ferocity from Fresh Air, and the extra damage from .
Your goal is to spam Might. Since creates a fire field, you can use combo finishers to provide yourself and nearby allies with even more might (See: Guide:What are Combo Fields).
When you attune to either Water or Earth, cast 1 or 2 skills then return to Air since
has recharged it.- Opener
Against bosses and other strong enemies, try to follow this opener:
- while getting close to the enemy.
- and
- auto attack
- and
- and
- autoattack and until
- Be sure to use
Might.
inside a fire field (such as Overload Fire) for more - Use off cooldown.
- If using high damage skills like or , use them when you attune back to Air because you will be under all these damage modifiers: , , and .
- You will activate with Overloads, , , and .
Auras
Auras provide useful bennefits to yourself. If needed, they can be shared to nearby allies by using the trait
and even provide boons with . You have several skills that produce auras, including your overloads thanks to :Fire Aura: , .
Frost Aura: , .
Shocking Aura: .
Magnetic Aura: , , .
Elementals
Elementals are really good allies in any open world elementalist build. Their only downside is that they die when you mount up. Consider summoning a few elementals before fighting bosses or other tough enemies.
Glyph of Lesser Elementals
summons one elemental for 2 minutes. If you cast it off cooldown, you can have 3 elementals alive almost always.
- The Lesser Fire Elemental deals good melee range AoE strike damage and
Burning, and provides
Might. It has the highest AoE damage of all Lesser Elementals.
- The Lesser Ice Elemental deals very low damage and inflicts a lot of
Chill (80-90% uptime) through an ice combo field.
- The Lesser Air Elemental deals great single target damage and generates
Swiftness. It has the second best damage behind Fire, but it's single target.
- The Lesser Earth Elemental deals low damage, inflicts
Weakness, and is very tanky.
Glyph of Elementals
Elementals have the same attacks and behaviour as Lesser Elementals, but can be commanded to do an additional skill.
- The Fire Elemental can be commanded to deal damage and
Burning in an AoE.
- The Ice Elemental can be commanded to deal damage in an AoE, while healing nearby allies by 6401, knocking back enemies, and removing 1 condition.
- The Air Elemental can be commanded to
Stun for 1.5 seconds.
- The Earth Elemental can be commanded to inflict nearby enemies with 1 second of
Immobilize and 5 seconds of
Cripple, while providing 3 seconds of
Protection to nearby allies.
Defense
- The best defense is always to dodge or sidestep attacks. You have permanent
Swiftness so you can run around enemies while they die to your AoEs. You cannot dodge while doing an Overload or you will cancel it, but you can use that swiftness to get out of the way of telegraphed attacks.
- is great for defense, as the elemental will often draw aggro away from you. The earth elemental is quite tanky.
- You get
Stability when you overload thanks to .
- You get
Protection when you overload thanks to , from (which also extends existing boons) and from when cast in Earth.
- You can increase your toughness with .
Magnetic Aura from or + reflects projectiles.
- can be used in emergencies to cleanse 5 conditions and heal you a little. However, you will lack sustain as you'll lose access to due to the increased cooldown of Water after overloading.
crippled and
immobilize. It also gives you
stability at the start, and the lingering storm provides
protection.
is great for chipping away at breakbars with its - Attune to periodically to refresh and heal yourself with . You also heal yourself with and
- Dodging attacks will also heal you thanks to .
- Blind trash mobs with , or .
Crowd Control
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