Tempest - Aurashare (GvG)

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Focused on: Control, Support, Healing and Condition cleanse

Designed for: WvW GvG

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

This build primarily fills the role of the healer and cleanser for its party as an alternative to Druid, Scrapper or Vindicator. Catalyst can also be used instead for the same role, see here for a comparison

Glyph of Renewal

is an exceptionally powerful revive skill - in

Air Attunement

it has the unique effect of repositioning the target, allowing the tempest to fully reset a player that went down in a bad place and in

Earth Attunement

it revives up to three players.

Tempest provides high amounts of might provided with

Pyromancer's Puissance

,

Fire Shield

and

Transmute Fire

as well as unique auras including the very powerful

Shocking Aura

.

For the usage of attunements and skills, Tempest can stick to a relatively simple rotation. While a strict rotation is not optimal in all situations, it is effective for beginners and helps to allow focus on other things while learning.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Focus

Utility

Variants

• "Flash-Freeze!"
  or
  "Eye of the Storm!"
  instead of
  Signet of Earth
  are easier to use.

Specializations

Variants

• Elemental Bastion

Template Code

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Equipment

Head
Minstrel

Shoulders
Minstrel

Chest
Minstrel

Hands
Minstrel

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Minstrel

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Accessory
Minstrel

Amulet
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Ring
Minstrel

Dagger
Minstrel

Focus
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Consumables

• Bowl of Fruit Salad with Mint Garnish
  • Delicious Rice Ball
    personal option
• Bountiful Maintenance Oil
  • Flask of Pumpkin Oil
    is an alternative if you can go for many revives

Usage

General

• Unlike most builds in WvW, Dagger/Focus aurashare tempest can be played with a skill rotation
  • Breaking the rotation to survive is fine, breaking it to try and access more healing or condition clear is usually suboptimal
  • The most important part of the rotation is maximizing the amount of swaps into
    Fire Attunement
    to proc
    Smothering Auras
    with
    Fire Shield
    /
    Transmute Fire
    and to generate large amounts of Might with
    Sunspot
    and the Flame Expulsion from
    Pyromancer's Puissance
  • The order of the non-fire attunements is not important to the rotation, roughly prioritize in this order, but change based on needs:
    1. Water Attunement
       - healing and cleanse
    2. Air Attunement
       - anti-melee CC, projectile hate, single target CC, single target
       Glyph of Renewal
    3. Earth Attunement
       - personal survivability, movement, AoE
       Glyph of Renewal

Expand Skill Rotation Start the fight in Earth Attunement Earthen Rush Fire Attunement Transmute Fire Fire Shield Air Attunement Shocking Aura Transmute Lightning right before Overload Overload Air ⇒ Transmute Lightning Fire Attunement Transmute Fire Water Attunement Overload Water Repeat The order or Water Attunement and Air Attunement can be swapped. Use Burning Speed , Cone of Cold , Frozen Burst , Freezing Gust , Comet , Convergence , Ring of Earth as fillers Use Swirling Winds for the projectile block Use Gale and Signet of Earth for single target focus If at any stage your group is not engaged or is standing back, not needing to be cleansed or healed, continue to swap in and out of Fire Attunement for the Might

Overall Priorities

High

• Glyph of Renewal
• Condition clear
• Healing

Moderate

• CC

Low

• Aura/Boonshare

Surviving

• This build has moderate passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
• This builds has low active defenses
  • Be careful about attuning into
    Earth Attunement
    , since you'll lose access to
    Obsidian Flesh
    after leaving it
  • Since your personal stunbreaks are time-gated 'Overloads and you don't have access to Stability and you heavily rely on skills with longer casttimes, you want to position safely
• Stay close to tag, but not directly on top - within 200-300 range is close enough to quickly respond to movements and get boons without getting stuck behind
  • While overloading, if needed, move further away ensure the cast finishes -
    Powerful Aura
    has 600 radius
  • While in
    Fire Attunement
    , move a bit closer -
    Smothering Auras
    ,
    Transmute Fire
    and the Flame Expulsion from
    Pyromancer's Puissance
    have 240 radius.

Expand Active defense priority Magnetic Wave - for cleansing Immobilize Dodge Burning Speed Earthen Rush Obsidian Flesh Tornado - for Stability and Dust Charge

Detailed Explanations

Glyph of Renewal

• Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make
  Glyph of Renewal
  cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
• Focus on reviving allies who are far away with
  Glyph of Renewal
  , don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
• Use
  Glyph of Renewal
  in
  Air Attunement
  on single players and
  Earth Attunement
  on multiple players if possible
  • Don't delay your cast for this, it is better to get the revive from the wrong attunement over being to late
  • If the teleportation is not needed (or actively harmful), use the glyph in
    Water Attunement
    for the extra heal
• If a downed ally can be safely revived by other means don't use
  Glyph of Renewal
• If you are under the effect of
  Illusion of Life
  you can cast
  Glyph of Renewal
  in
  Fire Attunement
  to revive yourself after timing out

Condition clear

• Most of your condition clear is tied up in attunements and overloads by
  Smothering Auras
  , so conserve your shouts unless you absolutely need them
  • Use
    Fire Shield
    ,
    Transmute Fire
    ,
    Shocking Aura
    and
    Transmute Lightning
    for this purpose - keep in mind that the range for the cleanse is 240
• Water Attunement
  with
  Cleansing Wave
• "Wash the Pain Away!"
  and
  "Aftershock!"
  each cleanse two conditions but should normally be saved for healing and Immobilize respectively

Expand Condition clear priority Fire Attunement - Sunspot + Smothering Auras Transmute Fire - Smothering Auras Fire Shield - Smothering Auras Water Attunement Overload Water - Unstable Conduit + Smothering Auras Air Attunement Transmute Lightning - Smothering Auras Shocking Aura - Smothering Auras Overload Air - Unstable Conduit + Smothering Auras Earth Attunement Overload Earth - Unstable Conduit + Smothering Auras "Flash-Freeze!" - Smothering Auras "Rebound!" - Smothering Auras "Wash the Pain Away!" "Aftershock!" - Smothering Auras

Healing

• Most of your healing will be passively applied by rotating through your attunements, applying aura skills and
  Soothing Mist
  . Your main decision is when to go into
  Water Attunement
  and when to use your shout skills
• Enter
  Water Attunement
  for the immediate healing from
  Healing Ripple
  and, after a short delay from
  Overload Water
  • Try to predict when the final proc of
    Overload Water
    will line up with incoming damage
• Tempests biggest burst heal skill is
  "Wash the Pain Away!"
  • Keep in mind most of the healing is first pulse which only has a radius of 180
• Cone of Cold
  is decent healing while waiting for
  Overload Water

Expand Healing priority "Wash the Pain Away!" Water Attunement - Healing Ripple Soothing Mist Frozen Burst - water field blast Overload Water - Unstable Conduit + Elemental Bastion Cone of Cold Fire Attunement - Sunspot + Elemental Bastion Fire Shield - Elemental Bastion Air Attunement Shocking Aura - Elemental Bastion Overload Air - Unstable Conduit + Elemental Bastion Earth Attunement Magnetic Wave - water field blast Overload Earth - Unstable Conduit + Elemental Bastion "Aftershock!" - Elemental Bastion

CC

• Use your AoE CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds -
      Winds of Disenchantment
    • Wells -
      Well of Corruption
      +
      Well of Suffering
    • Shades -
      Desert Shroud
    • Traps -
      Procession of Blades
      +
      Test of Faith
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
• Be careful using
  Earthen Rush
  since leaving
  Earth Attunement
  locks you out of
  Obsidian Flesh
  • The Immobilize from
    "Aftershock!"
    hits in 600 radius
• If your team is focusing on a single player, use
  Gale
  and
  Signet of Earth
  • Make sure to check the targets boon bar for Stability
• Use
  Tornado
  to stop the enemy from reviving downed players by knocking them away
  • It can also be used if you notice that the enemy ran out of Stability and access to it
  • Press 2 once for
    Dust Tornado
    , then use
    Dust Charge
    and the pulsing knock to CC

Expand CC priority Water Attunement Comet Air Attunement Transmute Lightning Shocking Aura Overload Air - Unstable Conduit Earth Attunement Earthen Rush Ring of Earth "Aftershock!" Tornado

Aura/boonshare

• Try to be in
  Air Attunement
  for melee engages to apply
  Shocking Aura
  • Activate
    Shocking Aura
    as soon as you enter
    Air Attunement
    so its duration doesn't overlap with
    Overload Air
    +
    Unstable Conduit
  • Use
    Transmute Lightning
    right before
    Overload Air
    to get extra cleanse and CC
• Make sure you're close to your group when leaving
  Fire Attunement
  to proc
  Pyromancer's Puissance
  , it has a short 240 radius
• Adjust your positioning so that you don't get interrupted while channeling overloads

Settings

• Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargetting and set Ground Targetting to Instant Cast, this will make
  Glyph of Renewal
  cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targetted
• Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
• Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
  • Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
• Under Squad Options check View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' health so that you can better predict when to use
  Glyph of Renewal