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Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Control, Support, Healing and Condition cleanse

Designed for: WvW GvG

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

Overview

The Fire Tempest provides strong condition cleanse and healing. It has access to one of the strongest revive skills, Glyph of Renewal, brings access to auras and provides a good amount of crowd control.

Skill Bar

Dagger/Focus

Dagger/Focus

Utility

Skill Variants

Utilities

Signet of Earth provides a very strong single target Immobilize. However, it can be switched out for other utilities in some situations. Especially for starting out, the alternatives are easier to use.

• "Flash-Freeze!" the best option for another aura/heal utility
• "Eye of the Storm!" group stunbreak and Superspeed
  • Conjure Earth Shield for an AoE pull.

Elite

• "Rebound!" this is usually not worth using, however it synergises with the Mesmer's revive skill Illusion of Life as it can prevent the players from dying to the debuff.

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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

Scepter
Minstrel

Dagger
Minstrel

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Rune Variants

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Trooper can be used if extra tankiness is required. It increases the amount of condition cleanse.
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Monk increases the healing but loses quite a bit of defensive stats compared to the other choices.

Consumables

• • personal option
• • is worth using if you can go for many revives

Usage

General

• This build fills the role of the healer and cleanser in the party, so it is important to focus on these things first.
• The Glyph of Renewal is very powerful. Especially used in air attunement, it can completely reset a player that went down in a bad place. Make sure to be in a save position when this is needed.
• Auras are quite powerful and since the access is mostly limited to Elementalists, you should applies these as much as possible.
• The amount of might provided by Pyromancer's Puissance is a lot, however the range is small. If possible, make sure to get value out of this trait.
• Since you do not have good access to stunbreaks and stability for yourself and you heavily rely on skills with longer casttimes, you want to be in safe positions during the round. Especially while overloading, it is perfectly fine to move a bit away from the commander to ensure the cast.
• For the usage of attunements and skills, you can stick to a relatively simple rotation. This is not optimal in all situations but it is a very solid start and helps you to focus on other things while learning.
  • Fire Attunement - This is the source of most cleanses tied to the Focus skill Fire Aura / Transmute Fire Aura. This is also the source of a large amount of AoE might coming from the trait Pyromancer's Puissance. Maximize the frequency with which you use this attunement.
  • Water Attunement - This is a great source of healing. Use Overload Water whenever possible.
  • Air Attunement - Shocking Aura is by far the strongest Aura. Therefore, use the Dagger skill Shocking Aura and Overload Air often. Keep this attunement ready for Glyph of Renewal if you expect someone to die off position. Use {{Swirling Windsßß

Use Swirling Winds to counter enemy Necromancer's Lich Form. Use Gale for one of the strongest single target CC effects.

• • Earth Attunement - This is mostly a filler attunement you want to switch into to start the cooldown on the Fire attunement. It provides an invulnability on Focus, Obsidian Flesh. In Earth, Glyph of Renewal becomes a AoE revive with a decently large radius.