Tempest - Condi Tempest

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage and Defense

Designed for: Open World, [[|]], [[|]] and Open World General

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 patch.

Overview

A high-DPS, high-Defense Elementalist build that is relatively easy to begin learning. This build relies heavily on its very high Burning Burning output and its personal Might Might generation. It has considerable amounts of area damage which results in excellent cleave. It has both melee and ranged DPS options, and several viable build variants that allow the build to reach high levels of versatility and offer a multitude of playstyles.

This build is recommended for new players due to its ease of use, though they may struggle with the class's low HP and active playstyle at first.


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Skill Bar

Dagger/Warhorn
Utility


Specializations


Equipment

  • Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.
  • This set uses gear similar to this build's instanced PVE counterpart and works well for general PVE. Viper offers the highest damage, but no defense or sustain. Consult the variants below for defensive options.
Head
Viper
Shoulders
Viper
Chest
Viper
Hands
Viper
Legs
Viper
Feet
Viper
Backpiece
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Amulet
Viper
Ring
Viper
Ring
Viper
Dagger
Viper
Warhorn
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
scepter
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6



Consumables

Prioritize ascended food over everything else; steak (power) and flatbread (conditions). Using cheap/budget food is perfectly acceptable in open world.

Damage

For damage, run and . Budget options are with . Run if running high toughness builds.

Defense

Use for more dodges.

Farming

Run and (or its other variants) when trying to maximize gold per hour.


Usage

  • can provide a high damage elemental in Fire or excellent defensive options in Earth or Water.
  • Use blast finishers like and over Fire Fields to grant Might Might.
  • Use at 15+ might
  • It can be beneficial to use just before leaving for added Vulnerability Vulnerability application.

Damage

  • Don't interrupt . Attunement swapping will not interrupt it.
  • Activate and off cooldown.
  • Your primary damage skills are:
  • Warhorn
    • (against large targets or groups)
  • Dagger
    • (If using )
  • Scepter
    • (only if you need to go to water for healing)
  • Fill gaps in cooldowns with basic attacks.


Zerg Support

  • It is possible to play this build as an extremely effective boon support in large zergs by casting any time you have 25 might.
  • See the skill/trait variants listed below for more zerg support options.
  • is a strong AOE cleanse and heal for yourself and allies.

Defense

  • Constantly spam skills to get the benefit from
  • is a powerful defensive skill. Combine this with and for additional healing.
    • While in Water, you can on a Fire field for Might Might or inside your for more burst healing.
  • grants Protection Protection in addition to projectile hate and increasing the duration of your existing boons.
  • is a useful blind, very strong against groups of trash mobs.
  • Your overloads break stun.
  • When taking the Arcane traitline, dodging in Water attunement will cleanse conditions and provide a significant heal. Additionally, it is recommended you attunement swap often to benefit from

CC

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Variants

Weapon Variants

  • Scepter - Ranged alternative to mainhand dagger.
  • Staff - Use in zergs for ranged AOE damage, CC and healing
  • Dagger (offhand) - Lower DPS but more mobility than warhorn


Skill Variants

Healing

  • - burst heal
  • - blast finisher
  • - Group healing/cleanse

Utilities

  • - Provides powerful pets that can be buffed by your boons.
  • or - More defense and support for nearby allies.
  • - AOE burst damage from or pulsing blind with .
  • - Breaks stun and blocks attacks.
  • - For mobility.

Elites

  • - High AOE damage on a long cooldown, mobility.
  • - Strong defensive/support elite

Trait Variants

  • - extra Might Might generation for self and allies if needed. Be aware that you will lose up to 10 might every time you cast or leave Fire Attunement.
  • - more Blind Blind if having trouble with trash mobs.
  • - passive defensive stunbreak; very valuable in groups
  • and - For more healing oriented variants using stats like Celestial Celestial

Arcane

It is possible run Arcane over Earth for an increase to sustain.

  • - More Vigor Vigor uptime.
  • - Extra boons.
  • - Improved revival power in groups.

Water

Water can be used if running a more supportive oriented build (only recommended if using stat sets with healing power - e.g. Celestial Celestial)

  • - Passive defense option.
  • - Allows you to share your self-only auras with allies.
  • , and - More Cleanse support if needed.


Gear Variants

Budget

  • Dire Dire + + - a cheap gearset that performs well when camping fire
  • Apothecary Apothecary/Shaman Shaman/24px Settler mix + + - Healing oriented version of above and a budget option for celestial.

Defense

  • Trailblazer Trailblazer + - A tanky gearset for soloing difficult content.
  • Celestial Celestial - A powerful gearset with increased boon duration and healing, increasing survivability and group support.
  • - drastic increase to defense, replace


Video Examples

Scepter Tempest vs Chak Lobber


Ratings

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5 stars
Starlitjupiter gave this build 5 stars • June 2023
With the June 27 changes, Tempest is in an incredible spot for the first time in a very long time. It brings very high damage, plenty of AOE, and even large amounts of group support through boon share with Heat Sync. In farm zergs, this build has excellent damage at range and good group support. Solo, it has very high DPS and good defense thanks to the enhanced protection. Condi Tempest is incredibly well rounded and has come out as one of the strongest solo builds of the patch.

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