Tempest - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

• Use 火使威势 if using Pistol.

Specialization Variants

Arcane can be used for higher boon generation:

Focus build The fire-camping Focus build cannot use 火焰过载 frequently enough to maintain 敏捷, hence 元素棱堡 should be used, which in turn requires the use of the Water traitline to apply auras via 强效光环:

Food

• 锦鲤蛋糕 or alternatives

Utility

• 协调冰柱 or equivalents

This is a build focuses on 燃烧 and has rather high power damage for a condi build.

Overloads allow this build to provide 25 stacks of 威能, permanent 保护, and high 激怒 uptime via 热力同步 and 砂石狂啸.

Some 迅捷 can also be provided, but only the Pistol build wants to go into Air, so it is not reliably provided by other builds.

Weapon Variants

• Pistol offers slightly more damage, but has a more complex rotation.
• Offhand Focus can be used for a simpler rotation. This build camps Fire and actually deals the most damage, but the lack of Warhorn lowers the number of boons it can provide.

Skill Variants

Utility

• 风暴雕文 is higher damage than 大地纹章 when not using the Earth traitline.
  • 元素能量雕文 will be more damage than 风暴雕文 on bosses that won't stay inside the AoE for the whole duration.
    • As 元素能量雕文 is instant cast, it can be used without delaying the rotation. Using both 风暴雕文 and 小型元素雕文 can end up reducing your boon output.

As a support, you should be willing to trade DPS to bring group utility. 大地纹章 can be swapped out for:

• "炽火燎原！" provides higher 激怒 and 威能. This is very useful for the fire camping build as you lack the boons from Warhorn.
• "天崩地裂！" provides 圣盾 to allies and pads your 保护 uptime.
  • Be aware that the magnetic aura applied by this ability can cause issues on some encounters.
• "风暴护体！" provides 稳固 and 迅捷 to allies.

Either of these skills will be helpful if there is a danger of being interrupted while in the middle of your overloads.

Elite

• "五行归元！" can be used to ignore certain mechanics that would otherwise down people.
  • As you are not a healer, your allies will be left on low health after it triggers. It may be worth immediately following up with "抚慰伤痛！".

Granting an aura to yourself (or allies) will trigger the damage buff from . Overloads, signets (if using Earth), and all give you an aura, as will attuning to Fire thanks to . The buff stacks in duration, but has a 10-second limit.

Scepter Rotation

You can precast before the fight starts.

Opener

Fire

Earth

1. ⇒
2. Autoattack and cast , and as they become available
4. ⇒
6. Return to start of Fire section

• Throughout the rotation, use all your utility skills and off cooldown.

Scepter/Focus Rotation

You can give yourself an initial boost of alacrity by starting in and using the same opener as above (minus .

After this, switch to and essentially use all skills and utilities off cooldown as well as .

Pistol Rotation

Pistol skills have a unique bullet mechanic where using a pistol skill stocks a bullet, or if you already have a bullet, consumes it for an enhanced effect. In each attunement, one of the enhanced effects is defensive while the other is offensive. As such, it is important that these skills be used in the correct order to avoid missing out on damage.

Boon duration variants

• More or less boon duration can be obtained by swapping pieces between Viper stats and Ritualist stats as desired.
  • The setup above provides ~38% boon duration, which is sufficient for ~108% 敏捷 uptime.
  • It is not recommended to go below ~33% boon duration.
  • The Pistol rotation video example uses ~40% boon duration.
• If you do not have access to Viper stats, Celestial stats are only slightly lower damage, but give you additional toughness, which can mess with tanking.
• If running Arcane, the inherent boon duration and reduced cooldown on attunement swaps allows you to run full Viper stats gear. This is sufficient to provide ~108% 敏捷 uptime.

Focus Gear

藤吾假面

RitualistHead

藤吾肩章

RitualistShoulders

RitualistChest

RitualistHands

ViperLegs

RitualistFeet

SinisterBackpiece

SinisterAccessory

SinisterAccessory

SinisterAmulet

ViperRing

SinisterRing

ViperScepter

ViperFocus

Sigil

Sigil

• For this setup, use (or ascended alternatives) and .

• Use 元素雕文 in 火焰协调, and cast 烈焰轰炸 off cooldown.
• Cast 火焰纹章 off cooldown, but it is lower priority than weapon skills.
• If using 元素能量雕文, cast it in 火焰协调 during the cast of 炽焰疾步 so that the damage buff will affect the blast damage.

The gist of the rotation is to cycle between 火焰协调 ⇒ 空气协调 ⇒ 大地协调 ⇒ 空气协调, using key abilities in each attunement off cooldown until the next attunement is ready.

When you enter 火焰协调, use 炽焰疾步, 荒火哀嚎 and 龙蜥吐息, then use your key abilities as they come off cooldown. When 空气协调 is available, use one last 龙蜥吐息 and switch (空气协调 should become available during the cast of 龙蜥吐息 - you can switch attunement without interrupting the skill).

Opener

1. 荒火哀嚎
2. 火焰风暴
3. 火焰过载
4. 炽焰疾步 - you need to be inside your target's hitbox for the fire line to hit your target
5. 热力同步
6. 龙蜥吐息 - for maximum damage, you will want to back away from your target during this cast
7. 空气协调

Loop

Air 1

1. 火焰纹章
2. 能量汇聚
3. 电击光环
4. 闪电宝珠 - this target hits more if cast some distance back from your target
5. 大地协调

Earth In 大地协调, you want to cast 沙尘风暴 and 砂石狂啸 as soon as they are available, but as their cooldown is longer than the loop, their position will vary over time. Eventually, you will need to skip them for one loop.

1. 大地突刺
2. 尖刺石环
3. Autoattack until Overload Earth is available
4. 大地过载
5. 尖刺石环 or 火焰纹章 - if Signet of Fire is available here, skip Ring of Earth
6. 空气协调 - if you used Signet of Fire in the last step, skip Air and go straight to Fire

Air 2

2. ⇒

Fire

9. during the cast of Drake's Breath
10. Repeat from the start of the loop