The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Healing, Support and Utility
Designed for: Raids
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on July 01, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
元素使 (Elementalist)
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Tempest is capable of providing permanent uptime of 
敏捷, 
激怒, 
威能, 
保护, 
再生, 
迅捷 and 
活力 on their subgroup, along with a lot of healing.
The combination of 
元素棱堡 and 
强效光环 allows tempest to provide healing and 敏捷 in a 600-unit radius by spamming auras. This allows a lot of freedom in terms of weapons, traitlines and skills to suit different encounters, though a bit of care is required to ensure all boon are being properly covered.
Additionally, you have tools such as 
"五行归元！" which will allow you to skip certain mechanics that would otherwise down the group, and 
秘法复活 allows you to help revive players without locking yourself into the animation.
Arcane is chosen as a default traitline as the lower cooldowns on attunement swapping and overloads allows you to be more flexible with your rotation, and provides permanent 迅捷 and extra 保护 padding from 
元素协调. 秘法复活 is a nice bonus.
This said, Arcane is not essential, so it can be swapped to another traitline:
窒息光环 and 
金刚石肤, respectively. Fire provides more, and at double the range, but Earth has more synergy with the rest of a healer's kit.Earth
Earth makes 保护 very easy by adding it to your auras, provides an extra source of 
稳固, and allows you to cleanse conditions with every blast finisher.
石刻纹章 provides an additional aura source.
固若磐石 provides 稳固, which can be problematic on encounters that corrupt boons. In this case take 
大地祝福 instead.Fire
Fire also adds condition cleanse and additional sources of auras if using at least one conjured weapon. 
火使威势 can also be used to increase the AoE of your 威能 provision - particularly helpful for Staff, which relies on the small 180-unit AoE from 
火焰过载. However, the AoE from this trait is only 240 units so the difference may not be noticable.
激怒.Utility
As you need to leave 
流水协调 for boons, this can leave you without major sources of healing, so 
流水纹章, 冰霜长弓 and 
元素雕文 are there to fill in the gap. 
"炽火燎原！" provides long-range 威能 to make up for the small AoE of 火焰过载. Any of these skills can be swapped out if desired:
元素能量雕文 in 
大地协调 will provide some barrier.
卡拉科萨古物, 
秘法波动 provides some extra on-demand healing (assuming there is a field to combo with), as well as some CC.敏捷, 再生 and 活力 thanks to 
活力洪流, in addition to the other potent effects:
"天崩地裂！" provides 
圣盾 and a blast finisher for 卡拉科萨古物.
"风暴护体！" provides a group stunbreak as well as 
奔驰疾速 which can be particularly useful on "event" encounters such as Spirit Woods or Siege Escort. It also offers some extra 稳固, which may be useful during 火焰过载 as you don't use 
和谐传导 and being interrupted mid-cast will cause you to drop 敏捷. Note that this shout does not provide an aura.
"极寒冰结！" is a reliable way to access Frost Aura, which can be a potent defensive tool against attacks that cannot be blocked with "天崩地裂！".Elite
"五行归元！" provides 稳固 and a way to skip certain mechanics that would otherwise down the group.
In addition to , Heal Tempest can provide permanent uptimes of , , , , and . The way you do so will change between weapons and what your third traitline is.
Auras you apply to allies provide and healing, and makes any aura applied to you also apply to allies within 600 units. A standard "loop" is around ~25 seconds, so you want to be providing at least four auras during this.
You can fit in two overloads, so is extremely valuable. This leaves as your only way to apply permanent . It also gives , so these two boons are easily covered.
With Warhorn, is trivial and you can reliably upkeep thanks to . Most supports and some DPS will also provide , but if you are literally the only source, you could pad your uptime with or . An easier approach is just to bring as this also improves generation and provides an aura.
With Staff, your options for and are much more limited. You must run to provide permanent , and the easiest way to provide is with . could also be provided by taking the Fire traitline for , but you'll need to attune to fire twice during the loop to reach 25 stacks (or attune once and , but then is already providing full ).
For either weapon, can be covered either by taking the Earth traitline for , taking the Arcane traitline and attuning to twice during the loop, or using . If there are any gaps in your uptime, you can pad it with .
Similarly, can be covered either with the Arcane traitline, , or blasting an air field. The only air field Warhorn has access to is , whilst staff also has .
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The core of your boon application is to use and whenever they are available (every ~25 seconds with , though the build has enough boon duration to extend each loop up to ~32s if the situation demands), also using the overloads in their respective attunements. This means you want to switch to within ~3 seconds of it coming off cooldown, and repeat the Opener. You should alternate between , and one of the other attunements, using whichever healing skills are available whenever you return to water. It is important NOT to use as this will lock you out of for too long. While in you can use for extra or CC.
The blast finisher from is slightly delayed, so it is possible to cast it then switch to Water and use before the blast hits, getting two combos.
Be aware that your skills that generate Magnetic Aura - , , via , and while in - will cause you to reflect projectiles. This can be very useful, but can also lead to problems at encounters such as Matthias or Cairn if you are not careful when you use them.
The main selling point of Staff is the amount of long-range healing it can provide while in , so it is worth camping this attunement for most of the loop. does not quite provide enough to make it permanent, so it is necessary to regularly swap to for a second overload and .
As it also lacks the utility of Warhorn, is essential as you otherwise lack , and your would be less reliable.
Be aware that the boon radius for on is only 180, so significant uptime will be lost if you're not stacked tightly on your group. This can be somewhat mitigated by bringing extra blast finishers and comboing with fire fields, or using in (or swapping to a Warhorn build).
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Rest of the Rotation While in you can autoattack and use for group healing. is a blast finisher on a low cooldown, and your skills 3-5 all provide combo fields, and provides AoE condi cleanse. Use as soon as you can, but don't swap attunement immediately. A good rule of thumb is to use three times while you're in Water.
For extra healing you can use a combo field as one of your last skills in , swap to for , then . Alternatively, by casting as soon as you switch to then will combo this instead for AoE - this requires not having any lingering combo fields from .
None of the skills in fire are particularly useful, so just use as soon as you can and repeat the Opener.
Your sustained healing will be lower when outside of , so you should use your other skills to maintain your group's health:
Healing tips
Conveniently, just about every skill is a DPS increase or a heal, so as long as you keep switching attunements at the correct time you can go pretty far by just mashing any skill that's off cooldown.
Fresh Air rotations If you're running , you can structure your rotation for a bit more damage by going from → → → → after the opener staying in long enough to use each time. This is a minor reduction in boon generation that allows you to get two uses each of out , , and each loop.
Vulnerability If your group has low , you can boost it significantly by taking and/or sceptre:
You don't have a huge amount of CC available, and what you do have is part of your rotation so you may need to delay some skills if there is a defiance bar coming up:
If you're running you can keep your air skills off cooldown and go about your rotation as normal, as this trait means you will always be able to switch to air as soon as a defiance bar appears.
