The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Direct damage
Designed for: Raids
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds Secrets of the Obscure builds
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on April 12, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
Fresh Air Tempest relies on spamming 
空气过载 and resetting its cooldown with 
清新气流 for both damage and 
敏捷. This, combined with its high damage AoE skills, makes it excel at killing adds and trash mobs. In addition, Tempest provides a lot of 
易伤, deals excellent burst damage on large hitboxes, and provides a unique damage buff to its party through 空气过载's Static Discharge.
This build provides permanent 敏捷, 
激怒 and 
迅捷. By default it only provides ~10 
威能 and ~35% 
保护, but utility skills can help improve this at a DPS loss.
Skill Bar
Weapon Variants
There are many weapon sets dealing similar damage, allowing you to choose whichever you prefer:
- Hammer and Sword/Dagger offer very similar damage, though Hammer has the advantage that
新月之风 means you don't need 
火焰纹章, meaning it loses less damage to take different utility skills. - Scepter/Dagger is a moderate DPS loss, but allows for ranged damage and is the best option for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
Be aware that Hammer uses different gear to other options.
Skill Variants
Healing
再生纹章 provides good healing in low damage fights (i.e. fights where you never press your healing skill).
元素和谐雕文 is the strongest personal heal.
幻光恢复 if extra condition cleanse is needed.
Utility
As a support, you should be willing to trade DPS to bring group utility. 
秘法爆弹 should be swapped out, as 
风暴雕文 is higher damage and 
"炽火燎原！" is important for providing 威能 and improving uptime of 
暴风咏叹:
"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.
小型元素雕文 provides ~15 威能 stacks if summoned in 
火焰协调, and deals comparable damage to 风暴雕文 (see the usage section for more details).
闪电巨锤 can be pre-cast in fractals then swapped to another skill for extra damage.
If not running Hammer, you need to to take 火焰纹章 and 风暴雕文 should be dropped for utility.
Elite
炽焰巨剑 can be pre-cast in fractals then swapped to another skill for extra damage.
"五行归元！" can be used to ignore certain mechanics that would otherwise down the group.
Template Code
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- You should run
狂怒风暴 against non-defiant targets.
Equipment
Hammer Equipment
- This setup has 28% boon duration including that from
集中聚能.
- If you want more boon duration you can add more Diviner stats Diviner stats pieces up to 32% without needing to start adding more Assassin stats Assassin stats pieces.
- You could theoretically run full Berserker stats Berserker stats pieces and rely entirely 集中聚能, though 敏捷 will be very tight.
Other Equipment
- This setup has 2365 precision including that from 火焰纹章.
- Against targets that can't be stunned, it is a miniscule DPS loss to run full Berserker stats Berserker stats gear with a
超级精确法印 instead of the 
超级冲击法印.
- With this setup you can add Diviner stats Diviner stats pieces up to 45% boon duration without needing to start adding more Assassin stats Assassin stats pieces.
Consumables
Food
碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤 or ascended versions
Utility
Usage
Hammer Rotation
Summon 
元素雕文 in 火焰协调 before the encounter starts.
Throughout the rotation, cast 秘法爆弹, "炽火燎原！", 风暴雕文 and 
烈焰轰炸 off cooldown, but only when in 
空气协调.
Opener
Earth
Water
Air 1
Fire
Air 2
Sword/Dagger Rotation
Summon 元素雕文 in 火焰协调 before the encounter starts.
Throughout the rotation, cast "炽火燎原！", 风暴雕文 and 烈焰轰炸 off cooldown, but only when in 空气协调.
Opener
Earth
Air
- Autoattack, and use
量子打击 and 
风驰电掣 as they become available. You want to do two complete auto chains each loop. -
空气过载
-
火焰协调
Fire
After this, you repeat the Air section followed by the Fire section, then return to the start of the Earth section.
The complete loop after the opener therefore goes Earth ⇒ Air ⇒ Fire ⇒ Air ⇒ Fire ⇒ Repeat
Scepter/Dagger Rotation
Summon 元素雕文 in 火焰协调 before the encounter starts.
Throughout the rotation, cast 
闪电打击, "炽火燎原！", 风暴雕文 and 烈焰轰炸 off cooldown, but only when in 空气协调.
Opener
-
火焰过载
-
浴火凤凰
-
烈焰之攫
-
空气协调
- 风驰电掣 and 闪电打击
-
闪电风暴
- Autoattack and 闪电打击 until Overload Air is available
-
空气过载
-
大地协调
Earth
Air
Fire
After this, you repeat the Air section followed by the Fire section, then return to the start of the Earth section.
The complete loop after the opener therefore goes Earth ⇒ Air ⇒ Fire ⇒ Air ⇒ Fire ⇒ Repeat
Scepter/Warhorn Rotation
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The rotation below is for maximum damage, but if you are struggling with boon provision you can add a couple of extra steps (see below).
Opening Burst
- Summon 元素雕文 in 火焰协调 before the encounter starts, and swap to 空气协调.
- Cast
闪电宝珠 from afar then begin channeling 空气过载. Ideally you time the cast to finish on top of the enemy the moment combat begins. If you aren't confident in pre-casting, you can use 闪电宝珠 after 空气过载 instead. - 闪电打击 and 烈焰轰炸 during the cast of the skills above.
Loop
The rotation is very simple. After 空气协调, you switch to 火焰协调, use two skills, then return to 空气协调 to overload and repeat.
Throughout the rotation, cast 闪电打击 whenever it's available - it doesn't interrupt other channels.
Fire
-
浴火凤凰
荒火哀嚎. If not available, use 
巨龙之牙 instead.- 空气协调 during the cast - we use the longer cast time skill second in order to spend as little time autoattacking in Air Attunement as possible.
Air
- Use whichever of the following cooldowns are available, otherwise just autoattack
-
"炽火燎原！"
-
闪电风暴
- 闪电打击 - this has no cast time, so cast during other skills. You should be able to use it twice each time you're in air.
- 闪电宝珠 - you can step back from the boss before casting this to maximize the hits you get from it.
Extra boons
热力同步 and 
砂石狂啸 are not part of the default rotation, but can be included to increase your boon uptime. 热力同步 significantly increases your 威能 generation, and 砂石狂啸 provides 保护 as well as extending all boons by two seconds.
Notes
Alacrity during downtime
Your rotation depends on you hitting enemies to trigger 清新气流 and reset 空气过载. On encounters where there are periods with nothing to hit, you should switch between your other attunements and use the overloads there as 敏捷 is important to maintain at all times.