Tempest - Alacrity Support Power DPS

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.

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 and should be dropped for utility.

Elite

• can be pre-cast in fractals then swapped to another skill for extra damage.
• can be used to ignore certain mechanics that would otherwise down the group.

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.

Hammer Rotation

Summon in before the encounter starts.

Throughout the rotation, cast , , and off cooldown, but only when in .

Opener

4. as soon as Overload Air finishes
15. , and during the cast

Air 1

4. , and during the cast

Fire

Air 2

Earth

3. , and during the cast

Water

1. , and immediately
2. Return to start of Air 1 section

Sword/Dagger Rotation

• You should run against non-defiant targets.

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

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 pieces up to 32% without needing to start adding more Assassin stats pieces.
  • You could theoretically run full Berserker stats pieces and rely entirely 集中聚能, though 敏捷 will be very tight.

Other Equipment

卓加假面

BerserkerHead

卓加肩章

BerserkerShoulders

卓加紧身衣

BerserkerChest

BerserkerHands

AssassinLegs

BerserkerFeet

AssassinBackpiece

BerserkerAccessory

BerserkerAccessory

AssassinAmulet

BerserkerRing

BerserkerRing

BerserkerSword

BerserkerDagger

Sigil

Sigil

BerserkerScepter

• This setup has 2365 precision including that from .
• Against targets that can't be stunned, it is a miniscule DPS loss to run full Berserker stats gear with a instead of the .
  • With this setup you can add Diviner stats pieces up to 45% boon duration without needing to start adding more Assassin stats pieces.

Summon in before the encounter starts.

Throughout the rotation, cast , , and off cooldown, but only when in .

Opener

5. and
7. Autoattack and until Overload Air is available

Earth

Air

1. Autoattack, and use and as they become available.

Fire

4. (if available)

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

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

1. Summon in before the encounter starts, and swap to .
2. Cast from afar then begin channeling . 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 after instead.
3. and during the cast of the skills above.

Loop

The rotation is very simple. After , you switch to , use two skills, then return to to overload and repeat.

Throughout the rotation, cast whenever it's available - it doesn't interrupt other channels.

Fire

2. . If not available, use instead.
3. 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

1. Use whichever of the following cooldowns are available, otherwise just autoattack

• - this has no cast time, so cast during other skills. You should be able to use it twice each time you're in air.
• - you can step back from the boss before casting this to maximize the hits you get from it.

3. as soon as Overload Air finishes

Extra boons

and are not part of the default rotation, but can be included to increase your boon uptime. significantly increases your generation, and provides as well as extending all boons by two seconds.