The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Expansions required: Heart of Thorns builds
Difficulty: Easy
This build was last updated on February 10, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
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Variants
暴风咏叹 - sacrifices defense for extra damage. The loss of 
稳固 from 
和谐传导 may cause you to be interrupted while using an Overload, so be careful about that.
清澈奇点 - useful in groups to provide allies with 
敏捷. You can technically provide permanent alacrity with only the bonus concentration of 
集中聚能, but this isn't realistic in real fights. This trait works best if you can acquire more concentration from food or gear like Diviner.Water can replace Fire. This slightly lowers your sustained damage but slightly improves burst damage and provides some healing and extra Vitality for more health.
A Power Tempest build for open world. This build has high AoE damage plus some boon generation for self and allies, most notably 
威能 and 
激怒. Cast 
空气过载 to fry your enemies with a nimbus of lightning, then do it over and over again thanks to 
清新气流 refreshing its cooldown.
With the trait 清澈奇点, the build can also sacrifice damage to provide 敏捷 to allies.
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
生日爆破枪 / 
令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐
薄荷怪异莓棒
锐磨颅骨 (and variants)We default to Scepter+ Warhorn as they provide a good mix of damage and support.
烈焰之轮, 
新月之风, etc. Hammer usage requires Weaponmaster Training with Secrets of the Obscure.We default to 
元素和谐雕文 as it provides strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement. Other alternatives are:
秘法绚爆 - weak heal by default, but is greatly increased if it strikes nearby enemies. Performs a blast finisher, and heals for more when doing so. Excellent synergy with water combo fields. (See: Guide are Combo Fields).
"抚慰伤痛！" - weak healing, but heals in an AoE and cleanses 1 condition per pulse.We default to: is here only for the precision buff, so never cast it. If you already have 100% crit chance because you're using full Marauder gear, equip a different skill. has low cooldown, decent damage, and provides . combines damage, defense, and crowd control. Provides to reflect projectiles. Other alternatives are:
is simply the best elite for solo play. Cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and , on Air for a , or on Earth for defense and tanking.
This build uses the same gear as power weaver and power catalyst for ease of gearing.
If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Zhed" armor, "Hypnotic Scepter" scepter, "Kodanroar" or "Shattered Warhorn" warhorn. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide to Gear a Character.
Overloads are the profession mechanic of the tempest. After attuning to an element, remain in it for a few seconds to achieve Singularity, allowing you to press the attunement key again to Overload that attunement and cast a powerful skill but place the attunement on a long recharge.
In this build, you will focus on .
resets the cooldown of every time you critically strike while attuned to a different attunement. This includes resetting the cooldown of . Thus, the idea behind the build is to use Overload Air, attune to another element and maybe use some skills of that element, and then return to Air, triggering and getting the extra ferocity from Fresh Air and the extra damage from .
Your goal is to spam for damage. If you are playing alone, you can also for damage and . Since creates a fire field, you can use combo finishers to provide yourself and nearby allies with even more might (See: Guide are Combo Fields).
After Overloading, attune to another element, cast 1 or 2 skills then return to Air since has recharged it.
Opener
Against bosses and other strong enemies, try to follow this opener:
If using Spear (requires Janthir Wilds), your priority is still to spam , but you will want to use , and as well, which will obviously work better if an ally is giving you so you don't delay Overload Air too much.
Always empower by casting directly before. It's generally not worth it to stay in Earth for , but you can do it if you don't have from other players. Likewise, Water attunement should only be used if you need condition cleanse from or a little healing from .
Auras provide useful benefits to yourself. If needed, they can be shared to nearby allies by using the trait and even provide boons with . You have several skills that produce auras, including your overloads thanks to :
Elementals are really good allies in any open world elementalist build. Their only downside is that they die when you mount up. Consider summoning a few elementals before fighting bosses or other tough enemies.
summons one elemental for 2 minutes. If you cast it off cooldown, you can have 3 elementals alive most of the time.
Elementals have the same attacks and behaviour as Lesser Elementals, but can be commanded to do an additional skill.
