Tempest - Staff Aurashare Support - MetaBattle

General

Under General Options / User Interface enable "Thick party health bars" and "Always show health bars". These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support. For more tips check out our settings guide.
When playing with 强效光环 every aura applied to you is also granted to nearby allies. This isn't restricted to elementalist auras only - using 寒冰尖刺 in a 混乱风暴 for example will share 混乱护甲 with allies. Auras can't be applied to downed players.
Auras in the build:
电击光环 from Overload Air.
冰霜光环 from Overload Water, 寒冰禁地 plus the trait proc from 元素棱堡.
火焰光环 from Overload Fire.
磁力光环 from Overload Earth, 磁力光环 (Earth skill #3), 磁力激荡 (an Earth Shield skill) and "天崩地裂！" (if taken).
飓风形态 is useful in just about any situation. Whether you have to run away from a fight, peel for your allies, or interrupt an enemy stomp/rez attempt, can't go wrong with Tornado!
Avoid getting locked into 1v1s, always be in teamfights. You depend on your allies just as much as they depend on you! Tempest's job is to keep party members alive through support, and these allies must peel for you in return (if the enemy team gets to focus you without allies counterpressuring them you'll probably end up dead).

Overloads

These skills become available after having spent at least 6 seconds in the same attunement. Switching to another attunement while overloading will interrupt the skill yet still puts the attunement on the increased CD of 20 seconds.
Beginning an overload procs on top of breaking stuns. Depending on your choice of utilities these might be your only stunbreaks.
is without a doubt the least important overload in the build and can be used more freely, even as a mobility tool between capture points when playing with or simply as a stunbreak in combat. With this trait you could even cancel the skill in the first second and use the to safely cast something more important, like or .
even on an amulet build pumps out a considerable amount of AoE damage, use it to help your team get kills and to cleave downed targets.
- When playing the aura focused variant with , the AoE that's applied at the end of the channeling is a very strong defensive ability too if you manage to use this Overload preemptively.
is the hardest to mess up because it comes with and it's one of your best personal survivability skills. The combination of + makes it way harder for Power-based specs to kill you.
is the only overload which doesn't do damage, thus won't break . The build itself doesn't provide any access to stealth, but in an organized team you can coordinate this with an Engineer for instance and ask him to throw a at you. This should make it significantly easier to get this channel off, but you'll still be vulnerable to PBAoE like . One of the strongest emergency support CDs in the build, great at cleansing and healing allies but it can be a bit hard to use for self-sustain as the incoming damage is often greater than the healing of this Overload. While a successful channeling triggers a huge burst of healing at the end, if you're the one getting pressured don't overcommit - don't be afraid to cancel this skill if you have to dodge or use another defensive CD when you're in danger.
Using before an Overload reduces the chance of getting interrupted by skills like or pressurd into canceling by a .

Support and sustain

Auras and overloads grant ~3 seconds of , which is further empowered by resulting in a ~40% direct damage reduction instead of the usual 33%. can reduce incoming damage for all affected allies by another 10% (and that's without even factoring in being on Earth for ).
Every aura you apply also heals allies via .
is the best source of protection in the build. Not only does it pulse this boon each second, it'll also leave behind an AoE that does the same thing after a successful overload.
is where most of your support comes from. Even just swapping to this attunement next to an ally is enough to heal and cleanse them via and . Don't idle in Water too much because you should fit as many Water swaps into a fight as possible.
is an okay filler when you've got nothing better to do. Note: this skill can target allies.
- Make sure that you don't have anyone targeted when you're trying to self-heal as you should aim this at your feet.
is a decent AoE heal and one of your Water fields. Getting allies to stay inside can be a bit tricky but it's great for personal survivability at least.
is your other Water field and an extremely valuable source of condition removal with a huge radius (and even heals targets for each condition removed). However this skill is more about providing a steady stream of cleansing for your team over a longer period of time rather than burst cleansing. If you or your teammates are already overwhelmed or close to it then might be better because the Overload pulses more frequently and has no initial cast time.
- Healing Rain becomes even more powerful when playing with .
- This isn't just an anti-condition pressure tool, the healing on this skill is quite good if it can remove any conditions. This doesn't have to be 10 stacks of , if you feel like you can sacrifice this source of cleansing on some and it can act as a source of healing that could still end up saving your team.
- Being a long duration Water field that can be used for combos adds even more value to the skill.

Earth Shield

is one of the strongest defensive skills in any Elementalist's toolkit. Use it whenever you're under heavy focus and running out of CDs.
(skill 2) blocks the next hit and grants you barrier.
(skill 3) is the most versatile skill on this conjure as it has a bit of everything: mobility, CC, even application for group support + projectile reflect + aura trait synergy including healing and . If you drop the shield while in you get to use too.
(skill 4) is an AoE pull. Might not always be the best under pressure because of its relatively long cast time but it could be great at peeling for allies by pulling enemies off of them, and it does offer barrier/protection for personal survivability while disrupting enemies if it goes off. You could even set up kills for your team by pulling enemies from the safety of the highground.
(skill 5) is the ultimate defensive skill, making you immortal (but also immobile) for its duration. Should be the first skill you use on Earth Shield if you're taking a lot of damage. This is a great skill when you're trying to stall a bit while waiting for CDs to come back up.
You're free to use Overloads and swap attunements while holding the shield.
When you cast the skill a 2nd shield spawns on the ground. Both you and your allies could make use of the second shield, but keep in mind that dropping the first shield and picking up the second one doesn't refresh the CD of shield skills. Using up all the shield skills, dropping the shield to use weapon skills and then picking up the 2nd shield a bit later is fine though.

Reviving allies

is a very potent ranged rez with a secondary effect that can be customized to fit a bunch of different situations. In general you should just focus on getting the rez as soon as possible regardless of attunement, but if you're able to swap to the right element beforehand this glyph becomes even more powerful. Couple of things to note:
- The attunement bonus depends on which attunement you've started channeling this skill on. Swapping from Air to Fire in the middle of it for example is going to proc the Air bonus.
- When playing with consider swapping to earth for the while channeling the glyph.
- teleports the ally to your location. It's great if you're in a safe spot, you may even consider teleporting to the highground beforehand with .
- brings them back with max HP, which is probably the best option if you only have to rez one ally and you're not in a safe spot.
- is for reviving multiple allies as it is an AoE rez.
- is mainly for your personal survivability. Even if you don't have an ally to rez, you could use this glyph on Fire and give yourself a 15 second window of immortaility, as using this skill in Fire revives the caster when they go down!
- If you're absolutely certain that a teammate is going to die in 2 seconds, you may consider using this skill on their location in advance to bring them up a split second after they go down. This is a bit risky however, as if they don't die (or don't die inside the range of the skill) you're going to have to cancel cast with a weapon stow. While the weapon stow only sends it on a short CD of 5 seconds, that's more than enough for enemies to finish off your ally.
If taken turns the caster invulnerable, allowing you to rez without getting interrupted or killed.
- Note: Mist Form must be activated AFTER starting to revive an ally, otherwise it won't work.

Stacking Swiftness

Stack for your team before the game starts!
For this you must begin on . Cast on the exit gate and swap to while channeling this skill and then use as soon as you can. Immediately follow up by placing a on top of Eruption before it goes off.
Optional You could throw in an at this point, but on smaller maps like Skyhammer it won't be ready by the time the first teamfight begins, and you should give plenty of Swiftness even without it.
Finish the chain with on Water.
Swap to Fire as you don't want to start fights on Water (you'd lose out on the on-swap procs).