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Beginner Condition Tempest

Guild Wars 2 Beginner Condition Tempest - Scepter & Warhorn Meta build for raids: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

元素使 (Elementalist)tempestcondition damage

Build Template

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DPS Report

Overview

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Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • High damage
  • Provides party boons
  • Access to healing & support
  • Plenty of utility
  • Lots of cleave
  • Low amounts of CC
  • Requires accurate positioning
  • Loses damage on moving targets
Power
2173
Toughness
1000
Vitality
1297
Precision
1813
Critical Chance
43.71%
Ferocity
0
Critical Damage
150%
Condition Damage
1937
Healing Power
0
Expertise
823
Condition Duration
79.86%
Concentration
240
Boon Duration
16%

Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

Rotation & Extras

Step One: Overloads and Attunements

Tempests have access to the overload mechanic - your current attunement can be activated after a short period of time for additional effects. Overloading an attunement increases the Recharge time of that attunement.

For Condition Tempest, we care about 火焰过载 图标火焰过载 and 大地过载 图标大地过载 and thus will be alternating between 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 and 大地协调 图标大地协调. The basic attunement order is as follows:

The timing for swapping attunements is determined by 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰 in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 and 岩石屏障 图标岩石屏障投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石 in 大地协调 图标大地协调. Both of these weapon skills will be the first and last weapon skills you cast in each attunement, and they should be used when available. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰 should be used 3 times per loop, and 岩石屏障 图标岩石屏障投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石 should be used 2 times per loop.

投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石 does not have a cast time, so you can cast it while casting other skills.

Basic loop:

火焰协调 图标火焰协调
  1. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰
  2. 火焰过载 图标火焰过载
  3. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰
  4. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰
大地协调 图标大地协调
  1. 岩石屏障 图标岩石屏障投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石
  2. 大地过载 图标大地过载
  3. 岩石屏障 图标岩石屏障投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石

Fill the gaps with Auto Attacks.

Remember that changing Attunements will not cancel any skill you're currently casting. If available, use this to your advantage by swapping to your new attunement during the cast time of the final skill in your current attunement.

Step Two: Weapon Skills

Next, add in the rest of the weapon skills. Remember to prioritize the skills listed in Step 1 as they determine the timings for attunement swapping.

火焰协调 图标火焰协调 大地协调 图标大地协调

Putting the above concepts together, the updated loop should look like this:

火焰协调 图标火焰协调
  1. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰
  2. 荒火哀嚎 图标荒火哀嚎
  3. 巨龙之牙 图标巨龙之牙
  4. 火焰过载 图标火焰过载 (wiggle inside 荒火哀嚎 图标荒火哀嚎)
  5. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰
  6. 巨龙之牙 图标巨龙之牙
  7. 巨龙之牙 图标巨龙之牙
  8. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰
大地协调 图标大地协调
  1. 岩石屏障 图标岩石屏障投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石
  2. 魔尘沙暴 图标魔尘沙暴
  3. 大地过载 图标大地过载
  4. 沙尘风暴 图标沙尘风暴
  5. 岩石屏障 图标岩石屏障投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石

Once you're comfortable with the loop, you can add in the opener:

大地协调 图标大地协调
  1. Precast 岩石屏障 图标岩石屏障 before the fight.
  2. 大地过载 图标大地过载
  3. 沙尘风暴 图标沙尘风暴
  4. 投掷岩石 图标投掷岩石

Queue your skills if available! Grouping Auto Attacks together and skills together will contribute to a cleaner rotation. All skills in the loop can be queued.

Step Three: Utility Skills

For the last step, add the utility and elite skills to the rotation. You don't have to add these to the rotation all at once; make sure you're comfy with what you're doing first before adding more skills into the rotation.

Use 火焰纹章 图标火焰纹章 off Cooldown. 火焰纹章 图标火焰纹章 can be used as the last skill in 大地协调 图标大地协调 for a smoother transition to 火焰协调 图标火焰协调. When doing so, remember to swap attunements during its cast time and queue your next skill immediately.

Use 大地纹章 图标大地纹章 off Cooldown, but delay it by 3 seconds if it's available when 大地过载 图标大地过载 finishes. This is because 岩石力量 图标岩石力量 has a 3 second Cooldown before it can proc again. In this case, using 大地纹章 图标大地纹章 right before 火焰过载 图标火焰过载 will give you enough time to be able to proc 岩石力量 图标岩石力量 again.

On the golem, use 元素能量雕文 图标元素能量雕文 off Cooldown in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调. In real fights, you will be replacing this skill with 小型元素雕文 图标小型元素雕文; pre-summon them in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调, then use 小型元素雕文 图标小型元素雕文 off Cooldown in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调.

Likewise, (pre)summon 元素雕文 图标元素雕文 in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 and use its flip skill 烈焰轰炸 图标烈焰轰炸 off Cooldown.

Thanks to 石刻纹章 图标石刻纹章, signets will grant you an aura when you activate them. Along with 动荡传导 图标动荡传导, you should have no problem maintaining 暴风咏叹 图标暴风咏叹 if you are doing the rotation correctly.

Transitioning to the Full Build

This is essentially the full Condition Tempest rotation. Further small improvements can still be made to increase Damage. You can visit the Condition Tempest page for a complete overview of the build and rotation.

Alacrity

With some minor changes you should be able to adapt to the Condition Alacrity Tempest build as well. The Alacrity version will have:

  • Some Ritualist's trinkets
  • The addition of 砂石狂啸 图标砂石狂啸 to provide more boons
  • 清澈奇点 图标清澈奇点 instead of 超验风暴 图标超验风暴, so you have to wait the full 6 seconds before you can Overload
  • Adjusted timing to accommodate for the longer delay before Overloading

That being said, overall the Alacrity version is very similar and follows the same principles as Condition Tempest.