Raidssnowcrows

Beginner Power Tempest

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

元素使 (Elementalist)tempestpower damage

Build Template

Template Code
[&DQYfHSkvMBfHEicPwxIAAL4BAADLAMsAJgCWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADVgBnAC8AAA==]

DPS Report

Overview

Build Difficulty: ● ○ ○ ○ ○

Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • High damage
  • Fluid rotation
  • Access to healing & support
  • Easy to learn
  • Lots of cleave
  • High mastery curve
  • Fast paced rotation
  • Loses damage on moving targets
Power
2873
Toughness
1000
Vitality
1235
Precision
2216
Critical Chance
74.9%
Ferocity
1629
Critical Damage
258.6%
Condition Damage
0
Healing Power
0
Expertise
0
Condition Duration
0%
Concentration
240
Boon Duration
16%

Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

Rotation & Extras

Step One: Overloads, Attunements, and Fresh Air

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 Power Tempest, we care about 空气协调 图标空气协调 and will be resetting its Cooldown with Critical Hits thanks to 清新气流 图标清新气流.

After each 空气协调 图标空气协调空气过载 图标空气过载, you will attune to either 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 or 大地协调 图标大地协调 (alternating), then swap back to 空气协调 图标空气协调 and repeat.

The basic attunement order is as follows:

Use 空气过载 图标空气过载 as soon as it is available. Swap to 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 or 大地协调 图标大地协调 immediately after 空气过载 图标空气过载 finishes channeling.

For now, fill the gaps with Auto Attacks.

Make sure 空气过载 图标空气过载 channels fully before swapping to your next attunement! 空气过载 图标空气过载 will drop a Lightning Field when it finishes channeling, so if you don't see the field, it means you've cancelled the skill early. However, delaying the swap into your next attunement will delay the entire rotation, so you will want to make sure you get the timing just right.

Before moving onto the next step, practice and get comfortable with the timing of 空气过载 图标空气过载, as delaying or fumbling attunement swaps can result in a considerable DPS loss.

Step Two: Weapon Skills

Next, add in the weapon skills for each attunement. Feel free to work on the rotation one attunement at a time. Make sure you're comfy with each attunement before adding more skills into the rotation.

空气协调 图标空气协调 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 大地协调 图标大地协调

Updated loop:

空气协调 图标空气协调
  1. 风驰电掣 图标风驰电掣
  2. 闪电打击 图标闪电打击 when available
  3. Auto Attack
  4. 空气过载 图标空气过载
火焰协调 图标火焰协调
  1. 浴火凤凰 图标浴火凤凰
  2. 炙火之环 图标炙火之环
  3. 烈焰之攫 图标烈焰之攫
空气协调 图标空气协调
  1. 风驰电掣 图标风驰电掣
  2. 闪电打击 图标闪电打击 when available
  3. Auto Attack
  4. 空气过载 图标空气过载
大地协调 图标大地协调
  1. Alternate between:
  2. 地动山摇 图标地动山摇大地翻腾 图标大地翻腾
  3. 魔尘沙暴 图标魔尘沙暴地动山摇 图标地动山摇

Queue your skills for a faster and smoother rotation! You should not be Auto Attacking in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 and 大地协调 图标大地协调.

Changing Attunements will not cancel any skill you're currently casting. This means you can swap back to 空气协调 图标空气协调 as soon as the last skill in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 or 大地协调 图标大地协调 has started casting, then immediately queue 风驰电掣 图标风驰电掣.

Step Three: Utility Skills

For the last step, add the utility and elite skills into the rotation. As with the previous step, 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.

Before the fight starts, pre-summon 元素雕文 图标元素雕文 in 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 and then swap to 空气协调 图标空气协调 before engaging.

Use 风暴雕文 图标风暴雕文 in 空气协调 图标空气协调 when available.

Like with 闪电打击 图标闪电打击, "炽火燎原!" 图标"炽火燎原!" and 烈焰轰炸 图标烈焰轰炸 have no cast time and can be used off Cooldown, ideally while under the effects of buffs such as 超验风暴 图标超验风暴 and 清新气流 图标清新气流.

Transitioning to the Full Build

This is essentially the full Power Tempest rotation, minus the opener, which is very similar to the regular loop. You can visit the Power Tempest page for a complete overview of the build, opener, and rotation.