Guild Wars 2

Is there any way to go a viable version of tempest thats damage oriented. I know the whole meta aura share thing but any ideas, i feel like id i go damage ill be 2 squishy.

DPS ele won’t work. You might deal a good amount of damage (maybe even the best), but you’re far too slow and squishy to compete with a DPS mesmer or rev. Hell, a warrior could probably ruin you.

SlayerSixx.5763:

DPS ele won’t work. You might deal a good amount of damage (maybe even the best), but you’re far too slow and squishy to compete with a DPS mesmer or rev. Hell, a warrior could probably ruin you.

Thank you for the help

Yes there are ways. You can even kill Revenants in berserker amulet if you feel like it.

Staff benefits a lot from Overloads in the form of damage while the rest of their kit is oriented in quick-to-slow unblockable CC, an appreciable amount of sustain. Though, had always been limited when it came to the reliability of landing damaging abilities ( apart from Lightning Surge, air auto-attacks and the usual combos with a CC followed by burst). Staff has a higher weapon damage than dagger, so your overloads hit harder. Staff is also a reactive weapon opposed to a rotation-dependant one, so a conjured weapon (the only viable one happens to be Earth Shield +Lightning Rod) can be added to compliment with it: and I strongly advice to try it seriously even though it will take months of practice to truly master it, and that it will be horrible in the first hours.

Conjure means a better and burstier rotation while waiting for an overload (with an offensive or a defensive purpose). You will also find comboes with it, but I won’t tell too much (Hint: Overload Earth does its first tick of damage instantly opposed to Fire, which is about 0.2 seconds or less delay).

Builds in the description:
http://www.twitch.tv/aleriedespins

Ran maurauder tempest last night. 2x revs on the other team along with a bunker mes etc. Went in full ham and nuked everything. Thing we had 2 thieves on our team, we won XD

Funny thing was seeing the Rev push our home as I was moving past it on way to mid. He assumed I was bunker or something and turned the other way toward mid.

Anyway, glass Staff ele is an art form I learned in WvW. Got to know how to get your skills off and avoid getting taken out with good disengage. True, a full glkittenter mes, or decent glass thief will take you down within an instant, but let’s be honest, how many of these are there out there these days?

The best part was contributing to the team by producing a ton of kills. Where’as while playing a bunker tempest, if the match is going in the other teams favor, there’s not always a means to swing back the captures/points in your favor -_-u GG meta.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Ran maurauder tempest last night. 2x revs on the other team along with a bunker mes etc. Went in full ham and nuked everything. Thing we had 2 thieves on our team, we won XD

Funny thing was seeing the Rev push our home as I was moving past it on way to mid. He assumed I was bunker or something and turned the other way toward mid.

Anyway, glass Staff ele is an art form I learned in WvW. Got to know how to get your skills off and avoid getting taken out with good disengage. True, a full glkittenter mes, or decent glass thief will take you down within an instant, but let’s be honest, how many of these are there out there these days?

The best part was contributing to the team by producing a ton of kills. Where’as while playing a bunker tempest, if the match is going in the other teams favor, there’s not always a means to swing back the captures/points in your favor -_-u GG meta.

Thieves have not been able to take me down easily; they mostly die to it. Mesmers can be more dangerous, but you can escape that one more easily, they also mostly die when they try the kill. But Smokescales, you gotta be careful about them.

Ill be looking at the stream with the builds but i thank both of you.

Maruader fresh air tempest with earth/air/tempest and D/x actually works pretty well in soloq!

Asherah.7651:

Maruader fresh air tempest with earth/air/tempest and D/x actually works pretty well in soloq!

Give me a clip in Diamond League and I’ll believe it. Let’s see how you handle being chased by a Shiro Rev.

Sunshine.5014:

Asherah.7651:

Maruader fresh air tempest with earth/air/tempest and D/x actually works pretty well in soloq!

Give me a clip in Diamond League and I’ll believe it. Let’s see how you handle being chased by a Shiro Rev.

Firstly, shiro rev?? Without boon corrupt I still have a lot of 40% protection uptime so still doable. And the op wanted a viable offensive ele build, I personally play a cele tank. There are better builds obviously, but fresh air tempest is still workable. You can take full shouts+soldiers runes and you get a good combo of sustain and DPS.

Sunshine.5014:

Asherah.7651:

Maruader fresh air tempest with earth/air/tempest and D/x actually works pretty well in soloq!

Give me a clip in Diamond League and I’ll believe it. Let’s see how you handle being chased by a Shiro Rev.

I don’t have time to waste farming this grind crap. “Diamond League”, you speak as if it had any meaning attached to it.

Alekt.5803:

Sunshine.5014:

Asherah.7651:

Maruader fresh air tempest with earth/air/tempest and D/x actually works pretty well in soloq!

Give me a clip in Diamond League and I’ll believe it. Let’s see how you handle being chased by a Shiro Rev.

I don’t have time to waste farming this grind crap. “Diamond League”, you speak as if it had any meaning attached to it.

Eh, why the hate?

I request a clip from Diamond+ League because at least the people there know a bit about the game. If your build is only viable in Amber, then what can we say about it? I’m really curious to see how you survive against a power Rev or even Reaper.

Sunshine.5014:

Eh, why the hate?

I request a clip from Diamond+ League because at least the people there know a bit about the game. If your build is only viable in Amber, then what can we say about it? I’m really curious to see how you survive against a power Rev or even Reaper.

I am just reacting because you seem to attach an actual skill level to the Diamond League thing when a Diamond could also be a Stronghold Hero. Is 80% win rate in Ruby enough (solo Q)? The game is not interesting enough to be worth my time.

SlayerSixx.5763:

DPS ele won’t work. You might deal a good amount of damage (maybe even the best), but you’re far too slow and squishy to compete with a DPS mesmer or rev. Hell, a warrior could probably ruin you.

Mesmer has terrible dps, it has fantastic burst though, please don’t mix the two up. S/F does some nice burst but imo it just doesn’t have the gtfo power of other classes even with Lightening flash, mist form, arcane shield to help.

It’s funny how people like to keep on convincing themselves that divisions have nothing to do with skill yet I’ve faced nothing but tougher and tougher opponents as I climb through them. But eh keep telling yourselves that, it’s none of my concern anyway.

To answer OP, celestial a/e/t tempest is what you’re looking for. With fresh air, you can proc air overload and lightning strike from air repeatedly for a constant high damage output. Basically, what you want to do is run stab on overload which gives 10% damage after overloading, and also aftershock to root your opponents. After overloading air, switch to fire, burst, switch back to air. Rinse and repeat. You will want to attune to air as much as possible, water and earth are situational attunements. Hope this helped.

Seems like this evolved into something different, thank you for your inputs

IllegalEcchi.6320:

Is there any way to go a viable version of tempest thats damage oriented. I know the whole meta aura share thing but any ideas, i feel like id i go damage ill be 2 squishy.

There hasn’t been a really viable elementalist damage spec since the game was released, and seeing as ANet doesn’t really understand eles, probably never will.

There was a time where fresh air was kinda viable (though still worse than cele water+arcane dd) but that spec was killed with the pre-hot spec patch…

ReaperJr.5967:

It’s funny how people like to keep on convincing themselves that divisions have nothing to do with skill yet I’ve faced nothing but tougher and tougher opponents as I climb through them. But eh keep telling yourselves that, it’s none of my concern anyway.

Of course skill is a factor in division. But time is ALSO a big factor. If you only can play like 3-4 hours a week (in 30-60 minutes bursts every few days) no matter how good you are you’re still gonna be in a lowish division simply because in 30 minutes you’re lucky if you get 2 games in.