I just haven’t actually seen a reason to run this heavy of a bunker build in the new content, because the increase in protection from tempest and the dmg output from the overloads is more than enough to kill stuff really fast before it kills you.
Here is what I run…
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The third slot is empty for a reason. You gotta swap it out based on what you are fighting. Like those annoying archers who evade on ranged attacks require the reflect shout. Charge based mobs need lighting flash.
The trick is to be patient, wait on your cooldowns and engage groups of mobs based on what cooldowns you have available. You also really need to have some soldier’s gear in the mix. I go with all soldier’s armor and berserker’s everything else.
The ideal scenario is to already be in fire with overload up and your fire shout on cd. You engage the group or mob, drop the lava font as you get them to stack, pop your shout for fire aura and fury, fire overload and then arcane brilliance the fire field at the end.
I’ve easily decimated 2-3 veterans at once with this combo without taking much damage, because the protection from the overload provides such heavy mitigation.
Alternative combos are start in earth, overload into the group to stack protection, gylph of storms for the blind, switch to fire, lava font, situational arcane brilliance if you health requires it, meteor shower, lava font if anything is still alive.
You can also swap into fire, lava font, meteor shower and then overload when meteor shower is done, but this is a far more risky combination, because you will be taking a lot of damaage while channeling meteor shower.
Starting in air with overload off CD works too, because it does a lot of damage, but keep in mind, you will most likely have to swap to fire to finish them off and your protection will be gone at this point. Fire is ideal, because you can stack your AoEs and overload before the mobs really start to damage so it’s mitigated by your protection.
Charge mobs are a bit tricky, because they don’t stand still to execute the combo, so you mostly have to slowly kite them.
Champions and legendaries usually require staying at range and waiting to execute your overload in between their powerful attacks. You don’t HAVE to risk this; it’s a group fight and the fire and air spec alone give you enough ranged dps to contribute.
Gylph of elementals is for when you have to fight at ranged. Having Earth to tank something is great.
The biggest problem I have had so far is killing myself due to a lack of situational awareness or not fully understanding the AI and abilities of the mob I was engaging.
Rehabilitated Elementalist. Now, trolling the Thief forums with my math.
