Hey awesome people
I came across a tempest the other day who could take a few hits, and dish out damage.
They camped Earth a lot (and I noticed they had that trait that nulled crits)
They had D/F, good mobility and a few cantrips. Only saw water when they needed to OL for the heal, then camped air and earth. Not sure if it was fresh air as they camped earth for the null crit for a lot of it. They were able to 2v1 two DPS builds.
They def had more than 11k HP and thanks to passives and cantrips, they were able to take a bunch of hits and dealt some good damage.
Unfortunately they ran and hid a lot (I assume for CD’s) but did sustain damage and had good survivability.
Didn’t see anything on metabattle (as that’s where 80% of people get their builds from) so was wondering if this build sounds familiar to anyone as I have yet to get a good build set up on my tempest for WvW.
One of the unique builds. If they camped earth its probably a condition build. If not then its earth/air or earth/water if he was doing mostly condition dmg then it the earth/arcane.
did you fight me ^^? No … I am scepter.
You are right, those builds often need a bit of breath to get cooldown in a better shape.
I often run in circles. Mostly to get a water OL off and ready to swap to more offense again.
Most are air or water + earth. They stay in earth till the other elemets are off cooldown. When earth is traited you get + 150 toughness and if using stone heart the crit imunity. This allows to neutralize crit builds. It´s funny but to beat a stone heart ele you need tanky gear. In WvW if you use berserker or marauder you are in a disadvantage, if you pick soldiers the ele will be more then anoyed. Problem for the ele is it´s damage is not realy high. If fresh air power build it can do some very high short time damage, then go down to poking. This is usually enough to kill glass or half glass cannons while absorbing most of their burst in earth.
It has weaknesses. It relies much on protection. Boon strip or worse corruption kills.
As soon as a corupt necro fights me i am unable to stand annything more then the necro and die very fast. Even such a necro duel is very hard.
Offensive version is a maurauder maybe with a splash of celestial fresh air/earth/tempest using shouts for vigor and regen. The build rotates for a high damage window, then waits in earth till burst if off cooldown.
Edit: Ulion stated it faster with short text :-). Dam i did run a earth/arcane version with viper/cele for hybrid damage. Problem of that is you have a hard time killing annything “Tanky” even a zerk warrior with ire, stance and his high regeneration is brutal.
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It defiantly wasn’t a condi build, however they knew I was DPS so prob camped earth for extra tough/null crit.
The weird thing is he overloaded enough to make me think he was fresh air (air/earth) however the amount of cantrips he used made me think he was water/earth (as they have long CD’s). Didn’t have any auras that I recall (maybe after OL) but def was a pain to fight.
Countered me pretty good (LB/Sw + sh DH) so I couldn’t crit or projectile, shuts down a bunch of DPS builds. hence my interest.
Would love to see builds that may come close to this.
earth tempest with focus counters guradian. And earth/water tempest ist most common version. Overloading air inbetween is also normal. :-). Both shouts and cantrips are goos and used. Especially lighning flash is propably most uses ele spell and adding more cantrips if you trait it is an option.
This would be a cantrip version and usually destroys longbows. Very endureabe with it´s good health. To destroy ele in 1:1 with power you need to rip protection.
Can I ask a question? Sorry for asking in your topic op but I did not want to open a new thread and my question is similar with the build you saw.
I usually run air earth tempest while roaming d/f and it feels good. When in zergs I switch to warhorn and water instead of air. Lately I have been trying tempest arcane combo but I cannot choose which element to go with. I have durability runes, marauder set and celestial trinkets (I just love them. Occasionally switch to zerker). I have tried earth, it feels good but others are also not bad. Any opinions?
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