You Can’t Be A Genius, If You Aren’t The Slightest Bit Insane. B)
WP's Tempest Build
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He ends that video with ‘Tempest is still bad. I have given all my armour to my Reaper. 30k Gravedigger hits here we come!’
No hope found there.
- “…the damage is definitely good…”
- “…it’s really not that fun…”
- “…I’m overall lukewarm, even if this becomes the DPS go-to build…”
WP mostly confirms that in replacing Water, Tempest does more damage than the PVE Staff DPS meta that we are used to. It’s just not as fun as other elite specs – our play style doesn’t change very much when we use Tempest.
As for me, I can’t get enough of that low-pitched “vBDOOooo” sound effect that plays every time I shout, so the lack of something new to play with is a non-issue.
This build is getting nerf to hell in the next patch…or the next next patch. And that is confirmed!
Since Arenanet has that habit of nerfing builds that are OP when the whiners over at PVP land can’t kill a Tempest with auto attack.
Honestly I just like the feel of it. Overload Air + Glyph of Storms into fire for Lava font + Meteor shower feels like the end of the world.
I don’t have opinions. I only have facts I can’t adequately prove.
Honestly I just like the feel of it. Overload Air + Glyph of Storms into fire for Lava font + Meteor shower feels like the end of the world.
He likes the feel of it, one skill is the entire importance of the new ELITE traitline. We’re done here. META it.
Wow, what crawled up your butt and overloaded?
I don’t have opinions. I only have facts I can’t adequately prove.
Honestly I just like the feel of it. Overload Air + Glyph of Storms into fire for Lava font + Meteor shower feels like the end of the world.
End of the world because you got so bored during the channel you went to brush your teeth and came back and it still wasn’t done but then you got stunned and died before the channel ended?
Tempest 10/10 dentist recommends
Please skill/trait split and give control to the PvP team. Karl is fucking killing us
This is very similar to what I have been using for my elementalist in the new PvE zones. I can definitely say that it is better than the typical zerker staff build, especially when you are doing open world content.
However, the tempest just feels like an addition to my build rather than a build-defining elite spec. The play style is not all that different.
I know where ele fails to offer party-support. Most classes can already give all those might stacks, and important boons, PLUS fixed damage modifiers, so they surpass us. You know what we’d need to make a huge difference in raids, making us eligible for being picked?
Party-wide Condition Damage modifier. We wouldn’t be taken for all raids perhaps, or for some wings there would be parts where we’d be kind of useless because direct damage would be better, but having an AoE condi damage buff would make us have something specially unique. Plus, we know that for longer fights condi damage is way better. Maybe something tied to burning, like a constant chance for the party at spiking burning on critical?
I don’t know, druid/rev combo surpass the need for tempests support-wise, and druid have a godly party damage modifier trait, and berserker still fulfills a major DPS role with party-wide fury+might. All of them can outperform us.
This build is getting nerf to hell in the next patch…or the next next patch. And that is confirmed!
Since Arenanet has that habit of nerfing builds that are OP when the whiners over at PVP land can’t kill a Tempest with auto attack.
And where is this confirmed at?
Even though i love overloads, is the only thing i like about our new specialization.
I was already running the build WP’s suggesting but it feels almost the same elementalist as before (only with the addition of overloads).
oh and PS: Rebound still sucks, worse elite ever :>
They called us TEMPESTs, but we can use our elite to cheat death instead
This build is getting nerf to hell in the next patch…or the next next patch. And that is confirmed!
Since Arenanet has that habit of nerfing builds that are OP when the whiners over at PVP land can’t kill a Tempest with auto attack.And where is this confirmed at?
It’s confirmed when WP put out a video about a build. Then you will see ANET nerf it too hell in a later patch…….. which other factors like PVP Whiners into the mix.