Guild Wars 2

The Queens Jubilee goes live Tuesday, we are looking forward to it!

Welcome new members Renkt, Savant Miles and Sapphire Disaster

Looking forward to Cutthroat Politics!

I have had a lot of fun so far with this update. The new zone is beautiful, especially when you get up high. Well put together, thank you for a great game update!

Welcome new members Pherala and Pendred!

We have purchased a custom arena as training grounds for members to learn strategy and scenarios in the Tournament scene.

We are very excited for Sky Pirates of Tyria, Jumping Puzzles!!

I hope we get credit or an extension, it sucks I am going to miss out on this title

Recruitment Video

Hello, I would like to thank you for taking the time to check us out. We have been located on the Yak’s Bend server since the first beta weekend. Tempest is an active gaming community for people over 20 years of age, that prides itself on its organized structure. We’re a casual gaming community who will never give you a problem about placing your partner, kids, or other real life responsibilities above your game time. Thus our membership ranges from college students, career professionals, and even a few retirees. The Tempest Gaming Community was established in 2011 with the launch of RIFT and continue to build and branch into other MMOs since then. We’ve known each other for a very long time and enjoy playing together in many games.

Tempest is a PvX guild that established a GW2 Branch during the first Beta Weekend Event so if you’re looking to farm Meta events, work on dungeon progression, complete guild missions and compete in TPvP we do it all. We have about 25 members log in and play everyday, with peak hours ranging from 3pm to 1am EST. During our peak hours we usually average 15-20 members online. We have weekly Guild Events to help members with scheduling group activities, which aren’t mandatory.

We are looking for mature players that enjoy being part of an active community, be it in-game and on our forums. We don’t care if you’re the best in the game or the worst in the game, or what your previous raid progression was. We are more interested in who the person behind the screen is and what they want to achieve while being a part of our community. Experience, skill, and playtime are not factors while recruiting for Tempest. We look for people with families, hobbies, jobs, and other Real Life commitments.

Bottom line: We recruit people and not the characters they play.

Tempest offers you:

- An established multi-game community with Active guilds in GW2, RIFT and FF:ARR

- A mature and drama free atmosphere where you can enjoy your game time with friends

- Adult members and an experienced leadership team that will make you feel comfortable and welcome

- A user friendly website, active forums, Teamspeak3, and a podcast to keep you up to date with gaming news and guild activities

- Guild Awards for achievements accomplished in game and a Player of the Month program with rewards for very active and contributing members.

- A fully upgraded guild structure with Bounties, Treks, Rush, Challenges and Puzzles. Along with rolling 10% Magic Find, 15% Karma, etc.

- A Custom Arena for training grounds for members that want to get into TPvP, duels, build tests, etc.

- Weekly guild activities: Tuesday/Thursday are scheduled PvE nights, Fridays are Guild Missions (Bounties, Treks, Rush, Challenges and Puzzles) night. Usually every night you can find a group in TPvP. All scheduled guild events start around 9 or 9:30pm EST.

Please visit us at http://tempestguild.us/ to apply. Our podcast is also on Itunes, search Tempest Game Cast in the Itunes Store. Check out our Livestreams at http://www.twitch.tv/tempestgc and our YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/TempestGameCommunity

We look forward to meeting you!

Same problem here, 3 matches and no credit. I was hoping to complete it today since I had the time. Please fix before its too late!

Check us out at http://tempestguild.us

Tuesdays and Thursdays are scheduled Dungeon nights, currently helping members earn their Dungeon Master titles and Friday nights are Guild Mission nights (Bounty, Rush, trek and Challenges)

Tournament PvP is going throughout the week!

thanks for all the input everyone!

How to play

Ideally like the majority of Elementalist builds you will want to cycle through all attunements during an encounter, this alone provides you with 25 different tools to use along with the passive synergy of boons because of your traits.

Damage

Fire Attunement: #3,2,1

Air Attunement: #2,1

Utility Skill: Arcane Blast

Elite: Fire Attunement

AoE

Start with Water Attunement: #2

Fire Attunement: #2, 5, run past mob and use #4 through them

Utility: Glyph of Storms

Control

Water Attunement: #4

Air Attunement: #5 and 3

Earth Attunement: #4, 2 and 5

Elite: Air or Earth Attunement

Healing

Water Attunement: #1, 3 and 5

Elite: Water Attunement

This is my first attempt at making a guide. I do not claim to be the greatest player, I just want to suggest the build I use and how I play it.

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I have been running this build for awhile now in PvE and Dungeons. Its a very dangerous build because you are not traited in Water or Earth at all, which provide Toughness, Healing Power and Vitality. Survival while using this build comes down to how well you dodge, use your control and healing skills. Overall the build is built for massive AoE and great Single target nuking but because the natural mechanics of the class and the use of the Staff you can provide support through healing, defensive/offensive boons and control.

Traits Explained

I built this mainly to help clean out packs of mobs in Dungeons and to tag a ton of mobs in PvE for looting. I wont discuss the minor traits because they are obvious and pretty much given.

Going with 30 points in Fire provides a bonus of 300 Power and a 30% increase to Condition Duration. Internal Fire is an obvious choice dealing 10% more damage while attuned to fire; Pyromancer’s Alacrity recharges all Fire skills 20% faster which in turn supports Pyromancer’s Puissance because the faster i can use fire spells the quicker I gain might stacks!

Going with 30 points in Air provides a bonus of 300 Precision and a 30% increase to Critical Damage. I choose Quick Glyphs because the faster recharge allows me to bring down instant AoE with Glyph of Storms every 48 seconds and summon Elementals with Glyph of Elementals every 96 seconds. Bolt to the Heart and Air Training are obvious damage increasing traits. Although it is a minor trait, its worth mentioning Weak Spot brings consistent Vulnerability stacking because of my gear and traits, especially when I AoE.

Going 10 points into Arcana I gain 10% Boon Duration and a 20% Attunement Recharge rate. Swapping through Attunements puts a 12 second cooldown on the previous Attunement. I choose Elemental Attunement for the bonuses provided when swapping attunements, namely the fact I have (almost) permanent Swiftness using this trait because I switch to Air and use Staff #4 in Air when it runs out. The options for Major traits in Arcana are all pretty good but for a damage option you will want Arcane Retribution or Arcane Master (to support the Arcane Blast utility skill); for more survival you may want to choose Final Shielding or Renewing Stamina.

If you want bigger AoE you can go with only 20 in Air and go up to 20 in Arcana. Choose Blasting Staff for a huge increase in AoE coverage while gaining another 10% in Boon Duration, 20% Attunement Recharge rate and attunement bonuses last 5 seconds longer.

Skill Slots Explained

- This is a damage focused build so for utility slots I choose Arcane Blast for a hard hitting, instant cast Nuke. This and all Arcane Skills are guaranteed to crit and can be used even if you’ve been knocked down.

- Signets were buffed back in the April 28th update, Signet of Fire provides a passive 10% crit chance and you can activate it to do do direct damage and burn foes from 1200 range.

- Glyph of Storms is an instant cast AoE, and the AoE is based off of what attunement you are in. Because of traits its only on a 48 second cooldown

- Glyph of Elementals is an amazing Elite skill because an Elemental is summoned depending on your attunement. For pure damage I will summon a fire one; the water elemental will heal you and your party; the air elemental will control your target; and the Earth can tank like a BOSS, I am looking at you Lupicus! Also because of traits this is only on a 96 second cooldown.

- The heal skill can be extremely situational but I prefer Ether Renewal for the pulsing condition removal and burst heal. It is a channel skill which is its only downfall but since I am not traited into water I dont have many condition removal options. For more damage and other boons the Glyph of Elemental Harmony is a fantastic option because its reduced to 20 seconds because of your traits.

Come check us out at http://tempestguild.us

TGC has reopened recruitment. Join us for PvE content, guild missions (bounties, treks, rush, currently unlocking Challenges) and SPvP.

Tuesday/Thursdays are PvE nights and Fridays are Guild Mission night. Our scheduled guild events start around 9 or 9:30pm EST.

I agree, I took an almost unrealistic amount of damage tonight from many classes not only guardians. I agree something isnt right

Welcome new members Rehnay and Ethyreal. Check out our twitch channel for content from our community. Our twitch channel link is on our homepage.

Welcome new members Carnady and Die Knot.

We are excited to see what 2013 brings us

Happy Holidays everyone!

Wintersday has been a blast. Check out our livestreams!

We are very excited about Wintersday! If you are interested in joining an active adult community come check us out at http://tempestguild.us

We look forward to meeting you!

We run Storymode Dungeons, Explorable Dungeons, and Fractals weekly. Check us out at http://tempestguild.us

Welcome new members: Poly, Quist, and Olothelge. If you’re looking for an active adult community check us out at http://tempestguild.us

We had a blast this weekend in the Lost Shores. We had about 20 members all on the same overflow. Good times!

Welcome new members Nuvair and Angel! Happy to have you join us.

This Halloween event has been the best in game holiday event we’ve ever seen! Check us out at tempestguild.us

Come check us out at http://tempestguild.us

Looking for an adult community? Check us out!

Come check us out at http://tempestguild.us

Looking for an active adult community? Check us out

If you’re looking for an active adult guild check us out at http://tempestguild.us

WvW Nights two nights a week

SPvP Night

Dungeon Crawl’n

Keg Brawl’n

We do it all

Hello, I would like to thank you for taking the time to check us out. We are located on the Yak’s Bend server. Tempest is an active gaming community for people over 20 years of age, that prides itself on its organized structure. We’re a casual gaming community who will never give you a problem about placing your partner, kids, or other real life responsibilities above your game time. Thus our membership ranges from college students, career professionals, and even a few retirees. The Tempest Gaming Community was established in 2011 with the launch of RIFT and have moved on and continue to build since then. We’ve known each other for a very long time and enjoy playing together in many games.

Tempest is a PvX guild that was formed in head start so if you’re looking to farm Meta events, level, map completion, dungeon progression, guild missions and SPvP we do it all. We have about 30 members log in and play everyday, with peak hours ranging from 3pm to 1am EST. During our peak hours we usually average 15-20 members online. We have weekly Guild Events to help members with scheduling group activities, which aren’t mandatory.

We are looking for mature players that enjoy being part of an active community, be it in-game and on our forums. We don’t care if you’re the best in the game or the worst in the game, or what your previous raid progression was. We are more interested in who the person behind the screen is and what they want to achieve while being a part of our community. Experience, skill, and playtime are not factors while recruiting for Tempest. We look for people with families, hobbies, jobs, and other Real Life commitments.

Bottom line: We recruit people and not the characters they play.

Tempest offers you:

- An established multi-game community

- A mature and drama free atmosphere where you can enjoy your game time with friends

- Adult members and an experienced leadership team that will make you feel comfortable and welcome

- A user friendly website, active forums, Teamspeak3, and a podcast to keep you up to date with gaming news and guild activities

- An upgraded guild structure with Bounties, Treks, Rush and Deep Cave available – currently working on the Challenges unlock. Along with rolling 10% Magic Find, 15% Karma, and 10% Gathering bonuses.

- Weekly guild activities: Tuesday/Thursday are scheduled PvE nights, Fridays are Guild Missions (Bounties, Treks, Rush) night. Usually every night you can find a group in SPvP. All scheduled guild events start around 9 or 9:30pm EST.

Please visit us at http://tempestguild.us/ to apply. Our podcast is also on Itunes, search Tempest Game Cast in the Itunes Store. Check out our Livestreams at http://www.twitch.tv/tempestgc and our YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/TempestGameCommunity

We look forward to meeting you!