Heal Alacrity Tempest

February 2025

Heal Alacrity Tempest provides high amounts of sustained healing and permanent , , , , , and 25 stacks of . This build also has access to other boons such as , , and many useful utilities, including boon extension (thanks to ), ample condition cleanses, projectile reflection, and a counter to one-shot attacks ().

Build Fundamentals

The core gameplay of this build involves rotating between and to cast and respectively, while quickly passing through and to use healing and utility as needed.

While casting the Core Loop, use and off-cooldown. Save if you need to provide projectile reflection with Magnetic Aura or to mitigate incoming spike damage with Frost Aura.

Tempest also has on-demand  from and from . (Note that you will typically use off-cooldown to upkeep . As such, you may need to delay based on the encounter to use  effectively.)

Using all of these abilities provides permanent , , , , , and to your team, while also extending all boons on your party by about 10%! If there is even a single source of partial in your group, you’ll also more or less guarantee 100% uptime.
Note: If there is no source of in your party, use the Air traitline as described at the bottom of this page for .

Adapt this Core Loop with the abilities you need depending on the situation.

Important Interactions And Ability Usage

Your main sources of sustained healing are and , which combine to heal your group for ~1000 HP per second! Simply entering provides a lot of your healing:  will be applied to your allies, while will remove one condition from five targets. As such, rotating through Attunements and weaving in will greatly benefit your healing output and condition cleanse.

is a powerful burst heal that also doubles as a condition cleanse. Other sources of raw healing include weapon skills such as , , and .  is also a water field; utilize blast finishers with this to generate even more healing. Here’s an example of an excellent combo:

1. into
4. Dodge in the globe to activate which will cast for a total of 3 blast finishers amounting to over 7000 area healing!

Save to counter incoming burst damage that could cause people to go into a downed state. Knowledge of the encounter comes in handy here. This skill also gives 3 stacks of to allies around you.

Delay after to share to allies too far away to get from .

Use as your emergency heal and condition cleanse. Remember that after using this pulsing heal, you will not be able to re-enter for a while. This means you may want to delay leaving after using . Otherwise, you may lock yourself out of key healing abilities for an extended period of time.

and

Tempest has an important special interaction with ; causes applying to also restore 10 endurance (1/5 of a dodge roll) in addition to its normal effects. Combined with , this means all auras will restore endurance. As a result, casting , , and more or less off cooldown supplies extra endurance and Dodges to yourself and your team.

also applies to nearby allies, further increasing the importance of rotating attunements quickly and efficiently!

has a built-in synergy with : when you are about to apply a lot of dodging immediately restores your endurance through vigor applications, essentially giving you a ‘free’ dodge and activating at the same time. Doing this will prevent you from ‘wasting’ the endurance gained from .

is an incredible trait that causes your Dodge in each Attunement to have a special effect:

• : Area .
• : Area heal and condition cleanse.
• : Area .
• : Area , , and Blast Finisher.

Each of these abilities has its own separate 10-second internal cooldown. As such, they will almost certainly be available in each Attunement on your next Dodge. The two most notable skills are (burst heal and condition cleanse) and (Blast Finisher great for blasting water fields). Careful usage of these extra abilities can greatly improve your ability to sustain your team.

does get a special mention as it can be used to blind enemies to mitigate incoming damage.

Alternatives

Utility Skills

You can swap out  for:

• If you need additional crowd control or even more healing.
• For long-range revival with a variety of bonus effects!
• For long-range area heal.
• For instant self-mobility.

If you need more than one specialized utility skill the order of replacement is as follows:

2. (situational depending on if you need a stun-break/stability)
3. (situational depending on if you need projectile-reflect uptime)

Using in will grant access to which is a colossal area heal on a short cooldown. If you don’t need the utility of then taking this will provide a significant increase in burst healing potential. However, the elemental can be a bit unwieldy to position correctly.

Gear

The gear specified here is a mixture of Harrier’s and Magi’s gear which provides massive healing, boon duration, and decent survivability.

Celestial gear is an excellent alternative that makes you extremely durable, deals a bit of free damage, and gets more value out of powerful condition applications such as and . However, this may also result in you tanking in some encounters (not an issue in Strike Missions). This is typically not problematic, as Tempest is more than capable of functioning as a tank. Still, if you don’t want to tank then just stick with the Harrier’s/Magi’s setup.

Weapons

Scepter is a good alternative to Dagger if you prefer a more ranged playstyle and it also has a large amount of Blast Finisher potential from and for more healing or if required.

Staff is a playable option for extreme ranged healing and greater revive power. However, generation will be somewhat reduced and boon extension from will also be lost, which is less than ideal.

Traits

This build doesn’t apply on its own, and instead copies and extends existing . This is usually covered by other players in your group, but if it isn’t then replace Arcane with the Air trait line and take , , and . This will provide a huge amount of for your group! If you need more break bar damage take instead of .

If there is a significant amount of or in an encounter, then will help massively, causing your dodge rolls to remove and on a 10-second cooldown.