Support Tempest

October 2024

Support tempest has access to strong healing and condition cleanse, reflects and CCs

Currently, the earth variant is the one used the most as tempest needs the extra survivability from the traitline against the strong power damage dealers.

Build fundamentals

As support, your primary job is to keep your team alive, but keep in mind Tempest is a squishy, light armor class. Therefore it is useful if you’re already familiar with kiting and know which skills are ranged. Only first few pulses require you to be close to your allies.

Earth tempest applies high amounts of thanks to and has significantly better survivability thanks to its the damage reduction from , and .

Auras

Thanks to   and  auras that you apply to your allies will heal them and also cleanse them, therefore make sure you know which skills provide auras, and remember their effect.

is perfect for peeling yourself or your allies from pressured situations as it interrupts your enemies without stability, and can interrupt skills that you usually wouldn’t be able to, like or .

is great against ranged enemy pressure, as any projectiles that your enemy shoots at you or your allies will be reflected back at them. It works on many skills like ranger’s to thief’s .

is a good aura for extra survivability as it reduced the power damage taken by 10% and chills enemies that attack you. It is generally good in pressured situations where you think you or your allies might unavoidably take some damage.

is a generally okay aura that, if you have it, grants you might when you’re attacked and burns the enemy that attacks you. It is not as important as other auras but, it is definitely good to have when your allies are preparing to burst an enemy or initiate a teamfight.

Here is a good starter list of auras you can provide:

• from the third staff skill
• from
• from
• can also provide any aura based on your attunement

Healing

On tempest you have many ways to heal your allies, which include:

• All your aura applications through 
• through
• which also applies

Cleansing

Tempest has access to a huge amount of cleanses through  and  as all the auras you grant to allies will not only heal them and grant them and but also cleanse them.

Switching to cleanses a condition from you and your allies through .

also cleanses burning and chill specifically, when you dodge.

Your shouts, , and cleanse conditions from allies thanks to .

is a massive aoe cleanse that provides a combo field for additional heals through combo finishers.

And finally, one of your strongest heals – – will cleanse on every pulse.

Resurrecting

In case your teammates do die you can always resurrect them using . This skill will have a different effect depending on which attunement you’re on when you start casting it:

• will make you resurrect yourself after going down for 10 seconds after using it. You can use it without rezzing anyone just to survive but it’s relatively niche.
• is useful when your team wipes in a teamfight and are all next to each, especially after something like failed hand resurrect attempt. However that is pretty rare so this version is rarely useful
• will resurrect your teammate to the full 100% health instead of the usual 50% when they get up.
• will teleport your teammate to you after resurrecting them.

Self-sustain

Staff tempest can be easily locked down therefore kiting is essential but you also have some tools for survival besides the aoe healing, and the cleanse that you provide.

and  will provide making it harder for enemies to lock you down.

and are powerful crowd control abilites that can even interrupt evades.

is medium ranged teleport that will help you with escaping your enemies.  is an evade that creates distance as well. Do note that this skill goes backwards so you will have to turn around for a brief moment and then activate   to continue going forward. and will apply that also helps you with creating distance between you and your enemies in conjuction with the that you get from .

However if you feel that you struggle to survive, its a good idea to swap for for more auras for yourself. You can also swap out with for additional reflect uptime.

Combo fields and finishers

Staff tempest has various blasts and combo fields. The most important fields are the water and ice, as if you blast these you will provide aoe healing and aoe which also translates to healing, and thanks to the previously mentioned , and trait interactions. Your blasts can also be used in combination with a smoke field from a  Thief granting aoe  .
A list of all  the blast you have:

• if you swapped out