Power Tempest Scepter Water/Air Benchmark | 46366 [No orb precast]

[@dy1ancat208]

firebrand in front of you : COOL

[@nowanknows8979]

Great bench Chrone! I feel like this build has a very low floor but a very high ceiling. It's really easy to get decent numbers on this build by taking more time between swaps to make sure you don't cancel Overload Air, but optimising it is rough. Gonna be playing this in weekly clear for the Rebound utility on Sabir and stuff, haven't played Ele in a while :D

[@kureysalp]

99% Transcendent Tempest upkeep time damn. Perfecting attunement switcing at the aftercast is hard :D

[@Crone2816]

Extremely hard, this took way longer than I wanted it to.

[@relzyn5545]

​@@Crone2816Is it just a matter of getting a feeling for when to do it or can you give any tips?

[@Crone2816]

@@relzyn5545 I'd recommend turning your game sound on, so you can listen for the hits. you swap right as the 7th hit lands. really helps get the timing down.

[@deetoxgw2]

@@Crone2816 took long getting that macro set up or what? :D

[@Crone2816]

@@deetoxgw2 yeah my aimbot kept messing it up

[@h4n23s6]

Love it My dear ele Friends enjoy it and prepare yourselfe for the nerve Hammer 😄

[@Hemoura]

Never thought id see a tempest rotation look more APM intense than a weaver benchmark. Welll done! Now to spend months trying to emulate this...

[@Crone2816]

Take your time, this one was really rough.

[@kureysalp]

APM wise it's more yes but Weaver is still the most complex class in the game. You shouldn't leak any auto attacks or your dps messes up immediately. You need to continue your older attunement's autoattack when you are on a different attunement but shouldn't start new one with the current attunement so you need to start castin skills immediately. There are lots of things that you need to watch and react.

[@Crone2816]

@@kureysalp gotta be real, weaver isnt hard or complicated or high apm.

[@kureysalp]

@@Crone2816 Auto attack leaking is a huge deal in weaver. I can only perform 85% of the benchmark with weaver and 90%+ of the benchmark with this tempest build. That 85% was the result of couple weeks and that 90%+ was the result of couple hours. It's so hard to mess up with tempest if you not break the overload. Only thing is its really really high APM since you constantly go back to Air. But in weaver you need the time ALL of your skills and your auto attacks. If you leak one single auto attack in your rotation DPS goes down HUGE. If you cancel your Air auto attack 3 your DPS goes down HUGE. You are starting auto attacks in an attunement and let them finish in another attunement since you can't see the auto attack icon you need to count and watch the progress bar of AA. There are lots of things to watch in weaver. Tempest has only one thing and its aftercast animation. Even if you not 100% time it you are still pretty much doing 90% of the benchmark easly.

[@kureysalp]

@@Crone2816 LMAO Removed my comments and you are macro xd

[@jpvankradenburg]

One thing I do like about the Water Trait line is extra vitality points 😌

[@Crone2816]

healthy tempest

[@lorkano]

Wtf... Meanwhile I am stuck at 41.5k for 4 days. I can see slight rotation changes here so I'll try this out, thanks

[@Crone2816]

never give up

[@sh1ro9]

istg learning a proper weaveself wasn't as hard as timing these attunement swaps

[@Tro-zana]

Don't you dare to forget that gift for Rama

[@frankmills1917]

Dios mio

[@TheBossVeigar]

You're cooking too hard

[@Crone2816]

Dinner is served.

[@TheBossVeigar]

@@Crone2816 This is some gourmet shit

[@hydracard5483]

Fight the meta! No stacking in group content!

[@-NicholasHotAsiGavrila]

Hey i did the right skill rotation and all gear ascendat beside my exotic backpiece, why my dps on golem only 37k pls help

[@Crone2816]

You can reply with a log here but 95% of the time once you've got skill order down its - faster getting in to water/fire after air overload faster casting the skills in those attunements faster getting back in to air for air overload - instead of using the cast bar, listen for the 7th hit on air overload, as soon as the 7th hit is audible you can swap

[@-NicholasHotAsiGavrila]

@Crone2816 yeahh i tried again and faster i got 42k good enough for me thanks

[@HKRazieL]

unfortunately this will get mega nerfed...

[@Crone2816]

Just doing my job.

[@kureysalp]

It shouldn't since other classes can do 44k + DPS with quarter of the effort.

[@HKRazieL]

@@kureysalp i know it shouldn't but welcome to ele life...

[@kureysalp]

@@HKRazieL It's because of the community, every game does that. Because people can't play the hard class they start to cry and they think its unfair so devs adjusting other classes so they can be op too. Also, they let hard classes still glass so they'll become extra weak.

[@treehugginsanta1]

Why would this get nerfed? They had to have known what was coming allowing people to reset air attunement like this. Still new-ish to GW2

[@Crone2816]

idk I dont work at anet.

[@treehugginsanta1]

@@Crone2816 Ahh, I just see a handful saying it will get nerfed. This build help me get into wanting to play Tempest. I hope it doesn't get nerfed. Its nice!

[@xezzee]

@@treehugginsanta1 My best speculation is that there are few simple reasons. 1. pTempest is surprisingly easy to get decent dmg when you focus on Overloading and do your best using other sills. Mastering pTempest is another subject. 2. Past has set that Anet wants dps builds to bench around 40k give or take few thousands. Thus 45k an above is often talked like it is no longer question will it get nerffect or not. There probably are more reasons, jokes and memes why people would say pTempest is going to be nerffed. Also pTempest is old build from Hearth of Thorns meta (I was told) when it was good last time. It focused similarly on Overloading Air with Fresh Air but back then the build used Conjure Lighting Hammer and Conjure Flaming Greatsword which made the build way harder! because you had to pick up the dropped weapons mid rotation and use weapon swap on top of attuning to elements 😅 You can try them on ele to see how it would be to use them...

[@Anonymous-dh2oe]

@@treehugginsanta1 The real answer is people will demand nerfs to the best or second best performing build all the time. This build is an easier to play build but even if it wasn't it would've still been the target of those demands. None of those comments come from Anet developers. They're just players like you.

[@usernamemctypey428]

Because it's ele, we can't have ele being good /s /unsarcasm 46k is too much damage still

[@LuxroyLux]

🔥💜

[@Crone2816]

[@lukash7369]

guess it is time to swap back to cata, just to be prepared for nerfs and not getting used to it

[@Nightcrawl7]

feel like this isn't even that OP, the benchmark makes it seem even stronger than it is

[@julianl4430]

can this be played at HTCM? or will the elite reveal?

[@Crone2816]

should be fine unless you cause it to agro something

[@nucklepuckk]

I see you pressing Fire 2, but the animation doesn't play. The stalactite thing that falls on the enemy. Are you still getting the damage out? The log says you are, but it's weird that there is no graphic or animation for it.

[@Crone2816]

yep, its a visual bug, not sure why it happens.

[@LeikiBogbat]

How much time do you spend casting overload air as a percentage of fight duration? Seems as tho you don't really have the opportunity to dodge in a real fight

[@Crone2816]

45%

[@Adam_Gw2]

Is getting on a roller beetle part of the rotation?

[@Crone2816]

For resetting the elite elemental, but yes.

[@frankmills1917]

If you look closely, the beetle has flame decals and that gives a dps boost.

[@jonolsen9170]

any small adjustments to this build that brings might/fury uptime?

[@Crone2816]

Air overload is >100% fury uptime Feel the Burn! is 18 might for 17.4s and fury for 11.7s every 20s you could use heat sync in fire

[@jonolsen9170]

@@Crone2816 thank you! i was just wondering what the best way to get 25 might uptime without too much of a dps loss. feel the burn! gives me 11 might? :o

[@xezzee]

@@Crone2816 Can't you also drop Fire 5 before Fire 32 for Might Blast? Around 6 might for 23s every 30s or so?

[@Thunderclast1]

How come the order is Storm then Orb on the opener?

[@Crone2816]

Makes the rotation line up for 2nd storms cast

[@mmissing3]

I always thought lightning elemental was supposed to do more single target damage than fire... am I mistaken? or is it hitbox size dependent? or is it the activated ability?

[@Crone2816]

Fire just does more damage, a lot of it coming down to the activated ability.

[@miguelfernandez4416]

I see, its the air3 spam that makes the difference between your dps and mine... Ill keep it in mind

[@Crone2816]

good catch, that one is super duper important

[@scottgunther2021]

stop pushing or anet will nerf

[@Crone2816]

Ive pushed it as far as I can.

[@scottgunther2021]

When you do Phoenix then dragons tooth it looks like dragons tooth doesn't cast. I don't see the big tooth at least. Does it still cast and not show up?

[@Crone2816]

@@scottgunther2021 yeah its a visual bug, not sure why it happens.

[@XmantiX]

He slotted in a dps modifier for a heal skill. O.o

[@1808joe]

Stop releasing these vids they'll nerf my class based on sweat autism like this and not regular human gameplay lol

[@Crone2816]

It's my job, no hard feelings.

[@elaxel1469]

please need the skin name of the clothes!

[@Crone2816]

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[@roki-rokirock-n-roll4306]

When u reach 60k? 100k?

[@Crone2816]

when they bring back old dagger dashes

[@Iskarel_GW2]

@@Crone2816 ZOOOOOOOMIEEEEEEES

[@TheHippyhopp]

Rct3_firework_show.mp3

[@LuigiDlsr]

How does it come back into air so fast?

[@sanguin3]

The trait Fresh Air reset your attunement on a crit.

[@LuigiDlsr]

Thats a new thing or is recent in the patch?

[@interloper8029]

@@LuigiDlsr its been there since 2013

[@Rix_ou]

Any reason for not stacking ?

[@Crone2816]

you gain a little bit of damage from range, you can stay stacked, or move out a bit when using air 5. its not gonna be the deal breaker on a fight. But this is a benchmark so I gotta do my best you know

[@ruisen2000]

wait, was tempest even bad pre-buff?

[@Crone2816]

bad, no. not competitive is all.