GW2. Raid Build. Support Tempest Build. Alacrity Heal Tempest. Elementalist PvE. Group PvE Build.
Role: Support 
or Kiter 
The Support Tempest is an Elementalist build with extremely potent healing and revive potential, making it great for recovering from tough mechanics and serving as a solo healer in a composition. This build gives alacrity, protection, and might when stacking on the group, but works as a kiter as well because of its ability to heal and provide alacrity from range when giving auras to allies.
Because the staff has so many different abilities in each attunement, tempests can be a versatile support that is useful for every fight. However, while it can still CC, it lacks the amount of CC other supports have, making this its one weakness. Otherwise, it can give stability, a bit of aegis, superspeed, reflect, and even immobilize when necessary.
Auras are your most important mechanic, and there are numerous ways to share them to your allies by combining blast finishers with ice fields, overloading attunements, and using utility skills.
Blast Finishers (Combine with Water 4 to create Frost Aura)
- Water 2
- Earth 2
- Earth 3 Transmute
- Dodging in Earth
- “Aftershock!”
Other Aura Providers
- “Wash Away the Pain!”
- “Rebound!”
- Earth 3
- Overloading any attunement
Basic Combo for Alacrity, Protection, Might, and Stability
- Water 2 > 4 > Swap Earth
- Earth 3 > 3 > “Aftershock!” > 2 > Swap Fire
- Fire 2 > “Wash Away the Pain!” > Fire Overload
CC – Crowd Control Skills:
- Air 3/5, Earth 4/5, “Aftershock!”
| Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
|---|---|---|
| Helm Minstrel | ||
| Shoulders Minstrel | ||
| Coat Minstrel | ||
| Gloves Minstrel | ||
| Leggings Minstrel | ||
| Boots Minstrel |
| Staff Minstrel |
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| Item | Stat |
|---|---|
| Amulet Minstrel | |
| Ring Minstrel | |
| Ring Minstrel | |
| Accessory Minstrel | |
| Accessory Minstrel | |
| Backpiece Minstrel |
| Fractal x18 | |
| Optional x18 |
| Staff | Heal / Utility / Elite |
Alternatives
- Utility: instead of Glyph of Renewal for more might uptime and aura access
- Utility: instead of Glyph of Renewal for more CC
- Elite: while in Water Attunement for more healing
Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)
[&DQYRKSUWMD/HEgAAdBIAAB0BAAB2EgAAmRIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACWQAvAAA=]Kiter PoV:
11 Comments
Hey there! Looks very nice! You think it might get some changes after 23 august patch?
Just wanted to let you know, you have medium gear for an elementist. did you happen to mean Maklain’s Doublet?
maklain the minstrel, its right.
Would there be an acceptable alternative to minstrel’s gear? Maklain’s is awfully expensive to craft, and I’m wondering if there’s another prefix or combo of prefixes that might get it close enough.
I think when you use harrier its still good. Without toughness you can’t be kiter probably.
Harrier’s mixed with some Magi is perfectly fine if you plan to just go boon/heals and NOT expect to tank which can happen with this build. Hence, the kiting part of it.
Oh sorry, I had cele gear in mind, as I’m not sure where to get the recipes for harrier or minstrel.
The exotic Harrier insignias are discovery recipes from crafting with PoF. The ascended form is a random drop from Vabbi or Elon Riverlands meta boss chest. The best way to do the ascended pieces here honestly is to craft an alternative ascended piece that’s way cheaper, like Dire’s, and then use mystic forge to change to Harrier since you only need exotic insignias for that.
Exotic AND Ascended Minstrels is from the Itzel mastery vendor with HoT, or buy from the Heroics Notary.
What does it means for a build to be “red texted”? not reccomended? Hard? Avoid at all cost?
it means you already visited that link before
This build stil work? One question, am i supose to do 100% uptime on might 25?