Tempest - Alacrity Support Condi DPS

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Condition damage and Support

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on July 02, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

This is a build focuses on Burning and has rather high power damage for a condi build.

Overloads allow this build to provide 25 stacks of Might, permanent Protection, and high Fury uptime via Heat Sync and Sand Squall.

Some Swiftness can also be provided, but only the Pistol build wants to go into Air, so it is not reliably provided by other builds.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Warhorn

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Pistol offers slightly more damage, but has a more complex rotation.
• Offhand Focus can be used for a simpler rotation. This build camps Fire and actually deals the most damage, but the lack of Warhorn lowers the number of boons it can provide.

Skill Variants

Utility

• Glyph of Storms is higher damage than Signet of Earth when not using the Earth traitline.
  • Glyph of Elemental Power will be more damage than Glyph of Storms on bosses that won't stay inside the AoE for the whole duration.
    • As Glyph of Elemental Power is instant cast, it can be used without delaying the rotation. Using both Glyph of Storms and Glyph of Lesser Elementals can end up reducing your boon output.

As a support, you should be willing to trade DPS to bring group utility. Signet of Earth can be swapped out for:

• "Feel the Burn!" provides higher Fury and Might. This is very useful for the fire camping build as you lack the boons from Warhorn.
• "Aftershock!" provides Aegis to allies and pads your Protection uptime.
  • Be aware that the magnetic aura applied by this ability can cause issues on some encounters.
• "Eye of the Storm!" provides Stability and Swiftness to allies.

Either of these skills will be helpful if there is a danger of being interrupted while in the middle of your overloads.

Elite

• "Rebound!" can be used to ignore certain mechanics that would otherwise down people.
  • As you are not a healer, your allies will be left on low health after it triggers. It may be worth immediately following up with "Wash the Pain Away!".

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Specializations

• Use Pyromancer's Puissance if using Pistol.

Specialization Variants

Arcane can be used for higher boon generation:

Focus build
The fire-camping Focus build cannot use Overload Fire frequently enough to maintain Alacrity, hence Elemental Bastion should be used, which in turn requires the use of the Water traitline to apply auras via Powerful Aura:

Equipment

Head
Ritualist

Shoulders
Ritualist

Chest
Ritualist

Hands
Ritualist

Legs
Ritualist

Feet
Ritualist

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Ritualist

Amulet
Ritualist

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Scepter
Viper

Warhorn
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

Boon duration variants

• More or less boon duration can be obtained by swapping pieces between Viper stats and Ritualist stats as desired.
  • The setup above provides ~38% boon duration, which is sufficient for ~108% Alacrity uptime.
  • It is not recommended to go below ~33% boon duration.
  • The Pistol rotation video example uses ~40% boon duration.
• If you do not have access to Viper stats, Celestial stats are only slightly lower damage, but give you additional toughness, which can mess with tanking.
• If running Arcane, the inherent boon duration and reduced cooldown on attunement swaps allows you to run full Viper stats gear. This is sufficient to provide ~108% Alacrity uptime.

Focus Gear

Head
Ritualist

Shoulders
Ritualist

Chest
Ritualist

Hands
Ritualist

Legs
Viper

Feet
Ritualist

Backpiece
Sinister

Accessory
Sinister

Accessory
Sinister

Amulet
Sinister

Ring
Viper

Ring
Sinister

Scepter
Viper

Focus
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

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Consumables

Food

• or alternatives

Utility

• or equivalents

Usage

Granting an aura to yourself (or allies) will trigger the damage buff from Tempestuous Aria. Overloads, signets (if using Earth),Shocking Aura and Sand Squall all give you an aura, as will attuning to Fire thanks to Sunspot. The buff stacks in duration, but has a 10-second limit.

Scepter Rotation

You can precast Rock Barrier before the fight starts.

Opener

1. Dust Storm
2. Overload Earth
3. Hurl
4. Sand Squall
5. Fire Attunement

Fire

1. Phoenix
2. Dragon's Tooth
3. Wildfire
4. Overload Fire
5. Phoenix
6. Dragon's Tooth
7. Dragon's Tooth
8. Phoenix
9. Earth Attunement

Earth

1. Rock Barrier ⇒Hurl
2. Autoattack and cast Dust Devil, Dust Storm and Sand Squall as they become available
3. Overload Earth
4. Rock Barrier ⇒Hurl
5. Fire Attunement
6. Return to start of Fire section

• Throughout the rotation, use all your utility skills and Flame Barrage off cooldown.

Scepter/Focus Rotation

You can give yourself an initial boost of alacrity by starting in Earth Attunement and using the same opener as above (minus Sand Squall.

After this, switch to Fire Attunement and essentially use all skills and utilities off cooldown as well as Overload Fire.

Pistol Rotation

Pistol skills have a unique bullet mechanic where using a pistol skill stocks a bullet, or if you already have a bullet, consumes it for an enhanced effect. In each attunement, one of the enhanced effects is defensive while the other is offensive. As such, it is important that these skills be used in the correct order to avoid missing out on damage.

Stocked bullets appear as buffs on your bar, and as all attunements other than Earth Attunement use an even number of pistol skills, you can track whether you've made a mistake in these attunements and adjust for future loops - you should be exiting Fire Attunement and Water Attunement with a bullet stocked, and Air Attunement with no bullet stocked. If this is not the case, skip one of the skills in the relevant attunement on the next loop.

Throughout the rotation, use Flame Barrage, Signet of Earth (if using), and Signet of Fire off cooldown, and Glyph of Lesser Elementals and Glyph of Elemental Power (if using) off cooldown whenever you are in Fire Attunement.

Autoattacks are not listed.

Opener

Start with Fire, Ice and Earth bullets stocked.

You can precast Glyph of Elemental Power (if using) in fire attunement.

1. Overload Earth
2. Dust Storm
3. Sand Squall
4. Shattering Stone
5. Boulder Blast
6. Signet of Fire
7. Water Attunement

Water 1

1. Frozen Fusillade
2. Frigid Flurry
3. Fire Attunement

Fire

1. Searing Salvo
2. Raging Ricochet
3. Firestorm (Glyph of Storms) or Signet of Earth (if using)
4. Wildfire
5. Heat Sync
6. Overload Fire
7. Signet of Fire
8. Raging Ricochet
9. Searing Salvo
10. Air Attunement

Air

After using your first skill in air, you will gain access to Elemental Explosion. This is a powerful skill, but will consume all your stocked bullets, so it is important not to use this skill.

1. Aerial Agility - charging away from your target allows Lightning Orb to hit more times
2. Dazing Discharge - make sure not to cast this too early, as it will go on an interrupted cooldown
3. Lightning Orb
4. Cyclone (optional) - CC, and your Swiftness uptime won't be permanent without it
5. Water Attunement

Water 2

1. Frozen Fusillade
2. Frigid Flurry
3. Earth Attunement

Earth

1. Shattering Stone
2. Boulder Blast
3. Dust Storm
4. Signet of Earth
5. Sand Squall
6. Shattering Stone
7. Overload Earth
8. Signet of Fire
9. Boulder Blast
10. Shattering Stone
11. Water Attunement
12. Return to Water 1

Video example

Dagger Rotation

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• Use Glyph of Elementals in Fire Attunement, and cast Flame Barrage off cooldown.
• Cast Signet of Fire off cooldown, but it is lower priority than weapon skills.
• If using Glyph of Elemental Power, cast it in Fire Attunement during the cast of Burning Speed so that the damage buff will affect the blast damage.

The gist of the rotation is to cycle between Fire Attunement ⇒ Air Attunement ⇒ Earth Attunement ⇒ Air Attunement, using key abilities in each attunement off cooldown until the next attunement is ready.

When you enter Fire Attunement, use Burning Speed, Wildfire and Drake's Breath, then use your key abilities as they come off cooldown. When Air Attunement is available, use one last Drake's Breath and switch (Air Attunement should become available during the cast of Drake's Breath - you can switch attunement without interrupting the skill).

Opener

1. Wildfire
2. Firestorm (Glyph of Storms)
3. Overload Fire
4. Burning Speed - you need to be inside your target's hitbox for the fire line to hit your target
5. Heat Sync
6. Drake's Breath - for maximum damage, you will want to back away from your target during this cast
7. Air Attunement

Loop

Air 1

1. Signet of Fire
2. Convergence
3. Shocking Aura
4. Lightning Orb - this target hits more if cast some distance back from your target
5. Earth Attunement

Earth
In Earth Attunement, you want to cast Dust Storm and Sand Squall as soon as they are available, but as their cooldown is longer than the loop, their position will vary over time. Eventually, you will need to skip them for one loop.

1. Earthen Rush
2. Ring of Earth
3. Autoattack until Overload Earth is available
4. Overload Earth
5. Ring of Earth or Signet of Fire - if Signet of Fire is available here, skip Ring of Earth
6. Air Attunement - if you used Signet of Fire in the last step, skip Air and go straight to Fire

Air 2

1. Convergence
2. Shocking Aura ⇒ Transmute Lightning
3. Signet of Fire
4. Fire Attunement

Fire

1. Burning Speed
2. Wildfire
3. Drake's Breath
4. Firestorm (Glyph of Storms)
5. Overload Fire
6. Heat Sync
7. Burning Speed
8. Drake's Breath
9. Air Attunement during the cast of Drake's Breath
10. Repeat from the start of the loop

Video example

Defiance Bars

• While in Air Attunement you can use Shocking Aura ⇒ Transmute Lightning and Cyclone.
• If you are really desperate, you can switch to Water Attunement for Tidal Surge.