Beginner Condition Tempest

Published Feb 15, 2024 Updated Aug 30, 2024

Raids - March 2024 Balance

Raisu meta team

Skills Gearset Build Template

Elementalist Builds

Skills Gearset Build Template

Elementalist Builds

Pros +

High damage Provides party boons Access to healing & support Plenty of utility Lots of cleave

Cons -

Low amounts of CC Requires accurate positioning Loses damage on moving targets

Attributes

Power 2173

Precision 1813

Critical Chance 43.71%

Condition Damage 1937

Expertise 823

Condition Duration 79.86%

Gear

Item	Stat
	Viper'sHelm
	Viper'sShoulders
	Viper'sCoat
	Viper'sGloves
	Viper'sLeggings
	Viper'sBoots

Item	Stat
	Viper'sBackpiece
	Viper'sAccessory
	Viper'sAccessory
	Viper'sAmulet
	Viper'sRing
	Viper'sRing
	Relic

Primary Weapon Set
	Viper's PistolMain Hand
	Viper's WarhornOff Hand
Other Items
	Infusionx18
	Food
	Utility
	Jade Bot Core

Traits & Skills

Skills

Skill Reference Guide

Fire Attunement	Default Keybind
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Water Attunement	Default Keybind
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Air Attunement	Default Keybind
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Earth Attunement	Default Keybind
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Elemental Bullets

The core mechanic of the Elementalist Pistol is its Bullets. When you cast Pistol 2 or 3 the game checks if you currently have a Bullet of your current Attunement:

If you don't, you get a Bullet of your current Attunement.
If you do, you consume that Bullet and add an extra effect to your attack.

For this rotation, we are interested in the empowered versions of

and

. Casting Pistol skills in the wrong order results in empowering the wrong skills, losing damage and in the case of

, having to delay your rotation.

This is where the precast comes into play. Always start the fight with a Fire, Water and Earth bullet. This way we can immediately cast the empowered skills in those Attunements and we reload the Bullet afterwards. We don't precast an Air Bullet because we specifically want empowered

to be the last Pistol skill in

To precast, simply aim away from all targets, use 2 or 3 in the appropriate attunement and then swap to the next attunement needed. Remember to go to

to be ready to start the encounter.

Rotation & Extras

Bullet Precast

Precast a Fire Bullet, Water Bullet and Earth Bullet before starting. Check out Elemental Bullets for more information.

Step 1 - Fire and earth

We start with only using the

and

. We spend most of our time in these attunements and their basic loop is very similar.

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Fill in the gaps with Auto Attack. The biggest difference between

and

is that you can cast

as soon as it becomes available, but you want to delay

until

is almost back off cooldown and queue them. This lets us cast more impactfull skills under the effect of the 5% Condition Damage buff from

Start in

and swap to

immediately during the second

. After that, swap attunements off Cooldown.

Step 2 - Water and Air

Step 3 - Warhorn and Utilities

Step 4 - Opener

You are now ready for the Full Build. Additionally, with some minor changes you should be able to adapt to the Alacrity version as well. The Alacrity version will have:

Ritualist armor and some trinkets
The addition of
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to provide more boons.
Adjusted timing to accommodate the longer delay before Overloading.
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. Casting this once more per loop outweighs not always casting the empowered version.

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