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Updated to 93 cap update and awakening skills.
This guide has now been split up into 3 posts to make it more read-able and easier to find the information you are looking for.
Post 1: Introduction and basic information
Post 2: How to gear
Post 3: Skill builds and other skill information
Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Basic information and stat gains
• How to gear
• List of iframes
• Tempest skill builds
• Skill crests
• Skill combos and rotations
• Upcoming changes
Introduction
My name is Sean and my tempest’s ign is seand. I have been playing this game since open beta and have played my acrobat since then. I cannot say that I am the best tempest player, nor am I the most geared, but I can say that I have a very in depth understanding of the class. This guide will cover the very basics of the class, as well as the more difficult aspects of the class. I hope everything is clear and makes sense to everybody, but of course if there are any questions and you don’t know where else to go to have them answered, you can send me a mail or pm in game and I will do my best to answer them at that time. On that note, let’s get started.
Basic information and stat gains
Tempest is one of the sub classes of the archer class, by choosing archer > acrobat > tempest. The main focus of the class is support, however it still maintains a good amount of DPS (damage per second) if built correctly. Tempests have a great number of iframes (invincibility frames) which make it easier for them to survive, so they don’t need to have as much HP as some others classes require. Tempests also have the shortest ranges for almost all of their attacks, basically being a melee class even though they are archers.
Before moving on to stats, I will state now that I will not be talking about final damage. It is by far the best stat to stack, but also the hardest and most expensive. Not including final damage, here is a list of importance of stats for tempests:
Physical damage > agility > vitality > strength > defense/magic defense > HP > intellect
NOTE: Once stacked to high enough amounts and high percentages, and our +50% agi buff, stacking agi will yield higher damage gains than stacking phys.
A good thing to note is that archers gain .5 physical damage from agility, and .25 from strength. Physical damage being most important is self-explanatory, tempests are a physical class. Next, archers gain the most physical damage from agility, plus you also get crit. Followed by vitality because that increases HP and defense at the same time. Even though I said that you have iframes and you don’t need a lot of HP, if you think you’ll be perfect with every single iframe that you ever do, go ahead and don’t get any vitality. I put strength next because it increases crit damage as well as a slight increase to your physical damage. In T5, I feel like strength is more important than defense and magic defense because level 90 armors have the same amount of defense and magic defense as other classes, making us even more tanky than before. Finally, the only reason intellect is on this list is purely because it can help raise crit damage. Other than crit damage, intellect raises magic damage, which tempests do not use at all, but every little bit helps if it can push crit damage to the next percent. If you’re able to raise your crit damage enough, you’ll do a bit more damage overall. Note that I have not listed crit here at all, that’s because you should be able to have enough agility to max crit, and if not you also have a 20% crit buff which requires no SP to learn, as well as another buff which increases your crit by 50% of your current crit, but we will get into skills later.
This guide has now been split up into 3 posts to make it more read-able and easier to find the information you are looking for.
Post 1: Introduction and basic information
Post 2: How to gear
Post 3: Skill builds and other skill information
Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Basic information and stat gains
• How to gear
• List of iframes
• Tempest skill builds
• Skill crests
• Skill combos and rotations
• Upcoming changes
Introduction
My name is Sean and my tempest’s ign is seand. I have been playing this game since open beta and have played my acrobat since then. I cannot say that I am the best tempest player, nor am I the most geared, but I can say that I have a very in depth understanding of the class. This guide will cover the very basics of the class, as well as the more difficult aspects of the class. I hope everything is clear and makes sense to everybody, but of course if there are any questions and you don’t know where else to go to have them answered, you can send me a mail or pm in game and I will do my best to answer them at that time. On that note, let’s get started.
Basic information and stat gains
Tempest is one of the sub classes of the archer class, by choosing archer > acrobat > tempest. The main focus of the class is support, however it still maintains a good amount of DPS (damage per second) if built correctly. Tempests have a great number of iframes (invincibility frames) which make it easier for them to survive, so they don’t need to have as much HP as some others classes require. Tempests also have the shortest ranges for almost all of their attacks, basically being a melee class even though they are archers.
Before moving on to stats, I will state now that I will not be talking about final damage. It is by far the best stat to stack, but also the hardest and most expensive. Not including final damage, here is a list of importance of stats for tempests:
Physical damage > agility > vitality > strength > defense/magic defense > HP > intellect
NOTE: Once stacked to high enough amounts and high percentages, and our +50% agi buff, stacking agi will yield higher damage gains than stacking phys.
A good thing to note is that archers gain .5 physical damage from agility, and .25 from strength. Physical damage being most important is self-explanatory, tempests are a physical class. Next, archers gain the most physical damage from agility, plus you also get crit. Followed by vitality because that increases HP and defense at the same time. Even though I said that you have iframes and you don’t need a lot of HP, if you think you’ll be perfect with every single iframe that you ever do, go ahead and don’t get any vitality. I put strength next because it increases crit damage as well as a slight increase to your physical damage. In T5, I feel like strength is more important than defense and magic defense because level 90 armors have the same amount of defense and magic defense as other classes, making us even more tanky than before. Finally, the only reason intellect is on this list is purely because it can help raise crit damage. Other than crit damage, intellect raises magic damage, which tempests do not use at all, but every little bit helps if it can push crit damage to the next percent. If you’re able to raise your crit damage enough, you’ll do a bit more damage overall. Note that I have not listed crit here at all, that’s because you should be able to have enough agility to max crit, and if not you also have a 20% crit buff which requires no SP to learn, as well as another buff which increases your crit by 50% of your current crit, but we will get into skills later.
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