ParticlarAfter A LOT of hours (about 15) with attempts we managed to kill Gorseval!
The build I was running was staff tempest. I was on orb duty, meaning I killed the orbs that spawn in order to protect my party. If a party member runs into the Orbs AoE field, that player takes more damage and deals less damage.
Gear: Full berserker gear, assassin earrings. Flame legion runes and force/strength sigils Fire: 1, 1, 1 Air: 3, 1, 1 Tempest: 3, 3, 3 Food: Slices of Candied Dragon Roll and Maintenance oil Utilities: Arcane Shield, Technobabble, Glyph of Storms
[KING] Spirit Vale Raid - Gorseval Kill - Tempest PoVParticlar2015-11-20 | After A LOT of hours (about 15) with attempts we managed to kill Gorseval!
The build I was running was staff tempest. I was on orb duty, meaning I killed the orbs that spawn in order to protect my party. If a party member runs into the Orbs AoE field, that player takes more damage and deals less damage.
Gear: Full berserker gear, assassin earrings. Flame legion runes and force/strength sigils Fire: 1, 1, 1 Air: 3, 1, 1 Tempest: 3, 3, 3 Food: Slices of Candied Dragon Roll and Maintenance oil Utilities: Arcane Shield, Technobabble, Glyph of StormsParticlar Live StreamParticlar2020-08-03 | ...[Hs] 8man Soulless Horror CM - Condi Sw/D PoVParticlar2017-12-09 | Sorry about the soulless horror spam, this will be the last one for a while.
Log: gw2raidar.com/encounter/ProspectsMayFirmlyNarrowerCoatsEasy stealth, easy escort (W5E2)Particlar2017-12-05 | Who knew dungeon strats would be a thing?Wing 5 - Defend Desmina (2nd encounter)Particlar2017-11-29 | Escort 2.0Wing 5 - Soulless Horror (1st Boss)Particlar2017-11-29 | First kill for us. Apart from the RNG direction of walls, this boss is really fun!
We got the last boss down as well but shadowplay corrupted my recording. Here's a log from power Sw/D weaver though: https://dps.report/jtHS-20171201-002158_dhuumSw/F Condi Weaver - 8man MatthiasParticlar2017-11-21 | Another day, another build. If you're interested in real world results, here you go with a Sw/F condition build. I get around 32.6k as a benchmark number on this build.
I didn't manage to get the same results as the OP claims on small hitbox without AP. I did however manage to get 35.4k using the same settings as him. Found LH to be stronger than icebow on small. Still haven't beat my other rotation with this.Sw/D Power Weaver Benchmark - 31.9kParticlar2017-11-07 | Some initial numbers of power sword weaver after today's patch. Seems stronger than the condition variant now.
Odd video, just made something I wanted myself for a single monitor setup. Uses AHK and keyboard shortcuts to open a minimal browser. Pretty nice if you have one screen and wanna follow guides or watch netflix while playing. Of course audio works, just didn't capture it when recording.Sword Weaver BenchmarksParticlar2017-10-09 | Hey again guys, I'm back for real now. Here are some non-meta, unorthodox builds. The grieving Sw/F is my favourite for now, weave elite is fun!
Signet of Earth and Glyph of Storms (Firestorm) is next to identical DPS. Use glyph for more cleave, signet for bosses that move.Condition Engineer DPS BenchmarkParticlar2017-03-01 | Hey again, 33,257 with realistic buffs.
Been testing out engineer a bit since the patch. Don't worry though, I still love tempest. Might do a tempest benchmark later on. Sorry about the low quality, it's all I can do with my current set up. Living in NA and playing on EU equals a pretty high ping, making rotations somewhat annoying. Did a couple of mistakes here, with a cleaner run and a better ping I think this rotation can achieve close to 34k.
Rotation is pretty straight forward, it contains three sets with five blocks looping. 0 - 12131 12131 12131 ...
Throw in an AA or two between == 2 == and == 1 == to let fire bomb recharge. Streamlined kits should be timed with every second pistol-mortar.
== 1 == pistol-mortar fire bomb shrapnel fillers shrapnel
Repeat and continue from first == 1 ==D/W Tempest Fresh Air DPS BenchmarkParticlar2016-10-27 | Hey guys, time for benchmarks again since the balance changes! This time I discuss some small things about it as well. Do you like this better than normal benchmark videos? I also stopped doing All buffs scenarios, it feels uninteresting since we can now assume alacrity in realistic buffs as well.
Maybe D/W isn't far off staff on large hitboxes after all. Staff has 38k DPS on current realistic settings. Compare the 36.8k result + 1.3k for Static Charge and we're dead even.
See you later o/8man Matthias - 4:41Particlar2016-09-19 | After some more practice Matthias has gotten a bit quicker. I love this build on tempest.
I'm using full berserker stats, apart from zealot weapons, force/transference. Trooper runes. Food is up to you, in this video I used rice balls/furious tuning crystals.
Traits: Normal DPS but Water 332 over Fire.Re: Charr D/W Tempest Fresh Air DPS BenchmarkParticlar2016-08-18 | Reddit thread stroke up about aftercast differences on different races. Here's a benchmark on charr in response of that.
I can't see any tangible variance between asura and charr. :)
Alacrity rotation: After each overload air, head into fire. 1, Burning Speed + Wildfire 2, Nothing 3, Burning Speed 4, Wildfire 5, Burning Speed 6, Nothing And repeat.
No alacrity rotation: After each overload air, do following. 1, Fire - Burning Speed + Wildfire 2, Earth - Dust Storm 3, Fire - Burning Speed 4, Water/Earth And repeat.
No Night Sigil or Thesis of Strength but with Mighty infusions adding 90 power or ~2.4% effective power.
Songs: Stories - Two Ways Drowning EP - NoctilucentS/W Fresh Air Tempest DPS Benchmark *Post-Patch*Particlar2016-07-27 | Reupload cause youtube corrupted my video :(
All Buffs: 0:05 Realistic Buffs: 2:13
Posting this for reference to the previous D/W. I really don't see Scepter staying a thing after the patch. If it now ever was a thing before. Drops way too much without alacrity while D/W drops less, at the same time it's less practical in a real raid fight.
No Night Sigil or Thesis of Strength but with Mighty infusions adding 90 power or ~2% effective power.
Songs: Drowning EP - Noctilucent[KING] vs. Matthias (5man) - 9:56Particlar2016-07-22 | That shared aegis into rebound proc on the ghost at 8:54.
Particlar (Tempest): This PoV Ilyavi (Chrono): youtu.be/QsmM8gvdEO0 Anarii (Druid): youtu.be/BJY2PhEpkaA Bovan (Condi rev): No PoV Arathorian (Reaper): No PoV[KING] 8man Xera KillParticlar2016-07-19 | Minstrel healer/tank role. Would you guys be interested in a build guide of this?[KING] 8man Keep Construct - Down, Down, DownedParticlar2016-07-17 | Composition and tactic we use for Keep Construct on wing 3 on our sell runs. Nothing super fast and optimised for security more than quick kill times. Doing it without the achievement isn't a big difference but easier movement of KC.
Taken directly from stream, so sorry for the bad quality and muted audio :([KING] 8man Slothasor - Slippery Slubling KillParticlar2016-07-14 | Composition and tactic we use for Slippery Slubling achievement on wing 2 Slothasor on our sell runs. Nothing super fast and optimised for security more than quick kill times. On a slothasor without slippery slubling I would use D/W Aurashare in this 8man set up.
I run a rather unorthodox staff healing build with minstrels stats, mainly healing through Soothing Mist and Regen. This is also a build I use to tank/heal on Xera, in low man as well as 10 man clears. Taken directly from stream, so sorry for the bad quality :([KING] 8man Matthias - Seimur Was Wrong KillParticlar2016-07-12 | Composition and tactic we use for Wing 2 Matthias on our sell runs. Nothing super fast and optimised for security more than quick kill times. Taken directly from stream, so sorry for the bad quality and muted audio :(Dagger/Warhorn Tempest DPS BenchmarkParticlar2016-06-10 | Hey all, Long since I had a vid. I figured I would update the numbers I've gotten on D/W under different settings in the same way qT did theirs. These are not at all perfect nor RNG'd or with a night's sigil. You can probably squeeze in atleast a few 100's DPS more on a great pull.
I'm using power infusions in the video, for comparison with numbers without infusions it'll be 1.88% lower, ie; youtu.be/S6WYSNcXf5k (vid with all buff medium golem settings) * Medium All buffs: 38.13 * Medium Realistic buffs: 28.03 * Large All buffs: 42.02
Gear: All scholar berserker gear with force/air sigils. Utilities: Feel the Burn, Signet of Fire and Glyph of Air Boons: 25 might, fury, quickness Buffs: Banners, Empower Allies, Assassin's Presence, Spotter, Vampiric Aura, Sun Spirit, Frost Spirit, Glyph of Empowerment, 5 Grace of the Land, Alacrity Misc: 14 power infusions, seaweed salad and toxic sharpening stones. Trsits: Fire: 1,1,1 Air: 3,2,2 Tempest: 3,3,3S/W Medium Golem DPS Test Piano Rotation - 38.2kParticlar2016-05-02 | Guys, guys guys.. This is not realistic. In practice S/W will almost always be outperformed by D/W. ;_; Golem: Medium Hitbox, 4 Million HP, 1400 Toughness, All Conditions/Boons
DPS: #1 - 38105 #2 - 38209 #3 - 38305 Avg: 38206Particlar Ping Pong 2.0Particlar2016-03-14 | :(Tempest D/W Sabetha DPS (with Canons)Particlar2016-02-17 | Uploading for reference, DPS over the entire fight. I jump up to every other canon, in total 6 canons. Without canons the DPS will end on 28-29k.
I rank under other people with lower DPS since my total damage is lower. The canon jumps brings you "ooc" according to the dps meter for 2-3 seconds, making my 'total time' lower than others.
At the end of the fight we had following numbers. Canons seem to steal ~8-9k DPS. Thief: 25.1k Necromancer: 24.6k Guardian: 22.1k Tempest (canons): 20.1k Revenant: 18.7k PS warrior: 15.2k Engineer (canons): 12.2k Mesmer: 5.4k.Tempest D/W VG DPSParticlar2016-02-16 | Uploading for reference, DPS over the entire fight.
40k for a second there![KING] Raid Party CompositionParticlar2016-02-11 | F squad ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This is the party composition we in KING like to run for raids. Let's discuss it in the comments!New Shatterer - Smash the Dragon AchievementParticlar2016-01-29 | or not :)Tempest Tank on Vale GuardianParticlar2016-01-01 | not many heals :( Not the most efficient slot, but it works.
Highlight from stream - Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/particlarTempest FA D/W Build - 31.5k DPS on VGParticlar2015-12-28 | The DPS meter is quite accurate, I took the time to add all numbers manually with a very similar result. Numbers can be found here; http://pastebin.com/Tkp5qK3L The numbers from jyxnX is somewhat inflated by damage on the seekers but if we exclude that damage we end up with 31954 DPS.
janX dps settings: max screenshots per second, 4 updates per second, 2 seconds in combat, 27 considered lines[KING] 5 man Vale Guardian KillParticlar2015-12-19 | This has been a project of ours for the last week and we finally managed to do it.
Huge shoutout to Flames as well, he joined us for numerous of attempts but ended up not making it to the kill video.
5 people means we can use distortion to avoid all the green aoe's. I hope you enjoy, we surely did!HoT Build: Tempest AurahealerParticlar2015-12-16 | I've put this off for some time but I finally got to it.
I hope this video can answer at least some of your questions about how the aurahealer compares to a druid in raids. In short, the druid has good heals but problems with aiming the heals correctly and downtime of celestial form. The benefit is offensive support through frost spirit, spotter and glyph damage buff. Tempest will have more reliable and frequent healing and without any chance to miss. There's no downtime on the healing and it has better personal damage. There's also the benefit of more defensive support with permanent vigor, regen, protection and high upkeep of frost aura.
Comment below for any question or further discussion![KING] Spirit Vale Raid - Full Exotic RunParticlar2015-12-12 | Hey, About a week ago we got the challenge to complete the first raid wing in full exotic. Watch Deroir's video of the raid here: youtube.com/watch?v=0DFPFQCc47Q
For this raid, I ran two builds, Aurahealer Tempest for VG and Gorseval and Meta Staff Tempest1 for Sabetha. Both builds had berserker trinkets. To set this character up it cost me: 43.41g, 1380 (arah, CoE, CoF) tokens, 720 ascalon tokens, 5 guild commendations
Build 1: Staff Tempest Gear: Berserker gear with flame legion runes and accuracy/str sigil. Fire: 1,1,1 Air: 3,1,1 Tempest: 3,3,3 Food: Dragon's Breaths bun, Maintenance Oil Utilities: Wash the pain away, signet of fire, Lightning flash, glyph of storms, glyph of elementals
Build 2: Aurahealer D/Wh Tempest Gear: Magi's gear with monk runes and accuracy/water sigil. Water: 1,3,2 Air: 1,2,2 Tempest: 3,3,3 Food: Delicious Rice Balls, Maintenance Oil Utilities: Wash the pain away, Feel the burn, Flash-Freeze, Aftershock, Rebound
For the interested, here's my buylist: Magis armor 4.13g Berserker armor 1380 tokens Berserker Amulet 4.86g 2 Berserker Earrings 9.20g 2 Berserker Rings 9.40g Berserker Backpiece 5g + 5 guild commendations Equisite Ruby Jewel 0.66g Berserker Staff 3.00g Magis dagger 2.15g Magis warhorn 1.53g 6 superior runes of the monk 720 ascalon tokens 6 superior runes of flame legion 0.60g 2 superior sigil of accuracy 0.44g 1 superior sigil of strength 2.40g 1 superior sigil of water 0.04sBurn Ele is Alive ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ノParticlar2015-11-28 | Build here: youtube.com/watch?v=UqKc1_CyFH4[KING] Spirit Vale Raid - Sabetha Kill - Tempest PoVParticlar2015-11-25 | I was running a normal berserker staff tempest build :)[KING] Spirit Vale Raid - Vale Guardian - Tempest Aura Healer PoVParticlar2015-11-24 | I'll be making a build guide on the build in the next coming days :)[KING] Spirit Vale Raid - Vale Guardian Kill - Tempest PoVParticlar2015-11-18 | After some hours with attempts we managed to kill him!
The build I was running was fresh air D/F tempest. I didn't have to focus on blasting might or fury so I could optimise my rotation for DPS. Gear: Full berserker gear, assassin earrings. Scholar runes and force/air sigils Fire: 1, 1, 1 Air: 3, 2, 2 Tempest: 3, 3, 3 Food: Seaweed sallad and Maintenance oilHoT Build: Condi TempestParticlar2015-11-09 | This is the build I use for high level fractals or any fight where the enemy has a lot of thoughness. It will be interesting to see this build in raids.
Pastebin of damage numbers of shown fight: http://pastebin.com/KjG8VVedHoT Build: Staff TempestParticlar2015-10-31 | This is the build I use for fractals and dungeons or any scenario where I play PvE in an organised group.
Pastebin of damage numbers of shown fight: http://pastebin.com/ynKhhN3MSanctum Scramble Adventure - 2:04Particlar2015-10-28 | I did a few mistakes, namely not interrupting #2 at 00:45 to get the short recharge and getting stuck 1:32.
There are some improvements in the route that could be made as well. Best adventure so far.[KING] - Fractal 100 with TempestParticlar2015-10-25 | Doing the fractal lvl 100 with a condition tempestPing Pong ParticlarParticlar2015-08-10 | Get rekt in thaumanova -- Watch live at http://www.twitch.tv/particlarAetherblade Fractal - Trap skipParticlar2015-07-28 | Screw timegate, go goating.Elementalist Solo - Arah P2 BelkaParticlar2014-11-26 | Sorry about the spam uploads, germany keeps blocking my music :(