Tempest should never be meta in it's current design

[Paradoxoglanis.1904]

1 hour ago, Stand The Wall.6987 said:

how are 20-30 sec overload and shout cds and 4 sec overloads low effort spam?

1. You see ranged person attacking team. Give team 12s of mag aura and ignore them.

2. You see melee person attacking team. Give team 8s of shocking aura + frost aura and ignore them.

3. You see person attacking you. Sit in earth overload with stone heart and take your hands off the keyboard while you immob and chain cc them and your team kills them.

Support tempest creates degenerate gameplay and should never be meta, just like scourge + fb, or rifle DE, or decap druid...

[Vinny.7260]

19 hours ago, Arheundel.6451 said:

Just wondering.....what kind of harbs simply pewpew into your magnetic aura without switching to staff with unblockable marks...

The current meta Harbinger isn't using Soul Reaping due to the combination of Curses/Death Magic.

 

It's currently focused on targeting boons over pure practicality. Against Support Guardian you just have to land 1 hit of Shroud 2 to corrupt 2 boons, while Tempest would just block Shroud 2 entirely with Mag Aura.

 

Perhaps it might shift to using Soul Reaping to counter Tempest, but Tempest currently has the upper hand overall in the meta.

 

(Death Magic pulses Protection/reduces incoming condition damage. Curses provides corrupt/transfer/weakness.)

 

You'd drop Curses for Soul Reaping to keep the defenses from Death Magic. (Which is an overall damage loss.)

[Vinny.7260]

39 minutes ago, Paradoxoglanis.1904 said:

1. You see ranged person attacking team. Give team 12s of mag aura and ignore them.

2. You see melee person attacking team. Give team 8s of shocking aura + frost aura and ignore them.

3. You see person attacking you. Sit in earth overload with stone heart and take your hands off the keyboard while you immob and chain cc them and your team kills them.

Support tempest creates degenerate gameplay and should never be meta, just like scourge + fb, or rifle DE, or decap druid...

Arguably Guardian is much more degenerate due to ALL of its major supportive skills that make it viable are instant casts with zero counterplay. Tempest is gross in its own way too as mentioned above, but requires a lot more positioning compared to the other.

 

Both Support Guard and Tempest are incredibly unhealthy at this point and need tuned down. (Mag/Shocking needs reduced to 3s/Magnetic Shield needs its aura reduced to 3s while also adjusting damage/CDs. It's been meta for too long at this point and is justifying not improving other parts of Elementalist. It's as creative as Nades on Holosmith).

 

 

[Stand The Wall.6987]

1 hour ago, Paradoxoglanis.1904 said:

1. You see ranged person attacking team. Give team 12s of mag aura and ignore them.

2. You see melee person attacking team. Give team 8s of shocking aura + frost aura and ignore them.

3. You see person attacking you. Sit in earth overload with stone heart and take your hands off the keyboard while you immob and chain cc them and your team kills them.

Support tempest creates degenerate gameplay and should never be meta, just like scourge + fb, or rifle DE, or decap druid...

earth you condi pressure them which will force the tempest to disengage to cleanse. any overload is easily interruptable, mag aura spam you go melee (and no, no one playing seriously is taking earth shield and aftershock). no team in MATs is taking tempest cuz of how easy it is to burst down outside of earth. shock aura spam is degen tho