Does Tempest Defense increase Damage on Taunted Bosses (or Defiant Foes)?

[Me Games Ma.8426]

Title is the question :)

[steki.1478]

Stunned and knocked down only.

[Razor.6392]

As someone who doesn't raid, I keep hearing about this trait and how broken it is for ele's dps stats. Is it really? Enemies are only stunned for a brief seconds after their breakbars are out...

[NICENIKESHOE.7128]

@Razor.6392 said:As someone who doesn't raid, I keep hearing about this trait and how broken it is for ele's dps stats. Is it really? Enemies are only stunned for a brief seconds after their breakbars are out...

Mainly it shines on KC burn phase, which is the only phase where dps matters outside of killing illusions. There are other brief moments but in general air has other 20% buff that makes the traitline desirable. I think in the past there're also undocumented bonus like daze and icebow 5 but I'm unsure whether it is fixed or not. Icebow 5 actually kills rotation but during CC phase it does give longer buff times. Either way raw 20% damage buff is quite powerful when we talk about 30+ dps and that bit of edge is just an icing on the cake when ele has more than 5k dps over 2nd top when boss aren't even stun/daze/knockdown.

To answer OP's question, no I don't think it works on taunted. And in case other people asks, no I don't find the trait OP but it is much more competitive than other air master traits.

[Me Games Ma.8426]

I was wondering since the trait lists taunt as possible CC in its tooltip and other traits (like weavers Superior Elements) also work on bosses even if the weakness itself has no effect on the boss.Regarding this is your answer still the same? @NICENIKESHOE.7128 @steki.1478

[NICENIKESHOE.7128]

Nah there are two parts to the trait, so its a bit different from how superior elements and breakbar works. The listed CC like taunt in tooltip stands for the types of CC that will trigger shocking aura, they have no effect on the damage component of the trait which only includes stun and knockdown. Daze being part of the CC that triggers damage component is just a hidden bug that I don't think ANet found the time to fix it, even though it had been pointed out in the past.

Not quite sure if you're asking about superior elements as well but yeah it does give bonus on breakbars even though boss isn't exactly affected by it.

[Me Games Ma.8426]

Thanks for the answers.If you wondered why I would ask such a silly question, its because I found a way to keep a lot of taunt on bosses (probably permanenty). If tempest defense would have worked with taunt to increase damage it would have been quite the combo I suppose ;)