is staff tempest still viable in PVE/raids?

[Blacksarevok.8104]

havent played my ele in almost 2 years, wondering if staff tempest is still a thing or did the meteor shower nerf kill it?

[Blood Red Arachnid.2493]

Snowcrows has a scepter/warhorn build that does 35k DPS. I don't know how well staff does, though.

[ATMAvatar.5749]

In general PvE, staff tempest is fine. That's what I play most of the time. Even in T4 fractals, I'll swing between top DPS and just OK based upon how lucky I get with LFG.

 

I can't speak for CMs or raids, however, since I generally avoid them due to PuG toxicity.

[Zhaid Zhem.6508]

Scepter/warhorn fresh air tempest is really smooth in fractals even raids with adds or boss on drugs.

Staff is strong too, but a bit frustrating when you're casting aoe and the target just moves out or a little ****** knockbacks it. That and the nerf of meteor shower and lava font are why elem/weaver is kindly push out the scene. Scepter and Overload Air erase some plausible errors.

[Umadusa.5874]

I don't know about DPS-wise, but I play it as a Magi/Zealot heal Tempest and camp water. Never get complaints in T4, and raid groups either love it or act like it's useless in favor of MOAR DEEPS

[Nepster.4275]

Staff tempest isnt really viable because of the nerfs to lava font and meteor shower, its still usable ofc as a DPS weapon but you are just better off using sc/wh since that gives you AoE too, but its mostly good against one target bosses, since the lightning things from your wh5 can be eaten up by adds, i enjoyed tempest more when staff was at its old state like 7 months ago or when, since then you use either sc/wh or there is a dagger varian too. In fractals staff is fine since its burst is still sits high on the charts, but its damage falls off after some time and between phases too