Windfury Aeromancer Build Guide for PvE
Build
Aeromancer is specifically designed to capitalize on the swiftness stat, forming the core aspect of its gameplay. As a swift-centered class, your gameplay revolves around engaging in rapid skill spamming, requiring a high APM. However, due to the inherent nature of swift-based classes, characterized by piano-like gameplay, you will heavily rely on external sources for a substantial mana supply.
The main mechanic is its self-buff called Current Occurrence, which significantly enhances your primary damaging skills, known as Reversal. When utilizing a Current Occurrence skill, you will receive a temporary shield that remains active for 3 seconds. This temporary shield functions similarly to a regular shield and can be depleted if struck by incoming attacks. It's important to note that the Current Occurrence shield holds the lowest priority in the shield tier. This means that if you acquire a shield from other sources, such as a support, that shield will be damaged before the Current Occurrence shield.
To maximize your damage output, you will alternate between spamming Current Occurrence skills and utilizing Reversal skills, creating a rhythm that optimizes your overall performance.
Pros
- Has good party synergy that most classes want
- Brings plenty of utility; good stagger, and destruction
- Has reliable damage
Cons
- Is very mana hungry
- Requires a fair bit of investment
- DPS ceiling is lower compared to most classes
7
Downward Strike
12
Piercing Wind
12
Rage
10
Spread
Storm's Approach
10
Tornado
12
Tornado Dance
12
Whirlpool
12
Wind Gimlet
Skill priority
Galewind Priority
Level priority
These 4 should always be maxed, in that order. After that prioritize access to tripods on the other skills.
How to play
Your main goal is to alternate between Current Occurrence skill and Reversal skill usage and keep your crit and sun shower synergy up as long as possible.
Current Occurrence
Reversal
Recommended opening rotation
Use Sun Shower (Z) whenever it is up
Good habbits
- Maintaining your crit synergy with good tornado uptime
- Building your raindrop gauge as fast as possible to have good Sun Shower uptime
- Keeping your skills on cooldown as much as possible
- Recognizing DPS windows against bosses
engravings
3
Grudge
3
Raid Captain
3
Adrenaline
3
Hit Master
1
Ether Predator
This is standard 5x3+1 setup.
You can change:
- level 3 with level 3
- level 1 with level 1
combat stats
Crit
Swiftness
Specialization
Endurance
Domination
Expertise
Aeromancer scales off swift, the Class Engraving increases Aeromancer crit rate and dmg based on her attack and movement speed. With this information, you want to aim to cap your attack and movement speed. Her secondary stat is Crit due to Aeromancer having 2 Thunderbolt tripods which increases those two skills' crit dmg up to 400%+
Bracelet
Bracelets have a large pool of potential effects and it can get very expensive trying to obtain specific ones. The best way to approach this item is to use one with the correct combat stats for your build and not worry too much about the extra effects until you can afford to spend a significant amount of gold on them.
Swift + Crit is recommended
Additional Effects that are good to have:
- Hammer
- Wedge* (only if you already have Hammer)
- Superiority* (On successful Basic Attack against a foe, Damage +1.5/2/2.5/3%)
- Precise
- Assail
- Fervor
- Circulate
- Mp Recovery* (nice to have, if you roll it, keep it, but don’t go for it)
- Max MP* (nice to have, if you roll it, keep it, but don’t go for it)
Gear set
Hallucination is the recommended set because as mentioned above, Aeromancer has 2 skills with very high crit dmg and she naturally has high crit dmg.
Attack Gems
Tornado Dance
Whirlpool
Piercing Wind
Wind Gimlet
Rage
Cooldown Gems
Rage
Tornado Dance
Downward Strike
Piercing Wind
Wind Gimlet
gear tripods
HIGH PRIORITY- MANDATORY
MEDIUM PRIORITY - SHOULD HAVE
LOW PRIORITY - NICE TO HAVE