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Windfury Aeromancer Build Guide for PvE

Build

required skill points: 416

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
Downward Strike

7

Downward Strike

Current OccurrenceThundercrack
Why?Bleed
Piercing Wind

12

Piercing Wind

Giant SquallReversalLightning
Galewind
Rage

12

Rage

ReversalThunderSpace Slash
Why?Galewind
Spread

10

Spread

Current OccurrenceMagick CyclePiercing Shroud
Why?Quick Recharge
Storm's Approach

Storm's Approach

Why?
Tornado

10

Tornado

Weakness ExposureEnhanced SpinningBoomerang Umbrella
Conviction
Tornado Dance

12

Tornado Dance

Swift FingersReversalSuperspeed Spin
Why?Galewind
Whirlpool

12

Whirlpool

Magick ControlWind PillarSteam Control
Judgment
Wind Gimlet

12

Wind Gimlet

ReversalLarge Strong WindSingle Attack
Galewind

Skill priority

Piercing Wind
Wind Gimlet
Rage
Tornado Dance

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

600

Swiftness

1800

Specialization

0

Endurance

0

Domination

0

Expertise

0

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

Piercing Wind
Giant Squall
Reversal
Lightning
Wind Gimlet
Reversal
Large Strong Wind
Single Attack
Rage
Reversal
Thunder
Space Slash
Tornado Dance
Swift Fingers
Reversal
Superspeed Spin
Tornado
Weakness Exposure
Enhanced Spinning
Boomerang Umbrella
Spread
Current Occurrence
Magick Cycle
Piercing Shroud
Downward Strike
Current Occurrence
Thundercrack
Whirlpool
Magick Control
Wind Pillar
Steam Control

HIGH PRIORITY- MANDATORY

MEDIUM PRIORITY - SHOULD HAVE

LOW PRIORITY - NICE TO HAVE