Physical Tempest Strike / Tornado / Earthquake Shaman Build Guide

Damage Wise

Aim for:

1. PrefixMelee Attack Speed
2. PrefixPhysical Damage or PrefixMelee Physical Damage (Melee physical damage scales with Earthquake and Tempest Strike, but NOT with Tornado, increased physical damage scales with everything)
3. SuffixPhysical Penetration and Minion Physical Penetration
4. SuffixChance to Bleed on Hit. Bleed deals physical DoT, there for it:

• 1. Scales with this build due to all the physical scaling
• 2. Scales with physical penetration
• 3. Scaled with Shred physical resistance blessing Grand Fury of the North

Defensive Wise

Similar to other builds. Only start focusing on this once you get to higher levels and start on empowered monoliths.

1. Get 75 Poison, Necrotic and Void resistances. You get maxed Elemental + Physical from your totems
2. Get 100% SuffixReduced Bonus Damage Taken from Critical Strikes. To get this, use the suffix SuffixArmor and Reduced Bonus Damage from Crits. This will also give you armor, which is better than stacking crit avoidance. Tip: There are boots with this as a base: Citadel Boots
3. Aim for somewhere between 50-60% Armor. Don't sacrifice health for this
4. Stack health. The more health you have the stronger single hits you can survive. You will heal back to full almost instantly after receiving damage.

However, there's one extra thing to keep in mind with this build. Applying 3 stacks of Frailty gives a nice 18% damage reduction, which is really nice. Since this build attacks so fast, it is really easy to maintain 3 stacks. So, be sure to have SuffixChance to apply Frailty on Hit somewhere on your gear. Even a T1 should suffice to keep 3 stacks up against bosses, but a T2 or T3 would make it airtight

When looking for weapon bases, use Wengari Axes. It adds even more bleed into the build, and increases it's duration as well! My planner currently does not have these. That is because I recently found out how amazing bleed is as an additive to this build

See Build Variants for more information about what gear you should aim for!!

For the idols, there are 2 very important idols.

First: PrefixChance on hit to summon a Thorn Totem is important because it summons 5 thorn totems on hit, which will:

• Generate armor shred due to Shred Armour 5/5
• Keeps you alive due to Protective Circle
• Greatly increases your damage due to Storm Blade & Totemic Fury & Ascendant Circle

Secondly, PrefixChance To Create An Aftershock Under A Nearby Enemy On Melee Attack.

This creates an aftershock from the earthquake tree, which, you guessed it: scales with Earthquake. Be sure to get 2 of these with the highest percentage you can find!

The damage of these aftershocks are very strong because of Shatterquake. Tempest strike itself doesn't add Chill, but it does in our case because we selected Tempest Form.

For survivability, make sure you match your idols with the suffix SuffixIncreased Aspect of the Boar Effect to increase the passive Boar Heart that is already great for survivability.

Fill the rest of your slots with armor/health or missing resistances.