Time Weaver

How to Play Late Game

Specialization: Tempest

Tempest converts you from good archer to controlled demolition.

Flask of Fire (upgrade): The core of the engine. For five seconds, your abilities cost no stamina and have no cooldown; with Ride the Storm, chaining flasks extends uptime by three seconds. Pair this with Throwing Blades and you’ll unload a blizzard of knives at machine-gun speed.

Flask of Lightning: The time-dilation tool. Everyone else slows; you remain full speed for five seconds. Use it to walk into Throwing Blades range without danger, to finish a target, or to set up clean burst windows.

Flask of Frost: Your insurance policy. ~85% damage reduction for five seconds and a chill/freezing punish for enemies who tag you. Whenever positioning gets scuffed, tap Frost and calmly reset.

Key passives:

• Ride the Storm — Use a different flask before the current one ends to add +3 seconds. It’s how you chain Lightning → Fire for long, bloodless burst phases.
• Pin Cushion (Archery) — More damage per hit on the same target; Throwing Blades plus Elgar’nan’s explosions ramp this frighteningly fast.
• Poisoned Weapons — A simple, big multiplier that stacks beautifully during Fire windows.

Focus: Thousand Cuts. Extremely high single-target focus that deletes bosses or elite threats on command. It’s one of the few focus abilities that consistently outperforms “doing your rotation better.”The Tempest Archer revolves around creating safe time and spending it with Throwing Blades.

1. Open with Flask of Lightning → Poisoned Weapons.
   You have five seconds where enemies practically don’t touch you. Use this to walk forward into Throwing Blades range while firing basic shots and tagging your target.
2. Swap to Flask of Fire (chained).
   Because you changed flasks before Lightning ended, Ride the Storm extends the window. Now unload: spam Throwing Blades. With no cooldowns and no stamina costs, you can delete high-health targets in seconds. Pin Cushion stacks rapidly from constant hits (and from Elgar’nan’s explosive arrows later), while poison ticks push damage even higher.
3. If anything’s left, Leaping Shot disengage.
   Use Leaping Shot to burst and create distance; take its upgrade that grants stealth on use. This instantly drops aggro, lets you breathe, and buys a moment for flasks to roll back. If enemies are still standing, pick off stragglers with Throwing Blades once Fire is back, or simply repeat the Lightning → Fire chain.
4. Emergency button: Flask of Frost.
   If something unexpected presses you—shock troops, boss phase change, getting cornered—Flask of Frost turns disaster into a shrug. Step out, reposition, and resume the loop.

Two crucial discipline rules:

• Don’t desync Throwing Blades. The ability feels terrible if it’s on cooldown during Flask of Fire. Save Blades so it is always ready at the start of Fire.
• Use Lightning to earn distance, not damage. It’s a safety/positioning flask; Fire is the damage flask. Resist the urge to “do everything” inside Lightning—set the table, then feast in Fire.

Boss flow: Lightning for free approach → Fire + Blades for the main burn → Leaping Shot stealth if needed → Thousand Cuts when focus is available. Very few bosses survive a clean Fire window plus a Thousand Cuts follow-up.