Overload

This article is about the Tempest mechanic. For the Thaumanova Reactor Fractal effect, see Overload (effect).

Overload is a profession mechanic that allows elementalists who specialize into Tempest to gain additional skills while in each attunement. Each overload skill is able to be used after 6 seconds in the attunement. Overloading increases the recharge of the attunement when swapping to a different attunement.

List of overload skills

#	Skill			Description
F1	Fire Attunement			Attune to fire, gaining heavy damage and burning abilities.
F1	Overload Fire	4	20	Overload. Unleash your flames, granting might to allies and burning enemies. Finishing the cast creates a tornado that continues to grant might and burn foes. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.
F2	Water Attunement			Attune to water, gaining superior support and healing abilities.
F2	Overload Water	4	20	Overload. Create a surge of accumulated water magic, healing and cleansing allies. When the cast ends, heal the area and apply regeneration. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.
F3	Air Attunement			Attune to air, gaining heavy damage and control abilities.
F3	Overload Air	4	20	Overload. Use your air magic to summon a nimbus that repeatedly strikes nearby enemies. When this ability is complete, imbue your allies with electricity and create a lingering static region that strikes enemies at the same interval. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.
F4	Earth Attunement			Attune to earth, gaining superior damage-over-time and defensive abilities.
F4	Overload Earth	4	20	Overload. Ride your stored earth magic around, granting protection to other allies you move over and crippling enemies, then deliver a final immobilizing blast of power to the area, leaving behind a dust cyclone that delivers the same effects as the overload. Using this skill causes the attunement to have a longer recharge.

Related traits

•  Elemental Enchantment — Gain concentration and your attunements gain reduced recharge. (Reduces the recharge of attunements after casting Overloads by 15%)
•  Hardy Conduit — Overloads grant protection. Protection gains increased damage reduction.
•  Harmonious Conduit — Gain stability and swiftness when starting an overload.
•  Lucid Singularity — Apply alacrity to nearby allies while channeling and when successfully completing a channel.
•  Singularity — Attain elemental singularity by remaining in an attunement for a period of time. Upon attaining singularity, you may overload the attunement to your vicinity. Gain access to Shouts.
•  Speedy Conduit — Overloads grant swiftness.
•  Unstable Conduit — Overloads grant an aura based on your attunement.
•  Transcendent Tempest — Time to attain singularity is reduced. Upon successfully completing an overload, gain increased damage.
•  Sunspot - Gain a fire aura, and damage nearby foes when you attune to fire. Also triggers on overload skills.
•  Healing Ripple - Heal nearby allies when attuning to water. This effect will not trigger when attuning to the same element, but will be triggered by overload skills.
•  Electric Discharge - Strike your target with a bolt of lightning when attuning to air. Also triggers on overload skills.
•  Earthen Blast - Damage and cripple nearby foes when attuning to earth. Also triggers on overload skills.

Notes

• Cancelling an Overload (intentionally, or by being disabled) will still cause the Attunement to go on the longer cooldown, as though the Overload completed.
• Alacrity will reduce both the time it takes for an Overload to be charged, as well as the cooldown of the Attunement afterwards.

Player Chatter

• The character will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on the attunement and situation.

Overload	Ready to channel	Starting to channel	Finished channeling
Fire	Fired up!	Inferno!	Cooling down!
Water	Flooded!	Overflow!	Drying off!
Air	Charged up!	Lightning bolt!	That was a blast!
Earth	Ready to rock!	Landslide!	Back on solid ground!

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