Weaver - Condi Weaver

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
Hard
This build was last updated on January 05, 2024 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 patch.

Overview

A very powerful condition-based weaver build for open world. This build offers very high DPS and defense with an active, skill-based playstyle. Condition Weaver can be very difficult to master, but is one of the strongest options for solo play.

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Skill Bar

Scepter/Warhorn
Staff
Utility

Weapon Variants

Skill Variants

Heals

  • - burst healing

Utilities

Replace or .

  • - very high DPS that also provides additional defense and functions well at range; this is a strong replacement for if playing purely at range.
  • - stability and huge barrier.
  • - stunbreak with 2 charges and extra evasion.
  • - AoE burst damage from or pulsing blind with and a replacement for if playing purely at range.
  • - summons elementals, use for DPS or for tanks. These die when you mount up, and are best used against strong bossses.
  • - mobility.
  • - condition cleanse

Elites

  • - sacrifices the very large burst damage increase from Weave Self in exchange for a pet. The Flame elemental provides high DPS (be sure to use the command skill on CD where possible) while Water and Earth give you a reliable front line.


Specializations

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required for Open world, Exotic is fine

Standard Equipment

This option uses gear similar to that of Build:Weaver_-_Condi_DPS. This makes it a great option for general PVE.

Head
Viper
Shoulders
Viper
Chest
Viper
Hands
Viper
Legs
Viper
Feet
Viper
Backpiece
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Accessory
Viper
Amulet
Viper
Ring
Viper
Ring
Viper
Scepter
Viper
Warhorn
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic

Budget Equipment

This set is incredibly cheap and provides very high HP, but is lower DPS. If using this variant, place much heavier priority on

Head
Carrion
Shoulders
Carrion
Chest
Carrion
Hands
Carrion
Legs
Carrion
Feet
Carrion
Backpiece
Carrion
Accessory
Carrion
Accessory
Carrion
Amulet
Carrion
Ring
Carrion
Ring
Carrion
Scepter
Carrion
Warhorn
Carrion
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Carrion
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


Relic

Variant Equipment

Relics

There are many good relics for general play in open world and others that may be specific to this build. Swap based on preference.

Defense

  • Invest in a Jade Core for additional HP and access to Jade Protocols.
  • Trailblazer Trailblazer - luxury set: very large boost to defense at a relatively small damage loss.
  • Celestial Celestial - luxury set / booster gear: very large boost to defense at a relatively small damage loss - pairs well with as a budget option.
  • - additional evades

Budget

  • Carrion Carrion - this build has a budget carrion variant, see above.
  • - budget replacement for ; this sigil requires stacking, and it must be included on all of your underwater weapons to prevent losing stacks when entering the water.



Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

  • Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
  • /
  • /

Defense

Farming

  • Prioritize Flatbread Ascended food.
  • /
  • (and variants)



Usage

This build primarily relies on and . It is not particularly difficult to play, but has a lot of options to respond to different situations and requires a bit of game knowledge to take advantage of.

Damage

  • Generally for DPS you should be rotating through the following Attunement loop:
  • Spam all of your fire and earth skills as they are available.
  • You can combine , , and with for a large burst of damage while you are invulnerable.
  • For a more detailed rotation breakdown, see the similar endgame build guide: Build:Weaver_-_Condi_DPS

Utilities

Primordial Stance and Glyph of Elemental Power change drastically depending on your current attunement, and its important to consider what attunement is best to use them in

  • considers the element on your mainhand and the element on your offhand to determine what condition to pulse, and updates every second. As such, for the highest damage, use it right before double attuning to Earth for high Bleeding Bleeding damage, or in Air for Vulnerability Vulnerability.
  • changes its effect depending on your mainhand attunement, and is best used in Air for Vulnerability Vulnerability or in Fire for high Burning Burning damage.
  • is your highest damage skill, spam it off cooldown, even when not using .

Defense

Mitigation

  • , - projectile hate.
  • - invulnerability.
  • Using a Dual Attack gives Vigor Vigor, and dodging gives barrier, thanks to .
  • (Sword only) and both make you evade for 1 second.

Sustain

  • heals you for every single skill you cast.
  • (Sword only) creates a water field where you can use your combo finishers to heal, such as , , , .

Crowd Control

  • (Sword)


Video Examples

The following examples were provided courtesy of Hardcore Casual on Youtube. Videos are listed with permission.


Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 6 votes.
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5 stars
Fakewitch gave this build 5 stars • February 2023
An amazing build! Deals a lot of damage against enemies and probably my favorite for now to play Elementalist with!
5 stars
Vicmont82 gave this build 5 stars • September 2022
I was pretty frustrated with most builds until i tried this. Really good for solo(arcane) and great for groups(earth).
5 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 5 stars • April 2022
Without a doubt the best elementalist build for open world. Totally worth investing into the trailblazer's set with undead runes. Super tanky and amazing damage.
5 stars
Linera gave this build 5 stars • January 2021
My all time favorite ele build. Feels much more dynamic and fast-paced when compared to any tempest build, pair that with above average self-healing, and the ability to kill most trash mobs with the single press of a button, and you get a fun, fast, powerhouse of a elementalist that can take on even some more difficult content.
5 stars
Jack Armstrong gave this build 5 stars • December 2020
One of my top 3 favorite builds right now, the others being Condi Mirage (melee) and Shortbow Renegade. Very configurable: multiple good weapon choices, and you could probably do well with any utility skills you want, though the ones listed here are likely the best choice for general use. Very durable, yet good damage. While switching stuff around, I ended up with 2 condi clears (Sigil of Cleansing and Diamond Skin trait) and found that, with those and of all the passive barrier and healing applications, I could kill pretty much all of the PoF repeatable hero points while hardly ever moving or dodging, usually losing little or no health in the process. Pretty easy to use, too: as long as you switch attunements often, you can kill stuff pretty quickly with almost random weapon and utility skill usage--though intelligent use gets better results, of course.
5 stars
Onlywrin gave this build 5 stars • December 2020
A really strong open world build for ele that's great in virtually all situations.

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