Weaver - Condi DPS

Part of the current metagame

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Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

This build was last updated on March 16, 2023 and is up to date for the May 02, 2023 game patch.

Overview

A condition DPS build for Weaver. This build has a complex rotation, but deals strong sustained damage through Burning and Bleeding, and has good access to CC and various utility skills.

Skill Bar

Scepter/Focus

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Mainhand Dagger can also be taken, though it is lower damage and the rotation involves standing inside the boss' hitbox, which may not be practical.
• Staff is also an option, though it needs larger hitboxes to be competitive.

Skill Variants

• instead of for ease of use and less of a precasting requirement, at the cost of ~1700 DPS.
• provides more group healing at the expense of personal healing.
• for more burst healing at the expense of sustained healing.

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Equipment

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

Focus
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x10

Infusion
x8

Equipment Variants

Running with 15 Malign and 3 Spiteful infusions would be a minor DPS loss, but would allow you to use ascended food such as for their bonus effects.

Consumables

Food

Utility

• • or for a cheaper alternative

Usage

If using , precast as many elementals as possible before the fight. Cast the skill in for fire elementals which apply tons of Burning.

Rotations for all versions involve frequent attunement swapping to maximize the usage of high-damage, low cooldown skills particularly whilst is active. While it is ideal to follow the rotations in these examples, encounter mechanics may force you to adapt your rotation around them.

Video example rotation for Dagger/Focus by Ryan

Video example rotation for Scepter/Focus by Ryan

Video example rotations for Staff by Fennec

Scepter Rotation

While the core loop is very simple, maximising damage depends on optimal use of - you want to start with an attunement to fire to get the 20% condition damage boost, then during the 20 second duration work in the other attunements without losing too much damage. Attuning to the final element (water) just as it will expire will grant Perfect Weave for a further 10 seconds and allow you extend the bonus to almost 30 seconds in total.

To keep the rotation more legible, autoattacks will not be included in general.

is the flip skill of . The latter will regularly activate during your rotation but the timing can vary. Whenever is used in the rotation be aware you may need to first activate (Fire Shield is instance cast so just double tap it).

Weave Self
The majority of the section is very similar to the basic loop, but the basic loop takes slightly too long and so using it here would result in losing the buff just before attuning to Water. Hence some skills are skipped to make the first two loops faster. If in doubt, just attunement swap as soon as you can.

Precast and start in Air/Fire

3. 
   
   Fast Loop 1
4. during the cast of Flamewall
7. as soon as it's available
10. as soon as it's available
12. 
    
    Fast Loop 2
16. as soon as it's available
17. until Phoenix is available
22. ⇒
23. 
    
    Normal Loop
26. as soon as it's available
28. until Phoenix is available
32. ⇒
33. 
    
    Exit

Basic Loop

2. and until Fire Attunement is available
6. until Dragon's Tooth is available
9. ⇒
11. Return to start of loop

This boils down to rotating through ⇒ ⇒ and using other skills off cooldown (see general tips below). You can delay the swap into Fire/Earth slightly if is about to come off cooldown.

The second time you reach you have to do the lead-in slightly differently. At step 7 in the basic loop, go to instead, then:

3. - if this isn't available here, just skip and use it whenever it is available
4. - this is just to fill time so that you can immediately swap away from Air Attunement after casting
5. Repeat Weave Self opener

As you won't have pre-cast this time, you'll need to use ⇒ instead at step 11 of the Weave Self opener.

Dagger Rotation

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Opener

The opener for Condi Weaver relies on maximising the effectiveness of . Swapping to provides 20% condi damage (Woven Fire) for the duration of . Attuning to all four elements clears these effects and gives Perfect Weave for a further 10 seconds - providing all the buffs. Therefore, it is valuable to only attune to the final element at the last possible moment in order to gain nearly 30 seconds of the Woven Fire. If you have doubts about your speed or Alacrity/Quickness, then you can attune to instead of at step 30 and then skip ahead to step 37 once is available (not all skills will be available so it is important to cover as much of your time in as possible with the cast time of ).

Begin in Air/Earth

5. into Fire/Air
8. into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
12. into Earth/Fire
16. into Earth/Earth
19. until Ring of Earth is available
21. into Fire/Earth
24. into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
27. into Earth/Fire
28. until Ring of Earth is available
30. into Air/Earth
34. into Fire/Air
37. into Water/Fire during Drake's Breath to trigger Perfect Weave
41. into Earth/Water
43. until you can swap into Earth/Earth

Loop

Compared to the section, the central loop is very simple. You bounce between Earth and Fire, bookending earth sections with and fire sections with .

1. into Earth/Earth
3. until Ring of Earth is available
5. into Fire/Earth
8. into Fire/Fire
13. into Earth/Fire during Drake's Breath
15. until Transmute Fire is available
17. Return to start of loop

Weave Self

Performed perfectly with perfect boons, will come off cooldown again in Earth/Earth and can immediately be used again. Below is an example loop based on these assumptions. In practice, you may need to improvise somewhat but bear the following in mind:

• You should either be in mainhand , or immediately switch to so that you gain Woven Fire.
• As the buffs last for approximately 30s, you may not wish to use it if the boss will phase before they expire.
  • If this is the case, you can start the next phase with the Opener.
• If you have doubts about your speed or boons, you can delay using until just before step 7.
• Loop through Air early on so that, if you see the the buff begin to flash, you can quickly attune to water to get Perfect Weave.

From Earth/Earth

3. into Fire/Earth
6. into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
8. into Air/Fire
13. into Earth/Air
16. into Earth/Earth
18. until Earthen Rush is available
20. into Fire/Earth
22. into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
26. into Earth/Fire
27. until Ring of Earth is available
29. into Fire/Earth
33. into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
34. until Flamewall is available
36. into Water/Fire during Drake's Breath to trigger Perfect Weave
40. into Fire/Water during Cone of Cold
44. into Fire/Fire
46. until Drake's Breath is available
49. into Earth/Fire during Drake's Breath
52. until you can swap into Earth/Earth
53. Return to the Loop

General tips

• Use off cooldown while in Fire/Fire, Earth/Fire, or Earth/Earth.
• Use off cooldown when in mainhand Fire.
• Use , and off cooldown.

Breakbars

This build has access to CC options that are easier to use than Staff Weaver, however it still faces the problem of having to wait for two attunement swap cooldowns before gaining access to most of its CC skills.

• inflicts 200 breakbar damage.
• inflicts 400 breakbar damage and is your strongest CC skill.

For the Dagger build:

• inflicts 150 breakbar damage but requires the awkward attunement combination of Air and Water. This should be saved for a last-resort option.