Weaver - Freshweaver

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Overview

A PvP Weaver take on the Fresh Air archetype with a steep learning curve, focusing on burst damage and +1ing fights.

Skillbar

Scepter/FocusHealingUtilityElite

Slot Changes

Utility

Arcane Shield over Twist of Fate - this provides significantly less sustain, but allows you to defend yourself without interrupting the channeling of abilities, stomps or revives.

Heal

Ether Renewal adds much needed cleansing to the build in case you're having trouble avoiding conditions, or if the enemy team is overloaded with them.

Traits

Variants

Renewing Stamina can be taken if you wish to sacrifice some healing for a more evasive setup.

Equipment

Superior Sigil of Exposure

Your next attack after you swap to this weapon while in combat inflicts 5 stacks of vulnerability for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 9s)

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Superior Sigil of Energy

Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)

Superior Rune of the Scholar

(1): +25 Power (2): +35 Ferocity (3): +50 Power (4): +65 Ferocity (5): +100 Power (6): +125 Ferocity, +5% damage while your health is above 90%.

Marauder Amulet

+1050 Power +1050 Precision +560 Vitality +560 Ferocity

Equipment Changes

Rune

- a reliable damage bonus at the cost of potentially lower burst damage.

Sigils

- can replace Energy for minor condition removal.

Usage

Elite specialization basics

Weaver allows the Elementalist to attune to 2 elements at the same time, and skills 1-5 will be decided based on both. Let's call them primary and secondary attunements.
If you swap to Fire Attunement fire becomes your primary attunement and weapon skills 1-2 are going to be fire skills. Afterwards if you switch to Air Attunement then air is now your primary attunement and fire's moved to secondary - now skills 1-2 are air and 4-5 are fire. Skill 3 is a dual skill influenced by both active attunements ⇒ fire + air for example is 24px Plasma Beam.
The order of the attunements doesn't matter here, water primary with fire secondary has the same dual attack as fire primary and water secondary. Attuning to the same element twice has its own dual skill.
It's possible to attune twice in a row to the same element, and doing this with Air Attunement is going to be a part of your burst rotation.

General

The build makes little to no use of Water Attunement.
Keep swapping in-and-out of Air Attunement repeatedly while roaming between capture points in order to maintain Swiftness.
- Note: attuning to air twice in a row doesn't give swiftness the second time.
The condition applied from Elemental Surge depends on your active primary attunement when your Arcane Blast hits the target, not the primary attunement you are in when you cast the skill. If you want Arcane Blast to inflicting Immobilize to set up a burst then you need to remain in Earth Attunement until the skill lands - or swap into earth right before it lands.
Conjure Fiery Greatsword's purpose is twofold.
- Mobility: Fiery Whirl and Fiery Rush are excellent movement skills that can help you disengage from fights if your defensive CDs ran out, or if you want to get to the other capture point as soon as possible.
- Cleave: AoE in the build is rather clumsy, except for Fiery Whirl and Firestorm. Use these whenever you need to cleave down a downed enemy.
Glyph of Elemental Harmony is best used in earth for the Protection.
Arc Lightning isn't interrupted when you change attunements. Starting the channel in air and swapping to any other attunement is an excellent way of recharging air through Fresh Air as this skill hits multiple times in a short period of time. This is also a great filler in general.

Burst damage

This build bursts by rapidly unloading instant cast abilities on top of a channeled one.
The 3 main channeled skills you're going to use in bursts are 24px Plasma Beam, 24px Earthen Synergy and 24px Fracturing Strike.
All of your hard hitting abilities should go off after double attuning to Air Attunement.
Burst combos that require an enemy to stay in place (such as the ones involving 24px Fracturing Strike) should be used after firing Arcane Blast in Earth Attunement for the Immobilize.

Notable burst combos

These are some potential combos you can use based on the techniques outlined above. The quicker you pull these chains off, the better.

From Fire primary Air secondary:

Note: in this specific case, if you already have an active Elemental Surge buff before beginning the chain, Arcane Blast should be used after the second Air Attunement in order to benefit from the Air modifiers and 24px Elements of Rage.

From Earth primary Air secondary:

From Earth primary Fire secondary:

Survival

One with Air makes it easy to kite most specs. Avoid melee range at all costs!
CCs can be used for shaking off pursuers.
Abuse spots on maps that break teleport skill pathing when the enemy team has Thieves, Revenants, and other such specs with teleports. Use the terrain to your advantage in general, it's very important for builds as squishy as this one.
Magnetic Wave and Swirling Winds provide excellent protection against enemies who use projectiles. These however do not work against unblockable projectiles, and some ranged builds - such as this one - are mostly unaffected by projectile reflects and blocks.
Twist of Fate, Obsidian Flesh and Lightning Flash are your last resort defenses in situations where neither CC nor projectile counters will keep you alive. You should only use these when other options are either unavailable or not going to suffice.