Weaver - Lightning Rod Roamer
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Overview
A high skillcap WvW Weaver roaming build built around the Lightning Rod trait.
Skillbar
Traits
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Variants
- The first trait choice is between having more evasion to avoid incoming attacks, or extra healing that helps you recover from them. If you wish to opt for the latter, take
Arcane Abatement.
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Equipment
6xSuperior Rune of the Scholar
18xMighty WvW Infusion
Sigils
- over- this makes the build harder to play, but adds powerful boon stealing.
Consumables
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 then fire becomes your primary attunement and weapon skills 1-2 will be fire skills. Afterwards if you switch to 
Water Attunement for example then water is now your primary attunement and fire's moved to secondary - now skills 1-2 are water and 4-5 are fire. Skill 3 is a dual skill influenced by both active attunements ⇒ fire + water for example is 24px Twin Strike. - 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.
General
Lightning Rod is the bread and butter of this build. You'll use it both offensively (to deliver pressure), and defensively (to mitigate direct damage through 
Weakness.
- Note that this trait procs whenever you land a CC skill on a target, even if they negated it with
Stability.
- Note that this trait procs whenever you land a CC skill on a target, even if they negated it with
- The build has plenty of CC skills:
Comet water #5- 24px Polaric Leap air #2
Gale air #5- 24px Gale Strike air/earth #3
- 24px Tailored Victory chain skill of your elite
- Similar to a Fresh Air build, your primary attunement's going to be
Air Attunement and you'll be using it more often than any other element. Most of your CC comes from here, and attuning to it procs 
Electric Discharge (instant ranged damage) plus 
One with Air (excellent mobility for disengage or chasing down targets). Air is also the only element you should ever double attune to - the dual attack 24px Quantum Strike can deal fairly high damage, and double attuning boosts your damage through 
Elements of Rage for a short while. - Cycle fire -> air -> fire -> air to maintain
Swiftness via 
Elemental Attunement while roaming. Alternatively, if you're lazy then just stay attuned to primary air to maintain 
Zephyr's Speed (although this does sacrifice a tiny bit of mobility). - Stances grant Stability, which has many uses including safe stomping downed enemies.
- The bulk of your damage comes from a combination of Lightning Rod, Electric Discharge, 24px Flame Uprising, , and various dual attacks.
Sustain
- This build relies heavily on avoiding damage. A few examples from your kit:
Swirling Winds and 
Magnetic Wave defend against projectiles (the latter is also your best condition cleanse), One with Air helps with kiting melee, while 
Obsidian Flesh can even make you invulnerable for a few seconds. - The damage you can't avoid should be mitigated through Weakness, and
Protection from attuning to earth (thanks to Elemental Attunement). - The water portion of
Evasive Arcana heals and removes a condition. - The defensive rotation is definitely something you should learn and utilize whenever heavy healing is needed:
- Water Attunement
- Dodge in order to proc the water part of Evasive Arcana for healing and condition cleansing.
- 24px Riptide for evasion, healing, and condition cleansing.
Earth Attunement- 24px Earthen Vortex to blast the water field left behind by Riptide.
- Fire Attunement
- 24px Lava Skin for the barrier and some counterpressure.
Does a good enough job at bursting targets and sticking to them. It's like a fresh air build but melee. One of the harder builds you can play in WvW, but both the damage and the CC are quite strong on it. Fairly weak against condition spikes, luckily there are very few condi builds in WvW at the moment - the two most common are scourge and mirage, and scourge should give you no trouble if you play it safe. Doesn't handle 1vX situations all that well but stands its ground in 1v1s.