Weaver - Power DPS Staff

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Overview

A power DPS build for Weaver. This build deals heavy AoE burst damage with

and

, which makes it one of the best builds for cleaving adds. It also deals good damage on bosses with large hitboxes and shares a small amount of

Might and

Protection to nearby allies.

Note that Staff Weaver is heavily dependent on

Alacrity, so make sure you have a Chronomancer - Utility Boon Support for support. For max DPS it should also have as many boons as possible for

.

This guide is focused on raids. For the fractal version see Weaver - Power DPS Staff (Fractal).

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Variants

Healing Skill

will provide the highest
uptime in very low damage fights (i.e. fights where you never press your healing skill).
for minor group healing and better
uptime when in a group with low healing.
if extra condition cleanse is needed.

Utility Skills

instead of
if you are struggling to use lightning hammer correctly.
over
is technically the highest DPS option but makes your rotation incredibly difficult and conjure dependent; you can take it if you want to put your Weaver skills to the test.

Elite Skills

over
for higher burst damage, particularly useful on Keep Construct.

Specializations

Variants

if you have no other source of Vigor.
if you need the shield.

Air Variant

Use Air if you can make use of

on Keep Construct, or if you don't have a Chronomancer - Utility Boon Support in your party to provide you with boons for

.

Variants

for high damage on Keep Construct.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

18x

Mighty +5 Agony Infusion

Consumable

Food:

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Nourishment (1 h):

+100 Power+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

Utility:

Superior Sharpening Stone

Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (30 m):

Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

Usage

DPS Rotation

Video example of rotation

Written Rotation (Arcane)

Weaver's DPS rotation is complex, however it can be broken down into small chunks for easier memorization. The main goal of the rotation being to maximise the damage from three main skills -

,

and

while filling gaps with high damage autoattacks and low-cooldown skills like

and

. The following rotation is a good starting point to begin learning the class.

Start in

/

Lightning Swing
½
Lightning Swing
Bash your foe.
Damage: 355
Number of Targets: 3
Range: 150

Static Swing
½
Static Swing
Strike your foe again.
Damage: 355
Number of Targets: 3
Range: 150

Thunderclap
½
Thunderclap
Smash the ground and damage nearby foes.
Damage: 533
Blind (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 180
Combo Finisher: Blast
Range: 150
Weapon swap
Weapon swap

From here, you enter a section that is more or less looped with small modifications for the rest of the fight

off cooldown while you are attuned to fire and auto attack in downtime.
When
is off cooldown, start the following sequence of skills

After your second
you can begin cycling through
into double
to cast
and
, every ~10 seconds after finishing your meteor shower channel. You can use
as filler over
while attuned to earth - cast
⇒
before dropping it.
After casting each meteor shower you should pick up/recast
and cycle through
and
Lightning Swing
½
Lightning Swing
Bash your foe.
Damage: 355
Number of Targets: 3
Range: 150

Static Swing
½
Static Swing
Strike your foe again.
Damage: 355
Number of Targets: 3
Range: 150

Thunderclap
½
Thunderclap
Smash the ground and damage nearby foes.
Damage: 533
Blind (3s): Next outgoing attack misses.
Number of Targets: 5
Radius: 180
Combo Finisher: Blast
Range: 150
once before dropping it.
Cast
whenever possible while
is active.

Finisher Rotation

When the boss will die in the next ~20s instead of the standard usage of

and

you can do the following:

Double attune to fire to trigger
before immediately casting

before resuming your standard rotation until the boss dies.

Breakbars

Staff Weaver has very little prompt access to reliable hard-hitting CC skills for breakbars - many of its CC skills are gated behind double-attuning or will be unavailable due to the DPS rotation.

available in double
available when
is in your second attuement slot, only stuns if you are able to land the edge of it on the boss.
if you are in
while the breakbar is up.
available as the dual Air/Earth skill