Weaver - Power DPS Staff

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Focused on: Direct damage.

Designed for:

Raid

Expansions required:

Overview

A power DPS build for Weaver. This build deals heavy AoE burst damage with Conjure Lightning Hammer and Meteor Shower, 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 Bountiful Power.

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

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Variants

Healing Skill

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

Utility Skills

• Arcane Blast instead of Conjure Lightning Hammer if you are struggling to use lightning hammer correctly.
• Conjure Frost Bow over Primordial Stance 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

• Weave Self over Conjure Fiery Greatsword for higher burst damage, particularly useful on Keep Construct.

Specializations

Variants

• Renewing Stamina if you have no other source of Vigor.
• Final Shielding if you need the shield.

Air Variant

Use Air if you can make use of Can't find such trait "Tempest Defense"! Please refer to our trait index on Keep Construct, or if you don't have a Chronomancer - Utility Boon Support in your party to provide you with boons for Bountiful Power.

Variants

• Can't find such trait "Tempest Defense"! Please refer to our trait index for high damage on Keep Construct.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Scholar

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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 - Meteor Shower, Glyph of Storms and Conjure Lightning Hammer while filling gaps with high damage autoattacks and low-cooldown skills like Lava Font and Eruption. The following rotation is a good starting point to begin learning the class.

Start in Earth Attunement/ Fire Attunement

1. Eruption
2. Fire Attunement
3. Lava Font
4. Pyroclastic Blast
5. 24px Firestorm
6. Fire Attunement
7. Meteor Shower
8. Primordial Stance
9. Lava Font
10. Conjure Lightning Hammer
11. 24px Invoke Lightning
12. 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
13. Weapon swap
14. Lava Font
15. Flame Burst
16. Earth Attunement
17. Eruption
18. Conjure Fiery Greatsword
19. Fiery Rush
20. Fire Attunement
21. Firestorm
22. Weapon swap

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

• Lava Font off cooldown while you are attuned to fire and auto attack in downtime.
• When 24px Firestorm is off cooldown, start the following sequence of skills

1. 24px Firestorm
2. Earth Attunement
3. Eruption
4. Meteor Shower
5. Fire Attunement
6. Lava Font
7. Pyroclastic Blast
8. Fire Attunement

• After your second Meteor Shower you can begin cycling through Earth Attunement into double Fire Attunement to cast Eruption and Pyroclastic Blast, every ~10 seconds after finishing your meteor shower channel. You can use Conjure Fiery Greatsword as filler over Stoning while attuned to earth - cast Fiery Rush ⇒ Firestorm before dropping it.
• After casting each meteor shower you should pick up/recast Conjure Lightning Hammer and cycle through 24px Invoke Lightning 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 Primordial Stance whenever possible while 24px Elements of Rage is active.

Finisher Rotation

When the boss will die in the next ~20s instead of the standard usage of Meteor Shower and Glyph of Storms you can do the following:

1. Double attune to fire to trigger 24px Elements of Rage before immediately casting Meteor Shower
2. Air Attunement
3. 24px Lightning Storm
4. Lightning Surge
5. Fire Attunement
6. Lava Font
7. Plasma Blast

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.

• Gust available in double Air Attunement
• Static Field available when Air Attunement is in your second attuement slot, only stuns if you are able to land the edge of it on the boss.
• Wind Blast if you are in Conjure Lightning Hammer while the breakbar is up.
• 24px Pile Driver available as the dual Air/Earth skill