Weaver - Staff Backline
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Contents
Overview
A backline build providing damage, CC and field support. Requires a precise usage of skills and positioning to survive.
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Utility
- for personal stability when prone to being caught in CC often.
- additional blast finisher and solid damage.
Elite
Summon Druid Spirit is a strong elite for Sylvari Elementalists. Affects up to 5 enemies within a radius of 900' around the Druid Spirit. Sends one slow-moving projectile towards each affected target. Each projectile deals ~1800 damage and can result in a critical hit which deals +50% damage. Struck foes are immobilized for 1 second.
Specializations
Main
Variants
- for more condition clear
Variants
- andThese traits add significant damage, but only if you can catch the enemy in your CCs (Especially Static Field) without
Stability.
- higher sustain but loss in crit chance.
Arcane is an option over Air when having proper suport and getting boon uptime.
- ferocity boost and strong immobilize on earth when using arcane skills.
Equipment
6x
Superior Rune of the Scholar
18x
Mighty WvW Infusion
Consumables
Variants
Stats
- Use as much Marauder's as you feel is necessary then fill out with Berserker's
- Avoid inefficient stats like Valkyrie's. Marauder's is strictly better than Valkyrie's when considering effective power and health.
Sigils
- Extra survivability
- good offensive filler sigil when kills are frequent
Runes
- Better damage option if sitting under 12
Might - Highest potential damage but difficult to maintain versus
Retaliation
Food
- highest damage option with frequent kills.
- equal option to Truffle Steak, profits from external precision sources.
Usage
General
- This build requires rapidly switching between attunements. You can reduce the cooldown on an attunement by switching it while you are still casting a skill (this will not interrupt the cast).
- Try to stay in Fire Attunement with at least one of your attunements to maintain .
- Try to double attune to proc .
- Meteor shower is your main damage source, but it has a long cast time and by the end of it you can find yourself out of position or focused by enemies. You can avoid this in two ways:
- Use after you start casting it.
- Use the "burning retreat trick" (see GYF). This way avoids using but you can find yourself even further away from your zerg. Gfycat:Burning Retreat Trick
- Use
- If you are alone and have to run somewhere, you can stack swiftness: Use in Air Attunement and switch out and into air to proc. You can also blastwithby using Eruption before swapping to air attunement.
- All of your dual skills with give swiftness thanks to
- All of your dual skills with give swiftness thanks to
- 's direction is based on your where your character is looking. Turn briefly while casting the skill to aim it and effectevily blocking the passage. Gfycat:See GYF for explaination
- You can interrupt by using stow weapon as soon as you are full healed in order to save time.
- provides great mobility and a damage boon when wielded. It can be used after castingto increase the damage.
Offensive Rotation
- Start in Earth/Fire
- (Optional)
- Repeat from 1. Fill empty time with utility skills or auto attacks.
Very powerful damage build, but fairly difficult to real good at due to its squishiness. Shines in large groups but easily picked off in 15 man teams. A well placed Meteor Shower can generate tons of downs by itself. Very little group support in this class. Pure damage.