Weaver - Staff Backline

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Overview

A backline build providing damage, CC and field support. Requires a precise usage of skills and positioning to survive.

Skill Bar

StaffHealingUtilityElite

Skill Variants

Utility

Armor of Earth for personal stability when prone to being caught in CC often.
Arcane Wave additional blast finisher and solid damage.

Elite

Conjure Fiery Greatsword
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

Variants

Burning Fire for more condition clear

Variants

24px Stormsoul and Lightning Rod These traits add significant damage, but only if you can catch the enemy in your CCs (Especially Static Field) without Stability.

24px Master's Fortitude higher sustain but loss in crit chance.

Variants

Arcane is an option over Air when having proper suport and getting boon uptime.

Elemental Surge 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

Keep in mind this setup has 100% Crit chance with 24px Superior Elements when changing gear.
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
Decent damage option for cleaving downed targets.

Food

highest damage option with frequent kills.
higher damage if not using 24px Superior Elements or have a low uptime.

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 24px Elemental Polyphony.
Try to double attune to proc 24px Elements of Rage.
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 Lightning Flash after you start casting it.
- Use the "burning retreat trick" (see GYF). This way avoids using Lightning Flash but you can find yourself even further away from your zerg. Gfycat:
  Burning Retreat Trick
If you are alone and have to run somewhere, you can stack swiftness: Use Windborne Speed in Air Attunement and switch out and into air to proc Elemental Attunement. You can also blast Static Field with Eruption by using Eruption before swapping to air attunement.
- All of your dual skills with give swiftness thanks to 24px Swift Revenge
Unsteady Ground'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 Ether Renewal by using stow weapon as soon as you are full healed in order to save time.
Conjure Fiery Greatsword provides great mobility and a damage boon when wielded. It can be used after casting Meteor Shower to increase the damage.