Weaver - Staff Backline

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Focused on: Direct damage, Support, Control.

Designed for:

World vs World

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

• 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

Variants

• for more condition clear

Variants

• and
  These 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.

Variants

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

Variants

Stats

• Keep in mind this setup has 100% Crit chance with
  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
  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
  .
• 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
• 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 blast
  with
  by using Eruption before swapping to air attunement.
  • 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 casting
  to increase the damage.

Offensive Rotation

1. Start in Earth/Fire
11. (Optional)

• Repeat from 1. Fill empty time with utility skills or auto attacks.