Weaver - Staff Weaver
The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Overview
A long-ranged staff build for Weaver for open world. This build will mostly spam and is easy to play.
Unfortunately, staff is not a high damage weapon, but it offers some nice healing and utility to compensate, and is fully ranged.
This build will work good enough for average open world and story content, but if you need to tackle harder challenges, consider other of our elementalist open world builds. Most of the damage of this build comes from AoE pulsing ground attacks, so this build can struggle against very mobile targets, and it lacks boon generation.
Template Code
Skill Bar
Skill Variants
Healing
We default to
as it provides strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement. Other alternatives are:- Guide:What are Combo Fields). - weak heal by default, but is greatly increased if it strikes nearby enemies. Performs a blast finisher, and heals for more when doing so. Excellent synergy with water combo fields. (See:
- - very high healing and condition removal throughout its long channelling time. Great option for raw healing if you can afford the cast time.
Utility Skills
We default to:
provides ranged AoE damage, use it on Fire for consistent damage, or on Air for burst damage but a longer cooldown. Can be replaced.
provides ranged burst damage. Can be replaced.
is a stun break and blocks 3 attacks. Can be replaced.
We have chosen utility skills that compliment staff's ranged AoE damage, but feel free to replace them. Here are some alternatives:
- - AoE damage and mobility.
- - lets you cast or any other weapon skill twice in a row, improving burst damage.
- - great AoE damage but in melee range.
- - mobility.
Stability.
- stunbreak with - - stunbreak and dodge, and has two charges.
- - condition cleanse and stun break.
- - stability and barrier with two charges.
Elite Skills
We default to Knockback, on Air for a
Stun, or on Earth for defense. If you don't like having a pet and/or would like more burst damage, replace it with Fiery Greatsword.
- - provides high damage with skills 4 and 5, and mobility with skill 3.
Specializations
- Trait Variants
Specialization variants
- Arcane
Arcane can replace Air. This adds defense and utility at the cost of damage. has excellent synergy with the active skill of your elemental from .
- - Improves revive power in groups.
- - Use this when playing in groups that give lots of boons.
Equipment
This build uses the same gear as Build:Weaver - Power DPS, making it a good option for general PVE.
- Ascended gear is not required for open world, exotic works fine.
- Note the second staff is for stacking sigil purposes and is not required.
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
Berserker
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If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Zhed" armor and "Deathwish" staff. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.
- Other relic options include , , .
- This setup provides 100% critical chance with
Fury thanks to , , and .
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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- /
Consumables
Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
DPS
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Farming
- Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
- /
- (and variants)
Usage
Damage
- Your damage skills are , , , , , , , and . Fill in the gaps with auto attacks.
- is your main source of damage, make sure to spam it. When attuning to other elements, go back to as soon as possible.
- Generally speaking, you want to rotate through Fire, Air, and Earth, and only double attune to
Magnetic Aura of .
, unless you really need the healing of , the crowd control of , or (in extremely rare occasions) the - Use and on groups of enemies.
- When solo, your sourcess of
Fury are and . You will trigger Zephyr's Boon with by attuning to Fire periodically. When playing in groups that provide
Fury, change your traits to and .
- Opener
For burst damage, start combat attuned to
+ and do the following:- and attune to +
- and attune to +
- and attune to +
- and attune to +
Fill the gaps in cooldowns with auto attacks.
Defense & Support
- The best defense is to dodge attacks or get out of the way. Your Dual Attacks provide
Swiftness thanks to to help run out of attacks.
- is a powerful defensive evade and movement skill, and it can be used in any direction by rotating your character (or your camera, if using action camera).
Blinded in a large AoE, which is useful against groups of trash mobs.
inflicts - As a weaver, you can attune to water and then to another element to access
Regeneration, and a water field. In desperate situations, you can double attune to Water to use for healing and a water field.
to remove conditions, provide - Guide:What are Combo Fields). , and can be used on water fields for additional area healing or on fire fields for extra might. (See:
Magnetic Aura for projectile reflection, but this is quite niche as it requires you to double attune to Earth.
provides - If you need more defense, you can slot and use .
Stability.
provides 1 stack of personal - can be used to block dangerous attacks.
Glyph of Elementals
Elementals from
can be commanded to do an additional skill.- The Fire Elemental can be commanded to deal damage and
Burning in an AoE. Use this one for damage.
- The Ice Elemental can be commanded to deal damage in an AoE, while healing nearby allies by 6401, knocking back enemies, and removing 1 condition. Use this one for support.
- The Air Elemental can be commanded to
Stun for 1.5 seconds. Use this one for on-demand crowd control.
- The Earth Elemental can be commanded to inflict nearby enemies with 1 second of
Immobilize and 5 seconds of
Cripple, while providing 3 seconds of
Protection to nearby allies. Use this one for tanking.
Crowd Control
Knockback
- Daze
- Stun and
Knockback, respectively. When used against enemies with a defiance bar, they instantly deal defiance damage. Against enemies without a defiance bar, these skills only work if the enemy attempts to walk over the skill.
and - - and - Soft CC options.
- - From Ice Elemental.
- - From Air Elemental.
- If you need a lot of crowd control you can use so that you and an ally can use .
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