Build:Weaver - Power Weaver

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on September 06, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A strike-based weaver build for open world. Weaver is notable for its complexity and fast paced playstyle. Once mastered, however, you will be rewarded with very high burst damage and a fluid and fun combat.

Its weakness is its fragility, requiring the player to make good use of their evades and mind their positioning; and its complexity to play.

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Sword/Warhorn

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

To use Warhorn you require weaponmaster training with Secrets of the Obscure.

• Offhand Dagger - alternative to warhorn for players without weaponmaster training.
• Staff - ranged damage with some good Dual skills, but low overall damage.
• Spear - not recommended because the Dual skills are very bad.

Skill Variants

Heals

Signet of Restoration provides good passive healing and works great with weaver's fast-paced playstyle.

• Glyph of Elemental Harmony - if burst heal is required, this skill can be considered.

Utilities

Primordial Stance is good source of damage.
Glyph of Storms provides good area damage or utility.
Twist of Fate is a good low-cooldown stunbreak.

• Arcane Shield - alternative to Twist of Fate that blocks attacks.
• Cleansing Fire - if condition cleanse is required.
• Lightning Flash - mobility.
• Stone Resonance - defensive barrier and stability.
• Arcane Blast - if you don't need any utility or stunbreak, take Arcane Blast for extra damage.

Elites

Weave Self provides a large damage increase which can be sacrificed for great crowd control.

• Glyph of Elementals - creates a summon, good option for hard fights. Cast it in fire for damage, tanking in earth or sustain in water.

Specializations

Variants

• Ferocious Winds - extra damage if you don't need the fury from Zephyr's Boon.

Equipment

• Ascended gear and stat infusions are not required; you can use exotic gear with the same stats.

Standard Equipment

This gearset is useful in all of PVE.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

sword
Berserker

Warhorn
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

• You can use Relic of Zakiros to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain, Relic of the Cavalier to start combat with boons, or Relic of Durability for a little extra defense.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Marauder gear.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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• (and variants)

Usage

Damage

Basics

This is an oversimplification. For a detailed guide on how to properly deal damage with Power Weaver, see The Raid Build

• Rotate between Fire Attunement and Air Attunement, making sure to double-attune to each when possible.
• Use blast finishers in Fire Fields to generate Might
• Use Primordial Stance in Air Attunement to apply Vulnerability
• Use long-cooldown skills, such as Wildfire and Lightning Orb, to proc Relic of Fireworks
• This build centers itself around maintaining several buffs in order to skyrocket its damage. These are Superior Elements, Swift Revenge, Elements of Rage, Pyromancer's Training, Persisting Flames, and Relic of Fireworks. In order to accomplish this, you want to maximize uptime on Swiftness, Weakness, and Burning as well as typical offensive buffs ( Vulnerability, Might, Fury), using long-cooldown skills such as Wildfire and Lightning Orb to proc Relic of Fireworks, and juggling double-attunements when possible. This can be a lot to take it at once, so go slow learning this build. It's very simple once you get the rhythm for it, but can be overwhelming at first.

Opener

Start in Air Attunement / Air Attunement. Use Primordial Stance in Air Attunement. Fill any gaps with auto-attacks.

This opener is a somewhat simplified version of the standard Weave Self opener.

1. Weave Self (Make sure you're in combat first)
2. Glyph of Storms
3. Lightning Orb - for Relic of Fireworks
4. Optional: Cyclone to group enemies.
5. Fire Attunement (F/A)
6. Flame Uprising
7. Pyro Vortex
8. Fire Attunement (F/F)
9. Wildfire - for Relic of Fireworks
10. Cauterizing Strike
11. Earth Attunement (E/F)
12. Lava Skin
13. Earthen Vortex
14. Fire Attunement (F/E)
15. Dust Storm
16. Flame Uprising
17. Air Attunement (A/F)
18. Pyro Vortex
19. Air Attunement (A/A)
20. Quantum Strike
21. Lightning Orb
22. Water Attunement (W/A - This completes Weave Self)
23. Shearing Edge
24. Fire Attunement (F/W)
25. Tidal Surge - for Relic of Fireworks
26. Flame Uprising
27. Fire Attunement (F/F)
28. Cauterizing Strike
29. Wildfire
30. Air Attunement (A/F)

From here, use the loops below to determine a loose priority for skills.

If not using Relic of Fireworks and Weave Self, instead simply open on Dual-Air and follow the priorities below.

Priority Loops

After your opener, refer to the loose priority loops below. Use Pyro Vortex off cooldown, other than Gale Strike.

Fire Attunement:

1. Wildfire - for Relic of Fireworks
2. Flame Uprising
3. Cauterizing Strike

Air Attunement:

1. Lightning Orb - Relic of Fireworks / Vulnerability
2. Quantum Strike
3. Try not to interrupt auto-attack chains.

Double-attune to each element off cooldown, but never camp one attunement. Other strong skills you can use include:

• Twin Strike
• Lava Skin

Weave Self

There are two ways to use Weave Self. To learn the full loop, review the raid build listed above for detailed information on the rotation, though note you may need to remove some auto-attacks from it if you lack Alacrity due to the altered recharge.

For a simplified method of using Weave Self, simply use the skill and then ensure you double-attune to both Fire Attunement and Air Attunement as soon as possible. This doesn't grant you the full duration, but it does give you much higher damage for a period of time.

Alternatively, use Glyph of Elementals instead. This is a small DPS loss but provides a huggable friend.

Defense

• Riptide - evade + heal + water field
• Aqua Siphon - heal
• Tidal Surge - heal
• Water Globe - heal + water field
• Earthen Vortex - evade
• Sand Squall - Magnetic Aura + Protection
• Dust Storm - area Blindness
• Blast water fields to heal

Crowd Control

• Tidal Surge
• Cyclone - very good for grouping trash into your Lightning Orb.
• Polaric Leap
• Gale Strike