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 August 08, 2025 and is up to date for the August 19, 2025 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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Skill Bar

Sword/Dagger

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Warhorn replaces dagger. Less damage but more utility. Requires weaponmaster training with Secrets of the Obscure.
• 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

We default to Signet of Restoration as it provides good passive healing and works great with weaver's fast-paced playstyle, but very weak heal on demand, leaving you vulnerable to burst damage. Other alternatives are:

• Glyph of Elemental Harmony - strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement.
• Arcane Brilliance - 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: Guide:What are Combo Fields).
• Ether Renewal - very high healing and condition removal throughout its long channelling time. Great option for raw healing if you can afford the cast time.

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.
• Glyph of Elemental Power - very flexible skill that can do damage, or cleanse conditions, or daze enemies, or give barrier, depending on your current attunement, and breaks stun.
• Cleansing Fire - condition cleanse and stun break.
• 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

dagger
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Relic

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Zhed" armor, "Bonetti's Rapier" sword, "Usoku's Needle" dagger, "Kodanroar" warhorn. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide:How to Gear a Character.

• Dagger can be replaced with warhorn to trade damage for more support. Requires weaponmaster training with Secrets of the Obscure.
• 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 or skills if required.

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
• Ride the Lightning, Fire Grab and Churning Earth will activate Relic of Fireworks. (the relic doesn't care about the cooldown reduction from Pyromancer's Training or Aeromancer's Training).
• 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 Ride the Lightning and Fire Grab 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. Ride the Lightning (activates Relic of Fireworks)
4. Quantum Strike
5. Fire Attunement (F/A)
6. Flame Uprising
7. Pyro Vortex
8. Fire Attunement (F/F)
9. Fire Grab
10. Cauterizing Strike
11. Ring of Fire (elementalist)
12. Earth Attunement (E/F)
13. Lava Skin
14. Earthen Vortex
15. Fire Attunement (F/E)
16. Flame Uprising
17. Air Attunement (A/F)
18. Pyro Vortex
19. Air Attunement (A/A)
20. Quantum Strike
21. Ride the Lightning
22. Water Attunement (W/A - This completes Weave Self)
23. Shearing Edge
24. Fire Attunement (F/W)
25. Flame Uprising
26. Fire Attunement (F/F)
27. Cauterizing Strike
28. Fire Grab
29. Ring of Fire (elementalist)
30. Air Attunement (A/F)

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

Priority Loops

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

Fire Attunement:

1. Fire Grab - for damage and Relic of Fireworks, but ensure the enemy is Burning first to deal higher damage.
2. Flame Uprising
3. Cauterizing Strike

Air Attunement:

1. Quantum Strike
2. Ride the Lightning
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 DPS loss but provides a summon to tank some damage for you.

Defense

• Riptide - evade + heal + water field
• Aqua Siphon - heal
• Frost Aura ⇒ Transmute Frost - heal
• Cleansing Wave - heal and condition removal
• Earthen Vortex - evade
• Updraft - evade
• Blast water fields to heal

Crowd Control

• Updraft
• Earthquake
• Polaric Leap
• Gale Strike