Build:Weaver - Staff Weaver

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

A long-ranged staff build for elementalist for open world. This build will mostly spam

Lava Font

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.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Healing

We default to

Glyph of Elemental Harmony

, it provides strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement. You can consider other options:

• Arcane Brilliance
  - potentially the strongest heal if there are 5 enemies in range, plus a blast finisher, but very weak healing if there are no nearby enemies.
• Ether Renewal
  - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channelling time. Arcane Shield can help with channelling it without getting interrupted.
• Signet of Restoration
  - passive healing over time, but very weak heal on demand, leaving you vulnerable to burst damage.

Utility Skills

Glyph of Storms

provides ranged AoE damage, use it on Fire for consistent damage, or on Air for burst damage but a longer cooldown. Can be replaced.

Arcane Wave

provides ranged AoE burst damage. Can be replaced.

Arcane Shield

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:

• Arcane Blast
  - Good single target damage.
• Primordial Stance
  - great AoE damage but in melee range.
• Lightning Flash
  - Mobility.
• Armor of Earth
  - stunbreak with Stability.
• Twist of Fate
  - stunbreak and dodge, and has two charges.
• Cleansing Fire
  - condition cleanse.

Elite Skills

We default to

Glyph of Elementals

. Cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and 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.

• Conjure Fiery Greatsword
  - provides high damage with skills 4 and 5, and mobility with skill 3.

Specializations

Trait Variants

• Power Overwhelming
  - when playing in groups that provide Might.
• Ferocious Winds
  +
  Stormsoul
  - when playing in groups that provide Fury.

Specialization variants

Arcane

Replaces Air. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage.

Final Shielding

has excellent synergy with the active skill of your elemental from

Glyph of Elementals

.

• Arcane Resurrection
  - Improves revive power in groups.
• Bountiful Power
  - 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.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

• This setup provides 100% critical chance with Fury thanks to
  Zephyr's Speed
  ,
  Elements of Rage
  , and
  Superior Elements
  .
  • Dual Attacks are key to help maintain Weakness for the bonus of Superior Elements. Your Earth autottacks
    Stoning
    will also help.
  • When solo, your sourcess of Fury are
    Zephyr's Boon
    and
    Raging Storm
    . You will trigger Zephyr's Boon with
    Sunspot
    and by using
    Arcane Wave
    on fields such as
    Lava Font
    . When playing in groups that provide Fury, change your traits to
    Ferocious Winds
    and
    Stormsoul
    .

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• Plate of Spicy Moa Wings
  /
  Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
• Superior Sharpening Stone
  /
  Tin of Fruitcake

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• Plate of Spicy Moa Wings
  /
  Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
• Superior Sharpening Stone
  /
  Tin of Fruitcake

Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• Birthday Blaster
  /
  Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake
• Peppermint Omnomberry Bar
• Sharpening Skull
  (and variants)

Usage

Damage

• Your damage skills are
  Lava Font
  ,
  Flame Burst
  ,
  Pyroclastic Blast
  ,
  Eruption
  ,
  Lightning Surge
  ,
  Plasma Blast
  ,
  Shock Wave
  , and
  Ice Spike
  . Fill in the gaps with auto attacks.
• Lava Font
  is your main source of damage, make sure to spam it. When attuning to other elements, go back to
  Fire Attunement
  as soon as possible.
• Generally speaking, you only want to double attune to
  Fire Attunement
  , unless you really need the healing of
  Geyser
  , the crowd control of
  Gust
  , or (in extremely rare occasions) the Magnetic Aura of
  Magnetic Aura
  .
• Use
  Firestorm
  and
  Meteor Shower
  on groups of enemies.
• When solo, your sourcess of Fury are
  Zephyr's Boon
  and
  Raging Storm
  . You will trigger Zephyr's Boon with
  Sunspot
  and by using
  Arcane Wave
  on fields such as
  Lava Font
  . When playing in groups that provide Fury, change your traits to
  Ferocious Winds
  and
  Stormsoul
  .

Opener

For burst damage, start combat attuned to

Earth Attunement

+

Fire Attunement

and do the following:

1. Eruption
   and attune to
   Fire Attunement
   +
   Earth Attunement
2. Lava Font
3. Pyroclastic Blast
4. Shock Wave
   and attune to
   Fire Attunement
   +
   Fire Attunement
5. Flame Burst
6. Firestorm
7. Lava Font
8. Meteor Shower
   and attune to
   Air Attunement
   +
   Fire Attunement
9. Lightning Surge
10. Plasma Blast
    and attune to
    Fire Attunement
    +
    Air Attunement
11. Lava Font

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
  Swift Revenge
  to help run out of attacks.
• Burning Retreat
  is a powerful defensive evade and movement skill, can be used in any direction by rotating your character.
• Sandstorm
  inflicts Blinded in a large AoE, useful against groups of trash mobs.
• As a weaver, you can attune to water and then to another element to access
  Healing Rain
  to remove conditions, provide Regeneration, and a water field. You can double attune to Water to use
  Geyser
  for healing and a water field.
• Ice Spike
  ,
  Eruption
  and
  Transmute Earth
  can be used on water fields for additional area healing or on fire fields for extra might.
• Magnetic Aura
  provides Magnetic Aura for projectile reflection.
• If you need more defense, you can slot and use
  Stone Resonance
  .
• Lahar
  provides 1 stack of personal Stability.
• Arcane Shield
  can be used to block dangerous attacks.

Glyph of Elementals

Elementals from

Glyph of Elementals

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

• Gust
  - Knockback
• Pile Driver
  - Daze
• Static Field
  and
  Unsteady Ground
  - Stun and Knockback, respectively. These only work if an enemy crosses the edge of the skill, they have no effect on targets that don't cross it.
• Frozen Ground
  and
  Shock Wave
  - Soft CC options.
• Crashing Waves
  - From Ice Elemental.
• Shocking Bolt
  - From Air Elemental.
• If you need a lot of crowd control you can use
  Conjure Frost Bow
  so that you and an ally can use
  Deep Freeze
  .