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:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A strike-based weaver build for open world. This build has very high burst damage and good mobility.

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Sword/Dagger

Utility

Equipment

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

This set uses similar gear to Build:Weaver_-_Power_DPS_Sword, making it excellent for general 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

Rune
x6

Consumables

Prioritize ascended food over everything else; steak (power) and flatbread (conditions). Using cheap/budget food is perfectly acceptable in open world.

Damage

and offer the highest damage when solo

Defense

for more dodges, for sustain against trash.

Farming

Run and (or its other variants) when trying to maximize gold per hour.

Usage

General

This build relies heavily on cycling between Fire Attunement and Air Attunement while double attuning to each in order to maintain Elements of Rage. Water Attunement and Earth Attunement are typically only used for defense or crowd control.

Damage

You have two major damage buffs with overlapping windows. You should try to fit all your major damage skills in these windows:

• Elements of Rage
• Elemental Surge

This build is quite easy to deal damage with if you follow this skill priority based on your attunement:

• Air/Air: Prioritize Quantum Strike and AA Chains
• Fire/Air: Flame Uprising > Pyro Vortex > Ride the Lightning
• Fire/Fire: Fire Grab > Ring of Fire (elementalist) > Flame Uprising > Cauterizing Strike
• Air/Fire: AA Chains

If you wind up in Water:

• Twin Strike > Water AA Chain > Shearing Edge

Earth: Earth actually has a few useful blast finishers which can help with might if you have a fire field down

• Earthquake > Lava Skin Try to leave earth as soon as possible

Ideally you'll use your Primordial Stance in Air for Vulnerability, though if a mob is already capped on vuln using it in Fire is higher DPS. Try not to interrupt your AA chains in Air, it's fine to interrupt fire if a big skill is about to come off cooldown.

Defense

Sword/Dagger's defense is somewhat low.

• Riptide - heal and evade
• Frost Aura - damage reduction
• Cleansing Wave - condi cleanse
• Earthen Vortex - evade & blast finisher

Focus has significantly more defensive options & CC, though loses DPS:

• Magnetic Wave, Swirling Winds - projectile hate
• Obsidian Flesh - invuln

Crowd Control

• Updraft
• Earthquake
• Gale Strike

Variants

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

• Glyph of Elemental Harmony - burst heal
• Signet of Restoration - passive healing

Utility Skills

• Arcane Shield - defense
• Twist of Fate - stunbreak and evade
• Glyph of Storms - high damage and AOE blind
• Arcane Wave - more AOE
• Lightning Flash - mobility
• Stone Resonance - defensive barrier and stability
• Conjure Lightning Hammer - Burst damage and cleave

Elite Skills

• Weave Self - high CC
• Glyph of Elementals - Summon provides damage in fire, tanking in earth or sustain in water

Trait Variants

• Fresh Air - Higher burst damage, especially good against trash
• Zephyr's Boon - Swiftness and fury uptime if running Fire traitline due to Sunspot
• One with Air - Mobility
• Bolstered Elements / Invigorating Strikes - More defense
• Superior Elements - Sacrifice HP for more damage in groups if not crit capped

Arcane

Arcane can replace Water for an increase to defense at the loss of DPS.

• Final Shielding - Trades Protection uptime for passive blocks
• Arcane Resurrection - Boosts revive power in group events

Fire

Fire can replace Water as an alternative damage option and might generation if needed.

• Conjurer - Use this if you plan on holding onto conjures
• Burning Fire - Passive condition cleanse
• Persisting Flames - DPS option if might generation is not needed or obtained elsewhere
• Blinding Ashes - Defensive option vs trash

Weapon Variants

• Focus - Defensive offhand
• Staff - Ranged option for open world zergs

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Knight, Soldier - Trinkets can be mixed with other sets for increased defense
• Marauder - Most stat efficient defensive option with a minor damage loss

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Flame Legion, Rune of Superior Rune of Strength - Budget option
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Eagle - Option if needing more precision
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack - Self boon generation if these boons are not gained elsewhere or from other players
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Herald, Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, Rune of Superior Rune of the Scrapper - Defensive options
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - Strongest defensive rune if zerging

Sigils

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air - Alternative DPS
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - Defense
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Strength - Might gen if not running Pyromancer's Puissance

Consumable Variants

• / + - Budget options
• - Budget option with more precision
• - High damage buff against trash
• - Burst self might gen, especially when cleaving