Build:Weaver - Power DPS

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

Focused on: Direct damage

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on March 01, 2025 and is up to date for the June 24, 2025 patch.

Overview

A power DPS build for Weaver. This is a fast paced DPS build that swaps between attunements constantly for Dual Attack skills.

Skill Bar

Sword/Dagger

Utility

Skill Variants

Healing

• Arcane Brilliance is a blast finisher, which may be useful in fractals as Might can run low if your group is running without a healer.
• Aquatic Stance provides more group healing at the expense of personal healing.
• Signet of Restoration will provide the most Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar uptime in fights with very low pressure where you aren't pressing your heal skill.

Utility

• Conjure Lightning Hammer for large hitbox bosses, where you know you will be able to pick up the second conjure.
• Unravel can replace Primordial Stance or Arcane Blast, particularly useful in very fast fractal groups.
• Lightning Flash is a DPS loss compared to Arcane Blast, but a 900-range teleport can come in useful.

Elite

• Conjure Fiery Greatsword could be more beneficial on very fast bosses (such as in fractals) if a second DPS uses the other FGS.
• Glyph of Elementals (fire) is a moderate DPS loss, but is much simpler to use.
  • Summon the elemental in Fire Attunement and use the flip skill off cooldown.

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Specializations

Trait Variants

• You should bring Raging Storm if Fury uptime is bad or you're fighting a non-defiant target.
• Bolt to the Heart can be swapped to Fresh Air for an alternative rotation.
• Master's Fortitude might be worth taking in fractals as Weakness uptime will likely be poor so you won't benefit from the increased critical chance. The extra vitality will provide some additional precision via Elements of Rage, but you will still need to make up the rest.

Equipment

Optimised Equipment

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

Infusion
x18

Relic

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar is a tiny DPS loss
  • It would be optimal to use Dragon stats for the leg and back pieces. This is a very small DPS gain, but provides some extra vitality. Feel free to run full Berserker stats.
• Relic of the Weaver is a strong option for higher burst in content with very fast boss phases and longer split phases (such as fractals).

Equipment Variants

• Sigil of Superior Sigil of the Night or slaying sigils if applicable.

Consumables

Food

• or ascended versions

Utility

• or slaying potions

Usage

Sword/Dagger Rotation

Start in Air Attunement/Air Attunement

Starting in Air Attunement/Fire Attunement and attuning to Air Attunement/Air Attunement just before starting the encounter or phase will mean you have Elements of Rage active for your opening burst.

Autoattacks are omitted from the written rotation for ease of reading. During the Loop you should attempt to finish your autoattack chains, but during the Weave Self sections you don't need to worry about this.

Weave Self

Part 1

1. Weave Self
2. Lightning Storm
3. Quantum Strike
4. Fire Attunement to Fire/Air
5. Flame Uprising
6. Ride the Lightning
7. Pyro Vortex
8. Fire Attunement to Fire/Fire
9. Cauterizing Strike
10. Ring of Fire (elementalist)
11. Fire Grab
12. Earth Attunement to Earth/Fire
13. Lava Skin
14. Fire Attunement to Fire/Earth
15. Churning Earth
16. Flame Uprising
17. Earthquake
18. Air Attunement to Air/Fire during the cast of Earthquake
19. Autoattack and Air Attunement to Air/Air again as soon as you are able
20. Auto Attack until Fire Attunement is available

Part 2

1. Ride the Lightning
2. Quantum Strike
3. Fire Attunement to Fire/Air
4. Pyro Vortex
5. Flame Uprising
6. Fire Attunement to Fire/Fire
7. Cauterizing Strike
8. Ring of Fire (elementalist)
9. Air Attunement to Air/Fire
10. Fire Grab
11. Water Attunement to Water/Air
12. Ride the Lightning
13. Shearing Edge
14. Fire Attunement to Fire/Water
15. Flame Uprising
16. Twin Strike
17. Fire Attunement to Fire/Fire

Loop

1. Autoattack in Fire/Fire and use Cauterizing Strike, Ring of Fire (elementalist) and Fire Grab as they become available. Make sure to finish your auto chains.
2. Flame Uprising as soon as it's available and Air Attunement during the cast, to Air/Fire
3. Autoattack until you can use Air Attunement to Air/Air
4. Ride the Lightning
5. Autoattack until Fire Attunement is available
6. Quantum Strike, and Fire Attunement during the cast, to Fire/Air
7. Flame Uprising
8. Pyro Vortex
9. Fire Strike ⇒ Fire Swipe ⇒ Searing Slash (weaver)
10. Ride the Lightning
11. Fire Attunement, to Fire/Fire

Video example (Bolt to the Heart)

Video example (Fresh Air)

Video example (Unravel rotation)

Sword/Warhorn rotation

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Start in Air Attunement/Fire Attunement

Autoattacks are generally omitted from the written rotation for ease of reading. During the Loop you should attempt to finish your autoattack chains, but during the Weave Self sections you don't need to worry about this.

Weave Self

Part 1

1. Wildfire
2. Weave Self
3. Lightning Storm and Air Attunement to Air/Air during the cast
4. Quantum Strike
5. Fire Attunement to Fire/Air
6. Lightning Orb
7. Flame Uprising
8. Pyro Vortex
9. Fire Attunement to Fire/Fire
10. Cauterizing Strike
11. Earth Attunement to Earth/Fire
12. Lava Skin
13. Earthen Vortex
14. Fire Attunement to Fire/Earth
15. Flame Uprising
16. Dust Storm
17. Air Attunement to Air/Fire
18. Autoattack and Air Attunement to Air/Air again as soon as you are able
19. Auto Attack until Fire Attunement is available

Part 2

1. Quantum Strike
2. Fire Attunement to Fire/Air
3. Pyro Vortex
4. Flame Uprising
5. Fire Attunement to Fire/Fire
6. Cauterizing Strike
7. Air Attunement to Air/Fire
8. Water Attunement to Water/Air
9. Lightning Orb
10. Shearing Edge
11. Fire Attunement to Fire/Water
12. Flame Uprising
13. Twin Strike
14. Autoattack until Fire Attunement is available
15. Fire Attunement to Fire/Fire
16. Wildfire
17. Cauterizing Strike
18. Flame Uprising
19. Air Attunement to Air/Fire
20. Pyro Vortex
21. Autoattack and Air Attunement to Air/Air again as soon as you are able
22. Auto Attack until Fire Attunement is available

Loop

1. Quantum Strike
2. Fire Attunement to Fire/Air
3. Flame Uprising
4. Lightning Orb
5. Pyro Vortex
6. Fire Attunement to Fire/Fire
7. Cauterizing Strike
8. Flame Uprising
9. Air Attunement to Air/Fire
10. Auto Attack chain twice
11. Air Attunement to Air/Air
12. Auto Attack chain twice
13. Repeat from step 1

• Use Wildfire as it comes off cooldown

Video example

Video example (Fresh Air)

General Tips

• Repeat the Loop until Weave Self is available again.
• If you aren't fast enough to reach the Water Attunement part of the Weave Self burst before the buff runs out, just skip the water section entirely and proceed to the main loop.
• Make sure to use Arcane Blast enough that it isn't sitting at full ammo. You should only use it when in Fire Attunement/Air Attunement, and should try to line it up with other damage modifiers, such or Fresh Air or the bonus power from Conjure Fiery Greatsword (if using).
• Use Primordial Stance shortly after you swap to Fire Attunement/Air Attunement to make sure as many of its ticks happen while you're in double fire as possible.
• After the first use of Glyph of Storms (in either attunement), use Firestorm (Glyph of Storms) off cooldown. Use Lightning Storm instead if you know the target will die or phase within 20 seconds.
• Make sure not to interrupt your auto attack chains, as their damage is heavily backloaded.
• In encounters you should always be looking for opportunities to reset your attunement back to Air Attunement/Air Attunement so that you can repeat your burst. Split Phases or periods where the target is immune to damage are ideal - try to time your attunement swap so that you enter Air Attunement/Air Attunement just before the target becomes vulnerable again so that you will benefit from Elements of Rage.
• Make sure that you have the boss selected before casting Ride the Lightning to avoid flying away to your death.

Breakbars

• Polaric Leap inflicts a short daze that is rounded up to be equivalent to a 1 second daze when used against a breakbar.
• Updraft is available as your Air Attunement 5 skill. Be mindful of your positioning when casting this, as it will move you approximately 300 units away from your target.
• Earthquake is available as your Earth Attunement 4 skill.
• Gale Strike is available as your Air/Earth 3 skill.
• After a successful Weave Self burst, you will have Tailored Victory available for 10 seconds. Unfortunately, using it will remove the Perfect Weave buff, so you should try to avoid using Tailored Victory unless it happens to be about to expire.

CC Rotation

As CC is generally a DPS loss, you typically only want to use those skills that are easily available during your rotation. However, there are some defiance bars where the boss cannot be damaged until they are broken. Thus you can do a full rotation of CC skills without worrying about lost DPS:

1. Air Attunement if you're not already in it
2. Polaric Leap
3. Earth Attunement
4. Gale Strike
5. Updraft - you can cast this earlier if you happened to start in Air/Air
6. Air Attunement - this is to prepare to start from the beginning of the loop in Air/Air once the bar is broken.
7. Earthquake

The entire loop deals ~750 defiance break (the tooltip for Updraft is 100 lower than the correct value).