Build:Weaver - Condi DPS

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage

Designed for: Raids

Difficulty:

TBD

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

Overview

A condition DPS build for Weaver. This build has a complex rotation, but deals strong sustained damage through Burning and Bleeding, and has good access to CC and various utility skills.

Skill Bar

Sword/Focus

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Mainhand Dagger can be taken for more DPS, though the rotation involves rushing back and forth through the boss, which may not be practical.
• Scepter can be taken at a small DPS loss, but is almost completely ranged.

Skill Variants

• Glyph of Elemental Power instead of Glyph of Lesser Elementals for ease of use and less of a precasting requirement, at the cost of ~1700 DPS.
• Aquatic Stance provides more group healing at the expense of personal healing.
• Glyph of Elemental Harmony for more burst healing at the expense of sustained healing.
• If you'd prefer, you can use Dagger over Sword for increased damage output. However, dagger is not a good idea for every encounter due to dashes in the rotation. The stats, traits and sigils used remain identical for both builds.

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Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Sword
Viper

Focus
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x10

Infusion
x8

Equipment Variants

Running Rune of Superior Rune of the Elementalist with 15 Malign and 3 Spiteful infusions would be a minor DPS loss, but would allow you to use ascended food such as for their bonus effects.

Consumables

Food:

Utility:

• • or for a cheaper alternative

Usage

Be very careful not to accidentally cast Obsidian Flesh while attuned to earth as it will lock you out of using other skills for 4 seconds, massively reducing your damage output.

If using Glyph of Lesser Elementals (fire), precast 4 elementals before the fight if possible. Cast the skill in Fire Attunement for fire elementals which apply tons of Burning.

Rotations for both the Sword and Dagger mainhand versions involve frequent attunement swapping to maximize the usage of high-damage, low cooldown skills particularly whilst Weave Self is active. While it is ideal to follow the rotations in these examples, encounter mechanics may force you to adapt your rotation around them.

Video example rotation for Sword/Focus by Roul

Video example rotation for Dagger/Focus by Ryan

Video example rotation for Scepter/Focus by Fennec

Breakbars

This build has access to CC options that are easier to use than Staff Weaver, however it still faces the problem of having to wait for two attunement swap cooldowns before gaining access to most of its CC skills.

• Comet inflicts 200 breakbar damage.
• Gale inflicts 400 breakbar damage and is your strongest CC skill.

For the Sword build:

• Polaric Leap inflicts a short daze that is rounded up to be equivalent to a 1 second daze or 100 breakbar damage. This is your only CC skill that is available after only one attunement swap
• Gale Strike inflicts 125 breakbar damage.

For the Dagger build:

• Katabatic Wind inflicts 150 breakbar damage but requires the awkward attunement combination of Air and Water. This should be saved for a last-resort option.