Weaver - Power Weaver

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World, Open World General and [[|]]

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This build was last updated on August 20, 2023 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

Staff

Utility

Weapons

• We take Sword/Dagger as they are the highest DPS options for this build.
• Staff is useful for farm zergs as it has quite a lot of AoE.

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

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

Specializations

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

Fire Fire can replace Arcane 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

Equipment

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

General PVE

• 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

staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Dragon Gear

This set uses gear that is mostly only useful in open world, but provides a significant increase to HP while maintaining nearly identical DPS.

Head
Dragon

Shoulders
Dragon

Chest
Dragon

Hands
Dragon

Legs
Dragon

Feet
Dragon

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Accessory
Dragon

Amulet
Dragon

Ring
Dragon

Ring
Dragon

sword
Dragon

dagger
Dragon

Sigil

Sigil

staff
Dragon

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variants

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Flame Legion / Rune of Superior Rune of Strength - budget DPS
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defense

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

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

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