Weaver - Condi DPS
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Focused on: Condition damage
Designed for: Raids
Expansions required: 
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
Weapon Variants
- Scepter deals less DPS than Pistol, but the rotation is much more forgiving.
- Scepter/Focus is the best weapon set for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.
- Mainhand Dagger can also be taken, though it is lower damage and the rotation involves standing inside the boss' hitbox, which may not be practical.
- Staff is also an option, though it needs larger hitboxes to be competitive.
Skill Variants
- is similar DPS to if you are unable to start the fight with some elementals active. It could also be taken if you don't want to deal with the elemental AI, or if you want the damage reduction.
- Be aware that the traited version from still provides toughness, which may mess with tanking.
- Starting with no elementals, it takes ~3 minutes for to overtake in damage.
- will be better if you can start with three elementals.
- provides more group healing at the expense of personal healing.
- for more burst healing at the expense of sustained healing.
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Equipment
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Sinister
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
Viper
x6
x18
- , and all provide very similar damage, so any combination can be used.
Non-SotO Relics
Unfortunately there aren't any good core damage relics for condi weaver, so it is recommended to pick an option that offers some utility instead.
Consumables
Food
- or ascended alternatives
Utility
-
- or for a cheaper alternative
Usage
If using , precast as many elementals as possible before the fight. Cast the skill in for fire elementals which apply tons of Burning.
Rotations for all versions involve frequent attunement swapping to maximize the usage of high-damage, low cooldown skills particularly whilst is active. While it is ideal to follow the rotations in these examples, encounter mechanics may force you to adapt your rotation around them.
While the core loop is very simple, maximising damage depends on optimal use of - you want to start with an attunement to fire to get the 20% condition damage boost, then during the 20 second duration work in the other attunements without losing too much damage. Attuning to the final element (water) just as it will expire will grant Perfect Weave for a further 10 seconds and allow you extend the bonus to almost 30 seconds in total.
To keep the rotation more legible, autoattacks will not be included in general.
Other Rotations:
Video example rotation for Sword/Warhorn and Dagger/Warhorn by xChris
Video example rotations for Staff by Fennec
Pistol/Warhorn Rotation
Pistol's rotation is so long that there is no consistent loop to it.
Start in Earth/Earth with Fire and Earth bullets stocked.
Weave Self
- ⇒ if you have an earth bullet stocked
- ⇒ otherwise
- as soon as it's available
- Autoattack and as soon as it's available
- as soon as it's available
Post-Weave Self
- Return to start of Weave Self
Video example (with matching Weave Selfs)
Scepter/Warhorn Rotation
Weave Self
The majority of the section is very similar to the basic loop, but the basic loop takes slightly too long and so using it here would result in losing the buff just before attuning to Water. Hence some skills are skipped to make the first two loops faster. If in doubt, just attunement swap as soon as you can.
Precast and start in Air/Fire
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Fast Loop 1 - during the cast of Wildfire
- as soon as it's available
- as soon as it's available
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Fast Loop 2 - as soon as it's available
- until Phoenix is available
- ⇒
Normal Loop - as soon as it's available
- until Phoenix is available
- ⇒
-
Exit
Basic Loop
- , and (if available) until Fire Attunement is available
- until Dragon's Tooth is available
- ⇒
- Return to start of loop
This boils down to rotating through ⇒ ⇒ and using other skills off cooldown (see general tips below).
The second time you reach you have to do the lead-in slightly differently. At step 8 in the basic loop, go to instead, then:
- - this is just to fill time so that you can immediately swap away from Air Attunement after casting
- Repeat from step 5 of the Weave Self opener
As you won't have pre-cast this time, you'll need to use ⇒ instead at step 12 of the Weave Self opener
Scepter/Focus Rotation
is the flip skill of . The latter will regularly activate during your rotation but the timing can vary. Whenever is used in the rotation be aware you may need to first activate (Fire Shield is instance cast so just double tap it).
Weave Self
The majority of the section is very similar to the basic loop, but the basic loop takes slightly too long and so using it here would result in losing the buff just before attuning to Water. Hence some skills are skipped to make the first two loops faster. If in doubt, just attunement swap as soon as you can.
Precast and start in Air/Fire
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Fast Loop 1 - during the cast of Flamewall
- as soon as it's available
- as soon as it's available
-
Fast Loop 2 - as soon as it's available
- until Phoenix is available
- ⇒
-
Normal Loop - as soon as it's available
- until Phoenix is available
- ⇒
-
Exit
Basic Loop
- and until Fire Attunement is available
- until Dragon's Tooth is available
- ⇒
- Return to start of loop
This boils down to rotating through ⇒ ⇒ and using other skills off cooldown (see general tips below). You can delay the swap into Fire/Earth slightly if is about to come off cooldown.
The second time you reach you have to do the lead-in slightly differently. At step 7 in the basic loop, go to instead, then:
- - if this isn't available here, just skip and use it whenever it is available
- - this is just to fill time so that you can immediately swap away from Air Attunement after casting
- Repeat Weave Self opener
As you won't have pre-cast this time, you'll need to use ⇒ instead at step 11 of the Weave Self opener
Dagger/Focus Rotation
Opener
The opener for Condi Weaver relies on maximising the effectiveness of . Swapping to provides 20% condi damage (Woven Fire) for the duration of . Attuning to all four elements clears these effects and gives Perfect Weave for a further 10 seconds - providing all the buffs. Therefore, it is valuable to only attune to the final element at the last possible moment in order to gain nearly 30 seconds of the Woven Fire. If you have doubts about your speed or Alacrity/Quickness, then you can attune to instead of at step 30 and then skip ahead to step 37 once is available (not all skills will be available so it is important to cover as much of your time in as possible with the cast time of ).
Begin in Air/Earth
- into Fire/Air
- into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
- into Earth/Fire
- into Earth/Earth
- until Ring of Earth is available
- into Fire/Earth
- into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
- into Earth/Fire
- until Ring of Earth is available
- into Air/Earth
- into Fire/Air
- into Water/Fire during Drake's Breath to trigger Perfect Weave
- into Earth/Water
- until you can swap into Earth/Earth
Loop
Compared to the section, the central loop is very simple. You bounce between Earth and Fire, bookending earth sections with and fire sections with .
- into Earth/Earth
- until Ring of Earth is available
- into Fire/Earth
- into Fire/Fire
- into Earth/Fire during Drake's Breath
- until Transmute Fire is available
- Return to start of loop
Weave Self
Performed perfectly with perfect boons, will come off cooldown again in Earth/Earth and can immediately be used again. Below is an example loop based on these assumptions. In practice, you may need to improvise somewhat but bear the following in mind:
- You should either be in mainhand , or immediately switch to so that you gain Woven Fire.
- As the buffs last for approximately 30s, you may not wish to use it if the boss will phase before they expire.
- If this is the case, you can start the next phase with the Opener.
- If you have doubts about your speed or boons, you can delay using until just before step 7.
- Loop through Air early on so that, if you see the the buff begin to flash, you can quickly attune to water to get Perfect Weave.
From Earth/Earth
- into Fire/Earth
- into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
- into Air/Fire
- into Earth/Air
- into Earth/Earth
- until Earthen Rush is available
- into Fire/Earth
- into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
- into Earth/Fire
- until Ring of Earth is available
- into Fire/Earth
- into Fire/Fire during Drake's Breath
- until Flamewall is available
- into Water/Fire during Drake's Breath to trigger Perfect Weave
- into Fire/Water during Cone of Cold
- into Fire/Fire
- until Drake's Breath is available
- into Earth/Fire during Drake's Breath
- until you can swap into Earth/Earth
- Return to the Loop
Hammer Rotation
Weave Self
Start in Air/Earth
- as soon as it's available
- Autoattack and again as soon as it's available
- Autoattack and as soon as it's available
Basic Loop
Hammer does not have a perfect loop, but the core structure remains the same. You attune to Dual Fire, then Earth, then back to Dual Fire.
During this, you use the following skills off cooldown:
- - use twice per loop, and delay swapping to until the second use
- All utility skills - use in Fire, and just before swapping to Earth Attunement
- Use just before the circular projectiles will expire, and immediately regain them with
When is nearly ready, swap to after and repeat the Weave Self section.
General tips
- Use off cooldown while in Fire/Fire, Earth/Fire, or Earth/Earth.
- Use off cooldown when in mainhand Fire.
- Use , and off cooldown.
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.
- inflicts 200 breakbar damage.
- inflicts 400 breakbar damage and is your strongest CC skill.
For the Dagger build:
- inflicts 150 breakbar damage but requires the awkward attunement combination of Air and Water. This should be saved for a last-resort option.
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