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Weaver - Condi Weaver

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

Focused on: Condition damage

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

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on February 19, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A very powerful condition-based weaver build for open world. This build offers very high DPS and defense with an active, skill-based playstyle. Condition Weaver can be very difficult to master, but is one of the strongest options for solo play.


Skill Bar

Sword/Focus
Scepter/X
Utility


Weapon Breakdown

  • Staff - can be used for light tagging in zergs


Skill Variants

Damage

  • Glyph of Storms - AoE burst damage from Firestorm or pulsing blind with Sandstorm.
  • Glyph of Elementals - flame elemental provides high DPS while water and earth give you a reliable front line.
  • Arcane Brilliance - blast finisher.


Defense / Sustain

  • Glyph of Elemental Harmony - burst heal.
  • Stone Resonance - provides additional barrier and stability; gives the build a wide margin for error
  • Arcane Shield - breaks stun and blocks attacks.
  • Twist of Fate - fantastic stunbreak
  • Signet of Earth - decent single-target DPS and provides extra durability


Utility

  • Lightning Flash - for mobility.
  • Conjure Fiery Greatsword - high AoE damage on a long cooldown, mobility


Specializations

  • Blinding Ashes - more Blind Blind if having trouble with trash mobs.
  • Bolstered Elements, Invigorating Strikes - drastic increase in defense at the cost of damage; this option is extremely strong with the Template:Celestial variant. If using this option, run Sigil of Superior Sigil of Smoldering in place of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth


Arcane

Arcane can be taken in place of Earth for an increase to active defense and boon support.


Air

Air can be taken in place of Earth for a boost to strike damage. Use only with high-power variants.


Equipment

Feel free to use Exotic in place of Ascended. This option uses gear similar to that of Build:Weaver_-_Condi_DPS. This makes it a great option for general PVE.

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
Scepter
Viper
x
Viper
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6


  • If not taking Weaver's Prowess, it is recommended to replace Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Smoldering


Variant Equipment

Defense

  • Celestial Celestial - Versatile gear set that does not lose much DPS compared to Viper Viper thanks to the additional boon duration. This can be run with Bolstered Elements and Invigorating Strikes for a massive increase to defense at a loss of roughly 30% DPS.
  • Trailblazer Trailblazer - Defensive set that trades about 15-20% DPS for +300% effective HP. This gearset is very expensive and should not be taken as your first set. Should be run with Rune of Superior Rune of the Nightmare or Rune of Superior Rune of the Undead.
  • Dire Dire - budget Trailblazer Trailblazer; this should be used with Rune of Superior Rune of Balthazar or Rune of Superior Rune of the Undead and Sigil of Superior Sigil of Smoldering.


Runes

  • Rune of Superior Rune of the Weaver - defensive runes, has extreme synergy with Celestial Celestial gear
  • Rune of Superior Rune of the Renegade - budget DPS


Sigils

  • Sigil of Superior Sigil of Cleansing - helps with condi cleanse
  • Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - strong defensive option


Consumables

Food
  • Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
  • - farming
  • - DPS
  • - defense
Utility
  • (and variants) - farming
  • , - dps
  • - dps if using gear with high toughness


Usage

This build primarily relies on Fire Attunement and Earth Attunement. It is not particularly difficult to play, but has a lot of options to respond to different situations and requires a bit of game knowledge to take advantage of.


Damage

General DPS

  • Spam all of your fire and earth skills.
  • You can combine Lava Skin, Glyph of Elemental Power, and Primordial Stance with Obsidian Flesh for a large burst of damage while you are invulnerable.
  • Try not to interrupt your AA chain in fire, and try to avoid having to AA for extended periods at any point.


Skill Priority

This build operates off of a generic skill priority depending on your current attunements. Fill any empty space with auto-attacks, only delaying attunement swaps for Fire autos.

You have five primary attunement combinations to worry about. You will want to swap between these, usually opening in Air/Fire or Earth/Fire so you can rapidly get to Fire/Fire for the dual attunement buff.

Fire/Fire

  1. Flamewall
  2. Flame Uprising
  3. Cauterizing Strike
  4. Fire Shield
  5. Transmute Fire - use only against single targets; against groups it is better to keep fire aura unless you need Might Might

Fire/Earth

  1. Flame Uprising
  2. Magnetic Wave (to blast might)
  3. Lava Skin

Earth/Fire

  1. Flamewall
  2. Lava Skin (if not used in F/E)
  3. Earthen Vortex
  4. Fire Shield
  5. Transmute Fire - use only against single targets; against groups it is better to keep fire aura unless you need Might Might

Earth/Earth

  1. Rust Frenzy
  2. Earthen Vortex
  3. Get out of earth/earth as fast as possible. It is sometimes even better to skip this if Earthen Vortex is already on cooldown before you would swap.

Air/Fire

  1. Pyro Vortex
  2. Flamewall
  3. Fire Shield
  4. Transmute Fire - use only against single targets; against groups it is better to keep fire aura unless you need Might Might
  5. Polaric Leap inside Flamewall or Flame Uprising for Fire Aura


Hybrid Weaver

When using the Template:Grieving variant above, it is recommended to avoid ever double-attuning to Earth Attunement. Instead, only enter it for Lava Skin and Earthen Vortex, then leave as soon as possible.


Utilities

Two of your utilities change drastically depending on your current attunement, and its important to consider what attunement is best to use them in. In general, applying Vulnerability Vulnerability or Burning Burning with them is the best option.

  • Glyph of Elemental Power - this glyph provides considerable vulnerability in a quick burst if used in Air Attunement mainhand. Generally, you should strive to use it in Air unless your enemies are already capped on Vuln. If that's the case, use it in Fire Attunement. Try to avoid using this in Earth Attunement as it is a large DPS loss.
  • Primordial Stance - this skill obeys the same rules as above but with an added layer of complexity; it applies two conditions when you are attuned to two different attunements as it takes into account both your mainhand and offhand, rather than just your mainhand. As such, use this skill in Air/Fire ideally for vuln, though you can use it in Fire/Fire for large amounts of burn. It is generally worth delaying this skill by a few seconds to get into Air/Fire, but not worth more than a 2-3 second delay. This can also be used in Earth/Earth or Earth/Fire.
  • Signet of Fire - just cast this off cooldown.


Defense

  • Projectile Hate: Magnetic Wave, Swirling Winds
  • Obsidian Flesh - invuln
  • Water AA's & Signet of Restoration provide considerable healing when necessary
  • Dodging or activating a stance grants Barrier


CC

  • Gale
  • Polaric Leap
  • Gale Strike
  • Weave Self


Video Examples

The following examples were provided courtesy of Hardcore Casual on Youtube. Videos are listed with permission.

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Ratings

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5 stars
Fakewitch gave this build 5 stars • February 2023
An amazing build! Deals a lot of damage against enemies and probably my favorite for now to play Elementalist with!
5 stars
Vicmont82 gave this build 5 stars • September 2022
I was pretty frustrated with most builds until i tried this. Really good for solo(arcane) and great for groups(earth).
5 stars
Linera gave this build 5 stars • January 2021
My all time favorite ele build. Feels much more dynamic and fast-paced when compared to any tempest build, pair that with above average self-healing, and the ability to kill most trash mobs with the single press of a button, and you get a fun, fast, powerhouse of a elementalist that can take on even some more difficult content.
5 stars
Jack Armstrong gave this build 5 stars • December 2020
One of my top 3 favorite builds right now, the others being Condi Mirage (melee) and Shortbow Renegade. Very configurable: multiple good weapon choices, and you could probably do well with any utility skills you want, though the ones listed here are likely the best choice for general use. Very durable, yet good damage. While switching stuff around, I ended up with 2 condi clears (Sigil of Cleansing and Diamond Skin trait) and found that, with those and of all the passive barrier and healing applications, I could kill pretty much all of the PoF repeatable hero points while hardly ever moving or dodging, usually losing little or no health in the process. Pretty easy to use, too: as long as you switch attunements often, you can kill stuff pretty quickly with almost random weapon and utility skill usage--though intelligent use gets better results, of course.
5 stars
Onlywrin gave this build 5 stars • December 2020
A really strong open world build for ele that's great in virtually all situations.

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