Weaver - Staff Weaver

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on January 19, 2022 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

A long-ranged tempest build for open world farming with a zerg. This build is primarily focused on dealing area damage from the backline of a group and is not meant to be played solo.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Healing Skills

• Ether Renewal
  - if conditions are a problem. Synergizes with
  Arcane Shield
  covering its long channel time.
• Glyph of Elemental Harmony
  - Powerful burst heal.

Utility Skills

• Arcane Wave
  - good AOE damage
• Arcane Blast
  - more single-target damage than
  Arcane Wave
  .
• "Feel the Burn!"
  - more tagging
• "Eye of the Storm!"
  - excellent stunbreak
• Lightning Flash
  - more mobility.

Elite Skills

• Conjure Fiery Greatsword
  - high damage and mobility.

Specializations

Variants

• Pyromancer's Puissance
  - higher might uptime; use
  if taking this trait

Arcane Variant

Replaces fire. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage.

• Bountiful Power
  use this when running with a group that grants lots of boons.
• Evasive Arcana
  provides good defensive abilities on dodging while in
  Water Attunement
  or
  Air Attunement
• If running this variant, replace
  Glyph of Storms
  with
  Arcane Wave

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required for open world, exotic works fine.

Berserker

This setup provides high damage and uses gear similar to Build:Tempest_-_Power_DPS, making it a good option 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

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Marauder - trades 10% damage for +60% EHP; expensive
• Knight - defensive (trinkets only)

Runes

• - provides a huge increase to sustain in a zerg
• ,
  - crit-chance runes

Sigils

• - cheap offhand sigil
• - extra defense in a zerg

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

Usage

Damage / Tagging

• Use
  Lava Font
  off cooldown on groups of enemies.
• Use
  Glyph of Storms
  and
  Meteor Shower
  on large, static groups of enemies or bosses

Defense & Support

• Overload Water
  and
  Healing Rain
  provide significant condition removal to both yourself and allies.
• Geyser
  is a decent area heal.
• Sandstorm
  is a large area blind.

Crowd Control

• Gust
• Static Field
• Unsteady Ground
• Frozen Ground
• Wind Blast
  and
  Static Field
  (in Lightning Hammer)
• Crashing Waves
  (from Ice Elemental)
• Shocking Bolt
  (from Air Elemental)