Weaver - Farming Power Staff
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: Open World and Open World General
Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.
Overview
A long-ranged tempest build for open world farming with a zerg. This build is primarily focused on dealing area damage in group farms and does not function well solo.
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Skill Bar
Staff
Utility
Specializations
Equipment
This setup provides high damage and uses gear similar to Build:Tempest_-_Power_DPS, making it a good option for general PVE.
- Ascended gear is not required for open world, exotic works fine.
- Note the second staff is for stacking sigil purposes and is not required.
Head
Berserker
Berserker
Shoulders
Berserker
Berserker
Chest
Berserker
Berserker
Hands
Berserker
Berserker
Legs
Berserker
Berserker
Feet
Berserker
Berserker
Backpiece
Berserker
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Berserker
Accessory
Berserker
Berserker
Amulet
Berserker
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Berserker
Ring
Berserker
Berserker
Staff
Berserker
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
staff
Berserker
Berserker
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
x6
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 off cooldown on groups of enemies.
- Use and on large, static groups of enemies or bosses.
- - Useful for rapidly tagging weaker enemies.
- - Instant cast tagging of nearby enemies (if equipped).
- - Instant cast wide area tagging (If equipped).
Defense & Support
- - Powerful defensive evade and movement skill, can be used in any direction by rotating your character.
- and - Significant condition removal to both yourself and allies.
- , and - Area healing.
- - A large area blind.
- , and - Can be used on water fields for additional area healing or on fire fields for extra might.
Crowd Control
- and - For blocking moving targets (has no effect when the enemy is stationary).
- and - Soft CC options.
- - From Ice Elemental if equipped.
- - From Air Elemental if equipped.
Variants
Skill Variants
Healing Skills
- - if conditions are a problem. Synergizes with covering its long channel time.
- - Powerful burst heal.
Utility Skills
- - Good AOE damage especially if running the Arcane variant
- - More single-target damage than .
- - More tagging and AOE might
- - Excellent stunbreak
- - Mobility.
Elite Skills
- - High damage and mobility.
- - Summon which deals damage and generates might (Fire) or can provide a frontline if you are solo (Earth).
Trait Variants
- - Higher might uptime if needed.
- - Fury and swiftness if using aura traits/utilities.
- - Mobility, especially when paired with .
- - More frequent access to and a ferocity boost.
- - Additional boons when overloading, useful if running .
Arcane
Replaces fire. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage.
- - Improves revive power in zergs.
- - Use this when running with a group that grants lots of boons.
- - Provides good defensive abilities on dodging while in or
Variant Equipment
Gear
Runes
- - provides a huge increase to sustain in a zerg
- / - Crit-chance runes, the latter also providing more boon uptime
Sigils
- - Cheap offhand sigil
- - Extra defense in a zerg
- Might generation - Option for more self
Consumable Variants
Food
- - Damage buff against groups of weaker enemies.
- - Budget food (if not using ) for added self might generation
- / - Budget DPS food.
Utility
- - Budget DPS utility.
Ratings
A very generic build for staff lovers. As mentioned in the guide, this is a build for farming events in groups and doesn't perform too well solo. It has a LOT of AoE damage so it's great for tagging, and it can be played as weaver or tempest depending on what you prefer.
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