Weaver - Power 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:

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This build was last updated on August 21, 2023 and is up to date for the March 19, 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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Skill Bar

Sword/Dagger

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Heals

• Glyph of Elemental Harmony - burst heal
• Signet of Restoration - passive healing

Utilities

• Arcane Shield - defense
• Twist of Fate - stunbreak and evade
• Glyph of Storms - high damage and AOE blind
• Arcane Wave - more AOE
• Cleansing Fire - condition cleanse
• Lightning Flash - mobility
• Stone Resonance - defensive barrier and stability
• Conjure Lightning Hammer - Burst damage and cleave

Elites

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

Equipment

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

Standard Equipment

This gearset is useful in all of 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

Variant Equipment

Other Options

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Ogre - competes with Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar but easier to use and grants a pet
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack - higher DPS than Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar due to Swiftness's interaction with Swift Revenge.

Defense

• Invest in a Jade Core for additional HP and access to Jade Protocols.
• Full Dragon - luxury set: trades damage for a massive boost to HP; pair with Signet of Fire.
• Knight's Trinkets - extra defense
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - cheap, large boost to defense and sustain
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - increased evasion

Budget

• Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget replacement for Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack - budget replacement for Rune of Superior Rune of the Thief

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