Weaver - Blood Weaver

A duelist weaver build using pistol/dagger that relies on swapping in and out of earth attunement for sustain and bleeding application. Aimed more towards experienced players that can time attunement swaps with opponents' key skill animations to mitigate strike damage through 磐石之心 and extract this build's full potential. Does not excel at mobility so it does not fit the glassy 'run and gun' playstyle, but is more of a bunker. This build relies on toughness from the rabid amulet for damage mitigation instead of protection, so it is not susceptible to corrupts or boon strips. Also, unlike the Hammerweaver build, which follows a similar pattern of swapping in and out of earth attunement, there is no pressure to maintain orbs.

Variants

• Several traits can tweak the balance of the build more in favour of condition damage or sustain depending on playstyle and matchup:
  • Earth: 岩石力量 over 固若磐石 for more condition damage but sacrificing some stability.
  • Fire: 燃烧烈焰 over 燃烧精准 for passive condition cleanse at the cost of burn duration and a chance to inflict burning on critical hits. 怒火焚身 can also be taken over 窒息光环 for more condition damage but sacrificing some cleanse.
  • Weaver: 元素追踪 and 穿梭滑步 over 编织者的威勇 and 心流状态 for more cleanse but sacrificing vitality, vigor and barrier on dodge. If taken, 元素追踪 can be triggered almost on cooldown with frequent sources of cripple in this build which translates to a passive cleanse of one condition almost every 10 seconds.

Skill Variants

• The elite skill is flexible and any of the following could work:
  • 自我编织 offers several strong modifiers and a CC.
  • 元素雕文 for either healing from the ice elemental or 燃烧 from the fire elemental.
  • 飓风形态 can be used for its mobility or CC.
  • 炽焰巨剑 can be used for even more mobility than 飓风形态, but it has a longer cooldown.

• The basic way to play this build is to open fights with , then forget that it exists and swap in and out of earth attunement.

• To prepare for the opening, before even entering a fight, pre-load the pistol with elemental bullets to have fully ready or almost ready.

  • This can be achieved by using the second skill of each attunement. The skills do not need to hit a target, they can simply be cast into thin air.
  • A suggestion is to pre-load only three of the four bullets in the order Fire -> Water -> Air. This makes air/water skills available at the start of combat and offers several options:
    • can be used to remove , , trigger other blocking effects, or bait out dodges.
    • can briefly an opponent. Doing so will consume the already-generated air bullet, meaning it will need to be cast again to re-generate an air bullet for . But if really needed, it can be used to interrupt something important such as an opponent's resurrection attempt.
    • is an evade, provides , and when consuming the air and water bullets, is enhanced to also grant frost aura and . Just note that the water and air bullets will need to be re-generated for , so it may be better to avoid using this skill unless absolutely necessary.
    • and are available if healing or condition cleanse are needed.
    • Earth attunement is just one button press away, where earth/air skills offer even more options:
      • offers the ability to dash away from or close the gap to an opponent.
      • can be used to either evade an attack, interrupt an opponent, or to setup a burst.
      • the combo -> -> .
        • generates the final elemental bullet for , while also applying and . If taking , is also inflicted whenever is applied. Furthermore, if taking , is inflicted on the first attack following the attunement swap from air/water to earth/air. This is followed up by , which applies in addition to some more , and . It also generates an aura of the primary attunement, in this case, a magnetic aura. Finally, applies and , while also generating an earth bullet for the rotation that is outlined further below.

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• prolonges duration, the main damaging condition of the build, by +25%.
• provides an extra passive condition cleanse every nine seconds.
• applies vulnerability to make the condition damage a little more potent as well as act as a cover condition, especially if not taking .

Rune

• improves movement speed by +25%, provides a bit of additional condition damage, but the power it provides is not so relevant.
• also improves condition damage while offering some extra vitality.
• for purely condition damage and duration bonuses.

Relic

• increases movement speed.
• grants protection when using the many cantrip skills in this build. However, it should be noted that the damage reduction from protection is not at full effect when the build has other sources of damage reduction such as toughness, as they scale multiplicatively rather than additively.