Weaver - Earth Hammerweaver - MetaBattle

Elite specialization basics

Weaver allows the Elementalist to attune to 2 elements at the same time, and skills 1-5 are decided based on both. Let's call them primary and secondary attunements.
If you swap to 火焰协调 then fire becomes your primary attunement and weapon skills 1-2 will be fire skills. Afterwards if you switch to 流水协调 for example then water is now your primary attunement and fire's moved to secondary - now skills 1-2 are water and 4-5 are fire. Skill 3 is a dual skill influenced by both active attunements.
Hammer trivializes the dual attack mechanic quite a bit, since every dual attack does the same thing: activates a swirling orb with passive bonuses. The attunements will determine the bonuses. You don't really have to learn new skills if you were already familiar with Hammer.
The order of the attunements doesn't matter here, water primary with fire secondary has the same dual attack as fire primary and water secondary.

General

Swapping attunements counts as a weapon swap which means it procs 能量法印 and 洁净法印 (once every 9 seconds).
Dual attuning to the same element isn't really recommended here. You don't gain any new Hammer skills and won't proc your on-swap traits either.
Skill #3 on each attunement is an orb skill, consider this your secondary profession mechanic. Air and Fire grant offensive bonuses while Water and Earth supply you with defensive ones. All 4 orbs also pulse damage and apply conditions around you while active, and as a Weaver you can activate up to 2 new orbs at once thanks to the dual attuning mechanic:
- 烈焰之轮 on Fire increases your damage.
- 寒冰盘旋 on Water grants condition damage reduction.
- on Air increases crit chance.
- on Earth reduces direct damage.
Each orb has a duration of 8 seconds, but whenever you add a new orb to the mix the duration of all previous orbs is refreshed. Once you've rotated through all 4 attunements the orbs will inevitably fall off - this is when you should use the chain skill which shoots them at your target for damage.
Whenever you swap to a new attunement you should always start with activating its dual orb skill.
is a channeled block - the aura is applied after you block something. This gives you a little bit of time to swap attunements before that happens and get an aura of your choice as the aura is granted based on your current attunement.
- On Weaver it's already easy to get whichever aura you want since it's based on your primary attunement, but let's say you're on Fire/Earth, if you activate and immediately swap to Air you can still get a if you time it right.
You can cancel the spinning animation of by stowing your weapon. This also cancels the evade frame but sometimes you may want to do this so you can start attacking sooner, for example if you were cleaving a downed enemy but got CC'd you can quickly break the CC with ToF then cancel the spin to keep cleaving.

Damage

Try to have and active before beginning to unload your harder hitting skills.
has the most damage, followed by Earth.
is more about CC than damage.
can do quite a bit of damage on Hammer but it has no damaging conditions which sets it back a bit on Sage amulet. While it's primarily a defensive attunement the damage is fine and it has , which is the only gapcloser in the build.
Skill #2 on every attunement is a decent offensive ability, so you can keep pressuring targets regardless of which attunement you're swapping to next.
Skill #5 becomes after you swap out of Earth primary. Not only does this do heavy damage but also applies which can then be used to set up skills with long cast times such as or . It's also good for forcing enemies to tank multiple ticks of which is one of your most important offensive skills.
Swapping out of Air can be used in a similar way to set up burst, as skills #4 and #5 on Air CC targets.
can instantly add burst to any attack sequence:
- has the highest raw damage output.
- is also a good choice because of the stacking, but this condition's effectivenes severely depends on how pressured your target already is. If the target doesn't have any damaging conditions and isn't being focused by your team, Vulnerability doesn't do much, in that case Earth is superior.
- does not directly help with damage, but the snare and CD increase can still be valuable - especially in mirror matchups, as is one of Elementalist's greatest weaknesses.
You can obtain up to 47% extra crit chance through traits and skills:
- Swapping attunements gives you for 20%.
- You have another 15% crit against targets with when playing with - the main source of Weakness in the build is the passive of the Air orb .

Burst combo example

Let's assume you're on Earth/Air.
for CC.
to stack some (for 1-2 seconds) before you're completely out of Air. You can activate this while casting Whirling Stones.
Swap to Fire.
Immediately activate the orb skill
in point-blank range.

Survival

Swap to whenever you're getting pressured. This will give you barrier, , , damage reduction from various traits and immunity to critical hits via .
- Stone Heart briefly reactivates when you leave Earth!
- Attuning to Earth twice in a row offers no benefits.
Keep attuning to Earth every second time you swap attunements if you want to play things extra safe. For example: Water ⇒ Earth ⇒ Air ⇒ Earth ⇒ Fire ⇒ Earth, repeat.
High uptime on Air's orb skill is crucial in melee as can shut down Power builds on its own. Since it's instant you're able to reactivate it even while stunned.
Earth skill #2 destroys projectiles, offering protection against some ranged specs on quite a low CD.
Most of your condition cleansing will come from Water and Air attunement.
On the first dodge you perform heals and cleanses 1 condition from you and nearby allies. On Water secondary you also have access to which is the closest thing this build has a mass cleanse and its effectiveness scales with the number of enemies struck, much like the healing of .
Another important tool for fighting conditions is , which makes you lose 1 condition when you gain or . Several skills provide these buffs:
- Swapping to .
- Using (Air #4).
- The utility skill .
- Potentially your healing skill when playing with .
on Earth is one of your best defensive skills. It blocks an attack and grants a huge amount of barrier + an aura based on your current primary attunement.
- Air's can deal with melee attackers, Earth's shuts down projectiles and Water's offers direct damage mitigation.
can give you via trait synergy. This boon allows you to ignore conditions such as d, or .

Mobility

Keep swapping in and out of for when roaming between capture points! Dual attuning to Air won't work. It doesn't really matter which other attunement you're swapping to, but Water has for extra mobility.