Weaver - Fire Weaver

• Twitch: Grimjack

• Twitch: Blamthrax

• Starfire Roamer - WvW roaming version.

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• 焚烧法印 or 厄运法印 over 洁净法印 - if you can afford to give up condition removal for more damage.

Relics

• 河流古物 - minor extra healing and some CD reductions via 敏捷, which even decreases the cooldown on attunement swapping.

• 巴瓦·尼索斯古物 - adds more condi cleansing to the build, scales in value with the number of stance you're running.

• 纳约斯古物 - extra healing.

• 幻象术士古物 - improves your condi variety.

Runes

The current rune gives you a bit higher uptime on important, but there are several other viable options if you want to prioritize damage or sustain:

• 欧尔符文 - good damage while also offering extra survivability in condition matchups.

• 工程师符文 - similar to Orr, but trades defense against conditions for higher toughness against power builds.

• 巴萨泽符文 - higher damage, lower sustain.

• 牦牛符文 - most tanky option.

Slot Changes

Utility

空气纹章 can be swapped out for:

• 大地护甲 - Armor is a better defensive skill in general but it's on a longer CD. It's up to you to decide what's more important - a stronger defensive skill, or more frequent access to a stun break. Could also replace Lightning Flash for a more tanky but much less mobile build.

• 净化烈焰 - if you need more condi removal tools this is a good one, and you don't even have to sacrifice a stunbreak.

• 扭转命运 - slightly longer CD for a stronger defensive skill, but still lower recharge time than that of Armor of Earth.

Either 电光火石 or 原始姿态 can be replaced by:

• 地磁护盾 - a versatile conjure with CC, barrier, blocking and even an invulnerability. Could serve as a time-out button while under pressure and waiting for CDs to come back up. Consider taking 咒唤大师 on Fire for improved condi cleanse via trait synergy.

Variants

• 燃烧烈焰 is also a viable option in case you'd need more condition removal.

Variants

• 活力充沛 allows you to drop 闪避古物 for something else, but your healing is going to get worse.

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 ⇒ fire + water for example is 双重打击.

• 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. Attuning to the same element twice has its own dual skill.

General

• 再生纹章 should seldom be touched, as the passive is extremely valuable. Note that several trait procs also count as skill activations and will benefit from the passive of this signet.

  • Unless you either have a high amount of 困惑 on you, or you're already at maximum health, you should always be casting something (autoattacks will do too). This is to get the most out of this signet's passive.

• Cycle Fire ⇒ Air ⇒ Fire ⇒ Air to maintain 迅捷 while roaming between capture points.

• Dual attuning (having the same primary and secondary element) can be beneficial with 大师坚韧 for the 抗性. The lower attunement CDs of 空槽 makes this less punishing to do.

  • You do not however get the boons from 元素协调 twice.

• 威能 stacking happens passively through 火使威势. It's yet another reason for spamming autoattacks as much as possible when in combat (and attuned to Fire) even if you're not in range.

Damage

• This build is all about stacking .

• 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.

• As for weapon skills, your heavy hitters are , , and . The latter two also pulse damage each second for a period of time, making them synergize well with .

• doesn't do much in duels because it's so easy to avoid just by not stepping on it, but it's a rather decent skill for downed cleave if dropped directly below the target. It also has inherent value as a Fire field, more about that later.

Burst combo examples

Sustain and how to dealing with conditions

• The trait provides a steady stream of cleansing:

  • Swapping to applies thanks to , cleansing one condition. Swapping to another attunement from Fire gives you access to another one from skill #5 which you can then follow up with for another 3 cleanses in total.
  • can also be created by combos by using a leap finisher inside a fire field, like or in a .

• Fire is the main attunement you should consider double-attuning to (going Fire twice in a row) because doing so will give you a on your 2nd attune too, which you can immediately transmute with skill #5 and then apply a second Fire Aura with the same skill and transmute that too for a grand total of 6 condition removals.

• When auras no longer suffice, is what you should use. This is the best anti-condition skill in the build, instantly removing 3 conditions upon being used.

• The trait passively grants barrier throughout a fight. Dodging on Water and Earth attunements has even more defensive benefits thanks to - the first dodge after attuning to Water acts as an AoE heal / cleanse while the first dodge on Earth is a blast finisher which can be combo'd into the field left behind by .

• Most of the sustain comes from combining with :

  • The order doesn't always matter. Going from Earth to Water lets you blast immediately with for extra healing whilst cleansing conditions and reflecting projectiles. Going from Water to Earth allows for blasting Riptide's water field through an empowered dodge + .
  • Skill #2 of both attunements has an evade frame in case you'd want to avoid incoming damage.
  • Attuning to Earth serves as an instant source of AoE application which is quite handy especially if you're CC'd and can't cast anything else.

• is the best defensive skill in the build, making you immortal for its duration (except for fall damage).

Basic healing combo

1. Dodge in to proc the relevant effect of .
2. Use .
3. Swap to for or use if you were in Earth prior to switching to Water. Use them in the field created by Riptide. You could also go Earth ⇒ Water ⇒ Earth and do both by using Magnetic Wave during Riptide's animation, then following up with an Earth swap into Earthen Vortex once the field's been created.
4. Swap to for the + combo.
5. for the barrier.
6. Optional: when you swap out of Fire, use ⇒ if cleansing is needed. If you double-attuned to Fire instead of going into another attunement then you can transmute twice because of the proc.