The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds
Difficulty: Hard
This build was last updated on July 18, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
A PvP Weaver take on the Fresh Air archetype with a steep learning curve, focusing on burst damage and +1ing fights. One of the hardest Elementalist builds to play.
元素使 (Elementalist)
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Core Fresh Air - Core, F2P PvP version of the Fresh Air archetype.
Freshweaver Roamer - WvW roaming version.
Variants
活力充沛 can be taken if you wish to sacrifice some healing for a more evasive setup.Variants
Heal
幻光恢复 - adds much needed cleansing to the build in case you're having trouble avoiding conditions, or if the enemy team is overloaded with them.Elite specialization basics
Weaver allows the Elementalist to attune to 2 elements at the same time, and skills 1-5 will be decided based on both. Let's call them primary and secondary attunements.
If you swap to fire becomes your primary attunement and weapon skills 1-2 are going to be fire skills. Afterwards if you switch to then air is now your primary attunement and fire's moved to secondary - now skills 1-2 are air and 4-5 are fire. Skill 3 is a dual skill influenced by both active attunements ⇒ fire + air for example is .
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.
It's possible to attune twice in a row to the same element, and doing this with is going to be a part of your burst rotation.
General
The build makes little to no use of .
Keep swapping in-and-out of repeatedly while roaming between capture points in order to maintain .
can be used defensively for the , or as a guaranteed crit to recharge Air. Alternatively, just toss it into your burst combos when you're fully attuned to air.
's purpose is twofold.
is best used in earth for the .
isn't interrupted when you change attunements. Starting the channel in air and swapping to any other attunement is an excellent way of recharging air through as this skill hits multiple times in a short period of time. This is also a great filler in general.
Burst damage
This build bursts by rapidly unloading instant cast abilities on top of a channeled one.
The 3 main channeled skills you're going to use in bursts are , and .
All of your hard hitting abilities should go off after double attuning to .
Notable burst combos
These are some potential combos you can use based on the techniques outlined above. The quicker you pull these chains off, the better.
From Fire primary Air secondary:
Mechanic
From Earth primary Air secondary:
From Earth primary Fire secondary:
Survival
makes it easy to kite most specs. The from Water skills like helps too. Avoid melee as much as possible!
CCs can be used for shaking off pursuers.
Abuse spots on maps that break teleport skill pathing when the enemy team has Thieves, Revenants, and other such specs with teleports. Use the terrain to your advantage in general, it's very important for builds as squishy as this one.
's barrier application is always useful.
Swapping to Earth is a great way of instantly gaining , even when you're stunned.
and provide excellent protection against enemies who use projectiles. These however do not work against unblockable projectiles, and some ranged builds - such as this one - are mostly unaffected by projectile reflects and blocks.
and are your last resort defenses in situations where neither CC nor projectile denial will keep you alive. You should only use these when other options are either unavailable or not going to suffice.
