Weaver - Lightning Rod Roamer

D/F Lightning Rod (sPvP) - Conquest PvP version.

A high skillcap Power Weaver roaming build for WvW, built around the 导雷神针 trait. LR Weaver is all about spamming CCs for both defensive and offensive purposes, as CC skills do high damage while also applying 虚弱. In this case the best defense is a good offense, as the goal of the build is to keep enemies constantly pressured via CC skills - they can't exploit your low sustain if they can't fight back.

Variants

• If you need more condi cleansing, you could consider going for all the middle traits: 元素追踪, 迅速复仇 and 穿梭滑步. With these, attuning to Air alone cleanses 2 conditions, not to mention all the other sources of Swiftness and Superspeed.

Food

There are plenty of viable choices:

• 黑胡椒粉真空烹调肉排 - passive damage mitigation and strong offensive stats.

• 怪异莓幽灵 - armor ignoring damage and a bit of extra healing, a suitable budget option.

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲 - defensive option with more evasion.

  • Budget version: 碗装鲜肉冬菜煲

Utility

• 强效超级磨刀石 or 罐装水果蛋糕, whichever is cheaper (note that the sharpening stone lasts twice as long).

Skill Bar Variants

Utility

Viable choices for the 3rd utility slot include:

• 大地护甲 - great defensive skill and stun break on medium CD.

• 地磁护盾 - several strong defensive skills all rolled into one conjure, including an invulnerability and a block.

• 岩石共振 - 稳固 and general sustain.

• 扭转命运 - powerful stun break with an evade frame but on a rather lengthy CD. The cooldown however doesn't matter that much if you're able to end fights quickly.

Elite

• 自我编织 - slightly lower CD than Tornado and has LR synergy. Good for setting up kills, could also be used defensively on Earth for damage mitigation. Tornado however offers more mobility and more CC.

Equipment Variants

Sigils

超级吸收法印 can be replaced by:

• 超级空气法印 - consistent damage proc, and easier to get.

• 超级虹吸法印 - extra damage/healing that fits the build perfectly.

• 超级能量法印 - refills a dodge bar every ~10 seconds when you swap attunements, great defensive option.

• 超级慷慨法印 - better defense against conditions, something the build struggles against.

Relics

• 克达之爪古物 - on this build both of Claw and Fireworks perform roughly the same. Between 4 attunements and a CC focused weapon set there are plenty of triggers for both relics, you should have nearly permanent uptime on the damage boost with either of these options.

Runes

• 超级学者符文 - if you want to go all in on damage.

• 超级全息师符文 - retains some sustain from the current rune, but squeezes in a bit more pressure. It's also easier to get.

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 then Fire becomes your primary attunement and weapon skills 1-2 will be fire skills. Afterwards if you switch to 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 created by a combination of your active attunements - Fire + Water 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 gives you access to the "core" skill of the weapon, the skill you'd have if you weren't a Weaver.

General

• 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 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.

• If taken can be cancelled by stowing your weapon in rare cases when the full evasion isn't needed (let's say you have to cleave a downed target and must keep the pressure up, but had to break stun).

Damage

• is the bread and butter of this build, causing every CC effect in the build to add to your damage. The general playstyle revolves around weaving together hard hitting skills such as with CC for burst damage.