Weaver - Staff Weaver

Skill Variants

Healing

We default to 元素和谐雕文 as it provides strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement. Other alternatives are:

• 秘法绚爆 - weak heal by default, but is greatly increased if it strikes nearby enemies. Performs a blast finisher, and heals for more when doing so. Excellent synergy with water combo fields. (See: Guide
  are Combo Fields).
• 幻光恢复 - very high healing and condition removal throughout its long channelling time. Great option for raw healing if you can afford the cast time, and it also regenerates enough endurance for one dodge.

Utility Skills

We default to: 风暴雕文 provides ranged AoE damage, use it on Fire for consistent damage, or on Air for burst damage but a longer cooldown. Can be replaced. 秘法爆弹 provides instant, ranged burst damage. Can be replaced. 秘法护盾 is a stun break and blocks 3 attacks. Can be replaced. We have chosen utility skills that compliment staff's ranged AoE damage, but feel free to replace them. Here are some alternatives:

• 秘法波动 - AoE damage and mobility.
• 秘法回音 - lets you cast 火舞流星 or any other weapon skill twice in a row, improving burst damage.
• 原始姿态 - great AoE damage but in melee range.
• 电光火石 - mobility.
• 大地护甲 - stunbreak with 稳固.
• 扭转命运 - stunbreak and dodge, and has two charges.
• 净化烈焰 - condition cleanse and stun break.
• 岩石共振 - stability and barrier with two charges.

Elite Skills

We default to 元素雕文. Cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and 击退, on Air for a 昏迷, or on Earth for defense. If you don't like having a pet and/or would like more burst damage, replace it with Fiery Greatsword.

• 炽焰巨剑 - provides high damage with skills 4 and 5, and mobility with skill 3.

Staff weaver is a long-ranged Weaver build for open world that catters to staff lovers. This build will mostly spam and similar skills, meaning all of its damage hits in an AoE, so it has great cleaving potential. Unfortunately, staff is not a high damage weapon, but it offers some nice healing and utility to compensate, and is fully ranged.

This build is fragile and static but will work good enough for average open world and story content. If you need to tackle harder challenges, consider other of our elementalist open world builds. Most of the damage of this build comes from AoE pulsing ground attacks, so this build can struggle against very mobile targets, and it lacks boon generation.

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Trait Variants

• - sacrifice condition removal for more damage when playing in groups that provide .
• + - more damage when playing in groups that provide .

Specialization variants

Arcane

Arcane can replace Air. This adds defense and utility at the cost of damage. has excellent synergy with the active skill of your elemental from .

• - Improves revive power in groups, but reduces personal defense.

This build uses the same gear as Build

• Ascended gear is not required for open world, exotic works fine.
• Note the second staff is for stacking sigil purposes and is not required.

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Zhed" armor and "Deathwish" staff. Upgrade to ascended gear as you progress. See also: Guide

• For relic alternatives, you can consider to trade damage for sustain.
• This setup provides 100% critical chance with thanks to , , and .
  • Dual Attacks are key to help maintain for the bonus of Superior Elements. Your Earth autottack will also help.
  • When solo, your sources of are and . You will trigger Zephyr's Boon with . When playing in groups that provide , change your traits to and .

Damage

• Your damage skills are 熔岩喷泉, 烈焰爆燃, 火舞流星, 火山爆炸, 大地喷发, 闪电激荡, 等离子爆破, 地能波动, and 火焰风暴 or 闪电风暴. Fill in the gaps with auto attacks.
• 熔岩喷泉 is your main source of damage, make sure to spam it. When attuning to other elements, return to 火焰协调 as soon as possible.
• Generally speaking, you want to rotate through Fire, Air, and Earth to cast their high damage skills and Dual Attacks. When you attune back to Fire, double attune to it to access 烈焰爆燃 and benefit from the traits 元素复调 and 愤怒元素. Usually, you do not double attune to the other elements unless you really need the healing of 间歇温泉, the crowd control of 疾风爆发, or (in extremely rare occasions) the 磁力光环 of 磁力光环.
• When solo, your sourcess of 激怒 are 和风增益 and 狂怒风暴. You will trigger Zephyr's Boon with 太阳黑子 by attuning to Fire periodically. When playing in groups that provide 激怒, change your traits to 狂风巨作 and 风暴之魂.

Opener

For burst damage, start combat attuned to 大地协调 + 火焰协调 and do the following:

1. 大地喷发 and attune to 火焰协调+大地协调
2. 熔岩喷泉
3. 火山爆炸
4. 地能波动 and attune to 火焰协调+火焰协调
5. 烈焰爆燃
6. 火焰风暴
7. 熔岩喷泉
8. 火舞流星 and attune to 空气协调+火焰协调
9. 闪电激荡
10. 等离子爆破 and attune to 火焰协调+空气协调
11. 熔岩喷泉

Fill the gaps in cooldowns with auto attacks. Essentially, you want to spam 熔岩喷泉 off cooldown, while filling with your other damaging skills and Dual Attacks.

Defense & Support

• The best defense is to dodge attacks or get out of the way. Your Dual Attacks provide 迅捷 thanks to 迅速复仇 to help run out of attacks.
• 灼焰翻滚 is a powerful defensive evade and movement skill, and it can be used in any direction by rotating your character (or your camera, if using action camera).
• Auras remove conditions thanks to 窒息光环. In combat, attuning to Fire gives fire aura due to 太阳黑子.
• 沙尘风暴 inflicts 目盲 in a large AoE, which is useful against groups of trash mobs.
• As a weaver, you can attune to water and then to another element to access to remove conditions, provide , and a water field. In desperate situations, you can double attune to Water to use for healing and a water field.
• , and can be used on water fields for additional area healing or on fire fields for extra might. (See: Guide
  are Combo Fields).
• provides for projectile reflection, but this is quite niche as it requires you to double attune to Earth.
• If you need more defense, you can slot and use .
• provides 1 stack of personal .
• can be used to block dangerous attacks.

Glyph of Elementals

Elementals from can be commanded to do an additional skill.

• The Fire Elemental can be commanded to deal damage and in an AoE. Use this one for damage.
• The Ice Elemental can be commanded to deal damage in an AoE, while healing nearby allies by 6401, knocking back enemies, and removing 1 condition. Use this one for support.
• The Air Elemental can be commanded to for 1.5 seconds. Use this one for on-demand crowd control.
• The Earth Elemental can be commanded to inflict nearby enemies with 1 second of and 5 seconds of , while providing 3 seconds of to nearby allies. Use this one for tanking.

Crowd Control

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• and - and , respectively. When used against enemies with a defiance bar, they instantly deal defiance damage. Against enemies without a defiance bar, these skills only work if the enemy attempts to walk over the skill.
• and - Soft CC options.
• - From Ice Elemental.
• - From Air Elemental.
• If you need a lot of crowd control you can use so that you and an ally can use .