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Weaver - Starfire Roamer

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元素使 (Elementalist)weaverhybrid damagemobilitysustain

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Hybrid damage, Mobility and Sustain

Designed for: WvW Roaming

Expansions required: Path of Fire Builds

Difficulty: Normal

This build was last updated on March 28, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.

Overview

A Celestial Weaver build for WvW roaming that has excellent condition pressure and sustain, but somewhat limited mobility.

Skill Bar

Skill Variants

Utility

  • 大地护甲 图标大地护甲 over 空气纹章 图标空气纹章 - this is a choice between a stronger defensive skill on a longer CD (Armor) and more frequent stun break access but on a weaker skill (Signet).

Template Code

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Specializations

Variants

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

Variants

Equipment

Head
Celestial
Shoulders
Celestial
Chest
Celestial
Hands
Celestial
Legs
Celestial
Feet
Celestial
Backpiece
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Accessory
Celestial
Amulet
Celestial
Empty slot
Empty slot
Empty slot
Empty slot

Equipment Variants

Sigils

  • 超级洁净法印 图标超级洁净法印 - great option if you're having trouble dealing with conditions.

  • 超级能量法印 图标超级能量法印 - a great boost to sustain in general and dodge rolling has synergy with several traits as well.

Relics

  • 幻象术士古物 图标幻象术士古物 - adds a new condition to the build with high uptime, improving your damage while making it a bit harder for enemies to cleanse your more important conditions.

  • 恶魔女王古物 图标恶魔女王古物 - the improved 中毒 图标中毒 uptime combined with the extra healing reduction could make it easier for you to kill other high sustain builds.

  • 纳约斯古物 图标纳约斯古物 - more healing.

  • 速度古物 图标速度古物 - significantly improves the mobility of the build which is one of its weak points.

  • 巴瓦·尼索斯古物 图标巴瓦·尼索斯古物 - adds more condi cleansing to the build.

Runes

  • 超级领导符文 图标超级领导符文 - much better boon duration at the expense of damage.

  • 超级阴鬼符文 图标超级阴鬼符文 - anti-condition option with good offensive stats. It's also cheap and doesn't require crafting.

Consumables

Food

Utility

Usage

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 图标火焰协调 then fire becomes your primary attunement and weapon skills 1-2 will be fire skills. Afterwards if you switch to 流水协调 图标流水协调 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 图标双重打击.

  • 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 图标再生纹章 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 图标困惑 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 图标迅捷 while roaming.

  • 扭转命运 图标扭转命运 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). Another application includes pressuring targets through 原始姿态 图标原始姿态 and 岩浆皮肤 图标岩浆皮肤 whilst evading incoming attacks.

  • Dual attuning (having the same primary and secondary element) in general isn't recommended, but there are a few niche uses for it. One example would be attuning to Fire twice in order to squeeze more condition cleansing out of it in a limited time frame.

  • 威能 图标威能 stacking happens passively through 火使威势 图标火使威势. It's yet another reason for spamming autoattacks as much as possible when in combat (and attuned to Fire).

Damage

  • Fire Weaver is all about stacking 燃烧 图标燃烧.

  • 原始姿态 图标原始姿态 can instantly add burst to any attack skill you're using:

    • When it comes to offense, you can't go wrong with activating them on 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 - fire has the highest raw damage output.
    • 空气协调 图标空气协调 is also a good choice for both because of the 易伤 图标易伤 stacking, but this condition's effectivenes severely depends on how pressured your target is - especially when it comes to the glyph which only stacks one condition type at a time. If the target doesn't have any damaging conditions and isn't being focused by your team, Vulnerability doesn't do much.
    • Note: all 5 charges of the glyph go off based on the attunement you were in the moment this skill was used, swapping attunements doesn't change anything.
  • As for weapon skills, your heavy hitters are 火焰升腾 图标火焰升腾, 岩浆皮肤 图标岩浆皮肤, and 烈焰漩涡 图标烈焰漩涡. The latter two also pulse damage each second for a period of time, making them synergize well with 原始姿态 图标原始姿态.

  • 烈焰之墙 图标烈焰之墙 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.

Burst combo examples

Sustain and how to dealing with conditions

  • The trait 窒息光环 图标窒息光环 provides a steady stream of cleansing:

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

  • The trait 活力打击 图标活力打击 grants a steady stream of barriers. Dodging on Water and Earth attunements has even more defensive benefits thanks to 秘法遁逸 图标秘法遁逸 - 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 激流 图标激流.

  • Most of the sustain comes from combining 流水协调 图标流水协调 with 大地协调 图标大地协调:

    • The order doesn't always matter. Going from Earth to Water lets you blast 激流 图标激流 immediately with 磁力脉动 图标磁力脉动 for extra healing whilst cleansing conditions and reflecting projectiles. Going from Water to Earth allows for blasting Riptide's water field through an 秘法遁逸 图标秘法遁逸 empowered dodge + 大地漩涡 图标大地漩涡.
    • 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 保护 图标保护 application which is quite handy especially if you're CC'd and can't cast anything else.
  • Earth / Fire is also an alright combination because of the cleansing from the auras and the barrier from 岩浆皮肤 图标岩浆皮肤.

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

Basic healing combo

  1. Dodge in 流水协调 图标流水协调 to proc the relevant effect of 秘法遁逸 图标秘法遁逸.
  2. Use 激流 图标激流.
  3. Swap to 大地协调 图标大地协调 for 大地漩涡 图标大地漩涡 or use 磁力脉动 图标磁力脉动 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.
  4. Swap to 火焰协调 图标火焰协调 for the 窒息光环 图标窒息光环 + 太阳黑子 图标太阳黑子 combo.
  5. 岩浆皮肤 图标岩浆皮肤 for the barrier.
  6. Optional: when you swap out of Fire, use 逆向转化火焰 图标逆向转化火焰 if cleansing is needed.

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