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Power Weaver

Guild Wars 2 Power Weaver - Staff / Staff Meta build for wvw: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

元素使 (Elementalist)weaverpower damage

Build Template

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Overview

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Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • Lots of cleave
  • Plenty of CC
  • High damage
  • High mastery curve
  • Fast paced rotation
  • Loses damage on moving targets
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Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

You can replace any of your skill by 电光火石 图标电光火石 if you struggle and get caught a lot by Crowd Controls.

Based on preferences, you can also run 风暴雕文 图标风暴雕文 over any of the utility skills.

Rotation & Extras

Key Concepts

Power Weaver is a Ranged Damage dealer using the Dual Attunements mechanic to rotate quickly between Staff skills to generate Downs and inflict Crowd Control. This build usually shines in cloud and havoc fight setups but struggles finding value when the enemies have high Healing capacity in structured fights.

Dual Attunements will allow us to get the benefits of both Attunement effects such as 元素复调 图标元素复调. We will also make use of Dual Attacks to overwhelm the enemy frontline with AoEs, notably 等离子爆破 图标等离子爆破 and 火山爆炸 图标火山爆炸.

Dealing Damage

Fire Attunement is our main source of Damage. We will be looking to rotate Attunements around it to get strong AoEs from Earth-Fire Attunement, Air-Fire Attunement and Water-Fire Attunement.

We will also be looking to double-attune to Fire Attunement in order to frequently trigger 愤怒元素 图标愤怒元素.

By default, we will be looking to use as many 熔岩喷泉 图标熔岩喷泉 and 火舞流星 图标火舞流星 as possible as they are our heaviest Damage skills.

Other Attunements will also have substancial sources of AoE and we will use these while rotating to access our Dual Attacks:

Last but not least, a great source of Damage are Conjured Weapons; they are extremely powerful with long Cooldowns and allow us to fill downtime in our rotation to achieve massive bursts with our other main Cooldowns.

Damage Rotation

Start on Fire-Air Attunement.

  1. 熔岩喷泉 图标熔岩喷泉
  2. 等离子爆破 图标等离子爆破

Fire Attunement

  1. 火舞流星 图标火舞流星
  2. 熔岩喷泉 图标熔岩喷泉

Earth Attunement

  1. 大地喷发 图标大地喷发
  2. 火山爆炸 图标火山爆炸

Water Attunement

  1. 火山泥流 图标火山泥流
  2. 寒冰尖刺 图标寒冰尖刺

Fire Attunement

  1. 压力爆破 图标压力爆破
  2. 熔岩喷泉 图标熔岩喷泉
  3. Cast a Conjured Weapons if up.

Fire Attunement

  1. Keep using your Conjured Weapons or 熔岩喷泉 图标熔岩喷泉 if it comes back up.

Air Attunement

  1. 闪电激荡 图标闪电激荡

Fire Attunement and restart your rotation.

Rotation Notes

You should adapt your usage of Conjured Weapons to the situation:

  • 炽焰巨剑 图标炽焰巨剑 is your strongest weapon by far but comes with a really long Cooldown; use it wisely to achieve highest burst potential of this build.
  • 闪电巨锤 图标闪电巨锤 should be opted for when you are able to access the melee for a quick burst and want to benefit from the extra Precision and Ferocity.
  • 冰霜长弓 图标冰霜长弓 should be used when you need to keep applying Ranged Damage.

Try to add some of your Crowd Control, such as 静电力场 图标静电力场 and 大地动荡 图标大地动荡, during your rotation downtime when you get more familiar with the rotation.

Coupled with Boon Removal from your allies, you will be able to isolate enemies and most likely get them Down out of their squad position.

Defense

Power Weaver is pretty much defenseless beside its Evade on 灼焰翻滚 图标灼焰翻滚.

Use your Dodges wisely and dont hesitate picking a defensive utility skill if you struggle too much.

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance DamageSource
疾风爆发 图标疾风爆发400 RangeStaff: 空气协调 图标空气协调
静电力场 图标静电力场2 SecondsStaff: 空气协调 图标空气协调
大地动荡 图标大地动荡50 RangeStaff: 大地协调 图标大地协调
强风来袭 图标强风来袭600 Range闪电巨锤 图标闪电巨锤