Weaver

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"The elements are twisting, turning—melding as one."

The weaver gains the ability to combine two different elements and wield them simultaneously. Rapidly combine elements to create a fast and dynamic fighting style that dances in and out of combat.

— In-game description

Weaver is an elite specialization for the elementalist unlocked with the Path of Fire expansion. Weavers have learned from the Elonian djinn how to wield two attunements at once, one in each hand, and can combine them for powerful new Dual Attacks. To better weave the elements together, these spellcasters can switch attunements much faster than other elementalists. Weavers can adopt stances to grant themselves temporary bonuses, with some of these stances having different effects depending on the attunements the weaver is currently melding together.

Weavers can wield swords as main hand weapons, light blades that allow them to gracefully dance through the battlefield, combining both offence and defence. Weavers are natural damage dealers, enjoying bruiser or glass cannon playstyles. With such a plethora of elemental attacks at their disposal, a master weaver will never run out of spells to cast.

List of weaver skills

See also: List of elementalist skills

Profession mechanic

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I am the elements incarnate!

— Weaver

Weavers can be attuned to two elements at once. When attuning to a new element, the current main-hand attunement switches to the off hand, while the new attunement is placed on the main hand. You can attune to the same element twice in a row, resulting in a typical single-attunement skill bar.

The main-hand attunement specifies skills in slots 1 and 2, the off-hand attunement specifies slots 4 and 5, and the skill in slot 3 depends on the combination of both attunements. Being attuned to two different elements results in a corresponding Dual Attack in slot 3, regardless of the attunements' order.

Weapon skills

#	Skill			Description
Sword
Fire Attunement
1	Fire Strike	0.5½		Build elemental flames into your sword and strike your enemies.
1	Fire Swipe	0.5½		Heat your sword a second time and strike your enemies for increased damage.
1	Searing Slash	0.75¾		Heat your sword a final time and use the full power of your flames to sear enemies and ignite them.
2	Flame Uprising	0.75¾	8	Jump forward and deliver a fiery blast to the area.
3	Cauterizing Strike	0.75¾	15	Stab your foe with full force, dealing bonus damage against burning enemies.
Water Attunement
1	Seiche	0.5½		Imbue your blade with water, healing yourself for each target you strike.
1	Clapotis	0.5½		Deliver a second strike that heals yourself for each target it hits.
1	Breaking Wave	0.75¾		Strike your enemies and unleash a wave that heals allies.
2	Riptide	1	12	Use the element of water to propel yourself backward and regenerate, leaving a healing area at your location.
3	Aqua Siphon	0.75¾	15	Strike an enemy and draw water from them, causing them to deliver a healing burst to your allies.
Air Attunement
1	Charged Strike	0.5½		Strike your foe with shocking force.
1	Polaric Slash	0.5½		Deliver a second strike, gaining swiftness.
1	Call Lightning	0.75¾		Deliver the final attack, calling lightning strikes onto enemies.
2	Polaric Leap	0.5½	15	Shadowstep to your target and deliver a dazing strike. Gain superspeed if you interrupt an enemy.
3	Quantum Strike	0.75¾	16	Strike your foe, charging them with static and causing lightning to strike repeatedly for a short period of time.
Earth Attunement
1	Crystal Slash	0.5½		Strike your opponent with your serrated blade.
1	Crystalline Strike	0.5½		Attack enemies with a second vicious attack.
1	Crystalline Sunder	0.75¾		Unleash a final crushing blow.
2	Earthen Vortex	0.75¾	10	Burrow into the ground, then erupt with earth-shattering force.
3	Rust Frenzy	0.5½	15	Strike your enemies with deadly force.

Dual Attack weapon skills

Primary article: Dual Attack

#	Skill			Description
Weaver
Dagger
Fire + Water Attunement
3	Steam Surge	0.75¾	18	Dual Attack. Slide to an area, blasting foes with steam while healing nearby allies.
Fire + Air Attunement
3	Plasma Burst	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Burn your foes within a plasma blast.
Fire + Earth Attunement
3	Ashen Blast	0.5½	12	Dual Attack. Blind your foes with burning ashes.
Air + Water Attunement
3	Katabatic Wind		18	Dual Attack. Release a frigid wind that damages foes.
Water + Earth Attunement
3	Mud Slide	1	20	Dual Attack. Trip your foes with mud as you slide past them.
Air + Earth Attunement
3	Grinding Stones	0.5½	18	Dual Attack. Shred foes with a storm of stones. Take reduced damage while the storm is active.
Pistol
Fire + Water Attunement
3	Frostfire Flurry	1	15	Dual Attack. Fire multiple bullets of fire and ice, inflicting conditions. If you have a fire bullet, consume it to increase the burning duration of the fire shots. If you have an ice bullet, consume it to cause the ice shots to inflict additional conditions.
Fire + Air Attunement
3	Purblinding Plasma	0.5½	12	Dual Attack. Fire a ball of plasma that explodes when it hits, striking enemies behind the target. If you have a fire bullet, consume it to create an area of fire beneath the initial target. If you have an air bullet, consume it to reduce the cooldown of this skill.
Fire + Earth Attunement
3	Molten Meteor	0.5½	12	Dual Attack. Bombard your foe with a meteor that inflicts multiple conditions. If you have a fire bullet, consume it to cause the shot to explode when it strikes an enemy, damaging other enemies in the blast. If you have an earth bullet, consume it to inflict additional bleeding.
Air + Water Attunement
3	Flowing Finesse	0.75¾	12	Dual Attack. Evade backward and grant yourself boons. If you have an ice bullet, consume it to gain frost aura. If you have an air bullet, consume it to gain superspeed.
Water + Earth Attunement
3	Echoing Erosion	0.5½	15	Dual Attack. Bleed your foe with bullets of ice and stone. If you have an ice bullet, consume it to heal yourself. If you have an earth bullet, consume it to grant yourself barrier.
Air + Earth Attunement
3	Enervating Earth	0.75¾	12	Dual Attack. Fire a quick shot that debilitates your target. If you have an air bullet, consume it to also inflict daze. If you have an earth bullet, consume it to also inflict bleeding on your target.
Scepter
Fire + Water Attunement
3	Fiery Frost	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Launch a fire and ice bolt while evading.
Fire + Air Attunement
3	Plasma Beam	10.25¼	18	Dual Attack. Fire a superheated jet of plasma at your foe.
Fire + Earth Attunement
3	Fracturing Strike	1	12	Dual Attack. Call a meteor from the sky that crashes to the ground, creating an eruption of magma.
Air + Water Attunement
3	Glacial Drift	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Whirl air and ice together, sending out a supercooled projectile that chills enemies it strikes.
Water + Earth Attunement
3	Stone Tide	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Bleed your foe with ice and sharpened stones.
Air + Earth Attunement
3	Earthen Synergy	0.75¾	20	Dual Attack. Smite your enemies with the earth and sky, dealing damage from below and then stunning from above.
Sword
Fire + Water Attunement
3	Twin Strike	0.75¾	10	Dual Attack. Quickly strike enemies in front of you with the extreme nature of fire and water.
Fire + Air Attunement
3	Pyro Vortex	0.5½	12	Dual Attack. Strike enemies in an arc in front of you, creating burning vortexes on enemies you hit.
Fire + Earth Attunement
3	Lava Skin	0.25¼	18	Dual Attack. Cover yourself in an increasing barrier while dealing damage to nearby enemies.
Air + Water Attunement
3	Shearing Edge	0.5½	12	Dual Attack. Form a frozen blade and spin it toward your enemies.
Water + Earth Attunement
3	Natural Frenzy	0.5½	10	Dual Attack. Unleash a volley of ice and earth at your enemies.
Air + Earth Attunement
3	Gale Strike	0.75¾	20	Dual Attack. Strike your enemies, lifting them and creating cyclones at their locations.
Hammer
Fire + Water Attunement
3	Dual Orbits: Fire and Water		18	Dual Attack. Summon projectiles of fire and ice that circle around you, striking enemies they pass through. While the fire projectile is active, it grants you increased outgoing damage. While the ice projectile is active, you take reduced damage from conditions. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
Fire + Air Attunement
3	Dual Orbits: Fire and Air		18	Dual Attack. Summon projectiles of fire and ice that circle around you, striking enemies they pass through. While the fire projectile is active, it grants you increased outgoing damage. While the air projectile is active, your chance to critically strike is increased. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
Fire + Earth Attunement
3	Dual Orbits: Fire and Earth		18	Dual Attack. Summon projectiles of fire and earth that circle around you, striking enemies they pass through. While the fire projectile is active, it grants you increased outgoing damage. While the earth projectile is active, you take reduced damage from strikes. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
Air + Water Attunement
3	Dual Orbits: Water and Air		18	Dual Attack. Summon projectiles of ice and air that circle around you, striking enemies they pass through. While the ice projectile is active, you take reduced damage from conditions. While the air projectile is active, your chance to critically strike is increased. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
Water + Earth Attunement
3	Dual Orbits: Water and Earth		18	Dual Attack. Summon projectiles of fire and ice that circle around you, striking enemies they pass through. While the ice projectile is active, you take reduced damage from conditions. While the earth projectile is active, you take reduced damage from strikes. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
Air + Earth Attunement
3	Dual Orbits: Air and Earth		18	Dual Attack. Summon projectiles of air and earth that circle around you, striking enemies they pass through. While the air projectile is active, your chance to critically strike is increased. While the earth projectile is active, you take reduced damage from strikes. Summoning a circular projectile refreshes the duration of all other circular projectiles.
Staff
Fire + Water Attunement
3	Pressure Blast	1	15	Dual Attack. Send out a vaporous projectile that heals allies it passes through. This projectile violently explodes if it hits the ground or strikes an enemy, healing allies and damaging foes in the area.
Fire + Air Attunement
3	Plasma Blast	0.25¼	12	Dual Attack. Launch a ball of plasma that explodes on impact at your foes.
Fire + Earth Attunement
3	Pyroclastic Blast	0.75¾	15	Dual Attack. Launch a molten rock that devastates an area.
Air + Water Attunement
3	Monsoon	0.5½	20	Dual Attack. Launch a hurricane in a direction, healing allies and damaging enemies.
Water + Earth Attunement
3	Lahar	0.5½	20	Dual Attack. Create an area that cripples and damages enemies.
Air + Earth Attunement
3	Pile Driver	10.5½	18	Dual Attack. After a short channel, launch a hyper-fast boulder that decimates foes in its path.
Trident
Fire + Water Attunement
3	Hydrothermal Vent	1	15	Dual Attack. Create a thermal vent around your target.
Fire + Air Attunement
3	Plasmic Strike	0.5½	12	Dual Attack. Quickly heat the area around your enemy, melting defenses.
Fire + Earth Attunement
3	Molten Burst	0.75¾	12	Dual Attack. Gain a shield of earth, then release a molten burst from your location.
Air + Water Attunement
3	Absolute Zero	0.5½	20	Dual Attack. Send out a supercooled shard that freezes enemies it hits.
Water + Earth Attunement
3	Elemental Compression	1	12	Dual Attack. Inflict the area around your target with the immense pressures of the earth and sea.
Air + Earth Attunement
3	Sodden Swath	0.5½	18	Dual Attack. Launch a twisting earthen vortex at your enemies.

Slot skills

Healing

Skill				Description
Aquatic Stance		0.75¾	4	Stance. Flow like water, gaining endurance. Striking a foe causes water to erupt from them, healing your nearby allies.

Utility

Skill				Description
Primordial Stance			5	Stance. Channel the prime elements at their core, dealing damage based on your current attunements. Fully attuning deals the same condition twice.
Stone Resonance			5	Stance. Enter an earthen state, gaining barrier periodically over the course of the stance.
Unravel			5	Stance. For a period of time, you forego your weaver training, choosing to fully attune to elements instead. Gain boons based on your primary attunement, and reduce all attunement cooldowns.
Twist of Fate		1	5	Stance. Break stun, then spin and briefly evade attacks.

Elite

Skill				Description
Weave Self		0.75¾	90	Stance. Temporarily reduce the recharge time of attunements while gaining bonuses for attuning to new elements. Successfully attuning to all elements ends this stance and grants Perfect Weave.
Tailored Victory		0.75¾		Release all of your woven elements and end your Weave Self stance, causing gravity itself to unravel around you.

List of weaver traits

See also: List of elementalist traits

Tier	Trait		Description
Minor Proficiency	Sword Proficiency		You can wield swords in your main hand.
Minor Adept	Weaver		Your active attunement is now applied to your main hand, with the old attunement moving to your off hand. Attunement recharges are reduced. Gain access to Dual Attack and the Stance utility types.
Major Adept	Superior Elements	4	Dual Attack skills weaken enemies. Attacks against weakened foes have increased critical chance.
Major Adept	Elemental Pursuit	10	Gain superspeed when inflicting inhibiting conditions on enemies.
Major Adept	Master's Fortitude		Gain increased vitality when wielding a sword. Gain bonus vitality based on a portion of your power and condition damage.
Minor Master	Elemental Refreshment		Grant barrier to yourself and nearby allies when using Dual Attack skills.
Major Master	Weaver's Prowess		Gain increased condition damage and duration for a period of time after attuning to a different element.
Major Master	Swift Revenge		Gain swiftness when using a Dual Attack. Deal increased strike damage to enemies while under the effects of swiftness or superspeed.
Major Master	Bolstered Elements	70	Gain protection when activating a Stance. Activate Lesser Stone Resonance when struck while below the health threshold.
Minor Grandmaster	Elemental Polyphony		Gain attributes based on your current attunement. When dual attuned, gain both benefits.
Major Grandmaster	Elements of Rage		Gain a bonus to all damage dealt for a period of time when attuned to a single element. Gain precision based on a percentage of your vitality.
Major Grandmaster	Woven Stride	3	Gain swiftness when you are inflicted with inhibiting conditions. When gaining either superspeed or swiftness, also gain regeneration and cleanse a condition. Swiftness has increased effectiveness.
Major Grandmaster	Invigorating Strikes		Gain vigor when using a Dual Attack. Dodge rolling grants a barrier.

Lore

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Weavers can attune to two different elements simultaneously, deftly cycling them from hand to hand and combining them to powerful effect. They favor swords in battle, and channel the strength of the elements using their stance skills.

— Official site

Associated items

• Weaver's Sword
• Warpblade
• Weaver's Antipodes
• Superior Rune of the Weaver
• Mini Weaver Folarin Oyekan

Related achievements

• Specializations: Adept Weaver — Begin training the elementalist's weaver elite specialization. (5)
• Specializations: Master Weaver — Completely train the elementalist's weaver elite specialization. (10)
• Specialization Collections: Warpblade — Collect these 14 items and skins to receive the weaver's sword, Warpblade. (3)

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Notes

• Elementalist core utility skills and traits (like Glyph of Elementals, Soothing Mist and Stone Heart) are based only on the mainhand attunement. For example, the trait Soothing Mist will not activate when attuned to Earth in the mainhand and Water in the offhand.
• Like all skills in the game, cooldowns are per-skill, not per-slot. Each weapon's six Dual Attacks have their own individual cooldowns so, after casting a Dual Attack, you can attune to a different element and immediately cast that new Dual Attack, allowing weavers to cast Dual Attacks very frequently.
• Weavers wielding a sword are true melee character. Players need to beware how squishy they are as they can get spiked quickly if not careful.
• The second sword skill is always a movement skill that allows player to gap close or retreat depending on the attunement. Fire and Air are offensive gap closers while Water and Earth are defensive retreats.
• When swapping attunements with Weaver, all four attunements go into the same cooldown of 4 seconds. This is different from core elementalists that get a bigger cooldown on the attunement they swapped from, but a shorter one on the others.
• Players may speak to Folarin Oyekan around Vehtendi Academy in the Domain of Vabbi to learn more about the specialization.

Bugs:

• If Auto-attack is enabled on the basic attack chain, the Weaver will always complete the basic attack chain of the element they were attuned to at the start of the first attack, even if they switch to a different attunement at any point during the chain.
  • Eg. if a Weaver casts Charged Strike, and then attunes to Water, auto-attack will complete the Air auto-attack chain, and will only start the Water auto-attack chain after finishing Call Lightning. This is impossible to reproduce if auto-attack is disabled.
• On rare occasions, a Weaver might retain a Dual Attack weapon skill after switching from being attuned to two elements, to being attuned to only one element. This happens most often while dismounting or switching maps where switching maps changes from a non-weaver build template to a weaver build template.
• If a Weaver attunes to an element and then mounts up before the attunement cooldowns has finished, all skill but the Dual Attack one will be of the primary element while the Dual Attack will be of the actual equipped element combination.
  • As an example, a Weaver switching Air/Earth and then quickly mounting up gains Charged Strike, Polaric Leap, Gale Strike, Swirling Winds, and Gale, rather than the correct line up of Charged Strike, Polaric Leap, Gale Strike, Magnetic Wave, and Obsidian Flesh.

Trivia

• Weaver is a concept that started development before the Heart of Thorns expansion. It was a contender for an elite specialization for HoT but the tech wasn't quite there yet.
• The developers recommend people use the Unravel utility when they try to get familiar with the Weaver mechanics. This basically allow you to lose the weaver mechanics temporarily and fully attune to the elements instead. It can be handy to get to a skill you need quickly without preplanning.
• The elite skill rewards players that can weave through all four attunements instead of sticking with two.
• This elite specialization received the most new skills. The sword adds 20 new single-attunement skills, and each mainhand weapon type gained six unique dual attacks for a total of 30 dual attacks, resulting in 50 new weapon skills.

External links

• Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire Elite Specializations—Weaver (Elementalist)

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