User:Masel/Builds/Weaver

Pistol/Warhorn Condition  Weaver

Build Rating (Subjective)

Criterion	Rating
Burst Damage	4/5
Sustained Damage	5/5
Utility Options	1/5
Survivability	2/5
Difficulty	3/5

Condition  Weaver is an excellent and almost fully ranged damage build for instanced content and open world. It has great sustained damage with a spammy but fairly straightforward rotation and great burst damage for a condition build, but it lacks self-supply for Boons aside from  Might and  Protection on itself. It doesn't bring a lot of utility, but the usage of Warhorn allows you to copy and extend Boons on allies. It can become very resilient with a few tweaks to the standard raid build and its range makes it easier to kite incoming damage.

Link to Build in the Build Editor

Playstyle & Skills

I only listed skills that are relevant to the build, and the order of weapon skills reflects the order of attunements used in the general rotation (more details below).

Skill Type	Skills
Step 1: Dual Fire Attunement
Step 2: Earth + Fire Attunement
Step 3: Dual Earth Attunement
Step 4: Water + Earth Attunement
Step 5: Fire + Water Attunement
Utility Skills

Rotation Guidance & Showcase Video

You can find my most recent rotation showcase here.
Damage Log

Section	Notes
General Stuff	The rotation flow on weaver is a fixed loop. There is also an ideal sequence for make use of weave self, but I'll redirect you to the Snowcrows Weaver page for that. For now, we'll just use the basic attunement sequence. While doing that, you can start by using all your Skill 2, 3 and 5 and your utility skills on cooldown (you can skip   Water Globe in Water, it doesn't do any damage). Once you get used to that, start looking at the order of pistol skills and only activate skills in the right attunements: You should try to trigger the 5% buff from   Raging Ricochet by consuming a fire bullet for it. That will happen automatically in the rotation loop if you use it after   Searing Salvo in Dual Fire and after   Frostfire Flurry in Fire + Water.   Primordial Stance and   Glyph of Elemental Power should only be activated in Dual Fire, Fire + Earth or Dual Earth to make them apply damaging conditions.   Sand Squall can be used in Water + Earth at a very small damage loss to extend all Boons on your subgroup by 3 seconds. This is very neat, use it when you can.   Heat Sync can be used in Fire or Earth + Fire at a small damage loss to grant  Fury and  Might to your subgroup.
General Rotation	The basic attunement sequence is... Start in Dual   Fire Attunement and cast   Weave Self, Activate   Earth Attunement to reach Earth + Fire, Activate   Earth Attunement again for Dual Earth, Activate   Water Attunement for Water + Earth, Activate   Fire Attunement for Fire + Water Activate   Fire Attunement for Dual Fire Repeat from Step 2.
CC Skills for Breakbar Damage	For CC, dual attune to   Air Attunement for   Dazing Discharge and   Cyclone . In your regular rotation, you only have acess to   Tidal Surge. In Dual earth,   Boulder Blast applies  Immobile.

Utility Skills

Utility Skills (DPS)

Skill Choice	Notes
Signet of Restoration	Passive heal and another larger heal and Frost Aura on demand. This and the other two Signets retain their passives with  Written in Stone
Signet of Fire	BIG DAMAGE
Primordial Stance	Application of  Bleeding and  Burning for Relic of the Fractal. Only use in Dual Fire, Earth + Fire or Dual Earth Attunement.
Option 1:   Glyph of Lesser Elementals Option 2:   Glyph of Elemental Power	Precast as many elementals as possible for a faster damage rampup! More straightforward option, can be precast for a bit more burst. Can be used during other skills and is thus very convenient.
Weave Self	BIG DAMAGE. Massively increases yur burst damage through the 20% condition damage modifier.

Gear & Traits

Important Stats (descending in Importance):

1. 100%  Burning and  Bleeding Duration (60%% overall condition duration): the remaining 40 % come from  Weaver's Prowess and  Serrated Stones or  Burning Precision, respectively.
2. Maximize Condition Damage
3. For a budget starter set, simply replace all ascended armor pieces and trinkets of Viper's with rare/exotic Ritualist's and Abomination Weapons.

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Shoulders	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Chest	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Gloves	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Legs	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Boots	Viper's	Superior Rune of the Trapper
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Viper's
Ring 1	Viper's
Ring 2	Viper's
Accessory 1	Viper's
Accessory 2	Viper's
Backpack	Viper's
Weapon	Prefix	Sigil
Scepter (Main Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Earth
Warhorn (Off Hand)	Viper's	Superior Sigil of Bursting
Purpose	Item Type	Source
Damage	Ascended Food	Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread
Damage	Non-Ascended Food	Plate of Beef Rendang
Survivability	Ascended Food	Peppered Cured Meat Flatbread
Survivability	Non-Ascended Food	Oysters Gnashblade
Damage	Utility	Toxic Focusing Crystal
Survivability	Utility	Potion Of Karka Toughness
Damage	Relic	Relic of the Fractal

Traits

Fire
Earth
Weaver

• Ascended gear is always ideal, but exotic gear is fine for everything aside from higher-tier fractals.

Open World Build

You can find my most recent open world build showcase here.

Increasing General Survivability

• For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.
• Generally, you should use the fact that you are a ranged build in solo gameplay. Kite enemies to avoid damage when you can.
• Aside from that, the two key traits are  Elemental Shielding and  Written in Stone.  Written in Stone makes your signets keep their passive effects when they are on cooldown, and further grants you an aura upon activating one.
• Auras trigger  Elemental Shielding for  Protection uptime, further boosting survivability.
• On top, you can change gear to the following to become tankier at a reasonable damage loss.
• Exotic Rabid Gear is fairly cheap to buy, so is Superior Rune of Balthazar …:

Gear

Armor	Prefix	Rune
Head	Rabid	Superior Rune of Balthazar
Shoulders	Rabid	Superior Rune of Balthazar
Chest	Rabid	Superior Rune of Balthazar
Gloves	Rabid	Superior Rune of Balthazar
Legs	Rabid	Superior Rune of Balthazar
Boots	Rabid	Superior Rune of Balthazar
Trinket	Prefix
Amulet	Rabid
Ring 1	Rabid
Ring 2	Rabid
Accessory 1	Rabid
Accessory 2	Rabid
Backpack	Rabid

• Generally, you should stay on Fire and Earth for damage. The longer you stay attuned to fire, the more  Might  Pyromancer's Puissance provides (more on that in the next section).
• When you have external sources of  Might, you can follow the same rotation flow as the DPS build. BUT:There is no bad skill on Pistol for solo open world gameplay.

1. Fire applies  Burning
2. Water applies  Bleeding and heals
3. Earth applies  Bleeding and grants Barrier
4. Air applies lots of  Vulnerability - more  Vulnerability on your own means more damage.

• Your utility skills can look as follows:

Utility Skills (Open World)

Skill Choice	Notes
Signet of Restoration	This heals you for every skill you cast, including instant casts. This leads to a quite nice amount of passive healing. You can also activate it for another heal without losing the passive healing. It will also apply a frost aura, reducing damage you take by 10% for 4 seconds.
Signet of Fire	BIG DAMAGE (and Fire Aura)
Signet of Earth	Reduces incoming damage passively and does great damage against a single target.
Armor of Earth	Strong for Barrier,  Stability and the Stun break. General emergency button. Scales with the number of boons you have, making it very strong in group gameplay.
Weave Self	Used similar to the raid build. Reduces incomign damage when you attune to earth once and outgoing damage when you attune to fire once.

Boon Coverage

•  Pyromancer's Puissance,   Heat Sync and all Fire Auras will cover some  Might.
•   Heat Sync also covers a bit of  Fury on yourself.
• As described before,  Elemental Shielding applies  Protection every time you grant an aura to yourself or allies.
• To cover more boons, make use of   Jade Tech Offensive Overcharge and   Jade Tech Defensive Overcharge.
• These give permanent 150 additional Toughness, Vitality, Condition Damage and Power as well as all boons aside from  Stability,  Resistance and  Resolution on entering combat, with a 30 second cooldown. The  Quickness and  Alacrity from this increase damage noticeably!
• In story instances (or if you don't want the hassle of reapplying protocols), you can abuse the synergy between Relic of the Cavalier and   Blast from the Skyscale to apply lots of  Aegis,  Resistance,  Might and  Quickness to yourself. It has an internal cooldown of 1 second and applies the boons on every hit of   Blast.

Dealing with Conditions and Control effects

• In case you need frequent condi cleanses,  Smothering Auras in fire is worth looking at. This cleanses conditions whenever you grant an aura to an ally, and transmuting one via focus 5 cleanses 2 conditions in an aoe around you. This costs some damage, but can make your life in some situations much easier!
• For a Stun break, use either   Armor of Earth (defensive option) or   Glyph of Elemental Power (offensive option).