Ultimate Weaver Guide (PvE Open World - PvP - WvW)

[Lasiurus.4067]

Ultimate Sword Weaver Guide (PvE Open World - PvP - WvW)► A 1h30 comprehensive & detailed Guide, for both beginners & advanced players► Subtitles are available in multiples languages, activate them on YouTube Settings.► The Guide is available here :

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► TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction 0:00Build & Traits 0:33Gear & Food 6:49Weaver Mechanism 10:48Skill Review 11:39Attunement Rotations 28:03Combos 34:1010 Tips for Elementalist 45:31Matchup 56:10How to PvP 1:00:55WvW Commented Gameplay 1:04:55PvP Commented Gameplay 1:14:47Keybinding & Settings 1:24:14End Credits 1:25:34

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► I would like to thanks everyone who contributed to this Guide, created by lot's of differents persons.EDITORS : DoNotD / IllithexREVIEWERS : Omega / FurzenTRANSLATION - MrOnewing / Drakorise / DoNotD / Velzanna / Kuropu

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Thanks everyoneCellofrag

[BloodWork.4978]

Heya o/I made the editing for the intro & build part (0:00 - 6:50)Enjoy guys :)

[Lasiurus.4067]

If you were hesitant to try the PoF Sword Elementalist, feel free to come <3

[idolin.2831]

I got a question - I doubt if this build is good for open world PvE, compared to other builds. I can survive pretty well with full zerker Sword/Dagger weaver (fire/arcane/weaver) - not to mention FA Tempest Dagger/Warhorn, which is arguably the best Ele build for open world PvE.

Other than that, this was a fantastic guide, and this build is definitely strong in PvP/WvW. Thanks Cellofrag!

[Weggie.3215]

@idolin.2831 said:I got a question - I doubt if this build is good for open world PvE, compared to other builds. I can survive pretty well with full zerker Sword/Dagger weaver (fire/arcane/weaver) - not to mention FA Tempest Dagger/Warhorn, which is arguably the best Ele build for open world PvE.

Other than that, this was a fantastic guide, and this build is definitely strong in PvP/WvW. Thanks Cellofrag!

I kinda wonder the viability of this build for Open World PVE, pretty sure it would do fine but it kinda feels like you'll take longer to kill mobs. But the the WVW and PVP aspect is sweet. Anyone who tested these specs open world?

[Lasiurus.4067]

@Weggie.3215 said:

@idolin.2831 said:I got a question - I doubt if this build is good for open world PvE, compared to other builds. I can survive pretty well with full zerker Sword/Dagger weaver (fire/arcane/weaver) - not to mention FA Tempest Dagger/Warhorn, which is arguably the best Ele build for open world PvE.

Other than that, this was a fantastic guide, and this build is definitely strong in PvP/WvW. Thanks Cellofrag!

I kinda wonder the viability of this build for Open World PVE, pretty sure it would do fine but it kinda feels like you'll take longer to kill mobs. But the the WVW and PVP aspect is sweet. Anyone who tested these specs open world?

Yes, this build offers probably too much sustain for open world pve.I did it so new players & weaver beginners are way more confortable about surviving !But if you have enough experience, feel free to trade some gear or traits to more offensive !

[Tajiseed.7831]

Tried it in WvW today, much better than my previous build, the sustain is great and has a ton of evades to dance about in enemy zergs.

(note, using maurader/zerker gear as don't want to switch stats quite yet)

[Arheundel.6451]

@Tajiseed.7831 said:Tried it in WvW today, much better than my previous build, the sustain is great and has a ton of evades to dance about in enemy zergs.

(note, using maurader/zerker gear as don't want to switch stats quite yet)

Do you do anythign else other than dancing?

[Tajiseed.7831]

@Arheundel.6451 said:

@Tajiseed.7831 said:Tried it in WvW today, much better than my previous build, the sustain is great and has a ton of evades to dance about in enemy zergs.

(note, using maurader/zerker gear as don't want to switch stats quite yet)

Do you do anythign else other than dancing?

No, aiming to crush them with Dashing White Sergeant once we've got the numbers.

[fuzzyp.6295]

Thanks for posting the build Cello. There are few eles out there so I think its important what you're doing for the ele community. ^^

Tried it a bit today, I'll run it a bit more over the next few weeks to test (wvw). So far, sustain is amazing, I was able to easily stay alive in a 4 v 1. Lack of toughness isn't too big of a hindrance unless going up against full glass highly mobile classes. Barrier really helps. But the damage just feels lackluster. All they really have to do is kite you, the condi pressure just doesn't feel strong enough to really make up for the lack of raw power the build is lacking for my tastes. Great for fighting players who don't know when to disengage or over commit, I think the strength of the build comes from peoples underestimation when seeing a Weaver around and think they can easily take it down in a few attacks. The longer they stay the worse it gets for them, but really all they need to do to counter it right now is just to peel.. I'm going to try this with some Antitoxin Runes, maybe that will help out a bit with the dps although I may need to toss in a piece of settlers or something to offset the small loss in toughness.

Thanks for the build

[novas.1845]

I plan to watch the video when I get home but curious, as a new ele player would it be better for me to try out core or tempest before diving into weaver? Right now my focus is getting caught up on the living story and eventually doing some wvw to get the warclaw mount. After that I would like to start working on getting into fractals/raiding so I'm not really sure what spec would be best to focus on for now.I don't have a lot of gold to keep buying new sets of gear so I'd like to just stick with one build that will work ok for what I'm doing at the moment.

[Megametzler.5729]

@"novas.1845" said:I plan to watch the video when I get home but curious, as a new ele player would it be better for me to try out core or tempest before diving into weaver? Right now my focus is getting caught up on the living story and eventually doing some wvw to get the warclaw mount. After that I would like to start working on getting into fractals/raiding so I'm not really sure what spec would be best to focus on for now.I don't have a lot of gold to keep buying new sets of gear so I'd like to just stick with one build that will work ok for what I'm doing at the moment.

You can start with core D/D, which has some kind of similarish aspects. :wink: It's both close combat, relies on combos and quick attunement switching and stuff. Weaver will need some getting used to because of the double attunement, the dual skills and the not-instand availability of the offhand skills though.

D/D is fine for the story too and you can maybe use a lot of the equipment if you go for zerker/marauder/maybe grieving stats. For WvW, it is quite tough, but you could switch to staff easily, core is more or less fine there too.

Tempest doesn't really help with weaver though. Fun too, but very different gameplay-wise. Well, which is mainly the "stay in one attunement for a long time to get overloads, which are again quite long channels". :tongue:

[Zera.8907]

I've said it time and time again you area GWAMM when it comes to the Elementalist. Your skill, thought process, muscle memory, etc. are amazing.

[Lasiurus.4067]

Guide still 99,99% accurate but will add a small change since 1 month ago update :)

[juno.1840]

Very nice video!

Great contribution to the community, tyvm!

[Lasiurus.4067]

Thanks a lot <3This Weaver guide is still 99% uptodate.My goal is now a Tempest guide, when i'll got some time :)

[Zagreus.8509]

Thanks for this, helping a bunch getting back into the game and trying out weaver!

[CiZerin.2091]

Thanks a lot for guide.I have a question regarding combos. Are they suitable for pvp? While combo 1 and 2 are easile executable in real fight, others are rather long and, idk, I just don't have enougth time to perfome them.

[noiwk.2760]

@"Lasiurus.4067" said:Ultimate Sword Weaver Guide (PvE Open World - PvP - WvW)► A 1h30 comprehensive & detailed Guide, for both beginners & advanced players► Subtitles are available in multiples languages, activate them on YouTube Settings.► The Guide is available here :

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► TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction 0:00Build & Traits 0:33Gear & Food 6:49Weaver Mechanism 10:48Skill Review 11:39Attunement Rotations 28:03Combos 34:1010 Tips for Elementalist 45:31Matchup 56:10How to PvP 1:00:55WvW Commented Gameplay 1:04:55PvP Commented Gameplay 1:14:47Keybinding & Settings 1:24:14End Credits 1:25:34

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► I would like to thanks everyone who contributed to this Guide, created by lot's of differents persons.EDITORS : DoNotD / IllithexREVIEWERS : Omega / FurzenTRANSLATION - MrOnewing / Drakorise / DoNotD / Velzanna / Kuropu

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Thanks everyoneCellofrag

i love all your videos and ele builds ! im kind of new player and right now im playing ele ! could you please in the future make a video guide that is more focused on PVE content? like fractals raids and open world? that would be really appreciated ! thank you for your great work and sharing good builds !

[Lasiurus.4067]

@CiZerin.2091 said:Thanks a lot for guide.I have a question regarding combos. Are they suitable for pvp? While combo 1 and 2 are easile executable in real fight, others are rather long and, idk, I just don't have enougth time to perfome them.

All the combo are doable, depending on the situation.But more realisticly in PvP, the combos can be done partially, the most important is to know which skill interact with which other one, to take advantage of this (fire field, blast, leap, aura, heal...)

[Alek Seven.2374]

I stopped playing my Ele, my 1st character ever in this game, "too squish, too easy to kill", well... this build gave me a newfound love for him again (he was ugly too, 12y-o me striked).