Weaver - Earth Hammerweaver
This is a test build. You may comment and rate it.
Focused on: Condition damage and Sustain
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on May 08, 2024.
Overview
A condition damage-based Weaver build for PvP with medium damage and high survivability. Primarily serves as a duelist.
Skill Bar
Hammer
Utility
Template Code
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Specializations
Variants
- Every trait in the first slot of Weaver is viable.
Equipment
Sword
Focus
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic
Equipment Variants
Sigils
- or over - if you can afford to give up condition removal for more damage.
Relics
- - better cleansing via synergy.
- - adds a new cover condition to the build for slightly higher damage and to make it harder to cleanse your more important conditions.
Usage
To be added
Ratings
June 4, 2025 update: The only reason I bumped my rating a bit higher because this build is still capable of one-sided stomp thanks to the added cleansing from relic of Bava Niso, condi bombing, and Stone Heart. Any semi-competent duos can still shut it down easy by either out-rotating or kiting it out.
It's still only good for memes & occasional trolling with your friends. Ele hammer is a textbook example why no one should ever design a weapon based only on a single specialization. Without any of your usual combo fields to go off of, you're forced into playing exactly a one-dimensionally rigid playstyle & role. Spoilers alert, but it's not even effective at the ONE thing it's supposed to be good at: Nearly non-existent mobility, extremely limited & telegraphed burst comboes, and mediocre CC skills nets you with many weaknesses of a duelist & little of the positives. "But this build can hold 1v1/1v2!" No, this isn't a strength that anyone should be putting it on a high pedestal. It's literally THE bare minimum you need in order to be classified as a duelist like the name implies. Unfortunately, even a core minion Ele is able to outperform hammer weaver in many areas except damage (yes, minion ele is just as easy to play).
Versatile but can't kill anyone. You can 1 v 1 a lot of mediocre players with this build if you're good with the Weaver. And you can add a lot to team fights. A fun elementalist PvP build IMO. A great Push build for sure.
Slow and can't always get a kill, but bunkers great, can hold it's own 1v2, and it's very easy to play
It definitely works, I'll say that, but there are too many weaknesses to ignore here:
Weak cleanse, making condi duelists a nightmare. Lack of aggressive traits results in common cases of stalling a duelist until someone from either team rotates into the node, lack of defense against cc, lack of range, lack of projectile denial, lack of speed. If you are dead set on playing a duelist elementalist, the condi sword weaver is by far the superior choice. And if you are dead set on hammer as a weapon, play catalyst.
I've found the damage lacking. Don't get me wrong this is enough for 1v1s and the sustain's good enough to stall outnumbered especially against power builds. But it really falls off in 2v2 and above, the damage becomes negligible compared to some other sidenoders especially once Primordial stance runs out. Therefore it's heavily reliant on the team making good rotations which is always a gamble in soloq. If Anet ever adds 1v1 tournys I'm defo playing this build, but in conquest there are better alternatives including hammer Catalyst even if that's harder to play.
The idea isn't completely new but no build has managed to make it viable in the past because not having Fire meant the damage or cleansing were too low. That is where Hammer comes into play. This weapon coupled with Primordial Stance has all the damage you'd ever need without any further investment. 5/5 damage and sustain against power builds, but the cleansing aspect remains unsolved. If Woven Stride ever gets a CD reduction this will be unstoppable, but as things currently stand the build has a defined weakness which is holding it back in some games. For now I'll have to detract 1 point for that since it falls behind the Cata version in that regard.
Very unique and surprisingly effective build. Extremely tanky thanks to all the Earth traits which add a bunch of instant procs. High Stone Heart uptime is especially great and can be a huge help when you're trying to survive a 1v2. Weaver's considered to be one of the hardest elite specs to play but Hammer removes much of the initial learning curve too since there are no dual attacks to memorize and work into your combos (all the dual attacks are just passive orbs). Several important survival tools are available right on attunement swap which means you don't have to stress too much about planning ahead with skill 4-5 access for defensive purposes either (although on water and earth there are still some powerful ones). Damage is good both in 1v1s and teamfights, but killing high cleansing specs can take a while.
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