Just a quick and dirty first impressions on of my time (about two days) with Weaver as an elementalist. The dual attunement mechanic is kitten near perfectly done.
I love that I can double proc attunement specials by fully attuning to an element from a fused one.
I kinda wonder why anyone would need Unravel at all once you understand how to fully attune.
I guess because it counts as a stance and it can proc stability when traited I suppose? But the other stances offer a bit more.
That needs a cooldown buff or a complete reworking or something.
The fused elemental skills tend to be fantastic. The sword is everything I was looking for in a sword spec for ele.
I’ve been kinda vocal on asking for sword for ele and I’m very pleased with what we got. The skills all flow together quite nicely.
Likewise the dual attack skills on dagger are very well done and it assuaged my fears of losing some of the more important mobility skills on dagger that tend to be on skill 3.
Weaver dagger gives a bunch of mobility skills to the dagger spec and it’s a welcome addition.
I’ve just started playing around on scepter with Weaver and on this one I’m just a little iffy.
On dagger and sword I could play around with many different builds but on scepter I felt kinda shoehorned into the Air trait line to really make it work.
But work it does. It’s an amazing 1vX build and Weaver adds a good bunch of conditions and control to scepter.
I wish there was more control or something to make it more flexible outside of a fresh air build.
But as far as I know that’s always been a thing for scepter and it seems a lot of Weaver traits really flow with the fresh air build.
It’s not a bad build by any means. Just feels limited. I’m sure in PvE I could mess around more since the experience is generally more forgiving VS real people.
Now staff I’m kinda underwhelmed by in terms of what Weaver offers.
Lahar and Pile Driver withstanding (they’re really good and I like them a lot), most of the other staff dual attacks don’t feel too great.
They feel underpowered and clunky to fire off compared to what you gain if you hit. In PvP/WvW you’re not going to hit anyone with them.
Maybe a zerg vs zerg situation? But in smaller conflicts the skills are easy to avoid and even if they hit, they don’t feel sufficient for a two handed weapon.
These skills need to be harder hitting or do more or something to reward good/predictive positioning which is what you need to use for a majority of staff weaver dual attacks.
Those are my impressions thus far.
A great spec overall and I’m glad we finally get to add sword to the elementalist repertoire.
I know I’m not the only elementalist who started building a legendary sword once I found out we’re getting sword.
See you guys in Elona!
