Elementalist · Weaver · Raids · Condition DPS

Condition Weaver

Pistol and Warhorn. Bleeding from Earth, burning from Fire, and a relic that turns six bleeds into burning and torment. The top Elementalist raid DPS.

Benchmark (max): 45,711
Benchmark (average): 45,300
Difficulty: Advanced
Balance: July 2026 balance

Benchmark from the Snow Crows golem log of 2026-08-05, with 25 might, fury, quickness, alacrity and 25 vulnerability. Difficulty is scored below.

Equipment

Viper's Helm

Superior Rune of the Trapper

Viper's Shoulders

Superior Rune of the Trapper

Viper's Coat

Superior Rune of the Trapper

Viper's Gloves

Superior Rune of the Trapper

Viper's Leggings

Superior Rune of the Trapper

Viper's Boots

Superior Rune of the Trapper

Attributes · gear, traits and signets

Power2523

Toughness1000

Vitality1415

Precision1813

Critical Chance43.71%

Ferocity0

Critical Damage150%

Condition Damage1938

Healing Power0

Expertise823

Condition Duration79.87%

Concentration0

Boon Duration0%

Fire main hand. In a raid add 25 might (+750 Power, +750 Condition Damage) and fury (+25% crit). Crit chance with boons: 68.7%.

Viper's Backpiece

Viper's

Viper's Accessory

Viper's

Viper's Accessory

Viper's

Viper's Amulet

Viper's

Viper's Ring

Viper's

Viper's Ring

Viper's

Viper's Pistol

Superior Sigil of Bursting

Viper's Warhorn

Superior Sigil of Malice

Relic of the Fractal

Relic

Salsa-Topped Veggie Flatbread

Potent Master Tuning Crystal

Training

Fire

Burning Precision

Conjurer

Burning Fire

Burning Rage

Smothering Auras

Power Overwhelming

Persisting Flames

Pyromancer's Puissance

Inferno

Earth

Earth's Embrace

Serrated Stones

Elemental Shielding

Strength of Stone

Rock Solid

Earthen Blessing

Diamond Skin

Written in Stone

Stone Heart

Weaver

Elite specialization

Superior Elements

Elemental Pursuit

Weaver's Prowess

Master's Fortitude

Swift Revenge

Bolstered Elements

Elements of Rage

Woven Stride

Flow State

Skill barTap an attunement to swap like in game: the new element becomes your main hand, the old one moves to the off hand. Tap it again to attune fully.

Fire + Earth

Select a skill to read what it does.

Benchmarks run Signet of Earth because it is deterministic. In a real encounter replace it with Glyph of Lesser Elementals, which does more damage on average but has random elemental behaviour.

Rotation

The build lives in two attunements. Earth loads bleeds (Shattering Stone, Boulder Blast, the dual attack Molten Meteor), Fire keeps burning rolling (Searing Salvo, Raging Ricochet, autos). The pistol's bullet mechanic is the engine: a skill 2 either creates a bullet or spends it for a stronger effect, so the order you press things decides whether Molten Meteor bleeds for two stacks or five. Weave Self every 90 seconds speeds attunement swaps and adds 20% condition damage while you are in Fire, which is why the opener is a dense burst and the loop is calmer.

Before the pull

Two things set up the whole opener: an Earth Bullet in the chamber and a full Earth attunement.

1
2
Earth
Shattering Stone
Shattering Stone with no bullet loaded creates an Earth Bullet. Keep it; Molten Meteor will spend it for three extra bleeds.
2
1 · 1 · 11
Earth
Auto attacks
Wait fully attuned to Earth (press Earth twice). Earth main hand gives +200 Condition Damage from Elemental Polyphony and your first swap into Fire starts Elements of Rage.

Weave Self opener

Weave Self drops attunement recharge to 2 seconds and gives +20% condition damage in Fire. Everything below happens inside that window, so it is the densest part of the rotation. Run it on the pull and again every time Weave Self is ready.

1
5
Earth → Fire (Earth main, Fire off)
Wildfire
Swap to Fire once. Fire is now your off hand, which puts Wildfire on 5. Cast it: eight seconds of a pulsing fire field.
2
5
Earth (press Earth again)
Dust Storm
Back to full Earth so the warhorn is Earth again: Dust Storm, five impacts of two bleeds each.
3
0
Earth
Weave Self
Activate Weave Self now, after the two warhorn cooldowns are out, so the fast-swap window is spent on pistol skills.
4
8
Earth
Signet of Fire
Signet of Fire active: two burning stacks for 10 seconds. Written in Stone keeps its +180 Precision while it recharges.
5
2
Earth
Shattering Stone
Shattering Stone with the Earth Bullet loaded spends it: your next three attacks add 5 s of bleeding. Then it loads a fresh bullet next cast.
6
3
Earth
Boulder Blast
Boulder Blast: five bleeds plus an immobilize, and the immobilize triggers Strength of Stone for three more.
7
7
Fire → (Fire main, Earth off)
Signet of Earth
Swap to Fire. Signet of Earth active: four bleeds and another immobilize for Strength of Stone.
8
3
Fire + Earth
Molten Meteor
Molten Meteor, the dual attack, with the Earth Bullet: burning plus five bleeds in one shot, and it weakens the target so Superior Elements gives +20% crit.
9
2
Fire + Earth
Raging Ricochet
Raging Ricochet loads a Fire Bullet for Searing Salvo.
10
3
Fire (press Fire again)
Searing Salvo
Full Fire. Searing Salvo spends the Fire Bullet for a fire aura and a blast finisher inside your own fire field, plus the 1.0 and 0.25 strikes.
11
2
Earth → (Earth main, Fire off)
Shattering Stone
Swap to Earth. Shattering Stone loads an Earth Bullet again.
12
1 · 1 · 11
Earth (press Earth again)
Auto attacks
Full Earth. Fill with Piercing Pebble autos, one bleed each, until Shattering Stone is back.
13
2
Earth
Shattering Stone
Spend the Earth Bullet: three attacks of bonus bleeding.
14
3
Earth
Boulder Blast
Boulder Blast again as soon as it is up.
15
8
Air → (Air main, Earth off)
Signet of Fire
Swap to Air for its dual attack. Signet of Fire is back; use it.
16
2
Air + Earth
Dazing Discharge
Dazing Discharge loads an Air Bullet (or spends one to cut the next pistol skill's recharge by a third).
17
3
Air + Earth
Enervating Earth
Enervating Earth with an Earth Bullet: four bleeds. Without a bullet it is a weak shot, which is why the bullet order matters.
18
2
Fire → (Fire main, Air off)
Raging Ricochet
Swap to Fire. Raging Ricochet loads a Fire Bullet.
19
3
Fire + Air
Purblinding Plasma
Purblinding Plasma spends it for a burning area under the target, three pulses.
20
5
Fire + Air
Lightning Orb
Air is your off hand, so Lightning Orb is on 5: a strike skill, worth it here because the fire field and might are up.
21
3
Fire (press Fire again)
Searing Salvo
Full Fire. Searing Salvo on cooldown.
22
7
Fire
Signet of Earth
Signet of Earth on cooldown: four bleeds and the Strength of Stone trigger.
23
2
Earth → (Earth main, Fire off)
Shattering Stone
Swap to Earth and load an Earth Bullet.
24
3
Earth + Fire
Molten Meteor
Molten Meteor spends it: five bleeds and burning.
25
1 · 1 · 11
Earth + Fire
Auto attacks
Autos until Wildfire returns.
26
5
Earth + Fire
Wildfire
Wildfire from the Fire off hand.
27
3
Earth (press Earth again)
Boulder Blast
Full Earth. Boulder Blast.
28
5
Earth
Dust Storm
Dust Storm from the Earth off hand.
29
2
Water → (Water main, Earth off)
Frigid Flurryoptional
Optional: Frigid Flurry loads an Ice Bullet if you have the time.
30
3
Water + Earth
Echoing Erosion
Echoing Erosion: two bleeds, and the Weave Self stance ends here because you have touched all four elements, granting Perfect Weave for 10 seconds.
31
F5
Water + Earth
Unravel
Unravel fully attunes you to Water at once instead of waiting a second swap, so Frozen Fusillade is available immediately.
32
3
Water
Frozen Fusillade
Frozen Fusillade with the Ice Bullet shatters for a second strike and five bleeds.
33
8
Water
Signet of Fire
Signet of Fire on cooldown, then fall into the loop.

Loop

Without Weave Self the swaps are on a 4-second recharge, so the loop alternates full Fire and full Earth with one dual-attack step between them. Keep the two warhorn 5s, both signets and Primordial Stance on cooldown throughout; they are not written into the loop because their timers drift.

1
2
Fire (full)
Raging Ricochet
Raging Ricochet loads a Fire Bullet.
2
3
Fire
Searing Salvo
Searing Salvo spends it: fire aura, blast, two strikes.
3
3
Earth (full)
Boulder Blast
Boulder Blast first: five bleeds and the immobilize for Strength of Stone.
4
2
Earth
Shattering Stone
Shattering Stone loads an Earth Bullet for the next step.
5
3
Fire + Earth
Molten Meteor
Swap to Fire once and cast Molten Meteor with the bullet: five bleeds plus burning.
6
2
Fire + Earth
Raging Ricochet
Raging Ricochet loads a Fire Bullet.
7
3
Fire (full)
Searing Salvo
Searing Salvo spends it.
8
2
Fire
Raging Ricochet
Raging Ricochet again; it is back after 6 seconds, less with Pyromancer's Training.
9
2
Earth + Fire
Shattering Stone
Swap to Earth. Shattering Stone loads an Earth Bullet.
10
3
Earth + Fire
Molten Meteor
Molten Meteor from the other side: Fire + Earth and Earth + Fire share the same dual attack, and its 12-second recharge has passed.
11
3
Earth (full)
Boulder Blast
Boulder Blast.
12
2
Earth
Shattering Stone
Shattering Stone, spending the bullet this time for three enhanced attacks.
13
3
Water + Earth
Echoing Erosion
Swap to Water. Echoing Erosion: two bleeds and barrier from the Earth Bullet if one is loaded.
14
F5
Water + Earth
Unravel
Unravel to full Water immediately.
15
3
Water (full)
Frozen Fusillade
If an Ice Bullet is loaded: Frozen Fusillade first for the shatter and five bleeds, then Frigid Flurry to reload.
16
2
Water
Frigid Flurry
If no Ice Bullet: Frigid Flurry first to create one, then Frozen Fusillade. Then back to the top of the loop in Fire.

Key concepts

Dual attunement, in one sentence

Your newest attunement is your main hand (skills 1 and 2), the previous one is your off hand (4 and 5), and 3 is a dual attack that depends on the pair. Pressing the same element twice makes both hands that element. Each element has its own 4-second swap recharge, 2 seconds during Weave Self.

Bullets decide the numbers

Every pistol 2 creates a bullet of its element if you have none, or spends it for a bonus if you do. Molten Meteor with an Earth Bullet is five bleeds instead of two; Enervating Earth without one barely bleeds at all. The rotation is written so that a 2 always precedes the 3 that wants its bullet.

Why Fire and Earth, not Water

Fire main hand gives +200 Power and +150 Power from two minors; Earth main hand gives +200 Condition Damage. Water only appears for Echoing Erosion and Frozen Fusillade, which is why the rotation enters it from Earth and leaves immediately with Unravel.

What Weave Self actually does

For 20 seconds attunement swaps recharge in 2 seconds instead of 4, and you get a bonus per element you are in: +20% condition damage in Fire, +10% strike damage in Air. Touching all four elements ends it early and grants Perfect Weave, all four bonuses at once for 10 seconds. The opener is built to touch all four as late as possible.

Elements of Rage

Each time you attune to a single element you get 8 seconds of +15% strike and +10% condition damage, then +5% and +5%. Alternating full Fire and full Earth keeps re-triggering it, which is why the loop never sits in a dual attunement for long. It also grants Unravel.

The relic

Relic of the Fractal fires whenever you apply bleeding to a target with six or more stacks: two burning and three torment for 8 seconds, every 20 seconds. On this build the target is above six bleeds almost permanently, so treat it as a free 8-second burst on cooldown.

Where the crit comes from

43.7% from gear, +25% from fury in a raid squad, +20% from Superior Elements once a dual attack has weakened the target. Critical hits matter here for Burning Precision, which turns a third of them into 3 seconds of burning.

What each skill is worth

Expected damage of one cast against the heavy raid golem (armor 2597) with 25 might and fury: strike = weapon strength × power × coefficient ÷ armor, crits at 150% with 68.7% chance; conditions = stacks × duration × tick, with 79.87% duration plus any per-condition bonus. Permanent modifiers are included; Weave Self, Elements of Rage and the relic are not, so these are floor values.

Skill	Strike	Conditions	Per cast	Cast	Why
Dust Storm Earth off hand	3,200	48,079	51,279	0.75s · 30s	Five impacts over five seconds, each two bleeds. Use it on cooldown.
Primordial Stance Fire or Earth	2,701	43,213	45,914	0s · 20s	Five pulses over five seconds based on your attunements; fully attuned applies the condition twice. Two charges.
Wildfire Fire off hand	7,510	34,478	41,988	0.75s · 30s	Fire field pulsing for 8 seconds. Use it on cooldown.
Signet of Earth any	818	31,732	32,551	0.5s · 15s	Immobilize feeds Strength of Stone. Use on cooldown.
Molten Meteor Fire + Earth	1,185	30,724	31,910	0.5s · 12s	The dual attack. With an Earth Bullet loaded it is five bleeds plus burning in one shot.
Signet of Fire any	818	28,732	29,550	0.5s · 12s	Passive +180 Precision stays active while recharging thanks to Written in Stone. Use the active on cooldown.
Frozen Fusillade Water	3,556	19,232	22,788	0.5s · 15s	with an Ice Bullet
Boulder Blast Earth	1,043	19,232	20,275	0.5s · 12s	Immobilizes, which triggers Strength of Stone for 3 more bleeds every 3 s.
Enervating Earth Air + Earth	1,659	15,385	17,045	0.75s · 12s	Only worth casting with an Earth Bullet loaded.
Shattering Stone Earth	1,896	14,424	16,320	0.5s · 6s	Spending an Earth Bullet makes your next three attacks add 5 s of bleeding each.
Echoing Erosion Water + Earth	1,422	7,693	9,115	0.5s · 15s	Spends an Ice Bullet to heal or an Earth Bullet for barrier.
Scorching Shot (Fire auto) Fire	711	2,873	3,584	0.5s	Every filler shot in Fire adds two seconds of burning.
Piercing Pebble (Earth auto) Earth	830	2,404	3,234	0.5s
Searing Salvo Fire	2,963	0	2,963	0.5s · 12s	Blast finisher; with a Fire Bullet grants fire aura. Fire weapon skills recharge 20% faster from Pyromancer's Training.
Frigid Flurry Water	2,371	0	2,371	1.25s · 5s	Creates the Ice Bullet that Frozen Fusillade shatters.
Raging Ricochet Fire	1,896	0	1,896	0.5s · 6s	Creates a Fire Bullet or spends one for extra might. Mostly a bullet loader.

Simulator

A discrete-event simulator plays the build against the golem with the wiki's PvE skill facts. First it replays the exact cast sequence from Snow Crows' log and compares its damage with what the log recorded, condition by condition. That is the test of the model. Then it replays the same casts with different gear, so the gear question is answered with the actions held fixed.

Replay of the benchmark log

87 seconds, Snow Crows Condition Weaver. Numbers are total damage over the fight.

Source	Simulated	Log	Diff	Avg stacks
Total	3,068,452	3,902,408	-21.37%
Strikes	353,137	403,115	-12.40%
bleeding	1,474,636	1,909,737	-22.78%	59.6 vs 77.4
burning	1,162,289	1,510,386	-23.05%	15.8 vs 20.7
torment	78,391	79,170	-0.98%	2.2 vs 2.2

Scripted rotation (the loops on this page played by the simulator, no human timing): 35,327 DPS over 90 s, against 44,828 in the log.

Gear search

512 replays: every stat prefix on every piece, 17 runes, 10 sigils in both slots, 8 foods, 6 utilities and the infusion split, by coordinate descent from the Snow Crows set.

Snow Crows gear: 35,249
Best found: 36,034

Utility: Potent Master Tuning Crystal → Toxic Tuning Crystal (+0.26%)
Condition Damage from 3% of Power and 3% of Precision
Utility: Toxic Tuning Crystal → Writ of Masterful Malice (+2.23%)
+200 Condition Damage while above 90% health
Caveat: the golem never hits you; on a real boss it drops out whenever you take damage

Prefix: Viper's on every piece · Rune of the Trapper · Sigils of Bursting and Malice · Salsa-Topped Veggie Flatbread · Writ of Masterful Malice · 0 Malign / 18 Spiteful infusions.

What each single swap from the Snow Crows set would do

Utility

Writ of Masterful Malice+2.23%
Toxic Tuning Crystal+0.26%
Magnanimous Tuning Crystal-1.13%
Furious Tuning Crystal-1.64%
Toxic Sharpening Stone-2.39%

Food

Rare Veggie Pizza+0.00%
Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread-0.11%
Plate of Beef Rendang-0.11%
Spherified Sesame Oyster Soup-1.68%
Plate of Fire Flank Steak-2.55%
Bowl of Fancy Potato and Leek Soup-2.67%
Bowl of Fire Meat Chili-3.37%

Sigil

Earth-0.11%
Torment-0.23%
Earth-0.48%
Torment-0.63%
Agony-1.85%
Smoldering-2.31%
Force-3.27%
Accuracy-3.46%
Demons-3.46%
Force-3.63%
Agony-3.69%
Smoldering-3.70%
Venom-3.72%
Demons-3.81%
Accuracy-3.82%
Venom-4.08%

Infusions

9 Malign / 9 Spiteful-0.16%
18 Malign / 0 Spiteful-0.33%

Stat prefix (all pieces)

Trailblazer's-2.71%
Ritualist's-5.77%
Celestial-11.87%
Sinister-14.21%
Grieving-15.64%
Rabid-15.86%
Carrion-16.45%
Dire-17.62%
Seraph-22.18%
Rampager's-22.85%
Plaguedoctor's-24.06%
Berserker's-36.59%

Rune

Nightmare-3.16%
Afflicted-4.15%
Renegade-5.68%
Berserker-5.76%
Krait-5.97%
Necromancer-6.13%
Balthazar-6.62%
Weaver-6.91%
Elementalist-7.31%
Lich-7.69%
Undead-8.64%
Tormenting-8.72%
Mad King-8.91%
Perplexity-9.18%
Flame Legion-10.37%
Scholar-11.74%

Read the swap table as the price of each alternative, not as a recommendation: a negative number is how much the benchmark would lose. Duration bonuses stack additively with Condition Duration up to a 100% cap, which is why rune and sigil swaps that push a condition past the cap buy nothing. Sigil procs on critical hits use the simulator's crit chance and their listed cooldowns. Traits and the rotation are not searched yet; that needs the scripted rotation to match the log more closely than it does.

Where the stats come from

Superior Rune of the Trapper ×6 · +300 Condition Damage · +15% condition duration
Superior Sigil of Malice · +10% condition duration
Superior Sigil of Bursting · +5% condition damage
Salsa-Topped Veggie Flatbread · +100 Expertise, +70 Condition Damage
18 × Spiteful +5 Agony Infusion · +90 Expertise
Jade Bot Core: Tier 10 · +235 Vitality
Signet of Fire (passive, kept by Written in Stone) · +180 Precision
Empowering Flame (Fire minor) · +150 Power
while in Fire
Elemental Polyphony (Weaver minor) · +200 Power
+200 Power in Fire, +200 Condition Damage in Earth; both when dual attuned. Counted here for Fire main hand.
Burning Rage (Fire master) · +180 Condition Damage
Elemental Refreshment (Weaver minor) · +180 Vitality
Strength of Stone (Earth master) · +10% of Toughness as Condition Damage
Condition Damage equal to 10% of Toughness
Potent Master Tuning Crystal · +3% of Precision and 8% of Expertise as Condition Damage
Condition Damage from 3% of Precision (the signet's 180 excluded, matching the Snow Crows panel) and 8% of Expertise
Burning Precision (Fire adept) · +20% burning duration
and 33% of critical hits inflict 3 s of burning, 5 s cooldown
Serrated Stones (Earth adept) · +5% strike damage · +20% bleeding duration
+5% strike damage against bleeding foes
Pyromancer's Training (Fire minor) · +7% strike damage
+7% strike damage against burning foes, −20% recharge on fire weapon skills
Elements of Rage (Weaver grandmaster) · +10% condition damage · +15% strike damage
8 s after attuning to a single element, then +5%/+5%
Woven Fire (Weave Self) · +20% condition damage
while in Fire during Weave Self; Perfect Weave keeps +20% for 10 s after
Superior Elements (Weaver adept) · +20% crit chance
against weakened foes, which dual attacks apply
Relic of the Fractal
When you inflict bleeding on an enemy that already has 6 or more stacks, also inflict 2 stacks of burning and 3 stacks of torment for 8 seconds. 20-second cooldown.
Salsa-Topped Veggie Flatbread
+100 Expertise, +70 Condition Damage, 66% chance to steal life on critical hit
Potent Master Tuning Crystal
Condition Damage equal to 3% of Precision and 8% of Expertise

Difficulty: Advanced

Resources tracked4
Two attunement cooldowns, four bullet types, Weave Self's 20-second window, and Elements of Rage's 8-second window.
Distinct skills per loop9
Eight pistol and warhorn skills plus the signets and Primordial Stance between them.
Timing windowsMedium
Order inside each attunement matters for bullets, but no single input breaks the rotation if it slips by a second.
ForgivenessGood
Snow Crows lists it as easy to learn with a high mastery curve: the loop is forgiving, the opener and bullet order are where the last 10% lives.

Chosen traits

Fire: Burning Precision · Burning Rage · Pyromancer's Puissance
Earth: Serrated Stones · Strength of Stone · Written in Stone
Weaver: Superior Elements · Master's Fortitude · Elements of Rage

Condition Weaver

Rotation

Before the pull

Weave Self opener

Loop

Key concepts

Dual attunement, in one sentence

Bullets decide the numbers

Why Fire and Earth, not Water

What Weave Self actually does

Elements of Rage

The relic

Where the crit comes from

What each skill is worth

Simulator

Replay of the benchmark log

Gear search

What each single swap from the Snow Crows set would do

Where the stats come from

Difficulty: Advanced

Chosen traits

Sources