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[Psijick Skilline] Elemental Weapon weaving
Oceanchanter
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I've tried using Elemental Weapon on my Templar, time and time again; mostly for fashion purpouses cause that's the quickest way to earn Spell Orb passives.
But I've noticed weaving attacks with Reflective Light is much better, easier than with this skill.
I've been wondering if it's just me, or weaving with Elemental Weapon while using Destruction staff is clunky?
Does anyone still use it effectively in - almost 2025? If yes, I'd welcome any tips and tricks.
But I've noticed weaving attacks with Reflective Light is much better, easier than with this skill.
I've been wondering if it's just me, or weaving with Elemental Weapon while using Destruction staff is clunky?
Does anyone still use it effectively in - almost 2025? If yes, I'd welcome any tips and tricks.
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Avran_Sylt✭✭✭✭✭
✭Ele is about pre-buffing a light attack.
So it all looks like a regular attack and doesn't have the "I'm making a shortcut" feeling of other spammables.
But also, destro is a projectile. I don't know if that complicates Ele.2 -
alpha_synuclein✭✭✭✭✭Ele weapon was meta about 5 years ago, before the nerfs to LAs and back when mages were still using staves on their frontbars.
It is not the easiest to weave, but one can get used to it. My advice would be: slow down before you start speeding up. After a while you'll get the timing.3 -
BasP✭✭✭✭✭I don't normally use that skill, nor a Destruction Staff on the front bar, but I just tried it for a little bit on a 3M dummy and I didn't notice anything off. Do you miss more Light Attacks when you use Elemental Weapon and/or weave slower, or does it just feel clunky to use?
If you're on PC, you could try the addon called Perfect Weave. I've never used it myself, but coincidentally the preview image displays 50 LA's with an Inferno Staff and 50 casts of Elemental Weapon.
For what it's worth, this was the result of my test (I always weave slow, so this is actually pretty good for my standards):
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CaptainVenom✭✭✭✭✭
✭Avran_Sylt wrote: »But also, destro is a projectile. I don't know if that complicates Ele.
Elemental Weapon (and, by extend, Crystal Weapon) weaves easily on projectiles, such as bows and staves. I don't know why, but it weaves particularly better on Lightning Staves, but it is a pain to weave on melee weapons and Restorations Staves because Weapon animation glitches somehow.🌈 Ride with Pride🌈
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Oceanchanter✭✭✭I don't normally use that skill, nor a Destruction Staff on the front bar, but I just tried it for a little bit on a 3M dummy and I didn't notice anything off. Do you miss more Light Attacks when you use Elemental Weapon and/or weave slower, or does it just feel clunky to use?
If you're on PC, you could try the addon called Perfect Weave. I've never used it myself, but coincidentally the preview image displays 50 LA's with an Inferno Staff and 50 casts of Elemental Weapon.
For what it's worth, this was the result of my test (I always weave slow, so this is actually pretty good for my standards):
Both,
I miss weaves and it feels clunky.
I think I will take @alpha_synuclein 's advice and practice slowly on a dummy before speeding up.
Because if I miss weave Destr + Reflective Light, I just cast Reflective Light twice. Not much of a damage loss.
But if I miss weave with EleWeap, I cast the skill twice with no damage
Thanks for the tip about the addon. Might become useful, but after installing it I'd have to abandon PvP out of personal principle.0 -
Jsmalls✭✭✭✭✭
✭As someone who also thought it was clunky when moving from force pulse to it back in the day I'll give this advice.
Use it "backwards" from how you would use any other ability.
You're using it to apply to the light attack that you just fired (while it's traveling) instead of using it to buff your next light attack. Try to get the timing for that right and it becomes a lot more fluid.
And the distance from your target doesn't matter. Since there is minimum travel times you can always apply it to the light attack that you used before clicking the skill.
Hopefully I didn't make that confusing!1 -
MincMincMinc✭✭✭✭Ele weapon is really only good on timed burst builds in pvp. Something like a magsorc could use it.
The main strength of it is being able to cast it before OR after you throw a ranged light attack. What this lets you do is load up gcds into a short window. Normally 3 skills hits over 3gcds. However with ele weapon what you can do is the below.
Ele > light > Cfrags > light > ele
This combo all hits within 2 gcds. So you can really condense burst. To go a step further you add in overload to turn your light attacks into ultimates. Meaning within a 2s window you hit 3 skills and 2 ultimates. Which can also be timed with curse or other timed skills.0 -
Avran_Sylt✭✭✭✭✭
✭As someone who also thought it was clunky when moving from force pulse to it back in the day I'll give this advice.
Use it "backwards" from how you would use any other ability.
You're using it to apply to the light attack that you just fired (while it's traveling) instead of using it to buff your next light attack. Try to get the timing for that right and it becomes a lot more fluid.
And the distance from your target doesn't matter. Since there is minimum travel times you can always apply it to the light attack that you used before clicking the skill.
Hopefully I didn't make that confusing!
As I’ve been using it more with a bow, yeah. Just LA->Ele like any other weave, the elemental weapon will apply to the recently fired projectile. (For whatever reason)
Melee can’t do this and it feels clunky.Edited by Avran_Sylt on 5 January 2025 18:160 -
Oceanchanter✭✭✭As someone who also thought it was clunky when moving from force pulse to it back in the day I'll give this advice.
Use it "backwards" from how you would use any other ability.
You're using it to apply to the light attack that you just fired (while it's traveling) instead of using it to buff your next light attack. Try to get the timing for that right and it becomes a lot more fluid.
And the distance from your target doesn't matter. Since there is minimum travel times you can always apply it to the light attack that you used before clicking the skill.
Hopefully I didn't make that confusing!
Hey, that actually makes sense.
I wasn't aware you can buff the projectile mid-flight with this skill.
I'm definetly going to try it.0