Catalyst - Power Catalyst

The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

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This build was last updated on September 08, 2022 and is up to date for the June 30, 2022 game patch.

Overview

Power Catalyst is a mid-ranged Elementalist build that focuses on high burst damage and extremely high damage to bosses while potentially providing a large amounts of Might, Fury, Protection and Resolution to itself and the group. In addition It can trade damage to provide Quickness via the trait , becoming a potent boon support build.

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Skill Bar

Hammer

Utility

Specializations

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Consumables

Food

Any ascended food is superior to any other food you could use. Steak for power, flatbread for conditions. Budget versions of these foods exist and are acceptable.
- farming
- DPS
- defense

Utility

(and variants) - farming
- DPS

Usage

Damage/CC

In open world,you can play at 600 range when alternating between + .
Make sure to use in to gain two additional stacks of upon casting its active skill Stomp.
The rotation for group content is a simplified variant (only using , & ) that will get you within 10% of the current benchmark and loops nicely.
Start in , then swap to and then to , and repeat.
The pattern in the respective element is always similar: always use Hammer 2, then Hammer 3 while 2 is casting and then use the Sphere and finish with hammer 5 to make use of the combo field. Avoid using + for damage purposes.
Stay in until is available a second time. Use in and reactivate as soon as possible to maintain the 10% damage buff.
Your main sources of CC are and as well as soft CC through Weakness, Cripple and Blinded

Survivability

is a large self-knockback that can put you out of danger; it can, however, also put you into it when used at the wrong time.
is a block on demand in .
has a short cooldown and provides a very strong heal and boons, so make use of it.

Detailed explanations on the general usage and the rotation are given down below.

Guide Video (as of May 2022)

Variants

Skill Variants

Healing

- Passive healing.
- Trades upfront healing for healing/cleanse over time.
- Damage conjure for large bosses.

Utility

- for a block and stunbreak on demand at the cost of damage.
- instant mobility.

Elite

- The Fire elemental is less DPS potential than Fiery Greatsword but simpler to use. Can also be used in earth for a tanky frontline or water for extra healing.

Trait Options

- Lowers Conjure cooldowns and provides an additional aura when placing/picking up a conjure.
- For passive CC at the cost of some damage
- Additional Fury and Swiftness if needed.
- Trades damage for access to Quickness and other additional boons. Also increases the radius of Deploy Jade Sphere for ease of use.
- Higher overall damage if you can maintain max empowerment stacks.

Arcane

Arcane can offer more boon duration and burst damage when you are supplied with many boons thanks to , which means higher DPS in some situations. It also lowers the cooldown of the jade sphere.

- Passive Defensive block/stunbreak
- CD reduction of Arcane skills and adds Immobilize in Earth Attunement for easier stacking of elemental empowerment via

Variant Equipment

Gear

Diviner - For additional boon duration if playing the boon support build with .
Knight - defensive trinkets
Marauder and/or Dragon_stats - defensive prefixes, be aware of crit cap when mixing these stats.
Assassin - used to fine-tune crit chance.
Elementalist is a low-health class, so having a jade bot core helps with survivability a lot; the higher the tier, the better!

Runes

, - budget runes, use when using to not overcap on critical chance.