Catalyst - Spear Cata

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Focused on: Strike damage, Control and Mobility

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Hard

This build was last updated on March 20, 2025.

Overview

A Catalyst build utilizing the land spear introduced in Janthir Wilds. A strong emphasis on mobility and burst damage.

Skill Bar

Spear

Utility

Skill Variants

Utility

For the optional slot:

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  - strong stun break with Stability and barrier.

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  - relatively short cool down stun break with Superspeed and restores endurance.

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  - a teleport that allows you to get out of dangerous situations vertically.

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Specializations

Variants

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  offers strong boons like Resistance from Earth's sphere.

Specialization Changes

Arcane enhances a majority of your utilities and provides reliable access to boons like Protection and Fury. Water provides reliable condition cleansing and healing with slightly more damage at the cost of less reliable boons.

Variants

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  provides cleanse against conditions like Chilled, which can heavily hinder your recharge times.

Equipment

Spear

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Amulets

• Marauder Amulet
  reduced damage, but more sustain. Take
  Rune of the Scholar
  to make up some of the damage loss.

Relics

• Relic of Rivers
  amazing synergy with
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• Relic of Fireworks
  reliable damage increase

Usage

Elite specialization basics

• Catalysts gain access to Deploy Jade Sphere, which is an AoE that grants boons and provides a combo field depending on the attunement.

• The Jade Sphere requires energy to deploy, which is generated by hitting enemies.

• Jade Spheres are instant and can be used while casting abilities or while suffering from CC.

General

• Your job is to roam the map and assist in team fights or +1 sidenodes. You should avoid 1v1s, but you can handle some of them due to the range of your abilities.

• Your 4 skills on Spear are significantly stronger if you can hit enemies within the 120 radius instead of the 240 radius. This even allows for skills such as
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  to activate
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  for additional damage.

• Catalyst has a trait called
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  , which essentially enhances all your combo finishers depending on your attunement. This means you can use skills, such as
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  to blast one of your Jade Spheres to gain an aura.
  • Fire Attunement ⇒ Fire Aura
  • Water Attunement ⇒ Frost Aura
  • Air Attunement ⇒ Shocking Aura
  • Earth Attunement ⇒ Magnetic Aura

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  recharges all the skills of your current attunement. This can be beneficial for escaping a bad situation or pushing out extra damage in a fight. Primary attunements you may want to use this for are Water or Air; healing or damage respectively.

Etchings

• Unique to Spears, they have a skill in their 5th slot called Etching. This skills are preludes that grant boons and provide a field, similarly to Jade Spheres. However, they also allow for a time frame to use a powerful skill. This skill is strengthened if 3 skills are used while inside the radius of this effect.

• Generally speaking, you should try to get these abilities prepared, but don't sacrifice survival odds standing in these. Their fields can be enough to shift tides alone. Especially with
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  healing over time or
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  providing Stability.

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  is powerful for generating a lot of Might in a short time alongside your Jade Sphere. Once you use three abilities, you should attempt to use
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  to increase the damage further and finish with
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  .

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