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Catalyst - Support Catalyst

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

Focused on: ControlSupport and Condition cleanse

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required: Heart of Thorns buildsEnd of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
Normal
This build was last updated on March 06, 2025 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.

Overview

Catalyst provides Quickness Quickness as well as many other valuable boons along with cleanse and healing.


Skill Bar

Staff
Utility


Variants

Weapons
  • Dagger/Warhorn
Utilities


Specializations

Variants


Template Code

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Equipment

Head
Minstrel
Shoulders
Minstrel
Chest
Minstrel
Hands
Minstrel
Legs
Minstrel
Feet
Minstrel
Backpiece
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Accessory
Minstrel
Amulet
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Ring
Minstrel
Staff
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Staff
Minstrel
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6
Infusion
x14
Infusion
x4
Relic


Build Variants

Sigils


Consumables


Usage

General/Energy Management

  • To generate energy for Catalyst's Jade Sphere abilities make sure to hit enemies with skills that have a high number of hits:
  • You want to rotate through elements quickly to get as many boons as possible
Skill Usage and Rotation Toggle
  1. In
  2. While
  3. In
  4. While
  5. In
    • - AoE for energy generation
    • - AoE for energy generation and AoE blind. Note that there might still be a Sphere active at the start, so delay a bit for Energy.
    • - Repositioning
  6. While
  7. In
  8. While


Overall Priorities

High
Moderate
  • Boon share
  • CC
Low


Surviving

  • This build has moderate passive defense
  • This build has moderate mobility skill access
  • This builds has low active defenses
Active defense priority Toggle


Detailed Explanations

Glyph of Renewal

  • Focus on reviving allies who are far away with , don't waste the skill on players that can be hand rezzed.
    • If possible, use on yourself while casting for Quickness Quickness
    • This still speeds up the cast if you use the sphere after you started casting the glyph
  • Use in on single players and on multiple players
  • Under General Options / Combat/Movement turn on Allow Skill Retargeting and set Ground Targeting to Instant Cast, this will make cast at the location your cursor is at the end of the cast, instead of where you initially targeted


Aurashare/Condition clear

List of combo finishers Toggle
Condition clear priority Toggle


Boonshare


CC

CC priority Toggle


Healing

  • Catalyst healing is very limited, but significant enough to save people if comboed
  • Use to heal from range
  • You can blast the fields created by and for healing
Burst Healing Combo Toggle


Superspeed

  • Focus on using when your group is pushing or disengaging from the enemy


Settings

  • Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
  • Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
    • Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
  • Under Squad Options check View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' health and be quicker in using . While this doesn't allow you to see conditions on allies, most of your cleanses are passively applied anyway.


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