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Revision as of 23:15, 22 March 2023
The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great
Focused on: Control, Support and Condition cleanse
Designed for: WvW GvG
Expansions required: 
Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on March 22, 2023 and is up to date for the February 11, 2025 patch.
Overview
The main purpose of this build is to maximize the amount of auras shared by the Elementalist.
Compared to D/F Fire Tempest builds, it does not bring significant healing. Therefore it cannot be used as direct replacement but needs to be paired with a powerful healing spec in the party, such as a Vindicator.
The advantage of Catalyst is that it brings more access to auras, more cleanses, access to 
Quickness from for a faster cast as well as access to ranged 
Resistance from among other boons.
Skill Bar
Staff
Utility
Weapon Variants
Dagger/Dagger
Skill Variants
- Utilities
- Elite
- to give the dropped sword to a DPS player
Specializations
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
Rune
x6
Infusion
x18
- Build Variants
Nomad stats on the helmet. Your boon duration is capped by most of the time
- Rune Variants
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:
Overall Priorities
- High
- Aurashare/Condition clear
- Moderate
- Boon share
- CC
- Low
- Burst Healing
Superspeed
Surviving
- This build has moderate passive defense
- This build has high mobility skill access
- This builds has moderate active defenses
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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
- 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
- If you can't be in a good position, don't cast in
- 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
- Most of your condition clear is reliant on and comes passively while rotating through the attunements while blasting
- You can apply Resistance on a long range using due to
- Prioritize for burst condition clear, see the burst healing rotation below
- has a per-attunement cooldown of 10 seconds
- You can start casting a blast in one attunement then swap to a different attunement before the cast ends to proc
- Prioritize getting auras from for
- Use on your group before or during pushes to give
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- Prioritize and
- If you have spare energy use and blast it for healing
- Make sure to land the Jade Sphere cast on top of allies for the boons from
- can be used to save allies caught with
Immobilize with the Resistance and 
Protection from
- can be used to save allies caught with
- Place your spheres so that one edge is on your allied group and the other edge is where your group is moving to
- Optimally leave it somewhere your group is regrouping
- Make sure you are close to allies when swapping out of fire to give them
Might with
- Go into fire whenever there is time to trigger as often as possible
- Try to fill any gaps in your guardian's
Stability uptime with ⇒ , especially when your group is pushing
CC
- Use your CC when:
- Your group calls a spike:
- Winds -
- Wells - +
- Shades -
- Traps - +
- On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
- Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing
- Your group calls a spike:
- Save for when enemies have Stability
- The Immobilize from hits in 600 radius
- The
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Burst Healing
- Catalyst healing is very limited, but significant enough to save people if comboed
- A significant part of your healing relies on blasting the fields created by , and
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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.
Ratings
Comments
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