Build:Catalyst - Boon Support Healer

This is a test build. You may comment and rate it.

Focused on: Healing, Support and Utility

Designed for: Raids

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on October 16, 2024.

Overview

This variant of Catalyst can provide Quickness, Fury, 25 stacks of Might, Protection, Resolution, Swiftness and Regeneration to their subgroup. It can also provide a small amount of Vigor and Resistance.

Pros

• Not Firebrand - Support Healer.
• Fast pickups via Geyser, Arcane Resurrection, and Signet of Water.
• More fun(?)

Cons

• Not Firebrand - Support Healer.
• Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) cannot be moved, so boons will suffer if the group is spread and/or the boss moves too often.
• Does not provide on-demand Stability or Aegis.
• Have to use Conjure Frost Bow. If you hate Conjures, this may not be the build for you.

Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

Players that own Secrets of the Obscure can use Warhorn paired with either Scepter for range or Dagger for extra healing. This build overprovides boons so it's really a matter of personal preference. Staff is the only weapon that provides access to Stability, however.

Skill Variants

Utility Skills

• Signet of Water is a ranged heal and partial revive, on a fairly short cooldown.
• Conjure Frost Bow can be used to generate hits for energy, and also provides CC and some sustained healing from the autoattack.
• Arcane Wave offers CC, and an extra blast finisher to trigger Relic of Karakosa.
• Glyph of Renewal is an instant revive, with slightly different benefits depending on the attunement it's cast in.

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Specializations

• The traits in the first columns of Arcane and Water are pretty inconsequential, so pick whatever sounds best.
• For tanking, you can take Hardened Auras for some extra survivability. Your aura sustain is through Elemental Epitome.

Equipment

Head
Harrier

Shoulders
Harrier

Chest
Harrier

Hands
Harrier

Legs
Minstrel

Feet
Harrier

Backpiece
Minstrel

Accessory
Harrier

Accessory
Harrier

Amulet
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Ring
Harrier

Staff
Harrier

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• This setup has some toughness from Minstrel stats pieces. They can be swapped to Harrier stats or Magi stats if you do not wish to tank, but be aware that Elemental Empowerment will give you up to 10% extra toughness regardless.
• If you're tanking, you can switch as many Harrier stats pieces to Giver stats as you desire.

Food & Utility

Food

• - standard ascended choice.
  • - budget/standard non-ascended choice.

Utility

• - standard utility choice.
  • - last resort/budget utility choice if you lack Boon Duration.

Usage

Boons

The majority of your boons come from your Jade Sphere in various attunements.

• Fire - Might
• Water - Resolution and Vigor
• Air - Quickness and Fury
• Earth - Protection and Resistance

On your first rotation, you will want to use Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) in Fire, Air, and Earth. In the second rotation, use it in Fire, Air, and Water (you will still want to attune to Earth to trigger Protection from Elemental Attunement). By rotating sphere usage between Water and Earth, you can maintain relatively high uptimes on Protection and Resolution. As Protection is generally more useful, if you are struggling with uptime, use more Deploy Jade Sphere (Earth) in Earth.

You will lack Might slightly on your first rotation. This can be mitigated slightly by blasting Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire) with Arcane Brilliance. Might will be sufficient starting on your second rotation of Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire).

• Due to Elemental Enchantment the cooldown on Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) is actually 13 seconds in each attunement (without Alacrity), not 15s. With Alacrity, the cooldown is 10.5s.
• Don't forget supplemental Regeneration from Healing Rain and Swiftness from Windborne Speed

Energy Generation

Important: You cannot generate energy through hits while any sphere is active! 2 Energy can be generated per attunement swap through Energized Elements even if one is active, however. This means that to cast 3 instances of Deploy Jade Sphere (Air), we need to generate energy through hits quickly. This can be done using Frost Fan on the Conjure Frost Bow, Glyph of Storms, or other fast skills, such as Frost Volley, Lava Font, Flame Burst, etc.

Healing

As a Staff Elementalist build, you have a lot of healing through weapon skills in Water Attunement. Consistent healing comes from Water Blast and Water Arrow while you are using Frost Bow. Burst Healing comes through Geyser and blasting the water field from Healing Rain with Arcane Brilliance and Ice Spike.

Healing Utility is mainly Signet of Water. Don't hesitate to use this if needed, it has quite a short cooldown.

Your Elite Skill, Glyph of Elementals allows you to summon an Ice Elemental that can use Crashing Waves. This is another huge, short cooldown heal that can be used to burst your subgroup back up to full.

You can also dodge to trigger Evasive Arcana in Water Cleansing Wave

Spend time in Water Attunement when you are not using Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire) in other attunements for Soothing Mist uptime.

Rotation example