Difference between revisions of "Catalyst - Power Catalyst"

Revision as of 22:07, 3 March 2022

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on March 03, 2022.

Draft Build

This build is still in a draft state. You are encouraged to comment with recommendations or feedback.

Overview

Power Catalyst is a mid-ranged Elementalist build that focuses on high burst damage and extremely high damage to bosses. It brings little utility to the table but packs a major punch in DPS.

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Skill Bar

Hammer

Utility

Skill Variants

Signet of Restoration - passive healing
Shattering Ice / Arcane Blast - both are a damage increase over Arcane Shield, but at the cost of defense and a stunbreak.
Lightning Flash - mobility
Glyph of Storms - a large AOE that offers a mix of damage (through fire or air) or utility (through earth)
Glyph of Elementals - offers a pet that can hold aggro

Specializations

Fire

Fire can offer more auras thanks to Conjurer, which means higher DPS in some situations. However, this comes at a cost to defense and general utility.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required. [Equipment Description]

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

Variant Equipment

Gear

Knight - defensive trinkets
Marauder - defensive prefix
Assassin - used to fine-tune crit chance, good for using certain raid builds in open world

Runes

Rune of Superior Rune of Strength, Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget runes
Rune of Superior Rune of Durability, Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - defensive runes

Sigils

Force should always be used, but there are many options for the offhand sigil. You are encouraged to use whatever you find convenient.

Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - defensive

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

The rotation information is still in the testing phase for this build, however currently it is recommended to focus on Skill 3 and Skill 5 of each attunement while utilizing large damage buffs. A proper opener will be added soon.

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 ==Draft Build==
 This build is still in a draft state. You are encouraged to comment with recommendations or feedback.
 ==Overview==
-Power Catalyst is a mid-ranged elementalist build that focuses on high burst damage and extremely high damage to bosses. It brings little utility to the table but packs a major punch in DPS.
+Power Catalyst is a mid-ranged Elementalist build that focuses on high burst damage and extremely high damage to bosses. It brings little utility to the table but packs a major punch in DPS.
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 * {{Skill|Glyph of Storms}} - a large AOE that offers a mix of damage (through fire or air) or utility (through earth)
 * {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} - offers a pet that can hold aggro
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 Fire can offer more auras thanks to {{Trait|Conjurer}}, which means higher DPS in some situations. However, this comes at a cost to defense and general utility.
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 * {{Tooltip|Marauder}} - defensive prefix
 * {{Tooltip|Assassin}} - used to fine-tune crit chance, good for using certain raid builds in open world
 ====Runes====
 * {{Rune|Superior Rune of Strength}}, {{Rune|Superior Rune of Infiltration}} - budget runes
 * {{Rune|Superior Rune of Durability}}, {{Rune|Superior Rune of Vampirism}} - defensive runes
 ====Sigils====
 Force should always be used, but there are many options for the offhand sigil. You are encouraged to use whatever you find convenient.
 * {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Energy}} - defensive
 ==Consumables==
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 * {{Utility|Sharpening Skull}} (and variants) - farming
 * {{utility|Tin of Fruitcake}}, {{utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}} - dps
 ==Usage==
 The rotation information is still in the testing phase for this build, however currently it is recommended to focus on Skill 3 and Skill 5 of each attunement while utilizing large damage buffs. A proper opener will be added soon.