Catalyst - Power Catalyst

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

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on August 21, 2023 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power Catalyst is a mid-ranged Elementalist build that focuses on high burst damage and extremely high damage to bosses while potentially providing a large amounts of Might, Fury, Protection and Resolution to itself and the group. In addition It can trade damage to provide Quickness via the trait Spectacular Sphere, becoming a potent boon support build.

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Skill Bar

Hammer

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Heals

• Arcane Brilliance - blast finisher heal

Utilities

Replace Relentless Fire first.

• Fortified Earth - extra defense
• Glyph of Storms - more area damage
• Cleansing Fire - condition cleanse
• Lightning Flash - more mobility
• Armor of Earth - Stability on a long cooldown.

Elites

• Conjure Fiery Greatsword - extra mobility

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Other Options

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Ogre - competes with Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar but easier to use and grants a pet

Defense

• Invest in a Jade Core for additional HP and access to Jade Protocols.
• Full Dragon - luxury set: trades damage for a massive boost to HP; pair with Signet of Fire.
• Knight's Trinkets - extra defense
• Rune of Superior Rune of Vampirism - cheap, large boost to defense and sustain
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Energy - increased evasion

Budget

• Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget replacement for Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Pack - budget replacement for Rune of Superior Rune of the Thief
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of Air - budget replacement for Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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• (and variants)

Usage

Damage/CC

• In open world,you can play at 600 range when alternating between Fire Attunement + Air Attunement.
• Make sure to use Glyph of Elementals in Earth Attunement to gain two additional stacks of Elemental Empowerment upon casting its active skill Stomp.
• The rotation for group content is a simplified variant (only using Air Attunement, Fire Attunement & Earth Attunement) that will get you within 10% of the current benchmark and loops nicely.
• Start in Fire Attunement, then swap to Air Attunement and then to Earth Attunement, and repeat.
• The pattern in the respective element is always similar: always use Hammer 2, then Hammer 3 while 2 is casting and then use the Sphere and finish with hammer 5 to make use of the combo field. Avoid using Wind Storm + Immutable Stone for damage purposes.
• Stay in Fire Attunement until Surging Flames is available a second time. Use Grand Finale in Fire Attunement and reactivate Flame Wheel as soon as possible to maintain the 10% damage buff.
• Your main sources of CC are Shock Blast and Ground Pound as well as soft CC through Weakness, Cripple and Blinded

Survivability

• Wind Storm is a large self-knockback that can put you out of danger; it can, however, also put you into it when used at the wrong time.
• Immutable Stone is a block on demand in Earth Attunement.
• Glyph of Elemental Harmony has a short cooldown and provides a very strong heal and boons, so make use of it.