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 April 02, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

High-burst Elementalist build with a high skill floor but powerful solo DPS.

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Skill Bar

Hammer

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

• Sword/ Warhorn - higher mobility & utility but lower damage

Skill Variants

• Arcane Brilliance - blast finisher heal
• Glyph of Storms - more area damage
• Cleansing Fire - condition cleanse
• Lightning Flash - more mobility
• Conjure Fiery Greatsword - extra mobility
• Glyph of Elementals - summon a powerful friend; use in Earth Attunement or Water Attunement for a tanky pet

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

Relic

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter and Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar are interchangeable.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford. Use defensive food, traits, or skills if required. If necessary, use Knight trinkets.

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

• Catalyst strongly encourages swapping attunements rapidly.
• Use your Jade Sphere at least once per attunement without fail.
• Use Shattering Ice and Relentless Fire off cooldown.
• All attunements follow a similar priority pattern of 2 > 5 > 3 > 4. There is sometimes some variation and nuance, but keeping this general loop makes the build easier to play. Skip 4 in Air Attunement and Earth Attunement unless using them for utility/cc/defense.
• Many Attunement loops work. A few examples include: Air-Fire-Earth-Water, Earth-Fire-Air-Water, and Water-Fire-Air-Earth. Generally, Fire should be earlier in the loop to make use of its powerful buffs.

Defense

• Generate Protection via Glyph of Elemental Harmony (Earth), Deploy Jade Sphere (Earth)
• Deploy Jade Sphere (Earth) blocks attacks.
• Rocky Loop grants you damage reduction.
• Immutable Stone grants Barrier and an Aura (usually Magnetic Aura, which Reflects Projectiles).
• Cleansing Typhoon cleanses conditions.
• Icy Coil grants condition damage reduction.
• Elemental Epitome grants Magnetic or Frost Aura
• Elemental Empowerment passively increases toughness and vitality
• Crashing Font heals you, as does comboing water fields like Deploy Jade Sphere (Water)

CC

• Shock Blast
• Wind Storm