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Catalyst - Spear Cata

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

Focused on: Strike damage and Mobility

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Expansions required: Janthir Wilds builds

Difficulty:
Hard
This build was last updated on March 18, 2025.

Overview

A Catalyst build utilizing the land spear introduced in Janthir Wilds. A strong emphasis on mobility and burst damage.

Skill Bar

Spear
Utility


Skill Variants

Utility

For the optional slot:

  • Armor of Earth - strong stun break with Stability Stability and barrier.
  • Invigorating Air - relatively short cool down stun break with Superspeed Superspeed and restores endurance.
  • Lightning Flash - a teleport that allows you to get out of dangerous situations vertically.


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Specializations

Variants

  • Spectacular Sphere offers strong boons like Resistance Resistance from Earth's sphere.


Specialization Changes

Arcane enhances a majority of your utilities and provides reliable access to boons like Protection Protection and Fury Fury. Water provides reliable condition cleansing and healing with slightly more damage at the cost of less reliable boons.

Variants

  • Stop, Drop, and Roll provides cleanse against conditions like Chilled Chilled, which can heavily hinder your recharge times.

Equipment

Spear
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
Amulet
Relic


Equipment Variants

Amulets

  • reduced damage, but more sustain. Take Rune of Scholar to make up some of the damage loss.

Relics

  • Relic of Rivers amazing synergy with Cleansing Water
  • Relic of Fireworks reliable damage increase


Usage

TBD


Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 2 votes.
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4 stars
Hanz gave this build 4 stars • June 2025
Spear can easily decimate entire teamfights if people ball up even slightly, but it has a hard time dealing with enemy focus. In the right hands however it's a true teamfight carry build, and it's still not widespread enough for people to know how to play against it, which probably adds to its effectiveness. If you get focused a lot and there's no support to bail you out, you can easily become a liability to your team though. Especially if your team is getting snowballed, 1v1ing on this won't really be an option for most people and if there's no teamfight for you to join things can fall apart. At least that's the worst case scenario, in the best case scenario you wipe out a teamfight in 3 casts, which is extremely satisfying.
4 stars
Auroraborealis gave this build 4 stars • March 2025
This is the most fun Elementalist has ever been for me. The spear is packed with all the damage and utility one would need for the all out damage focused playstyle this offers. This pure damage oriented build shines in group fights as you are able to maintain distance and unleash your massive burst damage. Very high kill cap but that rewards you for exceptional gameplay, and the build can really be pushed to incredible heights in the right hands. Requires knowledge of combo fields to be effective and utilize the kit properly, so the build is not suggested for a new or inexperienced player. Hard countered by strong burst damage from builds such as power Herald, or particular iterations of condi thief.

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