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Catalyst - Power Catalyst

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: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on May 06, 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 permanent quickness and a good amount of might to the table, as well as large amounts of protection or resoulation on demand when using earth or water sphere, respectively.


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Skill Bar

Hammer
Utility


Skill Variants

  • Signet of Restoration - passive healing
  • Arcane Shield - for a block and stunbreak on demand at the cost of damage.
  • Lightning Flash - mobility


Specializations


Arcane

Arcane can offer more boon duration and burst damage when you are supplied with many boons thanks to Bountiful Power, which means higher DPS in some situations.


Equipment

Ascended gear is not required. [Equipment Description]

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
Sigil
Sigil
Rune
x6



Variant Equipment

Gear

  • Diviner Diviner - For better boon uptime - recommended if you want to play catalyst as a quickness support in group content or maximize boons on yourself
  • Knight Knight - defensive trinkets
  • Marauder Marauder - defensive prefix
  • Assassin Assassin - used to fine-tune crit chance, good for using certain raid builds in open world
  • Elementalist is a low-health class, so having a jade bot core helps with survivability noticeably; the higher the tier, the better


Runes

  • Rune of Superior Rune of the Eagle, Rune of Superior Rune of Infiltration - budget runes, use Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact when using Eagle to not overcap on critical chance
  • 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

In open world,you can play at 600 range when alternating between fire + air. With all the glyphs, you can permastack protection when using them in air.

The rotation for group content is a simplified variant that will get you within 10% of the current benchmark and loops nicely. Detailed explanations and a rotation showcase are given down below.

Rotation Guide Video (as of May 2022)

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Ratings

This build has a rating of 4 stars based on 2 votes.
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4 stars
Warming Hearth gave this build 4 stars • October 2024
A lot more fun now that we have spear and can generate energy while a sphere is deployed and quickness base duration is increased. The only problem is how static the build is, since you want to stay inside the effects of your spheres and your spear's Etchings.
4 stars
MechaOG gave this build 4 stars • August 2022
Having tested the build for some time now, I can summarize it in 1 word... Reliable. It does take getting used to it a little, but once you get a hang of it, you hit like a freight train. The cleave on this build (and on the catalyst in general), is spectacular. Survivability can be an issue sometimes, but if you mix in pieces of marauder and dragon, you can easily get by without issues. You can mix them to make sure your critical cap is not reached. Remember, that you are aiming for a 90% crit chance with Fury. Hammer 3 on air gives you 10% for 15 sec. Elemental Empowerment (you have 3 while in combat at the minimum), gives you a nice top-up. If you can reliably have hammer 3 in air up almost all the time, then you won't have to worry and can even lower crit chance a bit more. One of the biggest thing with catalyst is, understanding combos. You put down many combo fields and have many finishers. Learning what each does, will allow a player to use the most out of this build. All in all, it is fun build to play and can easily go toe to toe with other classes.

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