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:

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 Resolution on demand when using Water Attunement or Earth Attunement, 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

Trait Options

Blinding Ashes for passive CC at the cost of some damage
Empowered Empowerment for higher overall stats

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

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

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 - defensive trinkets
Marauder - defensive prefix
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 Attunement + Air Attunement.
With all the glyphs, you can prestack lots of Protection when using them in Earth Attunement.
Make sure to use Glyph of Elementals in Earth Attunement to gain two additional stacks of Elemental Empowerment upon casting 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.
Detailed explanations and a rotation showcase are given down below.