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:

TBD

This build was last updated on May 26, 2022 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. 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. It also shares its gear with group PvE builds for Catalyst (uses the same gear as quickness support and mostly the same as power DPS), making it a convenient option to choose for general PvE gameplay.

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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.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Diviner

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Diviner

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Diviner

Sigil

Sigil

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Variant Equipment

Gear

• Full Berserker is used for the Power DPS variant. Just replace the few Diviner pieces with berserker.
• 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 a lot; 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.

Rotation Guide Video (as of May 2022)