Difference between revisions of "Catalyst - Power Catalyst"

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The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on April 20, 2024 and is up to date for the March 19, 2024 patch.

Overview

Power catalyst is a very fast paced build that rotates through all four Attunements constantly to provide some Quickness to itself and nearby allies while doing decent damage. It's also slightly more durable thanks to Elemental Empowerment improving all your attributes.

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Skill Bar

Hammer

Staff

Utility

Weapon Variants

Hammer provides excellent Energy generation for your Jade Spheres thanks to its skill 3. It is recommended to not use other weapons.

Skill Variants

Heal skill

Glyph of Elemental Harmony provides strong burst heal and a boon based on attunement. Other alternatives are:

Arcane Brilliance - potentially the strongest heal if there are 5 enemies in range, plus a blast finisher, but very weak healing if there are no nearby enemies.
Ether Renewal - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channelling time.

Utility skills

Glyph of Storms provides AoE damage in fire and air, while on earth it will blind trash mobs.
Glyph of Lesser Elementals - spawn a small elemental army that dies when you mount up, good for fighting strong bosses.
Cleansing Fire - condition cleanse
Lightning Flash - more mobility

Elite skill

Glyph of Elementals summon a powerful friend; use in Earth Attunement for a tanky pet.

Specializations

Variants

Empowering Auras + Empowered Empowerment: when playing in groups and someone else is already providing Quickness.

Equipment

Ascended gear is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Hammer
Berserker

Sigil

Staff
Berserker

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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Defense

Farming

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
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(and variants)

Usage

Jade Sphere

The Jade Sphere is the profession mechanic of the catalyst. Hitting enemies generates energy, and you spend this energy to summon a sphere that provides boons to yourself and allies, most notably Quickness thanks to Spectacular Sphere, and deals minor damage. Each attunement has its own sphere, and their cooldowns are not shared. Energy can only be generated while there are no spheres active.

You also gain improved attributes from Elemental Empowerment effect from traits like Elemental Empowerment.

Damage

You must rotate through all your attunements to use their respective Jade Sphere, while also casting their weapon damage skills. Never stay in Earth or Water, cast their damage skills and swap to the next attunement. You will generate some Quickness but not enough for permanent uptime.

Priority

Start on Fire Attunement and rotate through all attunements

Fire

Stomp (Glyph of Elementals) and Signet of Earth
Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire) and Flame Wheel
Surging Flames
Triple Sear
Molten End and Air Attunement

Air

Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) and Crescent Wind
Shock Blast
Wind Storm
Hurricane of Pain and Earth Attunement

Earth

Ground Pound and Rocky Loop
Whirling Stones and Water Attunement

Water

Crashing Font and Icy Coil
Cleansing Typhoon
Rain of Blows and Fire Attunement

You want to swap attunements while casting the aforementioned skills because of their long cast times, but wait before they finish before casting the first skill of your new attunement.
If you have spare energy you can also use the Earth and Water spheres.
Only use Grand Finale on Fire Attunement after rotating through all the attunements. Followed by casting Flame Wheel again.
Crowd Control skills Shock Blast and Wind Storm are not used for damage, but to maintain Elemental Empowerment thanks to Vicious Empowerment. Skip them if you just need burst damage for a quick fight.
Essentially, you use all your weapon skills except Immutable Stone.
Use Glyph of Elementals on Earth Attunement and use Stomp (Glyph of Elementals) and Signet of Earth off cooldown. This helps maintain Elemental Empowerment thanks to Vicious Empowerment.
Use Relentless Fire inside your Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire).

Defense

You generate lots of Protection via Glyph of Elemental Harmony (Earth), Deploy Jade Sphere (Earth), Earth Attunement due to Elemental Attunement.
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 Jade Sphere (Water)

CC

Shock Blast
Wind Storm

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 | designed for = open world, open world general
 | focus = strike damage
-| rating = great
+| rating = good
 | xpac = eod
 | difficulty = 2
 }}
 ==Overview==
-Power {{Tooltip|Catalyst}} is a mid-ranged Elementalist build that focuses on high burst damage and extremely high damage to bosses while potentially providing a large amounts of {{tooltip|Might}}, {{tooltip|Fury}}, {{tooltip|Protection}} and {{tooltip|Resolution}} to itself and the group. In addition It can trade damage to provide {{tooltip|Quickness}} via the trait {{Trait|Spectacular Sphere}}, becoming a potent boon support build.
+Power catalyst is a very fast paced build that rotates through all four Attunements constantly to provide some {{Tooltip|Quickness}} to itself and nearby allies while doing decent damage. It's also slightly more durable thanks to {{Trait|Elemental Empowerment}} improving all your attributes.
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 ==Skill Bar==
@@ Line 30: / Line 27: @@
 |healing = Glyph of Elemental Harmony
 |utility1 = Relentless Fire
-|utility2 = Shattering Ice
+|utility2 = Signet of Air
-|utility3 = Invigorating Air
+|utility3 = Signet of Earth
-|elite = Elemental Celerity
+|elite = Glyph of Elementals
 }}
 ===Weapon Variants===
-* {{Tooltip|Sword}}/{{Tooltip|Warhorn}} - higher mobility & utility but lower damage
+Hammer provides excellent Energy generation for your Jade Spheres thanks to its skill 3. It is recommended to not use other weapons.
 ===Skill Variants===
-====Heals====
+====Heal skill====
-* {{Skill|Arcane Brilliance}} - blast finisher heal
+{{Skill|Glyph of Elemental Harmony}} provides strong burst heal and a boon based on attunement. Other alternatives are:
+* {{Skill|Arcane Brilliance}} - potentially the strongest heal if there are 5 enemies in range, plus a blast finisher, but very weak healing if there are no nearby enemies.
-====Utilities====
+* {{Skill|Ether Renewal}} - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channelling time.
-Replace {{Skill|Relentless Fire}} first.
+====Utility skills====
-* {{Skill|Fortified Earth}} - extra defense
+* {{Skill|Glyph of Storms}} provides AoE damage in fire and air, while on earth it will {{Tooltip|blind}} trash mobs.
-* {{Skill|Glyph of Storms}} - more area damage
+* {{Skill|Glyph of Lesser Elementals}} - spawn a small elemental army that dies when you mount up, good for fighting strong bosses.
 * {{Skill|Cleansing Fire}} - condition cleanse
 * {{Skill|Lightning Flash}} - more mobility
-* {{Skill|Armor of Earth}} - {{Tooltip|Stability}} on a long cooldown.
+====Elite skill====
+{{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} summon a powerful friend; use in {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} for a tanky pet.
-====Elites====
-* {{Skill|Conjure Fiery Greatsword}} - extra mobility
 ==Specializations==
 {{Specialization|Air|bot|bot|top}}
-{{Specialization|Fire|top|bot|top}}
+{{Specialization|Arcane|bot|bot|bot}}
 {{Specialization|Catalyst|mid|bot|bot}}
+;Variants
+* {{Trait|Empowering Auras}} + {{Trait|Empowered Empowerment}}: when playing in groups and someone else is already providing {{Tooltip|Quickness}}.
 ==Equipment==
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 | weight = Light
 | stats = Berserker
-| rune = Superior Rune of the Scholar
+| rune = Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter
 | rune-qt = 6
 | weapon1 = Hammer
 | weapon2 =
 | sigil1 = Superior Sigil of Force
 | sigil2 = Superior Sigil of Impact
-| weapon3 =
+| weapon3 = Staff
-| weapon4 = Staff
+| weapon4 =
 | sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Force
 | sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Frenzy
 | relic = Relic of Fireworks
 }}
+* {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Dragonhunter}} and {{Rune|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 {{Tooltip|Knight}} trinkets.
-===Variant Equipment===
-====Relics====
-There are many good relics for general play in open world and others that may be specific to this build. Swap based on preference.
-* {{Tooltip|Relic of the Thief}} - dps; easier to play but lower DPS
-* {{Tooltip|Relic of the Cavalier}} - dps/defense; massive damage & defense boost, especially when paired with Skyscale's Fire Field.
-* {{Tooltip|Relic of the Citadel}} - dps/utility; extra AoE damage and CC
-* {{Tooltip|Relic of Speed}} - utility; go fast
-* {{Tooltip|Relic of the Adventurer}} - defense; higher evasion
-* {{Tooltip|Relic of the Zephyrite}} - defense; {{tooltip|Protection}}
-====Defense====
-* Invest in a Jade Core for additional HP and access to Jade Protocols.
-* {{Tooltip|Dragon stats|Full Dragon}} - luxury set: trades damage for a massive boost to HP; pair with {{Skill|Signet of Fire}}.
-* {{Tooltip|Knight|Knight's Trinkets}} - extra defense
-* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Energy}} - increased evasion
-====Budget====
-* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Infiltration}} - budget replacement for {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Scholar}}
-* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Air}} - budget replacement for {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Impact}}
-<br>
 ==Consumables==
 Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
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 * {{Food|Peppermint Omnomberry Bar}}
 * {{Utility|Sharpening Skull}} (and variants)
-<br>
 ==Usage==
-===Damage/CC===
+===Jade Sphere===
-* In open world,you can play at 600 range when alternating between {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} + {{Skill|Air Attunement}}.
+The Jade Sphere is the profession mechanic of the catalyst. Hitting enemies generates energy, and you spend this energy to summon a sphere that provides boons to yourself and allies, most notably {{Tooltip|Quickness}} thanks to {{Trait|Spectacular Sphere}}, and deals minor damage. Each attunement has its own sphere, and their cooldowns are not shared. Energy can only be generated while there are no spheres active.
-* Make sure to use {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} in {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} to gain two additional stacks of {{Trait|Elemental Empowerment}} upon casting its active skill Stomp.
-* The rotation for group content is a simplified variant (only using {{Skill|Air Attunement}}, {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} & {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}) that will get you within 10% of the current benchmark and loops nicely.
+You also gain improved attributes from Elemental Empowerment effect from traits like {{Trait|Elemental Empowerment}}.
-* Start in {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}, then swap to {{Skill|Air Attunement}} and then to {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}, and repeat.
-* The pattern in the respective element is always similar: always use Hammer 2, then Hammer 3 while 2 is casting and then use the Sphere and finish with hammer 5 to make use of the combo field. Avoid using {{Skill|Wind Storm}} + {{Skill|Immutable Stone}} for damage purposes.
+===Damage===
-* Stay in {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} until {{Skill|Surging Flames}} is available a second time. Use {{Skill|Grand Finale}} in {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} and reactivate {{Skill|Flame Wheel}} as soon as possible to maintain the 10% damage buff.
+You must rotate through all your attunements to use their respective Jade Sphere, while also casting their weapon damage skills. Never stay in Earth or Water, cast their damage skills and swap to the next attunement. You will generate some {{Tooltip|Quickness}} but not enough for permanent uptime.
-* Your main sources of CC are {{Skill|Shock Blast}} and {{Skill|Ground Pound}} as well as soft CC through {{tooltip|Weakness}}, {{tooltip|Cripple}} and {{tooltip|Blinded}}
+;Priority
+Start on {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} and rotate through all attunements
+:Fire
+#{{Skill|Stomp (Glyph of Elementals)}} and {{Skill|Signet of Earth}}
+#{{Skill|Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire)}} and {{Skill|Flame Wheel}}
+#{{Skill|Surging Flames}}
+#{{Skill|Triple Sear}}
+#{{Skill|Molten End}} and {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
+:Air
+#{{Skill|Deploy Jade Sphere (Air)}} and {{Skill|Crescent Wind}}
+#{{Skill|Shock Blast}}
+#{{Skill|Wind Storm}}
+#{{Skill|Hurricane of Pain}} and {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}
+:Earth
+#{{Skill|Ground Pound}} and {{Skill|Rocky Loop}}
+#{{Skill|Whirling Stones}} and {{Skill|Water Attunement}}
+:Water
+#{{Skill|Crashing Font}} and {{Skill|Icy Coil}}
+#{{Skill|Cleansing Typhoon}}
+#{{Skill|Rain of Blows}} and {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}
+* You want to swap attunements while casting the aforementioned skills because of their long cast times, but wait before they finish before casting the first skill of your new attunement.
+* If you have spare energy you can also use the Earth and Water spheres.
+* Only use {{Skill|Grand Finale}} on {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} '''after''' rotating through all the attunements. Followed by casting {{Skill|Flame Wheel}} again.
+* Crowd Control skills {{Skill|Shock Blast}} and {{Skill|Wind Storm}} are not used for damage, but to maintain Elemental Empowerment thanks to {{Trait|Vicious Empowerment}}. Skip them if you just need burst damage for a quick fight.
+* Essentially, you use all your weapon skills except {{Skill|Immutable Stone}}.
+* Use {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} on {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} and use {{Skill|Stomp (Glyph of Elementals)}} and {{Skill|Signet of Earth}} off cooldown. This helps maintain Elemental Empowerment thanks to {{Trait|Vicious Empowerment}}.
+* Use {{Skill|Relentless Fire}} inside your {{Skill|Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire)}}.
+===Defense===
+* You generate lots of {{Tooltip|Protection}} via {{Skill|Glyph of Elemental Harmony}} (Earth), {{Skill|Deploy Jade Sphere (Earth)}}, {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} due to {{Trait|Elemental Attunement}}.
+* {{Skill|Rocky Loop}} grants you damage reduction.
+* {{Skill|Immutable Stone}} grants Barrier and an Aura (usually Magnetic Aura, which Reflects Projectiles).
+* {{Skill|Cleansing Typhoon}} cleanses conditions.
+* {{Skill|Icy Coil}} grants condition damage reduction.
+* {{Trait|Elemental Epitome}} grants Magnetic or Frost Aura
+* {{Trait|Elemental Empowerment}} passively increases toughness and vitality
+* {{Skill|Crashing Font}} heals you, as does comboing water fields like Jade Sphere (Water)
-===Survivability===
+===CC===
-* {{Skill|Wind Storm}} is a large self-knockback that can put you out of danger; it can, however, also put you into it when used at the wrong time.
+* {{Skill|Shock Blast}}
-* {{Skill|Immutable Stone}} is a block on demand in {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}.
+* {{Skill|Wind Storm}}
-* {{Skill|Glyph of Elemental Harmony}} has a short cooldown and provides a very strong heal and boons, so make use of it.

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