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 Catalyst is a mid-ranged Elementalist build that focuses on high burst damage and extremely high damage to bosses. It brings permanent {{tooltip|Quickness}} and a good amount of {{tooltip|Might}} to the table, as well as large amounts of {{tooltip|Protection}} or {{tooltip|Resolution}} on demand when using {{Skill|Water Attunement}} or {{Skill|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.
+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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 |weapon1 = Hammer
 |weapon2 =
-|weapon3 =
+|weapon3 = Staff
 |weapon4 =
 |healing = Glyph of Elemental Harmony
-|utility1 = Glyph of Storms
+|utility1 = Relentless Fire
-|utility2 = Arcane Blast
+|utility2 = Signet of Air
-|utility3 = Relentless Fire
+|utility3 = Signet of Earth
-|elite = Conjure Fiery Greatsword
+|elite = Glyph of Elementals
 }}
-==Skill Variants==
+===Weapon Variants===
-'''Healing'''
+Hammer provides excellent Energy generation for your Jade Spheres thanks to its skill 3. It is recommended to not use other weapons.
-* {{Skill|Signet of Restoration}} - Passive healing.
-* {{Skill|Soothing Water}} - Trades upfront healing for healing/cleanse over time.
-* {{Skill|Conjure Lightning Hammer}} - Damage conjure for large bosses.
-'''Utility'''
+===Skill Variants===
-* {{Skill|Arcane Shield}} - for a block and stunbreak on demand at the cost of damage.
+====Heal skill====
-* {{Skill|Lightning Flash}} - instant mobility.
+{{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.
-'''Elite'''
+* {{Skill|Ether Renewal}} - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channelling time.
-* {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} - The Fire elemental is less DPS potential than Fiery Greatsword but simpler to use. Can also be used in earth for a tanky frontline or water for extra healing.
+====Utility skills====
+* {{Skill|Glyph of Storms}} provides AoE damage in fire and air, while on earth it will {{Tooltip|blind}} trash mobs.
+* {{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
+====Elite skill====
+{{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} summon a powerful friend; use in {{Skill|Earth Attunement}} for a tanky pet.
 ==Specializations==
-{{Specialization|Air|bot|mid|top}}
+{{Specialization|Air|bot|bot|top}}
-{{Specialization|Fire|top|bot|top}}
+{{Specialization|Arcane|bot|bot|bot}}
-{{Specialization|Catalyst|mid|top|bot}}
+{{Specialization|Catalyst|mid|bot|bot}}
+;Variants
-===Trait Options===
+* {{Trait|Empowering Auras}} + {{Trait|Empowered Empowerment}}: when playing in groups and someone else is already providing {{Tooltip|Quickness}}.
-* {{Trait|Conjurer}} - Lowers Conjure cooldowns and provides an additional aura when placing/picking up a conjure.
-* {{Trait|Blinding Ashes}} - For passive CC at the cost of some damage
-* {{Trait|Zephyr's Boon}} - Additional {{Tooltip|Fury}} and {{Tooltip|Swiftness}} if needed.
-* {{Trait|Spectacular Sphere}} - Trades damage for access to {{Tooltip|Quickness}} and other additional boons. Also increases the radius of Deploy Jade Sphere for ease of use.
-* {{Trait|Empowered Empowerment}} - Higher overall damage if you can maintain max empowerment stacks.
-===Arcane===
-Arcane can offer more boon duration and burst damage when you are supplied with many boons thanks to {{Trait|Bountiful Power}}, which means higher DPS in some situations. It also lowers the cooldown of the jade sphere.
-{{Specialization|Arcane|mid|mid|bot|variant=y}}
-* {{Trait|Final Shielding}} - Passive Defensive block/stunbreak
-* {{Trait|Elemental Surge}} - CD reduction of Arcane skills and adds {{Tooltip|Immobilize}} in Earth Attunement for easier stacking of elemental empowerment via {{Trait|Vicious Empowerment}}
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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 =
-| weapon1-stats =
-| weapon2-stats =
 | sigil1 = Superior Sigil of Force
-| sigil2 = Superior Sigil of Accuracy
+| sigil2 = Superior Sigil of Impact
-| weapon3 =
+| weapon3 = Staff
 | weapon4 =
-| sigil3 =
+| sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Force
-| sigil4 =
+| sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Frenzy
-| head =
+| relic = Relic of Fireworks
-| shoulders =
-| chest =
-| hands =
-| legs =
-| feet =
-| backpiece =
-| accessory1 =
-| accessory2 =
-| amulet =
-| ring1 =
-| ring2 =
 }}
+* {{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===
+==Consumables==
-====Gear====
+Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
-* {{Tooltip|Diviner}} - For additional boon duration if playing the boon support build with {{Trait|Spectacular Sphere}}.
-* {{Tooltip|Knight}} - defensive trinkets
-* {{Tooltip|Marauder}} and/or {{Tooltip|Dragon}} - defensive prefixes, be aware of crit cap when mixing these stats.
-* {{Tooltip|Assassin}} - used to fine-tune crit chance.
-* Elementalist is a low-health class, so having a jade bot core helps with survivability a lot; the higher the tier, the better!
+===DPS===
+* Prioritize '''Steak''' Ascended food.
+* {{Food|Plate of Spicy Moa Wings}} / {{Food|Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup}}
+* {{Utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}} / {{Utility|Tin of Fruitcake}}
-====Runes====
+===Defense===
-* {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Eagle}}, {{Rune|Superior Rune of Infiltration}} - budget runes, use {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Impact}} when using {{Rune|Superior Rune of the Eagle}} to not overcap on critical chance.
+* {{Food|Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew}}
+* {{Food|Fried Oyster Sandwich}}
+* {{Food|Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta}}
+===Farming===
+* Prioritize '''Steak''' Ascended food.
+* {{Item|Birthday Blaster}} / {{Item|Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake}}
+* {{Food|Peppermint Omnomberry Bar}}
+* {{Utility|Sharpening Skull}} (and variants)
-==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.
-* {{food|Peppermint Omnomberry Bar}} - farming
-* {{food|Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup}} - DPS
-* {{food|Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew}} - defense
-:'''Utility'''
+==Usage==
-* {{Utility|Sharpening Skull}} (and variants) - farming
+===Jade Sphere===
-* {{utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}} - DPS
+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.
+You also gain improved attributes from Elemental Empowerment effect from traits like {{Trait|Elemental Empowerment}}.
-==Usage==
+===Damage===
-===Damage/CC===
+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.
-* In open world,you can play at 600 range when alternating between {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} + {{Skill|Air Attunement}}.
+;Priority
-* 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.
+Start on {{Skill|Fire Attunement}} and rotate through all attunements
-* 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.
+:Fire
-* Start in {{Skill|Fire Attunement}}, then swap to {{Skill|Air Attunement}} and then to {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}, and repeat.
+#{{Skill|Stomp (Glyph of Elementals)}} and {{Skill|Signet of Earth}}
-* 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.
+#{{Skill|Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire)}} and {{Skill|Flame Wheel}}
-* 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.
+#{{Skill|Surging Flames}}
-* 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}}
+#{{Skill|Triple Sear}}
-===Survivability===
+#{{Skill|Molten End}} and {{Skill|Air Attunement}}
-* {{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.
+:Air
-* {{Skill|Immutable Stone}} is a block on demand in {{Skill|Earth Attunement}}.
+#{{Skill|Deploy Jade Sphere (Air)}} and {{Skill|Crescent Wind}}
-* {{Skill|Glyph of Elemental Harmony}} has a short cooldown and provides a very strong heal and boons, so make use of it.
+#{{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)}}.
-* Detailed explanations on the general usage and the rotation are given down below.
+===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)
-[https://youtu.be/4V4YaQXDmd8 Guide Video (as of May 2022)]
+===CC===
+* {{Skill|Shock Blast}}
+* {{Skill|Wind Storm}}

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