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: End of Dragons builds

Difficulty:
TBD
This build was last updated on May 31, 2022 and is up to date for the November 28, 2023 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 Quickness and a good amount of Might Might to the table, as well as large amounts of Protection Protection or Resolution Resolution on demand when using or , 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

  • - passive healing
  • - for a block and stunbreak on demand at the cost of damage.
  • - mobility


Specializations

Trait Options

  • for passive CC at the cost of some damage
  • for higher overall stats


Arcane

Arcane can offer more boon duration and burst damage when you are supplied with many boons thanks to , 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 Berserker is used for the Power DPS variant. Just replace the few Diviner Diviner pieces with berserker.
  • 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 a lot; the higher the tier, the better!


Runes

  • , - budget runes, use when using to not overcap on critical chance.


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

Damage/CC

  • In open world,you can play at 600 range when alternating between + .
  • Make sure to use in to gain two additional stacks of upon casting its active skill Stomp.
  • The rotation for group content is a simplified variant (only using , & ) that will get you within 10% of the current benchmark and loops nicely.
  • Start in , then swap to and then to , 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 + for damage purposes.
  • Stay in until is available a second time. Use in and reactivate as soon as possible to maintain the 10% damage buff.
  • Your main sources of CC are and as well as soft CC through Weakness Weakness, Cripple Cripple and

Survivability

  • With all the glyphs, you can prestack lots of Protection Protection when using them in .
  • 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.
  • is a block on demand in .
  • has a short cooldown and provides a very strong heal and boons, so make use of it.


  • Detailed explanations on the general usage and the rotation are given down below.

Guide Video (as of May 2022)


Ratings

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5 stars
MechaOG gave this build 5 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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