The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Hybrid damage and Sustain
Designed for: WvW Roaming
Expansions required: End of Dragons builds
Difficulty: Hard
This build was last updated on January 18, 2026 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
A hybrid Celestial Hammer Catalyst build for WvW roaming, offering a strong mix of damage and sustain. While the build is quite durable when played right, condition cleansing is rather scarce in Hammer (mainly due to the lack of aura transmutes) and much of the healing is tied to executing combos, which can make this a bit harder and less straightforward to pilot than a build like D/D Catalyst.
元素使 (Elementalist)
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Catalyst - Power Hammer - sPvP version.
Catalyst - Cele D/D - double dagger variant.
Utility
大地护甲 over 空气纹章 - Armor is a better defensive skill in general but it's on a longer CD. It's up to you to decide what's more important for you, a stronger defensive or more frequent access to a stun break. The Signet's 
目盲 could also be used proactively to avoid incoming attacks.
地磁护盾 over 
电光火石 - great defensive skill with decent damage and CC. The invulnerability could help you out a lot especially against conditions which is something the build can struggle against. Take the trait 
咒唤大师 on Fire.
Heal
抚伤流水 - better condition removal.Runes
Sigils
If you're having trouble surviving condition pressure consider going for more defensive sigils:
Relics
- less damage than Isgarren but you have more control over it.
- helps with both kiting and sticking to targets.
- if you're desperate for more condi cleanse.
Food
- Ascended food which boosts all of your stats much like Celestial gear while also reducing incoming damage.
- provides a general stat boost just like the other Ascended food, but reduces incoming condition duration instead of strike damage. Could be a good option if you're struggling against conditions more than Power-based damage.
- extra endurance regen and stacking.
Utility
, , or
Budget: either from Canned Food Crates found in WvW s or purchased from the Permanent Portable Provisioner.
Elite specialization basics
Catalysts gain access to Deploy Jade Sphere which drops an AoE combo field with pulsing boons depending on the attunement they were used in.
The Jade Sphere costs energy to deploy, you build energy by hitting enemies or swapping attunements thanks to .
General
Your role is primarily to be a sidenoder, holding the point and winning smaller skirmishes.
Skill #3 on each attunement is an orb skill, consider this your secondary profession mechanic. Air and Fire grant offensive bonuses while Water and Earth supply you with defensive ones. All 4 orbs also pulse damage and apply conditions around you while active:
Each orb has a duration of 8 seconds, but whenever you add a new orb to the mix the duration of all previous orbs is refreshed. Once you've rotated through all 4 attunements the orbs will inevitably fall off - this is when you should use the chain skill which shoots them at your target for damage.
Because of you should almost always be casting something for the passive healing, even if it's just an autoattack that's not even hitting anything. An exception to this would be having high enough stacks in which case you'd take more damage then the signet could heal.
Other sources of auras include performing any combo in your Jade Sphere via or using .
(the elite) is used mainly to reset the CD of skills 4-5 of a given attunement, usually Water or Earth for defensive purposes.
Damage
Try to have and active when unloading your harder hitting skills.
grants a short duration of whenever you swap attunements. It's not much, but just enough to cover your next 1-2 skills so consider using some harder hitting skill right after swapping.
Most of the burst comes from , every skill here hits hard.
is a cone attack best used in melee range to make sure all 3 projectiles hit the target.
creates 3 AoEs on the ground - try to position this in a way that your opponent is in the center of this skill so they get hit by all 3.
is rather straightforward, just a big smash you should aim to land when the target has . All the other Fire skills apply Burning so that shouldn't be hard.
Air is mostly about CC, but skill #2 hits rather hard. Only downside is, this has a rather long cast time and you'll have a hard time landing it without proper setup. Try to CC targets beforehand and make sure to have from your Air Jade Sphere.
and are also worth a mention on Earth. The latter could even set up other burst skills with the .
Sustain
All of your utility skills are defensive by nature.
The build only has 1 stun break in the form of so use it wisely. If you're good at reading your opponent this could even be used preemptively for the , making the incoming attack miss instead of waiting to get hit only to break the CC. If CC isn't a concern in the matchup then the same logic applies, the signet could save you from getting hit by something dangerous.
is for buying time and surviving heavy pressure. With a block, an aura, a CC and an invulnerability frame this could bridge the gap in your defenses until your other CDs come back up or help arrives.
Use pretty much on CD for the barrier and the aura.
Water provides much needed healing and cleansing. heals you for each enemy struck with the first one healing for more. Against enemies like Mesmers try to hit as many clones as possible for bonus healing. Consider using it inside your Water Sphere to combo even more healing (and for further damage mitigation).
is your best cleanse, this too scales with the number of enemies it hits.
cleanses a condition whenever you apply an aura to yourself.
heals and cleanses when used on Water while the first dodge on Earth turns into a blast finisher. Once again, try to land inside a combo field for that sweet synergy. As the Jade Sphere is instant you could even drop a combo field on the middle of your dodge.
