Catalyst - Celestial Quickness Catalyst

• Facetanking the hardest hero point in the game with celestial quickness catalyst.

• 黑胡椒调味牡蛎汤球 or 龙星乐蛋糕.
• You can also use cheap utility items like 锐磨颅骨.

Since this build is designed for resilience and tankiness, there are several defensive traits in use. If you are going to fight less threatening enemies, you can consider swapping some of those traits for more damage.

• 锯齿之岩 - more damage, but you lose permanent 保护.
• 石刻纹章 - more damage by retaining the passive precision of Signet of Fire, but less condition removal.
• 险恶赋能 - more damage, but you lose damage reduction.

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 deals minor damage and provides yourself and nearby allies with boons, most notably permanent 急速 thanks to 壮丽元晶 and 元晶专家. Each attunement has its own sphere, and their cooldowns are not shared. Thanks to the trait 元晶专家, you can generate Energy even while a sphere is deployed.

You also gain improved attributes from the Elemental Empowerment effect from traits like 元素赋能.

Damage

Rotate through all four attunements while using their Jade Sphere and their hammer 3 skill. These hammer skills provide important bonuses such as improved critical strike from 新月之风 or damage reduction through 岩石环圈.

Always start combat by using your Jade Sphere and hammer 3 skill. Then, cast the remaining weapon skills, swap to the next attunement and repeat. You must be constantly switching attunements to maintain your boons from Jade Sphere. After rotation through all four attunements, restart this rotation, cast 高潮结尾 and hammer 3 again.

You also gain stacks of Elemental Empowerment, which increase all your attributes, impacting damage, survivability, boon duration, etc. 元素赋能 provides 3 stacks of Elemental Empowerment. To get more, you need to gain auras due to 元素典范. You gain auras through 太阳黑子, 元素典范 and combo fields+finishers (see: Guide

Boons

You provide quickness with the traits 壮丽元晶 + 元晶专家. You want to swap attunements off cooldown and use their Sphere immediately. This also provides other boons, namely permanent 激怒 and some 威能. 元晶专家 lets you generate energy even while a sphere is deployed, so you won't have energy problems.

You also have permanent 保护 due to 元素护盾.

Defense

• You have massive amounts of damage reduction due to:
  • Permanent 保护 due to 元素护盾.
  • Damage reduction from and .
  • Damage reduction from .
  • Damage reduction from .
  • Damage reduction from (only when attuned to Earth).
  • Damage reduction from .
• via .
• passively increases toughness and vitality.
• blocks one attack.
• removes conditions.
• removes conditions.

CC

• -
• -
• (from 's Ice Elemental) -
• (from 's Air Elemental) -
• Enemies that attack you from melee range while having -
• Soft crowd control from , and .

Celestial quickness catalyst is a hybrid boon dps build for catalyst for open world. Boasting extreme damage reduction, this build can face-tank pretty much anything while inflicting respectable damage and granting itself and nearby allies powerful boons, most notably, permanent 急速.

As a downside, the playstyle requires you to be constantly swapping attunements pretty much off cooldown to spam their Spheres such as 部署翠玉元晶, and you need to stay inside the Spheres to receive the boons.

Weapon Variants

We suggest using Hammer for its high amount of combo finishers (see: Guide

Skill Variants

Heal skill

We default to as it provides good passive healing and works great with a fast-paced playstyle. Since this build has extreme damage reduction and requires constant skill usage, you have little need for other healing skills.

Utility skills

We default to for its stunbreak, barrier, and stability. for its burning damage when activated. for its passive damage reduction, but never use its active skill. This skill can be swapped when fighting less threatening enemies. Other alternatives you can consider are:

• - condition cleanse and stun break.
• - very flexible skill that can do damage, or cleanse conditions, or daze enemies, or give barrier, depending on your current attunement, and breaks stun.

Elite skill

We default to for its versatility. Cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and , on Air for a , or on Earth for defense and tanking.

Ascended gear is not required.

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. See also: Guide

• The relic slot is very flexible. Here are some alternatives. If using the trait , be sure to change your relic as it is useless:
  • You can consider or or for sustain.
  • You can consider for better burst.