Catalyst - Celestial S/D Signet Cata Roamer

Auras

• With the Fire variant you cleanse 1 condition via 窒息光环 whenever you gain an aura.

• 石刻纹章 further improves your signets by attaching auras to their activation. Each signet grants an aura based on the element the signet's associated with, for example 流水纹章 applies 冰霜光环.

• 元素典范 grants an aura based on your current element when you execute a combo (with a 10s CD per element).

• The spread of combo finishers on S/D isn't optimal for aura stacking with Elemental Epitome - Air and Water don't have any while Earth has up to 5. This however can be remedied with good timing and a little bit of creativity by switching attunements at the right moment, causing some finishers to land in a different attunement.

• An example of spreading out finishers would be dropping the Jade Sphere on Earth, following up with 投掷岩石 and swapping to Air for 电击光环 or casting a 浴火凤凰 in a 炙火之环 then swapping to Water before the blast goes off.

• Combo finishers in the build:

  • 巨龙之牙 and 浴火凤凰 on Fire.
  • 投掷岩石 (chain skill of 岩石屏障), 地动山摇, 大地翻腾 and (if you're playing the Arcane variant) the first dodge you perform after swapping to this element thanks to 秘法遁逸. There's also the autoattack 岩石碎片 but that's a bit random.

• There're also some less complicated ways of obtaining auras. Water #4 creates a 冰霜光环 (and flips over into a chain skill which lets you transmute it for extra effects or, more cleansing via 窒息光环 when playing the Fire variant). Another easy one on the Fire variant is to simply swap to 火焰协调 for a 太阳黑子 proc. These are both instant and can even be done while casting skills or sitting in a CC, preventing enemies from piling more CCs onto you via 元素协调.

• As the Jade Sphere is instant you could even drop a combo field in the middle of your dodge in Earth to obtain an aura.

Damage

• Fire is your strongest element, followed by Earth.

• 烈焰打击 is an autoattack which is more dangerous than it looks, capable of rapidly stacking burning on enemies if you're allowed to freecast for a few seconds. 急速 from the Air Jade Sphere can help a lot with that, so dropping the sphere on Air before switching to Fire is always a good idea.

• With the Fire spec variant every skill used on Fire stacks 威能 for you, even the autoattack.

• There's no set rotation on this attunement, only good practices like making sure your Blast finishers land in a Fire field and sending everything on CD before swapping out of Fire. Spam autos if you have 急速 otherwise burst targets with other Fire skills and use the auto as a filler once everything's on CD.

• 巨龙之牙 and 浴火凤凰 both do good damage and are Blast finishers. Other than stacking auras they have inherent value as combo tools, for example if used inside the Fire Jade Sphere these two are going to stack 威能 which increases your damage.

  • Both of these skills work on targets behind your character, allowing you to effortlessly pressure enemies even while kiting them.

• 巨龙之牙 has a delay and often forces enemies to keep a dodge ready so they can avoid it. Use the time while it's hanging above your enemy to unload your other fire skills while they're less likely to dodge.

• 炙火之环 is a simple AoE that burns foes when cast (and whenever they cross the ring). It's also a combo field.

• 烈焰之攫 should always be used when the target has 燃烧 for the extra damage. Considering how every other weapon skill on this attunement inflicts burning that shouldn't be hard.

• Air skills don't do a whole lot of damage compared to Fire but 闪电打击 and 目盲之光 offer good cover conditions to make your Burning stacks harder to cleanse.

• While offers a passive stat increase, most of the time people tend to go immediately for its chain skill to deal damage. Hurl launched 5 projectiles which apply that are guaranteed projectile finishers, these are best used inside the Earth Sphere to combo or a Fire Field for .

• adds more condition variety to your bursts on top of being a great defensive skill.

• isn't quite as good of an auto as but it's an okay filler skill when you've got nothing better to do.

• Use , , and to root people into hard hitting skills like or .

Sustain

• The build has lots of passive strike damage mitigation and several tools that reduce incoming condition damage/duration:

  • 大地纹章 + 地使训练 + 护体石肤 + 保护 + 冰霜光环 against strike damage.
  • 流水纹章 + 大地祝福 reduce the duration of incoming conditions.

• Arcane variant Simply swapping to Earth can already help you out against strike damage as you'll gain 保护 from 元素协调. Earth Jade Sphere grants the same boon plus 抗性.

• Water is the best attunement when it comes to dealing with condition pressure. With the Arcane variant your cleansing is limited mostly to 净化水波 and the first dodge on water via 秘法遁逸, while the Fire variant turns every aura application and aura transmute into a source of cleansing due to 窒息光环 synergy. With Fire you get to do back-to-back 逆向转化冰霜s for burst cleansing as the build has plenty of 冰霜光环 application (Dagger 4, Signet of Restoration and Water, plus the one from 元素典范).

• 浴火凤凰 cleanses 1 condition.

• 寒冰叉戟 is rather straightforward, heals when it strikes an enemy.

• Water Attunement's Jade Sphere is a Water field, dropping blast finishers inside it is a good way of resustaining yourself. While Water doesn't have any such finishers, swapping to 大地协调 right after and following up with a dodge (when playing Arcane) + Earthquake + Churning Earth for 3 blasts is a common play.

• 冰冻 from 寒冰碎石 and 冰霜光环 can help you kite enemies.

• 目盲之光 and 魔尘沙暴 mitigate damage via 目盲 spam, but Blinding Flash also has 虚弱 which is quite nice against power-based specs (and it's instant so could even be used while CC'd).

• 岩石屏障 is a decent barrier source for damage mitigation and makes 抗性 negates non-damaging conditions.

• is your only stunbreak, luckily it's on short CD and the build has plenty of . If you're good enough at reading the field you could even use it preemptively, ing an incoming CC (or any other impactful attack skill) instead of reacting to it after you've been hit. The skill laso grants which stuns attackers.

• Other than just being a powerful CC tool also has an evade frame which is quite useful if you're out of dodges and need to avoid something important.

  • also works on downed players, you could use this to knock enemies off of capture points to bleed them out slowly while you cap the node.

• is great at disengaging from fights and lets you do it twice, which should make it impossible for most builds in the game to chase you down.