Catalyst - Fresh Air Cata

Notable burst combos

These are some potential combos you can use based on the techniques outlined above. The quicker you pull these chains off, the better.

From Fire:

1. Drop your Fire Jade Sphere to passively begin stacking .
3. ⇒ for more Might (it also does good damage in melee). Both the transmute and Dragon's Tooth have a delay, your goal is to get into Air by the time these go off
4. - optional: right at your target before you finish casting Phoenix to make it near instant. You don't have to do that if you were already in melee.
5. - swap to this while casting Phoenix
7. to avoid taking damage in melee, but it's not required

From Earth:

2. Optional: if you're in melee range of an enemy you may throw in a which can proc if it hits something.
3. + then swap to during the channeling to make the projectiles land in the right attunement. Hurl is a guaranteed projectile finisher which has synergy with your Spheres, consider dropping one before doing this combo. Any Sphere except Water will result in a damage boost.

From Water:

2. - the trident does more damage to Chilled enemies which is important. Shatterstone should secure that but can do the trick too.
3. Swap to while casting Water Trident, preferably even before the 2nd strike of Shatterstone goes off so that it may benefit from Air's damage modifiers.

Survival

• Swapping to Air is just as important for defense as it is for offense. Even when you're running away you should try to get some Fresh Air procs just so you can abuse blinds and superspeed.

• makes it easy to kite most specs via . Avoid melee range whenever possible! Don't stay in melee unless the target is blinded, CC'd or you're about to burst them.

• is great at avoiding crucial skills by blinding enemies, and it also shuts down Power-based specs in general with the Weakness. Being an instant cast skill this can also be used while CC'd. fills a similar purpose, so does although that one has a cast time.

• is a source of spammable which you can even place behind your back while running away. Chill is great at building distance and the damage could recharge Air, and swapping to Air gives you which makes it even easier to run away.

  • Swapping to Water, dodging for healing/cleansing then dropping Shatterstone on top of your target and using its damage to go back to Air is a common defensive rotation.

• Needless to say other CCs can also be used for shaking off pursuers.

• is one of your most powerful reactive skills for defense. It's a low CD block that can be used in any attunement, don't hesitate to use it the moment you're getting focused by an enemy, especially if your current attunement isn't defensive enough. It's great for stalling a bit and giving you some time to figure out your next move.

• and provide excellent protection against enemies who use projectiles. These however do not work against unblockable projectiles, and some ranged builds - such as this one - are mostly unaffected by projectile reflects and blocks.

• is the build's best condition cleanse which can also be used while stunned.

• offers protection against all kinds of pressure.

• The first strike of Blinds enemies while the snare is useful for keeping distance.