Catalyst - Power Catalyst

Weapon Variants

Usage of Spear requires Janthir Wilds. Other weapon options you can consider are:

• Scepter + Dagger
• Hammer

Skill Variants

Heal skill

We default to 再生纹章 as it provides good passive healing and works great with a fast-paced playstyle, but very weak heal on demand, leaving you vulnerable to burst damage. Other alternatives are:

• 元素和谐雕文 - strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement.
• 秘法绚爆 - weak heal by default, but is greatly increased if it strikes nearby enemies. Performs a blast finisher, and heals for more when doing so. Excellent synergy with water combo fields. (See: Guide
  are Combo Fields).
• 幻光恢复 - very high healing and condition removal throughout its long channelling time. Great option for raw healing if you can afford the cast time, and it also regenerates enough endurance for one dodge.

Utility skills

We default to 无情灼焰 and 风暴雕文 for damage, and 火焰纹章 to improve critical chance. 风暴雕文 can be replaced if needed. Other utility skills you can consider are:

• 大地护甲 - stunbreak, barrier, and stability.
• 小型元素雕文 - spawn a small elemental army that dies when you mount up, good for fighting strong bosses.
• 净化烈焰 - condition cleanse and stun break.
• 电光火石 - more mobility
• 元素能量雕文 - 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

lets you use your into a second time. You can also consider:

• - cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and , on Air for a , or on Earth for defense and tanking.

Variants

• 充能光环 + 聚力赋能: when playing in groups and someone else is already providing 急速.

Ascended gear is not required.

If you are gearing this character from zero, start with exotic quality gear. Search the trading post for "Zhed" armor, "Impaler" spear, "Ironfist" hammer. See also: Guide

• You require about 31% boon duration to maintain your boons, most notably 急速.
• For relic alternatives, you can consider 萨奇洛斯古物 to trade a minor amount of damage for sustain.
• For defense, equip the highest tier Jade Core you can afford.
• For an extremely minor damage optimisation, use 4 "Precise +5 Agony Infusion" to reach 100% critical chance.

Power catalyst rotates through all four Attunements dealing damage in a large AoE. It's also slightly more durable thanks to 元素赋能 improving all your attributes, and provides some boons to itself and nearby allies - most notably, permanent 急速 and 激怒.

As a downside, the playstyle is very fast and 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, making the build somewhat static and vulnerable to enemies that move around.

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• 盘装辛辣陆行鸟翅膀 / 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤
• 超级磨刀石 / 罐装水果蛋糕

Defense

• 碗装欧尔松露鲜肉煲
• 煎扇贝三明治
• 碗装柠檬草贻贝意粉

Farming

• Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
• 生日爆破枪 / 令人愉快的生日蛋糕大餐
• 薄荷怪异莓棒
• 锐磨颅骨 (and variants)

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 thanks to and . Each attunement has its own sphere, and their cooldowns are not shared. Thanks to the trait , you can generate Energy even while a sphere is deployed.

You also gain improved attributes from Elemental Empowerment effect from traits like .

Damage

The playstyle is easy to explain, but not so much to execute. You want to rotate through all four attunements while using their Sphere and their spear Etching skills. If you are spending more than 5 seconds on an attunement, you are too slow. Cast (preferably inside the fire Sphere) and (on Air or Fire) off cooldown for damage.

In long fights, if you do not have from another player, your spear Etchings will not be ready once you attune to an element for a second time. When that happens, you have to skip the Etching, cast whatever weapon skills are off cooldown, and move to the next attunement to cast its Sphere off cooldown in order to maintain permanent Quickness. Note that you want to always cast the fire etching, , right after to increase its damage.

If not using spear, the idea is the same: rotate through all four attunements off cooldown to use their Sphere while casting all your damaging weapon skills.

Elemental Empowerment

As a catalyst, you gain stacks of Elemental Empowerment which increase all your attributes. This obviously increases your damage and survivability a little bit, but they are also important to increase boon duration.

provides 3 stacks of Elemental Empowerment. To get more, you need to inflict crowd control due to . Pretty much all your cc skills on any weapon are also damage skills and thus part of your normal rotation, so you don't need to worry about this trait. will also give you an aura periodically, and every time you get an aura you get one stack of Elemental Empowerment, such as when you attune to due to .

Quickness

You provide quickness with the traits + . You want to swap attunements off cooldown and use their Sphere immediately. This also provides other boons, namely permanent and some .