Catalyst - Quickness Support Healer

Weapon Variants

Players that own Secrets of the Obscure can use Warhorn paired with either Scepter for range or Dagger for extra healing. This build overprovides boons so it's really a matter of personal preference. Staff is the only weapon that provides access to 稳固, however.

Skill Variants

Utility Skills

• 流水纹章 is a ranged heal, condition cleanse and partial revive, on a fairly short cooldown.
• 冰霜长弓 can be used to generate hits for energy, and also provides CC and some sustained healing from the autoattack.
• 秘法波动 offers CC, and an extra blast finisher to trigger 卡拉科萨古物.
• 复元雕文 is an instant revive, with slightly different benefits depending on the attunement it's cast in.

This variant of Catalyst can provide , , 25 stacks of , , , , and to their subgroup. It also has access to and a small amount of .

Pros

• Not Firebrand - Support Healer.
• Fast pickups via , , and .
• More fun(?)

Cons

• Not Firebrand - Support Healer.
• cannot be moved, so boons will suffer if the group is spread and/or the boss moves too often.
• Does not provide on-demand or .
• Have to use . If you hate Conjures, this may not be the build for you.

• This setup has some toughness from Minstrel stats pieces. They can be swapped to Harrier stats or Magi stats if you do not wish to tank, but be aware that will give you up to 10% extra toughness regardless.
• If you're tanking, you can switch as many Harrier stats pieces to Giver stats as you desire.
• The is a minor heal, so you could replace it with something like a .
• Players without Secrets of the Obscure can use - the difference between the two isn't that large.

• The traits in the first columns of Arcane and Water are pretty inconsequential, so pick whatever sounds best.
• For tanking, you can take for some extra survivability. Your aura sustain is through .

Food

• 碗装薄荷配菜水果沙拉 - standard ascended choice.
  • 美味饭团 - budget/standard non-ascended choice.

Utility

• 富饶保养油 - standard utility choice.
  • 薄荷保养油 - last resort/budget utility choice if you lack Boon Duration.

Boons

The majority of your boons come from your Jade Sphere in various attunements.

• Fire - 威能
• Water - 决心 and 活力
• Air - 激怒
• Earth - 保护 and 圣盾

The basic concept is to cycle through all four attunements, dropping the Jade Sphere in each one, along with any skills that provide boons:

• On Staff: 治疗之雨 for 再生, 乘风急速 for 迅捷, and 磁力光环 ⇒ 逆向转化大地 for 稳固.
• On Warhorn: 热力同步 for 威能 and 激怒, 潮汐激荡 for 再生, 气流漩涡 for 迅捷, and 砂石狂啸 for 保护 and boon extension.

Your opener is influenced by the desire to get 威能 up to 25 stacks quickly:

1. Precast 寒冰尖刺 - this will blast after a short delay so if you're quick you can place a fire field before it does so
2. 火焰协调
3. 熔岩喷泉 and 部署翠玉元晶
4. 大地协调
5. 大地喷发 - if you're quick, your fire field will still be active when this blasts.
6. 秘法绚爆 and 秘法波动 (if using) for more blasts. You can also use 磁力光环 ⇒ 逆向转化大地 if you won't need the 稳固 before it's available again.

After this, use 部署翠玉元晶 and go into 空气协调 followed by 流水协调, using the Jade Sphere and any other useful skill in each. It is beneficial to go into 流水协调 last as this opener will have built up a large buffer of boons (most boons have a duration limit of 30s, which most will be at) and you can therefore camp this attunement for healing until you need to build them up again.

This makes the rotation very flexible, and as long as you perform a loop through the attunements every ~25s you should have no issues maintaining boons. You may wish to give some extra thought to 大地协调 though, as it contains both 圣盾 and 稳固 which are very effective at mitigating dangerous attack and so it may be useful to leave it available in order to switch to it reactively. Bear in mind that 大地协调 and 部署翠玉元晶 also provide your 保护, so it is still recommended to swap to this attunement every 30s at least.

Energy Generation

2 Energy can be generated per attunement swap through , and the rest comes from hitting enemies.

If energy is low for whatever reason, multi-hit skills such as those on the or other fast skills such as , , etc. can be used to build it back up quickly.

Healing

As a Staff Elementalist build, you have a lot of healing through weapon skills in . Consistent healing comes from and while you are using Frost Bow. Burst Healing comes through and blasting the water field from with and .

Healing Utility is mainly . Don't hesitate to use this if needed, it has quite a short cooldown.

Your Elite Skill, allows you to summon an Ice Elemental that can use . This is another huge, short cooldown heal that can be used to burst your subgroup back up to full.

You can also dodge to trigger in Water

If using , all your blast finishers are heals (assuming they combo):

• and
• On Staff: and
• On Dagger: and
• On Scepter: and
• On Warhorn:

Crowd Control

• (Conjure Frost Bow): 300-400 defiance break
• : 100 defiance break
• (Water Elemental): 150 defiance break
• (Staff): 200 defiance break
• (Warhorn): 150 defiance break
• (Warhorn): 150 defiance break
• / (Dagger): 100 defiance break
• : Not a CC in itself, but it drops a lightning field that can be comboed with leap finishers for 100 defiance break.