Catalyst - Spear Backline

Variants

Weapons

• Staff see Build

Utilities

• If you want more damage drop 电光火石 for one of the following utilities
  • 火焰纹章
    • Will require gear adjustment to stay below crit cap
  • 秘法回音

Variants

• 强能元素 if 元素赋能 can be maintained
• 充能光环 if you can keep 10 stacks of 元素赋能 without 威力闪避

Equipment Variants

Relics

Sigils

Consumables

Quick Guide

• Spear Catalyst is a fully ranged power DPS with both good spike and ground damage

• Prioritize your 火焰协调 and 蚀刻：火山爆发/飞火流星

• Once 火焰协调 is on cooldown use 空气协调 and combo to activate 蚀刻：对流风暴 while also getting as many casts of 灿若繁星 as possible

• 大地协调 should be used to fill downtime on 火焰协调 and 空气协调

General

• As soon as you get 25 stacks of 超级嗜血法印 and get out of combat, swap back to the Spear without a stacking sigil
• You are much stronger with full stacks of 元素赋能
  • Make sure to use a combo finisher in every attunement to proc 元素典范
    • If you start the cast of a skill with a finisher then swap attunements before it finishes casting you'll get the 元素典范 in the new attunement instead of the one you started the cast in
• Your combo finisher skills are:
  • 秘法绚爆
  • 火焰协调
    • 炙热弹幕
  • 流水协调
    • 微动涟漪
  • 空气协调
    • 龙卷残云
  • 大地协调
    • 大地之矛
• Spear has Etching skills as the skill 5 in each attunement.
  • You must stay inside the field the etching creates for three skill casts to charge the powerful flip skills.
    • These casts do not need to be weapon skills, your Jade Sphere, heal, utilities and elite also count
    • You do not need to stay inside the field to cast the flip skill once it is fully charged

Surviving

• This build has low passive defense
• This build has moderate mobility skill access
• This build has low active defenses

Priorities

High

• Burst damage

Moderate

• Damage

Low

• CC

Detailed Explanations

Burst damage

• Prestack to 10 before bursting if possible
• In combo:

• The goal of this combo is to apply as many damage modifiers as possible to for maximum damage
• Make sure to only use when you can safely stay inside it for the three casts needed to fully charge the skill
• can be cast before and after the combo to add damage
• Use in once all your weapon skills are on cooldown when its available
  • Since and will be on cooldown you'll need to replace them with and to charge
    • Make sure to use last so its effect buffs
  • Don't force yourself to use every time you're in . If you can't get a good off, save the cooldown for the next time
• The center radius of deals an extra 25% damage, so aim carefully and try to hit 5 target in the center every time
• Using on instead of is more burst damage, but a significant loss in sustained damage. If your group is ranged spiking or you're not able to consistently get good casts off it is worth doing
  • If you decide to do this swap with in the above combo

Sustained damage

• Your attunement priority for damage is:

• should be used in so it can be combined with damage modifiers such as and

• is an incredible damage skill and should be cast at least twice every time you go into
• should be charged whenever possible to enable
  • Typically you want to use as soon as you enter , but if it isn't a good time to spike hold the skill while poking with
  • Since this build is already at 100% crit chance, use as one of the casts for and don't worry about its crit buff
  • should be used to charge , but make sure you prioritize keeping enough energy for

• Use as soon as you enter to enable as soon as possible
  • Use to charge the Etching
  • should be used to charge , but only at full energy so you can make sure to have enough for and
• Like , deals 25% extra damage in the center radius, so aim carefully
• While is a projectile and will often fail to deal damage it's still worth using to proc

has limited damage, so avoid entering it except for specific reasons

• To CC with on a group spike
• To reposition with
• Using to reduce the cooldown of or
  • should be used immediately before swapping into or to lower the cooldown of the respective Etching skill
  • If is available, save for otherwise use it for
• If you've entered for one of the primary reasons, is usually worth casting
  • Beam skills like much more consistently hit their target cap if an enemy at the back of the group is targeted
  • Be careful about consuming the buff with

CC

• Use your CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike such as Wells ()
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive enemies are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups move defensively while your group is pushing
• Only the center radius of applies CC, so aim carefully

1. 蚀刻：对流风暴
2. 灿若繁星
3. 养精蓄锐
4. 龙卷残云/部署翠玉元晶
5. 对流风暴

1. 蚀刻：火山爆发
2. 部署翠玉元晶
3. 无情灼焰
4. 怒火沸腾
5. 火山爆发
6. 飞火流星
7. 元素迅捷

1. 蚀刻：哈布沙暴
2. 大地之矛/部署翠玉元晶
3. 麻木不仁
4. 裂地沟壑
5. 哈布沙暴