Catalyst - Support Catalyst

Aurashare/Condition clear

• Most of your condition clear is reliant on and comes passively while rotating through the attunements while blasting
• also cleanses many conditions - place this when your party is pushing forward
• You can apply on a long range using due to
• Prioritize for burst condition clear, see the burst healing rotation below
• has a per-attunement cooldown of 10 seconds
  • You can start casting a blast in one attunement then swap to a different attunement before the cast ends to proc
    • It is easy to swap attunements during , and
    • This also works with and , but these skills proc a projectile finisher only when they hit an enemy. does not track the enemy, so its impossible to hit. is a skill shot, but unreliable due to reflects.
  • Prioritize getting auras from for and from for
• Use on your group before or during pushes to give

Boonshare

• Prioritize and
  • If you have spare energy use for or for
• Make sure to land the Jade Sphere cast on top of allies for the boons from
  • can be used to save allies caught with with the and from
• Place your spheres so that one edge is on your allied group and the other edge is where your group is moving to
  • Optimally leave it somewhere your group is regrouping
• Try to fill any gaps in your parties uptime with ⇒ , especially when your group is pushing

CC

• Use your CC when:
  • Your group calls a spike:
    • Winds -
    • Wells - +
    • Shades -
    • Traps - +
  • On top of enemy downs (while alive players are on top of them)
  • Enemy groups moving defensively while your group is pushing

Healing

• Catalyst healing is very limited, but significant enough to save people if comboed
• Use to heal from range
• You can blast the fields created by and for healing

Superspeed

• Focus on using when your group is pushing or disengaging from the enemy

Settings

• Under General Options / User Interface check Always show squad health bars and Always show party health bars. These will make it much easier to keep track of who needs your support.
• Also under General Options / User Interface turn on Thick party health bars
  • Thick squad health bars can be used too as a matter of personal preference, but is not recommended for large numbers
• Under Squad Options check View as a grid. This will allow you to keep track of your allies' health and be quicker in using . While this doesn't allow you to see conditions on allies, most of your cleanses are passively applied anyway.

5. In

• - AoE for energy generation
• - AoE for energy generation and AoE blind. Note that there might still be a Sphere active at the start, so delay a bit for Energy.
• - Repositioning

6. While ⇒

• Make sure you have more than 10 Energy before swapping out of Fire. If not, place another .
• If you have more than 20 Energy before swapping, you can place or

7. In

• - delayed blast for
• - for targeted healing
• - for
• - big AoE cleanse and healing. Place towards the direction your team is moving.

8. While ⇒

• We can time the blast on so that it procs in Earth. This is good since the staff skill will be on cooldown still

• On the second loop:

  • on Staff will be on cooldown, so we need to proc for differently:
    • Use a delayed
    • Use or - These are projectiles and need to hit to count as a projectile finisher. Inconsistent because of projectile block.
    • Use - Backup finisher
    • Use - Takes a long time to proc, so it's better to use a quicker method.
  • will be on cooldown, so we want to proc in Water with
  • will be on cooldown, so our cleanses will be lower this round.