Build Template
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Build Difficulty: ● ● ● ○ ○
- High damage
- Provides self boons
- Sustained damage
- Lots of cleave
- High learning curve
- Fast paced rotation
- Relies on resource management
- Requires accurate positioning
- Power
- 2950
- Toughness
- 1000
- Vitality
- 1297
- Precision
- 1971
- Critical Chance
- 56.23%
- Ferocity
- 1619
- Critical Damage
- 257.9%
- Condition Damage
- 0
- Healing Power
- 0
- Expertise
- 0
- Condition Duration
- 0%
- Concentration
- 0
- Boon Duration
- 0%
Equipment
Traits & Skills
Traits
Skills
Rotation & Extras
Introduction
Power Catalyst is an easy to learn but hard to master build. There are 4 primary resources or buffs that you need to manage while playing Power Catalyst:
- Energy to cast Jade Spheres
- Upkeeping
元素赋能 stacks - Upkeeping
充能光环 stacks - Maintaining Relic of the Claw uptime
You will automatically maintain high uptime and stacks just by performing the Power Catalyst rotation correctly and fast enough. However, because the rotation is fast-paced and relies on resource management, making mistakes or delaying the rotation can cause you to lose stacks and uptime.
That said, with a good understanding of build fundamentals and enough practice, you'll be rewarded with powerful DPS numbers!
Step One: Jade Spheres and Attunement Loop
Jade Spheres are the unique profession mechanic of Catalyst. They are instant-cast skills that deal damage, put down a Combo Field, and give a boon based on your Attunement. The Jade Sphere in each Attunement is its own individual skill, so they each have a separate Cooldown.
It costs 10 Energy to cast a Jade Sphere. Energy is gained by landing hits, but you cannot gain Energy while a Jade Sphere is deployed. Using Jade Spheres in quick succession minimizes that time frame, allowing you to promptly start gaining Energy again.
Managing Energy in the rotation is relatively simple; once you're at 30 Energy, you will quickly swap from
空气协调 to
大地协调 to
火焰协调, using the Jade Sphere in each Attunement as soon as you swap over. This will consume all 30 Energy, then give you plenty of time to regain Energy to repeat the loop.
The basic loop is as follows:
空气协调
- Auto Attack until 30 Energy
大地协调
火焰协调
Keep an eye on your Energy and make sure you have 30 Energy before deploying Jade Spheres! Not having enough Energy will severely delay your rotation.
Step Two: Weapon Skills
In this step, we will add some weapon skills to the loop to give it a rhythm that more closely resembles the full build.
量子打击 hits multiple times to help gain Energy faster.
地动山摇 will refresh Relic of the Claw.
The rotation aims to use
火焰升腾 inside the Lightning Field generated by to apply Daze, which grants additional uptime on Relic of the Claw. This means you will need to cast your first
火焰升腾 within 5 seconds of . The timing isn't particularly tight if you are doing the rotation fast enough, but if you are not getting the Dazing Strike from
火焰升腾, you will need to pick up the pace.
From now on, your second cast of
火焰升腾 will determine the timing of swapping to
空气协调.
Updated loop:
空气协调
-
量子打击
- Auto Attack until 30 Energy
大地协调
火焰协调
Make sure you are not delaying
部署翠玉元晶! Otherwise it will take significantly longer to reach 30 Energy to start the loop again.
Remember that changing Attunements will not cancel any skill you're currently casting. If available, use this to your advantage by swapping to your new attunement during the cast time of your current skill.
Step Three: More Weapon Skills
We will now add the rest of the weapon skills to the rotation.
While
极化跳跃 doesn't do very much damage, it is cast to maintain uptime on Relic of the Claw and
充能光环 stacks via
元素典范. It can easily interrupt other skills, so it is cast after
风驰电掣 because it does not interrupt
风驰电掣.
Updated loop:
空气协调
大地协调
-
部署翠玉元晶
- Alternate between: When the enemy health reaches below 50%, you can use all 3 skills together if
大地翻腾 is available:
火焰协调
More about Auto Attack Chains:
- The third hit of each Auto Attack Chain deals a lot of damage, so it's important to avoid interrupting Auto Attack Chains with weapon skills.
- Grouping Auto Attack Chains together and weapon skills together will allow you to seamlessly queue your weapon skills, contributing to a cleaner rotation. All skills in the loop can be queued if done in the correct order as written.
- If you start an Auto Attack Chain and swap to a different Attunement, your previous Attunement's Auto Attack Chain will still continue until it's finished or interrupted. If you want to change your Auto Attacks to your new Attunement, press Skill
1and it will swap over.
Step Four: Utility Skills
Next, add the utility and elite skills to the rotation. You don't have to add these to the rotation all at once; make sure you're comfy with what you're doing first before adding more skills into the rotation.
Use
风暴雕文 off Cooldown in either
空气协调 or
火焰协调 without delaying any of your weapon skills; that is, only use
风暴雕文 when you would otherwise be Auto Attacking.
Use
秘法爆弹 in
火焰协调 if available.
秘法爆弹 has multiple Charges and no cast time, so cast it while you're casting other skills.
Use
无情灼焰 right after
部署翠玉元晶, then use it off Cooldown. Note that
无情灼焰 will shift back in your rotation over time, so although it gains increased duration if cast in your
部署翠玉元晶, the loop will not always allow them to be cast together. Some boss intermission phases will allow
无情灼焰 to recharge and be used together with
部署翠玉元晶.
元素迅捷 will reset the Cooldown of all weapon skills in your current Attunement. If available, cast
元素迅捷 in
火焰协调 when all your weapon skills are on Cooldown, then cast all your weapon skills again. When
元素迅捷 is available,
火焰协调 should look like this:
This prioritizes the longer Cooldown skills, ensuring that they will be off Cooldown for the next loop.
Step Five: Opener
We're almost done! We just need to add an opener to bring the whole rotation together.
This opener will allow you to quickly reach maximum stacks of
元素赋能 and
充能光环 very shortly after
火焰协调. You will be able to naturally maintain these stacks simply by doing the standard loop. However, downtime during boss fights can cause you to start losing stacks, so remember to quickly build up stacks as soon as you can - for example, by doing the opener at the beginning of a new boss phase.
Opener:
Cast
冰霜光环 in
流水协调, then enter
空气协调 before engaging combat.
空气协调
大地协调
火焰协调
Use all Charges of
秘法爆弹 in
火焰协调.
Transitioning to the Full Build
In real fights, try to maintain
元素赋能 and
充能光环 stacks during downtime, such as in between phases of a boss. This can be done by putting down Combo Fields and performing finishers in them to generate auras thanks to
元素典范. The full list of effects can be found here.
This is essentially the full Power Catalyst rotation. Further small improvements can still be made to increase Damage. You can visit the Power Catalyst page for a complete overview of the build and rotation.
































































