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Support Catalyst

Guild Wars 2 Support Catalyst - Staff / Staff Meta build for wvw: complete guide with gear, runes, relics, traits, and rotation tips.

元素使 (Elementalist)catalyst

Build Template

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Overview

Build Difficulty: ● ● ● ○ ○

Pros
Cons
Attributes
  • Provides party boons
  • Defensive options
  • Fluid rotation
  • Plenty of CC
  • Provides self boons
  • Access to healing & support
  • Easy to learn
  • Plenty of utility
  • High mastery curve
  • Relies on resource management
  • Fast paced rotation
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Equipment

Traits & Skills

Traits

Skills

大地祝福 图标大地祝福 can be taken in the Earth Trait Line if you're frequently affected by Immobilize, Cripple, or Chilled and need the extra Endurance.

硬化光环 图标硬化光环 can be taken in the Catalyst Trait Line if you're comfortable with gaining Energy via dealing damage with your skills or if you need the extra Damage Reduction.

Rotation & Extras

Key Concepts

Heal Catalyst is a strong support in the current meta focused on giving auras and both offensive and defensive boons to allies. You have access to the specialization's unique mechanic:部署翠玉元晶 图标部署翠玉元晶 which changes depending on your attunement. Your spheres provide important boons like: Might, Quickness, Resistance, Protection, Fury, Vigor, Resolution and Swiftness.

Catalyst also has access to a lot of CC that makes it a good offensive choice as well as a great defensive choice with the class having easy access to good Healing, Condition cleanses and auras on demand.

You can also revive downed allies with 复元雕文 图标复元雕文.

Your main goal is to quickly cycle through your 部署翠玉元晶 图标部署翠玉元晶 to provide boons and to perform as many blast finishers as possible to proc 金刚石肤 图标金刚石肤 and 卡拉科萨古物 图标卡拉科萨古物 when your allies need cleansing and healing.

Boons and Supporting Allies

Try to always start the fight with full Energy. Either look for neutral mobs, gates or guards to attack so you can fill your Energy bar before every fight.

Boons

Your main boon generation comes from Jade Spheres, so using them correctly is essential. Prioritize for Quickness and 部署翠玉元晶 图标部署翠玉元晶 for Resistance and Protection.

A simple rotation would be as follows:

  1. Start in 大地协调 图标大地协调部署翠玉元晶 图标部署翠玉元晶
  2. Swap to 空气协调 图标空气协调
  3. Swap to 火焰协调 图标火焰协调部署翠玉元晶 图标部署翠玉元晶
  4. Swap to 流水协调 图标流水协调部署翠玉元晶 图标部署翠玉元晶
  5. Repeat from Step 1.

Additional boon sources:

If you find that any of your skills are on Cooldown, feel free to skip them and keep rotating through your Attunements for high boon output.

Auras

Other than their base effects, Auras also trigger the following traits:

  • 强效光环 图标强效光环 causes you to apply Auras to your allies when you apply one to yourself.
  • 元素护盾 图标元素护盾 applies Protection to your allies.
  • 元素典范 图标元素典范 grants you a 1% Stat Bonus for each stack up to a maximum of 10.

So, what do each of the Auras do?

  • Fire Aura inflicts Burning and grants Might when hit.
  • Frost Aura provides 10% Damage Reduction.
  • Shocking Aura inflicts Stun when hit.
  • Magnetic Aura will Reflect Projectiles.

Prioritize Frost Aura, Magnetic Aura and Shocking Aura.

元素典范 图标元素典范 is your main source of Auras which triggers when you perform a Combo. These are the following Combos that you have in each Attunement:

You can also create Combo Fields with the following skills when needed:

Keep in mind that you can use any of your utility skills to also Combo or use 磁力光环 图标磁力光环 to immediately gain Magnetic Aura or 寒冰禁地 图标寒冰禁地 for Frost Aura.

Healing

流水协调 图标流水协调 provides you with a few different Healing options:

Use 流水纹章 图标流水纹章 for burst Healing.

Keep in mind that whenever you activate 卡拉科萨古物 图标卡拉科萨古物, you will also trigger 金刚石肤 图标金刚石肤 and Cleanse nearby allies.

Relic of Karakosa

A big part of your Healing comes from 卡拉科萨古物 图标卡拉科萨古物 which Heals allies when you perform Combo with a Blast Finisher. Below you can find a list of your Blast Finishers:

Glyph of Renewal

复元雕文 图标复元雕文 can be used to Revive your Downed allies. The skill changes depending on what Attunement you in.

火焰协调 图标火焰协调 provides 火焰复元 图标火焰复元:

  • Instantly Revive yourself the next time you're Downed
  • This can be used on yourself or an ally when affected by 生命幻象 图标生命幻象 to get them up from Downstate when it times out.

流水协调 图标流水协调 provides 流水复元 图标流水复元:

  • Revive a Downed ally with full Health.

空气协调 图标空气协调 provides 空气复元 图标空气复元:

  • Revive a Downed ally and teleport them to your location
  • This is helpful when someone Downed in a dangerous position and avoids them the danger of Downing again instantly.

大地协调 图标大地协调 provides 大地复元 图标大地复元:

  • Revive three Downed allies
  • This is very helpful in the current meta where there is not a lot of multi-man rez tools available.

When casting 复元雕文 图标复元雕文 it can be helpful to have Quickness from either or other external sources to speed up it's cast time.

Make sure to have Ground Targeting set to Instant Cast will allow you to retarget the position you used 复元雕文 图标复元雕文 in case your Downed ally gets Knocked Away. Simply move your Cursor to their new position and you will land 复元雕文 图标复元雕文.

How to use your Elite

元素迅捷 图标元素迅捷 will reduce all your current weapon skills cooldown by 25s. You can choose to use it either in 流水协调 图标流水协调 or in 大地协调 图标大地协调.

If there's a lot of pressure and your squad needs a lot of healing and cleansing, using your elite in 流水协调 图标流水协调 to cast 治疗之雨 图标治疗之雨 twice and having all the other healing from your other water skills available again makes it a good option.

Otherwise you can cast 元素迅捷 图标元素迅捷 in 大地协调 图标大地协调 to reset your skills and grant a lot of extra Stability and Magnetic Aura. It's recommended that you cast 部署翠玉元晶 图标部署翠玉元晶 twice since you will be staying in this attunement for significant time already before swapping off.

Defense

Use either 大地护甲 图标大地护甲 or 振奋之气 图标振奋之气 to Stun Break yourself.

灼焰翻滚 图标灼焰翻滚 for the Evade and mobility to reposition yourself when out of Dodges.

乘风急速 图标乘风急速 to grant yourself Swiftness and Superspeed and Cleanse yourself from Immobilize.

Crowd Control

SkillDefiance DamageSource
疾风爆发 图标疾风爆发400 rangeStaff
静电力场 图标静电力场360 rangeStaff
大地动荡 图标大地动荡750 rangeStaff
秘法波动 图标秘法波动2 SecondsUtility