Power Catalyst

The Power Catalyst is a strong DPS build for fractals. Power Catalyst provides conjures and Vulnerability, as well as some Might through Spheres and potentially blasting fire fields. It may also swap traits and gear to provide permanent Quickness and a decent amount of extra Might. It is also very useful for some T4 skips in fractals like Aetherblade, Cliffside, Thaumanova Reactor etc. thanks to high mobility and Lightning Flash .

This build has less burst than Power Weaver but offers extra utility through the boons of the Jade Spheres.

Unfortunately, the survivability of this build is on the lower end. While some defensive utilities are available in Water Attunement and Earth Attunement , you will use them during your normal rotation and not always be in the correct attunement when you need the defense. Therefore, it is recommended to have a high awareness of the encounters and good class knowledge before picking up this build.

This build has one of the harder rotations in the game but is very enjoyable to play - if given some dedication. The build benefits heavily from slaying potions and sigils such as Powerful Potion of Slaying Scarlet's Armies and Superior Sigil of Serpent Slaying .

Power Catalyst

Pick a gear variant Power Catalyst

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Utilities

Elite

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• 109.38%
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Berserker

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Food

Utility

Create your own build in case you already own different gear.

1. Select template

2. Select gear you already own

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Jade Spheres

As a Catalyst, your unique class mechanic is the energy system and your Jade Sphere.

• You build up energy by attacking your enemy up to a maximum of 30.
• Your F5 skill will cost 10 energy and cast a Jade Sphere based on your current attunement, for example Deploy Jade Sphere .
• Your Jade Spheres damage enemies and provide boons to allies while they are active. They also act as combo fields.
• This means, that even on the full DPS build you will provide some boons to help out the group.

Certain traits interact with your sphere, namely:

• Spectacular Sphere makes your Sphere grant an extra boon based on the attunement. This allows you to provide Quickness in Air Attunement for example.

• Sphere Specialist doubles the duration of the boons applied, making it possible to provide higher boon uptime when traited with Spectacular Sphere .

Hammer Skills

The unique mechanic for the Hammer weapon set is the third skill. Mastering it is very important for the rotation.

• Pressing a third skill such as Crescent Wind will summon an orb circling you dealing damage to enemies in its way.
• The orb will last for 15 seconds and grants access to Grand Finale on this attunement while active
• The orb will grant a passive bonus like crit-chance in the case of Air Attunement while active.

Connecting multiple orbs:

• If you swap to a different attunement and use the third skill there, it will cast the according to the orb and refresh the duration of any currently active orb.
• Grand Finale will replace the third skill on any attunement that you have the active orb from already. It will send out all current orbs to your target to deal damage.
• Your goal is to get all 4 orbs up at the same time, send them all at once with Grand Finale , and repeat this loop during your entire rotation.
• The hardest part will be the first loop as you can accidentally double press the third skill sending out the first projectiles as Grand Finale is not yet on-cooldown for this loop.

Your attunement rotation will try to maximize uptime on the offensive buffs from Crescent Wind and Flame Wheel and will therefore be:

1. Air Attunement
2. Fire Attunement
3. Water Attunement
4. Earth Attunement
5. Repeat

You will cast Grand Finale in Air Attunement after the first loop and try to minimize downtime before getting back your offensive buffs from Crescent Wind and Flame Wheel .

All of your Hammer skills are useful in some situations and all except Wind Storm (Air 4) and Immutable Stone (Earth 4) will be used for DPS.

If you need to auto-attack to bridge the gap between skills, you’d ideally want to only do so in Earth Attunement and partially Air Attunement .

Some of them bring nice extra utility, like:

• Crashing Font heals you for each enemy you hit with it.
• Cleansing Typhoon cleanses conditions from you.
• Whirling Stones blocks projectiles.

This can sometimes be quite handy, however, all of these skills are used in the rotation so you will not want to delay them too long usually.

Utility Skills

As a Catalyst, you gain access to augments. You will be using two of them by default, namely Relentless Fire and Shattering Ice . Other augments listed in the situational skills section can also be useful.

Augments grant you a buff and gain a bonus effect when cast near their corresponding sphere. This is usually either a duration increase for the buff or a cooldown decrease for the skill.

For example, Relentless Fire will grant you a damage increase for 5 seconds. This is increased by 3 additional seconds when cast near a Deploy Jade Sphere . Therefore, you usually want to use them in the corresponding attunement.

Conjures are specific to the Elementalist class.

• Casting a Conjure skill will give the weapon to you as a bundle replacing your weapon skills and leave one copy on the ground for yourself or an ally to pick up.
• In fractals, you will mostly use these to precast additional damage at the start of the fight and between phases. Some Conjures will be used only for CC.

The most common Conjure you will always run is Conjure Fiery Greatsword (FGS).

• Firestorm is the most used skill on this weapon. It deals constant damage in the targeted area and can therefore be precasted before the fight or between phases for extra burst.
• If you pick up the FGS in the middle of your rotation, Fiery Rush usually offers more damage than auto-attacking on your regular weapon set. It also rushes you to the enemy and is therefore great for mobility.
• Fiery Whirl is also great for mobility. It also does a decent amount of damage when used with the Special Action Key to get multiple hits on Arkk.

Trait Interactions

Empowering Auras is a buff unique to Catalyst. It grants a 3% outgoing damage buff capping at 5 stacks.

Traits that interact with Elemental Empowerment stacks are:

• Empowering Auras gives you a stack whenever you gain an aura.
• Elemental Epitome provides you an aura every time you combo. Actively helping to blast Might at the Singularity is therefore even more beneficial, even if you just do it for your DPS.

Elemental Empowerment is a buff unique to Catalyst. It grants a 1% bonus to all stats capping at 10 stacks.

Traits that interact with Elemental Empowerment stacks are:

• Vicious Empowerment gives 2 stacks whenever you disable a foe.
• Elemental Empowerment gives 3 stacks while in combat.
• Elemental Epitome gives 1 stack every time you gain an aura and grants an aura when doing a combo.
• Empowered Empowerment doubles the effectiveness at 10 stacks (DPS build only).