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    Booster Catalyst
    June 2024

    Open World
    Offensive Support
    Booster build icon Booster build

    Armor

    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
    Celestial HelmSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
    Celestial ShouldersSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
    Celestial ChestSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
    Celestial GlovesSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
    Celestial LegsSuperior Rune of the Elementalist
    Celestial icon Superior Rune of the Elementalist icon
    Celestial BootsSuperior Rune of the Elementalist

    Weapons & Sigils

    Hammer icon Superior Sigil of Smoldering icon Superior Sigil of Concentration icon
    Celestial HammerSuperior Sigil of SmolderingSuperior Sigil of Concentration

    Trinkets

    Celestial icon
    Celestial Backpiece
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Accessory
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Accessory
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Amulet
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Ring
    Celestial icon
    Celestial Ring
    Relic icon
    Relic of the Aristocracy

    Food

    Cilantro and Cured Meat Flatbread icon Tuning Icicle icon
    Cilantro and Cured Meat FlatbreadTuning Icicle

    Weapon Skills

    Utility Skills

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    Target Stats

    10001000100010000000
    1000159225%150%00%0%

    Introduction

    This Celestial Booster Catalyst is a great beginner-friendly offensive support setup made for open-world. The equipment above is designed to be played with the Exotic gear obtained by the Level 80 Boost, with some modifications to runes and sigils. To gear this build without the Level 80 Boost, use crafting or purchase items directly from the trading post.

    Build Fundamentals

    This build provides , , , , , and . These boons make this build great for both group and solo content.

    Catalyst is unique because of the mechanic Deploy Jade Sphere. The Spheres deal damage and give boons to allies. To build energy to cast the spheres, hit enemies with skills and auto-attacks. We also gain energy by swapping attunements thanks to Energized Elements. Your main source of generating energy quickly is by upkeeping Hammer 3 skills that hit often (Crescent Wind, Rocky Loop, Icy Coil, Flame Wheel and Hurricane of Pain). It is important to know what each sphere does because we can not gain energy while a sphere is active.

    All your Jade Spheres grant and on top of that:

    Since this is a condition damage variant, start in Fire Attunement and use Deploy Jade Sphere to give yourself and use all your Hammer skills. Swap to Earth Attunement and use Deploy Jade SphereGround Pound, Rocky Loop, and Whirling Stones before swapping to Water. While in Water Attunement, use Icy Coil and Rain of Blows before swapping back to Air Attunement. In Air we use Crescent Wind and Shock Blast. This is going to be our baseline rotation.

    Catalyst is also very strong defensively due to Deploy Jade Sphere giving you and . Additionally, using Crashing Font in water fields from Deploy Jade Sphere and Armor of Earth provides and . Furthermore, Glyph of Elementals will give you a minion to tank for you!

    Use Signet of Fire and Signet of Earth off cooldown for damage.

    Crowd Control

    Alternatives

    Arcane Shield instead of Armor of Earth.

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