Hammer Catalyst
Hammer Catalyst is a high damage duelist; its DPS on top of boon support from Depth of Elements
Build Fundamentals
Unlike typical Elementalist builds, hammer has a high focus on mitigating incoming damage rather than resustaining through it. Your best defensive skills are Fortified Earth
Conjure Earth Shield
Immutable Stone
Shocking Aura
Magnetic Aura
Catalyst also has a stricter attunement rotation than typical Elementalist builds, the majority of the time you will follow the pattern: Earth Attunement
Air Attunement
Fire Attunement
Water Attunement
Earth Attunement
Shocking Aura
Magnetic Aura
Fire Attunement
Deploy Jade Sphere
Deploy Jade Sphere makes catalyst tick, your success will vary widely based upon how much energy you have and are generating. You won’t be getting auras, Stability
Conjure Earth Shield
Conjure Earth Shield
Damage
The more damage you mitigate and the less you have to focus expending energy you worked so hard to generate on defensive jade spheres (Deploy Jade Sphere
Deploy Jade Sphere
Deploy Jade Sphere
Deploy Jade Sphere
Most of hammer’s damage output will come from the Fire Attunement
Fire Attunement
Hurricane of Pain
Cleansing Typhoon
Conjure Earth Shield
Resetting your Fire Attunement
Elemental Celerity
Surging Flames
Triple Sear
Molten End
Sustain
Like normal elementalist builds, water fields and your Evasive Arcana
Cleansing Wave
Deploy Jade Sphere
Crashing Font
Evasive Arcana
Shock Wave
Ground Pound
Shock Blast
Molten End
As mentioned earlier, hammer catalyst focuses on mitigating incoming damage rather than just resustaining through it with water combos and the more you do it will boost your offensive capabilities.
Fortified Earth
Fortified Earth
Deploy Jade Sphere
Deploy Jade Sphere
Resistance
Spectacular Sphere
Protection
Evasive Arcana
Shock Wave
fromMagnetic Aura
which in turn will applyElemental Epitome
fromStability
and additionally removes a condition because ofStaunch Auras
.Smothering Auras
- Area
on enemies around you from blast finishing the poison field.Weakness
This is your easiest and best way of generating Magnetic Aura
Evasive Arcana
Shock Wave
The 3 main ways you generate Shocking Aura
Ground Pound
Earth Attunement
Air Attunement
Shock Blast
Air Attunement
Air Attunement
Immutable Stone
Anytime you get an aura you’ll cleanse a condition thanks to Smothering Auras
Cleansing Typhoon
Conjure Earth Shield
Fortify
Other Tips and Tricks
Comboing in Air Attunement
Shocking Aura
Fire Attunement
Deploy Jade Sphere is instant cast, this means you can use it while doing anything else and even when stunnned!
You can swap attunements mid cast of your skills, and it is integral to getting proper value from some of your skills.
Elemental Celerity
- As mentioned earlier, resetting your
skills is great at helping you get a kill, but when chasing down enemies with your teammates, it can often be better to set them up for success by resettingFire Attunement
skills to chain crowd control withAir Attunement
andWind Storm
.Shock Blast
- Resetting your
skills withWater Attunement
can be a great source of healing and burst cleanse.Elemental Celerity
- Resetting your
skills is a great way of sustaining and is often better to do so proactively to mitigate damage inEarth Attunement
than reactively resustain inEarth Attunement
. It will also help you maintainWater Attunement
andShocking Aura
uptime.Magnetic Aura
You don’t get nearly as countered by Chilled
Weakness
Immobilize
Spectacular Sphere
Deploy Jade Sphere
Resistance
Resistance
Crashing Font
Blinded
Aegis
Signet of Air
Swapping your Rune of Divinity
Rune of Speed