Power Catalyst

October 2024

Introduction

Power Catalyst is a slow-ramping, fast-paced Power DPS build that passively provides your group with boons, with decent self-sustain.

Build Fundamentals

Activate Hammer 3 as soon as you enter each Attunement to activate each element’s spinning orb: This provides you with their buffs and deals damage around you.

The Attunement Rotation Loop is: .

Use with and with to extend the duration of these utilities and deal more damage.

Only release Hammer 3 Orbs with Grand Finale once all four of them are active.

Build Specifics

Catalyst gains energy by hitting enemies, so make sure that Hammer 3 orbs hit one or more targets to ensure that you have enough energy for your Deploy Jade Spheres.

The rotation deploys a Jade Sphere once per element. To make sure you have enough energy to do this, use , , and as soon as you Attune to their respective elements. Only use when energy is full, to make sure you have enough energy to use to restart your next loop.

When in , Auto-Attack 10 times minimum while waiting for Energy to fully recharge before using . This will maximize the damage from the strong Auto-attack chains while preventing cooldown problems.

If you weren’t able to hit any targets for a while, you may not have enough energy for both and . In this case, skip and only use so that you don’t miss out on the extension of .

To maximize DPS, maintain 10 stacks of by CC’ing and immobilizing enemies or granting yourself auras. doubles these stacks to increase your damage even further. Always wait for and before continuing your rotation. However, do not wait for any other skill, even if it will come off-cooldown within 2 seconds.

heals you for each target struck. Using this to leap into the Water Field from provides a high burst of self-healing.

Use if you need a block.

To upkeep comfortably use in Earth to summon an Elemental that regularly immobilizes enemies with its Stomp active ability, giving you stacks of via .

Ensure that your tank has above 1200 toughness, or you may accidentally become the tank due to stacks.

Crowd Control

Alternatives

Utility Skills

• You can swap out in Earth for its Air Elemental counterpart if your squad is lacking CC.
• or are viable options for short phases and burst windows.