Power Catalyst

August 2023

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: Fire Attunement Air Attunement Water Attunement Earth Attunement.

Use Relentless Fire with Deploy Jade Sphere and Shattering Ice with Deploy Jade Sphere 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 Deploy Jade Sphere, Deploy Jade Sphere, and Deploy Jade Sphere as soon as you Attune to their respective elements. Only use Deploy Jade Sphere when energy is full, to make sure you have enough energy to use Deploy Jade Sphere to restart your next loop.

When in Earth Attunement, Auto-Attack 10 times minimum while waiting for Energy to fully recharge before using Deploy Jade Sphere. This will maximize the damage from the strong Earth Attunement 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 Deploy Jade Sphere and Deploy Jade Sphere. In this case, skip Deploy Jade Sphere and only use Deploy Jade Sphere so that you don’t miss out on the extension of Shattering Ice.

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

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

Use Immutable Stone if you need a block.

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

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

Crowd Control

• Shock Blast
• Wind Storm

Alternatives

Utility Skills

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