Power CatalystMay 2022

Power Catalyst is an extremely strong and fast-paced Power DPS build, that will also passively provide your group with Might, Quickness, and Resolution. It comes at the price of being one of the hardest builds in the game with a lot of intricacies.

Build fundamentals

The first thing to do when enterting any attunement is use Hammer 3 and Deploy Jade Sphere (F5), but you will not have energy to use (F5) in Earth and you shouldn’t wait to use it as part of the standard rotation. If the target you’re engaging has a large enough hitbox and you can generate additional hits from the orbs from Hammer 3 by standing towards the center of the hitbox, it becomes possible to come up with rotations that would utilise Deploy Jade Sphere (F5) in every attunement due to how fast your energy can regenerate. These advanced rotations can increase the DPS of the build as well as provide Protection to your subgroup.

You should use Grand Finale with all the orbs at the end of a loop.

By using the F5 in Fire and Water it allows us to activate Relentless Fire and Shattering Ice in their respective (F5) Field to extend the duration of their buffs.

When returning to Air, always wait for Shock Blast before restarting the rotation. When returning to Fire, always wait for Molten End before continuing the rotation.

Always use at least 2 fire skills while relentless fire is active this would ideally be Triple Sear and Molten End. Always use at least 1 water skill while shattering ice is active. Ideally you would alternate Crashing Font and Rain of Blows or Cleansing Typhoon and Rain of Blows.

Elemental Empowerment is one of the strongest buffs Catalyst gives itself increasing all stats by 1% per stack up to a maximum of 10%. At maximum stacks this effect will double to 20% because of Empowered Empowerment. This will lead you to have 1200 toughness and a lot of extra damage. Most of the stacks will come through Elemental Epitome and Vicious Empowerment.

Crowd Control

• Wind Storm
• Shock Blast
• Ground Pound

Alternatives

Utility Skills

You can swap out Conjure Fiery Greatsword for Glyph of Elementals and spawn it in Air Attunement and use it, if your squad is lacking CC or Elemental Celerity if you aren’t able to use neither Conjure Fiery Greatsword or need the extra CC from Glyph of Elementals