Power Catalyst

November 2022

Power Catalyst is an extremely strong and fast-paced Power DPS build, that will also passively provide your group with boons.
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 activate Hammer 3.This will not only activate our spinning orbs for huge damage but also give us passive buffs. Be careful to not release your orbs prematurely as this will lose you both of their very valuable components just mentioned.
Use Grand Finale with all the orbs at the end of your rotation or right before an enemy phases.

Precasting hammer 3s gives a slight damage increase but even more importantly ensures you will not accidentally release your hammers before you want to. While you have a lot of leeway for the precast it is completely fine to skip this step, just make sure to either be very careful to press your hammer 3 only once or to use it during the cast time of another skill.

In order to place 4 spheres in one loop use Deploy Jade Sphere + Deploy Jade Sphere and Deploy Jade Sphere + Deploy Jade Sphere right after one another. This is because you will be locked out of gaining energy while a sphere is on the ground.
Wait to use Deploy Jade Sphere until you have full 30 energy; wait to use Deploy Jade Sphere until you have at least 20 energy.

Using the F5 in Fire and Water allows you to activate Relentless Fire and Shattering Ice in their respective sphere to extend the duration of their buffs.
If you ever find yourself low on energy for any reason prioritize those two spheres as pressing F5 in Air and Earth will only give a bit of ticking damage and minor boons.

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. Be careful to not tank a raidboss by accident with your newly acquired 1200 toughness.
Most of the stacks will come through Elemental Epitome and Vicious Empowerment.

Empowering Auras will give up to 15% increased damage. To upkeep this buff we give ourselves auras from Elemental Epitome andSunspot. This will happen naturally during your rotation.

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