Build:Catalyst - Boon Support Healer (2024)

This build was last updated on March 29, 2024.

Overview

This variant of Catalyst can provide Quickness, Fury, 25 stacks of Might, Protection, Resolution, Swiftness and Regeneration to their subgroup. It can also provide a small amount of Vigor and Resistance.

Pros

• Not Firebrand - Support Healer.
• Fast pickups via Geyser, Arcane Resurrection, and Signet of Water.
• More fun(?)

Cons

• Not Firebrand - Support Healer.
• Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) cannot be moved, so boons will suffer if the group is spread and/or the boss moves too often.
• Does not provide on-demand Stability or Aegis.
• Have to use Conjure Frost Bow. If you hate Conjures, this may not be the build for you.

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Weapon Variants

Staff is the only real option for players that don't own Secrets of the Obscure.

Skill Variants

Utility Skills

• Skills with high hit-rate are needed to generate energy quickly to sustain boons. The template uses Glyph of Storms and Conjure Frost Bow to generate hits for energy.
• Arcane Power may be a decent skill to buff your subgroup, however you may find it difficult to generate energy without Glyph of Storms. However, this is incredibly limited in use and probably isn't worth it most of the time.

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Specializations

• Arcane is taken mainly for Arcane Resurrection and Elemental Enchantment, the other traits on the line do not matter as much.
• For tanking, you can take Hardened Auras for some extra survivability. Your aura sustain is through Elemental Epitome.

Equipment

• If you are especially confident, a few Magi's pieces can be swapped in. You have a lot of breathing room on this build, anywhere from around 80% to 100% Boon Duration is quite playable. The boon duration is quite flexible due to Sphere Specialist.

Tanking

• If you swap in Minstrel's to tank, Boon Duration may be lacking, take however much you need to feel comfortable. For bosses with more movement, higher Boon Duration is recommended.
• If blocks are required, you can switch Signet of Water for Fortified Earth or Arcane Shield.

Food & Utility

Standard Healer Food works well.

• - standard ascended choice.
• - budget/standard non-ascended choice.
• - standard utility choice.
• - last resort/budget utility choice if you lack Boon Duration.

Usage

Boons

The majority of your boons come from Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) in various attunements.

• Fire - Might
• Water - Resolution and Vigor
• Air - Quickness and Fury
• Earth - Protection and Resistance

On your first rotation, you will want to use Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) in Fire, Air, and Earth. In the second rotation, use it in Fire, Air, and Water (you will still want to attune to Earth to trigger Protection from Elemental Attunement). By rotating sphere usage between Water and Earth, you can maintain relatively high uptimes on Protection and Resolution. As Protection is generally more useful, if you are struggling with uptime, use more Deploy Jade Sphere (Earth) in Earth.

You will lack Might slightly on your first rotation. This can be mitigated slightly by blasting Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire) with Arcane Brilliance. Might will be sufficient starting on your second rotation of Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire).

• Due to Elemental Enchantment the cooldown on Deploy Jade Sphere (Air) is actually 13 seconds in each attunement (without Alacrity), not 15s. With Alacrity, the cooldown is 10.5s.
• Don't forget supplemental Regeneration from Healing Rain and Swiftness from Windborne Speed

Energy Generation

Important: You cannot generate energy through hits while any sphere is active! 2 Energy can be generated per attunement swap through Energized Elements even if one is active, however.This means that to cast 3 instances of Deploy Jade Sphere (Air), we need to generate energy through hits quickly. This can be done using Frost Fan on the Conjure Frost Bow, Glyph of Storms, or other fast skills, such as Frost Volley, Lava Font, Flame Burst, etc.

Healing

As a Staff Elementalist build, you have a lot of healing through weapon skills in Water Attunement. Consistent healing comes from Water Blast and Water Arrow while you are using Frost Bow. Burst Healing comes through Geyser and blasting the water field from Healing Rain with Arcane Brilliance and Ice Spike.

Healing Utility is mainly Signet of Water. Don't hesitate to use this if needed, it has quite a short cooldown.

Your Elite Skill, Glyph of Elementals allows you to summon an Ice Elemental that can use Crashing Waves. This is another huge, short cooldown heal that can be used to burst your subgroup back up to full.

You can also dodge to trigger Evasive Arcana in Water Cleansing Wave

Spend time in Water Attunement when you are not using Deploy Jade Sphere (Fire) in other attunements for Soothing Mist uptime.

Rotation example