Beginner Power Catalyst

Jade Spheres are the unique profession mechanic of Catalyst. They are instant-cast skills that deal damage, put down a Combo Field, and give a boon based on your Attunement. The Jade Sphere in each Attunement is its own individual skill, so they each have a separate Cooldown.

It costs 10 Energy to cast a Jade Sphere. Energy is gained by landing hits, but you cannot gain Energy while a Jade Sphere is deployed. Using Jade Spheres in quick succession means that they are deployed all at once but only for a brief duration, allowing you to promptly start gaining Energy again.

Managing Energy in the rotation is relatively simple; you will swap quickly from to to , using the Jade Spheres in each Attunement as soon as you swap over. This will consume all 30 Energy, then give you plenty of time to regain Energy to repeat the loop.

The basic loop is as follows:

1. Auto Attack until 30 Energy

2. Auto Attack until is off Cooldown

2. Auto Attack until is off Cooldown

In this step, we will add some weapon skills to the loop to give it a rhythm that more closely resembles the full build.

Notably, hits multiple times to help gain Energy faster.

From now on, the second time you cast determines when you swap to .

Updated loop:

2. Auto Attack until 30 Energy

2. Auto Attack until is off Cooldown

3. Auto Attack

We will now add the rest of the weapon skills to the rotation.

Note the timing of ; it is cast at a particular point in the rotation to proc Relic of Fireworks.

Likewise, is cast to maintain stacks via .

Updated loop:

2. Auto Attack Chain
5. Auto Attack Chain x2
6. when at full energy during Auto Attack Chain

3. *

6. Auto Attack Chain until comes off Cooldown

* will not always be available at step 3. Use it after if it comes off Cooldown during the cast.

More about Auto Attack Chains:

• The third hit of each Auto Attack Chain, especially in , deals a lot of damage, so it's important to avoid interrupting Auto Attack Chains with weapon skills.
• Grouping Auto Attack Chains together and weapon skills together will allow you to seamlessly queue your weapon skills, contributing to a cleaner rotation. All skills in the rotation can be queued if done in the correct order as written.
• If you start an Auto Attack Chain and swap to a different Attunement, your previous Attunement's Auto Attack Chain will still continue until it's finished or interrupted. If you want to change your Auto Attacks to your new Attunement, press Skill 1 and it will swap over.

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Next, add the other utility and elite skills to the rotation.

Use off Cooldown in either or , without delaying any of your weapon skills.

Use twice in if available. has multiple charges and no cast time, so cast it during other skills.

will reset the Cooldown of all your weapon skills in the current attunement. If available, cast in when all your weapon skills are on Cooldown, allowing you to cast them again. The next step will provide more guidance.

Now, clean up the use of . When is off Cooldown, should look like this:

This prioritizes the longer Cooldown skills, ensuring that they will be off Cooldown for the next loop.

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This is essentially the full Power Catalyst rotation. Further small improvements can still be made to increase Damage.

Maintaining the same skill order without interrupting your Auto Attack chains to use skills will result in a Damage increase.

You should also be trying to maintain and stacks while in between phases of a boss. This can be done by constantly putting down your own Combo Fields and performing finishers on them to generate auras thanks to . The full list of effects can be found here.