GW2. WvW Build. Celestial Scepter Catalyst WvW Roaming Build. Elementalist WvW. Small Scale WvW Build.
Role: Bruiser 
Preferred Group Size: 1-5
The Celestial Scepter Catalyst is a WvW roaming elementalist build with constant ranged damage potential that can build up over time when allowed to freely cast, but its damage drops off when under pressure.
Because of the Written in Stone trait, your signets maintain their passives after activating them. The Relic of the Alliance will recharge the cooldown of all Signets when using a Signet, allowing frequent and liberal use of them. These each will also give an aura which will cleanse a condition and provide a stack of Elemental Empowerment for even more Celestial stat synergy. Use them often, but try to use them in a way that fits the situation and what they provide.
- Signet of Air – Shocking Aura, Stun Break, Blind
- Signet of Earth – Immobilize, use after Fire 2
- Signet of Water – Cleanse Conditions, Heal, Chill Enemies
- Signet of Restoration – Heal
With Fire attunement, you can keep using the 1 skill to burn your target without much ability to avoid it and by casting the Air Jade Sphere before this you can have Quickness for even faster application. However, this is a single condition that can easily be cleansed so you may want to use some of the following combos to pressure out cooldowns first while stacking up your Elemental Empowerment to ramp up your damage.
Basic Rotation
- Earth 2 > Signet of Water/Restoration
- Earth Jade Sphere > 3 > 2 > Swap Air
- Air 2 > 3 > 5 > Air Jade Sphere > Swap Fire
- Fire 2 > Signet of Earth > 3 > 11111
Heal Combo
- Water Jade Sphere + Water 5 > Swap Earth
- Earth 4 > Signet of Water > Signet of Restoration
Use Elemental Celerity in Fire attunement to repeat one of the burst combos, or use it in Earth to gain extra defenses.
| Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
|---|---|---|
| Helm Celestial | ||
| Shoulders Celestial | ||
| Coat Celestial | ||
| Gloves Celestial | ||
| Leggings Celestial | ||
| Boots Celestial |
| Scepter Celestial | ||
| Focus Celestial |
| Scepter / Focus | Heal / Utility / Elite |
Alternatives
- Utility: instead of Signet of Water
- Utility: instead of Signet of Water
Alternatives
- Earth: for more damage but less stability
- Catalyst: for more stability, but less overall stats
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18 Comments
What changes can I make to adapt this build in the Open World?
You can play the Celestial Fire variant with Elementalist runes and will do fine
Are you going to change something about power variant after all the nerfs especially 18th of July nerfs?
Nothing to change, the nerfs were necessary but is still the same build
Hello! I love your builds. Ty and please keep doing it!
Btw, i was thinking about use Adventurer rune instead balthazar rune (roaming). What do u think about it ?
I rather take Divinity, Catalyst gets more value of all stats. Balthazar is just good because burning is strong.
Marauder and rune of infiltration give you 106% crt chance which is overkill, few dragon pieces would increase crt dmg and cap crt chance at 100% better?
actually it should just be scholar runes
any tips for playing the scepter/focus version? and would you ever consider running additional sigils to get more use out of Written In Stone?
Hey is it worth to run the Relic of the Fractal??
You can yes, not the best but it will work until you can get the proper one
Why Sigil of Energy as an alternative? Ele’s can’t swap weapons in combat
All the “on swap” sigils activate when you swap attunement
maybe a weird question but, would runs that provide boon duration be any good over the runes like scholar? and if so which boon durations runes could i go for?
For this one you want balthazar not scholar. You don’t need boon duration on catalyst.
can play with spear??
For Spear I suggest this one: https://guildjen.com/power-air-tempest-roaming-build/
what would you recommend other than focus?