The music and the gameplay is absolutely Kino! Keep it up buddy. If you see me out in the field, please don't kill me... or do. I am kind of a masochist.
dude im playing this in slowmotion just to figure out wtf is happening and i can't seem to do it .... 3:29 is he using dagger air 4 skill and redirecting himself mid-cast? how the hell? He can't use utility skills and he doesnt even seem to repress the 4 skill...
@@NeoUzzy ya its pretty useful in 1v1s if you use it like at 3:29, hard to hit and it won't bring you further away so it basically turns into an evade at that point
Man this right here is close to my bread-and-butter. Why do you run Sigil of Agility over Celerity? IME Agility tends to give Quickness at weird times, whereas Celerity gives it immediately after (e.g.) Earth4. I tend to be in Air/Earth (as I go Fire->Earth for 3 for early stab->Air) which lets me Earth5 a quake with the celerity. If they stunbreak to escape the quake, I just cancel out of earth into air2 interrupt+closer -> air3 lift -> fire -> air5 knockdown -> fire 2 stunlock fast animation, all while quickness is still up! As for talents -- water first column damage on vulnerability is interesting. I typically grab Stop, Drop, & Roll if you don't take Primordial Stance, just because Antitoxin will kick off a 2nd cleanse on ANY condi if you had one of those two. I am a BIG fan of using Armor of Earth as my stun break in this build instead of Mist Form, as it lets me maintain aggression. Both it and Mist Form are cantrips. Why do you prefer Mist Form - mainly for retreating? Similar Q -- why tornado?
Sigil of agility over celerity: I run this for the cleanse, with antitoxin it will cleanse for two conditions on attune, the extra 1-2s of quickness depending on boon duration is just nice to have for quick flame uprising and air 3 bursts. Celerity is undoubtedly good so I'd never say it's a bad choice but for this build you just get a little more bang for your buck/overall survivability by cleansing a bunch more conditions over time with agility. I also try to optimize my build for generalities and not specifics, if putting it in those terms even makes sense, so I'd always rather have greater uptime of something with lower duration rather than lower uptime with significantly higher duration. I like having everything accessible at a whim. That quickness CC combo sounds hilarious though lmao! Nice. My playstyle is just too conservative though I think. I usually reserve air 2 mostly to change direction/break targeting and if it stuns them it's a bonus, though I know I unconsciously use it for the stun at other times too The stop drop & roll trait proccing antitoxin is nice but I really already have so much cleanse accessible at any time, simply attuning to air twice via fresh air is an easy 4 cleanses or even 6 if you proc agility sigil while doing it. I rather the damage since this build tends to lack stopping power without CC (so I see why you prefer celerity) Mistform I use for stomps because I tend to get myself in 1v3 situations and trying to stomp a player is either futile or suicidal without mistform. Armour of earth instead of mistform I can definitely agree is a good choice for the reason you outlined - lets you maintain pressure, but considering that I almost never pop mistform in a fight anyway and it's often the very last thing I use just to stomp (or a panic button if I'm caught off-guard early on in the fight so that I can optimize cds and get usage out of it/note that I'd switch to conserving lightning flash to use as a psuedo-stunbreak in this event) I don't really have a use for armour of earth. I find that if I'm going to die on this build, protection won't save me, I'm just going down, most of the sustain just comes from evades and letting water attunes/heal signet regen health Tornado for a double cleanse + low cooldown elite that can be used as a mobility skill. Obviously it's a cc so I get some use out of that. But really I just would rather have a mobility skill that flips people over (that's a nice bonus) that gives me boons on a short cooldown as an elite rather than weaver buffs or extremely long cd core ele elites. Tornado form can't be CC'd so it's useful for situations where I can tank some health but know I'm about to get clobbered CC-wise as well. Can't go wrong with it. Wouldn't fault anyone at all for taking weaver elite instead but for this build I prefer tornado
hi sole ty for video. how do u stick to enemy with weaver? i am struggling to stick and mostly kite by high mobility classes. and i feel like they evade all my attacks since sword has highly telegraphed attacks with 130 range mostly. struggling too much with sword.
It's just practice man. You get better by being bad for long enough that you become good x) On this build you shouldn't get kited very much, as you have fresh air access into air attunement and sword 2 is your best gap closer, being that it's on a short cooldown and easy to access. If most of your attacks are being evaded easily, then you need to be less predictable. Notice how in most of this video I really do just "stick" to the enemy and constantly am in range of them. I don't really have any way to help you do that part, but that's what you need to be doing on this build imo. It also tends to intimidate them and make them panic
No worries on the exact gearing, as long as the stats are approximate it'll work. You can play around with the build template website using gear that you know you have/is more easily obtainable until the stats are similar
Dude I have trouble dealing with projectiles … the earth shield 🛡 is cool but I find the magnetic shield isn’t enough for me . Any tips on how I should engage ?
Sometimes you just need a different build - Catalyst performs well vs soulbeast if thats the opponent, otherwise, CC/dodge/air5/water2/earth2 until youre able to put pressure on them and hope that you can put out enough to stop them from bursting. Really if earth shield isn't enough and you're playing at your best, then you just need catalyst, EoD and anet-favoured specs such as necro-anything, rev-anything, ranger-anything are overpowered
@@SolemnGW2 your right , wasn’t using my earth 2 enough plus dodging . I think my biggest problem is knowing when to disengage. I’ve got about 150 hrs into ele so I doubt I perform as well as you do but I’m getting better !
Celestial just gives so much bang for it's buck. I use celestial to reach thresholds for healing power, toughness, even boon dur/condi to some degree, the rest can be glassy without any need for sustain stats. Diviners and crusaders would be a good idea to mix in if I was avoiding cele entirely, but right now that wouldn't make as much sense as cele just gives you so much more
Its only sometimes I find a skilled Harbinger/Necro player either in PvP or WvW that absolutely shreds me when I play Catalyst. Could be skill diff honestly. Or could it be the boon rip that they have which gives Ele/Catalyst a hard time?
Corrupting stability into fear is hella annoying when playing cata vs a good harbinger. It's still possible to win but good harbingers are definitely as intimidating as they are rare xd
@@SolemnGW2 So would you say Catalyst can put up a good fight against most specs? How would you also fight against a Specter because their constant poison application is just so bothersome and I just end up losing. Finally... Catalyst roaming video when??
@@j.renriquez9464 Specter I don't have much experience fighting, at least not good ones, I almost want to say hammer fire arcane catalyst would be a good choice but they'll kite it so easily, D/D fire/air might be better. I can't really give a for-sure answer having little experience with that situation myself, but Catalyst would definitely put up a good fight as long as you're using antitoxin rune. And, my guy! I've been uploading lots of catalyst videos lately go check the recent uploads : D
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Just in time for my birthday, my favorite gw2 youtuber uploads a video for my favorite build!
Thx dude!
Yw :)) HBD!
Always love a nice off-meta builds, thanks for the build!
The music and the gameplay is absolutely Kino! Keep it up buddy. If you see me out in the field, please don't kill me... or do. I am kind of a masochist.
Probably we will jump happily at each other and then I will suddenly decide you must die. That's usually how it goes!~ Cheers o7
at 0:49 you move like you have action camera on without it being on.. how?
I switched it on quickly : p
@@SolemnGW2 I am very blind, I didn't see the dot in the center
@@dorky5256 xD
Uhhhh interesting, very good video and I loved your plays! ❤️🔥😍
dude im playing this in slowmotion just to figure out wtf is happening and i can't seem to do it .... 3:29
is he using dagger air 4 skill and redirecting himself mid-cast? how the hell? He can't use utility skills and he doesnt even seem to repress the 4 skill...
XD yeah you can redirect that skill if you enable retargeting in the settings
@@SolemnGW2 what in the absolute fuck?!
Im so turning this on...
@@NeoUzzy ya its pretty useful in 1v1s if you use it like at 3:29, hard to hit and it won't bring you further away so it basically turns into an evade at that point
Man this right here is close to my bread-and-butter. Why do you run Sigil of Agility over Celerity? IME Agility tends to give Quickness at weird times, whereas Celerity gives it immediately after (e.g.) Earth4. I tend to be in Air/Earth (as I go Fire->Earth for 3 for early stab->Air) which lets me Earth5 a quake with the celerity.
If they stunbreak to escape the quake, I just cancel out of earth into air2 interrupt+closer -> air3 lift -> fire -> air5 knockdown -> fire 2 stunlock fast animation, all while quickness is still up!
As for talents -- water first column damage on vulnerability is interesting. I typically grab Stop, Drop, & Roll if you don't take Primordial Stance, just because Antitoxin will kick off a 2nd cleanse on ANY condi if you had one of those two.
I am a BIG fan of using Armor of Earth as my stun break in this build instead of Mist Form, as it lets me maintain aggression. Both it and Mist Form are cantrips. Why do you prefer Mist Form - mainly for retreating?
Similar Q -- why tornado?
Sigil of agility over celerity: I run this for the cleanse, with antitoxin it will cleanse for two conditions on attune, the extra 1-2s of quickness depending on boon duration is just nice to have for quick flame uprising and air 3 bursts. Celerity is undoubtedly good so I'd never say it's a bad choice but for this build you just get a little more bang for your buck/overall survivability by cleansing a bunch more conditions over time with agility. I also try to optimize my build for generalities and not specifics, if putting it in those terms even makes sense, so I'd always rather have greater uptime of something with lower duration rather than lower uptime with significantly higher duration. I like having everything accessible at a whim. That quickness CC combo sounds hilarious though lmao! Nice. My playstyle is just too conservative though I think. I usually reserve air 2 mostly to change direction/break targeting and if it stuns them it's a bonus, though I know I unconsciously use it for the stun at other times too
The stop drop & roll trait proccing antitoxin is nice but I really already have so much cleanse accessible at any time, simply attuning to air twice via fresh air is an easy 4 cleanses or even 6 if you proc agility sigil while doing it. I rather the damage since this build tends to lack stopping power without CC (so I see why you prefer celerity)
Mistform I use for stomps because I tend to get myself in 1v3 situations and trying to stomp a player is either futile or suicidal without mistform. Armour of earth instead of mistform I can definitely agree is a good choice for the reason you outlined - lets you maintain pressure, but considering that I almost never pop mistform in a fight anyway and it's often the very last thing I use just to stomp (or a panic button if I'm caught off-guard early on in the fight so that I can optimize cds and get usage out of it/note that I'd switch to conserving lightning flash to use as a psuedo-stunbreak in this event) I don't really have a use for armour of earth. I find that if I'm going to die on this build, protection won't save me, I'm just going down, most of the sustain just comes from evades and letting water attunes/heal signet regen health
Tornado for a double cleanse + low cooldown elite that can be used as a mobility skill. Obviously it's a cc so I get some use out of that. But really I just would rather have a mobility skill that flips people over (that's a nice bonus) that gives me boons on a short cooldown as an elite rather than weaver buffs or extremely long cd core ele elites. Tornado form can't be CC'd so it's useful for situations where I can tank some health but know I'm about to get clobbered CC-wise as well. Can't go wrong with it. Wouldn't fault anyone at all for taking weaver elite instead but for this build I prefer tornado
I'm a sucker for move speed and utility. I gotta try this out. Gotta see what your rough stat breakpoints are. I have all cele right now
For me you one of the best ele player, love your ele vids 🙂
damn good job men. ur always insane performing.
Solemn, this build still up?
water/air still worth its own salt/good for what it is; but generally works better as fire/air barrier dodge trait
I love ele in wvw. Cool build!
hi sole ty for video. how do u stick to enemy with weaver? i am struggling to stick and mostly kite by high mobility classes. and i feel like they evade all my attacks since sword has highly telegraphed attacks with 130 range mostly. struggling too much with sword.
It's just practice man. You get better by being bad for long enough that you become good x)
On this build you shouldn't get kited very much, as you have fresh air access into air attunement and sword 2 is your best gap closer, being that it's on a short cooldown and easy to access. If most of your attacks are being evaded easily, then you need to be less predictable. Notice how in most of this video I really do just "stick" to the enemy and constantly am in range of them. I don't really have any way to help you do that part, but that's what you need to be doing on this build imo. It also tends to intimidate them and make them panic
thats one nightmare of a mashup of different gear. Looks like a fun build though
No worries on the exact gearing, as long as the stats are approximate it'll work. You can play around with the build template website using gear that you know you have/is more easily obtainable until the stats are similar
2:10 XD
I want a turorial for the spinning at 1:58
lmfao
finger dexterity ive been a guitarist for 14 years xD
Dude I have trouble dealing with projectiles … the earth shield 🛡 is cool but I find the magnetic shield isn’t enough for me . Any tips on how I should engage ?
Sometimes you just need a different build - Catalyst performs well vs soulbeast if thats the opponent, otherwise, CC/dodge/air5/water2/earth2 until youre able to put pressure on them and hope that you can put out enough to stop them from bursting. Really if earth shield isn't enough and you're playing at your best, then you just need catalyst, EoD and anet-favoured specs such as necro-anything, rev-anything, ranger-anything are overpowered
@@SolemnGW2 your right , wasn’t using my earth 2 enough plus dodging . I think my biggest problem is knowing when to disengage. I’ve got about 150 hrs into ele so I doubt I perform as well as you do but I’m getting better !
@@jakoriboykin3061 just takes time : )
Question:
Why cele and not a mix of crusader and diviner (or sth in that direction)
Celestial just gives so much bang for it's buck. I use celestial to reach thresholds for healing power, toughness, even boon dur/condi to some degree, the rest can be glassy without any need for sustain stats. Diviners and crusaders would be a good idea to mix in if I was avoiding cele entirely, but right now that wouldn't make as much sense as cele just gives you so much more
nice nice
Its only sometimes I find a skilled Harbinger/Necro player either in PvP or WvW that absolutely shreds me when I play Catalyst. Could be skill diff honestly. Or could it be the boon rip that they have which gives Ele/Catalyst a hard time?
Corrupting stability into fear is hella annoying when playing cata vs a good harbinger. It's still possible to win but good harbingers are definitely as intimidating as they are rare xd
@@SolemnGW2 So would you say Catalyst can put up a good fight against most specs? How would you also fight against a Specter because their constant poison application is just so bothersome and I just end up losing.
Finally... Catalyst roaming video when??
@@j.renriquez9464 Specter I don't have much experience fighting, at least not good ones, I almost want to say hammer fire arcane catalyst would be a good choice but they'll kite it so easily, D/D fire/air might be better. I can't really give a for-sure answer having little experience with that situation myself, but Catalyst would definitely put up a good fight as long as you're using antitoxin rune.
And, my guy! I've been uploading lots of catalyst videos lately go check the recent uploads : D