What is up with 'Fingerprint of the gods'?!

This ability needs to be adjusted. It's bad enough there are so many of these, farming the ones you want at this proc rate just isn't hacking it.

Unequip Ghost Print and your proc rate for skills goes back to pre-patch levels....I think.

yeah, the equip before quest is done seems buggy. Try to unequip the abilithy, change job and back, and reequip. Worked better for me after that (not much though, procs about 33% now)

There are also sweet spots for each catalyst.

I had it proc twice in about an hour of fishing, second time on my last attempt....
Oh and a few fishers I know have done some testing and it does seem only to proc on schools of fish not random spots.

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Originally Posted by Medura

yeah, the equip before quest is done seems buggy. Try to unequip the abilithy, change job and back, and reequip. Worked better for me after that (not much though, procs about 33% now)

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Yea I think logging out with it unequipped then logging back in and equipping it really increases the proc rate. It is goin off a lot for me here at Dragonhead mining now.

The proc rate is fine—considering they took away gathering fatigue.

There's a chart in the patch notes that might be useful for some folks who are confused about the materia catalyst locations, it was mentioned above but I'll repost it here for folks who don't memorize every patch note :-)
Catalyst--------------Gathering-Point--Location-
Carbonized-Matter-----Mining----------Horizon's-Edge-
Petrified-Matter------Mining----------Nophica's-Wells-
Fossilized-Matter-----Mining----------Dragonhead-
Crystallized-Matter---Mining----------Treespeak-
Germinated-Matter-----Logging---------Tranquil-Paths-
Decayed-Matter--------Logging---------Humblehearth-
Decomposed-Matter-----Logging---------Iron-Lake-
Liquefied-Matter------Logging---------Halatali-
Calcified-Matter------Fishing---------Bloodshore-
Cultured-Matter-------Fishing---------Cedarwood-
Ossified-Matter-------Fishing---------Bald-Knoll-
Cretified-Matter------Fishing---------Nine-Ivies-

If you're not gathering in those spots, fingerprints should have a zero percent proc chance ^^

Sorry the chart's ugly, I seem to be having trouble with formatting, but a nicer copy is in the patch notes.

Agreed the proc is ridiculous, to be honest SE would be better of having catalyst drop randomly like Dark matter (assuming the skill is equipped)

I haven't had much difficulty with Catalysts as 50 Botanist. The proc of the ability was about every 2-3 trees and in obtaining the Catalysts I had 100% success. I would guess that your level is the significant factor in deciding how often the ability kicks in, they don't want rank 40 gatherers obtaining super rare items with regularity.