Catalysts

[Medura]

Sooo, how to make fingerprints of gods to work more often? it has about a 10% rate on me atm, its annoying, really. Also, when it finally goes off, no catalyst ever drops, only crappy alumen i throw away anyways. Yeah, im trying for the carbonized one, cause ALL materia uses it :/ the ONE i got from quest earlier is calc and does nada.

[TheVedis]

worked better for you then me then

i went 25k exp on my fisher at nine ives, and nothing

[Medura]

Found out now: to get catalyst you MUST set your eyes on right spot. Meaning 10% for it to trigger, then 10% for vright spot, meaning 1% chance per node to get one catalyst. if 1 node = 5 minutes, means we get 1 catalyst per 500 minutes. Who made this???? I already got 8 materia and 0 catalysts

[Blarp]

Found out now: to get catalyst you MUST set your eyes on right spot. Meaning 10% for it to trigger, then 10% for vright spot, meaning 1% chance per node to get one catalyst. if 1 node = 5 minutes, means we get 1 catalyst per 500 minutes. Who made this???? I already got 8 materia and 0 catalysts

I have a tinfoil hat theory on the whole materia system. The system itself sounds like something I'd see in a F2P game. Before you go apeshit, I don't want this game to go F2P. I'm not even suggesting that it will, but the materia system is the perfect type of system for cash shop games. They could put a lot of it in a cash shop i.e. catalysts, scrolls to increase the rate of spiritbind, items of varying cost to increase the success rate of socketing more than one matiera, etc.

[Dallie]

I have a tinfoil hat theory on the whole materia system. The system itself sounds like something I'd see in a F2P game. Before you go apeshit, I don't want this game to go F2P. I'm not even suggesting that it will, but the materia system is the perfect type of system for cash shop games. They could put a lot of it in a cash shop i.e. catalysts, scrolls to increase the rate of spiritbind, items of varying cost to increase the success rate of socketing more than one matiera, etc.

Not to discount your theory, but there's already an item in-game that increases spiritbond rate, Patriot's XXXX (forget full name), obtainable from GCs. It would seem likely more items such as this will continue to make their way into our grubby paws, although I don't see XIV going F2P (even though you said you weren't saying it would). They'd shut down the servers before that happened, as the population's still not high enough to really warrant even a F2P business model long-term.

[Cycloptichorn]

Patriot's Choker

It's only available from GC until Oct. 11, so get it now...

[Dallie]

Patriot's Choker

It's only available from GC until Oct. 11, so get it now...

If only you could collect several of them, but then I guess we'd look something like this:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...QEwAw&dur=1723

[Picoman]

Yea, its pretty rough atm, ; ;

But by the time ppl have materia there should be enough time to gather up a few.

[Cycloptichorn]

Really?

I got a lot of catalysts on my first gathering run... maybe half a stack.

[Medura]

carbonized matter 1-30, Piety Materia I level 1~ Body, Cotton Halfgloves (convertible, not dated)
nothing in view materia list