Catalysts and how to get them?

[Skies]

They come from normal gathering nodes like any other gathering material.
Heavens, your L15(?) gatherer class quest will ask that you gather 99 carbonized matters. It's not at all a big deal, it's even going to show up in your gathering log once you're in the level range.

[Roelion]

Thanks I figured it was the easy.... Reading up on it got me mixed up about how things were run in the old 1.0 so I kept going back and forth to kokosamu...