Dev Discussion Development Update: Artifact Catalyst Consolidation

Sounds nice, but while you're at it, why not 5, 10, 15? The 7 just seems weird here.

Agree 5, 10 & 15 sounds better than having a weird 7 in there

Wait... if you increase the amount of catalysts we need to use for a breakthrough, and they each cost (7, 10 ,15)
It kinda makes it more expensive. Since End game players can only farm Atlantis\JLD as of now (And Metal I & II when they launch)
but we don't have enough content to earn enough Source Marks to buy the catalysts. Just my point of view on it though, Unless I misunderstood something.

Sounds sweet to me make it 5,10,15 That's a bit better but overall it's a great step in the right direction.

This part is confusing: '

you will be able to consume your Catalysts for 10 Source Marks'. Are you saying we're going to have to buy the catalysts we already have in order to convert them to the new catalysts?

Outstanding

Current Artifact breakthrough Source Marks costs are 20/30/60/90/120/150/180/210 (from Rank 20 to Rank 160).

What will be the new costs?

Episode specific marks will still convert into Source Marks. You should farm Titans Cred if you haven't already done so.

Yes but CR Relevancy makes it so I can't earn source marks from titans anymore for example (I know it will be converted)
because I'm higher CR. So this is my issue with this basically.

What about Catalyst Caches that people have that they store up and to use when they need them? What happens with those?

It's definitely better with regards to number of types. But it ends up more expensive... any advantage to doing this? Are you finding that we're leveling them up too fast?

I think the ideal plan would be to reduce to 1 catalyst at the current price & keep the numbers the same (but it would just be a total... for example, level 100 would be simply 12 catalysts instead of 5, 4, 3 different ones). This would basically be status quo without the user experience issues of opening different categories, then subcategories.

If they keep the same number of catalysts per breakthrough (in the same number of common, uncommon, and rare), it looks like it would be 14/24/56/88/120/152/184/216 for ranks 20-160. So you are still ahead by 6 source marks at rank 160.

If the common is reduced to 5 source marks and number of catalysts remains the same, it would be 10/20/50/80/110/140/170/200, which would be saving 10 marks every breakthrough.

I checked 6 marks for the common as well, and you still end up ahead on every breakthrough,. So I see why they choose 7 for the common.


Of course, they could change the number of catalysts needed at any breakthrough as well, and that would affect these numbers.

Love the idea, worried about the cost per breakthrough... if it increases it will make it even harder to have multiple characters.

I really hope there is a decrease in breakthrough cost, I'll be very disappointed if it increases.

I have several catalyst Caches, the unopened boxes. What will happen to them? Do I wait until after the update to open them and redeem them for source marks? Or do I have to open them all now, before the update and choose a catalyst and save them until after the update?

So Catalyst Caches are also being Removed. So IF we have a stockpile?

It really was out of hand with how many different catalysts we had at different levels. Good move to condense it, have been waiting for this.

Will there be a new version of catalyst caches?