Acquiring Catalysts

Squirrelguy

So, as a free to play end game Summoner, I feel like the game ramps up according to skill level fairly well. Recently i got quite lucky pulling 5 star Iceman and 5 star Quake back to back. The problem is, I hardly have any Tier 3 class catalysts, and while I have abundant T4CC, I have to wait it out and slog through the weekly class catalyst quests. For such a low skill level quest (at my level at least, I remember when it was tough at the beginning) I plowed through easily with third string champions on auto-fight. The fact that I went through the two-path quest four times and didn't even receive one complete catalyst seems ridiculous for the amount of energy required that could have been spent in quests much more commensurate to my skill level. Not that I think these quests should have a complete overhaul, but I think they could be majorly improved with slight tweaks for say every 20 summoner levels requiring one less energy, or giving slightly better rewards as they become less necessary to end game players. I know there are one or two other ways but waiting to pay for them in the glory store seems much less fun and interactive, and the weekend get-a-tiny-amount-of-each-class quests seem like somehow even less value than their individually rewarding counterparts.

GroundedWisdom

It's a random drop from Chests. The higher the Tier, the more rare. You can rerun it even at 100% for a chance at one dropping.

Squirrelguy

I did rerun it twice and still with the guaranteed rewards did not over the four runs manage to make a complete catalyst. I did it one more time because apparently I would have to grind this quest for several weeks at this rate to make three complete catalysts, and this one run gave me a fully formed. While I'll definitely take what I can get, this still seems a bit ridiculous to have to play a 15 step path, 3x energy per step, quest five different times to make about a catalyst and a half, and then not even be able to access the quest for another week. I understand making catalysts hard to get and making the game fun, but I like the game to be a challenge, not just autofights for an hour then waiting a few hours to get enough energy to autofight again to get what are to my account simple resources. It also seems like a bit much to go through for a low chance at a fully formed dropping.

I get the point, and I love the game, but I figured this might be something that could be made a bit more fun in the future for more end game players.