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Overview

Catalysts are equippable items in Silver Palace that grant characters damage or support buffs. Each character can hold up to three Catalysts at once, and players can freely select which Catalysts to equip based on their build strategy.

How Catalysts work

Catalysts activate their effects when the player spends Silverdrip segments or uses an Ambush attack during a character swap. When a Catalyst triggers, it provides its specific effect: elemental damage bursts, defensive shields, healing over time, stat buffs, or crowd control debuffs on enemies. Different Catalysts from the same character produce different outcomes, so the same character can fill different tactical roles depending on their Catalyst loadout.

Build strategy

The three Catalyst slots per character create meaningful build choices. A DPS character could equip three offensive Catalysts for maximum burst damage, or swap one for a defensive Catalyst to improve survivability. Support characters might stack healing and buff Catalysts, or mix in offensive options for hybrid builds.

Catalyst selection also interacts with elemental Resonance. Matching Catalyst elements across the team can amplify Resonance bonuses, giving players another reason to consider element alignment during team building.

Obtaining Catalysts

During the Monotype Beta, Catalysts were obtainable through gameplay rewards, story progression, and event participation. Whether Catalysts appear in the gacha system alongside characters and Motives has not been confirmed for the full release.

Comparison to other systems

The Catalyst system fills a similar role to relic or artifact sets in other action RPGs, providing an equipment layer that modifies and enhances a character's base abilities without changing their fundamental kit. The per-character customization through three freely selectable slots gives more flexibility than fixed set bonuses.