catalyst-guide

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[How to Obtain: Exotic Catalysts.]
[You do not need to have the exotic equipped or even in your inventory in order to obtain the respective catalyst, you only need to have added the exotic to your collection at some point.]
[Once you unlock an exotic, you become eligible to obtain the catalyst.]

Kill any PvE enemy:

Borealis — +20 Reload Speed
Get 150 Arc kills, 150 Solar kills, and 150 Void kills using Borealis.

Crimson — +20 Range
Get 300 precision kills using Crimson.

D.A.R.C.I. — +20 Stability
Get 300 precision kills using D.A.R.C.I..

Fighting Lion +30 Reload Speed / Chimera (After this weapon fires, equipped Kinetic and Power weapons gain a brief period of increased handling and accuracy)
Get 1000 kills + 100 Bounties completed

Tractor Cannon — +70 Magazine / +50 Weapon Size / Deeper Pockets (Increased Ammo Reserves)
Get 300 kills using the Tractor Cannon.

Worldline Zero — Another Dimension (Reduces the activation time of Tesseract)
Hit each Level 7 EP boss (5 in total) with Worldline Zero (unshielded).
You will not get any progress for the catalyst if the boss is shielded.
You can only earn progress once per week by damaging the Level Seven boss, taking a total of five weeks for this catalyst to complete.
||If you miss a boss in the cycle, you'll have to wait 4 weeks for it to show up again.||

Sturm — +20 Range / +40 Handling
Get 500 kills using Sturm, and 500 kills using Drang.

[Worldline Zero requires you to actively use swords to kill enemies to get the catalyst.
Sturm requires you to get kills on Nessus to obtain the catalyst.]

Heroic Adventure completions:

The Huckleberry — Bull Rider (Kills with this weapon now reload the entire magazine)
Get 500 Kills using the Huckleberry.

Kill Nightfall / Strike bosses:

Coldheart — +20 Stability / +20 Reload Speed
Get 500 kills using the Coldheart.

Prometheus Lens — +20 Stability / +20 Handling
Get 300 kills using the Prometheus Lens.

Hard Light — +25 Stability
Get 1,000 kills using the Hard Light.

Riskrunner — +30 Range
Get 300 kills using the Riskrunner and 300 kills with the chain lightning perk.

Rat King — +20 Aim Assist / +20 Recoil Direction / Infestation (Refreshes health on Vermin invisibility trigger.)
Have your teammate with Rat King get 1,000 kills in PvE.

Merciless — +40 Range / +40 Stability
Get 500 kills using the Merciless.

The Prospector — +40 Blast Radius / +70 Weapon Size / Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)
Get 500 kills using The Prospector.

The Wardcliff Coil — Pinpoint Guidance Module (Improved tracking on projectiles)
Get 500 kills using The Wardcliff Coil.

Strike / Crucible Match Completions:
Graviton Lance — +20 Range / +15 Aim Assist / Hidden Hand (Better target acquisition)
Get 500 kills using the Graviton Lance and 1000 kills with the Cosmology perk.

Sunshot — +30 Range / +20 Stability
Get 500 kills using the Sunshot and 1000 kills with the Sun Blast perk.

Sweet Business — Serious Business (When this weapon is fully spun up, the flinch from incoming damage is greatly reduced)
Get 250 Multi-Kills using the Sweet Business.

[Minimum of four kills in a row for it to count progression.]

Crucible Kills or Match Victories:
Jade Rabbit — +30 Stability
Get 250 kills in the Crucible using Jade Rabbit.

Vigilance Wing — Full Auto Trigger System (Holding down the trigger will fire this weapon at full auto)
Get 250 kills in the Crucible using Vigilance Wing and earn five "Blood for Blood" (avenge a teammate) medals.

Suros Regime — +50 Recoil Direction SUROS Ascendance (Increased chance for kills to regen health)
Get 300 kills in Crucible using the Suros Regime.

The Colony — +10 Magazine / +30 Weapon Size / Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)
Get 500 kills using The Colony.
You don't need to get these kills in the Crucible.

Crucible Competitive Victories:
MIDA Multi-Tool — Outlaw (Precision kills greatly decrease reload time)
Get 200 precision kills in the Crucible using the MIDA Multi-Tool.
You must reach "Legend" rank in the Crucible Glory Playlist and win matches to obtain the catalyst.

Raids:
Skyburner's Oath — +30 Range
Get 1000 Cabal kills using the Skyburner's Oath.
This catalyst is obtained from Leviathan Raid encounter completions.

Legend of Acrius — +40 Reload Speed / +40 Magazine size / Deeper Pockets (Increased Ammo Reserves)
Get 500 kills using the Legend of Acrius.
This catalyst is obtained from Prestige Leviathan Raid encounter completions.

Telesto — +60 Magazine / +40 Weapon Size / Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)
Complete all of the Infinite Forge weapons and purchase the exotic item from Brother Vance. Take it to the forge to finish the catalyst.
This catalyst is obtained from Prestige Eater of Worlds encounter completions.

Sleeper Simulant — Accelerated Coils (Speeds up weapon charge) / Deeper Pockets (Increased Ammo Reserves)
Get 1,000 IKELOS_SR_V1.0.1 kills, 1,000 IKELOS_SG_V1.0.1 kills and 2,000 IKELOS_SMG_V1.0.1 kills
You only need them equipped while you get kills.
Unlock the Oracle chest in "The Whisper (Heroic)" and obtain the IO-JYS Data.
Get 500 kills using the Sleeper Simulant.
This catalyst is obtained from Prestige Spire of Stars encounter completions.

Nascent Dawn Quest Reward:
Polaris Lance — Dragonfly (Precision kills create an elemental damage explosion)
Get 500 kills with the Polaris Lance and 50 kills with the Perfect Shot perk.
This catalyst is obtained from completing the Nascent Dawn Quest Part 5/5.

The Whisper (Heroic) Quest Reward:
Whisper of the Worm — +30 Reload Speed / Whispered Breathing (Aiming this weapon without firing for a brief moment grants bonus range and precision damage while it remains zoomed)
Obtain "Blighted Essence" from The Whsiper (Heroic) completions and the chests found in the quest.
You can only earn progress once per week by clearing the heroic, taking a total of five weeks for this catalyst to complete.
||You can get the chests in the Heroic version each week to get bonus progression for the catalyst, allowing you to complete it in three weeks.||

Zero Hour (Heroic) Quest Reward:
Outbreak Perfected — Disease Vector (Increases nanite damage. Enemies that die with nanites attached to them generate additional nanites.)
Obtain SIVA particulates from Zero Hour (Heroic) completions and get 500 precision kills using the Outbreak Perfected
You can only earn progress once per week by clearing the heroic, taking a total of five weeks for this catalyst to complete.
||You can get the weekly elemental configurations (Void, Arc, or Solar) in the Heroic version each week to get bonus progression for the catalyst, allowing you to complete it in three weeks.||

The Menagerie (Heroic):
Izanagi's Burden — Peerless Edge (Increases the damage of Honed Edge by an additional 20% when four bullets are consumed)
Get 500 kills using the Izanagi's Burden.
||I highly recommend doing these kills at the Izanami Forge on Nessus as it is also a triumph.||
This catalyst is a guaranteed drop from completing a heroic run of The Menagerie with a perfected chalice.

The Tribute Hall:
Bad Juju — Unending Curse (Extends the duration of String of Curses to 5 seconds)
Get 700 kills with the Bad Juju.
This catalyst is able to be purchased from the Visage of Calus after getting 45 tributes.

[The following catalyst information is based on datamined info and is subject to change or may be incorrect.]

Unreleased Catalysts: Note: Catalyst information is subject to change.

|| Cerberus+1 — +20 Stability / +30 Reload Speed
Malfeasance — +20 Range / Big Boom (Defeating an enemy with Explosive Shadow causes a final explosion)
Ace of Spades — Funeral Pyre (Firefly deals more damage while Memento Mori is active)
The Chaperone — The Survivor (Three rapid precision kills while The Roadborn is active will return two rounds to the chamber)
The Last Word — High Noon (Readying this weapon grants a brief period of bonus precision damage)
Trinity Ghoul — +30 Charge Time
Lord of Wolves — +40 Magazine
Wavesplitter — +10 Range / +30 Weapon Size
One Thousand Voices — +30 Stability / +20 Weapon Size
Two-Tailed Fox — +30 Reload / +10 Weapon Size
Black Talon — +40 Magazine / Vorpal Weapon (Increased damage against bosses, vehicles, and Guardians with their Super active)
The Queenbreaker — +20 Range / +20 Aim Assistance
Thunderlord — Hailstorm (Kills increase this weapon's damage and begin to steadily reload the magazine from reserves until you stop firing)||