What is a Catalyst?

[BigSexy]

Can somebody please explain what is a catalyst? I found some that would be nice ingredients like Elven Healroot, but it's only a catalyst. Some are both a catalyst and an ingredient. Which is nice.

thanks

[BigSexy]

Anybody? Please?

[Butcher]

It is a base for alchemist potions. Like a metal bar for artificier dude.

[BigSexy]

Originally posted by Butcher:

It is a base for alchemist potions. Like a metal bar for artificier dude.

So not useful for an Atifactor class? Not sure I seen how to make potions.

[BigSexy]

Help?

[VDmitry]

Not getting a question. There is a tab which shows all catalysts you have. They can be placed into catalyst slot if you want, meaning you don't need to use one, you don't even need to use all the slots. Items with both catalyst and ingridient can be placed in either slot.

[Ruinous]

A catalyst is an optional ingredient for alchemist potion crafting. It can be as simple as providing an extra pip or two in a specific category or add pips to any category already with some, the best can double the amount of potions produced. The only thing that matters for alchemy is filling the tiers to achieve the result you want.
An ingot is a required ingredient for the artificer, no ingot no crafting. Likewise souls for a necromancer.

[BigSexy]

Originally posted by Ruinous:

A catalyst is an optional ingredient for alchemist potion crafting. It can be as simple as providing an extra pip or two in a specific category or add pips to any category already with some, the best can double the amount of potions produced. The only thing that matters for alchemy is filling the tiers to achieve the result you want.
An ingot is a required ingredient for the artificer, no ingot no crafting. Likewise souls for a necromancer.

Ok, so I think that I'm understand that a catalyst is something that an Alchemist class uses which I have not played yet. Just started as Artificer. So to confirm as an Artificer I should just use catalysts as ingredients where applicable, since I don't think all catalysts are ingredients but some can be used from the backpack in battle.

thanks

[Ruinous]

Yeh, catalysts are of limited use for an Artificer.