Is the Catch Rate suppose to be... this weak?

[VirusChris]

Sorry if this comes off as Nit-picky, but I'm currently at level 43 and I did use Custom Settings to set Catch Rate Multiplier by 2 (max) and yet... I'm getting like 1% catch chance on Pals lower than my levels?

To clarify I'm trying to do the Back Bonus and they ARE at full health. But, the times I DO lower their Health it's still between the 10% - 20% percent around the more Common or Uncommon ones and the Rare ones seem to be lower than that.

Heck, even below 1%! And it's annoying when they can parry the Spheres easily too. I got a Poison Bowgun to inflict status effect, but it appears it barely does anything.

I mostly USE the Blue Pal Spheres, but I have farmed the other Spheres a bit and can get a few Giga and Hyper Spheres to increase the rate, but using the Pal and Mega Spheres seems to not work as well.

And I have found those Green Glowing Statues to boost my Catch Power which is setting at Level 5.

Even then, with the Blue, Green, and Yellow Spheres against the rarer Pals and lower level than mine my Catch Rate is still pitiful.

I get not wanting to catch the strongest Pal from the get-go, but it feels... too much of a disadvantage? I haven't hit the max Catch Power yet, but even with Custom Settings I have to get lucky as I'm chugging even the more powerful Sphere which break and it sucks when my Hyper Sphere breaks and those are easy to make in bundles.

Is the Catch Rate might to be this poor or am I doing something wrong? When games like Coromon and Pokemon still give you better catch rate with weaker catching devices. Heck even Digimon World 2 wasn't this bad with rates.

I don't know. Trying to collect 10 of each Pal feels frustrating at times.

[Cyrus]

Use custom settings on your server, and set it to what you want. I recommend 5X for a first run

[VirusChris]

Isn't the max x2? I used Custom Settings.

And I took a screenshot of a Lv20 Cinnamoth I was fighting. I was level 44 and I used up ALL of my other Pal Spheres trying to catch other Pals which I did leaving me with only the Blue ones left.

I got it down to a silver of its Health (looked like 1 HP left) and the Catch Rate was 7%. I think with Catch Power Level it jumps up from the base Catch Rate, bit I hurled several of them until I got it.

I mean it wasn't bad. I need to get Catch Power Level to max to see the difference.

And I totally forgot to use Traps on them. I guess I'm using the old Legends Arceus mindset when it comes to catching them.

[Tutankhaumn]

Man a lot of folks in here are just being a holes for questions about the game. All I can say is you need better spheres and just luck if your dwindling them down as much as you can, I'm struggling myself with anything over lvl 20 (to catch) as I'm almost 43 so I either 1 shot the pals or run out of spheres

[Midnight]

You're not crazy OP, the catch rates are pretty low: Even with Legendary spheres, Level 7 (IE maxed catch rate) AND all but the smallest sliver of health (like sub 100 out of 8 to 12K HP), AND 2X catch rate in the settings, the level 45 and especially 50 pals are at around 15 to 25%...
TBH, the high tier spheres should add extra catch rate with each failure. Something like 2 or 3 to 5%

[VirusChris]

Yeah... finally got the ability to craft Legendary Spheres and it's going to be a while before I can farm the materials to make many of them, but the increase Catch Rate is still pretty low on the stronger Pals.

I finally found Jetragon on the field and the Catch Rate was like 7% and that was seeing what it was like at Full Health, but the other Spheres were like 0%, 0.45%, 0.75%, 2%, 4%... and I don't have the best weapons to deal with it and did so little damage and I didn't breed stronger Pals yet to tackle them so I skedaddle out of there.

Granted I learned via YouTube video the Catch Rate doesn't increase or lower if the Wild Pal is AWARE of you so the best part is to weaken it then run away until the Pal loses track of you to get a boost of Catch Rate and it's on longer on guard against you.

Though it feels time consuming doing that.

I'm not expecting Master Ball level of Catch Rate, though I do hope when I lower their Health it will be like OVER 50% cause I'm going to have to craft a lot of Legendary Spheres just to hope I don't miss or it breaks way too often.

Doesn't help if you're overlevel and don't want to OHKO the Wild Pals you want to catch,

I need one more Lifmunk Effigy to power my Catch Power to Level 8 next, but I'm not sure if the total amount of Lifmunk Effigy is every single on the World Map or more than enough because get to Level 10 is going to be tough with so many scattered around,

I've been making sure to stockpile 50 Mega and Giga Spheres before adventuring out and I've gotten 92 Pals caught so far.

[MR.POTATO]

By level 40 you should probably be using only the higher end of spheres if you wanna catch anything. Im at 28 and blue spheres are already becoming obsolete so ive moved up to the yellow ones ALSO MAKES USE TO USE THE PET ALTAR AND EXCHANGE LIFEMONK EFFIGES FOR CATCH RATE BONUS. I have a bonus of like 15-20% so it will say I have a 10% chance of catching but it boosts up to 35% when I first hit it with the sphere because of my +15% base bonus

Boss variants of Pals have lower catch rate by default. Im level 28 the penking boss which is like at least 10 levels under me with yellow spheres is still only like 10-15% when I drop it to 100 hp. This would explain why you said the mammoth was hard to catch despite it being lower level. Also the Pals flagged with red devil skulls next to their hp are by default also harder to catch.

[VirusChris]

Well I was catching Rayhound and those are in their level 30~ and even with the Yellow Spheres I had with boost around 23 - 25% catch rate on the first shake and I had them break through a lot. And that's WITH their HP whittled down close to 1 HP.

Boss Pals are just worse, but regular Pals should've been this difficult.

Reason why I don't use the higher end ones is I couldn't make a whole lot of them, but now I have 100 Mega and Giga Spheres at the moment and 50 Hyper Spheres. 5 Ultra Spheres and 1 Legendary Spheres.

And Catch Power Level is 8.

And I have surplus of 300 Blue Pal Spheres. I like that they have even a 1% chance of catch rate so I can use them and have the off chance I get it. Wasting some of the better Spheres and losing them so much it's frustrating.

It's not like I can buy Hyper, Ultra, and Legendary Spheres... can I?

[MR.POTATO]

Nguyên văn bởi VirusChris:

Well I was catching Rayhound and those are in their level 30~ and even with the Yellow Spheres I had with boost around 23 - 25% catch rate on the first shake and I had them break through a lot. And that's WITH their HP whittled down close to 1 HP.

Boss Pals are just worse, but regular Pals should've been this difficult.

Reason why I don't use the higher end ones is I couldn't make a whole lot of them, but now I have 100 Mega and Giga Spheres at the moment and 50 Hyper Spheres. 5 Ultra Spheres and 1 Legendary Spheres.

And Catch Power Level is 8.

And I have surplus of 300 Blue Pal Spheres. I like that they have even a 1% chance of catch rate so I can use them and have the off chance I get it. Wasting some of the better Spheres and losing them so much it's frustrating.

It's not like I can buy Hyper, Ultra, and Legendary Spheres... can I?

Im not sure if you can buy them but I wouldnt doubt it as you can buy milk and honey and eggs so why no spheres it would make sense. As for your catch chance this might be a long shot but are you sure 2 is a higher catch rate? Some of the settings are backwards so maybe try setting catch rate to .5 I doubt thats how it works but its worth a shot if its this big an issue for ya hope you figure it out

[Sero]

I can sorta vouche for this post. I'm 41, crafted some ultra spheres (second best craftable sphere) and still struggle catching basic level 30s-40s at low hp. Base catch rate modifier is 1. And another note my catch upgrade power is on it's sixth tier. Most catch percentage rates are 3-15%.

[TheKazz]

Are you using the upgraded Pal Spheres? If you're just using the basic blue ones then yeah that's working as intended try using better Spheres.

[VirusChris]

I have been using the better Pal Spheres.

But, they're catch rate is abysmal against level 20+ Pals. I can get them down to a small amount of Health now, but it takes several attempts to increase my odds.

Even using the Ultra Sphere broke a couple of times on Boss Pals at Level 38+ and I have a hard time making them as materials are hard to come by.

[YMIR THE FOUNDER]

I'll have like 80% initial catch rate and somehow still fail to capture

[Scyris]

Nguyên văn bởi VirusChris:

Isn't the max x2? I used Custom Settings.

And I took a screenshot of a Lv20 Cinnamoth I was fighting. I was level 44 and I used up ALL of my other Pal Spheres trying to catch other Pals which I did leaving me with only the Blue ones left.

I got it down to a silver of its Health (looked like 1 HP left) and the Catch Rate was 7%. I think with Catch Power Level it jumps up from the base Catch Rate, bit I hurled several of them until I got it.

I mean it wasn't bad. I need to get Catch Power Level to max to see the difference.

And I totally forgot to use Traps on them. I guess I'm using the old Legends Arceus mindset when it comes to catching them.

Just because you are higher level doesn't mean the same Palspheres magically get better, the starter one has a catch power of 7 (or something), this is not going to change whether your level 1 or level 50. You can use Effigies to buff it by a few points but the base item itself does not change based on player level at all.

[VirusChris]

Even the Catching Mechanics of Pokemon, TemTem, Nexomon, and Coromon never made the Basic Capture Tool useless and obsolete at high-level places.

Kinda wish Pal Worlds didn't make it and even the Mega and Giga Spheres useless against Level 40+ Pals.

[SoloQ]

Have you found any of the effigies and upgraded your catch power at a statue?

Get a nightwing. Craft it's harness.
Also it just released early access. Things are going to be in flux for a few years.

And yeah, this isn't pokemon. It's Palworld. Trying to play it like any Pokemon game isn't going to work. There's also a stun baton later that increases catch rate of stunned Pals.