Will the Enhancement Catalysts stay stuck?


Aggelakis

 

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Are there any plans to make the Enhancement Catalysts transferable? They come out of the "Account Items" inbox when they're claimed from Super Packs, which I was under the impression made them account bound, that's why I pulled them onto one of my mains only to find out differently. Claiming 25x Reward Merits over 100 times will make most people turn off the warning that they'll be stuck on that character, right? It did me. I now have two mains that are fully catalysed and one of them has six more stuck on him, the other has five while three other AT-setted toons don't have any at all. I've asked around and I don't seem to be anywhere near the only one this has happened to.

At very least, maybe make the dropped ones tranferrable so that we aren't discouraged from playing our favorite alts?


 

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Above I posted (as a tiny edit) that I made a mistake and claimed to take them out of the wrong mailbox. Maybe it was just a momentary lapse but it may have confused me that the Character Items mail is account-wide and the Account Items mail is specific to one character...


 

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I think you're still confused. Or you're explaining yourself badly.

Account Items are available to every character, new and old, once per character. Veteran Rewards, etc.

Character Items may be claimed one time ever by one character. Consumables, SBEs, etc.

Catalysts come in the Character Items mailbox, not the Account Items mailbox. Everything from the Super Packs comes in the Character Items mailbox.


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Personally I think they really should be tradable to characters on the same account only. My stalker now has two from running dark astoria content that she will never ever have any use for, as she already has a full superior ATO set slotted. I'd love to be able to give them to any of my other 50s that still have use for them.


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They have mentioned that it's something they've gotten a lot of feedback on, and are looking into a fix for. I have the same problem - However, I DO have a workaround. If you happen to have multiple level 50s of the same AT, you can unslot the superior, email it to yourself, unslot the normal, claim it on the character with the catalyst, and catalyze that one. Unfortunately, this is only doable if you have multiple 50s of the same AT and at least one of them does NOT already have a full superior set.


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Yeah, this needs to be fixed ASAP. It's something that was poorly implemented and could be easily fixed. You already have a category of item that can only be mailed to your own global. I don't remember offhand what exactly that item was, though. Anyway, whatever that item is, copy the code for how those items are collected and patch in a conversion process for the first time each character logs in. Simple, right?


 

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Originally Posted by SortaKinda View Post
Yeah, this needs to be fixed ASAP. It's something that was poorly implemented and could be easily fixed. You already have a category of item that can only be mailed to your own global. I don't remember offhand what exactly that item was, though. Anyway, whatever that item is, copy the code for how those items are collected and patch in a conversion process for the first time each character logs in. Simple, right?
1 type of item I can think of that is account bound and can be traded to your global only are the set enhancements you buy in the paragon market in game.

The problem is that Catalysts are special salvage, under the Special tab, and as far as I know all special salvage is character bound only. I imagine the coding for special salvage is a lot different than enhancements and regular salvage so coding it would be difficult. Another thing I think may happen: if they can make Catalysts account bound, players will see that it is indeed possible to make special salvage tradable, they may then ask to have merits or other special salvage tradable to their accounts. And if they made Catalysts tradable between players and auctionable then players may demand to be able to trade merits to other players. Just a theory and I could be dead wrong on that.

Personally I would prefer that Catalysts be tradable and could be sold in the auction between players. But I think the reason they didn't do this, is because the only way for non VIP to obtain catalysts are from super packs and they know they can make more money that way (and probably that special salvage code thingy). I've opened around 600 super packs, give or take, and received less than 60 catalysts. (At least half the super packs I got were from paragon reward tokens so I didn't pay for those.)


 

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One other point to note.

In I-23 Beta, there are new ATO's being tested.

So, while the Catalyst's aren't currently tradeable (I don't disagree with the
folks who think they should be), you'll still have potential use for them soonish,
when the new ATO sets are released.


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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
I think you're still confused. Or you're explaining yourself badly.

Account Items are available to every character, new and old, once per character. Veteran Rewards, etc.

Character Items may be claimed one time ever by one character. Consumables, SBEs, etc.

Catalysts come in the Character Items mailbox, not the Account Items mailbox. Everything from the Super Packs comes in the Character Items mailbox.
Sort of off-topic but I still think the naming of these is completely backwards. Account Items should be shared across an account, Character Items should be tied to a character. Sadly it's way too late to change it now.


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Sort of off-topic but I still think the naming of these is completely backwards. Account Items should be shared across an account, Character Items should be tied to a character. Sadly it's way too late to change it now.
Or you can simply change the way you think about them.

Account Items are awarded to an account; every single character gets to obtain that award once.

Character Items are awarded to a character; one character gets to obtain that award once.


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I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

 

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
Or you can simply change the way you think about them.

Account Items are awarded to an account; every single character gets to obtain that award once.

Character Items are awarded to a character; one character gets to obtain that award once.
Yes, I understand the thinking behind it, I just think that thinking is stupid and backwards. :P


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