Silver Palace Catalysts

The game's screen for them is the Reactor: each character in a Partners preset has a row of three Catalyst sockets, and every Catalyst fires from the same trigger, its holder's Tactical Assault, the attack a character makes when you switch them in on Reactor Energy. That puts Catalysts at the end of the combat loop rather than on a stat sheet. Unlike Motives and Implements, they belong to the Reactor, not to the character's gear.

The 17 effects come in three timings: 8 open a 16-second window after the Tactical Assault, 6 open a 12-second one, and Stone, Cryoflux and Tin resolve the moment it lands.

Stone, Tin and Vulkanash work for the whole team (a shield, a heal and Silverdrip), so they earn a socket even on a support. There are no sets and, by fan-compiled data, a single purple rarity: you choose a Catalyst for its effect.

Elementa's own feedback notice of 22 August 2026 admitted that Reactor and Catalyst effects were "easy to overlook during combat" and promised a clearer combat UI, so expect these screens to change at launch.

The files know eight Catalyst attributes, the seven Reactor attributes plus Omni. A Catalyst of an attribute can be equipped as long as someone on the team has a Reactor of that attribute; Omni fits anyone. In the beta, 10 of the 17 are Omni, 3 Ignis, 3 Glacies and 1 Gravitas.

The attribute on our pages is read from each Catalyst's icon: the red flame, blue star and purple eye match the Ignis, Glacies and Gravitas element icons, and the neutral white gem carries only effects that name no element.

Match the attribute to the team: Vulkanash only pays out on Ignis crits, so it suits an Ignis character such as Cinderella and does next to nothing on a Fulmen one such as Rex.

The cost belongs to the socket, not to the Catalyst. The first Catalyst on a character costs 1 Power, the second 2 and the third 4, so a full row costs 7. The whole preset shares one Power Limit, which rises from 3 to 7 to 14 as you raise your Crisis Level, the world level. Five Reactor screens filmed in the beta add up this way, from 3 of 3 early on to Rexlent's 14 of 14, and AmethystAbrams' test settles it: removing the Catalyst in the first socket dropped the count by 4, because the character went from three Catalysts to two.

The third socket costs as much as the first two plus one. Our reading: give third Catalysts only to the characters who Tactical Assault most, usually the main DPS, which is also where Quick Equip puts them, and give everyone else one or two.