You may have noticed that your heroes have zodiac signs while browsing through your heroes or looking at their awakening screens. At first, these zodiac signs seem like their meaningless but they are related to an important item, catalysts. What exactly do zodiac signs have to do with catalysts?

The catalysts your heroes need depend on their zodiac signs. What do I mean by this? Well, heroes of the same zodiac sign generally require the same catalysts to awaken or skill up. If you have a lot of heroes in your team of the same zodiac sign, you’ll want to be grinding the same stage over and over.

Zodiac Sign Catalyst Chart

Zodiac Sign	Awakening Catalyst	Skill Catalyst	Awakening Catalyst (Epic)
Aquarius	Order of the Shield Insignia	Leather Sheath	Fighter Medal
Aries	Blessing of Orbis	Path Power Loop	Nightmare Mask
Cancer	Special Alarm Loop	Baby Mouse Insignia	The Heart of Hypocrisy
Capricorn	Cursed Ashes	Slime Jelly	Dragon’s Wrath
Gemini	Small Sun Badge	Ring of Glory	Fused Nerve
Leo	Ultra Fang	Twisted Fang	Blazing Soul
Libra	Dream Time Circuit	Mysterious Flash	Reingar Student ID
Pisces	Blood Flaked Bone	Strange Jelly	Ancient Creature Nucleus
Sagittarius	Cold Look	Archer’s Vision	Mercenary’s Medicine
Scorpio	Erikion Carapace	Sharp Spearhead	Black Curse Powder
Taurus	Blazing Rage	Shiny Enchantment	Horn of Desire
Virgo	Eternal Forest Dust	Flame of Soul	Demon Blood Gem

Where to find catalysts?

Catalysts are no doubt one of the most important items in the game. They are used for Awakening and Skill Up, which are both crucial for building a strong team. Catalysts are rare drops, especially epic catalysts, so you’ll want to be farming the right stages to be efficient with your stamina. Often, you’ll have to spend a ton of stamina to guarantee an epic catalyst through the AP Shop, spending your Adventure Points gained by grinding stages in the area. Note that catalyst are only available in the Unrecorded History AP Shop.

It’s best to farm stages that have the most amount of mobs that can drop the desired catalyst. You may also want to consider the speed in which you finish the stages, so choose the stage that’s easiest for your team. Here are lists of the best stages to farm for catalysts in normal mode and world mode, taking the AP Shop into consideration:

Ritania (aka normal mode)

Awakening Catalyst	Best Stage to Farm (by number of mobs)
Blazing Rage	5-5 5-6
Blessing of Orbis	1-7
Blood Flaked Bone	1-9 1-10
Cold Look	8-6
Cursed Ashes	3-5
Dream Time Circuit	6-9
Erikion Carapace	3-S4
Eternal Forest Dust	5-3 5-9 5-10
Order of the Shield Insignia	6-5
Small Sun Badge	4-9
Special Alarm Loop	9-4
Ultra Fang	6-1

Skill Catalyst	Best Stage to Farm (by number of mobs)
Archer’s Vision	4-9
Baby Mouse Insignia	4-4
Flame of Soul	9-7
Leather Sheath	4-9
Mysterious Flash	2-1
Path Power Loop	2-9
Ring of Glory	10-3
Sharp Spearhead	4-9
Shiny Enchantment	5-4
Slime Jelly	4-1
Strange Jelly	1-10
Twisted Fang	8-S2

Unrecorded History (side story aka world mode)

Awakening Catalyst	Best Stage to Farm (by number of mobs)
Blazing Rage	3-S3 5-5
Blessing of Orbis	1-7
Blood Flaked Bone	8-9 8S-6
Cold Look	8-6
Cursed Ashes	8S-6 8S-7 10-S2 10-S3
Dream Time Circuit	6-9 7-5
Erikion Carapace	3-4 3S-1
Eternal Forest Dust	1-3 (less mobs) 1-4 (less mobs) 5-3 5-8 5-9 5-10
Order of the Shield Insignia	6-2 6-6
Small Sun Badge	9-5
Special Alarm Loop	2-2
Ultra Fang	2S-S2 S3 5S-5

Skill Catalyst	Best Stage to Farm (by number of mobs)
Archer’s Vision	4-S6 10-7 (less mobs)
Baby Mouse Insignia	3-8 3S-4
Flame of Soul	4-S11 (less mobs) 9-9
Leather Sheath	4-8 (less mobs) 6-S3 (less mobs)
Mysterious Flash	2-1 5-S3 (less mobs)
Path Power Loop	2-7 2-8 9-S6
Ring of Glory	9-1 10-4 10-5
Sharp Spearhead	4-S6 4-7 (less mobs)
Shiny Enchantment	4-S 5 (less mobs) 5-4
Slime Jelly	1-2 2S-S4 (less mobs) 2S-S6 (less mobs)
Strange Jelly	2S-S6 (less mobs) 9-8
Twisted Fang	8-S2

Awakening Catalyst (Epic)	Best Stage to Farm
Ancient Creature Nucleus	7-S6
Black Curse Powder	10-S2
Blazing Soul	4-9
Demon Blood Gem	5-6
Dragon’s Wrath	3-S3
Fighter Medal	1-S2
Fused Nerve	9-8
Horn of Desire	8-S3
Mercenary’s Medicine	4-4 4-S3
Nightmare Mask	6-9
Reingar Student ID	2-2 2-3 2-6 2-9
The Heart of Hypocrisy	9-3

(source)

Top heroes to farm catalyst for

The best heroes to farm catalysts for are Leo heroes, like Yuna and Iseria for PvE (player-versus-enemy) content. Leo heroes comprise the largest amount of the pool of heroes, and their catalysts are the most sought after. If you’re in a guild, the chances of requesting and actually receiving a Leo catalyst is really low. Other Leo heroes like Lorina and Martial Artist Ken, are really strong in Arena.

You won’t be farming catalysts too early into the game. Once you reach a plateau and you feel that you really need to then you can go farm. I’d recommend this order: find catalysts for your DPS hero first, then your tank, your secondary-DPS/support-DPS, and then your healer.

What’s the best way to farm catalysts?

Follow the charts above and grind the stages out. It’s best to be efficient and look for multiple catalysts that you can find in one area for your different heroes, try to find these overlaps. You’ll have to pick the best stage to grind for yourself and your own team.

Special Events

Usually there will be at least one event going on that you can take advantage in your search for catalysts. These events provide catalysts as rewards for you or give you stages to farm for catalysts. Keep on top of these events!

What are the catalyst drop rates?

There is no exact drop rate, but people have found that stages with the most mobs that drop the specific catalyst are the best. Like I mentioned before, you can always rely on the AP Shop instead of pure chance or RNG. In the past, there was no AP Shop for players to use, so consider yourself lucky!