Volatile Catalyzer

Volatile Catalyzer

★★★★☆ Offenses: Damage type(s) and Attack Speed influence combat. The attack style of the weapon in relation to the combat environment is also important. Consider both when choosing weapons to wield. Stats Abilities: Boosts and Penalties are both considered "abilities" in general. Many items don't have any special abilities. See the Abilities page for details. Some enemies are immune to certain status conditions - see individual status pages for details. This item doesn't have any special abilities. CTR: All weapons gain these CTR bonuses as they level. Level 5+: CTR: Low Level 10: CTR: Medium

The Volatile Catalyzer is a 4-star handgun.

Description

Removing the safety overrides from a piece of Gremlin technology is a good way to lose a limb. In this case, it probably won't be one of yours. Catalyzer bullets envelop the enemy in an energy field that explodes after taking damage. — Tooltip

Acquisition

: Basil - Randomly in stock for 10,000 crowns in depth 13 and 23 Clockwork Terminal.  (unbound).

Recipe

This 4-star recipe has an alchemy cost of 2,500 crowns. Below are the materials needed to make the Volatile Catalyzer.

Name	Amount
Blue Shard	15
Ecto Drop	4
Owlite Feather	3
Unstable Core	2
Warp Dust	1
Elite Orb of Alchemy	3
Industrial Catalyzer (Heat Level 5+)

Note: When crafting using bound equipment as a precursor, the upgraded item will also be bound.

Alchemy Path

Volatile Catalyzer's alchemy path

☆☆☆☆☆ ★☆☆☆☆ ★★☆☆☆ ★★★☆☆ ★★★★☆ ★★★★★ Catalyzer Industrial Catalyzer Volatile Catalyzer Neutralizer Toxic Catalyzer Virulent Catalyzer Biohazard

Combat

Basic Attack

Fires a very slow moving blue projectile up to 9 squares away, allowing up to 3 shots before reload. Bullets from this gun tags any enemy it touches.

Charge Attack

Fires a very slow moving energy orb that has a range of 9 squares. The recoil from the attack pushes back the player's Knight 2/3 of a square when firing. If the enemy is struck by a charge attack from this weapon while the orb is in orbit, it will detonate, damaging and knocking back the target and all nearby enemies. Having an enemy tagged with multiple orbs will increase the size of the explosion. Any undetonated orbs will expire after 20 seconds. Orbs that are not yours are not restricted to your own gun, meaning any player with any level of the Catalyzer can detonate the orbs.

Damage

The following damage values represent the weapon at its completed level, without any UV or bonus from other equipment, and are listed as a range found from the first to last floor of each stratum.

Note: Normal shots will do only 1 point of damage against all enemies.

Volatile Catalyzer's Damage Table
	Stratum 1	Stratum 2	Stratum 3	Stratum 4	Stratum 5	Stratum 6
Charge Attack	50 - 59	72 - 84	144 - 152	161 - 172	251 - 328	358 - 372
Charge Explosion	21 - 23	26 - 29	55 - 53	53 - 55	85 - 114	116 - 105

Notes

The explosion damage was originally lower than Virulent Catalyzer's, but was increased with release 2025-10-07.

See Also

• Leveling Equipment
• Unique Variant
• Guides (Player Made)

External Links

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• Demonstration (YouTube)