wow No Catalyst Charge Catch-Up in Dragonflight

[Stan 5,020]

There is no Catalyst charge catch-up in Dragonflight. If you haven't completed last week's Catalyst quest, you will be only granted 1 charge this week upon completing the weekly.

Many players wondered if they could catch up on Catalyst charges when they did not complete last week's Catalyst quest. Unfortunately, the answer here is no.

Completing the weekly quest will only grant you 1 Catalyst charge this week. However, the good news is all your alts will be given a charge when you complete the weekly quest on your main and all characters on your account can contribute to the weekly quest progress. Every character can accumulate a maximum of 6 charges.

This week, you can pick up the weekly Catalyst quest conveniently at the Great Vault in Valdrakken.

[TheRagingwolf 202]

Why would you get a catch-up? If you don't do the work, you don't deserve the reward.

[SidonisAntares 288]

3 hours ago, Madyrn said:

Why would you get a catch-up? If you don't do the work, you don't deserve the reward.

The charges only serve as a time gate to how much gear you can upgrade at once, and Blizzard has repeatedly shown they are trying to move away from penalizing you for "not playing last week" when it comes to individual responsible mechanics, similar to how the Valor cap works. So for them to introduce an individual system with the express intent of giving people a way to overcome RNG of raid drops and vault choices but not have a catch up for the charge mechanic, runs counter to that ideology.

Does that explain it well enough for you Captain Tryhard?

[Mishmish 65]

This seems extremely unwise. Df is generally solid with letting you play at your pace, and the catalyst is a catchup system in the first place. It seems backwards to make it important to play each week. 

[Lushbits 0]

I didn't go pick up this quest when it launched as I had 4-set already on my main - thought it would be like the sparks for alts. But NOOOO, now I'm forever behind because I didn't accept ONE stupid quest? Bad design. Should be doable back-to-back to add charges up to level of everyone else, just like with the sparks!