I took a break from D2 from mid October to last month(on and off). Now that Borrowed Dyad has the full catalyst available I want to stress out just how annoying this catalyst grind is and if you are going for it please have patience. I’m only going to point a few things that YouTube videos don’t mention. 1. Datto and SneakyBeaver do not clarify that certain quests need to be completed in order to progress the catalyst grind. All they say is go here do this go there do this and that’s it. 2. Level up both paths. Loading in and getting Metasized Essentia and rebooting the Nether is brain rotting to the max and it gets boring easily. I did 1 full Nether and collected all 2 materials per area per run and every hour I would hit 1 level. So 2-3 Nethers give you one level. Put on some music in the background. A decent louadout and to be honest it goes by quick. Equip a sniper to swap into when you spawn and reach a new area and equip the ghost mod wombo detector to collect the material before clearing out the area. Repeat the cycle each run. Collect material first, clear all areas, kill boss, move to next area and repeat the process. 3. The Nether is the probably the worst place for players right now due to it being RNG based(heavy on it for most part). Do all and I mean ALL SECRETS ON ALL AREAS OF NETHER. This way you can get all of the coalescence that you need for the Hall Breach portal for Target Lock Catalyst. 4. Make you sure you are on the right paths to collect the taken parts, and the 2 different worms. I know I’m like 3 weeks late almost by the time this post is up but man………Bungo please I know we want the exotics to feel well earned but holy moly this really tested my patience and took most of my weekend time to do it. Anyways sorry for a lot of wording but I felt very overwhelmed by the non existent clarifications that YouTube videos barely have.