Three catalyst guides, three different numbers. Bungie confirmed 25 new Destiny 2 catalysts in Monument of Triumph plus nine perks added to older stat-only ones, while community trackers count 26. We break down every drop path, which catalysts to chase first now that the deadline is gone, and which widely repeated claims we could not verify.

Most Destiny 2 Wolfsbane guides still describe weekly catalyst gates that expired long ago, in a menu Bungie has since removed. This is the current state of the Exotic axe: how to get it from Heliostat, all four catalysts, the shaping roughly three quarters of players actually run, and the weapon level gates that decide what you can craft.

Most Praxic Blade guides date from Renegades launch week, and three of their core instructions are now wrong. The one-run catalyst rule was patched out, Fire and Ice moved out of the Legends node, and the fourth catalyst is no longer a mystery. Every catalyst, Form, Core and crystal, checked against a game that has stopped updating.