Where's the bow catalysts?

Would love a catalyst for wavesplitter given its perk revolves around orbs

Because as bungie has said multiple times in the past “making content is hard”.

A tremendous lack of imagination on bungies behalf. Man, the things I would do (try do) if I was allowed work as part of the Destiny team. I don’t even need my Computer Game Development qualifications to know what the game needs.

Catalysts are just another way for Bungie to release untested, half baked Exotic weapons, then add even more grind, firstly to access the catalyst (through RNG) then secondly, more busy work/grind to complete catalyst - ending up with a weapon that’s (with a good one) close to being like it should have been released initially And with that said, there’s plenty of weapons that needed these catalysts (Thorn, Malfeasance, Sturm, Monte Carlo, Jötunn, Exotic Bows etc) and some that really need reworking (as they perform poorly - looking at you Vigilance Wing)

The original reason they came out was to buff exotics as destiny2 in year 1 everything sucked. I’m hit and miss with this. Yeah it would be good to have more content but the balancing issues with the guns would be worse. Some sucky exotics got a lot better with a catalyst (like the huckleberry). Now if every exotic had a catalyst the ones that stood out because they had one would suck again. May also be harder coming up with catalyst ideas for the exotics. One maybe a massive change, another may enhance the exotic perk and another may just add 2 stability. Last point is the RNG on getting the catalyst in the first place is probably the hardest in the game. Say if so happen one of the exotic catalyst become OP or the meta. People will have little to zero chances of getting it themselves.

Pick one ;) content is hard, the virus, things cost money, there are more important things they should focus on, very small team, entitled racist fascist gamers want everything handed to them etc etc...

Catalysts were a band-aid. Destiny 2 launched with a weapon system that had been designed with the purpose of LIMITING player power and making balancing the sandbox easier for PVP balance. The problem is that PVE is the core of the game, and that game is a power-fantasy game. So as one poster here put it back then, "My Guardian in Destiny 1 was a Jedi. But for Destiny 2 they've turned him into a Stormtrooper.' IOW, game got turned form a space magic game into a bad imitation of Halo. So Bungie was left scrambling to save the game. Because not only did the changes BREAK the feel of the game....it also BROKE the end game. Fixed weapon rolls and dual primary weapons imposed a DPS ceiling on players that made end-game content TEDIOUS rather than fun....and fixed rolls destroyed any loot chase. Once you got your "First Better Devils" there was no point to any other one you got after that. So people left the game in droves....because there was nothing to do and nothing to chase. Which pushed Bungie to have to find a way to get us power while they bought time to overhaul the game....as well as try to find some way to motivate people to play the raids. So they created exotic catalysts....and then put them as low-drop rate loot items in raids and other difficult content. I don't think Bungie ever intended to continue them past their immediate need to save the game. But the problem was that WE LIKED THEM. So Bungie has been dragged kicking-and-screaming since them to create more of them for us. They do it, but I don't think they like it. I get their point of view on it. It just makes extra work. If your going to have a catalyst (in a game with a functional weapon system and loot system) , why not just make that feature a permanent part of the weapon? Fourth Horseman (version Destiny 2) is really kind of a shitty weapon without its exotic catalyst. The reload time is annoyingly slow. So all the catalyst winds up doing is finally turning it into a weapon that feels good to use.

Bungee is lazy. The never finish what they start.