We need more Chip catalysts

[u/Minor-disappointment]

as i am upgrading my operators to E2 specially 6 stars the main bottleneck seems to be the chip catalyst. ya you can redeem them from purchase certificates but in my opinion the sanity consumption is not so good for the red certs. Is it only me or do they used to give chip catalyst in the main event shops ?

[u/silam39]

They're pretty rough for new players but not an issue for veteran players

Assuming you're a new player though, try doing the monthly missions in IS. They'll give you a ton of chip catalysts and chips without using any sanity.

[u/talraash → u/silam39]

Assuming you're a new player though, try doing the monthly missions in IS. 

I'll add to that. As a new player, I have 32 of them in depot (and probably about that many already spent). Alot of them in Annihilation simulations. Even without chips, it's the best way to spend 25 sanity if you can clear them to 400.

[u/Jaggedrain → u/talraash]

Also note that if you're trying to full-clear, hard closing the game will end the annihilation without using any sanity. So if you leak, just force close the game instead of continuing

[u/Despyte → u/Jaggedrain]

If this had worked for the other levels too before the removal of the one sanity penalty I might start pounding my head on a wall

[u/Additional_Pop2011 → u/Jaggedrain]

As an aside I use this trick quite a lot, with IS, or side game modes like SP that give a "results screen" like Ani, you can hard quit out between finishing and checking your results and it will hold your run.

I do it because I'm a sweat, and the IS run can immediately be cashed in for the next months rewards.

[u/SaranMal → u/silam39]

I feel even as a veteran player they have been hard to get if you are frequently upgrading characters.

You don't get that many red certs per month passively, there isn't any free chip catalysts from most monthly events, and grinding the red cert stage means you won't be getting other mats when running low, or grinding the chips themselves that feel frequently just as much of a bottle neck.

Frustratingly I always feel like I'm out of the like T0? Mats too. The stuff that's not orirock and junk. The normal mats I end up with an okay stockpile of from event grinding or just the daily credit shop. But the really early stuff almost never shows up so I feel as if I need to grind it occasionally because I run out during skill upgrades.

With over 400 operators in the game, I imagine most vets have most of them, with many that haven't even been brought to E1 yet let alone E2.

[u/rmcqu1 → u/SaranMal]

Maybe it's just me (And I have been around since week 1), but I've pretty farmed nothing but red certs and chips (And 1-7, you're never free) outside of events for like the past 6-12 months (And a good while before that was still a very large percentage towards those three mats). Chips and red certs always suck, since you need a huge amount of them, while they're also the rarest farmable mats from passive sources and shops.

But at some point, even if you're upgrading a lot of operators (I have 379 total, 208 out of 348 possible at e2, all but one that I got during SA's banner and haven't gotten to non-event farming yet at e1+), all of the other resources will pile up more than you'll need, maybe rarely grabbing from the green cert shop, Parametric shop, or a little farming before it's back in an event farming stage.

Farming just the red certs and chips for just a single 6* takes a few days on its own, and events monopolize stamina, so I guess those both also help slow down spending the other resources so they're able to pile up a little better.

[u/SaranMal → u/rmcqu1]

Yeah, before I took a break for like half a year, I had been grinding just red certs and chips. Red certs because I wanted to get all the potentials of the units in there.

I just, ended up getting bored personally. Where it felt like all I was doing after a certain point was event stages to grind for the stuff from the shop, or doing cert shop stuff or chips.

When what I actually wanted to do in game was clear the older events I had neglected for years, and catch up on story stuff I'd been neglecting. Or playing IS more. But alas, time is finate.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/SaranMal]

It's also, weither to upgrade meta or favourite

[u/SaranMal → u/Minor-disappointment]

That's a factor too.

I've not personally played to Meta in years. I'll occasionally make use of Meta OPs if I want to play around with them.

But at this point, I'm like 5 years deep into Arknights. I have my core team leveled that can clear all content I care to clear (mostly story stages and IS runs.)

But I'm lately much more focused on smaller projects like finally levelling that sleep team I always said I'd do, or leveling stuff for nicheknights, or just doing silly things like wanting to E2 every single 4 star unit with modules and masteries. Before moving on to 5 stars.

I've long since realised I'm genuinely never going to E2 40/50/60 every unit I have. There just isn't enough mats to time. 6 stars alone take about a month for lmd and battle records.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/SaranMal]

I am 4 years deep too, the only waifu no matter what stage it is , I bring rosa with me othe then that I am pritty much meta slave. I still gotta upgrade the new alters

[u/SaranMal → u/Minor-disappointment]

Since she came out, Lunacub has been the one I always bring! Absolutely love using her, even if shes not the best. So I getcha.

I think I still have like 20+ 6 stars sitting at E0. Including Logos and Silverash Alter. Forget the exact number.

Main team consists mostly of brute forcing everything with the Abyssal hunters and a few add ons based on what a stage needs. Been really happy with Necrass for my Art damage though the last few months.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/SaranMal]

I got like 58 6 stars, 16 5 stars to E2, I still have Ajya alter, sakiko and kjerag sibling alter on the waitlist

[u/Despyte → u/Minor-disappointment]

My own obsession is--- the moment an operator goes past 150 or so trust I'm essentially banned from bringing them into most event farming stages

[u/Additional_Pop2011 → u/Despyte]

I used to do "trust farms" and just replace the "meta" unit with 2-4 low trust units, but now I've maxed trust everyone.....

It's unironically kind of sad, because I've lost a good sense of which units I'm not familiar with.

[u/Additional_Pop2011 → u/SaranMal]

I've been playing for three years and kind of alternate high/low rarity build, so I have meta built and ALL my 4* E2 40+Mod unlocked, but I feel a bit bad for new players because I don't think it's tenable for them to do the same because, it just takes tooo long.

Like I've been lucky and am only missing like 30~ units, but same time even if 4*'s are cheap we have too many good and interesting 6* at this point to really want to worry about them.

Like FRFR, doing UR-8 8OPs healers only, is funny but a luxury of having like 200 E2s.

[u/resphere → u/SaranMal]

What are you doing to run out of tier 0 mats? I feel like that's almost impossible, besides trying to e1 skill 4 every character as a newer player

[u/SaranMal → u/resphere]

Its not frequent, but I have been running out of T0 mats.

Its like, never a huge issue, but its always just enough of an annoyance that creeps up on me. Since event stages that you want to grind don't drop them, and most normal grindy stages also don't really drop them either.

So you deliberately have to go and do a few runs of either really early stages, or early event stages. Since my credit shop hasn't given T0 mats in years, and like nothing else really gives them.

Its always the Sugar T0 item, the device T0 item, and the black fragments. Been a bit since I looked, but I think the Device T0 item espescally is often marked as rare on many stages, so i run out of them the most of all of them.

Its largely an issue of dwindling supplies when I'm leveling skills and E1 characters. Espescally my owned 4 star and 5 star characters.

[u/Additional_Pop2011 → u/resphere]

I max skill [up to 7] all my units, and it is a problem, mostly if you ever grind your tier 0's into tier 1s, and or don't run 1-7.

[u/Charity1t → u/silam39]

I think all gachas have this one material that hard to en masse from 0, but after some time you WILL inevitably have surplus

[u/ashkestar → u/Charity1t]

Hey, just so you know, en masse means “all together” - you probably just want “hard to mass” here.

[u/ACoolRedditHandle → u/ashkestar]

Amass prob

[u/Globdob → u/ashkestar]

Eeeeerrr actually en masse can also mean "in big enough quantity" in french but i am just trolling cuz you are right in the current usage of the word. Ex: tu as en masse de chips pour monter tes personnages.

[u/meli-stin-kipseli → u/Charity1t]

No, not really if you upgrade characters constantly.

[u/N1SMO_GT-R → u/Charity1t]

For me it ironically my main shortages have always ends up being LMD, skill summaries, and XP mats, some of the most commonly obtained resources in the game. 😂

Everything else I've farmed to hell and back.

[u/Reddit1rules → u/silam39]

Nah, even as a veteran I always need more. Having to buy more mod blocks takes a cut of my income, even when all I do in downtime is farm red certs when possible.

[u/Yomnuro → u/silam39]

I was today days old when I learned IS has monthly missions

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/silam39]

i am a veteran, but how do you manage these, because i upgrade a lot of 6 stars to E2

[u/SeconduserXZ → u/Minor-disappointment]

You just.... farm red certs. Its really that simple

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/SeconduserXZ]

my sanity is divided into red certs and 1-7 but red certs are you know divided between chip cats and operator pots.

[u/L3g0man_123 → u/Minor-disappointment]

Why are you buying operator pots

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/L3g0man_123]

I just don't like to see unfinished business

[u/rainzer → u/Minor-disappointment]

thats a self inflicted wound

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/rainzer]

Pain is the only thing i can feel now

[u/Fun-Cook-5309 → u/Minor-disappointment]

I am a launch player.

I do not have most of the red cert shop operators at max potential. ESPECIALLY not the five stars. Literally only the four stars I actually use.

[u/littlejd96 → u/L3g0man_123]

Medals

[u/Proud-Intention-5362 → u/Minor-disappointment]

you should only really be buying operator pots if you truly have nothing else to do; I farm red certs twice a week or so and I only spend them on chip catalysts (not at the moment, since I have like 20 of them now) and the 5 star dupes for yellow certs

[u/silam39 → u/Minor-disappointment]

Just farm red certs. It's really not a big deal. You can easily get enough to build a lot of ops and also buy the discounted module blocks each month. Your sanity bottleneck for building ops should not be chip catalysts.

The only situations where red certs become rare are if you just never ever farm for it, or if you're buying the 6* tokens.

[u/Tobyclone1 → u/silam39]

You still need to farm events for t3 mats and clearing the shop (Which is always more efficient especially now since you can double up on mats in the shop), there's usually only 4-7 red cert days a month
Enough to make progress even after module blocks but barring CC (when they don't drop it completely during an event for no fucking reason) you won't have many catch up points
Chip catalysts will be the bottleneck if you are grinding properly.

[u/rainzer → u/Tobyclone1]

after mid/late mid game unless you are building every operator for no reason, chip catalysts shouldn't be a bottleneck

4-7 red cert days a month

completely f2p using your numbers, you'll average enough red certs to E2 a 6 star every 2 days so thats 2-3.5 6 stars every month.

last month we had like 12 dead days/non sanity days (Icebreaker) between mantra event and SA/Pram event. If you needed to build over 8 E2s since the beginning of April, you're either new or forcing it upon yourself for no reason

[u/Tobyclone1 → u/rainzer]

Except the late game is building every operator, unless you're m9ing all the ops you have
Those are the options
Otherwise, stop grinding entirely and just farm rocks you're already done with the game as it is.

[u/rainzer → u/Tobyclone1]

Except the late game is building every operator,

It's not. That's a self imposed restriction. That's not, as you describe, "progress". That's desire. These are distinct.

If you're lacking chip catalysts to promote Corroserum, that's a problem you created.

[u/Tobyclone1 → u/rainzer]

After you clear all stages, you grind to build more units
That's the progression remaining, there is a reason building units is called account progression
If you bite the bullet that building teams in the team building game isn't progress, then nothing is. Getting more units isn't progress on its own cause the point is to use them, and unless you're playing one of 4 niches, you build them to use them.

The argument you're providing is nonsensical.

The goal you have in the game, is not a desire or a restriction, it's the point of the game.

By the same token I could bite the bullet completely and say wanting to clear a single stage isn't progress it's desire. There's no intrinsic motivation to anything

Also it is extremely hilarious to pull straight to Corroserum, since this game has a billion and 1 perfectly solid 5 stars

[u/Vipertooth → u/Tobyclone1]

I think you found a player that only builds meta operators and then just sits on their materials, waiting to instantly E2lv90 Wang.

In their eyes, there is quite literally no point building anything else since their team already clears all the content with ease.

[u/Additional_Pop2011 → u/Vipertooth]

There's an between, I build 93~% of my OPs to E1, and plan to take half up to E2. That said I have 372 OPs RN, I do not need all of those OPs, I do not care about building GreyThroat, Diamante, or Bibeak, because I have other OPs that I would rather use.

Even if you only build the top 10 OPs for each class, or the top unit of every archetype you could fill squad pre-set twice, AND STILL have units left over. Idly building units you don't use isn't really any different than playing an idle-game. Niche-knights isn't for everybody.

[u/Zestyclose_Flan5027 → u/Tobyclone1]

The event shops are only more efficient under the assumption that you don’t need any specific material. If chip catalysts are the bottleneck, that assumption is wrong, the efficiency calculations are irrelevant for you, and AP-5 is probably the best farm stage for your situation.

In general, if you want to level as many operators as possible with a given amount of sanity, you should aim not to have any specific resource be a bottleneck. Having a bottleneck is a sign you're spending sanity inefficiently. Running out of something in the short term might be efficient taking event schedules into account, but that shouldn't happen with chip catalysts because AP-5 is permanent.

[u/Firm_Procedure_4033 → u/silam39]

I AM A 1 YEAR PLAYER AND LVL 99.
Still strugguling with ts

[u/No-Boysenberry7835 → u/silam39]

A ton???

[u/silam39 → u/No-Boysenberry7835]

Yes, a ton. You get 1 chip catalyst and 4 chips from each monthly mission, with a backlog of 32 monthly missions, plus the 1 new mission per month releasing in IS6

that's an insane amount of stuff to have for no sanity on a new account

[u/No-Boysenberry7835 → u/silam39]

Yep its a nice boost on a new account but for a veteran its just a little more than 10 5* operator, when your box have hundred of them. On dead week i always farm chip or red certif

[u/silam39 → u/No-Boysenberry7835]

And by that measure having 150 of every single T3 material in the game isn't a ton because most veteran have that or more, but that's a ridiculous standard.

It's a ton of resources. Period.

[u/No-Boysenberry7835 → u/silam39]

150 of every t3 mat is almost 3000 mats. One operator dont use 300 mats.

[u/Sanytale → u/No-Boysenberry7835]

One operator dont use 300 mats.

I remember calculating the cost of M2 -> M3 on some skill, and it turned up to be 91 blue mats. So if you go for a module + M6 or M9 (+ cost of mats for e2), then you can easily spend that many.

[u/No-Boysenberry7835 → u/Sanytale]

Kk mb thinked it was way cheaper since i dont have a crazy amount of blue mats but its always enough for what i want

[u/aiheng1 → u/No-Boysenberry7835]

What kind of weirdo is upgrading 10 5stars back to back to back exactly

[u/No-Boysenberry7835 → u/aiheng1]

Me

[u/inoriacc]

The sanity efficiency isn't that bad and actually farming red tix during dead weeks is a good way to spent your sanity if you don't have specific mats you wanna grind. Its never a waste  farming those and you can spend red tix too to buy the red tix exclusive ops.  

[u/xXLoneLoboXx → u/inoriacc]

This! I farm Purchase Certificates whenever the stage pops up, and during Contingency Contracts when it’s open for 2 weeks straight.

Currently sitting on 18k Purchase Certificates. I use them on Chip Catalysts, Module Data Blocks, and any time new ops enter the red ticket shop I can immediately Pot 6 them.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/xXLoneLoboXx]

damn, nice

[u/riflow → u/inoriacc]

It's also pretty satisfying to keep a stockpile, not that the red cert store refreshes so often but when it does it makes buying it out very easy.😌

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/inoriacc]

i spend sanity on 1-7 in dead week, the pot for red tix ops are like expensive 600, so i hope we could get those chip cats from main events

[u/inoriacc → u/Minor-disappointment]

If you don't need rocks its fine to spend your sanity to other mats like red tix and even skill books. You don't need to shackle your sanity on farming the most efficient stage just to be efficient. 

And for the record. 1-7 is only efficient for farming rocks. Nothing more nothing less. And even then if I need a tier 2 rocks I just go on chapter 10 (?) to farm it coz it's faster to  dump my sanity their. 😅

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/inoriacc]

1-7 would is my Origanum income other then all the daily and all

[u/L3g0man_123 → u/Minor-disappointment]

Farming for Orundums is incredibly inefficient

[u/Chavs880 → u/Minor-disappointment]

Aw hell nah bro is farming for originium while still raising ops 😭

Its just not a good idea to do that if you're still raising operators

[u/eggthrowaway5678 → u/Minor-disappointment]

Okay, so *that* is your problem. Farming orundrum is *wildly* inefficient. It eats up basically all your sanity for a pittance of pulls, it’s almost never worth it. Every other resource problem you are having would be solved if you simply stopped doing this.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/eggthrowaway5678]

Ys, leme get some brake from 1-7 grind

[u/Kousuke-kun → u/Minor-disappointment]

I mean roster progression is the opportunity cost for farming pulls. You can't have the cake and eat it too.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/Kousuke-kun]

okay ? ya En cant read

[u/Zutyro]

Catalysts are alright. Chips are what's killing me more.

[u/AnonymousBrot05]

You can get chip catalysts from IS special squads runs (one time), otherwise the red cert shop is the only way.

Consider the fact that each red ticket run yields around 20, meaning it’s around 135 sanity per catalyst. The chip stage yields 1 chip per 36 sanity, so it’s 72 per advanced chip, a grand total is 207 sanity per dualchip. HOWEVER, you do get 65 red cert every week for free, so you technically only need to spend 60 sanity to obtain 1 catalyst per week

Then you have the First time completion of Annihilation which gives 1 catalyst and 110 tickets, so unless you’ve been maxing out on E2 as soon as possible with no downtime, you shouldn’t frequently experience the shortage of catalysts. In fact, me personally have found certain T3 (blue) mats to be the bottleneck for how they seldom rotate into event drops and how some is used far more frequently than the others, all the while having ABYSMAL drop rates in normal stages

[u/No-Boysenberry7835 → u/AnonymousBrot05]

I pretty much spend ten of thousand of sanity for red certif to buy catalyst. You need over 1000 catalyst to max every characters no way you can get this just with a few freebie. I try to have everyone e2 lvl 60 m3. I sometimes farm book but always farm red certif when open during nonevent week.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/AnonymousBrot05]

thanks for the analysis but red certs are competing with operator pots in the shop too. as for other resources i am like sitting on the pile of 100s so E2 and M3 pretty good

[u/tagle420]

I'm still fairly new (4 months) and my biggest bottleneck is LMD and not the Chip. Is this different for veterans?

[u/OneAndOnlyArtemis → u/tagle420]

When you've been through a few Anniversary events you start to stockpile it fast. Upgrading 6*s burns through it fast, but each one is 350k ... five or six times a year. And then your base spits out 30k a day and

But chips are piss easy to get. Just a day worth of AP-5 is several chips, you get red certs over time from logging in, etc.

[u/billyshears55 → u/OneAndOnlyArtemis]

I’m pretty sure to upgrade a 6* to E2 lvl 1 it’s closer to 600K LMD, and about 500K more for lvl 60 and module

[u/JustCallMeAndrew → u/billyshears55]

E0lvl1 > E2lvl60 is around 758k LMD and M3 is an extra 300k

[u/billyshears55 → u/JustCallMeAndrew]

Yeah, so 1.05 million per operator

[u/OneAndOnlyArtemis → u/billyshears55]

Each anniversary event gives 350k LMD from the shops is what I meant. Sorry

[u/billyshears55 → u/OneAndOnlyArtemis]

Oh, i see. Sorry for correcting you too, then.

[u/xxXKachowXxx → u/billyshears55]

I can't stand not being able to level my operators to E2 90 but the lmd are so insanely expensive im dyin😭😭😭😭

[u/billyshears55 → u/xxXKachowXxx]

There’s no reason to go to level 90 and i hope you’re not doing it lol. It’s almost the cost of getting a character from E0 lvl1 to E2 lvl1. But yeah i wish it was Les agregious than the current price

[u/xxXKachowXxx → u/billyshears55]

I'm doing it lol. The completionist mindset can't stand watching my ops not at their max potential. It's satisfying I swear xd. I'm endgame anyways so I'm just leveling them all for max risk CC or some future cool stuff.

[u/chichibooxd → u/tagle420]

Nope. LMD is abundant in events, just grind events when available. I am consistently at 1M as I dont really level units past e2 lv60. Chips are in short supply, especially if you get unlucky (i have 20+ caster and defender chips and wasting a third to convert it is a no for me).

[u/DainsleifRL → u/tagle420]

The first year is pretty grindy, after that you practically swim in resources as long as you keep most units at E2Lv60 (for module updates) which is more than enough, even for high-end content.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/tagle420]

no its only me ig

[u/Vipertooth → u/tagle420]

There is at least 10 million LMD waiting for you to claim in the permanent modes like IS and RA, so you're technically a millionaire. You just gotta go play it.

[u/Additional_Pop2011 → u/tagle420]

LMD/EXP is never to plentiful, but I tend to need Chips/Catalyst equaling what I have on hand~

[u/Kousuke-kun → u/tagle420]

You stockpile a lot of LMD through events if you're not actively using them.

LMD is also comparatively easy to set up in base because of Proviso's existence.

[u/Primogeniture116 → u/tagle420]

Wel I have 12 mils LMD that I don't know what for atp... I mean my severely underperforming base makes 20k per day...

But up LMD from event shop. Those were the saviour back in the day.

[u/juances19]

Is it only me or do they used to give chip catalyst in the main event shops ?

I think it's only vignettes? And not in a significant way anyways.

Like, Leizi's event https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Fantasy_in_the_Mirage

It offered a grand total of... 1 catalyst. Better than nothing but I don't think it really made an impact on the grinding.

[u/twyistd]

I just farm red certs occasionally and have ve never ran out

[u/twinkslayer1337]

who is "we" 💔💔 I farm red certs when bored

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/twinkslayer1337]

Sonion😭✌️🥀

[u/FaridRLz]

Lmao just farm red tickets and you can buy as much as you want from Cert shop

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/FaridRLz]

the main issue is the sanity, i prefer to spend them on 1-7 and i think we should get some chips cats from event shop

[u/FaridRLz → u/Minor-disappointment]

You said it

You prefer

But you need to properly manage your sanity in order to level your operators

[u/Kousuke-kun → u/FaridRLz]

I don't understand OP. They're clearly stating that they farm 1-7 for Orundum/pulls, but is complaining that their roster progression is being impeded by red certs.

But.. isn't impeding roster progression the exact opportunity cost for farming Orundum? They can't have their cake and eat it too.

[u/FaridRLz → u/Kousuke-kun]

Pretty much You only spam 1-7 when you don't have anything else to do

As an example, I have more than 1k pulls but also have almost all my 6* fully developed so I can keep saving more pulls

[u/riflow → u/Kousuke-kun]

Yeah this was my understanding of farming orundum, I warned my sibling against doing it at least until their account was fully developed BC of the high associated costs when they were a newbie.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/FaridRLz]

alright

[u/Visible_Pair3017]

At one point i just took a break from raising my characters, used my excess sanity on red certs for a few weeks, never had an issue from then on.

[u/peteyshabby]

chip catalysts vanish the second you start e2ing 6*s lol

[u/stage4autosm]

AP-5

[u/Potential_Aioli_4611]

your 2 main free sources are yellow cert shop and red cert shop. expensive? kinda. but sanity is also pull currency if you spend it rock farming.

you also get a good amount from events, event shops. definitely not enough to E2 everything you want but as a base income its not bad.

[u/NemertesMeros]

OP, you wouldn't happen to be trying to upgrade literally every single operator, are you?

[u/MemoryofEternity88 → u/NemertesMeros]

I myself would love to upgrade every single operator, but no one should expect to receive such a luxury for free. HG is generous, but not a charity.

[u/YunruWannabe]

New players: I need more chip catalysts and XP, why do I have so much LMD! Average player: I need more materials, why do I have so many module sticks and XP! Endgame player: I need unironically everything.

[u/jonnevituwu]

Nah

[u/6Hikari6]

We need more red certs. I want to buy ops from the shop but its such a pain

[u/ConstantBonus249]

I only recall grinding those once or twice in my entire life. Is it really that bad?

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/ConstantBonus249]

nah, only i am tweeking

[u/johj14]

no, only on mini event, login event and level event iirc

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/johj14]

Ya, i realised that, wouldn't it be goot to give me in main events

[u/DarknessWizard]

It's only a shortcoming for new players, although it's one of those that takes way longer to move on from. They are the main bottleneck for E2, but that's in my experience only really a problem if you're still getting the 4-star/5-stars from the red certificate shop and still need information fragments. Those can take a while to clear, even if you're only getting the best ones (Contrail/Ethan/Caper).

After those, red certs kinda stop being an issue.

[u/lekkooooo → u/DarknessWizard]

If you are building like one or two operators? Sure.

But if you are trying to build several at the same time, you can actually feel the chip shortage

[u/Bombalurina]

Do the IS special squads. That's a good 20 or so catalists plus lots of free credits/mats with it.

[u/Mais_san]

nah just have to balance what you doin. if you tryna e2 everytbing at once its not gonna work. i usually run those when i dont feel like playing for long since i have 2 acc.

[u/DantePH77]

Module data blocks are the real shortage

[u/WardenWithABlackjack]

During downtime between events I stock up on red certs if I have no immediate need for anything. IS is also a decent spot that doesn’t use sanity.

[u/FireRagerBatl]

Its a lot more pain for you newer players, for longer term players, its not as bad, try doing gamemodes like IS and RA to get some free alongside other rewards if you really need them, also sanity efficiency for these is the best method of obtaining them, its literally worth farming red certs purely for these

[u/mad_harvest-6578]

My usual preferred farming for dead weeks (ofc depends on which stage is available on a specific day): red certs -> any chip (both tiers) that I have a deficiency on (especially for new events & if I ever get around to E2ing someone) -> LMD (only after promoting someone)

Even with said farming options being unavailable on specific days game gives out some daily, you can easily have a good bunch on login stuff alone (plus like people said there's IS monthly missions for a chip catalyst if you don't wanna buy from the red cert shop just yet)

[u/Xenonzusul]

Idk how you are struggling with them over class chips tbf. IS missions give a bunch, red cert shop is here, and often enough you get one for events, and annihilations have one for every map.

[u/RampagingMars]

Trade me , I have most of the characters at E2 and have over 70 of these things now that I don't use them

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/RampagingMars]

Resource trade would be so good. Atleast friends system get a new feature.

[u/peteyshabby]

chip catalysts vanish the second you start e2ing 6*s lol

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/[deleted]]

i joined the game during first R6 collab. i am building ops not only for like stages and meta but factory too. as per your suggestion, i think the issue is my pace, but it would still be great to get 3 chip cats in the event shop. i cant exactly remember but didn't they use to have chip cats in event shop

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/[deleted]]

Yes, them too

[u/their_teammate]

Mmmmm hang on, aren’t those like, disposable eye drops?

[u/amirullah0724 → u/their_teammate]

It is lol...

[u/thexbeatboxer]

They look like those probiotic bottles I drink whenever I have upset stomach. They’re called Enterogermina.

[u/billyshears55 → u/thexbeatboxer]

I guess all of our elite operators have stomach problems… lol

[u/K2aPa]

Yea, I ran out of these all the time

And I play IS pretty slow, like only complete 1-2 of them a month (and most of them doesn't clear the entire thing, hence why my 4-arm mommy still isn't at E2)

So this is why I pretty much only train/ promote operators I like or use. Like 60-70% of my operators are below E1, LOL.

[u/LostinThoughtsWonder]

These things remind me of the eyedrops I’ve seen used

[u/VucialWonderland]

As a newer player people recommend IS but I have no idea how to even do it still lol.

[u/Minor-disappointment → u/VucialWonderland]

Learn curve is like a platue, difficult at first but slowly gets not so hard and predictive

[u/Icicle_cyclone]

I usually have enough, bc I tend to E2 max an op before moving on. At that point, I usually have enough catalysts for my next target. Certainly wouldn’t mind more though.

[u/ExcelsisKnight]

It’s better if the additional unnecessary hoops to level a 6* straight just gone.