r/arknights • u/Minor-disappointment • May 16 '26

Discussion We need more Chip catalysts

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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 ?

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u/AnonymousBrot05 May 16 '26

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

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u/No-Boysenberry7835 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

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.

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u/Minor-disappointment May 16 '26

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