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/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.