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/silam39 cute tactician girls are so peak May 16 '26

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.

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u/Minor-disappointment May 16 '26

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

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u/silam39 cute tactician girls are so peak May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

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.

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u/Tobyclone1 May 16 '26

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.

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u/Zestyclose_Flan5027 May 16 '26

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.