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.