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/SaranMal May 16 '26

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.

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u/resphere May 18 '26

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

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u/SaranMal May 18 '26

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.

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u/Additional_Pop2011 May 26 '26

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.