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Drone Combat Boost & Skill Chips — Day 82 Plan

What unlocks on day 82, the squad-specific chip craft order, and how RAV3 turns it into compounding alliance power.

Last updated 4/28/2026

Drone Combat Boost and the Chip Lab both unlock on server day 82, gated only by HQ level 15. Combat Boost is a universal multiplier — it raises the power of your drone AND every chip you slot. The Chip Lab is where you craft those chips. Everything earned in this system is permanent and compounds for the rest of the server.

Combat Boost Starter Mission 7-day grid with countdown timer and reward chests
This is what you log into on day 82: the Combat Boost Starter Mission. 6+ days of tasks that hand you Combat Boost EXP cards and chip materials — the cheapest XP in the system. Do not skip a single task.
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Aethernis Skill Chips Quick Start Guide infographic with TLDR section, key components for chip materials and EXP cards, and Combat Boost stage table from level 10 to 750
Aethernis's one-page TLDR — material conversions (800 premium → 1 legendary, 400 basic → 1 epic), the slot layout, preset rules, and the full Combat Boost stage table. If you read nothing else in this guide, read this image.
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Tactical Drone screen showing four chip slots in a tree layout with preset toggles 1 through 4 and Tank Chip Set squad power footer
The Tactical Drone screen. Four chip slots in the center tree, four preset toggles at the bottom (presets 2/3/4 lock until Combat Boost stages II/III/IV). The "Tank Chip Set" label and Change Squad button show that chips bind to a hero type.
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What unlocks on day 82

  • Combat Boost — universal multiplier on your drone and every equipped chip. Levels feed permanently.
  • Chip Lab building — craft, fuse, and disintegrate chips. Goes to level 20 to unlock all SSR + UR chips.
  • Four chip slots: Initial Move, Attack, Defense, Interference.
  • Eight chips total — 4 SSR (mid-tier) and 4 UR (endgame).

The 8 chips by slot (in-game slot order)

  • Slot 1 Initial Move — SSR: EM Shield. UR: Absolute Quantum Field. Battle-start shield + post-shield damage reduction (UR).
  • Slot 2 Attack — SSR: Ultra Frequency Resonance. UR: Lethal Firestorm. Damage per drone strike; UR hits more targets.
  • Slot 3 Interference — SSR: Armor-piercing Pulse. UR: Memory Ultra Fission. Damage increase + back-row bonus + enemy tactic reduction (UR).
  • Slot 4 Defense — SSR: Photon Armor. UR: Gravitational Resonance. Team defense buff, with extra for front row (UR).
Combat Boost Stages panel listing all six stages with level thresholds and rewards
The full Combat Boost stage ladder, straight from the in-game UI. Stage I (Lvl 10) unlocks the chip system. Stages II–IV (150 / 300 / 450) unlock presets 2/3/4. Stages V–VI (600 / 750) raise the chip bonus level — those are long-term goals, not day-1.
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Day 78–82 — Prepare now (4 days out)

  1. Hoard drone speedups and accelerators. Do NOT spend them on the current drone tree; save for Combat Boost levels.
  2. Stockpile Drone Combat Data — buy from every Arms Race and Daily Sale rotation. Combat Data also drives Arms Race Drone Boost scoring.
  3. Stop opening any Skill Chip chests you already have. Bank them and open in a coordinated window once the Lab is live.
  4. Donate to alliance tech every login — alliance coins fund chip chests in the Alliance Shop later.
  5. Decide YOUR main squad type (Tank / Air / Missile). Chips bind to hero type, so picking before day 82 means you craft cleanly from minute one.

Tank squad — craft order

  1. SSR craft order: EM Shield → Photon Armor → Ultra Frequency Resonance → Armor-piercing Pulse.
  2. SSR 2-star order: same as craft order. Get every SSR to 2 stars before pushing any chip past it.
  3. Only Ultra Frequency Resonance goes to 10 stars among SSRs. Every other SSR sits at 2 stars until you replace it with UR.
  4. UR craft order: Absolute Quantum Field → Gravitational Resonance → Lethal Firestorm → Memory Ultra Fission.
  5. First UR to 5 stars: Lethal Firestorm (the multi-target unlock).

Aircraft / Missile squad — craft order

  1. SSR craft order: EM Shield → Ultra Frequency Resonance → Armor-piercing Pulse → Photon Armor.
  2. SSR 2-star order is different from craft order: Ultra Frequency Resonance → Armor-piercing Pulse → EM Shield → Photon Armor.
  3. Only Ultra Frequency Resonance goes to 10 stars among SSRs. Every other SSR sits at 2 stars.
  4. UR craft order: Lethal Firestorm → Memory Ultra Fission → Absolute Quantum Field → Gravitational Resonance.
  5. First UR to 5 stars: Lethal Firestorm.
Absolute Quantum Field Tank chip detail screen showing 400K shield value, 4 percent damage reduction, 9 second duration, and Ascend button
A UR chip detail screen — Absolute Quantum Field crafted for Tank. Note the values in green/yellow showing star bonus (+80K shield, +1% damage reduction). The Ascend button fuses duplicates for the next star tier.
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Aethernis Skill Chips Simple Guide infographic showing the universal star-push order top middle left right, three star tiers, plain-language chip descriptions with playstyle badges, and Combat Boost stage bonus table
Aethernis's simplest one-pager. Universal star-push order (top → middle → left → right = Lethal Firestorm → Absolute Quantum Field → Memory Ultra Fission → Gravitational Resonance), star tiers, and a "best for ___" badge on each chip so you can pick what fits your playstyle.
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Aethernis Skill Chips Leveling Guide infographic with star overview table for stars 1 through 10 and Combat Boost level bonus table from level 1 to 750
Aethernis's leveling reference. Top half: exact %/value at every star (1–10) for all 4 UR chips, with breakpoints highlighted at stars 2, 5, and 8. Bottom half: how each Combat Boost level (150 / 300 / 450 / 600 / 750) adds bonus on top of a chip's base values.
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Upgrade rules

  • 2-star EVERY chip before pushing any single chip past 2. The 2-star jump is significantly larger than any other level upgrade.
  • Universal star-push order once everything is at 2★: Lethal Firestorm → Absolute Quantum Field → Memory Ultra Fission → Gravitational Resonance Armor (top → middle → left → right). Same order across all squad types.
  • Disintegrate replaced SSR chips into Combat Boost — that's their permanent value once you upgrade slots to UR. Only SSR-rarity disintegrates into Combat Boost.
  • Star equivalency: an 8-star SSR ≈ a 3-star UR. A 10-star SSR ≈ a 4-star UR. Don't over-invest in SSR levels you can't recover.
  • Park the Chip Lab building at level 20 — that unlocks every SSR and UR craft. Levels past 20 are stat polish with brutal scaling; push other buildings instead.

Arms Race — Drone Boost phase (4-hour window)

  1. Save stamina the day before. Stamina spent in combat (zombies, radar, rallies) scores during the phase, so a full bar at phase start is free points.
  2. Save Drone Combat Data too. Inside the phase: Drone Center → Data Training → spend 10 Combat Data at a time. Every spend scores AND levels Combat Boost.
  3. Pair the phase with radar missions and alliance rallies — they score under the stamina rule, so you double-dip.
  4. Bring drone parts. Some triggered upgrades consume parts; running out mid-phase leaves points on the table.

Where to farm Combat Data + chip chests

  • Alliance Shop — up to 5 Rare chip chests/week + Combat Data bundles. Daily tech donation funds your coins.
  • Campaign Shop — 1 Epic chip chest/week. Always buy.
  • Honor Shop — 1 Legendary chip chest/month. Always buy, even if you skip other Honor items.
  • Daily zombie kills — drop drone parts and combat data. Never skip the daily quota.
  • VIP Store — extra weekly chests on rotation if you run VIP.

Alliance coordination — what actually compounds

  1. Donate to alliance tech every login. Members short on coins leave chip chests on the shelf.
  2. Bank Skill Chip chests and open them on Monday morning of an Alliance Duel week — Day 1 (Radar Training) is the only VS day they score.