Core Chip

Core Chips are a type of item in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country. They are used to strengthen a 's weapon and change its appearance. 
Core Chips can alter a Blade's auto-attack stat, , and . Certain Core Chips may also provide additional benefits such as improving Critical Damage, improving stats like , or reducing the gained from s. Usually a Core Chip will have the same sort of effect on all weapon types, but some are more varied - for example, while a Gold Chip always gives the same drop rate boost, a Forest Chip provides a damage boost to different sorts of foes based on the weapon type, and an Amethyst Chip provides wildly differing stat boosts.
Each Core Chip has a "rank" ranging from 1 to 20, where a higher rank roughly corresponds to stronger stats. This is invisible to the player (aside from it being a sort option) and normally irrelevant; it is only relevant in , where certain Challenge Battles decrease the auto-attack stat of Core Chips above a certain rank for balance purposes.
==Sources==
Core Chips can be obtained through various methods.
* Purchasing them from s
* Completing s
* Completing Merc Missions
* Defeating enemies
* Opening treasure troves
* Performing Driver Combos
* Completing s in the 
==List of Core Chips==
Core Chip	Rarity	Rank	Price (XC2)	Price (TTGC)	Avg. Auto-Attack	Avg. Stability	Avg. Critical Rate	Avg. Block Rate	Has bonus effect
In addition to the above, a minority of weapons do not have a matching Core Chip.
==Trivia==
* The exclusive Blades , , , , , , and all possess weapon types which cannot equip Core Chips.
* In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and 's Aegis Sword, 's Variable Saber, 's Shield Hammer, 's Greataxe, 's , 's , and 's will not change their appearance, regardless of what Core Chip is equipped.
* In Torna ~ The Golden Country, all Blade weapons will not change their appearance, regardless of what Core Chip is equipped. This also applies to 's Whipswords and 's Chroma Katana, despite the fact that these weapons do change appearance in the base game.
* Some Core Chips follow naming trends:
** The Lead, Tin, Bronze, Steel, Iron, Cobalt, Gold, and Silver chips are named after metals.
** The Fang, Wing, Scale, and Horn chips are named after animal body parts.
** The Turquoise, Spinel, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Opal, Garnet, Zircon, and Fluorite chips are named after gemstones.
** The Brachinite, Lodranite, Ureilite, Howardite, Nakhlite, Aubrite, Angrite, and Winonaite chips are named after types of meteorite.
** The Coil, Magnet, Chain, Motor, Engine, Battery, and Shaft chips are named after machine parts.
** The Rhombus, Tri-, Pentagon, Cube, Polygon, Sphere, Spiral, and Hexagon chips are named after shapes.
** The Hadron, Axion, Photon, Positron, Dilaton, Tachyon, and Preon chips are named after (possibly hypothetical) particles.
==In other languages==
==Gallery==
===Xenoblade Chronicles 2===
====Tutorials====
Core Chip Tutorial (XC2) 1.jpg|XC2 Core Chip Tutorial part 1
Core Chip Tutorial (XC2) 2.jpg|XC2 Core Chip Tutorial part 2
Core Chip Tutorial (XC2) 3.jpg|XC2 Core Chip Tutorial part 3
Core Chip Tutorial (XC2) 4.jpg|XC2 Core Chip Tutorial part 4
Core Chip Tutorial (XC2) 5.jpg|XC2 Core Chip Tutorial part 5
====Screenshots====
Tachyon Chip modification.jpg|The Tachyon Chip adds an additional effect to the weapon
Tachyon Chip original appearance.jpg|The Tachyon Chip reverts a weapon's appearance to its original state
===Torna ~ The Golden Country===
====Tutorials====
Strengthening Blade Tutorial (TTGC) 1.jpg|Core Chip tutorial
Strengthening Blade Tutorial (TTGC) 3.jpg|Core Chip tutorial
Strengthening Blade Tutorial Tip (TTGC).jpg|Tutorial tip mentioning Core Chips as a way to strenghthen Blades
====Screenshots====
Whipsword appearance unmodified in TTGC.jpg|The Whipswords' appearance is unchanged in Torna ~ The Golden Country
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