Chipsets and Attributes

Chips and attributes make your word much easier and helps overcome some deficiencies of your digimon. By applying these you can make a world of difference for your tamer and your digimon; these will be essential if pvp ever comes to gdmo (english version of dmo).  Now there is a differnece between the two, chips will directly apply to your digimon if its the correct level and type; attributes apply directly to to tamer and will apply to the digimon through a system called intimacy.


Attributes

Attributes are things that you apply to your tamers clothes that will up your tamer's stats and through intimacy, your digimons stats (this is explained in the intimacy paragraph). You'll notice that digimon pretty much everywhere besides b1,b2 and maze will drop these things. They look like glowly orbs coming in different colors. Each color goes with a certain area that you attach it to ( I don't remember which colors go with which at the moment). You can also get them from scanning chip eggs that you get from b1,b2 and maze, though you'll more likely will get chips. Attributes rank from A to D, D being the best class of attribute. If you want higher attributes than you obviously have to kill stronger digimon to get them, like gizus or try and get lucky with high rank chip eggs.

Now when you get an attribute, it'll be unscanned and you can't do anything with it besides stare at it. So to be able to use it, you need to take it to an Equipment Merger, which will usually be a Kamemon ( the turtle) or a bald guy. These can be found scattered all around, the easiest one is the one in Western Village if you complete all the find chessmon quests all around the western area. It'll then cost you to have these attributes to be analyzed, not all attributes will scan the same, there is a range of values that they can have, which is stated on the attribute before you analyze it. Once you know its value then you must merge it with your clothing. You click the merging option and have to have that piece of clothing off of you as well. You put the piece of clothing in the top lone slot and there are two slots on the bottom for attributes, the exception for this is your glasses and shoes, they only have one slot for attributes. After you put them in the slot, then you click merge, which also costs you money. When you come across a better attribute, you go to the merging section again, but you click on the one that you dont want anymore and click de-activate, this also costs money, so then you have a free slot to put in your new attribute.

Now attributes don't apply fully to your tamer, most clothes that you get in game will only apply 55% of what the value of the attribute is, this is a ploy so you'll buy premium clothing from the cash shop (you can't trade it even if bought with premium silk) which will apply 115-130% of the attribute to your tamer. The glasses apply 90% and shoes apply 100% even if they're the regular clothes found in game. Now you can buy clothes from people or scan higher rank item eggs to get them. There are also certain sellers all around the digital world that will sell one type of clothing; like gloves are sold in digifarm. Clothes are generally pretty cheap, the only one that get pricey are glasses, which are still relatively easy to get; I got mine from scanning eggs from the snow area. Clothes come in all sorts of shapes and colors so you can customize your tamer as you go.

Pants- These are where defense attributes go, this stat can be passed onto your digimon, allowing it to take more of a beating.

Shirt/Jacket- These are where health attributes go, this increases your tamer's health allowing you to not get fatigued as fast. It also gives more health to your digimon.

Gloves-These are where attack attributes go, this stat can be passed onto your digimon, allowing it to give more of a beating. This doesn't affect your f1/f2, only the base attack stat your digimon has.

Shoes-These are where speed attributes go, this stat can be passed onto your digimon, allowing it to attack  a little faster and for your tamer to move faster. The highest value you can get for this attribute is 4%, which is difficult to get. I had a friend who scanned 30 of them and didn't get a single 4%. It doesn't make you any less of a tamer if you stick with 3%.

Glasses-These are where ds attributes go, increases your tamer ds, allowing you to remain digivolved longer and gives more ds to your digimon. I think the highest these can go is 185 or 186.

Hats-These are where ds attributes go, this does the same thing as glasses and can be worn at the same time as glasses, while the headphones that you get from the cash shop cannot. This is an event only clothes item and cannot be sold. They gave it out during halloween in gdmo's first year and hasn't been given out in a long time.

Currently these are the only clothes available at this time of writing. You can sell attributes scanned or unscanned as long as you haven't applied them to clothing.

Intimacy

This is the bond between you and your digimon. When you first get a digimon it'll be 0, but will go up as you continue to use/have this digimon. The max I've seen intestacy "naturally" go is to 35, but costumes obtained from the cash shop or events can raise it by 20 points, giving you a possible max of 55 intimacy with your digimon. Why should you care? Well intimacy ties in attributes that your tamer uses. As you use your digimon more, you intimacy will go up and will then gain a "base intimacy". This is the value that your digimon will start the day off with when you first long on and bring it out, this will increase as you use it more. For example my tentomon starts off at 20 when I log on and bring him out for the first time, as I use him my intimacy will go up, mine goes to 35 in a short amount of time. It will stay there as long as I don't die, put him in storage or log off. Though you will start off with a low intimacy value and it might not rise very high when you first start off, it'll go up as you use that digi. Generally if you get it to bm then it's intimacy will start off at 20 and will go to 35; in my personal experience anyway. Now when I bring out my tento my intimacy is at 20 with him, so a decent chunk of my attributes are being passed onto him. Though when I hit 35, his attack has gone up by 50 and defense by 20. Those may seem like little numbers, but it makes a lot of difference when fighting. So make your digimon like you and you'll like them better when they're smashing through more digimon. 

If you'd like to see the effect that your intimacy is having on your digi, then you click the d button to bring up the digimon menu and go to abilities. You then can hover over a stat (it'll be in green if its being boosted usually) and see what effect your chips,cloning and tamer is having on it. The number that has the tamer picture next to it, is what your tamer is passing onto the digi.

Chips

Chips are wonderful things that will apply directly to your digi's stats as long as they meet the type and level requirement. They come in ranks of 1-6; apparently there was supposedly an event with betamon sizes with the winners getting rank 7 chips, but trollmax/joymax never gave them out. The higher the rank of the chip, the more stats points it'll give and usually the higher the requirement it is. You can sell chips and chip eggs but cannot once you've applied the chip.  Chips also come in a range, you usually wont get the same number every time. You can apply two chips at a time, to do this bring up the tamer menu( click c) and go to the digivice tab and there are two slots for chips to go.  Now to see if they do you must check several things; the chip type, level requirement, digi level,and digi type. You can hover over the chip and it'll present all this info conveniently for you. Your digimon must not only match the level requirement but also the family requirment. If your digimon has two families it just needs to match one of them on the chip. For example my tento is jungle trooper and nature spirits, so jungle trooper and nature spirits chips will both work on him, I can apply one of each chip if I want. Now to check a head of time to see what family your digi has, you click d then there is an arrow on the side of the digi's menu and you can hover over each evolution to see what families they're in, so you can pick the best chip to help out the most evolutions. Bm's often change families so if you wish to train in that form, you need to find the right chip for it. Of course if you don't want to carry all sorts of chips with you, all family chips are your friend. 

Now where do I get these magical things? You can get chips anywhere pretty much, which as you go to higher areas you will most likely will get higher chips. Here are several ways I've gotten chips from around the digital world.

Eggs That Have a Blue Square Around Them- These look like the data/item eggs, except they will have a blue square around them when they're in you inventory ( like eggs that give you data will have a green box around them), they are usually more to scan then the other types of eggs that you get in that area. These may give you nothing, a family specific chip or an all family chip. Generally different types of eggs will give different family chips, like if you pick up a blue squared dragon egg, you'll usually get Dragon's Roar family chip, I don't know all the combinations, but generally if the digi that drops it is of a particular family, its eggs may give that particular chip.

The 880 Bit Eggs From Gizu- These are eggs that cost 880 bits to scan and will give you all family chips for levels 55 and up. This is probably one of the easiest and cheapest ways to get chips, but you have to have a level 55 digimon to use them.

Chip Eggs- This is the way to get the type of family chip you want. You get these from b1,b2 and maze. They cost around 12-15 m to scan, which you may get nothing, a chip or an attribute. In b1 they don't drop too often but when they do, they can apply to lower level digimon unlike the ones from b2 and maze which have requirements of level 55-61. Ones that have a pink box or are called epic, usually give better chips but a lot of times have higher requirements. These can be bought for a decnt price, but can get expensive after buying a lot of them. Chip eggs come in ranks, the highest I've seen so far is rank 7 epic.

Chip Egg Quest- In b2 of the maze or b1 in dats, you can get quests that will give you a random chip egg, Not exactly the best way to get them, but if you need a more rare type of family chip, then try these.

Types of Chips

There are several types of chips that you can use, each have their merits. Most people I know run either double attack chips or one attack and one defense.

Attack Chips-These boost your base attack stat (not skills) and are the most commonly used and sought after chip. These chips can add up to 80 attack points, and really make a difference. If you want to kill fast, then these are the ones to use. Also if you have high evasion then slap on two attack chips since you can't get hit. The downside is that these are expensive since a lot of people want them. They can go anywhere from 200m-2t, though the higher prices are usually for the ap 80 or rarer family chips.

Defense Chips- These boost your base defense stat and are hard to get. These allow your digi to take more hits and any amount helps a lot. If you choose to clone critical, a defense chip might be handy since you'll be exposed to being hit. Using an all family defense chip isn't a bad idea since they're harder to get and it saves room in your inventory.

Health Chips- These boost your digimon's health stat. These are easy to get and are cheap. But in the grand scheme of things don't make as much of a difference as attack and defense chips do. You can maybe survive one or two more hits with these on, but I personally don't care for them. I've seen them add as much as 470 hp.

Digi-Soul Chips-These boost your digimon's ds stat. These are also easy to get and are cheap.These maybe add 150 ds, which may get you one more skill before you have to use a disk.

You can also have dual stat chips which will boost two stats, but they are significantly lower than if it was a single stat chip for a stat.

Chipset Families

Jungle Troopers- Are relatively easy to get, and usually drop from bug digimon, wormmon in f1 are a good source.

Dragon's Roar- Are a little more difficult to get, usually drop from dragons, mono in b2 are a good source.

Nightmare Soliders- Are pretty easy to get, are dropped from anything that looks evil pretty much. Gobli/worm/ in f1 and all kera types in the whole maze are good sources. Also kera are good sources for b2.

Metal Empire- Also pretty easy to get, dropped from rock type digimon or machines. Volcamon in maze entrance are a good source and so are the cyber and haguru in b2.

Virus Busters- Are harder to get, I've seen usually dragons or "good" looking digimon drop these . I've gotten quite a few from galidmon in maze b2.

Nature Sprits-Probably the most common chip egg, anything that look like an animals will probably drop these. Worms/bears in f1 drop them a lot. Bear in b1 might also drop them if you're looking for lower level chips.

Deep Savers- Very hard to get, these are the more expensive types, you can get these from aqua digimon. F3 and F4 apparently have digimon ( I think seadramon) that drop these.

Dark Area- One of the more uncommon types, pretty much anything evil looking will drop these too.

Unknown- Is a very oddball family, the most notable member is keramon, you can get these from I guess virus digimon, wormon in f1 drops them a lot.

Winged Guardians- This is hard to get chip and ap 80 will go for 1.5-2t. Birds or flying digimin will drop these. I get a lot from CannonBeemon in the maze entrance.

All Family- These are cheap and relatively easy to get from dt or gizu. It doesn't matter what family you are, your digi just has to be the right level. These are good for saving space and money. Though they don't give as much of a boost as a family specific chip. Their requirements are usually 46-55, with the level 46 ones obtained from dt and the 55 from gizu.