Sitting at 24/25 and can not progress

[themoonstar]

So with that being said in the title I have been trying to work on Challenges, but I feel like I am doing something wrong or not focusing on something as much as I should. Using most 2.0 weapons currently but not sure if that is hindering me since it is taking so long to upgrade. I have tier 2 of the compute challenge done and some of the synth one. my base is at 1.25e4x so idk what to do.

[best bulliet target]

do not use 2.0 weapon. you'd roughly want to use it when you can get the 6th-7th ablity (it's a scaling thing too)
hmm ether check your research or your syth. Are you into blue(t3) crafting yet?

warp is your new unlock so how far are you. mabey again do a full something, Not ahh this feels like a good split. like really push one thing to the limit, and then switch to some other things.

[themoonstar]

Originally posted by best bulliet target:

do not use 2.0 weapon. you'd roughly want to use it when you can get the 6th-7th ablity (it's a scaling thing too)
hmm ether check your research or your syth. Are you into blue(t3) crafting yet?

warp is your new unlock so how far are you. mabey again do a full something, Not ahh this feels like a good split. like really push one thing to the limit, and then switch to some other things.

Yeah I am at t3 synth mats and I don't really understand warp I am at 23 I think on both of them but not like I said not really sure what to do.

[RaptorSolutions]

You want to push warp then and use the essences from there to upgrade. The upgrade graph isn't top-down btw. Look towards the center of the web for the 1 point upgrade, that would be a fairly significant increase in your combat capabilities.
Then look at the one's that improves your warp coefficient since that scales both your rewards and some of the warp combat upgrades also scales of that. But basically if you don't know what to choose, choose the cheapest warp upgrade. There are a lot of fairly substantial upgrades in there, like extra synth slots and stuff. And also extra synth output/XP so it boosts things faster.
Reactor upgrades are fairly good too.

But again, have you chosen the warp upgrades "starter pack" upgrades? Starting from the 1 point combat upgrade at the center, the 20(?)% bonus to synth/salvage/compute for less than 10 points to the left, the similar but for research/power/bases to the right. Then go up for the warp coefficient so you can gain warp essence even faster to feed into even more upgrades. Then go down when the battle upgrades there are cheap enough.
Keep doing that warp. Remember to slot all your combat shards and set your reactor to combat power because the further levels you go in warp, the higher your rewards. Going further also increases your warp coefficient which then further feeds into your rewards and combat power.

Edit: Are you focusing your bases on green mats and boosters most of the time? You want to spend most of your time building infrastructure and then when you swap back to combat components you can gain crazy levels really fast.