At 25 deg microbevel, you shouldn't see any microchipping. I realize that this is a bit lucky, but I haven't seen any more microchipping on my S30V blades than on blades out of a different steel at 12 deg per side with no micro bevel. Most of my edges show minor chipping (nothing that isn't removed during a few passes on the sharpmaker, often even only the sharpmaker whites) during use, regardless of the steel, though A2 seems to dent or roll more, but pretty much to the same extent and requiring about the same sharpening. My EDC edges seem to mostly blunt by occasional and accidental run-ins with something hard, usually at the first inch from the tip where I use the blade the most.
I often wonder a bit what people call microchipping. With a 100x microscope you can see a lot of irregularity at the edge that doesn't have necessarily anything to do with microchipping. If you look at a good Spyderco factory edge, it looks really toothy and wavy under the microscope. If you think about what 100x really means and do a quick napkin calculation, this comes as no surprise. You can resolve with your eye EASILY 0.2 mm (just take a caliper and set it to 0.2 mm, actually you can probably still resolve below 0.1 mm with the naked eye, so 0.2 mm is a very conservative estimate). At a magnification of 100x you can resolve 1/100 of that which is 2 micrometers. That is significantly BELOW the average carbide size of most stainless steels (the carbide size of D2 is 50 microns!). 2000 grit japanese waterstones (I am not too familiar with the US grit size) would correspond to about 7 micron particles. So at this magnification you are already looking at the minimum scratch sizes left by the abrasive which, if you think about, can leave an indentation at the edge of about twice that (intersecting scratches from both sides), meaning 14 microns. Usually at 100x, resolution is not the problem but rather lighting and depth of field.
As much as I recommend looking at the edge after and during use and sharpening to get a feel what is going on, I think sometimes people get (unnecessarily) spooked by what is possible to see at such a magnification. Even an edge that passes a fingernail test (sliding a fingernail down the edge for irregularities) may show some serious irregularities at 100x. Which is not to say that you couldn't produce an edge completely free of visible irregularities at 100x with sufficiently fine abrasives and some care.
When people complain about defective, microchipping S30V, what they usually describe is actually not really "micro-chipping" in the strict sense of the word anymore but rather "hundreds-of-micron chipping". You shouldn't need a 100x microscope to see that.
