Arbiter Hard Mode Hermit IX (Heavy Armor) Fleet Build Help

[wary belfry]

Would like help with building fleets for the hard mode operation siren boss!
It's heavy armor!
Pics are my fleets currently and also my higher leveled vanguard and main

[warped rose]

solid dock, hope you have gear to back it up

First step is to get rid of the Perseus mob fleet

Have you attempted to fight?

[wary belfry]

Not yet, wanted to prepare before I do but I can fight right now

[warped rose]

You should read the boss modifiers

[wary belfry]

Okay, let me check

[warped rose]

Especially the shield every 20 seconds one

[idle pond]

level your hakuryu asap, a dev30 haku sitting at lv78 irks me

[wary belfry]

haha yea...just got her yesterday

[long iris]

oh

D30 Haku pog

[wary belfry]

so these modifiers

[warped rose]

Do you have any better submarines than the purple?

[wary belfry]

like who?

[warped rose]

Like post your options

[warped rose]

Is it just me or are these images resolutions weird

[idle pond]

it's just you

[wary belfry]

[warped rose]

So leo da Vinci beats u410 at equal level. But she's 11 levels lower so currently 410 is probably better

[wary belfry]

leo can run with german subs?

[warped rose]

Yes, if they're all level 120

[idle pond]

well she can replace u-410 and make up for the lost synergy atleast

[warped rose]

Because u410 is purple and purple is weaker (except nautilus)

[wary belfry]

oh neat

[warped rose]

Can you manual? Or only auto

[wary belfry]

I can manual

[warped rose]

Manual you just need to hold the airstrikes until the 5 second shield expires

[wary belfry]

Hold onto my planes after 5 sec shield goes down, gotcha

[warped rose]

Yeah, copy paste by me:
so the first thing to note is that the boss has a 20% hp shield every 20 seconds. The timings are

1. battle starts at 1:27
2. shield from 1:07 to 1:02
3. shield from 0:47 to 0:42
4. shield from 0:27 to 0:22
5. shield from 0:07 to 0:02

so you want to not use your airstrikes or BB shells during each of those 5 seconds

Tbh you can kill it already with the BB fleet and CV fleet

Wanna try? I'll fix the other two fleets in the meantime

[wary belfry]

Okay, I'll try to use the BB and CV fleet

Oh yea, do you need the gears

[warped rose]

If you have enough meta gear it's fine

Like 406mm/50, ryuusei/saiun/ju87d, hpfcr, white shells

[wary belfry]

okay, will try then!

actually...i feel like im messing up the timing of radar scan and my bbs shots...🫠

[dire aurora]

who made these fleets, just curious

[wary belfry]

i'd have to search for the archived thread to find that

wait, wasn't it you and shuwa

[dire aurora]

yeah i thought i recognized these

[warped rose]

[dire aurora]

but it could've just been good fleets

[wary belfry]

lol well it's good enough to beat zone 5 6 bosses and get through the red spiral things (i forgot the name of it, my brain dumb)

and uh yea, i feel like i'm messing up the timings with the helena debuff and my shots...

[warped rose]

Helena with SG Radar and BBs with HSFCR or AFCT

just shoot as soon as they reload

you can even auto with that fleet

[wary belfry]

oh i can?

ok ill try that then

okay, i did what u said and i got it down to x68 with my bbs (i prob messed up somewhere?)
gonna do the cv fleet

[warped rose]

*ominous silence*

[wary belfry]

🫠 i forgot to equip aas so my cv fleet died earlier than expected and then i flubbed the redo 🫠

;nfi naewfa

[warped rose]

1. Vanguard NJ UvH SanFran Helena Yuudachi [can auto, SG Radar + HSFCR/AFCT + 406mm/50]
2. Shinano Ark Enterprise Chikuma Kazagumo Sirius [manual to delay airstrikes]
3. Ticonderoga Essex Independence Kron Shimakaze Baltimore [manual to delay airstrikes]
4. VV Aquila Warspite Adalbert Jeanne Heinrich [last fleet to tank boss's increased damage]

VV can take a rudder to tank even better

and of course, for the first three battles, summon submarines at 35 to 40 seconds remaining so that they don't sink

[wary belfry]

oh, so that's the time i get my subarmines, i've summoned em earlier..mb

okay, this time i got her down to x31 with my cv and bb fleet and subs

[warped rose]

are you still using your old fleets? then the perseus volga fleet can go last because healing

[wary belfry]

yea, i went bb, cv, riche fleet (rn), and then will go volga fleet
if i die, which i prob might, i'll switch after (also thank u for the fleets!! i will make a note of this for future fights )

[warped rose]

this is for Hermit specifically. Next month is Temperance which is light armored, you'll probably need a different setup

[wary belfry]

feck

is that the one with the tentacles

[warped rose]

and you'll have Musashi and Haku leveled up

[wary belfry]

and drake hopefully

also with riche fleet i brought her down to x16

[warped rose]

did you know?

1. you can move your best gear between fleets
2. you can quit a battle if you messed up or Helena was sleeping

[wary belfry]

AH, MOVING GEAR

also god damnit

i got her down to x3

alright, i'm changing fleets now

do i awaken chikuma? she'll prob only go a level or two up

[warped rose]

no

[wary belfry]

ok cuz i know i gotta use the chips for haku and drake and musashi

[warped rose]

125 chikuma is just for slightly better tanking, but you're manualing anyways

and you won't use chikuma once you get aegir and anchorage

[wary belfry]

ok i beat her now

[warped rose]

[wary belfry]

thanks stigma 😄

also i won't be able to get aegir for a while

mainly because i only have like 278 prints and no special gbps 😦

[warped rose]

that's enough for aegir

[wary belfry]

what? really? i thought it's best to get them to like dev25+

[warped rose]

it's aegir

she has skills
although yes, 333 blueprints for dev 25 would be another boost to tanking ability

[wary belfry]

so even a little below dev25 she'd still be better than tanks like chikuma (idk who else she'd be better than at that level )

[dire aurora]

thought dev 15 agir was still tankier than all gold tanks minus ancho

[wary belfry]

wat

[dire aurora]

agir still has like 7k hp and heavy armor at dev 15

[wary belfry]

i didn't know about that...

[warped rose]

and 15% damage reduction and 15% evasion stat because why not

[wary belfry]

i hate using cubes unless it's for pulls, but i guess i can just use mail to get her then
i still need to wait 2 hours till i can develop another ship

also, question, how much xp packs does it take to get a ship to lvl 125 from 1?

[warped rose]

about 1800 exp packs for rainbow ship

1520 for non-rainbow

i just never do that, becaus then you have a level 125 ship with stranger affinity

[wary belfry]

oh, so then i could just level musashi with those since she's 100 affec and i have about 2.7k?

[warped rose]

you can do it anyways

even if you oath musashi, you'll be using her a lot in chapter 14 at least, could get to 200 affinity eventually

[wary belfry]

alright, i'll get her to 120 with xp packs and then awaken her

after i get drake and haku to 100 affec i'll use the xp packs to do the same too then