w9+ fleet help

[frosty pagoda]

I've just about finished clearing 9-1 but my first fleet is starting to struggle, squeaking by with about 20s left on boss node. is this when I should work on my 2nd fleet? I have the exp but not necessarily the bulins, down to only 4 purple atm. I can attach gear pics if that's not too overwhelming. Also what should I be buying from merit shop?

I also plan on pulling the collab event, are there any ships there that I could potentially slot in as replacements?

[timid anchor]

k

[potent fiber]

Farm levels

Like lots of levels

Can linger on 9-1 safe for this

[eternal plank]

hmm

[frosty pagoda]

So any 9-x node is good cause oil cap?

[eternal plank]

yes

swap Ark Royal and Unicorn around, Alabama and Penn as well once you get some more levels on them

you also need to work retrofits

[frosty pagoda]

why should I swap unicorn out? would f2 be my mob fleet or something?

[potent fiber]

Around

Not out

[frosty pagoda]

javelin retro is almost done

[potent fiber]

also enty boss better

[eternal plank]

isn't your first fleet mob and 2nd fleet mobbing?

[frosty pagoda]

uh my 2nd fleet is mostly unused atm lol

been using the lvl adv to just push through with only 1

[eternal plank]

yeah I think it's time to work on two fleets

[potent fiber]

Yeah better to lurk 9-1 safe and level I think cheeky go make fleet

Ty

[frosty pagoda]

so I'll make 1 my mob and 2 my boss

does unicorn go on boss or mob?

[eternal plank]

mob

[potent fiber]

Mob always

[frosty pagoda]

ok that's what i figured

[eternal plank]

Mob: Penn, Unicorn, Independence, Pheonix, Laffey, Z23

[frosty pagoda]

independence even without retro? or only with retro

[eternal plank]

Boss: Alabama, Enty, Ark Royal, Portland, Javelin, Helena

[frosty pagoda]

ty

[potent fiber]

prio uni indep retro

Wait I blind

[eternal plank]

I don't think there's that much difference between her and and un unretroed Sara

[potent fiber]

Prio indep retro

Got plane diff but not much diff

[eternal plank]

should have gotten a bunch of BPs from the new player shop

[river dirge]

Uh

First fleet struggle

You mean 2nd?

2nd fleet is the underleveled one

[potent fiber]

They're one fleeting

[frosty pagoda]

yeah

[river dirge]

Okey

[potent fiber]

Go Luo

[frosty pagoda]

but i think it's time to no longer one fleet

[river dirge]

Just go with cheeky suggestions ig, keep in mind indep kinda expensive

If you have the uh, new player campaign going on its ez to get indep

And max retrofit

[frosty pagoda]

yeah I do

that's how I got uni retro really fast

[river dirge]

Ah icic

[frosty pagoda]

and i think my phase 2 shop shows up tomorrow

[eternal plank]

good thing the event drops tomorrow

[frosty pagoda]

one last q, is there anything I should prio for merit shop? maybe cubes, any ships that are good in there?

[eternal plank]

SP4 is a good place to farm levels for that 2nd fleet

Gold Bullins

[frosty pagoda]

are there two events tomorrow or just the collab rerun?

[eternal plank]

most of the ships are garbo to mediocre

[frosty pagoda]

oh, when I get hood should I slot her in for alabama?

[eternal plank]

Little Formi mini event and collab rerun

[frosty pagoda]

oh it's a mini event

[river dirge]

Are you familiar with how rainbow events work?

[frosty pagoda]

I am not

[eternal plank]

boot Alabama to the mob fleet replacing Penn and put hood on bossing

[frosty pagoda]

i started a week ago

learning a lot but still very ignorant

[river dirge]

So basically treat every single event with only gold ships as trash to use with cubes until proven otherwise

Like, when ppl find out if the gold ship is op

[frosty pagoda]

oh rainbow is the UR right

[river dirge]

Then you pull

[river dirge]

Yes

[frosty pagoda]

well I'll probably pull a little on collab cause I like DOA, but that makes sense as a general rule

[river dirge]

Yeah, each rainbow ship require 400 cubes to hard pity

And there are 3 new rainbow ships left this year

Plus nj rerun

[frosty pagoda]

400

what's UR rate normally?

[river dirge]

So total of 1600 cubes (less with tickets, idk how many tickets they will give for nj rerun)

[river dirge]

1.2%

[frosty pagoda]

and is it the single UR or multiple in pool?

[river dirge]

You usually earn 200+ cubes every month with daily play and cube comms

[river dirge]

Single

[frosty pagoda]

got it

I have 192 cubes rn but most of them have been one-time rewards

[river dirge]

Yeah you gotta optimize your commission ones

They give a LOT

of cubes

[frosty pagoda]

do the ships in comms change rewwards

[river dirge]

Basically if you just grind the game normally right, you get commissions that can give cubes

Always pick them

[frosty pagoda]

i've just been doing min level ships for all my comms

[river dirge]

You literally cancel every other comm

For cube/gem comms

[river dirge]

Oh nah farming any map is enough

Any map

[frosty pagoda]

sorry I meant if I send in say 6 level 10 ships, vs 6 level 50 ships

will the reward change or no

[river dirge]

Dont matter

[frosty pagoda]

well looks like i have a lot of work to do

[river dirge]

Oh and dont do commissions that cost 1200 oil

Those are super bad unless you dont play the game

[frosty pagoda]

yeah i haven't been

only free or 30 at m ost i think? and always cube/gem

[river dirge]

Pick fastest time wise until cube comm spawn

[frosty pagoda]

yeah and then I do long ones when i sleep

[river dirge]

Usually by the end of the day you be doing all cube comms

So like just keep doing em

[river dirge]

Some cube comms are 8 hrs

[river dirge]

Ya

[frosty pagoda]

yeah those just spawned

so i'll run them right before bed

[river dirge]

Dont really matter much

You just wanna do all the cube comms

So once you optimize cube comms everyday and play everyday for daily cubes, you earn a lot every month

[frosty pagoda]

200+? or more

[river dirge]

And should get you to hard pity all rainbow events

If you dont pull on any gold event

[river dirge]

200+ per month usually

Also realistically you will almost never have to hard pity

But you still save for hard pity for good measure all the time

[frosty pagoda]

hard pity is 200 pulls?

[river dirge]

Ye and 400 cubes

[frosty pagoda]

are quick finishers ever a limiting factor?

[river dirge]

Not after your first month

[potent fiber]

Maybe first event might be limiting

Don't think it'll be too bad tho

Luo can I ask for help on W15 recommendations

[river dirge]

But ya the logic is to see all gold ship events as trash

Until proven otherwise

[frosty pagoda]

URs are that OP huh

[river dirge]

Like if one ship is particularly op

[river dirge]

Their baseline for judgement is better than all gold ships of that specific job

Significantly

[potent fiber]

You could say they are "Perfectly Balans"

[frosty pagoda]

so this is why the tier list has so many of them at EX lol

[potent fiber]

There'll be one UR next month somewhere in the month

So save for that I think

[river dirge]

Like even the weakest rainbow backline ship for self dmg right, vanguard

[potent fiber]

Warkai

[river dirge]

She still has higher self dmg than all the gold ships

[frosty pagoda]

waow

[potent fiber]

Warkai did more than Vanny for me nvm

[river dirge]

And the best part is vanguard is meant as a buffer

[river dirge]

I count war kai as gold ship

[potent fiber]

Vanny's thing is that she gives 18% boost to BB if synced

But Luo Warkai does more than Vanny

[river dirge]

Vanny multiply your bbs dmg by 1.188x when shes synced

[river dirge]

In a vacuum she dont, when paired she do

[potent fiber]

Actually it was quite a big diff

And Vanny was oathed while warkai was 120

She's not actually that bad ok she just has no barrage

[eternal plank]

she's also extremely expensive to retro

for a ship who's performance on bossing can best be described as average these days

[river dirge]

cool now divide war kai dmg by 1.188 and add that to vanny

[potent fiber]

I did

Still win even with 10% less damage from level adv

[timid anchor]

nnai

[river dirge]

That dont sound right

[potent fiber]

Maybe my Vanny is dysfunctional.

[timid anchor]

your warkai has different ivs

[potent fiber]

She always underperforms.

[timid anchor]

my vanny has beaten my fdg before

[potent fiber]

But ye UR gud doesn't mean the rest are trash UR just powercreeps

[timid anchor]

on even equips

[river dirge]

But ya back to the point, the baseline is to beat all gold ships in the role

So all rainbow ships are worth pulling

[frosty pagoda]

makes sense

[potent fiber]

1 UR makes ur life a lot easier too

[frosty pagoda]

i'm a bit starved for purple bulins, but not worth to spend stuff on them and prio golds instead?

[river dirge]

You can spend on them

If you budget well

[potent fiber]

Gold aren't bad UR just op

[timid anchor]

yknow luo

pr5 focus actually sounds a bit fn

as first prio

[river dirge]

All frontlines are bad dps in w14 out of ammo except plymouth

[potent fiber]

What are you gonna get from PR5

Harbin?

Where DE fleet tech

[timid anchor]

plymmy chk brest harbi all gud

[potent fiber]

Iris fleet tech also hard to get for Breast.

Don't even talk about Russia

[river dirge]

Ya but the real issue is tech

[timid anchor]

mm

nvm

[river dirge]

You are not fucking getting dragon empiery tech

[potent fiber]

Ye

[timid anchor]

the ships themselves are banger tho

[river dirge]

[potent fiber]

When PR5 came out

I had

20 russia tech

[river dirge]

Ye ships are fucking banger

[potent fiber]

[river dirge]

Now we just need 2 more plymouth level dps in pr6 to completely trivialize w14

As if it isnt easy af already