My gear

[formal elbow]

Here we go

[wicked nymph]

[wicked nymph]

can u toggle this on and screen the equipped gear ?

so we can compare the existing to what u have

[formal elbow]

Oh I unequaled everything 😂

Unequipped

[wicked nymph]

ok i guess

did u buy the gear boxes from the event ?

[formal elbow]

Err no don’t think so

[wicked nymph]

can u buy them or out of currency ?

[formal elbow]

Which ones?

[wicked nymph]

go to the shop -> event

[formal elbow]

Ah those

I bought a couple

Did by prinz

Buy*

[wicked nymph]

k then open them

all the gold and purple boxes only

for torpedos only use these
don't use the quint

[worldly maple]

Ooh wow

That's a good set of pulls

[wicked nymph]

same for these ignore the quin

[worldly maple]

Jesus, what I'd have given for some of that early on lol

[wicked nymph]

[formal elbow]

See I’ve no bloody clue what I’ve got 😂

[worldly maple]

It's fine, you'll learn what is and isn't good over time

[wicked nymph]

yeah actually that pull was kinda decent

[worldly maple]

Probably the only thing seriously missing now is uh
Hood has no (good) gun...

[wicked nymph]

there is hope i guess
combining the white and blue boxes to purple then open them for the mk6 ?

[formal elbow]

What are these

[wicked nymph]

i personally don't know the difference between the ones above and the ones down but most of the time u will be ignoring the quint version and only be using the quad

[formal elbow]

Quads only for torps got it

[worldly maple]

Those are purple magnetic torps

Short answer, they're bad lol

VERY slow, VERY bad damage
At that point, just use the non-magnetic ones Abdou showed above

Later, when you can get the gold quadruple ones or the rainbow quintuple (NOT the gold quintuple) ones, then you can switch to them instead, but getting them... can be a journey

[formal elbow]

Haha noted

Right I only have laffey with torps

One down a lot to go

[wicked nymph]

can u combine all of ur white and blue boxes ?

there is a missing figher
but there should be one in the newbie missions

the purple corsair

[worldly maple]

Oh actually

Don't you get a +6 Mk 6 for some rewards

[formal elbow]

Ah yeah bare with me

[worldly maple]

What stage do you have to clear for that

[wicked nymph]

yeah he is missing some rewards now i noticed it

https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Beginner_Rewards

[worldly maple]

Oh ye, it's for 2-4

Damn, the game is generous to give you that so early

[formal elbow]

I’ve done 2-4

[wicked nymph]

yeah very good

[worldly maple]

Uh

[wicked nymph]

did u 3★ it ?

[worldly maple]

Do you need 3-star
I genuinely can't remember what is the condition, it was so long ago

[wicked nymph]

this one too

[formal elbow]

Yeah I had it on Indy

[wicked nymph]

told u to screen the equipped ones

[formal elbow]

Right I’ve got everything in depot now 😂

Sorryyyy

[worldly maple]

All good

[wicked nymph]

which world did u reach ?

i remember u bought the commander pack

[formal elbow]

I’ve 3* everything including 6-1

[worldly maple]

OK then you probably just haven't collected it

[wicked nymph]

ok now search for the mk6

[worldly maple]

In the port screen, hit the "Event" tab with Sara's face
And there should be something you can claim the rewards from

If I remember it correctly

[wicked nymph]

yeah i think that is the one

[wicked nymph]

it is very unlikely that u scrapped it

[worldly maple]

That'd be the one

Wait, there is no way in hell you scrapped any of those right 👀

[formal elbow]

I haven’t scrapped anything nor grey

[wicked nymph]

k then search well because in the screenshots that u sent there isn't the one

[worldly maple]

#1239579923782307861 message The gun in this pic

[wicked nymph]

u might have skipped a line

[formal elbow]

Got equipped on now

[wicked nymph]

there u go

i wonder why it didn't show in the first pic

[worldly maple]

Sometimes depot can be weird

[formal elbow]

Who’s that going on?

[worldly maple]

Hood

Actually, gimme a sec, I'll use the Renhex tool to complete the list

[formal elbow]

🐐

[wicked nymph]

can u show all of ur blue gear ?

or actually only aux

also there is no need to keep grey gear

[wicked nymph]

yeah very good u have a camouflage and the hydraulic

u will be having a massive shortage in aux plates tough so spend wisely

for the mk6 and the hellcat helldiver tenzan and corsair u might want to level them as high as u can

[formal elbow]

She’s looking good 😂

[wicked nymph]

evenly is the best

so first i would level the tenzan to +6 first then add +1 to each of them in the order i mentioned

[formal elbow]

Tenzan done

Hellcat then diver?

[wicked nymph]

for now leave them all at +6 u aren't swimming in the purple plates yet

[formal elbow]

They’re already at +6

Yeah no problem

What do they go on? Hood?

[wicked nymph]

+6 should get u so far no worries but each level is linear increase

[wicked nymph]

she uses a DD gun as secondary

[worldly maple]

Alright uhhh

[formal elbow]

Wait not good

[worldly maple]

Ignore the levels obviously

[formal elbow]

Woah what is this

[worldly maple]

The equipment recommendations, courtesy of Ren's tool

[wicked nymph]

so u prefer the corsair over the hellcat ?

[formal elbow]

Right let me go through and equip this stuff then I have one more question about augments

Do I just ignore them for now?

[wicked nymph]

i would say so

did u get the augment stones from the event ?

because the priority would be hood augment and that will cost 15

[worldly maple]

Also

The coin cost

Is staggering

Early game

[worldly maple]

If it's purple then yep

Purple Corsair is T3, but purple Hellcat is T2, so the Corsair's bombs are better

At this stage we don't really care about interception capability

[formal elbow]

I’ve got some

[worldly maple]

In before I missed a gold Hellcat 👀

[formal elbow]

Will ignore then

Problem

Only have two of those

One on laffey and hood but not for Helena

Also I only have one camo not two

[wicked nymph]

pilica sometimes goes a little bit overboard when trying to gear others
usually if u don't have what he recommended use something else

as for that gun i think u might ignore the one on port and give her whatever

[wicked nymph]

yeah i think it doesn't make any difference

[worldly maple]

Yep do this lol

I can't count you see

You can use either the Twin 100mm on Helena or the Twin 127mm
At this point, you're not going to be made or broken by Helena's kinda bad secondary guns

Same with Portland really
Neither of their secondary guns is going to be rocking the world

[formal elbow]

Alright I thought that would be the case

Appreciate it so much! Now off to push campaign until I have to use my brain

[worldly maple]

Excellent, best of luck with that

[wicked nymph]

and gl with the aux plates too

[formal elbow]

I have no idea what that means. I just want to finish my unicorn retro so I can move on to Portland 😂

[wicked nymph]

auxiliary gear plates

[formal elbow]

No idea what they are or where you get them

[wicked nymph]

the blue ones are used to get them from +3 to +6

the issue is on the purple ones because it is the next 4 levels

and with each level increase the quantity also increases

also this has a rarity factor too

although the blue gear stops at +7 the purple the gold and the rainbow eats them very well

[worldly maple]

Yep

Purple aux plates are the most valuable purple plates because they vanish fast

I think Faer told me why yesterday, something about the proportion of auxes you get to +10 being higher compared to other weapon types

Iirc purple plates only drop uh... World 6 and above

[wicked nymph]

was that the reason why u didn't put the golden catapult in the build ?

also he has 3 purple +6 catapults and u chose the missiles instead of 1 cata

[worldly maple]

Oh, I use 1 drop tank, 1 cata because uh

Iirc drop tank gives like... a tiny bit more AVI than purple cata

At some enhancement levels

Also, now that you point it out, I DID completely miss he has one gold cata lol