#My fleet ZhadowReaper
bright jacinth
so for now I would focus on grinding the event to get levels into your ships
don't use your maxed ships except uni for levelling
and try and bring up some of the other ships like enterprise into higher level range for 12
frail abyss
is the event better xp then grinding 11-1?
bright jacinth
it's not just about the xp it's also about the event resources and rewards/map drops
frail abyss
i apologize, thank you for helping me but i gotta go to a meeting, already running late. ill be about in about a hour and a half if you leave any tips ill respond then
bright jacinth
yeah I asked for someone else to take a look at what you got too, and someone will always be around, I apologize I'm not more help, I'm still learning a bit too.
frail abyss
Np at all, I really appreciate any advice
frail abyss
i need to update the pictures in this though
I have more rares if you want me to continue. stage 12-2, despite my current progress im still a new player
potent verge
That is truly an appalling use of oath rings
frail abyss
XD
whys that?
ive bought all the academy and dorm, my dock is over 400 and ive been buying oath rings as needed (i have a surplus of gems)
potent verge
Oath rings are a highly limited and expensive resource, if you are not a whale, I would only ever oath UR main fleet units and unicorn, and even then, only a select few meta main fleet units at that.
frail abyss
ah im a bit of a whale, ive cleaned the shop except 2 PR $15 packages
ruby totem
unless youre planning on buying a lot of oath rings, it doesnt really matter who you oath
frail abyss
mind you ive only been playing 14 days XD
potent verge
Eh, even then, minase and asama aren’t good enough to warrant an oath. We have Unzen rerun next week
frail abyss
ill probably slow down a lot on buying stuff so im being more conservative with my gems (now)
vast siren
who cares who a whale oaths
frail abyss
i waited on oathing minase and asama but did it just yesterday to get a small bump in power for the OS bosses, im smashing my face into the arbiter RN
round 4 of getting bitch slapped by the arbiter here we go...
potent verge
If you are oathing just for power, there are better options
vast siren
Mob: Izumo, Unicorn, Independence retro, Takao, Asama, Harbin
Boss: Oumi, Enterprise, Hakuhou, Anchorage, Helena, Yuudachi
what was a mistake was Yuudachi retrofit
frail abyss
yeah my fleet ive been just smashing through everything with has been Oumi-Unicorn-Hakuhou Asama-Yuudachi-Minase
ruby totem
Mob: Izumo, Unicorn, Independence retro, Takao, Asama, Harbin
Boss: Oumi, Enterp...
you mean oumi?
frail abyss
No Oumi was my first oath, she is by far my main power.
she was doing 90% of my fleets damage until i grinded the others to 120-plus
frail abyss
what was a mistake was Yuudachi retrofit
why was Yuudachi retro bad? she ranks decently high on tier lists
ruby totem
tier lists dont tell you the whole story
vast siren
did you consider investment and oppurtunity cost
she's gonna cost you half a UR Bullin
and if you were to spend cores to retro an SR it would be Sandy
vast siren
she's offers similar amounts of damage
while being tankier and offering exceptional amounts of AA
ruby totem
the retro item uses the same currency as UR bulins
vast siren
i think she was still gold to get to max limit break
to get her retrofit item you need to spend specialized cores
which is the same currency you use to get the bulk of your UR Bullins
frail abyss
ah ok, yeah i was just going with whatever i could find at the time, just throwing stuff together that worked (but not at all effiecently)
who is sandy?
ruby totem
san diego
frail abyss
i dont have san diego, is she a shop buy?
vast siren
what were the PR packs even spent on
vast siren
i dont have san diego, is she a shop buy?
medal shop
potent verge
what were the PR packs even spent on
Izumo
vast siren
they said they bought more than 1
frail abyss
i havnt used most of them, i only have PR one unlocked
vast siren
so which ones do you have left still
frail abyss
im about to get ibuki in 7 hours
i didnt know how BP or the tickets worked so i ended up using all the BP on ibuki thinking that was going to unlock her right off the bat
potent verge
So, weirdly enough, the PR packs are fairly efficient uses of money but only if you already have max dev PR ships. You can convert all the blueprints for cores and purchase UR equipment with that
frail abyss
this was like day 3
vast siren
what
frail abyss
thats interesting, i didnt know that. but all my PR 1 ship BP are gone
vast siren
so what other seasons did you get
vast siren
so that's 4 and 5 then
frail abyss
yup
i need another iron blood main to unlock Roon, all the other ones are still pretty far off
ah actually...Roon is the only one i dont have 'unlocked' or able to unlock
vast siren
get yourself Anchorage and Harbin then
ruby totem
you already used the voucher for season 1
potent verge
They are telling you to redeem anchorage and harbin with your tickets
ruby totem
the voucher skips the unlock requirements
frail abyss
face palm i thought i had to have the requirements to unlock them. FFS
im going to buy the other 2 packs now too. im just a dumbass...
ruby totem
also really hoping you bought the more expensive version of the pack so you get the prints, otherwise the ships are going to be useless for a long time
frail abyss
yeah i got the more $ 1s
since im buying the other 2 should i still go with Anchorage and Harbin?
ruby totem
theyre by season, you cant use them to get ships in other seasons
potent verge
I would also not recommend going for fate sim unless specified, get the ships, dev them to 30 and analyze any excess bps that you will get from catch-up focus.
frail abyss
i know but for fleet building would that change the current plan on those 2 or would there be better options to build 2 fleets with
vast siren
you'd just be padding at that point
like, just save yourself 32 buck and don't buy them
frail abyss
.> too late 😛
potent verge
Bruh, well, none of them are particularly great in PR2/3
frail abyss
i dont mind throwing the money at the game, i play it for like 10 hours a day so shrug
vast siren
I'm all for supporting the game but at the same time I'm a firm believer of getting your money's worth
frail abyss
thats fine, i have a focus on Friedrich atm, but i know that the ticket wont buy her
potent verge
Dude, use the PR 2/3 prints and redeem izumo BPs, then analyze all of those and buy UR gear
You can just coin to make up for it if you want to use those ships eventually, or if we get PR2/3 augments
frail abyss
ok so save the BPs for later and just coin the ones i get as i get them
im getting anchorage and Harbin RN
any reccomendations on the PR 2/3 to use the tickets?
potent verge
You can use those BPs to redeem izumo prints. Because you already have dev 30 izumo, you can analyze the excess prints for protocores, you can use those protocores to purchase Champaign gun, Tenrai, saiun, etc
frail abyss
oh so convert all BP to Izumo and then turn them into protos? i thought the BPs on izumo would just go towards her fate?
potent verge
It doesn’t really matter who you pick since you won’t be using them anyways.
You can analyze as long as it’s max dev level, no need to fate sim
cerulean olive
oumi will most likely be more useful than izumo
no brainer to just get gear instead
frail abyss
Is Ibuki any good?
cerulean olive
yes
frail abyss
ok since she unlocks in 7 hours ill convert BP to her then instead
potent verge
Yeah just get gear
cerulean olive
you can coin ibuki to max within 1 month
frail abyss
she already has 354 so she will hit 30 dev off the bat and the BP will still get converted to cores right?
cerulean olive
who?
frail abyss
i used the PR 1 BPs on her thinking it was going to unlock her (i didnt realize that it the ticket)
potent verge
So if you converted for ibuki prints, you messed up
cerulean olive
frail abyss
this was a few weeks ago
cerulean olive
on ibuki?
frail abyss
yeah, i didnt realize that the BPs were for dev not for unlocking.
cerulean olive
welp you'll only get around 20 BPs extra then which is quite cooked
frail abyss
cerulean olive
just convert the exp from handbook into cores instead
potent verge
Blud probably spent that too lmao
frail abyss
Ibuki is what i spent all my PR 1 BPs on, so i still have all the BPs from 2/3/4/5
ive just been coining Izumo
potent verge
Oh pog, that’s fine then
frail abyss
i used a few for Izumo (i didnt know the core thing were also for these)
cerulean olive
if you get these things
go to depot and click analyse to convert to protocore
dont ever use them to speed up progress in shipyard
frail abyss
cerulean olive
complete waste
frail abyss
yup ive already been using the combat data packs and converting to cores
cerulean olive
follow to core shop guide to see what to buy
potent verge
Yeah, so anchorage and harbin are pretty good, it would be worth to use the pr 4/5 bps for them if you want an immediate power boost. None of the PR 2/3 ships are that great at the moment, it doesn’t matter who you pick, you are converting to protocores anyways
cerulean olive
ok lowkey for pr3 you could get cheshire if you want
eitherway an option is to use pr2 and 3 BP to convert to ibuki
and just convert everything to protocore
frail abyss
ok so use all the PR 2/3 on ibuki, convert the extras into cores right?
potent verge
Izumo actually, that way you can convert now instead of 7 hours later
frail abyss
izumo is d30
potent verge
No that’s fate sim 1 bro
frail abyss
cerulean olive
buy tenrai and 457 for now
then buy 2 champ guns and 1 flandre gun over the course of 2 months
frail abyss
cerulean olive
have to use the blueprint first
look at pr2 BP in depot convert everything to izumo
frail abyss
yeah i still dont understand all the differnt tiers or quality yet, i thought the higher T the better (in general)
potent verge
You’ll need to scroll to find izumo and convert like so
frail abyss
do i need to max fate first? it wont let me use them on her
cerulean olive
I personally would convert for more gear
cerulean olive
not there
depot
depot and click on the pr2 blueprints to manually select
and select izumo for all 343
then go back to protocore shop
potent verge
Yes
cerulean olive
yeah just hit confirm
frail abyss
game crashed >.> ok 1 sec
its so frustrating when im playing on mobile, if i tab out the game glitches or just crashes every time
doesnt do that on Nikke or any other mobiles
cerulean olive
get
50 tenrai
50 prototype 457
20 prototype weapon blueprint series 3
20 prototype blueprint series 6
series 4 if you have leftover
convert 3 and 6 to the one on the left and right in the image
wait for monthly reset in a few days and buy series 3 and 6 again
until you have 2 of the left gun
and 1 on the right
potent verge
Now, I would pick up at least 5xPR 4 weapon blueprints, 5xPR 3 weapon blueprints, 5xPR 6 weapon blueprints first. You need 25 in total to get a weapon made, and you can only buy 20 of each per month, but fortunately month reset is in a few days
frail abyss
ok but keep PR4/5 for the 2 other ships or should i just convert those to cores too?
frail abyss
anchorage?
cerulean olive
ok but keep PR4/5 for the 2 other ships or should i just convert those to cores ...
pr4 anchorage pr5 harbin
potent verge
its just saiun bfg no?
Ye, both are fairly good pickups
potent verge
It’s up to you if you want to do that or not, or even wait a few days for coining a bit and then using BPs
cerulean olive
uh technically yes if you dont want to spend time coining
theres catchup anyway
you can just make back the 300 BPs from them
if you ever need protocore
frail abyss
since i started farming event D3 and chapter 12 ive had a decent flow of coin, and from my understanding cores are harder to get right?
potent verge
Yes
cerulean olive
here every research you do gives you X extra blueprints for the ship you select
upto 300 of any SHARED combination for GOLD
and 150 EACH for rainbow
frail abyss
cerulean olive
2 things you can do
frail abyss
should i select a focus for each of those on the side?
potent verge
It would take fdg off of catch-up focus
cerulean olive
no you can only do 1 ship at a time
either use the BP of the coinable season to protocore or use them to upgrade ship
I would only recommend using it to upg ship for pr4 onwards
1-3 just convert all 900
potent verge
1-3 just convert all 900
1 is actually good now
frail abyss
ok so i should set my PR focus to like anchorage then?
cerulean olive
well depends if you want to slave and wait for coining ig
frail abyss
or should i just focus on each ship to 300 on 4, then 300 on 5 and turn the extras into cores once ive got all of pr4/5 to 300?
potent verge
You only get 300 per season. That limit is shared between all ships in that season
frail abyss
oh so the coinable PRs rotate every few months you mean?
potent verge
No, the coinable ones are permanently coinable, you will eventually get them fully developed for free. The ones that aren’t haven’t been made coinable yet.
frail abyss
upto what PR is coinable?
potent verge
The early season PR ships except for those from PR 1 have been powercrept, so even if you max them, they are kinda mediocre compared to modern ships and will quickly be replaced.
potent verge
upto what PR is coinable?
I think up to 5 now but I’d have to check
frail abyss
ok so if im going to just coin everything anyways i should just set my PR focus to 6 or 7 or 8 and forget about it until i eventually get to them?
potent verge
cerulean olive
ok so if im going to just coin everything anyways i should just set my PR focus ...
that is possible to just coin everyone below 5 the come back to their catchup later for free protocore
but at the same time
you dont actually need to do all that
the exp conversion gives quite a lot of catch up
frail abyss
wouldnt the later ships be better to focus since i wont be able to coin them when i get to them at some point?
potent verge
ok so if im going to just coin everything anyways i should just set my PR focus ...
I would consider focusing something like Plymouth I guess, but yeah, that’s the idea. Until you are able to coin an earlier ship up to dev 30, stay on the higher focuses. When you hit dev 30, go back to focusing on the pr2/3 ship that you dev 30’d, gather all the prints and convert to cores
cerulean olive
for 4+ feel free to use the catchup prints to upgrade ships
frail abyss
i can farm a lot of coin in a few hours so ill probably just using the catch-up BP on some of the non-coinable ones, should i just set it to 6 for now and forget about it until i get to it then?
cerulean olive
set 6 to shimanto
potent verge
Yeah I agree
frail abyss
for the top one is that like general, and the other ones specific?
cerulean olive
priorities imo, pr4>pr5>pr8=pr7>pr6
pr6 really only shimanto
shes insanely good
the rest in pr6 are also good but uhh
potent verge
for the top one is that like general, and the other ones specific?
No that decides what types of research options show up
cerulean olive
you can replace them
potent verge
If you select PR6 on the top option, your research options will be mostly PR6
cerulean olive
I think 4 is fully coinable now
frail abyss
ok i put the focus on Shimanto, what should i put on the top option?
vast siren
no why would 5 be first
potent verge
Ehhh
vast siren
delusional at worst
frail abyss
vast siren
at minimum you need 3 months just coin all the PRs without going bankrupt
like, 2 months would be assuming you took almost exclusively DR faces
cerulean olive
yeah
frail abyss
so....should i set my general focus on 5 then?
vast siren
which ain't happening with that many PR faces still in the lobby
cerulean olive
just go 8/7
vast siren
https://suchiguma.github.io/miniguides/research-focus/
read this to know why and pick your exact prefference
vast siren
before
frail abyss
ok ill just set to 8 and forget about that, the specific focus i have set to shim
cerulean olive
pr7 and 8 will be about equal then
vast siren
https://azurlaneecgc.com/research/
just gonna leave these here as well
frail abyss
i guess i didnt understand the terms 'catchup' and 'focus' but i understand now, so i have my focus set to 8 (ill worry about this when i get to PR 6+,) and i have my catchup as shim ATM, should i change the catchup to a DR on 5 ?
vast siren
not really
frail abyss
https://azurlaneecgc.com/research/
just gonna leave these here as well
https:/...
ah ok that explains alot, i used my cores on the tenrai but i didnt understand stuff when it talked about reseach 2/3/4/5 ect
ok so the focus will give you BP for ships AND gear, depending on your focus you may get gear that you can build in the depot, some gear is from multiple series. do i have that all correct?
i never understood what it meant when it said acquired through research (series 6)
vast siren
focus gurantees at least 3/5 researches per rotation will be from the season you select
frail abyss
got it, that makes more sense.
ok so weve gotten WAY off topic but i have a much better understanding of the research stuff now so tyvm, thats a HUGE help since i had a hard time understanding it. as far as my fleets go ive got anchorage and harbin now. i need to figure out how to build a mob fleet, a boss fleet and at least 2 fleets for OS
vast siren
for now you use the same fleets you use for campaign for OpSi
frail abyss
i have been, my main fleet of Oumi-Hakuhou-Unicorn and vanguard Asama-Yuudachi-Minase (i swap out Minase for Helena retro when fighting a big boss usually) but i have a mega hard time against the really nasty guys like Arbiter
ruby totem
you dont really have the ships to flesh out proper opsi fleets
frail abyss
and my other 3 fleets are like 1/5th of the power of my main, so im going to grind them upto 120 but i want to make sure that i do it with good fleet builds before i do it
yeah the biggest issue im running into is that i dont know what makes a good mob fleet and what makes a good boss fleet. my main fleet is/was able to just smash through because of levels but chapter 12 is a higher difficulty where it just doesnt work, let alone for hard mode. i couldnt beat 11-4 hardmode. (it was close, like 4X bars left but i just couldnt do it because the bitch wouldnt stay still)
i thought Oumi was a good mob BB because of her screen clear, but i was reading some stuff that said shes supposed to be a boss BB because her 2nd gun and passive that extends the range.
vast siren
no I mean the fleets I reccomended earlier....
frail abyss
ah Mob: Izumo, Unicorn, Independence retro, Takao, Asama, Harbin
Boss: Oumi, Enterprise, Hakuhou, Anchorage, Helena, Yuudachi
ok i see, i didnt see that you included anchorage and harbin
tyvm!
i stoped working on Izumo because i thought New Jersey was better, but it looks like she requires a very specific fleet to actually make her good is that right?
frail abyss
oh really? ok good to know. is Izumo worth getting her fate maxed?
vast siren
yes
frail abyss
i got her augment maxed yesterday too
i got the 2nd copy of i-404 from the event as well, from what i saw she is by far the best sub in the game atm, is she worth putting UR bulins into or should i hold off on that until i have several extra?
vast siren
I would always reccomend waiting until you have enough Bullins to MLB a UR in one go before even thinking about committing any