| Seems a bit of Azur Lane talk is starting in this CGDCT club thread so I thought I'd move it here, to keep that thread from turning into the AL version of the Kirara Fantasia thread there. nDroae said: I decided the first thing I needed to spend furniture credits on was a grand piano. Much appreciated.  King George V is not impressed  Bismarck's throne belongs to Unicorn now.  KF has unique animations for many room items, not so much in Azur Lane. The chibis have a bath form, which would be nice if I had a bath, but that form is nonsensically reused for the ball pit and sandbox.  In ball pit above: Hood (left), sunk by Bismarck (right). Unicorn doesn't like ball pits.  Oh no, Prince of Wales took Unicorn's bed  Now she has to sleep on the floor  Finally got a nice big bed. Unicorn shares it with her big sister Illustrious:  Eyes full of love.  ...I'm not planning to oath her though, I'm waiting to get this carriermom (the world's first completed carrier) voiced by Chiaki Takahashi, AKA classic iM@S' Azusa Miura. Wow. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Houshou Thread title is a dumbass reference to http://azurlanesanctuarygrossweebskeepout.blogspot.com/3018/09/table-of-contents.html |
nDroae said: @Arcaedes Sandy server :D My first 7 SSR builds sequentially were Hood, Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, and Sandy. Since that it's been great so I feel like I'm Sandy-blessed ;P When I see negative comments on a ship in AL it makes me want to use her more :P Arcaedes said: Cool, Sandy was the recommended server for me. I haven't had much chance to actually play it, but done a few missions - level 11 currently. I've been using Javelin, Foxhound and Spence for the Vanguard. Had to choose a British Destroyer to start with, and I got multiples of Fox and Spence, so used them to enhance. Although not sure whether or not that's the best use for multiples ^_^ I ignored advice against Javelin and picked her for my starter without realizing she was kind of a bimbo. I only used her for the first couple of weeks - I do like her, but there are so many good options to choose from that a lot of ships I like inevitably get left doing commissions. It was frustrating at first but I've gotten used to it. Also destroyers are kind of off the table most of the time because of Priority ship research requiring combat XP earned by ships of types like the research target, which is light/heavy cruisers for all three of my target ships (HMS Neptune, then Roon, and eventually Saint Louis). https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Research It's a nice slow background project to have; since starting on Neptune in June I've gathered the first million XP and nearly 100 Neptune blueprints. My active fleet is mostly HMS, the vanguard being obviously required because of Neptune. From the beginning I wanted Unicorn and Hood, who turned out to be great for gameplay purposes as well, though currently my main battleship is Bismarck, while I wait for the allegedly inevitable Hood dupes to roll in for limit breaks, to save bulins. I love chuunis, so I was glad to find that HMS Erebus is quite powerful, and I recently maxed her Infinite Darkness skill and started sortieing her as main fleet flagship. Along with Unicorn my main fleets have been using American carriers - primarily Ranger, now retrofitted, with Yorktown and Lexington in the second fleet. I had to use Lexington because I live near that city in Kentucky, though the ship wasn't named after the city. Both city and ship were named after the opening battles of the colonial rebellion war, as was every American Lexington except the original in Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord I picked Edinburgh in the wishing well because I lived there when I was three. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/c6dryt/a_flowchart_for_the_indecisive/es83jti/ I look foward to getting Dorsetshire, because that's where my mom grew up and currently lives. I've used Spence and Beagle enough to get them both to 100 affinity, because I find them endearing. Foxhound was an early favorite, got left behind for now, but I'll refit her someday.  Yeah, use duplicate common ships for enhancing (and limit breaking when the original gets close to 70 / 80 / 90, but that increases the unit's oil cost). At low levels they'll reach max enhancement quickly, but as they level up they can be enhanced more, which is frustrating because it makes it hard to use duplicates efficiently. And you'll have one stat maxed and another with a long way to go. Different ships enhance different stats, if you don't want or can't use them on the same ship for the bonus. Only aircraft carriers enhance the AVI stat (the ship variable that affects the damage her planes do). Some say rarer ships should be retired for the medals, but I guess that depends on how much you want to buy ships with medals. I do use rare and elite ships for enhancing if it's a ship I want to use a lot. I've retired a few regular bulins due to lack of need for them. |
nDroaeJul 8, 2019 10:11 PM
| Thanks for the info :) Mostly I still don't really know what I'm doing at the moment, beyond creating Fleets, the basic missions, and putting ships in the dorm for xp. I upgraded some skills in tactical class, but can't remember/missed how I obtained the items needed for the class, and probably want to get a better idea of what I'm doing before continuing to expend on upgrades that may be of no benefit in the long run. I also got some of the coins needed to buy/upgrade the Dorm, but again I don't know how I got them, just that I had zero on the day I started, and 30 yesterday, which is only the second time I've played and was for about an hour, so I've got a long ways to go yet ^_^ I made 2 fleets - before getting to the actual tutorial part where I was told I could make a second fleet ^_^. 1 is now my starter ships that are levelled from the early missions, and 2 is made of mainly 2*'s . I also have 2 Bulins - a Universal, and a Prototype, but not sure what I'm supposed to use them for I expect you could probably identify many of these by sight..    |
| If you've reached level 10, then from the Battle screen, click Daily to do the daily challenges. Advance Mission (Tuesday, Friday, Sunday) gives books for skill training. I've been balancing it between skills I can tell are useful, and skills my favorite ships just happen to have. :P Coming from Kirara Fantasia, it's annoying that skills here don't level up just by being used, but it's not too bad to get them to level 10 if you have a steady influx of books. You can also buy the books (go for T3 for best value) from the munitions shop if you have an excess of gold, but be very careful not to spend gems in the munitions shop, it's not worth it. Also starting at level 10, you can access Commissions from the Battle screen (easier to access and manage via the triangle at top left under the chibi secretary). You can see what the commission rewards are or might be before you take them on, and they're usually free or have a very low oil cost, but unlike KF training you can't use the ships while they're on commission. The commission that costs a lot of oil is great for raising your ships' levels while you're not playing the game or currently using them. Commissions are the main way to get dorm tokens. Dorm info: http://azurlanesanctuarygrossweebskeepout.blogspot.com/2018/09/azur-lane-dorm-guide.html This is the main thing I spent my paid gems on - that, a 2-ring pack, and dock slots. The bulins are limit break items with personalities, feelings, and a soul; isn't that lovely? Some people think of it as tickets to use their services rather than actually killing them to LB ships. A duplicate of the same ship has the same function. The prototype is for super rare ships and the universal does everything else. Prototype bulins are scarce, so make sure you use them on ships you know you'll use. For example, I went ahead and limit broke my Bismarck (currently level 98) because she's A) cool, B) strong, and C) event-exclusive, so it's not like I'm likely to get another from construction, unlike Hood or Belfast. Yep, I have all of those except Saratoga and Terror :) Looks like Terror drops from the same place my #1 designated waifu does (Houshou, 7-4), maybe I'll get both in the process. Shikikan's Log: I didn't get the French sub Surcouf that I wanted (purple rarity) from the recent Iris event, though I got two of each gold ship. I thought the same might happen with the current sub build event, where I only wanted I-25 (also purple). Did one build for the daily build yesterday, then started another first thing this morning, looked up I-25's build time = 30:00, went back to the game and started one more build, saw 29:59 ticking down, used a quick finisher and there she was. Yaaaaaaay :D She's adorable. To bad subs aren't very useful, though at least they can be moved on the map now. https://twitter.com/AzurLane_EN/status/1148637944254816257 Edit: Got Ark Royal from 6-3 o/ Now I can use the skin I got in the Scherzo Lucky Box (in retrospect I should have just bought $40 of gems with the first-time double but I didn't realize what that meant) |
nDroaeJul 12, 2019 10:32 PM
| Thanks :) and congrats too , I totally missed the Iris event, even though it was ongoing when I started, but I doubt I would have been able to do much anyways at this stage. I spent a bit more time on the game today so made some progress. Fleet 1 is still the same for the back row, but Vanguard is now Portland, Takao, and Northampton. All have been limit broken once, and I have another spare of Portland and Northampton ready for another break at level 30 Fleet 2 has my higher levels (but lower starting rarity) Foxhound and Spence, along with Shropshire. I actually spent quite a while farming chapter 1 to get an extra Spence ready for the final limit break - and got several Foote, Aulick and Comet before a single Spence popped up, and now I'm trying 3-1 for what I presume is a fairly low chance drop of a second Arethusa, and got 3 x Spence from it ^_^ Based on stats and power Foxhound is the highest, but Shropshire almost always gets MVP in that squad - but also drops HP faster wherever I put her. In squad 1 MVP is either Saratoga or Northampton, although Takao has highest stats. I've tried to balance their weapon equips and upgrades so the rate of fire and damage output is similar but Northampton, Saratoga and Shropshire consistently get at least double the damage and kills compared to the others One little thing I noticed that I quite like is how all the ships either freak out when being picked up, or smile. But Takao just looks like she gives zero fucks.. It's a nice touch lol |
| I joined a day after the Kizuna AI collab event ended, hope I don't become a fan of her down the road and regret that (since collabs aren't expected to rerun). I also missed the Neptunia collab, I'll probably regret that after I finally watch the anime. CN/JP have had an Utawarerumono event, which I was thinking would be nice because I liked the girls in that show (though I didn't like the show), but the characters involved are from a later sequel game so I don't know who they are. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Events/Utawarerumono_Collab Portland seems to be a popular choice, along with Cleveland and Phoenix. I've been leveling my Phoenix lately for use in low-oil-cost 1:1 farming fleets (1:1 meaning one ship in the main fleet and one in the vanguard). People obsess over that https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Guide:_Low_Cost_Farming but after a brief time using Cassin and Downes I stoped because I just don't like them enough to want to depend on them for anything. Phoenix on the other hand is a great little genki fireball. I have been trying not to limit break until I'm close to the limit to save a little on oil, but I don't want to sortie anyone at their limit and lose the XP (except at 100 since that can fuel the Lecture Hall https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Living_Area#Lecture_Hall ) Takao is apparently great at high levels, I bought her from the exchange but haven't used her yet. I want to use Northampton because I really like her design. Spence fanclub \o/ I saw a comment on Shropshire saying she hogs MVP. Her affection level quotes are amusing. People talk about the headache of having to make sure their Konigsberg-class cruisers get MVP when they're farming XP for Roon, but I'm close to halfway done with the 3 million XP grind on Neptune and MVP has almost always gone to my back lines rather than my HMS cruisers, so I'm not bothered about who gets MVP. Affection seems really easy to raise too, obviously getting MVP speeds it up drastically, but the ships I already have at 100 got there so fast that I don't see myself ever doing the chapter 1 map 1 infinite ambush grind for affection. Yeah, I enjoy that variety compared to the identical pickup reactions and idle animations in Kirara Fantasia. I still prefer the large selection of interactable room objects in KF, though ;) |
| That Neptunia collab is one I would have liked. I played all 4 of the main series games, and 4 Godesses Online, so it would have been nice to have some Neppage in my fleet. I'll prob end up keeping Cassin and Downes for the low cost farming, I was using them both right at the start, and swapped them to dorm once I got better ships for the Fleet, and have recently been using them for commissions since swapping them out of the dorm. Shropshire is definitely an MVP hog. Her level is a little lower than Fox & Spence, and stats too. The last battle I did yesterday was a PvP type, and the results came up pretty much the same as regular missions  I won't really get much time to devote to it during weekdays as I work from 05:00-18:00 Mon-Fri, then pick my kids up by 18:30 and have housework and dinner to sort out before they go to bed. But I usually try to keep Saturdays, and at least half of Sunday as a rest day, and since restarting on Brown Dust I wanted another mobile type game that has plenty of detail to it, because BD has an auto battle system for grinding - where you can set a specific number to times to repeat a particular quest on auto, which is useful at weekends because the event dungeons open up and can be farmed for gold and level up mats. So yesterday I was mostly on Azure while farming and levelling up fodders units on auto in BD. I also had some good luck on BD too - not Azure Lane related, but I'm playing them side by side at the moment ^_^ in a recent update they added a custom chance up system where you can select a 5* and 4* that you particularly and it slightly increases their drop rate. I got a good 5* support character from a scroll summon yesterday (same as a ticket summon in KF) that heals for a % of her max HP on every turn, and since the game has an often criticised low 5* drop rate, I thought it was fairly pointless using gems on a regular summon, but just before I logged off I gave in to temptation did two 10 pulls, and got the 5* I'd selected for the chance up selection, nice Tiger girl design with a high damage AOE sword attack :)  Anyways, back on topic ^^. I set a few builds overnight and sent Fleet 1 on the 8K xp commission, Long Island reached level 30 from the xp - highest level now just ahead of Arethusa and Saratoga on 29. I was just about to hit up the wiki to see if I could farm another Long Island from somewhere as only got 2 universal Bulins left now, and I got her from one of my overnight builds, so a fortunate outcome there too. Also got Atlanta and Glowworm, which gives me a few unused 2*s now, are there any particular ships that start out as 2's but have unique abilities that make them a priority to invest in? I also have Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Thatcher & Gridley |
ArcaedesJul 14, 2019 3:55 AM
| You know you can still use ships that are in the dorm, right? It's just commissions and sorties that are mutually exclusive. :) Congratulations :) Nice, I wish AL had automation for things like map movement and duplicate ship usage, it takes too much time. I've considered playing it on a different system while I farm KF, but I'm not playing KF enough to make it worth bothering with, really. "2-star" is confusing in AL, because blues and purples both start with two and go up to five. Phoenix is blue rarity, I've got quite a few of her. I've been able to get every purple map drop ship I wanted without much trouble, too. Phoenix has a self-healing skill that reputedly makes her great for 1:1 farming, though I don't think I've yet put her in a position where she had to use it - it was my back line (80's level Erebus) that was suffering when I tried a bit of 1:1, so I added a carrier to help while I level Erebus up more. Unicorn's vanguard-healing skill makes a powerful difference, plus she's adorable, she's a must-farm IMO. Here are the ship selection guides recommended by the subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/98nvtb/na_basic_ship_recommendation_guide/ https://imgur.com/a/lNwNv30 |
| Thanks again for the info :) Re the dorm, I was originally using it as a method of still gaining xp for ships I'd dropped from the fleet, but since commissions are a better way of doing that I'm just using it now for extra xp towards limit breaking. I think I have about half of the Eagle and Navy girls on that notable ships list, so it's useful as guidance for which ones are worth levelling. I've been hoping to get Laffey since she's available from pretty much every stage as a drop, but seems to be a very low rate on each one as not got her yet - I did try the game briefly before and chose her as the stater ship, and quite liked having her as secretary - reminds me of Mashiro from Sakurasou. Foxhound is pretty moe as secretary too with her little dog impressions and funny comments, but most of them seem to have something cute ^^ On the subject of secretary's have you done the Long Island side quest for her No Cola No Life skin? the one that's started by choosing her as secretary and clicking/tapping on her. They were easy tasks except getting her to level 70 and max limit breaking which I haven't done yet, but I've kept her as flagship all the way through, and she's level 44 at the moment, so will get there eventually  I was quite lucky the overnight builds I set yesterday, I got Prinz Eugen from 7 day log in today, and 2 of the 4 builds I'd left overnight were Super Rare's - Montpelier & I-168, so I have 4 now with Takao. Need to start stacking up on the prototype Bulins ^_^ |
ArcaedesJul 16, 2019 1:52 PM
| Are the SR drop rates higher than the usual 5* rate - ie 2-5% like most Gacha games? I only started 3 builds yesterday to leave overnight, and got Yorktown, Lexington and Illustrious. So combined with the previous 4, I got 3 SR's & 2 Elite's from 7 builds.. |
| Nice! I got U-101 from a 3-build I did to clear the weekly 10-build mission. I've read that construction has a 7% rate on getting an SSR, though the SSR rate on event banners is 2%, I suppose because the chance of getting a specific SSR out of a pool of many is much lower than 2% even with an overall SSR rate of 7%. "Who would be the shipgirl you would bring home to meet the parents?" NEET_Island: "I'd bring home Long Island since my parents can't possibly get any more disappointed in me then they are now" https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/9tl2f8/who_would_be_the_shipgirl_you_would_bring_home_to/ No, haven't started Long Island's quest yet. I used Long Island early on, but stopped... I find there are a lot of likeable carriers in this game (not you Akagi), so it's hard to pick which to use. I really like Lexington and Yorktown, and in my main flet I have Unicorn and Ranger (refit). I think I'l actually use Ark Royal sometime, but I'm low on bulins at the moment. Yeah, farming map ships is like any gacha, sometimes you get what you want immediately and sometimes it takes ages. This guy farmed over half a year for Jintsuu (purple rarity, 10-4 boss node only) and never got her. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/avea16/my_farewell_to_azur_lane/ https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Jintsuu You've probably read about the notorious "fox mines" at 3-4, where you can get the carrier pair Akagi and Kaga, but they're SSR and the drop rate is 0.75%, from the boss node only. I decided not to bother with them, but got Akagi anyway while farming there for repair kits. I'd rather have Kaga :P People often get multiple of one and none of the other. AFAIK we don't know what the official rate is for farming other rarities, though players have kept track of results and guessed. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/a6dlyf/ship_drop_rates_in_nodes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/9h53ul/once_in_the_fox_mine_there_is_no_way_back/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/7vqt7p/as_i_begin_my_487th_34_run/ |
nDroaeJul 17, 2019 2:07 PM
| The bringing home question would have a boring answer from me, I am the parent so would have to base the choice on lack of lewd behaviour and a reasonable attire - although both my kids do watch a fair amount of anime, the are 10 & 8, so I have to control exactly which ones they do see. Something like Fairy Tail would be about the limit as far as fan service etc goes, so from the ships at the moment the sensible choice would probably be Yorktown. Also going back to the farming subject I still have no Laffey, but did get Yorktown 3 times now, and sufficient duplicates of Arethusa & Northampton to fully limit break, so that's useful. The MVP/XP is a bit more balanced now, in my second fleet it varies and they all get 2.-3k damage per battle. In Fleet 1 it's almost always Northampton, and her damage per battle is generally around 5K even though her gear and stats are about the same as the rest. She does have the highest FP stat of the vanguard types though, by around 30 points I picked an interesting moment to check on the dorm a couple days ago, really looked as if Montpelier, Prinz Eugen and Long Island were playing Hide & Seek ^_^  Edit, on boss nodes with more targets to kill Northampton's damage is even higher, I can see from her gear that the damage per second ratio is slightly more than the others, but still can't quite understand why there's such a big difference in actual results  |
ArcaedesJul 20, 2019 8:37 AM
| Yorktown is great, but I would have thought you'd pick someone closer to their age ;P Meanwhile I got another Laffey that I don't really have a use for :/ I haven't been paying attention to the damage stats most of the time, I've ben prety much "If you're not too damaged then you're good" and still constantly short of equipment upgrade materials. I'm glad we got London's beautiful retrofit along with JP/CN, I have everything I need to do it but was hoping to get at least one dupe London to save a bulin :P Great screenshot! :) Read Azur Lane Comic Anthology Chapter 7: "A Day Off For Two" for some fun with Long Island. Everyone's hyped for HMS Centaur coming to EN soon. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Centaur |
| Honestly having two at that age is a sufficient source of continual bickering and unnecessary noise - unless they have games or youtube to keep them occupied separately (which is main reason I kept my old contract phones and previous two laptops..) Meanwhiles for me, I still have no Laffey, but did get Hood on the only day I actually remembered to build some ships over the weekend - approx 5, so still have a good SR obtaining ratio. I'd never actually checked London for a retrofit before, but I have now and will perhaps try for a dupe of her. I'm currently farming chapter 4 anyway, and if I stick with 4-2 I could also pick up a couple more duplicate Shiranui's as she seems useful for a future low cost team, and also has a retrofit. I did notice on the Wiki last week that Centaur was not available on EN, which was I thought was a shame being a Royal Navy ship, but since the real Centaur was decommissioned and sold for scrap, maybe they didn't trust us with her right away ^_^ Also on the wiki it shows a different version of Prinz Eugen's Unfading Smile skin for the JP server, that's rather more skimpy than what should be the standard version, but I bought a few skins and seem to have the less censored JP versions - including that one |
ArcaedesJul 22, 2019 12:26 PM
| Azur Lane anime confirmed for this fall :) https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-07-22/azur-lane-anime-reveals-visual-october-premiere/.149229 Guess I have until then to try to figure out what's so waifu about Enterprise. I just don't get it. My best friend has three boys age about 3-5. I think there are some quiet lolis in the game though? :D Try to remember to build one ship every day, just to get the free cube from the daily mission. If you're not interested in the event ships then you can build from the light pool for 1 cube instead of 2, and it'll pay for itself. Light pool also counts toward the "build 3 ships" daily mission that bigger events offer, in exchange for event cash to use in the shop. During the Iris event I only did 3x event construction per day (plus an extra 10 at the last hour) and luckily got everyone but Surcouf. That's a common fate - sadly most of the real royal navy ships that survived the war had to be sold for scrap after, to help pay off Britain's huge war debts. Yeah, if you explore on the wiki you'll find a lot of skins that got censored for the Chinese version. Two of the funnier ones, compare the default skins: https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Takao https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Surcouf |
| I think I've gotten too used to the principal of too quiet = up to something.. I'd be happy to get Enterprise, but yeah there's quite a long list of others I would like to obtain first. Fortunately the quests are nicely arranged with the daily, weekly, and side tabs, so I usually try to do most of the daily's which includes the build one. It would be nice if they added HMS Victory some day, but she'd either have to be a wizened old grandma or some kind of unaging loli demon Re the censoring I think the notable one would have to be Indianapolis, with the Nuke symbol being sensibly replaced for the JP Server. She's also one I like to have as secretary, her alt skin is very moe, and the VA did a good job, very calming to listen to. Which is good at the end of a day of noise - work being even louder than home ^_^ |
ArcaedesJul 26, 2019 11:02 AM
| Indianapolis can be quite clearly be seen sitting atop the atomic bomb Little Boy, in which she delivered parts for during the last part of the war, which would be later dropped on Hiroshima. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Indianapolis/History Oh I did not know it was THAT bomb wow One time in chat I told the kids to watch Barefoot Gen :P https://myanimelist.net/anime/1824/Hadashi_no_Gen I'd certainly like to see the range of ships expand further beyond WWII and the 20th century. It doesn't seem like older ships necessarily look older, given HMS Hermes (1918): https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Hermes Tried at the end to get the other two purple subs from the sub banner and got two I-168 instead. Okay :P I've been farming 7-4 for Houshou for three days now. Been using all available means except sorties to raise my starters toward 70, so that I can use up the dupes (not planning to low-cost farm with them)... and get Ayanami in the process, though I don't specifically plan to use her for anything :D I'm at 83% of the final 2 million XP on Neptune, so after I get Houshou it'll be time for the infamous Roon grind, I'll have to switch out my mainly HMS cruiser vanguards for the Konigsberg sisters and Leipzig (and maybe Eugen, but probably not) that'll take a while longer than Neptune, I think, especially since I won't be playing as fervently once I have Houshou. Meta gamers hate having to use the K-class for Roon, but on the waifu level I really like the designs of Koln and Konigsberg, wish that the latter had a refit and either had an oath skin. I currently have exactly 300 cubes, will probably do the 3/day rate on the USN event, assuming that's a part of it. Baltimore looks nice. |
nDroaeJul 26, 2019 8:14 PM
| My banner builds have been very good, but farming not so much. Still want to get Laffey so I can also get Ayanami and complete that starter collection, but so far only got 3 x Z23 and the one Javelin I started with. I did get dupes of Lexington, Saratoga, London, Charles Ausburne, Yorktown, Cleveland & Houston (and single drops of a few other Elites) while farming, but no Laffey. From the subs banner I got 1 x I-168, and 2 each of U-522 & I-56. The Ship banners have still been giving me very good Elite/SR drops rates, certainly more than I expected. I did 1 light build per day during the week for the day quest and got an extra Montpelier. Yesterday I did 5 heavy builds and got Atago, today from 5 specials and got Unicorn & Centaur. Long Island passed lv 70 a few days ago and I finished her side quest for the No Cola No Life skin. She's been proving very useful on boss nodes or PvP where the battles last long enough for multiple airstrikes, generally Montpelier is MVP hog now (she's my only other full Limit Break ship) but in a longer battle Long Island can usually get around 20k damage Also it took me several days before I realised why Centaur's design looked so familiar to me, but I figured it out yesterday - there's more than a few similarities between her and Kirika from Shining Resonance   |
ArcaedesJul 28, 2019 3:24 PM
| Congrats on Centaur :) I haven't done more than one build per day yet, but I definitely want her more than the new USN ships I've seen so far (even though she is going to be unlimited after the rate-up ends) People have been making the obvious comparison to the centaur Centorea/Cerea from Monster Musume, but yeah, that's closer. Day 5, still no Houshou but I just got Terror, very nice. Basically another Erebus with the same screen-clearing Infinite Darkness skill. One of the comments on her is "Wait, you're telling me I can have MORE Infinite Darkness?" In the long term it seems like more of a speed farming aid than anything, but it's a super kewl goff-waifu power so imma throw books at it (again) |
| I wanted to keep Terror in one of my fleets, but at same level with roughly the same gear and enhancements she's about 300 points lower than California. I'm still levelling and upgrading her though in case it balances out at higher levels or based on skills - it should do since Cali is a rare and Terror is Elite. I didn't use the books much when I was starting out, but have been trying out lots of skill levelling recently. I used several to raise Long Island's Fast Take Off skill from a very low chance of activating to moderately low, and when it does work there's a very noticeable difference, unfortunately there were no kills as it was during one of the - battle for 50 seconds missions, but that's some good damage output in under a minute  Also, during one of my daily quest missions yesterday (clear 1 stage on hard mode) I finally got Laffey, and Hornet from the one regular chapter that I cleared, so yesterday was good drop day :) Re the Dorm, is it possible to build a second floor? it tells me it's available after expanding, which I have done a couple of times, but I did read somewhere about it not being available on the EN server - may have been out of date info though, so I don't know if I need to keep expanding further or it's just not available |
| A couple of hours after posting that I did one more run, and got Houshou off a random mob fleet :P Congrats on Laffey! I just hit 70 on all three via a little 5-2 grinding, time to reel in the Ayaya. 300 points? Is that in the score on the formation page? Consensus is that doesn't count for anything, but also, the value of Infinite Darkness (when leveled up) is distributed damage to many enemies, versus the typically more localized damage from a BB/BC or even typical CV strikes, though some BB/BC have special barrages of their own (I've noticed them on King George V and Bismarck, haven't checked many others). I suppose players would typically use Erebus and/or Terror in a mob clearing fleet and put their powerful BB/BC in the boss fleet. I want to use California too, one day :/ Yes, I used my paid gems for that. You have to expand the dorm three times to maximum, then you get the option to add the second floor (for decoration and morale recovery only) for 500 gems. I don't remember whether you also have to have all five first floor training slots unlocked first. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Living_Area#Space |
| Thanks for confirming re the Dorm. I've expanded twice, but was unsure whether to save coins for a third expansion or just spend on furniture etc. If third time is max though I'll prob just go for that The 300 point difference is on the details screen when viewing (the same screen it was on in my Centaur screenshot) where it shows Stats and then Power on the right hand side. Thus far the power rating does seem relative to damage and endurance in battles - and likelihood of getting MVP. California is well ahead of Terror on power - and overall stats at equal level, but I haven't levelled Infinite Darkness at all, and since it's an area attack rather than single target, It's likely Terror will end up more useful further down the line Congrats on getting Houshou if she's still your plan A for oathing that must have been a pretty sweet drop :) *Edit/update - I've read that the official drop rate for SSR's from builds is 7% which makes sense considering the rate I've been getting them compared to a 2-5% top tier gacha drop in other games, however my higher than average luck is still holding for now. I did 4 builds last night, due to new ships being available in the specials section. The result was 1. Warspite SR 2. Repulse - R 3. Chicago - R 4. Alabama - SR Now i'm a little spoiled for choice, I was all set to start rotating fleet 3 with 1 or 2 in order to include Unicorn and get Terror back in, but without rotating individual ships from the fleets I'd need to drop one of my current mains to include Warspite & Alabama. Long Island and Lexington are still easily doing the most damage in tough battles, so that only leaves California - who's also been very solid since day 1, or one of either Illustrious, Hood or Centaur to be removed. Do you stick to a set line up for each fleet or is it best to rotate individually? as far as the mood thing goes I've only ever seen the smiley face or sparkling smiley face, so not had to rest anyone yet |
ArcaedesAug 1, 2019 5:30 AM
| I delayed it long enough to get what I wanted from the limited time furniture sets that were available when I started. Token collection seemed slow going at first, but it really picks up once you get the commissions that give 10-15 or so. Okay, yeah. Well, I decide more based on who I like than how good they're supposed to be. I've typically had Bismarck flagship my #1 fleet while Erebus is flagship in #2, but I'm constantly rearranging and sometimes I go with an all-CV backline. Now that I have a few ships leveled close to or over 100, the choice is more locked-in against high level enemies, but for farming easier maps I just throw together whoever I feel like. I've also never had a problem with morale, but I try to keep my main ones in the form or second floor to be on the safe side. Congrats on that build! You will keep getting more elite/SSR options as you play. I have several SSRs I'm not using at all yet. Players typically abandon many of the shipgirls that get them through the early game, and feel bad about it. A chapter of the anthology manga was about that. On the subreddit they're saying that while rarity and strength don't necessarily correlate in normal ships, in events it typically is the SSRs that are the best. Reportedly Birmingham (Elite) is the most valuable get in this one, even though she was almost immediately nerfed on the CN server before she even came out on EN. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/ck4py4/new_uss_event_ship_tier_list/evjafch/ Thanks :) Yes, Houshou is best acquisition. Also finally got Centaur this morning. Still haven't touched the USN banner. :P And completed Neptune tonight. I'm like "Is this the endgame?"  Haven't even started chapter 8, haven't finished the easy/rookie missions at the top yet. |
nDroaeAug 2, 2019 9:21 PM
| It's only endgame when you get the SSSSR Minature Yellow Pigeon ^_^ More useful info from the reddit there, I got Birmingham (along with Concord and Yuugure) from yesterdays builds - the build 3 ships daily event quest has been a useful incentive - and I'll be adding Birmingham to one of my fleets for sure I've still got plenty to do, not got anyone else past 70 yet for full limit break besides Long Island and Montpelier, but have a few around lv 67-68 - including Foxhound & Spence who still get alternate uses in fleet 3. I need 3rd limit break on Javelin, Laffey & Z23 to get Ayanami. Long Island is ready for retrofit at lv 85, but I've also been working on the retrofits for Laffey and Hammann, and I need a ton more xp for the combat data collection on St Louis development - everything else is pretty much done. My fleets are a mix of mostly USS/HMS ships though, so I've also been researching Neptune a couple of days per week. I've never been good at focusing on one thing at a time, so it'll prob be while before any ship actually gets fully completed |
ArcaedesAug 3, 2019 12:04 PM
| Still nothing here from daily 3-build except a Belfast (can use for LB), but that's okay. I hope we get these party skins, I want to buy South Dakota's :D https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/1_Year_Anniversary Just got her from the PvP exchange today. I didn't start playing PvP until recently, I wasn't interested at first but the free XP is very nice, as is having SoDak. After I started Neptune I considered switching to Roon once I had enough KMS, but decided to stick with what I started instead. I am raising Brooklyn to get a head start so she'll be leveled and ready when I start Saint Louis, I think I'll also swap in Pensacola and Northampton in the slot I currently have Neptune in (because she needs levels too). |
| That's certainly a very nice skin, I need to do a fair bit more PvP before I can get her though. In the shipyard I'm almost done with Saint Louis now, only combat data collection to complete, and will have to drop someone from regular use when I get her. Still can't decide who to focus on, and switching around often. Long Island has been retrofitted, and I used 2 promise rings on the first two to reach 100 affinity (Montpelier & Northampton) Hood & Centaur are both challenging for Fleet 1 MVP regularly now they've been developed further, and Indianapolis is pretty much level with Prinz Eugen who's not far behind Montpelier. Fleets 2-4 are currently filled with others that I want to work on, Kagerou has gone up the priority list since I found out her retrofit is available on EN - unfortunately there are still many that aren't - and she has by far the highest Torp damage even pre retrofit and her current level of 55. San Diego and Atago are on rotation in fleet 4 at present, and both seem to have very good potential. I would recommend working on Northampton, she is worth some investment even though only a Rare, her artillery command skill is pretty useful if she's in a squad with other cruisers. Also, it seems like my current dorm shipgirls enjoy watching Z23 sleep, and she likes pretending to sleep while they do it ^_^  |
ArcaedesAug 10, 2019 3:10 PM
| I got the SoDak skin and married Houshou :) Nice, what's that bridge? San Diego retrofit is coming in the anniversary event and makes her amazing, extremely helpful versus large numbers of planes in later chapters, but you do need a lot of cruiser blueprints and 3x extra Sandy (or 3x gold bulins) to do it. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/San_Diego#Retrofit I posted in the gacha thread on Reddit today: As a casual player, the setup here seems kind of backward to me, because I'm much more keen to get Kirishima and Avrora [guaranteed event rewards] than any of the build ships. Though they'd be nice to have too, especially Essex. I might end up getting her while trying to get Shangri-La, if we get this on EN later on. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Air_Raid_Drills_with_Essex Shangri-La is a must-get for me. I did strict 3 builds/day on the last event and was surprised to get 1 each of Baltimore and Alabama, after seeing many people get several of one and none of the other. No Birmingham, though. Didn't try harder because I don't chase meta. I recently completed retrofits on Leander and Suffolk (though I'm not actively using them), Fusou, and Koln. I leveled up Koln's ASW skill for the event, but ended up taking so long getting ready that I barely used it :P I've got Foxhound, Nevada and Oklahoma mostly done but waiting on levels to unlock theirs. I used Northampton in my farming fleets today :) I gave Brooklyn too much of a boost and she started stealing MVP from the Iron Bloods, oops. List of SSR ships available to choose from in this event: https://i.imgur.com/XCPseXm.png That solves my lack of Atago. XD I think I might use one of my now four remaining rings on her, she seems fun without being yandere. Also perhaps Cleveland after reading her oath skin quotes. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Cleveland/Quotes#Japanese_Server Koln/Konigsberg oath skins are extremely unlikely, but I suppose I should expect Z23 to get one, hmmm. I wonder. I guess I'd have to check her oath skin quotes to decide whether to go for that if and when it happens. |
| The Bridge - and Tree, are giveaway items apparently dependant on the number of luck bags purchased. Had too look it up because they were both in my mailbox a week or two ago, and I originally assumed it was something everyone had gotten https://twitter.com/azurlane_en/status/1042111072327618560?lang=en I'm almost done with retrofits on Laffey and Saratoga, level 75 pending. Laffey now has a slight edge over Indi, so has gone in to fleet 1 with Montpelier & Eugen, I have been working on San Diego though to eventually have an oil expensive all SR first fleet. Takao & Atago are also approaching level 70, but I only have 1 proto bulin at the moment and still need limit breaks on Centaur, Illustrious & Alabama. Northapmton will still get MVP if I put her in squad 1, even ahead of Montpelier & Hood, but she's a bit too squishy to survive in harder battles I should be able to get Ayanami today, Z23 is level 69 at present and her full limit break is the last thing I need to complete. When I do get Ayanami that'll be another ship to work on as I probably would have chosen her as starter if I'd had the choice, and very much want her in a fleet with Kagerou for torp damage boosting. Aaaaand I'm trying to make a low cost HMS team with Comet, Crescent & Cygnet so I can get some use Queen Elizabeth for something (also putting Terror back in action) It definitely gives me plenty to do - which I never have enough time for ^_^ and we seems to get multiple event updates running at the same time, but maybe that's due to EN server playing catchup I'm inclined to agree about the setup, the build system is the gacha element of the game, and after playing for a little over a month there's not really anything I have a desire to chase via building. I already have more than enough top teir ships to focus on, and guaranteed event rewards always seem to be as good or better than anything left to random chance. As long as the player base is buying gems for skins, gear and oil etc to sufficietly support the game though I'm happy having no need to throw cubes at the build system. Also the Taco picture on that list of selectable SSR's made me laugh |
| Thanks, it turns out I had them in my room's collection category, guess I didn't notice when I got them :D Roon grind be like   Saint Louis grind is gonna be so easy lol :P And then also Monarch, with the flagship boost and the fact that I have 7 HMS BB/BC to choose from. (Hood, Repulse, King George V, Prince of Wales, Rodney, Queen Elizabeth, Nelson) I don't like anything about Queen Elizabeth, but I guess I'll use QE instead of Nelson for her skill, unless I have someone I like more by then. The general advice is to just do one light build/day when there isn't an event build ship you want. I was doing one heavy/special instead for a while, but I have enough of those now. It's been a long time since there wasn't an event build going on :P I was at gold cap with nothing to spend it on, so I did a few extra builds and got Essex. Also just got the Saratoga seal skin today. That's a really small blue whale. (they're born 25 feet long) |
| I took some inspiration from this. I've had Saint Louis in shipyard for weeks now, and making very slow progress on combat data collection. Aside from making a low cost Royal Navy fleet (which I'll prob keep Queen Liz in) I've never focused on the actual factions for xp farming. Mainly been working on individual ships and retrofits etc. So I.ve now rearranged my first 2 fleets for xp farming, they're fairly high cost but I don't have a low cost Eagle fleet yet and I can get decent xp from farming chapter 8 for the oil cost. Next up I can either work on Neptune, Monarch or Ibuki. So fleet 2 currently has my Royal Navy mains and Sakura Vanguards. I've been quite lucky with Navy Carriers and Battleships - also have Prince of Wales and I'll prob put her in the Eagle Fleet when xp farming is done - but didn't really have many vanguard options until recently. I got Vampire and Belfast from my daily builds this week though. So now only lacking on Ironbloods and perhaps an SR Sakura Carrier or Battleship   I'm undecided now whether or not I should train up the low cost fleet before I try to farm Royal xp. It would obviously make more sense if I could have some Normals & Rare's capable of handling chapters 7 or 8, but that would take time and patience and I often lack both ^_^ |
ArcaedesAug 26, 2019 4:49 AM
| Just realised, today - delayed though process much?- That I could use Spence & Northampton in my Eagle squad, reduce the oil cost and still farm chapter 7 for similar xp. Same would also apply for Foxhound & Arethusa when I start farming Royal. There all level 80+ with full limit breaks (Northampton can still get MVP occasionally in a squad with my SR's) and Fox has most of her Retrofit done, and there was me thinking I have no lower cost ships that I could use on higher xp maps >.< Also congrats on getting Essex. Ive been doing at least 1 event build daily, but not had any partcularly interesting results yet - Belfast and Vampire were both from regular builds. I didn't manage to get the Seal event skin either, I finished on around 3,500 points/reports or whatever they were calling them. Which wasn't far off, but I ran out of time on it |
| Thanks :) Congrats on Bel and Vampire, I've seen longtime players regret still not getting Vampire (wanted for waifu purposes, she's not strong). Personally Duke of York is more my kind of vamp... but I got Vampire's skin in case I get her later. Also got Saratoga's but I've still never used her, she may be good in meta but she's in that zone with the starter DDs - not cute enough (Unicorn, Beagle, Spence) or cool enough (Bismarck, Cleveland, Baltimore) or waifu enough (nee-sans/moms) for me to want to use her :/ I want Graf Zeppelin :P I really need those Iron Blood event reruns to get enough tech points to start Friedrich after PR2 comes out. Having Tirpitz would be great since I've maxed out the Iron Blood boost skill on Bismarck, which specifically powers up Tirpitz. Spence and Foxhound won't help with farming Saint Louis and Neptune, since they're DDs while STL/Nep need CA and CL combat experience. All of the PR1 frontline ships are cruisers, unfortunately, but thankfully PR2 loosened the rquirements to any vanguard or any main fleet ships of the faction(s), while requiring more total XP. I struggled with Neptune fleet composition because it seemed like a majority of HMS cruisers I wanted to use were heavy cruisers, but putting two heavy in a vanguard makes it very slow. I wish Exeter's retrofit had come out on EN a little earlier, anyway I completed it at the cost of exhausting my cruiser BPs again, won't be doing Sandy any time soon :P Not that I need any of all that, I still haven't started chapter 8 yet ;P I would be running 7-2 hard rather than 6-2 for cruiser BPs, roombas http://azurlanesanctuarygrossweebskeepout.blogspot.com/2018/09/azur-laneen-in-depth-equipment-guide_23.html and Yorktown dupes, but I don't have enough strong destroyers yet to meet the requirements and be able to drive down the threat level on auto to the point where I only need the first fleet. Consequence of chasing unneeded PR too much ;P But again, it doesn't matter, I'm not interested in doing the late game chapters (or event hard maps) any time soon. |
| Yeah, my habit of skim reading everything and thinking I can get by on a general overview doesn't always help. I completely missed the part where it said Crusiers ^_^ That works out ok though because I just switched Indianapolis and Northampton back from a reserve fleet to main farming. On the hard mode quests I'm still running 5-1 every day, I can't do 6 because I never got around to finishing 5 before I started retrofitting Laffey, and since then I haven't wanted to move off a Destroyer BP dropping map because I've also retrofitted Ayanami, and only need 2 more T2 blueprints to complete the retrofit for Kagerou. I'll start working on Cruisers next for the more rapid damage output - especially with San Diego's retrofit added in - but at the moment having Anyanami, Laffey and Kagerou together in vanguard is pretty effective. Ayanami has now taken over the main MVP hog title, despite having a very low FP stat, having 550 TRP and over 200 evade (at level 89) means she often deals the most damage and loses the least HP. In longer more drawn out battles though the title goes to either Centuar or Hood Are there certain damage types that ignore evade, or is it just down to the hit stat of the opponent? for PvP I use Montpelier, Ayanami & Laffey as vanguard and have noticed sometimes Monpelier loses more of her HP bar than the other two (she has much less evade, but more than 2x HP) but in other battles though she'll still have over half her HP left when the other two are down to almost nothing |
ArcaedesSep 3, 2019 11:40 AM
| I don't know of any attacks that ignore evasion.... https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Combat#Evasion_and_Accuracy I've never delved into the calculations and such, I guess that'd be a question for the daily questions thread on the subreddit :) I finished retrofitting Foxhound and Comet. Fusou retrofit is fun to use on manual since she has both an airstrike and a BB main gun attack. I wish Houshou's main gun made her like that, but it's not big enough to qualify for one. |
| I'm probably missing something obvious but can't figure out why I'm unable to exchange medals for Warspite. I have 90, the cost is 80 but for some reason Exhange is still greyed out. Annoying because I'd be able to fully limit break with one extra |
| Events on top of events have been kicking the ass of my very limited free time, but I've been trying to keep up with the requirements for limited shipgirls, really had to miss the shark sub though as I never even managed to clear SP3 on the last event 10 times nevermind 60 ^_^ but have managed to pick up all the other recent new additions to the build section and event rewards I've also been trying to run 8-1 & 8-2 for several weeks as I wanted to pick up Ikazuchi & Inazuma, however after 100+ attempts I still have neither of them. I've even got every other ? filled in on 8-2 and have had multiple drops of every other available ship except the one I was farming for. I'm glad now I never tried the Fox mine, I would have been stuck there forever - I don't lke moving on from something once I've decided to try for it, and the more times I fail the more I want to keep trying |
| Hey Shikikan! :) I did get Atago from the anniversary, MLB'd with purins and oathed. Still have never got her from construction. I think I'm less than 50 BPs away from getting my Roon to Dev 30 now. I did manage to get Graf Spee while watching FMAB (surprisingly uninterruptive), problem with her is I think she's much nicer with the skins, yet I don't like the skins or her enough to buy either, so she's stuck with giant robot hands :P U-110 was cute but not enough for me to do that again, especially with the higher oil cost due to higher level enemies. I got Mikasa, Hiei and crew for under 100 cubes, bought Hiei's feet skin. Bought Gneisenau's instantly infamous L2D succubus skin the day it came out despite not having her, and then the DC rerun was announced soon after. Wow, that's a bad hit of desire sensor for low-rarity ships. I didn't know (until I checked just now) what their rarity was or how to get them, I'd seen them before but wasn't interested. Outside events, the only farmable ship I think I'd like to try for is Choukai on 12-4, but getting there is probably a looong way off. I finished retrofitting Sandy and raised her barrage skill to 10 (100% proc chance lol) but she still needs to level up a lot. I got my final Hood dupe from the Mikasa build, MLB'd and oathed her, also MLB'd Prince of Wales and King George V and am now going through Monarch's 2 million (got 11% on it yesterday) with them, Rodney, Repulse, and Renown. It does cost more oil than vanguard farming, but it also delivers more XP. I could keep the SSRs out of it for less oil cost, but I want to raise them up, so nah. |
| I totally heard Kent's voice in my head when I read that Hey Shikikan, she's probably my most duplicated rare ship from build, if not her then Norfolk. I get them both at least once a week ^^ Definite dersire sensor for me on the chapter 8 farming, tbh I won't really have much use for them if I do manage to pick them up, but there's no way I'm quitting on it now after trying so many times. Mikasa and Hood are definitely worth investing in. Hood has been my number 1 flagship for a long time, and Mikasa actually prompted me to sort my fleets by faction - her combined with also getting Yukikaze from recent build has made it worthwhile creating an all Sakura Fleet. They both seem pretty op and Ayanami has been top for damage output for a couple on months now (with the exception of hard PvP battles where Centaur does 2-3x more damage than anyone else) and I got Takao and Atago early on, so they're both max LB'd. I Got Enterprise quite recently too, and retrofitted Sandy a couple of weeks ago, so I also have a nice Eagle squad for Prince of Wales to tag along with - Saratoga, Laffey and Montpelier are also max upgraded. Of the three main factions I'm still a bit lacking on Royal Vanguard ships, and Sakura main fleet. I'm currently using Belfast, Exeter and York Vampire when comabt grinding for neptune (sometimes Vampire if not restricted to Cruisers) and Belfast is my only SR Navy Vanguard. Likwise Mikasa is my only SR Sakura main, I do have some good Elites - Hiei, Kirishima and Souryuu/Hiryuu who both have retrofits, but one event ship I did miss out on was Shoukaku in the limited build. So unless she's added to the regular pool, I won't be able to have the Crane Sisters with Mikasa, so may end up stuck in fox mine afterall. It's refreshing to play a Gacha with so manay characters, that doesn't make everything bar the newest top tiers obsolute after every couple of updates and my biggest problem is that there's actually too many useful shipgirls I want to upgrade. I max LB'd Avrora but now don't know where to use her, and barely even started on the Ironblood or Sardegna girls (and I did get Littorio, Zara & Carabiniere) aaaand there's prob a good 30-50 rares and elites that I'd be willing to invest time in to if I had it. Certainly no shortage of useful or nicely designed characters lol When you mentioned Graff Spee and her giant robot hands it reminded me of this recent piece of artwork, which is pretty neat. I think she has the best idle stance https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/doo64z/if_al_turns_into_2d_sidescrolling_action_game/ Edit - so I only actually checked today and found out Belfast is the only RN vanguard ship that starts out at SR rarity, so seems like retrofitting Exeter, York and London will turn out useful if I want a Royal Navy fleet |
ArcaedesNov 3, 2019 1:52 AM
| Yep, that was a Kent reference :) Anise_Punter loves Norfolk in the anime. Their reputation is Hood is great but not as good as dev30 Monarch, and Mikasa is "good if you don't have Nagato," well, I don't want Nagato because they turned her into a loli so there's 0 waifu appeal ;P I can't give Nagato a slot in my Moms Backline. (Unicorn can stay though) "York Vampire" makes me think Duke of York. Shoukaku and Zuikaku were added to the general pool when the War Archives came out with Visitors Dyed in Red, you'll see them in the chat build reports sometimes. I guess they'll probably be available to pick in the next Wishing Well, they weren't this last time because it was only ships added to pools before July 26 or something. Avrora is just plain weak apparently, of course I'll LB and use her anyway though. For players who really care about tiers only a few ships are "useful," but if you don't then yeah, there are too many to use :P I've read that in KanColle just about every ship could be useful even for that kind of player, but that was a different type of game. OHHHHHH IT'S SHANGRI-LA <333 London retrofit is the strongest of those and also my favorite, unusually :) Though Exeter is also lovely. York I like because she's a cute chuuni, retro version is more hot but less cute, I like her original look more. If I can farm Deutschland from this rerun then I'll finally be able to have an all-chuuni vanguard, Dland + York + Z36 https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Z36 Erebus in the back I guess :P |
| Nice, glad I caught the reference :) and thanks again for some more useful info. If Shoukau & Zuikaku have already been added to the regular pool, I might ease off on Retrofitting Souryuu & Hiryuu. Will still retrofit both eventually, as they seem pretty good and have a nice bonus when deployed together, but at the moment I'm continually running out of gold also trying to retrofit the London/Exter/York and doing 3 daily builds for the even points - yeah still not good at focusing on one at a time ^_^ I haven't got Deutschland or Z36, but would definitely like both as Chuuni characters are always entertaining. Thus far I've only got the normal rarity ships and Z46. I am trying to stack as many event points as I can and hopefully can at least get Deutschland's Dark Demon skin from the exchange. My first 6k went on the Ultra Rare Torps for Ayanami, I also have the UR torp auxiliary so just trying to make the most of her naturally high TRP and push it to max. |
ArcaedesNov 4, 2019 12:20 PM
| For this event I'm trying a new approach with the builds - rather than a fixed daily number, I set a gold budget of 40,000. If I have more gold I build more ships, if I have less I do 3. How much gold I have is determined by what comes up in research. I don't HAVE to get Graf Zeppelin, but I'd like to. Z36 was from the Scherzo event, this one has her idol sister Z35, whom I've built four of so far. Tirpitz is a strong battleship, but if she's not to your liking then nevermind :P This is the first time I'm doing the full hard mode on an event, since it's easier (older event) and my ships are getting stronger. So far I'd be making more points if I were doing the normal mode and its 3x daily bonus, but I'm more interested in heading out to the D map farming grounds, and I don't want to dedicate game time (even multitasking) to normal mode. |
| I just finished the D maps on hard mode, but not started Ex Hard maps yet. I've got about 13k points - since the 6k I spent on the torps, so I either need to farm some more or just get Tirpitz & Gneisenau and not much else. I Haven't got Deutschland, so will farm a little more during the last couple of days it's running - prob on D4, but also ran out of oil today and that hasn't happened in months, usually I have to buy food for the dorm just to get it below the max and be able to collect from academy for the daily quest |
| I tried the EX stage a couple of time, but my vanguard gets wiped out before I could do 50% damage. Did manage enough points to buy out most of the exchange shop - except furniture, but never got Deutschland Edit - logged in today and apparently my last build from the event banner was Graf Zepplin so the event ended on a good note. Also I really like the new background for the log in screen |
ArcaedesNov 14, 2019 11:55 AM
| Nice! :) RNG gave a lot of people problems with Graf and Dland. I was fortunate to get everyone from the banner within 45 builds, and Gneisenau and Scharnhorst dropped, but no Deutschland. I even tried running B1 (where she's the only elite) for hours last night, got nothing. :P Oh well, on the bright side I doubled my Vinland Saga manga progress ;P Ended up with 26k points, bought the Dland skin even though I don't have her. |
| Servers down today, so maybe an update for a new event - I don't read news and notifications ^_^ The last one went pretty well, I got all the Hololive girls. Sora & Fubki within the first couple of days, but Aqua only on my last build on the last day. Really didn't think I was going to get her, all the others were somewhere in the middle (got Matsuri 4 times) My status on 8-2 is still the same, every other ship obtained except Ikazuchi. I went back to 8-1 and got Inazuma after 3 attempts, but 8-2 is really not giving up on testing my patience Also I finally got my very first max level a few days ago, very much due to MvP monopoly - although in any battle that takes longer than 50 seconds - ie long enough for a couple of air strikes, Centaur is the Queen on MvP's - she's not far behind on levels either 116 if I remember correctly  |
| Congrats on hitting max level! |
| Thanks :) I kind of like that it took nearly 6 months to get one level 120, it is quite convenient that most gacha games have farmable/purchasable level up mats that you can just spam on a character to instantly max level any new additions, but it does pretty much make xp gain through playing fairly moot The process of levelling any new character on AL always requires some time |
| Nice, my highest is still Bismarck at 117. I'm using her again now for the Friedrich der Grosse grind, but even that isn't going to take her all the way to 120. I got all of the Hololive ships too. Apparently Minato Aqua is the strongest sub in the game, so I'd like to team her with my I-168 and U-47, but I need gold sub torps and I haven't progressed to 9-5 to unlock those as drops in SOS yet. (Subs aren't important in general but I like them so mehhh) I decided to sacrifice my merchant gold income to stockpile coins until Shangri-la comes out, which is not ideal with all the PR2 research to do, but whatever, this is for Shangri-la. Decisive projects are the only must-do gold cost ones and they're rare anyway. I've been doing some cube PR2 research since I have over 900 cubes. From farming PR XP (and submarine XP) at 8-4 between events, I've received two Maya (SSR), one Nachi (R), and one Richmond (Common). RNG insane as usual + desire sensor is strong, since I didn't particularly want Maya, and she's currently running commissions with Akagi, Enterprise,and 0lb Warspite. Recently got an Ikazuchi from a daily run of 8-2 hard. :P |
| My SOS progress has been severely neglected, I should work on that if I can get better sub gear from it. Submarines in general have been useful for me, when I'm training a new fleet I prefer to do so on maps/event stages where I can use sub support and recently I-58 has been MVP hogging until the ships I'm training pass level 75 or so. Definitely useful support and helps lower level ships to survive higher level sorties The current event has some nice new designs, although from build I've only got Ryuuhou - 3 times, which I suppose is still useful as I have many more ships that I want to limit break than Proto Bulins. Also her heal skill is very useful in combat. I have Noshiro from the exchange and will have almost enough points for Kinu also Still... no... Ikazuchi ^_^ Inazuma is nice to have though, I like her 4th wall comments about not having any live 2D or being able to leave the screen, and her MVP is quite amusing I would personally agree with your decision to stockpile coins for Shangri-La, the powers of the desire sensor should never be underestimated, especially on a time limited build, and when I'm trying for a particular drop I always run out of gold, but have never had my Wisdom Cubes drop below 20 Edit, just got 4th Ryuuhou from one of the 3 builds I did today. I think she accounts for about 20% of my drops since the event started lol |
ArcaedesJan 1, 2020 7:05 AM
| It's sort of a catch-22 doing the weekly Supply Chain Disruption sub challenge - I can do the second-highest level no problem but it only has a 10% chance of dropping a gold sub torp BP, and there are three types of gold sub torps, so it would take ages to get gold torps for the top level challenge if I don't unlock SOS signal strength 8 by S-ranking chapter 9 SOS (once that's done, gold torp BPs can drop on any chapter's SOS stage). As of last night, I'm now one Enterprise away from MLBing her with 0 purins used :P Since my gold income is restricted I'm only doing 3/day and I've only got Kasumi, I would like Ryuuhou mainly because someone said she's a sea slug - which could make sense since two IJN subs are sea slugs, and she was converted from a submarine tender. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/dndv76/the_ultimate_sakura_ship_girls_classification/f59xaez/ |
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