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Kitakami

CXu wrote:

Finally cleared E7 (Normal) yesterday:

Didn't have the resources (or sanity for that matter) to do it on Hard :(

My life's biggest mistake was clearing E3 and E4 on hard before farming. How2farm E4??????
congratz!
Well I cleared both E3 and E4 on easy so I had a good time farming lol
But one of my friend change the difficulty from easy to normal and farm b4 he clear the E3 on hard, it's really hard to farm E3 and E4 on hard...(and the hard's prize sucks)
CXu
Thankfully nodes E and G stay as their final form while the boss resets, so I can take that route and save some resources on support expeditions.
Too bad it's still heavily rng with those night battles :( 13 sorties, 5 boss encounters, 3 S ranks, 2 A ranks, 0 Umikaze ;;
piruchan

CXu wrote:

How2farm E4??????
You don't. Let Umikaze be a myth.
Kitsunemimi

Kitakami wrote:

congratz!
Well I cleared both E3 and E4 on easy so I had a good time farming lol
But one of my friend change the difficulty from easy to normal and farm b4 he clear the E3 on hard, it's really hard to farm E3 and E4 on hard...(and the hard's prize sucks)
OH MY GOD IT'S SUPER KTKM-SAMA KITAAAAーーー(゚∀゚)ーーー

*bows on knees*

Oh the sorrow of Summer 2015 ;w;. Please come back to us in the Fall event, no one could possibly hope to clear the extra ops without you D:

Also,

CXu wrote:

Thankfully nodes E and G stay as their final form while the boss resets, so I can take that route and save some resources on support expeditions.
Too bad it's still heavily rng with those night battles :( 13 sorties, 5 boss encounters, 3 S ranks, 2 A ranks, 0 Umikaze ;;
It looks like the numbers have shifted a bit and Umikaze is now more like a 4% drop on Hard (which sometimes tends to have the irony of having lower drop rates for certain ships because it accommodates more rare ships - I guess this isn't a problem for Umikaze). That's still an expected average of 20-25 S-ranks, so hopefully you'll have something else to do at the same time.

Of course it could take as many as 50 S-ranks. Or more. Only time will tell whether the RNG gods will shower you with happiness and Umikaze.

my posts are getting dumber and dumber what am i even doing
Jinxy
More people should exploit pre-clear farming on Easy. It's only fair since the other difficulties are nigh unfarmable bullshit

pragmatism goes a long way

That said, I tried farming E4C Hard for Akashi no.2. Not actually difficult other than echelon sub bullshit, but the drop rates are like 0.1% so I ended up picking up 2 maruyus instead.
Kitakami

Kitsunemimi wrote:

Please come back to us in the Fall event
i wish i could lol
CXu

Jinxy wrote:

More people should exploit pre-clear farming on Easy. It's only fair since the other difficulties are nigh unfarmable bullshit
Yes. I knew about this and even did it for a while last event. I have no clue why I decided to not do it this time ;;
OsuMe65

Still doing the Straight Easy, 0 Bucket Challenge
(where I can only get buckets from performed expeds and dailies.)

Will throw the Flight Deck opportunity tho
Juuryoushin
With a great majority of people dealing with AD Hime, I can't stop myself and post

piruchan
I was trying to farm E-5G easy earlier, when I realize 2BB 2DD 1 CAV and 1 SS actually goes through the most favorable route to the boss node(B - E - D - F - I - K - Z). With fuel at 20k, I thought why not and decided to clear the map. It was an easy run, I almost always got to the boss node. At last dance my fleet was sent back 3 or 4 times, all of them on node F because of bullshit damage done by the abyssal cruisers. They would one shot a BB straight into red. I still cleared it at the end though.

Notable drops: I-8, Hyuuga.


I might feed her to other kanmusu.
domSaur
trying to finish e-5 and wow wtf, are you guys sure this is the easiest.. i haven't completely killed the boss on all my runs so far..

can i haz comp.. Akitsushima's dragging my fleet down way too hard lol,..(added that Shigu, even with a lookout, still won't cut-in)
Neil Watts
let's return to Easy mode...
CXu

domSaur wrote:

trying to finish e-5 and wow wtf, are you guys sure this is the easiest.. i haven't completely killed the boss on all my runs so far..

can i haz comp.. Akitsushima's dragging my fleet down way too hard lol,..(added that Shigu, even with a lookout, still won't cut-in)
Iirc, you can use 2DD + CAV to go the same route as Akitsushima. 2BB would most likely help a lot as well, and a CV.
Rantai
It's finally over T_T


Powerleveling Choukai from 1 to 65 was probably the best idea I had all event. Guess I can go back to farming random stuff now.

Or maybe try and get another Umikaze that I accidentally foddered ._.
Synchrostar
E7 last dance is suffering

EDIT:
piruchan
Today was a good day.

I cleared 1-5 (my first extra operation clear without counting E-5), got I-19, and gained enough levels so Yuudachi can epoilution.
Xytox
After like 150k fuel and 130k ammo spent on E7 alone, we finally did it.
Haskorion
All operations on easy since most ships were rather mid level.

15 runs for Mizuho.

Juuryoushin

Xytox wrote:

After like 150k fuel and 130k ammo spent on E7 alone, we finally did it.
Woah, congratulations. I wish I had enough patience to hard everything.

Those 3 days were a rush towards all EOs, 5-5 included. I learned to tickle Re-chan a bit and eventually passed through 50% of the time. Thanks to Aircraft Proficiency, AS is now bearable. This was my first serious try and therefore very first clear of this map ever.

Evrien

Xytox wrote:

After like 150k fuel and 130k ammo spent on E7 alone, we finally did it.
Nice! Congrats Xytox!
Xytox

Juuryoushin wrote:

Xytox wrote:

After like 150k fuel and 130k ammo spent on E7 alone, we finally did it.
Woah, congratulations. I wish I had enough patience to hard everything.
It's either hard or go home. I will never change difficulty just to be able to complete a map or get a drop. That's why Amagi is not a part of my fleet lmao.

Evrien wrote:

Nice! Congrats Xytox!
Dude, I even S'd the node somehow. What's even more amazing is the fact that I had Shigure with triple torpedo and Eugen with skilled lookouts ready to cut-in right after Myoukou did her 200 crit on the boss and killed her. It was a pretty good run. Shoukaku decided not to be Chokekaku for once as well and sunk one of the BB himes in day battle with 1 damage to spare.

The part about it all that beats everything though, is the fact that as soon as I switched in Inazuma as boss support flagship, the boss support fleet suddenly sunk all the shit escorts at the bottom every run instantly. She brought the nano death upon them all. I've truly given the ring to the right ship, and even to this day she has yet to disappoint me.
Jinxy
Anyone tried 5-5 this month yet with Proficiency? Been messing about with 2FBB4CV and got 2 kills out of 4-5 tries. Was gonna use 1FBB5CV but one was in long repairs

Been going "all out assault" with as many offensive planes I can stuff + node support. Not too shabby but unfortunately knocking Re Elite to orange or more before she gets her preemp torp is still too difficult.

(Also I'm suspecting event node support might have increased proc rates because I sparkled 4 ships and the proc rate was fucking awful, compared to nearly 80% during the event)

Another alternative might be putting armor on the CVs. I know at least one person who tried that to fairly decent effect.
Juuryoushin
@^: I just did. I still don't know the accurate calculation yet, but it seems like it adds 25 extra AS for each >> Reppuu you put in. I won't go CVhappyland personally, cause they are way more fragile that way, not to mention that missing kills in day battle pretty much put an end to the current attempt.

Node support had been buffed a bit for like every map, I don't see any other explanation to this high proc rate. (Well, my 2 fleets were permanently sparkled ... So my statement is flawed.)

Even though, isn't it painful to run such an army of carriers ?
Jinxy
I S-ranked the first node before shelling phase happened. Clearing 3+ ships in aerial phase is very possible too.

5 CVs can hold 14 slots of bombers, using 5 slots of fighters and 1 Saiun slot. To be specific in my previous post, I got to boss 2 times and killed her both times, just that I still retreated/compass'd a few other times

Really wishing I could just nuke the Re Elite node too to prevent pre-emp though but doesn't seem likely, so I'll drop a few bombers+saiun for bulges instead


EDIT: oh yeah I haven't been sparkling at all


EDIT2: With sparkles and large bulges:



Went back down to 4CV after I failed a boss kill (Bismarck got hit to orange and couldn't kill Wo at night).
domSaur
fk, i think im done for the event :c 2days left and im just about to begin e-6 :c

school stuff + the search for Umikaze(which succeeded anyway) made all the delays... stuck to e-4 for like a week lol


edit: and so i realized i have to kill 10 CVs before unlocking e-6.. im rly giving up now lol
CXu
07.09.2015, 03:42 - And thus Umikaze became a Myth.

Kitsunemimi
Looks like the odds weren't with you :<

...Though still that's quite a lot of C's... I'm not sure if even I would've went ahead with those losses getting pinned to my record. Good effort for sure though, sometimes it's the thought that counts ;w;

In other random news, I was really tired yesterday and prior to that I had large unavoidable delays. So I ended up beating all of E7 today within the span of about 7 hours.... on Easy.

I finished with about 15 minutes to spare. I also have a stream archive if anyone's curious.
CXu
Well, rng just decides to be mean sometimes. The C's are when I have no chance of S after day battle, so I just end the sortie to save ammo.
Kitsunemimi
This is going to be a bit random but I'm not sure if any of you guys saw this so I'll just drop this here.
http://www.twitch.tv/bl2w/v/14824396

It was pretty exciting to watch.
Juuryoushin
Those new CGs are prpr material, I can totally forgive them not giving us Cranes Kai Ni : >

KinomiCandy
There you go.

Juuryoushin
domSaur
did post-event LSC and ayyy....
all that's left is Yahagi oTL
Nub1
I'm here only for
and then I logged out again, lol
piruchan
Yesterday I decided to try 3-2, and experience tells me that RNG hates Hibiki and Bucky, so I put repair team on both of them. Then this happen

Hibiki and Fubuki got hit to red in pre-boss, but took absolutely no damage at the boss node. Did I beat RNG? Or was I extremely lucky?
Jinxy
Do your girls except for YKKZ actually do good damage in NB like that? Their low luck means they won't use Cut Ins often, and single torpedo hits are inaccurate from my experience. The usual build for them is 2 guns + 1 aux (AA, Sonar, Radar, etc, NOT main gun or torp) which will allow them to Double Attack 99% of the time, with very good accuracy.

Try and make the switch, they'll do a lot more damage on average except for event bosses with too much armor
Juuryoushin
I'll add to the stone that CI builds in this map are also pointless since everything is easily one-shottable. There are only light ships on the boss node, nothing else.
OsuMe65

piruchan wrote:

Yesterday I decided to try 3-2, and experience tells me that RNG hates Hibiki and Bucky, so I put repair team on both of them. Then this happen

Hibiki and Fubuki got hit to red in pre-boss, but took absolutely no damage at the boss node. Did I beat RNG? Or was I extremely lucky?
RNG had mercy on ya.
piruchan

Jinxy wrote:

Do your girls except for YKKZ actually do good damage in NB like that? Their low luck means they won't use Cut Ins often, and single torpedo hits are inaccurate from my experience. The usual build for them is 2 guns + 1 aux (AA, Sonar, Radar, etc, NOT main gun or torp) which will allow them to Double Attack 99% of the time, with very good accuracy.

Try and make the switch, they'll do a lot more damage on average except for event bosses with too much armor
So far the girls haven't disappointed me and I got 3 to 4 cut-ins on average. Plus I just like seeing the DDs one shot almost everything at night battle with 350+ damage. Never heard of that build, but I'll keep that in mind.
Juuryoushin

4/2/5/5.5/20, Cranes as flagship (Zuikaku then Shoukaku on 2nd slot), 41st try.
Now I'll level her to death because she is too cute, goodbye friends
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