Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)

[El2aZeR]

Oh god new enemies in Genshin 2.2 apply corrosion.

Good thing I have Jean.

 

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[Zemeritt]

And Childe gets his 2nd rerun, followed by Hu Taos first rerun, which will include Thoma.

 

Thoma and Sayu ( @LOZFFVII ) will get a hangout event aswell.

[LOZFFVII]

So it appears the weekly resource pack is not entirely out of the goodwill of Manjuu.

It's not even as simple as "because nolifers complained".

The TL;DR goes something like this:

1. Update removed oil from retiring ships;
2. Nolifers complained because they could no longer gain stupid amounts of oil by using bots to clear 2-1 repeatedly;
3. Manjuu dev casually insults playerbase by implying they should go to work on a national holiday on internal messages;
4. Internal messages get leaked and are no longer internal;
5. CN playerbase is outraged, begins review bombing the game, calling for the dev to be fired;
6. Manjuu hastily puts together a weekly care package to appease angry CN playerbase;
7. Yostar add the care package to JP and EN servers for server parity.

This is a gross oversimplification, and it's well worth checking out the reddit post I have linked to.

At the very least, it now becomes much clearer how/why we ended up with such a massive influx of oil at the start of every week.

[MK1D]

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

Manjuu dev casually insults playerbase by implying they should go to work on a national holiday on internal messages;

Internal messages get leaked and are no longer internal;

That man just took the biggest L of his career, if he really had posted these messages on some super test discord. Super tester, especially unpaid ones, are usually the biggest nolifers so it's not really surprising that someone got butthurt and leaked these messages.

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

Nolifers complained because they could no longer gain stupid amounts of oil by using bots to clear 2-1 repeatedly;

The best part is that the oil gain rate was laughable. According to KimoCheese you had to grind 2-1 for 1 hour to gain around 200 oil, but by completing dozens of sorties you were more likely to get those 8h urgent commission which give you gems.

Also using bots is supposedly a bannable offense. 

[WWDragon]

I used all that oil in my drop grinding, its looks to be a lot but when you have a fleet that takes 60+ oil per battle ... that runs out pretty quickly.

[LOZFFVII]

1 hour ago, MK1D said:

That man just took the biggest L of his career, if he really had posted these messages on some super test discord. Super tester, especially unpaid ones, are usually the biggest nolifers so it's not really surprising that someone got butthurt and leaked these messages.

No kidding.

It genuinely makes you wonder if these sorts of people (i.e the dev) have never seen that sort of thing happen before with other game devs. Cos it seems to happen a lot. And they never learn.

 

1 hour ago, MK1D said:

Also using bots is supposedly a bannable offense. 

I was being a bit fascetious when I said they were using bots.

I have no evidence they were, it's just highly unlikely they weren't.

[Zemeritt]

So I guess AL has an event break this week?

Since China has a holiweek, I doubt we'll see new stuff added this week.

[LOZFFVII]

14 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

So I guess AL has an event break this week?

Since China has a holiweek, I doubt we'll see new stuff added this week.

Well, we've already had a bunch of new stuff to be focused on. And those of us who are thinking ahead are trying to clear W13 to be ready for W14*.

I think it's probably a good thing to have at least a week to pace ourselves from the last event.

 

*Well, I should be, but right now I'm trying to use up all of my saved keys on archived events. In the process of which I'm also levelling NJ, Shimakaze and Poi Pooch Plus (which, given that its two URs and an SR in terms of oil cost, is not the most efficient fleet I could be using).

[El2aZeR]

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Praised be event giving out free pulls I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Zemeritt]

Retrofitting Poi was cheaper than expected?

[Panocek]

13 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

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Praised be event giving out free pulls I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Not saving for sassy zappy pink priestess smh.

 

Speaking of one, 125 pulls already hoarded

[El2aZeR]

3 hours ago, Panocek said:

Not saving for sassy zappy pink priestess smh.

 

Still have plenty of time since 2.2 just has 2 reruns lined up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And I can always just whale when it comes down to it.

 

Do we maybe want to create a discord server to share in our degeneracy hobbies btw? You know, since some of us may abandon this place sooner rather than later.

[WWDragon]

11 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

Retrofitting Poi was cheaper than expected?

Cannot get her to drop ... or Kaga for that matter, got 6 Akagi so far.

[Pururut]

 

@El2aZeR @LOZFFVII

Remilia best girl btw. 

 

1 hour ago, WWDragon said:

Cannot get her to drop ... or Kaga for that matter, got 6 Akagi so far.

I remember my grind for them... 3 months for Akaga and Yuudachi. Truth be told though they were not worth the grind in the long run. The only advantage of Akaga game wise was the very quick first wave you could launch in PVP which got obsolete a long time ago. They are still useful in World 13 for mob fleet but not absolutely necessary. 

[WWDragon]

2 hours ago, Pururut said:

I remember my grind for them... 3 months for Akaga and Yuudachi. Truth be told though they were not worth the grind in the long run. The only advantage of Akaga game wise was the very quick first wave you could launch in PVP which got obsolete a long time ago. They are still useful in World 13 for mob fleet but not absolutely necessary. 

Its just weird I got Akagi 6 times and not Kaga, heck I fully limited broke Akagi already ...

 

Yuudachi is something I only been doing the grind on the Daily 3 Hard recently that is a bit of a problem considering I have Helena and San Diego in the process of being refitted and they need those refit purple and golden planes and so I not been doing x-2 nodes.

[LOZFFVII]

1 hour ago, Pururut said:

@El2aZeR @LOZFFVII

Remilia best girl btw.

I've been interested in Muse dash ever since watching Gura play it. Still have it on my Steam wishlist, but can't bring myself to buy it while I still have Idol Manager and Boyfriend Dungeon unplayed.

Also, I should really get back onto Touhou Spell Bubble on my Switch, as it's been a while since I last played that. (Shame then, that my preorder for Metroid Dread just got dispatched)

Glad to see Muse Dash has the BEST remix of U.N. Owen was Her? (fite me)

 

Also, I'm partial to a certain mind reader.

 

1 hour ago, Pururut said:

I remember my grind for them... 3 months for Akaga and Yuudachi.

I have really weird luck when it comes to Map SRs.

Akagi came within an hour of starting my 3-4grind, Kaga came 22hrs after that (I still have the screenshots as evidence).

Yuudachi took four months.

Maya took about a week.

I don't remember how long Choukai took, but I've been using 12-4 for experience grinding so much that I must have had at least 20 copies of her by now.

When I went back to 3-4 for the medal (at the time I thought it only applied to the first time an SR dropped on a map) I got both Akagi and Kaga AGAIN in less than 3 days.

I have yet to start grinding 13-4 in earnest - in fact I have only beaten the boss once, but I'll keep you guys posted on my progress with Bunker Hill.

 

On 10/4/2021 at 9:00 PM, WWDragon said:

I used all that oil in my drop grinding, its looks to be a lot but when you have a fleet that takes 60+ oil per battle ... that runs out pretty quickly.

3 hours ago, WWDragon said:

Cannot get her to drop ... or Kaga for that matter, got 6 Akagi so far.

@WWDragon I shouldn't have checked your last two posts after reading Pururut's post. Please tell me you're not doing the stupid thing and using a 60+oil fleet to farm 3-4 or 6-4.

Those maps are so easy you should be able to beat them with a team of Unicorn and Phoenix, assuming you have them levelled to 100+ (as in, literally just Unicorn and Phoenix, the amount of healing the two combined can do is ridiculous, and Phoenix is an all-gun CL which makes her excellent at mob clearing).

Of course, I'm not expecting you to take any of this advice to heart, as you ignored my advice the last time, too.

 

4 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

Do we maybe want to create a discord server to share in our degeneracy hobbies btw? You know, since some of us may abandon this place sooner rather than later.

Sounds like a plan.

I had been considering setting one up for a while, but I'm already crap at managing my own personal IRL friends server, so I doubt I'd be able to take on a second.

[WWDragon]

8 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

@WWDragon I shouldn't have checked your last two posts after reading Pururut's post. Please tell me you're not doing the stupid thing and using a 60+oil fleet to farm 3-4 or 6-4.

Those maps are so easy you should be able to beat them with a team of Unicorn and Phoenix, assuming you have them levelled to 100+ (as in, literally just Unicorn and Phoenix, the amount of healing the two combined can do is ridiculous, and Phoenix is an all-gun CL which makes her excellent at mob clearing).

Of course, I'm not expecting you to take any of this advice to heart, as you ignored my advice the last time, too.

No, I am using 3-4 to level blues to lv40-50ish and not farming then with high level fleets, I did use 6-4 to level the event ships to 70 so I could get rid of their dupes, I didnt think they would survive OpSi (carrier maybe, vanguard ... no) and I kinda dont like using Exercises for that and they are also limited anyway, also I used the dorm with some nice food I got for gold and fleet credits.

 

If I was farming, I could just use a far less oil intensive fleet  ... I am not even using campaign maps to level META ships because they use 11 oil no matter what, kinda sucks because I cannot just auto OpSi like in campaign maps but its the better way for leveling as no oil cost.

 

Also I didnt ignore exactly ... I gone to just do 3 builds a day until my 164th build, it was simply very frustrating seeing 1.30.00 timers.

[LOZFFVII]

18 hours ago, WWDragon said:

No, I am using 3-4 to level blues to lv40-50ish and not farming then with high level fleets, I did use 6-4 to level the event ships to 70 so I could get rid of their dupes, I didnt think they would survive OpSi (carrier maybe, vanguard ... no) and I kinda dont like using Exercises for that and they are also limited anyway, also I used the dorm with some nice food I got for gold and fleet credits.

 

If I was farming, I could just use a far less oil intensive fleet  ... I am not even using campaign maps to level META ships because they use 11 oil no matter what, kinda sucks because I cannot just auto OpSi like in campaign maps but its the better way for leveling as no oil cost.

 

Also I didnt ignore exactly ... I gone to just do 3 builds a day until my 164th build, it was simply very frustrating seeing 1.30.00 timers.

3-4 and 6-4 are very inefficient for level grinding, I wouldn't bother wasting time using either to actually level fleets and just use your highest level 1-1 fleet to stomp all over them. If you're serious about trying to get SR drops, that is.

One benefit I can see to grinding either map aside from the SRs is 3-4 gives repair toolkits and 6-4 gives gold 610mm Quad torps - toolkit is good for frontline survival (especially DDs), while the gold quad torps are good for manual play due to their high face-torping damage.

In terms of levelling, I think the new exp packs from the lecture hall are a much faster way of levelling units. Even if your lecture hall is still a fairly low level I think you should be getting more than a few of them every day.

 

I wouldn't worry about META ships at your level. Despite their name, they are distinctly not meta-defining. Especially the current two are VERY underwhelming - probably save your yourself some time now and focus more on the actually good META ships (Dark Royal and Helena) when they come back around.

 

You'll get used to seeing plenty of "Rare" Town-class cruisers eventually. Hell, you'll probably just start automatically hitting "quick build" soon enough like the rest of us (I don't even remember the last time I paid any attention to the build timer - I have over 3k quick finishers, I'm never going to run out of these things!).

 

On 10/7/2021 at 3:42 PM, WWDragon said:

Yuudachi is something I only been doing the grind on the Daily 3 Hard recently that is a bit of a problem considering I have Helena and San Diego in the process of being refitted and they need those refit purple and golden planes and so I not been doing x-2 nodes.

Lastly: there is no bonus to drop rate for using Hard Mode.

Stop using hard mode for map drops. Hard mode is for retrofit plates.

You need cruiser retro plates? Grind your highest level Hard x-2 map, not the x-4 boss map hoping for a boss drop.

 

Reading that again I realise that you already have Yuudachi, in which case my advice is to just use Bulins to lmb her, not additional copies of her (if you're aiming for retrofit, you can still use bulins for that too). Save you time and effort. Me and my sleep-deprived brain continually misread "been" as "seen".

[WWDragon]

8 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

Reading that again I realise that you already have Yuudachi, in which case my advice is to just use Bulins to lmb her, not additional copies of her (if you're aiming for retrofit, you can still use bulins for that too). Save you time and effort.

Not yet, she havent dropped yet or Kaga ... I still need to refit the bunnies, I do need refit plates for battleships but that is pretty much for Warspite ... I am just prioritizing getting Kaga at this point as I work on refits that are in progress, still need to complete Independence that is just a couple of levels short of modernization.

[Panocek]

On 10/7/2021 at 11:49 AM, El2aZeR said:

Do we maybe want to create a discord server to share in our degeneracy hobbies btw? You know, since some of us may abandon this place sooner rather than later.

Another den of speshul? 

 

Meanwhile Mihoyo dropped reveal/announcement of their newest game, Honkai flavored this time

 

 

From what I've gathered: it is going to be turn based game (?), that story wise follows "A Post Honkai Odyssey", story spinoff from HI3rd, with few HI3rd characters albeit older making an appearance, but whether as playable, I don't know. But I do know Murata Himeko is

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canonically dead, so what is she doing in space?

 

And yes, there is train in space and steampunk victorian (?) era city

[LOZFFVII]

9 hours ago, WWDragon said:

Not yet, she havent dropped yet or Kaga ... I still need to refit the bunnies, I do need refit plates for battleships but that is pretty much for Warspite ... I am just prioritizing getting Kaga at this point as I work on refits that are in progress, still need to complete Independence that is just a couple of levels short of modernization.

Yeah, I misread "been" as "seen" in your earlier post. Continuously. Several times I re-read the sentence and was like "oh, he must already have Yuudachi".

I blame tiredness.

[Zemeritt]

Farming for Dewey, a rare ship: Multiple Hornet and Yorktown drops. The only elite ships missing of 13-3 is Javelin, I got everyone else besides her and Dewey

[El2aZeR]

Raised Albedo for geo resonance (was previously using Ningguang or Traveler).

My account now fittingly cosplays as Geo Archon.

 

 

Still have to farm artifacts too. T_T

[Panocek]

6 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

Raised Albedo for geo resonance (was previously using Ningguang or Traveler).

My account now fittingly cosplays as Geo Archon.

 

 

Still have to farm artifacts too. T_T

I'm kinda amazed how you people manage to run out of mora

 

FYI, I had over 20m mora as Inazuma started. Yoimiya, Shogun, Sucrose to lv80a6, number of characters got their talents to lv8, bunch of weapons to lv90 as well raising ALL remaining characters, Qiqi and Diluc included, to lv70a5 6/6/6 to make them usable and to relieve them of their last free pull was... damaging for mora

 

The worst part is, as I find increasingly difficult to farm the same domain over and over and over and over again for same def/hp pieces, option to spend resin on talent domains and ley lines to push talents up to 9, maybe 10 looks increasingly promising

[Marblehead_1]

19 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

Farming for Dewey, a rare ship: Multiple Hornet and Yorktown drops. The only elite ships missing of 13-3 is Javelin, I got everyone else besides her and Dewey

It sounds strange but it's similar situation for me. Got all 13-3 drop ships beyond Javelin and Dewey. Maybe Yostar spaghettified something on 13-3?

 

I have all permanently obtinable characters in game beyond one and it's Dewey. Even Bunker Hill I managed to get during 11th run into map ( including clearing runs ) Dewey seems to be impossible. This however didn't suprises me as Isuzu, Coumbia and Fiji were farmed for the longer time than most my SSR's.

 

Bunker Hill defintely is flex ship so I have some ideas about PvP defence fleet  I wonder which character is rarest beyond her? Chokai? Dewey?