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

[Marblehead_1]

4 hours ago, MK1D said:

She's not the best choice, but good enough to act as support for better ships. The ships that carry most players through 14-3 and-4 are Fdg, NJ, Shinano and Perseus. 

NJ, Shinano + another cv work best as a backline for the boss fleet. NJ keeps cvs safe from suicide boats that get through your vanguard and cvs help with command ships with screen clear.

NJ and Shina also help your mob fleet with support barrages. I personally used Formidable as in 14-3 there are 2 bosses. 

As for the mob fleet, Fdg, Perseus + another cv combo work wonders. I used Aquilla with double ap rocket fighters for additional healing. 

 

Thank you!

 

I run similar setup with exception that I do not have Perseus so in 14-1 and 14-2 I used Ryuho and Aquilla with double Tigercat due to 1000lb bombs

 

Why AP rockets Bf-109G and not Tigercats or Bearcats?

 

My mob: FdG FS, Ryuho, Aquilla lvl 117 + Cheshire dev lvl 30 FS2 tank, Shimakaze lvl 124 and Yudachi lvl 121 off tank

Boss: NJ, Shinano and Ark Royal + Azuma tank dev lvl 30 FS2, Helena and San Diego off tank. All characters had lvl 125 with exception of stated otherwise. When I get +13 on Hedgehog I probably start 14-3

[MK1D]

29 minutes ago, Marblehead_1 said:

Why AP rockets Bf-109G and not Tigercats or Bearcats?

AP rockets have better dmg modifiers against light and medium armor compared to bombs.

AP rockets get 110% against light armor and 140% against medium, while 1000lb bombs get 80% and 95% respectively.

When you start 14-3/4 it's best to avoid 3-star BB fleets with your mob fleets and to focus exclusively on DD fleets. 

BB mob fleets always spawn a command Fusou, which has like 50k hp, heavy armor and hits your backline for over 1k dmg if it gets a crit. 

On the other hand, the DD mob fleets consist of 90% subs, dds and cruisers. Only 3 production Fusou's spawn in the last wave alongside 1 Yamashiro.

In my experience DD mob fleets are harmless as long as you take out the subs before they suicide on your backline, so it's better to gear your mob fleet with AP fighters and HE guns. This way 3-star DD mob is easier than 2-star BB fleet. 

 

[LOZFFVII]

4 hours ago, WWDragon said:

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Thats funny, I think I am going to get a 3rd Hood Gun at this rate.

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It's a shame it's been powercrept by the two down the bottom (PR2 FdG gun left, PR3 Odin gun right).

In order we have:

Trash gun, don't build.	Decent HE gun.
Normal Shell BB gun, don't build.	Fast, but weak.
Used to have a purpose, but doesn't anymore.	Meme only.
Decent AP gun.	(I don't actually know if this is any good)
Good gun.	Fast, weak, but triple shells better than double.

 

 

[WWDragon]

Well ... I did a second calculation to see how many cubes I would get assuming 13 days of event and realized I would be about 30 builds so ...

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If my math is wrong, well its on me (I am hoping I am not, I have 290 cubes and 28 days assuming 2 weeks event as well 3 weekly ) but I have 400 gems (oh port slots, how tempting you are) as well I didnt calculated the cubes from monthly log-in to give me some extra room but its entirely possible I screwed up, then again I might get lucky and be in my first 3 builds or something.

 

Also I am actually using those twin 380mm on the ugly sisters because, well they are gold and +6 isnt that much of a drain.

[Zemeritt]

20 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

(I don't actually know if this is any good)

 

I guess it's like the 381mm HE gun just with AP.

[LOZFFVII]

15 hours ago, WWDragon said:

Well ... I did a second calculation to see how many cubes I would get assuming 13 days of event and realized I would be about 30 builds so ...

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Congrats.

A few more events like this one and you'll be swimming in cubes like the rest of us.

 

15 hours ago, WWDragon said:

but I have 400 gems (oh port slots, how tempting you are)

Do not.

Spend your gems.

On building.

 

This is an old guide from Just3c, but its still relevant as a guide for how to spend f2p gems.

[WWDragon]

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

Congrats.

A few more events like this one and you'll be swimming in cubes like the rest of us.

 

Do not.

Spend your gems.

On building.

 

This is an old guide from Just3c, but its still relevant as a guide for how to spend f2p gems.

 

Oh no, I dont intent to ... the only mistake I did was once by accident buying oil because I hit continue instead of cancel (seriously, it should be context with yes/no), I also completely forgot there are cubes on the Cruise so thats another small source of cubes avaible. Just hope I dont end up having to rely on the Pity system ...

 

Rikka certainly is interesting as she can support in most roles being flexible without replacing specialized ships and she seems well worth it (especially newer players or ones without much of gold gear), I had further Chise drops to the point I really only need to buy 1 to fully awake her assuming I dont get another, weapons skins on the other hand seem to be a pain in the arse since I am missing the sword one and goldbird bomber varient.

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[LOZFFVII]

2 hours ago, WWDragon said:

weapons skins on the other hand seem to be a pain in the arse since I am missing the sword one and goldbird bomber varient.

Tell me about it.

I'm trying to specifically get a bunch of the "small" guns skins (the lasers) and while I have two reds and two purples, I can't seem to get any of the third type (green?).

Meanwhile I have 3 Dyna Wing (Bomber)s, 4 Sky Vitter (Fighter)s, 3 Goldburn (Bomber)s and 7 Goldburn (Torpedo)s.*

At least I have a couple of each of the missile shells.

 

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I am reminded of three years ago during the Neptunia event, the only thing I wanted was a complete set of all the "pixel" skins (planes, shells, torpedoes) and I ended up with 1 Pixel Torp Bomber, 1 Pixel Fighter and 7 Pixel Bombers. Fortunately, I was still able to get two Pixel Torps and three of each of the shells (Big and Small).

 

[Zemeritt]

So much to no IB META ships. Guess there is no limit then

 

Gneisenau META announcement:

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I'd assume she'll be the chapter 5 OpSi ship.

[WWDragon]

That begs the question about the other two, Arizona and Yamashiro ... I suppose they are the next ones.

[LOZFFVII]

Welp, I got the important stuff from the collab (i.e. the ships), but the one thing I really wanted (some yummy green laser shells) never showed up.

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(Screen taken yesterday, and no 24hrs didn't improve things)

In total, that's 7 laser shells (of 2/3 types) vs 43 planes (9/9 types).

More than half of all weapon skins I got were planes.

At least I got the red and purple lasers, but I really wanted the greens because they looked cooler.

Drill torps and missile shells are also cool (quipped on Iowa-class, because they got missiles IRL).

 

Really wish Yongshi/Manjuu would implement a weapon skin trade-in so we could exchange our extras for ones we want.

[Panocek]

Somewhat late, but my attempts to pull a booty in Genshin gave me the wrong booty

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On the upside, it was first 10pull, while assets I've intended to get were 78th

 

[Zemeritt]

Well there goes my Arknights luck:

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3x 6* in one pull? First time for me.

 

The sad part of this: After over 70 pulls still no Indigo, the new 4* on this banner.

[Panocek]

2 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

Well there goes my Arknights luck:

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3x 6* in one pull? First time for me.

 

The sad part of this: After over 70 pulls still no Indigo, the new 4* on this banner.

Thats illegal 

 

On the upside, I've got booba goat in 3rd 10pull, as well both new characters from gacha in AK

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so panic averted, I can go back to hoarding orundum?

 

[Zemeritt]

30 minutes ago, Panocek said:

On the upside, I've got booba goat in 3rd 10pull, as well both new characters from gacha in AK

 

Lucky you. Indigo actually costed me around 100 pulls, although lots of them were certificates.

Since I don't care about Chalter, I could easily go this way.

[WWDragon]

On 12/8/2021 at 7:52 PM, LOZFFVII said:

Welp, I got the important stuff from the collab (i.e. the ships), but the one thing I really wanted (some yummy green laser shells) never showed up.

I got all but damn, I thought the sword torpedo wouldnt drop after I brought every single container in the event shop.

It was great to level my fleet, FdG is done ... well just waiting last inputs (not sure if I want to drop 10 cubes just yet, XP is done) and I switched to Odin as I got Graf Spee and done some "light leveling" to get her to my IB average level (that should be about lv 90 thanks to GZ for some reason ended up at lv 124).

[Panocek]

So, Gayshit Genshin won some another award. And besides tossing some vid, they apparently will be handing 10pulls in next few days via mail. Did someone's head encountered a brick or something, for Mihoyo to be that generous for seemingly no major reason? 

 

 

Which also features Yunjin cameo to boot

[LOZFFVII]

I am in a...rather unique situation in Azur Lane right now...

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Filter the search to ships that can be enhanced and...

 

 

I've, uh, enhanced everyone (screen is actually from a few days ago - even Yume is fully enhanced now).

Granted, they're not fully enhanced until you get them to lvl100, but still - this is not a situation I ever expected to actually get to.

I guess I have a reason to leave ships in the dorm until they hit level 100 though...

 

[Zemeritt]

I wonder if AL will have a low this week?

 

Finished Chapter 5 of OpSi, wonder what they'll do with that now.

Next OpSi in the Artic or the South Atlantic (Which could be interesting if they would add South American ships as indypendent KANSEN)

 

Itto will be skipped, I might attempt to snipe Shenshe, if she is somewhat good.

[Panocek]

8 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

Itto will be skipped, I might attempt to snipe Shenshe, if she is somewhat good.

By the looks of it, Shenhe will be cryo support, buffing cryo damage and debuffing enemy cryo/phys resistances. Her own damage multipliers don't seem that spicy, so without Ayayayayaka or Cocogoat as big cryo damage sources, her value might be... lackluster.

 

On the upside, YunJin seems to be part of Liyue character select during Lantern Rites in next patch and materials she uses are already available for farming

[Zemeritt]

2 minutes ago, Panocek said:

By the looks of it, Shenhe will be cryo support, buffing cryo damage and debuffing enemy cryo/phys resistances. Her own damage multipliers don't seem that spicy, so without Ayayayayaka or Cocogoat as big cryo damage sources, her value might be... lackluster.

 

Thats unfortunate for me, as I lack both of them. And since it's rumored that both of the will rerun close to a certain fox I need to roll for, looks like I can also skip her.

 

4 minutes ago, Panocek said:

On the upside, YunJin seems to be part of Liyue character select during Lantern Rites in next patch and materials she uses are already available for farming

 

Nice. Lets just hope she'll be decent.

[Panocek]

Just now, Zemeritt said:

Thats unfortunate for me, as I lack both of them. And since it's rumored that both of the will rerun close to a certain fox I need to roll for, looks like I can also skip her.

Datamined 2.4 event banner already implies Xiao and Ganyu, With Yae being predicted as 2.5 material, Shenhe banner probably will suffer from Yoimiya/Kokomi effect as in "not overpowered" character sandwiched between much anticipated characters.

 

Eula isn't bad, but her kit being somewhat ult oriented and then Eula herself have major energy generation issues, doesn't really help me much in bonking random stuff in open world. At the same time, by time you build stacks for her ult, most targets in overworld already flatlined so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ waiting for Ganyu probably would have been better, especially as she's actually ranged character with her charged shot

[LOZFFVII]

I'm sure someone will point out that this has been known for a while, but I haven't really checked AL twitter or reddit for a long time.

Has anyone else checked out the Gear Research tech trees recently?

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So, we have a new AP BB gun from the USN tech line.

It's got a weird effect, but it basically does more damage than the raw stats say it does, with the caveat being it gets worse the longer the fight goes on. One suspects this is meant to be a "poor man's Georgia Gun" (with the potential to be upgraded to said gun down the line).

It's also a continuation of the purple twin AP, and is one of dozens of gear in the research lab that need high-level electronics. Just building one of these things is going to set me back to 8 electronics.

 

 

We also have a new IJN CL gun.

Only after converting most of my +10 triple 155mm's to this thing do I realise it's got slightly worse reload for slightly better damage. And I have no idea if the difference is worth the cost of upgrading.

Fortunately, it does not require electronics.

 

 

Purple IJN twin AP gun can be converted into Izumo gun now. Which is nice.

 

 

Similarly, Hipper Gun can be converted into Roon Gun. Also nice.

 

 

Looks like we got a gold CL gun in KM line, too.

No idea anything about it, 'cos I forgot about it in the rush to "upgrade" my 155mm triples.

Also, does not require electronics.

 

 

We got a rainbow submarine torp.

I suspect it'll be questionable whether this thing is better or worse than the bidder.

Amazingly, does not require electronics.

 

[Pururut]

I spent 50 gems for 800 fuel because my lovely cats decided to nudge my arm just as I ran out of fuel in the mid of a PR grind and was about to decline oil for gem pop up. I returned to main page in shock only to see Akashi staring into my soul with my remaining 605 gems. With that timing... I dont know anymore.

 

Besides that incident I have finished 14-1 and 14-2, returned to 13-4 for Bunker Hill. I use my Boss and Mob fleets interchangeably for Operation Siren but the composition of the former and the healing of latter are both ineffective and kinda harmful in high tier Siren boss fights. it is time for yet another revision. I am thinking of 4 dedicated Operation Siren, 1 PR grind, 1 PVP and 1 historical fleets. I gave up on the main story and World 12 hard mode as the awards are simply not worth it. I stockpiled a decent amount of items required for Gear Lab but I dont know which to craft. I guess I will browse the wiki sometime soon.

 

On 12/11/2021 at 4:10 AM, LOZFFVII said:

I've, uh, enhanced everyone (screen is actually from a few days ago - even Yume is fully enhanced now).

Man I am envious. 534 ships like I cant bring myself above 200 despite having dockspace for 240. So many ships have such outdated art and skill set that I find it hard to keep them besides a handful few that were part of the fleet in the early days. The devs really need to revisit some of the old elites and SRs to make them relevant again. 

[LOZFFVII]

7 hours ago, Pururut said:

Man I am envious. 534 ships like I cant bring myself above 200 despite having dockspace for 240. So many ships have such outdated art and skill set that I find it hard to keep them besides a handful few that were part of the fleet in the early days. The devs really need to revisit some of the old elites and SRs to make them relevant again. 

"If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best."

(Friendly reminder that I am the Fletcher simp who has all Fletchers currently in the game at lvl120 minimum: always waifu>meta)

 

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With the update tomorrow, we are getting Scherzo of Iron and Blood (i.e. the Bismarck event) added to the War Archives.

We are also getting a rerun of "Today's Debut, Tomorrow's Star", the Lil' Sandy "friendship" event, which is amusing as her event was originally run concurrent with the SoIaB event.

 

This means that several important Iron Blood/KM ships are being added to the standard build pools with a rate-up for at least a week, which is good for those who do not have them yet. However, it should be noted that AL JP are hosting a stream next Tuesday (21st) that will be announcing the upcoming UR event, so don't go spending all your cubes on ships that are permanently available @WWDragon.