Arknights

Avatar of Nyx said:

Yeesh, my poor little dudes arent quite strong enough for this event yet. I can only clear the first two maps, Im close to completing the third but it all falls apart during that final stretch. I can still get all the Grani dupes, just gonna take me 182 more runs of map 2...

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Oof. That's rough. Stage 5 and 6(stage 5 is actually a bit more efficient because it's a "chance" drop vs. "rare" drop) are the best to farm, based on which mats you need most.

Ended up with Beehunter, Nightmare, and Midnight out of my 10 pull. I thought about spending another Orundum's worth for Skadi, but I'm going to just save up for Ch'en.

Siege is amazing, probably one of the best(if not the best)Vanguards. But, it's a gacha game. So, she's definitely not worth rolling for unless her banner is out (it just went away)and there are other Vanguards who can fill that role nearly as well. You have a Texas and she's amazing. Her E1 ability is fucking awesome.

As far as a team goes, you have Exusiai and Silverdaddy. Definitely focus on getting them to E1 asap as they both fit in to pretty much every team possible. Exusiai's E2 is also worth it as her 3rd skill is badass. Perfumer is a great healer, same with Silence(her medi-drone allows you to do some cool stuff). Skadi is cool, but she's more of a boss killer/meme unit and she doesn't really become a boss killer until E2.

I'd work on getting the following units to E1 and they'll form a team that can carry you pretty far (besides some weird maps/scenarios)..

SilverAsh
Exusiai
Amiya
Lava
Texas
Scavenger(don't invest too much into her as you can get Courier from the credit shop and he's better)
Silence
Perfumer
Shirayuki
Gitano
Liskarm
Hoshiguma

Those 12 will be really solid and should allow you to beat pretty much all content once they are leveled/promoted properly. Obviously, you'll have to sub in some stuff here and there for specific stages, but that gets you off to a really solid start. If you're a whale or even a dolphin, I honestly think it's worth it to E1 every unit as it'll unlock their base bonus skills as well as giving you possible flexibility if you need a specific unit/role for a map.

Avatar of Nyx said:

I did a few pulls trying for Siege, no luck with her but I did get Eyjafalla, so that improves my caster situation a good bit. I got Texas to E1 and will try to farm chips tomorrow for Silver Ash, Exusiaia, and maybe Platinum tomorrow. I was able to clear the third event map, so that should help the event token grinding some. Still gotta just chip away at it over the next week or so but I should be able to get everything.

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Just saw that you got Eyjafalla. Replace Gitano with her on my list as she's nuts.

Aazrael said:

The free 5 star Vanguard from event should be fine to use instead of Siege I think. But grats on the best caster!

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Grani is strong as fuck, especially since you can full potential her from the event as well. She's a sexier version of Plume/Vigna.

Nightrun said:

Worth grinding hard to clear this event shop?

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100% you should be clearing shop, no question. Do not waste sanity (unless you're a whale)on gathering exp or LMD running shit like LS-5 or CE-5. You can do it even as a F2P player just off of regen, but make sure you never let your sanity reach max. It needs to always be regenerating and use the free sanity mail on runs as well. Another event that saves you this much sanity on mat farming won't be coming around for a long time. Stock up on mats like a motherfucker.

Uriel said:

If you guys have Silverash, prioritize getting him to E2 and 7+ skill level. He's the most OP unit in the game. Most 6* in general don't really shine until they get their S3, some are good with S2 like Exu though.

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While Silverdaddy is no doubt OP as fuck, I still am of the opinion that Eyjafjalla is a more OP unit. Her burst is absolutely fucking bonkers dumb.

Aazrael said:

Everything in shop is like 3-4 times more than you get from normal levels. So if you can buy everything, maybe skip furniture if you dont give care about that. Get everything else as it is very good reward per Sanity.

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Yeah, I'd definitely buy the furniture last as you'll get a lot of "lucky" drops while farming that have high ambiance values and can be slotted into your dorms. All the furniture pieces do is help you complete the pizzeria theme (you get bonus ambiance for using multiple pieces from the same "theme"). However, I never really run out of "healthy" operators, even with only 2kish ambiance per dorm and only 3 dorms. That shit is mostly for the weirdo waifu pillow humpers and people who are absolutely insane min/maxers that want to squeeze out an extra 1-5k LMDs/5k exp every day. I honestly don't have the time/patience to be that meticulous about it and at the end of the day, it really doesn't give you much extra at all. Especially if you're making sure to use up your drones while checking on your base.

Nightrun said:

Cleared out the grani tokens should finish lmd by tomorrow. I'm super neglecting upgrading my base and progressing through the story but I'm stocking up on these mats big time though. The rng gods just will not give me a 5 star healer

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You 100% need to be neglecting your base, unless you're using the materials bought from the credit/token store and such. This event is literally that important. Once you clean out the store (the pizzeria stuff is up to you, but that's honestly the only stuff I'd potentially skip), feel free to go back to your regular farming duties. The one exception to farming the event is making sure you're still doing your weekly orundum from Annihilation stages, unless you're a whale and plan to just pop originite on it.

As far as 5*+ healers go, you don't need one for current content. Gavial is a beast as a 4* and Hibiscus/Ansel (I like Ansel slightly better because of his talent)can fill the 2nd slot just fine. You might have to occasionally take Lancet-2 with you here and there (I did), but Ansel and Gavial got me through pretty much every stage except some of the harder challenge modes.