Made it to S on Nidhogg. Yulia really helped. With Godly menace, she could lock down slimes within 2 blocks, and she could one shot any slimes in phase 2, and almost one shot any slimes in 4 while healing each time after the explosion. In theory she could tank/die to the first attack a few times if the summon is unavailable as well. Hard to imagine that Joshua could do a better job than her, though he might be better for some of the “kill blob” achievements.
Her offheals was handy as well. Between Rachel/Tiaris/Liana/Yulia everyone was always topped up.
Nice! I couldn’t bring myself to try again, even though I should have been able to hit B+ easy. I do love off heals. I am contemplating, on Fenrir, swapping Yulia for one of the aoe mages (probably Lana) so she can use the fixed damage enchant square and also provide delightful off healing. But I need to look and see wht she can do by way of debuffs.
I am having trouble deciding what troops to max.
Maxxe:
Phalanx
Masked Maids
Angels
Holy Pegasi
Level 7-9:
Sky archer
Shrine Maiden (9)
Sorceress (9)
Red Cav (7)
Hell Hounds (7)
Lava Titans (8 I think)
Bolt Rangers (6 or 7 maybe)
Big Lobbos (7)
Gargoyles (7ish)
Vampire Batsies (7 or 8)
Zealots (7)
I wonder if I am forgetting something. Probably. Red Cav is probably next for Landius, and then maybe I’ll focus on popular Baconing troops like Lava Titans and Hellhounds.
Kyrios
1783
Heh, I also couldn’t stomach going again on Nidhogg after my initial try. Pretty nice Fenrir this morning though, got up to A+ with a few upgrades coming this week that might put S in play with a little luck (which would be my first S). Definitely next time around, otherwise.
Royal Cavalry and Sorceress are the most generally important of your bottom list. Hellhounds for a couple of AB fights. After that it’s more preference, I think.
I got a Demonslayer this morning, and it seems like the meta thing to do is switch it in for Leonhardt’s Balanced Blade once I can level it up. The ability does seem pretty powerful.
Amidst spending a ton of resources on things that matter this week between normal stuff, the anniversary event, the secret realm event, etc etc, the one dumb thing that made me happy is that I got a 10% atk 13 atk 4% crit enchant on an atk-appropriate accessory. Randomness is annoying but it can be satisfying when you get there!
I am starting to see it recommended for sure (Leumas recommends it in several of his AB videos for people). I have 5 (2 of the exclusive version, 3 regular). I have no idea what the tier is, I’ve wondered about that for all of that banner’s gear (I got, weirdly, 2 of the general release version of the Ribbon in back to back helmet gacha rolls this week).
Yeah, I can only stomach one run per AB boss (unless I really muck it up.) The difference in rewards aren’t really that significant anyway.
Damn, I have decent enchants all around but I don’t have any near-perfect ones like that. I have like 44 SSR scroll packs to use but don’t have the gold to gamble. Which accessory do you have it on?
After the success of Yulia in Nidhogg I also considered her application in Fenrir, but she can’t bring any unique debuffs and Fenrir is more a test of whether you can maintain the 6 debuffs and survive 2nd attack anyway, so probably not.
Yeah, like Kyrios said I think Royal Cav and Sorceress are most important. Sky Archers/Lava Titans/Hell hounds for AB and challenge boss fights (though I think 8ish is fine for hell hounds and titans, they don’t do any damage anyway.) I use Gargoyles for Alte and Listell, though I’m not sure if bats would have been better. Either one of those first I guess. Zealots for Yusuke when he comes I believe. Unicorns for Yulia and Angelina. Oh yeah, lobsters too for Jugler.
I probably should upgrade my maidens (currently lvl 7) one of these days. Too strapped for straps (meanwhile I have 40+ shorts gathering dust…)
Oh I got a Pale Staff over the weekend. Besides single target Lana, who else might I use that on? Rachel when she’s not using AB I guess (although I don’t know how often that will come up). Liffany maybe, although she’s porbably still better off with something that grants +%int because bombs?
Kyrios
1788
Winged Shin Guards, sitting on Leonhardt.
I have exactly 99 SSR scroll packs, plus about 250 SSR scrolls of various types. Some day I’ll have bonds and gear done and just go on a rampage with them, but it won’t be any time soon.
I can’t think of anyone Pale Staff would be particularly good on… Renne, maybe? (Who I have to imagine the banner-exclusive version was ‘intended’ for. But even there it only really gives value if you don’t have another way to lay an initial debuff; otherwise, Astaroth is so much better.)
That’s one hell of an enchanting spree you can go on!
Yeah, I think Pale staff is mostly meant for Renee, it was introduced during the Trails event. Don’t think it’s that great for anyone else.
Kyrios
1790
So… I started to put together that Demonslayer to test out… And I have now gotten my two best enchants ever pretty close together:
(I think I might stick with this one…)
Damn…
You inspired me to waste some more scrolls of my own on a new Red Moon. ~30 scrolls later, not quite as good, but better than anything else I’ve rolled so far:
Kyrios
1792
Not bad at all. (And nice helm selection!)
The challenges for the event have been pretty fun so far, in the sweet spot of challenging without being too punishing or unfair, and with multiple viable solutions. Now I need to figure out which unique item I want next… I think Alte’s crown makes the most sense, especially if I’m going to have him tanking on Sleipnir, but it’s kind of boring compared to some of the other effects.
Alte’s crown is kind of owhat I was thinking. Might want Elwin’s sword more, but the crown would really help Alte.
A nice upside of having built up my Narm is she really kicks ass in Guild Battles now. We did our first Nightmare GB in ages this week and she was a stat up character (it’s meteor) and she was just killing it with Elwin’s faction buff in play.
Kyrios
1794
I think I’m one unique item ahead of you - I’ve got Elwin, Lana, Jugler. My impression of Alte’s crown value, particularly for the one AB fight, is that it would be better than Elwin’s sword, which is more of a nice-to-have than a game-changer like the other two I have.
Heh, the guild I’m in now does mostly Very Hard, which is fine with me, because I can auto to 5k+ points in a day reliably. Definitely a reward of having a broad spread of somewhat-built characters.
Me too. Elwin does just fine with a Seal Guardian or Gram. The effect for his sword is cool but it’s random and I just can’t quite justify making it a priority. Where as Alte’s crown, while not as amazing as Lana’s or Juggler’s items, is a bigger deal to him than Elwin’s sword to Elwin.
I expect we will not be doing Nightmare again next week. We’re going to make it ok (even if it takes most of thursday we’re closing VH battles in roughly 2-2.5 days currently): we’re at 60% and climbing (and maybe closer to 80% than 60), but me and the guild leader are over 10k and nobody else is over 6k (and I’m not sure how many people will be before it ends; typically we are getting 5-6 people “chipping in” going over 5k and another 3-4 around 5k). And I think that’s a situation we will both want to avoid.
Speaking of character items, man Ledin’s item really seemed like garbage to me.
Goodbye 18 GoF, we hardly know ye.
Yea, even the latest one isn’t too bad, I kind of slogged through it but I think there’s probably multiple ways to approaching it (I imagine you could drop Elwin’s defense to nul if you save the adds and kill for them in one turn, for instance.) Ledin would probably do pretty well here too, unlike most challenges.
I use Alte’s crown + Last Rites + Steel enchant for Slepnir but I don’t think I’m using it correctly. For instance, I can’t seem to keep Alte in combat enough to keep the buffs up. Also finding it hard to keep him topped up for Last rites to function. I’ve been trying to beef up my healer enchants in preparation for next round, will see how that goes.
I don’t think Ledin’s exclusive is that bad, at least it frees up an Oath! Also might be good with his future 3c where he attacks first offensively, kind of locks people around him and then potentially becomes immortal for a turn.
I kind of regret not building Shelf earlier as having a second princess buffer would have been good in Apex. Anyway her exclusive hat is pretty good. Also tempted to get Zerida’s so I can give her King’s Crownt o someone else.
Still shocked they won’t add say 3-6 chances to some sort of monthly package (even if it’s a separate 3 dollar one or something).
I am finding that I don’t have great luck autoing Goblins, which I have also come to detest. But I am averaging 2.3-2.4m, and I can maybe live with that. It’s so bland and uninteresting to play.
I am unlocking all of Omega’s gates tomorrow, and attack bond. After that short term rotation will be Bernie (83/100), Alte (94/100) and Liana.
I can kind of auto them now that my Shelf is a little bit built, but only if I manual the first turn and bring everyone closer. Otherwise Lana will be brilliant and heaven sanction two goblins.
I doubt they’ll add more GoF chances to a monthly subscription, as they want people to whale on super expensive crystals. I think I’ll be doing Shelf (30ish/100) Rachel (40ish/150) and Yulia(50ish/150) until they’re 6*, and then moving on to Leonhardt/Joshua/Angelina. How far are you planning to star up Omega?
Right now he’s 4* because I snagged a dupe at some point, can’t recall when. I think I will move him to 5* and just live with that in the medium turn. I don’t have a spare Overlord obviously but I can still build him pretty strongly with Uller, and I think he’ll still be very effective to that point. Less so in PVP strictly speaking, but I think he will still be useful in regular arena. I considered just trying to live on autoing the 1-thingy matches (unless a really juicy 2/3 opportunity came up, but that seems to happen a couple of times a week at this point), but while I haven’t seen Ledin forget to guard lately I think it’s just not feasible with a glory-leaning setup.
But Omega won’t get to 5*. . . hmm. Liana stays in the rotation after tomorrow. But after Bernie/Alte I may just go back to the two tanks. Sop it may be a bit. But I think Omega will be very effective in pve even at 4*.
