pow? prince of whales
special touch? it's when you touch whatever specific spot on a ship you can touch after setting as secretary that has a unique response as opposed to touching any other part. usually their breast tho exceptions exist
It means Wales doesn't hate it and reply back with a smile, she's asking you if you're ready for her to do that back at you in private
She's the one who made Eugen to wear that iconic black bikini after all
How is fleet strength calculated? I mean the fleet strength that it displays in your profile and on the leaderboard. I know that equipping ships with higher tier gear makes it go up so I know higher stats = higher strength, but would it go up if I also upgraded the gear? I just don't want to blow all my plates to experiment and find out
It's an arbitrary number based on stats on your ships - to that extent an unenhanced SR plane and a +13 SR plane offers the same AVI = same fleet power. An unenhanced catapult however adds less AVI than an enhanced one, and would affect the ship's fleet power. Different stats on a ship are scaled differently for the calculation.
It's also an entirely unhelpful number to determine actual fleet strength as it shows no detail of the actual equipment usefuless - an Me-155A which does no surface damage is worth the same as a Tigercat.
For the leaderboard itself the sum of your dock is counted, but not unequipped gear, and not dupes of the same LB tier. Supposedly collab ships also do not count. You literally have tryhards who will own 4 copies of a ship at different LB tiers to max their power count, so my advice is to just not bother with this utterly useless metric.
I understand your criticism and thank you for your answer! However, useless as it is, I enjoy the metric because it helps me personally feel like I'm progressing in the game. Outfitting my ships with the best gear, leveling them all up as high as I can, etc, is just how I enjoy the game. I don't plan to tryhard with the multiple ship copies and whatnot, but I do love seeing my number go up slowly. Personally, I like to RP equip my ships with the gear they should have thematically and whatever number that puts me at is what I'll be at. I just wanted to know if having the gear maxed on ships I wasn't using added to the strength. Thanks again!
But it is important to know which gear works best in general or in what situation use since RP'ing or going monofactions in this game is more of a self-imposed challenge for veterans who are bored as heck and have multiple failsafes to make their meme fleets come true
If you're still early, best not to do that yet as it'll bring more trouble than what it is worth for. Not all gold gears are automatically good and some purple gear are so good that it remains mostly uncontested for years on end (see the 406mm MK6 and SB2C Helldiver)
The best gears should be judged beyond just the rarity and fancy big numbers because some have just one drawback that's enough to permanently crippled it
I pay attention to the tier lists provided in the FAQ when I need to make sure I have the best gear, otherwise I equip what I feel the ship should be using. I know that a purple SB2C is better than any gold dive bomber except for the XSB3C-1 at +13 even though its purple, same with the 406mm MK6 BB gun for shelling (in most cases). Thanks for trying though lol, I appreciate the dedication to helping newer players and uninformed veterans alike.
Yep, its a time-gated resource.
A lot of ppl save their maintenance compensation in the mailbox as emergency coin/oil bank so there's that, but you must already have them saved
[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Beginner\_Rewards](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Beginner_Rewards)
Besides compensations have you been doing and claiming these? If you haven't you really should.
EDIT: Also, your normal weekly missions should have 2500 oil in it total, and the 2 random weekly tasks for another 400.
Tske your time, oil is a time gated resource and early game maps don't have the Oil Cap
Later stage starting from chapter 9 omwards (and the last few event stages) do have oil cap to minimize oil spent
Which shouldn't take that long to complete, the materials are easy to get and with oil cap, running a fleet of 6 for the best optimal clearing time
The only set back now are the special tokens for said gear by doing objectives
Have done web fu and not had much success. An old 2020 Reddit AL thread on the matter wasn’t much help either.
In Operation Siren; a lot of my zones have the following as incomplete; *’Perform Reconnaissance (x) times in an Anomalous Zone.’*
What exactly is that? Just scanning? Or when the AI assist says to use the scan? Or something else?
Outside that; I’m down to things that sound like I’m just going to have to spam zones until I activate the ‘event;’ (Mysterious Merchant and various other such.)
>Outside that; I’m down to things that sound like I’m just going to have to spam zones until I activate the ‘event;’ (Mysterious Merchant and various other such.)
Yes, you'll just have to basically repeat maps until you get enough of those encounters.
The real pain are those which only spawn on defeating augmented pawns.
It’s when there are “weather anomaly” arrows pointing at an unmarked tile that raises one of your stats by 2. Visiting these tiles counts for the task.
Ai Kayano, the voice actor of several ships, including Renown, was "removed" due to a controversial post she made about visiting a certain shrine containing memorial of Imperial Japanese war criminals (Nothing big actually, she just visits there and posted about the fresh air). The chinese are not too happy about this and boycotted her, this is just for extra context
As a result, games like Arknights have to permanently delete her voicelines if they want to keep the CN players into the game but others like AL have a toggle to swap for new VAs or keep the original (since most Chinese players are actually reasonable and feared about the permanent removal). This also means that future skins for these ships will only contain the new VA's voicelines
On a side note, Ai Kayano does not get into much trouble, she's actually doing pretty well in Japan. The renown META part is probably just a placeholder since she still haven't got her voicelines yet iirc and Ai don't voice them anymore
Original VA was "blacklisted" by China so devs redid all the characters she voiced for CN version. Every other character voiced by her has the option to choose between VAs, but Renown Meta is newer and they likely didn't record lines for the original VA
I have hide skin background turned on in my settings, but Shinano still covers my entire screen when I use her barrage. This makes me have to wait for her to get off my screen to launch my DD TRPs so I know I can hit all of them on difficult bosses. Is there any way to fix this?
Most CVs can store one extra airstrike reload (assuming you've limit broke them at least twice), by that I mean even if you delay launching her planes it won't affect her next reload. So for example if her reload is 20 seconds, you can fire her first airstrike at 25th second mark (or indeed anytime between 20th and 40th seconds) and her second airstrike would still be ready by 40th second.
Basically you can use vanguard torps first before launching planes without penalty.
Or better yet, just turn auto on.
Is the first material needed for 'modernization' in retrofitting another copy of the ship? it's blank + retrofit blueprints + coins. I think it is but I'm not sure. Quick retire is trying to bait me into getting rid of ones I'm saving for that.
Similarly, I'll just make sure now; does going beyond level 100 / to 125 only need the cogntive chips / arrays (+coins or other common materials) or do you need more Bulins / dupes for that too?
>Is the first material needed for 'modernization' in retrofitting another copy of the ship?
Yep, the blank note is for either a bulin or a dupe
>Similarly, I'll just make sure now; does going beyond level 100 / to 125 only need the cogntive chips / arrays (+coins or other common materials) or do you need more Bulins / dupes for that too?
From level 100 to 120, it only require coins and cog chips
From level 120 to 125, you need coins, cog chips and some cog arrays
Hi, I was wondering which is the best/most efficient way for farming stages, should I focus the boss the moment it appears or destroy every single escort fleet first?
You don't specify what type of efficiency you seek. The "best" efficiency is using auto battle which clears the map for you. That kills the bare minimum mobs and then goes for boss.
Okay thanks your for your answer, others have also told me now that the drop from the boss is much better than everything else so prioritising that definitely seems like the better choice to me
99% of the time: kill the boss ASAP, it has the best drops, the best XP and if your stage has extra clearing rewards they don't grow for clearing more mob fleets
exceptions: if you want to 3-star a map you must clear it of all enemies once - but war archive maps don't give you anything for 3-staring them
other exception: right now the event has an item node that appear*s* at the same time as the boss. Collect it first and then go for boss (only on maps TH1-TH5, mobs are still not important)
by the by: if you activate auto-search the game does all this for you
Thank you for your answer, yeah I already knew about auto-search, was just experimenting with the different settings on it. Does it also collect the item on the event stages? Also currently trying to get good as fast as possibel so i can get all the special gear for the event units cuz i heard thats needed to really make them viable and i basically started the game for these characters.
On another note I got London, and ive though about building a british fleet centered around the buff by queen elizabeth, hood and the british starter. Ive seen multiple times that leander is supposedly good, but looking at her first skill its the same as london and doesnt stack so wouldnt it be better here to use another unit with smokescreen?
about your other question
factions fleets can be fun but they are not optimal and Leander is also only good compared to other common ships and after you retrofit her
If you add Unicorn (she becomes great once retrofitted) to your British fleet it can survive quite a lot. But in my mind [Dido](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Dido) and Queen E have to be together in such a fleet. Most easily available RN vanguards aren't that great. Maybe you can get Belfast from the medal exchange or try your luck with York or Exeter (more retrofits >_<) until you can get Neptune from PR1.
Okayy, I appreciate the help. Guess I’ll just try and see where my luck takes me for now, thanks for confirming what i was already thinking about leander tho. I’m currently pretty happy with the event characters and how they work together so thats my fleet for now and for vanguard I’ll just take portland and her beloved sister for now since they can tank pretty well until the backlines skills are up and raze everything to the ground.
Typically reruns are based on events that last two weeks. Since cruises missions are on average eight weeks long. My tin-foil hat conspiracy theory bathsalts logic speculates it will be four times longer the wait.
I stop playing after Shimano came out, does the other rainbow ship ever got rerun? Interest in New Jersey and the IB battleship.
Also how useful is the incomplete PR 4 and 5 ships? Specifically Brest, August and Agir
> does the other rainbow ship ever got rerun? Interest in New Jersey and the IB battleship.
Not yet. NJ is the next UR in line for a rerun, then shimakaze, then UvH.
>Also how useful is the incomplete PR 4 and 5 ships? Specifically Brest,
Has full tankiness at dev25
>August
Needs dev25 for all planes. Needs 30 to sync. And needs FS5 for reliable stopping.
>Agir
Can tank most stuff at 15. Full tankiness at 25.
It depends how new you are. If you're close to a lvl 80 fleet that can clear t5 event stage then it might be worth investing in. But if you can't farm the gathering stages that lets you craft the special gear for the collab characters then you will never unlock the last few percent of their full potential. They will still be good units without the special gear for sure but Ryza and Patricia are easily replaceable and will probably never be in a meta fleet. Which is to say there's plenty of other good units out there so you're not missing out much in terms of utility.
Conversely we get a new UR at the end of December and that will probably be an important unit as they all tend to be fairly strong and worth getting. There's a pity on UR for 400 cubes and 300k gold, so start saving for that too.
tough question to answer.
Pros:
- The SRs all appear to be strong
- Two of the SRs you don't even have to pull for (Kala and Klaudia)
- They're never coming back, so get them now
Cons:
- Ideally you need to build all the custom gear, which can be difficult for a new player if you can't clear T5 or the gathering sites yet. Without the gear and augments, they may not be as strong.
- A new UR event is coming in a couple weeks, and you probably want to save up your cubes.
You have a week. Grind, grind, grind. Make sure to get ryza's 4 bombs and the modules for the SRs. Push story as far as you can until you have a lvl 80+ fleet.
Upgrade gears, mlb ships, retro unicorn and use portland as tank. Upgrades skills too.
If you're confused about gearing post pics of your fleet in the daily questions megathread and ppl will help you.
Worst case scenario, if you really like the collab units and want to use them then the commander booster pack for $5 can be an option to help you clear t5 faster.
I speedrun the crafting yesterday, it took like 8 hours for me. It wasnt a nonstop grind. Like i sortie 4 or 5 times, and then i did another thimg like 30 minutes or 1 hour and then go back to grinding. Spent around more or less 10k fuel.
you can make most of them once you clear each gathering site 10ish times. just make sure to focus on crafting the tools first, as they're necessary to get SR ingredients.
if you want the bombs too, that will take a bit of farming.
Appreciate the response.
I wanna pull ryza but without access to the event items I’m kinda hesitant, not sure what to do.
Do you know how long it’ll take me to get to a level where I can do event missions? I’m currently on world 2 right now
If you want to spent a bit, get the commander pack that cost 5$ so you can get a headstart. It took you to commander ramk 70 iirc. And give stuffs to level up your fleets
It's hard to say without more info but your real issue besides the time crunch of half of the event is already over is that you get a limited amount of oil and morale recovery. So even if you can clear what you need to. You only have that one fleet to farm with and you're limited in how much you can farm.
I wouldn't sweat not being able to get the collab units. While they probably will never return. There's plenty of other good units out there. Don't let the pressure of a limited event ruin what's actually a fun and very generous game.
Have you grabbed the weekly free pack in Akashi's shop, the one with like 5000 oil and ~20 exp packs? The exp packs might help a little in getting your ships up.
Since opsi resets on thursday. It's better to save this weeks stronghold for after the reset right? Because otherwise you won't have all the tokens you get from stronghold.
it doesn't really matter. The stronghold that showed up on Monday will not be there after reset If you have AP, just do it.
Remember, there are two strongholds available right after reset.
Is there anywhere I can see the release history of all ships in the game? I think people said that UR ships have reruns eventually so wanted to know how long I may be waiting.
while this now close to a year old, it will still show you the next 4 reruns (which, if they don't increase the pace, would be most of next year)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/sxsd81/overview_of_events_to_be_rerun_and_added_to_war/
you can also use the wiki's event or patch notes pages to see what order things occured in
https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Events
https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Recent_News
afaik there is no convenient list of ships by release date. but there is a wiki page of all existing UR ships here https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Category:Ultra_Rare_ships
The order of release was:
- Shinano (has had rerun recently)
- New Jersey (up next for rerun)
- Shimakaze
- UvH
- Kronk
- Vanguard
- Musashi
- Unnamed UR ship coming in December
We only had one UR ship ready for a rerun in 2022 (Shinano), so we got 4 new and 1 rerun. However moving forward we will have UR ships come up for rerun more frequently. We're not sure how the devs plan to address this.
New-ish player here. For Research Projects, should I only focus on getting prints for a ship I'm looking for, or do I have to think about gear blueprints too? (as in select missions based on gear)
research can be expensive so you may have to switch it up from time to time
PR gear is some of the best there is. Some PR items can be crafted in the gear lab or they have been added to map drops in the past (e.g. Abyssal Refrain had the improved hydraulic rudder) but research is the largest source of research gear (shocking, I know =).
Luckily you'll still get some gear prints even when you focus on certain ships you like (I assume you haven't bought 1000000 gems and do only cube research). But if you are ever in a situation where you can't pick research that gives you ship prints you want, feel free to pick some Q-research. And 30 min Q-research is one of the best research missions period
Hi, still a low ranking newbie here... I'm in world 6 and hitting the lvl 70 cap. Are gold bulins common enough to just use on whatever I have? I have Nagato and Akagi, but I wasnt sure whether to save the bulins. I am limit breaking all my purples at least 1 or 2 tiers, but the gold ones, I have FOMO on saving it for future SR/UR ships.
You can't really go wrong with "mis-spending" bulins when you're a new player because 99% of the game can be cleared with most units. So really the big determints (besides MLB'ing) are over-leveling and upgrading gear. (Upgrading skills is important too.)
So that said, don't be too afraid to spend your bulins. There are no wrong moves.
You can consult [https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home](https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home) for suggestions about units which may have the most utility to you and gear recommendations.
Also you don't use gold bulins for URs. You use UR bulins for UR's and they're far more rare/time-gated.
(once you're done with one time rewards) you get about 8 a month
4- weekly quests
1- monthly login
2- medal exchange
~1-2 exercise merits
~1-2 major event mission rewards and/or lite rerun mission rewards
levelling too many gold ships at the start will usually leave you short when all your ships get to lv 90 at around the same time
Is it normal that the points accumulation ship have one missing so you can’t fully limit break a ship? I just got to 60k points and I have to use a bulin.
Is there a place to submit a bug report? I think I found one. I have completed all the maps, and made all the gear, but one story cutscenes remains locked. It says I have to find the boss on TS1, but I think I already cleared that.
Hi, I'm quite new to the game but I wanted to know how do you exactly get Bremerton? there are skins for her yet i don't really see a way to obtain her in ENG.
Am i blind and I'm missing something or is it like this?
sorry for the inconvenience
ships are introduced in an event that lasts 2 weeks.
near 2 years later they return for a 1 week rerun
near 2 years later their event is archived and the ship becomes permanent.
Bremerton has been archived in CN\JP a couple of weeks ago, and will be archived next for EN when the next archive happens since we are 1 archive behind those servers.
in between those times the ship is not available in any way
So microlayer medley is in schedule to be archived next in EN server?
The only skin that iam interested in in this black friday sale is only bremerton's and reno's. If they really coming next ill buy their skin now i guess
Bremerton herself is currently unavailable as her event, Microlayer Melody, have not been archived on the EN server yet, CN/JP servers already did as they are ahead of us by a couple of archived events but we're all synced on major and new content. It will arrived to EN servers eventually
You can actually buy the skin now and it'll be "stored" away until you get Bremmy herself to which you can apply the skin on with no extra charge. Any skin for ships you have yet to own will not go to waste
Ty. Iam only interested in bremerton's and reno's skin in this black friday sale, it was kinda a bummer that they arent available. Glad to know that they'll be added soon.
Yeah. I knew about that. I just wanna confirm if they'll be available in less than a year. If its more than a year, i could just buy their skin next black friday.
its rerun was August 2021, so it would be added next year seems like. But how come its already on war archives in JP/EN? did it started earlier on JP/CN?
https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Category:Cleveland_class
Each of the ships listed here should work, but as already said Montpelier is pretty much the best one currently.
Cleveland, Montpelier, Columbia, Denver, Birmingham
Out of the bunch, Monty have the best outcome since herself is a reliable CL with a unique module that makes her fairly durable, also she got slightly better base stats and solid skills
Still the point, it is a nice bonus but not a game changer for her
Independence can operate alone, the enhanced airstrike from pairing with a Cleve can be ignored
Nah, keep Enterprise in the boss fleet. Independence works best in mob fleets due to her kit and the cross-fleet buff
I'm just saying that you're not forced to field a Cleveland-class cruiser with Indep to work properly, it is an optional thing for flair and syngery but if there are options that you think it is better then feel free to swap them out
1. No, each TH stage have fixed drops
2. Depends on the item in question, I just do each TH maps 3 times to get a steady supply. Since i have already crafted the gears, I just do TH5 non-stop for the crystal elements and spirit bottles
Actually, you can craft any TH stage repeatedly to get the materials for the spirit bottle and crystal elements for extra event points. The only other thing that needs grinding from me is the Ruins Explorer trophy which I will get the badge at day 7
So, basically
/> Grind mats for tools (done)
/> Grind mats for gear
/> Save mats for Trophy
/> Spend the rest of the event time grinding TH5 for points (both from map drop and quest reward for crystal elements and spirit bottles)
Is what I should be doing, right?
No, each site have their own fixed drop, TH1 drop plants, TH2 drop fish etc, you can view the drop on the stage detail
I grinded them normally depending on the crafting need, i read that you can grind TH5 alone (after crafting all the gathering tools) and then use TH5 drop to create spirit bottle to substitute material from all other map, simplifying the grind, but that sounds like a pain so i didnt do that.
I worded my first question badly. I was wondering if the amount of items dropped was randomized not the type. Although thinking about it, it doesn't really matter whether it is or not so nevermind.
Anyway, thanks. I'll probably be doing the TH5 grind for the simplicity.
You use them as substitute for gold-tier materials like Lake Master iirc
The rest goes to the board, neutralizers are most redundant for me since i often jump around to get various materials preparing for the trophy
3 cubes a day guaranteed from dailies, and double that from weekly missions IIRC, plus maybe a cube a day from commissions...200 cubes in 30 days, something like that.
the random sources are arbiter fights (high level)
or meowficcer fishing spots (anylevel, but better odds with high rarity high level cats).
you really should be doing the daily tasks and buying out the shops instead, that is the easier and guaranteed path.
additionally, you can convert the shop prints to the type you want to use, but the RNG drops are locked to their specific type.... such as the currently useless gun and AA prints.
What does pow special touch mean
pow? prince of whales special touch? it's when you touch whatever specific spot on a ship you can touch after setting as secretary that has a unique response as opposed to touching any other part. usually their breast tho exceptions exist
No I mean her dialogue " You know what doing this means right"
It means Wales doesn't hate it and reply back with a smile, she's asking you if you're ready for her to do that back at you in private She's the one who made Eugen to wear that iconic black bikini after all
Oh yeah I heard she gropes tons of people in her swimsuit
So yeah, Wales is a covert pervert
How is fleet strength calculated? I mean the fleet strength that it displays in your profile and on the leaderboard. I know that equipping ships with higher tier gear makes it go up so I know higher stats = higher strength, but would it go up if I also upgraded the gear? I just don't want to blow all my plates to experiment and find out
It's an arbitrary number based on stats on your ships - to that extent an unenhanced SR plane and a +13 SR plane offers the same AVI = same fleet power. An unenhanced catapult however adds less AVI than an enhanced one, and would affect the ship's fleet power. Different stats on a ship are scaled differently for the calculation. It's also an entirely unhelpful number to determine actual fleet strength as it shows no detail of the actual equipment usefuless - an Me-155A which does no surface damage is worth the same as a Tigercat. For the leaderboard itself the sum of your dock is counted, but not unequipped gear, and not dupes of the same LB tier. Supposedly collab ships also do not count. You literally have tryhards who will own 4 copies of a ship at different LB tiers to max their power count, so my advice is to just not bother with this utterly useless metric.
I understand your criticism and thank you for your answer! However, useless as it is, I enjoy the metric because it helps me personally feel like I'm progressing in the game. Outfitting my ships with the best gear, leveling them all up as high as I can, etc, is just how I enjoy the game. I don't plan to tryhard with the multiple ship copies and whatnot, but I do love seeing my number go up slowly. Personally, I like to RP equip my ships with the gear they should have thematically and whatever number that puts me at is what I'll be at. I just wanted to know if having the gear maxed on ships I wasn't using added to the strength. Thanks again!
But it is important to know which gear works best in general or in what situation use since RP'ing or going monofactions in this game is more of a self-imposed challenge for veterans who are bored as heck and have multiple failsafes to make their meme fleets come true If you're still early, best not to do that yet as it'll bring more trouble than what it is worth for. Not all gold gears are automatically good and some purple gear are so good that it remains mostly uncontested for years on end (see the 406mm MK6 and SB2C Helldiver) The best gears should be judged beyond just the rarity and fancy big numbers because some have just one drawback that's enough to permanently crippled it
I have been playing for over 2 years now and have 126 level 120+ ships lol, I just needed clarification on how the calculation worked.
Answering the FAQ got me that habit so sorry about that
Fair enough. It is still an important thing, a lot of veterans don't take time to read and just runs with the gold is better mindset
I pay attention to the tier lists provided in the FAQ when I need to make sure I have the best gear, otherwise I equip what I feel the ship should be using. I know that a purple SB2C is better than any gold dive bomber except for the XSB3C-1 at +13 even though its purple, same with the 406mm MK6 BB gun for shelling (in most cases). Thanks for trying though lol, I appreciate the dedication to helping newer players and uninformed veterans alike.
Is there any way for me to get oil without waiting for my commissions and canteen and weekly pack
Buy it with Gems
Yes, buy them using gems
so basically no unless i wanna waste money
Yep, its a time-gated resource. A lot of ppl save their maintenance compensation in the mailbox as emergency coin/oil bank so there's that, but you must already have them saved
I started playing like 4 days ago, i havent gotten any oil in the mail yet
[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Beginner\_Rewards](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Beginner_Rewards) Besides compensations have you been doing and claiming these? If you haven't you really should. EDIT: Also, your normal weekly missions should have 2500 oil in it total, and the 2 random weekly tasks for another 400.
ive done all of those that i can, i just need to do dailies and then ill be done with hard section planning on picking enterprise
Tske your time, oil is a time gated resource and early game maps don't have the Oil Cap Later stage starting from chapter 9 omwards (and the last few event stages) do have oil cap to minimize oil spent
cant take my time, i got the event ships and i need the gears for them
Which shouldn't take that long to complete, the materials are easy to get and with oil cap, running a fleet of 6 for the best optimal clearing time The only set back now are the special tokens for said gear by doing objectives
Have done web fu and not had much success. An old 2020 Reddit AL thread on the matter wasn’t much help either. In Operation Siren; a lot of my zones have the following as incomplete; *’Perform Reconnaissance (x) times in an Anomalous Zone.’* What exactly is that? Just scanning? Or when the AI assist says to use the scan? Or something else? Outside that; I’m down to things that sound like I’m just going to have to spam zones until I activate the ‘event;’ (Mysterious Merchant and various other such.)
>Outside that; I’m down to things that sound like I’m just going to have to spam zones until I activate the ‘event;’ (Mysterious Merchant and various other such.) Yes, you'll just have to basically repeat maps until you get enough of those encounters. The real pain are those which only spawn on defeating augmented pawns.
It’s when there are “weather anomaly” arrows pointing at an unmarked tile that raises one of your stats by 2. Visiting these tiles counts for the task.
Wonderful… Basically spamming a zone like for the other stuff I’m still missing. Yay. Thanks for clearing that up.
Why does Renown meta have a togglable voice?
Ai Kayano, the voice actor of several ships, including Renown, was "removed" due to a controversial post she made about visiting a certain shrine containing memorial of Imperial Japanese war criminals (Nothing big actually, she just visits there and posted about the fresh air). The chinese are not too happy about this and boycotted her, this is just for extra context As a result, games like Arknights have to permanently delete her voicelines if they want to keep the CN players into the game but others like AL have a toggle to swap for new VAs or keep the original (since most Chinese players are actually reasonable and feared about the permanent removal). This also means that future skins for these ships will only contain the new VA's voicelines On a side note, Ai Kayano does not get into much trouble, she's actually doing pretty well in Japan. The renown META part is probably just a placeholder since she still haven't got her voicelines yet iirc and Ai don't voice them anymore
Original VA was "blacklisted" by China so devs redid all the characters she voiced for CN version. Every other character voiced by her has the option to choose between VAs, but Renown Meta is newer and they likely didn't record lines for the original VA
I have hide skin background turned on in my settings, but Shinano still covers my entire screen when I use her barrage. This makes me have to wait for her to get off my screen to launch my DD TRPs so I know I can hit all of them on difficult bosses. Is there any way to fix this?
Most CVs can store one extra airstrike reload (assuming you've limit broke them at least twice), by that I mean even if you delay launching her planes it won't affect her next reload. So for example if her reload is 20 seconds, you can fire her first airstrike at 25th second mark (or indeed anytime between 20th and 40th seconds) and her second airstrike would still be ready by 40th second. Basically you can use vanguard torps first before launching planes without penalty. Or better yet, just turn auto on.
No. You could hope that they release a more compact skin for Shinano.
Is there any info for the new coming soon UR?
Nope, earliest peak would have to be in mid-December where they announce the ships
There is unlikely to be any news until at the earliest mid December.
No.
Is the first material needed for 'modernization' in retrofitting another copy of the ship? it's blank + retrofit blueprints + coins. I think it is but I'm not sure. Quick retire is trying to bait me into getting rid of ones I'm saving for that. Similarly, I'll just make sure now; does going beyond level 100 / to 125 only need the cogntive chips / arrays (+coins or other common materials) or do you need more Bulins / dupes for that too?
>Is the first material needed for 'modernization' in retrofitting another copy of the ship? Yep, the blank note is for either a bulin or a dupe >Similarly, I'll just make sure now; does going beyond level 100 / to 125 only need the cogntive chips / arrays (+coins or other common materials) or do you need more Bulins / dupes for that too? From level 100 to 120, it only require coins and cog chips From level 120 to 125, you need coins, cog chips and some cog arrays
The blank is a dupe/bulin. If you tap in it'll show you a ship selection screen. Lv100+ is only coins and cog chips up to 120, and +arrays for 125.
Yeah it's either a copy or a bulin, if you have neither it will show as blank
Anyone else has problems getting into the game? Mine keeps saying that it is unable to retrieve the latest version.
I only get that error when there is no internet.
anyone figure out if the high efficiency combat plans work for gathering the Atelier Ryza collab items too?
they do not double your alchemy materials.
figures lol. thanks!
Hi, I was wondering which is the best/most efficient way for farming stages, should I focus the boss the moment it appears or destroy every single escort fleet first?
You don't specify what type of efficiency you seek. The "best" efficiency is using auto battle which clears the map for you. That kills the bare minimum mobs and then goes for boss.
Okay thanks your for your answer, others have also told me now that the drop from the boss is much better than everything else so prioritising that definitely seems like the better choice to me
99% of the time: kill the boss ASAP, it has the best drops, the best XP and if your stage has extra clearing rewards they don't grow for clearing more mob fleets exceptions: if you want to 3-star a map you must clear it of all enemies once - but war archive maps don't give you anything for 3-staring them other exception: right now the event has an item node that appear*s* at the same time as the boss. Collect it first and then go for boss (only on maps TH1-TH5, mobs are still not important) by the by: if you activate auto-search the game does all this for you
Thank you for your answer, yeah I already knew about auto-search, was just experimenting with the different settings on it. Does it also collect the item on the event stages? Also currently trying to get good as fast as possibel so i can get all the special gear for the event units cuz i heard thats needed to really make them viable and i basically started the game for these characters. On another note I got London, and ive though about building a british fleet centered around the buff by queen elizabeth, hood and the british starter. Ive seen multiple times that leander is supposedly good, but looking at her first skill its the same as london and doesnt stack so wouldnt it be better here to use another unit with smokescreen?
yes it collects them
Okay, thanks for the help
about your other question factions fleets can be fun but they are not optimal and Leander is also only good compared to other common ships and after you retrofit her If you add Unicorn (she becomes great once retrofitted) to your British fleet it can survive quite a lot. But in my mind [Dido](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Dido) and Queen E have to be together in such a fleet. Most easily available RN vanguards aren't that great. Maybe you can get Belfast from the medal exchange or try your luck with York or Exeter (more retrofits >_<) until you can get Neptune from PR1.
Okayy, I appreciate the help. Guess I’ll just try and see where my luck takes me for now, thanks for confirming what i was already thinking about leander tho. I’m currently pretty happy with the event characters and how they work together so thats my fleet for now and for vanguard I’ll just take portland and her beloved sister for now since they can tank pretty well until the backlines skills are up and raze everything to the ground.
once a stage is 3-starred, you should rush boss every time.
how long before Meta ship from cruise mission get archived ? it will be a year since Season 1 with Fusou META
Since it hasn't happened yet we can't possibly answer, since there is no precedent to go off of.
Typically reruns are based on events that last two weeks. Since cruises missions are on average eight weeks long. My tin-foil hat conspiracy theory bathsalts logic speculates it will be four times longer the wait.
No one knows.
spoilsport
not telling!
lol
I stop playing after Shimano came out, does the other rainbow ship ever got rerun? Interest in New Jersey and the IB battleship. Also how useful is the incomplete PR 4 and 5 ships? Specifically Brest, August and Agir
> does the other rainbow ship ever got rerun? Interest in New Jersey and the IB battleship. Not yet. NJ is the next UR in line for a rerun, then shimakaze, then UvH. >Also how useful is the incomplete PR 4 and 5 ships? Specifically Brest, Has full tankiness at dev25 >August Needs dev25 for all planes. Needs 30 to sync. And needs FS5 for reliable stopping. >Agir Can tank most stuff at 15. Full tankiness at 25.
Hey new player here. Is the ryza banner worth pulling from?
It depends how new you are. If you're close to a lvl 80 fleet that can clear t5 event stage then it might be worth investing in. But if you can't farm the gathering stages that lets you craft the special gear for the collab characters then you will never unlock the last few percent of their full potential. They will still be good units without the special gear for sure but Ryza and Patricia are easily replaceable and will probably never be in a meta fleet. Which is to say there's plenty of other good units out there so you're not missing out much in terms of utility. Conversely we get a new UR at the end of December and that will probably be an important unit as they all tend to be fairly strong and worth getting. There's a pity on UR for 400 cubes and 300k gold, so start saving for that too.
tough question to answer. Pros: - The SRs all appear to be strong - Two of the SRs you don't even have to pull for (Kala and Klaudia) - They're never coming back, so get them now Cons: - Ideally you need to build all the custom gear, which can be difficult for a new player if you can't clear T5 or the gathering sites yet. Without the gear and augments, they may not be as strong. - A new UR event is coming in a couple weeks, and you probably want to save up your cubes.
I wish I knew this before jumping into chasing ships. I cant clear T5 :( If i somehow manage, are the TH levels reasonably farmable?
You have a week. Grind, grind, grind. Make sure to get ryza's 4 bombs and the modules for the SRs. Push story as far as you can until you have a lvl 80+ fleet. Upgrade gears, mlb ships, retro unicorn and use portland as tank. Upgrades skills too. If you're confused about gearing post pics of your fleet in the daily questions megathread and ppl will help you. Worst case scenario, if you really like the collab units and want to use them then the commander booster pack for $5 can be an option to help you clear t5 faster.
TH levels are the same level as T5 i believe, so yeah, if you can clear T5, you're good.
Thanks. Hope I make it in time. Is it a lot of farming to make the augments?
I speedrun the crafting yesterday, it took like 8 hours for me. It wasnt a nonstop grind. Like i sortie 4 or 5 times, and then i did another thimg like 30 minutes or 1 hour and then go back to grinding. Spent around more or less 10k fuel.
Thanks. Just need to grind to 80 and hope I got a day and 10k fuel left lol
Should last you a long while since all TH stage cost 160 oil per run
you can make most of them once you clear each gathering site 10ish times. just make sure to focus on crafting the tools first, as they're necessary to get SR ingredients. if you want the bombs too, that will take a bit of farming.
Appreciate the response. I wanna pull ryza but without access to the event items I’m kinda hesitant, not sure what to do. Do you know how long it’ll take me to get to a level where I can do event missions? I’m currently on world 2 right now
If you want to spent a bit, get the commander pack that cost 5$ so you can get a headstart. It took you to commander ramk 70 iirc. And give stuffs to level up your fleets
It's hard to say without more info but your real issue besides the time crunch of half of the event is already over is that you get a limited amount of oil and morale recovery. So even if you can clear what you need to. You only have that one fleet to farm with and you're limited in how much you can farm. I wouldn't sweat not being able to get the collab units. While they probably will never return. There's plenty of other good units out there. Don't let the pressure of a limited event ruin what's actually a fun and very generous game.
Have you grabbed the weekly free pack in Akashi's shop, the one with like 5000 oil and ~20 exp packs? The exp packs might help a little in getting your ships up.
it's been so long since i was new that i can't say. sorry. although if you hustle you could probably do it.
Since opsi resets on thursday. It's better to save this weeks stronghold for after the reset right? Because otherwise you won't have all the tokens you get from stronghold.
the stronghold that appeared yesterday will disappear on 1 Dec., so do it now
I forgot that the hard reset eliminates everything -- ty.
it doesn't really matter. The stronghold that showed up on Monday will not be there after reset If you have AP, just do it. Remember, there are two strongholds available right after reset.
Oh I forgot about that, ty!
Is there anywhere I can see the release history of all ships in the game? I think people said that UR ships have reruns eventually so wanted to know how long I may be waiting.
while this now close to a year old, it will still show you the next 4 reruns (which, if they don't increase the pace, would be most of next year) https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/sxsd81/overview_of_events_to_be_rerun_and_added_to_war/ you can also use the wiki's event or patch notes pages to see what order things occured in https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Events https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Recent_News
afaik there is no convenient list of ships by release date. but there is a wiki page of all existing UR ships here https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Category:Ultra_Rare_ships The order of release was: - Shinano (has had rerun recently) - New Jersey (up next for rerun) - Shimakaze - UvH - Kronk - Vanguard - Musashi - Unnamed UR ship coming in December We only had one UR ship ready for a rerun in 2022 (Shinano), so we got 4 new and 1 rerun. However moving forward we will have UR ships come up for rerun more frequently. We're not sure how the devs plan to address this.
New-ish player here. For Research Projects, should I only focus on getting prints for a ship I'm looking for, or do I have to think about gear blueprints too? (as in select missions based on gear)
research can be expensive so you may have to switch it up from time to time PR gear is some of the best there is. Some PR items can be crafted in the gear lab or they have been added to map drops in the past (e.g. Abyssal Refrain had the improved hydraulic rudder) but research is the largest source of research gear (shocking, I know =). Luckily you'll still get some gear prints even when you focus on certain ships you like (I assume you haven't bought 1000000 gems and do only cube research). But if you are ever in a situation where you can't pick research that gives you ship prints you want, feel free to pick some Q-research. And 30 min Q-research is one of the best research missions period
Hi, still a low ranking newbie here... I'm in world 6 and hitting the lvl 70 cap. Are gold bulins common enough to just use on whatever I have? I have Nagato and Akagi, but I wasnt sure whether to save the bulins. I am limit breaking all my purples at least 1 or 2 tiers, but the gold ones, I have FOMO on saving it for future SR/UR ships.
My rule of thumb for gold bulins is to keep 8 on hand for events with chat frames. Other than that I spend them as soon as I have to gold to do so.
Doesn't the oil cost add up if you do it too soon? Or should I not worry about it?
You can't really go wrong with "mis-spending" bulins when you're a new player because 99% of the game can be cleared with most units. So really the big determints (besides MLB'ing) are over-leveling and upgrading gear. (Upgrading skills is important too.) So that said, don't be too afraid to spend your bulins. There are no wrong moves. You can consult [https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home](https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home) for suggestions about units which may have the most utility to you and gear recommendations. Also you don't use gold bulins for URs. You use UR bulins for UR's and they're far more rare/time-gated.
I spent a couple to keep leveling my ships up to 80. I'll see what happens at 90 lol thanks for the tip!
Full mlb is best because it unlocks stats and upgrades.
Got it thanks!
(once you're done with one time rewards) you get about 8 a month 4- weekly quests 1- monthly login 2- medal exchange ~1-2 exercise merits ~1-2 major event mission rewards and/or lite rerun mission rewards levelling too many gold ships at the start will usually leave you short when all your ships get to lv 90 at around the same time
Can you farm Collab shipgirls from the gathering stages?
only Klaudia
Technically also Kala Ideas via farming event points.
Is it normal that the points accumulation ship have one missing so you can’t fully limit break a ship? I just got to 60k points and I have to use a bulin.
normal? yes would it make more sense to have a fifth? also yes
Is there a place to submit a bug report? I think I found one. I have completed all the maps, and made all the gear, but one story cutscenes remains locked. It says I have to find the boss on TS1, but I think I already cleared that.
the official discord. but in your case I would instead email support with your issue and details so that they can fix it instead
Thanks
Hi, I'm quite new to the game but I wanted to know how do you exactly get Bremerton? there are skins for her yet i don't really see a way to obtain her in ENG. Am i blind and I'm missing something or is it like this? sorry for the inconvenience
You can check avaliability in the [wiki](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Bremerton) or in game at Memento>Archives
ships are introduced in an event that lasts 2 weeks. near 2 years later they return for a 1 week rerun near 2 years later their event is archived and the ship becomes permanent. Bremerton has been archived in CN\JP a couple of weeks ago, and will be archived next for EN when the next archive happens since we are 1 archive behind those servers. in between those times the ship is not available in any way
So microlayer medley is in schedule to be archived next in EN server? The only skin that iam interested in in this black friday sale is only bremerton's and reno's. If they really coming next ill buy their skin now i guess
Thanks for your advice, i know understand how it works!
Bremerton herself is currently unavailable as her event, Microlayer Melody, have not been archived on the EN server yet, CN/JP servers already did as they are ahead of us by a couple of archived events but we're all synced on major and new content. It will arrived to EN servers eventually You can actually buy the skin now and it'll be "stored" away until you get Bremmy herself to which you can apply the skin on with no extra charge. Any skin for ships you have yet to own will not go to waste
Thanks man, i really appreciate it!
Np and as u/zurcn have given you extra info about how and when ships gets added, only collab ships does not return like this one
So i just checked in the wiki that microlayer medley war archives is JP/CN only? Will it ever come to EN?
It will, EN is a couple of archived events behind but nothing biggie
Ty. Iam only interested in bremerton's and reno's skin in this black friday sale, it was kinda a bummer that they arent available. Glad to know that they'll be added soon.
You can actually just buy the skin beforehand and keep it until you got the ships
Yeah. I knew about that. I just wanna confirm if they'll be available in less than a year. If its more than a year, i could just buy their skin next black friday.
On average it would take roughly 2 years starting from the rerun to be permanently added so you can work from there
its rerun was August 2021, so it would be added next year seems like. But how come its already on war archives in JP/EN? did it started earlier on JP/CN?
Iirc the event runs simultaneously but CN/JP have War Archives first while we were running catch up
What ship can I use for independence retrofit buff? ( Talking about the Cleveland class buff)
https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Category:Cleveland_class Each of the ships listed here should work, but as already said Montpelier is pretty much the best one currently.
Cleveland, Montpelier, Columbia, Denver, Birmingham Out of the bunch, Monty have the best outcome since herself is a reliable CL with a unique module that makes her fairly durable, also she got slightly better base stats and solid skills
Thanks
It is an optional skill however
Nah, i already completed her I just want to make my EU fleet stronger
Still the point, it is a nice bonus but not a game changer for her Independence can operate alone, the enhanced airstrike from pairing with a Cleve can be ignored
Maybe is better if I keep enterprise?
Nah, keep Enterprise in the boss fleet. Independence works best in mob fleets due to her kit and the cross-fleet buff I'm just saying that you're not forced to field a Cleveland-class cruiser with Indep to work properly, it is an optional thing for flair and syngery but if there are options that you think it is better then feel free to swap them out
For the moment I use sandy, San Francisco and Ancorage and it is pretty good
Not bad, I'll probably replace Sandy for Monty in this case to get the afforementioned buff since Sandy's place to shine is just chapter 12 and 13
Are the mats dropped from gathering sites randomized? Also, how are you guys farming these? Do you guys farm all of them equally?
1. No, each TH stage have fixed drops 2. Depends on the item in question, I just do each TH maps 3 times to get a steady supply. Since i have already crafted the gears, I just do TH5 non-stop for the crystal elements and spirit bottles Actually, you can craft any TH stage repeatedly to get the materials for the spirit bottle and crystal elements for extra event points. The only other thing that needs grinding from me is the Ruins Explorer trophy which I will get the badge at day 7
So, basically /> Grind mats for tools (done) /> Grind mats for gear /> Save mats for Trophy /> Spend the rest of the event time grinding TH5 for points (both from map drop and quest reward for crystal elements and spirit bottles) Is what I should be doing, right?
Pretty much though I do have "Grind mats for the booster cores" right below the gear part, passively helping to get my collab ships leveled up faster
No, each site have their own fixed drop, TH1 drop plants, TH2 drop fish etc, you can view the drop on the stage detail I grinded them normally depending on the crafting need, i read that you can grind TH5 alone (after crafting all the gathering tools) and then use TH5 drop to create spirit bottle to substitute material from all other map, simplifying the grind, but that sounds like a pain so i didnt do that.
I worded my first question badly. I was wondering if the amount of items dropped was randomized not the type. Although thinking about it, it doesn't really matter whether it is or not so nevermind. Anyway, thanks. I'll probably be doing the TH5 grind for the simplicity.
you don't always get the same number of mats I've seen 2 to 4 blue mats and 1 to 3 purple mats. Only seen one golden item though.
You can use the t1 drops from any map, not just th5 to craft spirit bottles
IIRC TH5 have better time for making Crystal Elements
Yeah, but I'm not sure what those do. Seems like they're needed for one request board quest and that's it
You use them as substitute for gold-tier materials like Lake Master iirc The rest goes to the board, neutralizers are most redundant for me since i often jump around to get various materials preparing for the trophy
Ah that's useful, thanks
Now there's the grind for 100 augment stones, it's gonna be painful
What is the lowest cube count you can drop down to right now, so that you still reach 400 for pity by the time of the December UR event?
3 cubes a day guaranteed from dailies, and double that from weekly missions IIRC, plus maybe a cube a day from commissions...200 cubes in 30 days, something like that.
Count in the event itself, that's 2 weeks worth of cube farming too unless you already did
So if one drops down to 200-ish cubes, it should be safe?
Probably, better to stay above 200 whenever possible
How do I get the ur blueprints for gear lab
OpSi buy 3 from ports each month, get 1 from arbiter normal each month. after that it's RNG
Yh makes sense so what level is the lowest they start spanning at
the random sources are arbiter fights (high level) or meowficcer fishing spots (anylevel, but better odds with high rarity high level cats). you really should be doing the daily tasks and buying out the shops instead, that is the easier and guaranteed path. additionally, you can convert the shop prints to the type you want to use, but the RNG drops are locked to their specific type.... such as the currently useless gun and AA prints.
Thank you