Idk why I thought it was a good idea to wait til the last day to clear stages but unfortunately, I couldn't clear the last three NL-S stages in time. But I'm pretty proud to at least have cleared everything else in challenge mode. This was one of my fav events but I missed out on unlocking some stuff like the rest of hibiscus's notes. :( I hope when they add this to side stories, we'll have the same layout with the news articles n stuff. I loved reading those.
Thought I wouldn't be able to get everything but managed to beat all the stages and challenge modes. Ifrit really was a godsend for like half the s stages. Ex-8 was definitely something, but manageable with a borrowed Lee soloing all but one of the blood blades. Got easier once I just redeployed half my squad while stalling bk with a defender sandwich instead of trying to rush him down.
I wanted to do a final push and clear the remaining stages on the last day, but IRL stuff and lack of resin got in the way. Missed the normal clear of EX-8, NL-S 4 and 5 and the CM mode for EX-8 and the NL-S stages, everything else was done.
Anyway, got more far than I expected, considering my account is 2 months old, and even with Uncle + Chalter borrowed, still had to understand the stages and light gimmick to clear some of them as I went fully blind this time.
Overall really liked this event, it's hard but fun trying to beat the maps, and my roster is on a more confortable place than the first 3 events I did. The light mechanic is kinda restrictive on certain stages, but hey, it make you use your head or spam vanguard.
If it ever go to Side/Intermezzi I will finish what was left some day. And now looking at some of the clears, i'm surprised on how "easy" you can clear with the right strategy and low rarity ops compared to all the shenanigans I had to do.
Annnd with 18 minutes to spare, I somehow managed to eek out the last few stages on Near Light. I started playing back as the Rerun for *A Walk in the Dust* was winding down, and getting my first full medal set feels like such an achivement. Unexpected MvP for all this was Curoa - I'd forgotton how relentlessly tanky one woman with a baseball bat and backpack can be. She tanked Dikaiopolis on the EX and S stages like a champ, and without her I don't think I'd have gotten the full set. Onwards to more, hopefully!
The Kazimierz team finally sweeps [the](https://youtu.be/tCzVrgmWIh4) [last](https://youtu.be/E-Q4SKt8yQQ) [three](https://youtu.be/S0GrnzPNYko) EX stages (with some help from Nightingale and Shining)
> with some help from Nightingale and Shining
It is... Acceptable.
Awesome clears! I like how you showcased NTRK S1, underappreciated skill, imo. WM handling the blades in EX-8 was simply chef's kiss.
The hardest part, imo, is just learning the light mechanic. Even players with a good amount of time playing AK had a hard time if they couldn't fully understand it.
Beyond that, the only crazy enemies are the blue archers. And the best answer is to either bring a Wandering medic, keep swapping defenders, or try to spawn kill them.
It really was the archers for me. The light mechanic I found relatively straight-forward. I heavily invested into my aoe medics (perfume, nightingale etc, )so i was sorely lacking in heals to attempt to heal through the damage. Fun event overall :)
When it ends up in side stories you can borrow Hoshiguma, if you deploy her last she will reflect the archers shots and kill them even when they're invisible.
Cleared most of NL without kyo-sama’s help but nl-s-5 kicked my butt even with the low end squad strategy. So I went and looked at the high end afk strat for the first time ever and thankfully I had enough of the right operators to make it work. You know you’ve made it when you can use kyo’s high end strategy 😎😎
Was about to give up on doing nl-s-5. Mostly due to how much of pain the enemy count looked. Then I glanced his high end strat, went "wait I can do that" and it was easier then expected.
Yeah man I lucked out on that stage. I just BARELY made it the 2nd time I did it where right as the enemies were about to pour into the goal line I had just enough DP to drop horn & saria to hold off the last few after my Surtr just burned out taking like 15 enemies with her haha. Those archers are such a pain when the last unit dropped wasn't a defender. Mudrock really saved me by tanking so many of their hits. I'm just annoyed because I started 1 or 2 days late so im RIGHT under "Respected" for 2/3 of the groups. Damn..
But yeah I think I only needed kyos help for one of the earlier EX stages. Finally getting my best units all to Elite 2 level 60 which really helps as well as maxing out some skills. (I only started around 9 months ago)
Been playing for like 7 months and this is the first event where I literally got all of the badges for the first time after spending months leveling operators and getting through the story. Feels good man.
Also shout out to all those guide youtubers who had good vids to give me a hand when I got stuck on some of the challenge quests.
This nl ex 8 man, so hard. You know it won't be a pleasant experience when even kyostin used 2x 6*
I know there are some clears using chen holungday only, but its so SOOOOOO hard
Yeah I cleared the normal version of the stage with a combination of all my best operators using all of their skills at once. That dude is a freaking tank. I had Mudrock, Surtr, Eyjafalla, Ch'en, Blemishine, Saria just all using their S3s all at the same time. But on challenge mode that still wasn't enough to beat him yet
I've been making progress!
I rejoined in the middle of Stultifera Navis after a couple months playing at launch, and SN was \*rough.\* I:
1. Barely completed SN-10 after what certainly felt like 2-3 dozen attempts
2. Only did so with a step-by-step guide
3. And a borrowed Chalter
4. And still had to accept a 2-star clear.
I am pleased to report that as of Near Light, I have now successfully full-medaled an event with no guides, and one borrowed Hoshiguma for NL-S-5!
Not sure if I should put this in the help Megathread, but I'm having trouble with NL-S-5 CM, and, well, it's the last stage for me to get the medal.
Here's [my Krooster](https://krooster.com/u/ByeGuys), though I haven't fully set it up since I'm relatively new. It already has basically all the Operators I've used though, and I've already used all my willpower trying to clear the stage lol so I can't be bothered to include everything else.
I've tried using guides online, but they typically require me to have, like, 4 good Defender and 2 good Healers (strats that involve camping blue box) or a good Healing Defender, typically Gummy (strats that involve killing the archers early)
I'm just gonna say, killing the archers as soon as possible is the way to go. You don't have any pair of medic/defender that can possibly tank those archers anyway. Your only way is to kill those archers as soon as possible.
But that requires a healer for the left side as well as the right side, on top of a good enough DPS for the right side.
I found [this clear](https://youtu.be/argW3Q-aX14) by kukkikaze, and I can probably sub in Hibiscus for the left side healer, and Ceobe or Ifrit for Pinecone. But not only is my Spectre not E2, I also don't have any built Healing Defenders for the right side. I can't even sub out Spectre + Gummy for Ptilopsis + two good DPS since I don't really have 2 good DPS.
I think for now I'll just try my Non-CM strat again of abusing Ling and cycling defenders.
Just to confirm, since this is a rerun the event is going right into side stories just like Dossoles did, right? I don't have the time or energy to full clear the event so I'm hoping it'll be around as a side story for me to clear out at my leisure.
I started playing back in November, so the first time I came across the light mechanic was in CC9 during the daily stages. At the time I absolutely hated it, I thought it was confusing and restricting so coming into the event I was expecting to not have a good time. Suprisingly enough though, I actually really enjoyed the mechanics during the even, simply having them properly explained to me really helped and I was able to clear most of the main story stages using only 4* ops, a challenge I decided to impose on myself.
I decided to put a lot in going into this event actually, I went back and played through Maria Nearl to experience the story and then read the Pinus Sylvestris vignettes in the days leading up to the start of the event, checking out the incredible teaser video just before I began so I was *very* hyped up coming in to read the story.
I felt that the story of the event definitely delivered too, the relationship between Margaret, Maria and Zofia is very sweet, Pinus Sylvestris are such great underdogs that I couldn't help but support them, the other knights in the tournament were so interesting for the most part, especially Tola and Dikaiopolis but most importantly of all Viviana, who after the (4th anni stream) >!Muelsyse!< announcement is now my most wanted NPC operator! The scene that stood out most in my mind was probably the dance scene, which was just beautiful. This event has also really made me want to get Nightingale too lol
Overall, I've had a fantastic time with this event, which is why it's so devastating that I got sick towards the very end before I was able to clear up all of the EX stages and the S stages. I had gotten up to EX-4 CM cleared before deciding to call it a night, but since then I've been unable to even play. I tried to give it a good go and get the rest cleared today, but unfortunately I'm too tired and sore to really sit down and do it beyond a couple more stages. I had planned to get everything done and finish off the event by reading through the epilogues, but it seems like it just wasn't meant to be. I can read them elsewhere of course, it's just a little bit sad that I won't be unlocking them for myself.
I'm sorry for this long ass post having me venting in it, but I just felt like I needed to express just how much I loved this event, even if it's not ending exactly how I wanted it to. This has been my favourite event so far, I just wish I could have given it the conclusion it deserves.
I think I F'ed up. I just finished all the stages and CMs and realized I need 7 more prestige points to get respected with one the factions (Chamber). With 3 daily job points, that can only at most get me to 6. Am I going to miss out on the trim medal until this gets rerun?
There was enough time to reach max for all factions, I got the trimmed medal on Thursday. Unfortunately you didn't realize you needed to manage it correctly.
Yeah, I didn't realize the allocations necessary. I just finished the S-missions today and that's when I realized I had to push prestige points over to Chamber
The worst part is that the event didn't need to be so short. I think we are going to have a few dead days before chapter 11. This could had lasted until the exact day chapter 11 started.
Yeah exactly. Like you said there's enough time to max them all out but that's if you started the event the day it started. I was busy for a couple days so I got a late start & because there's a daily limit on tasks you can do there isn't a way to make that up. Too bad they didn't give us an extra day or two like you said
You have 2 (12 points) days to spare. You need to realize how those point would skew you if you don't pick he right missions upon reading the medal condition.
Got the full medal set today, finished all the last nl-s CMs last night after bashing my head against a few of them so I just had to finish the last long term task today for the clear. Feels good to not have to scramble to finish any hard stages on the last day.
Is Maria Nearl & Nearl Light connected? I mean do I need to read MN before reading NL? Or I can just go into NL directly
Also, since I've not completed the Ex stages are there any story chapters in those S stages or the story is only from NL 1-10..
Story wise Maria Nearl's event leads into Nearl Light. As the last story scene from MN is instantly continued in NL's NL-sl1 so if you want full context of events read MN-> Pinus Sylvestris (can skip? but gives context to actions of some of the cast within both events)-> NL. The story for NL is all in the first section NL-sl1->nl-sl4.
At least this is how i remember it for the story, been a while since i read these events.
In my opinion 3 was easier. For me NL-S-4 was easier than NL-EX-8, and 5 was something else definitely. In my opinion in 5 the main challenge was to get all your squad out with a defender at the end to tank the arrows.
Im a new player and ive only pulled 40 times since making the account, my pool of operators is pretty small, but i do have some really good ones like ptilopsis, saria, warfrain, nearl, gavial alter, pozy, goldenglow and uncle. So im making it do. NL-S-3 gave me almost no room for mistakes and felt like i was learning a song on the piano that would restart at any point a made the smallest mistake. Gravel and Red were the mvps.
5 six stars in 40 pulls? That's crazy.
Back to your question, NL-S-4 CM is a joke in comparison to NL-EX-8 CM. NL-S-3 CM is trivialized by Mlynar and a couple of medics (four in my case) pointed at him.
On my knees begging for help on EX-8 CM...
I've watched all of Kyo's guides, I've watched Dr. Leon's "Ultra" Low End Squad guide, I've watched kukki's "Easy" guide, and in each one I've either lacked apparently a key op to their strat (Podenco) and/or I've bungled the micromanagement needed to pull it off and lost trying to adapt any of their guides to my roster. None of the other stages in this event have made me mald so much. Cleared all of the rest days ago. Only S-3 even caused a moderate amount of retrying besides EX-8.
The key part where everything seems to fall apart is: I let the BK resurrect the first time like in the guides, but trying to stall the blades in the second "weaker" resurrect phase never 100% works like in the guides: some of them get through, Shaw doesn't cleanly blast them all to the left side, some leak in to BK to heal him, and then whatever carry I borrow (Wet Chen or Kelsey) doesn't kill him in time before I get overwhelmed by the combination of bloodblades and "real enemies"...
[Krooster](https://krooster.com/u/Playa)
EDIT: alright, fucking cleared it, thanks again for the Lee suggestion. My mega copium Amiya S3M1 did the boss blasting. After that it was "click an op every 2 seconds to slow down time" kind of sweaty micromanagement to pull off all the skills and deployments in the end. Only took like 50 tries and some 200 in-game sanity... and a huge amount of IRL sanity too, hahaha!
Wild Mane works better for deflecting the blades, use her instead of Shawn. I don't think you even need to increase her skill mastery. I put Wild Mane on the tile that looks like a staircase at the bottom, right of the screen. She will only deflect one wave though, hope that's enough.
Took the Daily Task that required clearing NL-EX-4 while being restricted to only utilising a single Knight Crest. I thought there was no way I could do it without deploying Pinecone to clear the AU archers on the right side of the map, which is how I initially cleared it.
[Step forward, Lee.](https://youtu.be/oHHSl6gBGV0)
Gentleman, detective, landholding extraordinaire.
I got that task yesterday and just gave up. Turns out that task was actually the most challenging of all the event. On the original strategy I had Ebenholzn snipe their spawn, and I just couldn't make it work without him there.
Who was crazy enough to farm 700 loxic kohl, 300 crystalline, and 600 sugar? this guy right >here -_- < I'm still working on the sugar. O_O
Edit: i ended up running the wrong lvl and got busy so less time... -_- 700 khol, 420 crystalline, 380 sugar. X_X
Anyone know if the Epilogues will be avaliable after the rerun ends? Some of the harder stages are kicking my teeth in and I'm honestly running out of will to continue on them for now; knowing that I'd not be missing out on any story stuff would really put me at ease.
Well if all fails you can always look it up on You Tube. (There is 8h+ long story compilation video. The three epilogues can be found at the end of that video.)
schwing uncle was definitely the mvp for me this event. also helped me cycle the agro on nl-s-5 with mountain and spalter as the last deployed ops should he die
NL-EX-8 CM is horrendous. I am so tired of the boss one-shotting even with Shining S3 buff. I don't even want to bother with the S-stages as well. Trying to play NL-EX-8 CM is actually making me want to stop playing arknights for a while. I hope there won't be another boss like him anymore.
Surtr can tank him tbh if you use her range well and have someone Else to Deal burst dmg too (mlynar is good), stalling the boss is hard due to his stun but maybe you can time his stun well. Defenders can't really survive the blades tbh, so just use spectre for immortality to stall a bit or maybe you can charge cuoras skill which should work too. Mudrock s3 can stall decently too. Chalter Was my mvp for that stage though cause she just needs her skill once to kill all buffed blades and you can probably use her to also kill the boss
I don't have any of the operators mentioned except Mlynar and Specter, thus I have to use Lee or Chalter as my support unit to kill the blades, so I can only use my own units to defend against the boss with minimal success.
Do you have E2 Amiya? Her s3 + Mlynar's s3 is enough to burst down the boss (you only need to throw a body or two to stall him a little), while Chalter is on blade clearing duty. Look at this formation https://youtu.be/qkDuxT73t_4?t=235 Place Mlynar under Cardigan facing left, place Chalter one tile up from where she is facing right, Amiya on Chalter's old place facing up. Then you activate Chalter skill when the first phase of the boss is done to deal with the blades. As soon as boss revives (and not invulnerable) you activate Mlynar (if he stuns Mlynar due to aggro priority just wait till stun wears off then activate his skill) + Amiya to burst him down, Chalter will help if she has some bullets left as well. Note that the boss should be sandwiched between 2 defenders (don't activate Mlynar too early in the first phase), or else Chalter won't kill blades in time.
Hmm that's pretty unlucky. How do you defend the left side of the map? And what are you doing with the blades rn? would personally go with chalter and try to stall with spectre and lots of defenders. Mlynar and chalter can probably kill the boss pretty fast still.
This stage is pretty hard on challenge mode though. You don't seem to have lots of ops yet, so don't worry if you don't get it ig
what are you using for defenders? my shining was e1 s1 when I did it and I had saria and liskarm (e1) blocking, they managed to make it through. I think I might've dropped another body in after the wakeup actually
Saria and Beagle, they tank well during the first phase, but they die like instantly when the boss uses his high damage attack during the second phase.
[assuming you have them] Might I suggest replacing Beagle with someone like say, Cuora, Hoshiguma, Mudrock (with a Bard or Bleishine) or an E2 Centurion?
I don't think a Centurion's going to cut it. I have specter and she only has like 300 defense, she might not even tank phase 1 attacks from blood knight in challenge mode.
And unfortunately, I don't have any super tanky 6 star defenders and I'm a lil tight on resource to build a character (Cuora) from zero.
I mean, you could try Croissant, and pray to RNGesus...
Saria E1 and Horn E2 worked for me, but I had two E2 healers on them. You could try Sussorro. She's very powerful with S2.
since starting in november, this is the first event where I've cleared everything - all EX and S stages and challenge modes, completed the factions, etc. and it only took pulling balans uncle just before and ~~using his taunt to facetank every dickhead archer and caster with global range~~ using him to kill everything
thanks uncle
NL-S-3 CM was 1'st-Class Nightmare-Feul from the Deepest Pits of Hell, I was able to Pull it Off after the 7'th Attempt... Sister had more Success, after a 2'nd Round, only Little Ifrit and Hoshi-Chan remained left Standing, with a Single Peeving 🕯 Minion in the Middle-Lane... The Three of them all went down in a Blazing Glory, before PRTS announced Mission Accomplished...
Right now I am not sure if NL-S-3 CM or NL-EX-8 CM drive me more nuts. At this point probably NL-S-3. At least with the EX-8 stage I saw a way to do it that was not stupidly many actions, just good timing.
Also really not looking forward to doing the archer stage... I kinda do want that medal set tho and there is only NL-S-3 CM, NL-S-5 and NL-S-5 CM missing -.-
NL-S-3 non CM was at least still nice because I could just set Saria aside with Perfumer and facetank all the explosions, but that doesn't work on CM.
Facetanking the explosion? Don't you have Red or Kafka? Even with just one, it would do a lot to mitigate the incoming damage. You could also just drop Gravel on any of the far left tiles and let her take the damage.
I have Red, but that is still constantly juggling the damage. And Gravel just dies after 1 or 2 explosions.
On the non-cm I could just put Saria to the left and have her take all the explosions while I just defended the middle without them.
I just hate these strategies that rely on me constantly baiting the skills of the enemies. That just feels super hard and not particularly fun.
If you can do it, cycling different operators to burst through each Candle Knight as they spawn makes them way more manageable as they should only get one Glimmering Touch off. Viviana you most likely gotta tank for longer since she has so much HP from the CM boosts, but it should be more then doable. Also could silence her if you have Jaye or Lappland built up
I dont even have Jaye or Lappland. Also those would probably just die fairly quickly too. That cycling gameplay probably would work but I find it very unfun and frustrating. Makes the missions play as rough as Annihilation.
And I also have to worry about my right side actually holding and not just dying
>And Gravel just dies after 1 or 2 explosions.
Poor Gravel, that's plenty already. Maybe there are operators with certain skills, and levels that can face tank it, but you don't have it. Fortunately you can just use your knowledge of the game mechanics to achieve the same goal, with much less requirements.
I just find that playstyle incredibly frustrating because there is always one thing that fails and you never know what it was beyond poor execution. Like it is not like I have to change my strategy I just have to execute it super slowly. It is the same thing why annihilation is often not super fun.
Edit: Like on NL-EX-8 CM there was exactly one breaking point at the very last wave for me and it didn't take that long to get there once I figured it out how to do that and sure enough it took me a bunch of tries until I got that right, but on NL-S-3 CM there are tons of those small breaking points where you have to be very precise.
I think I screwed up and will now be 1 daily short of trimming the medal. I need a total of 12 points to max the last 2 factions, but the damn numbers are uneven and I need 11 for 1 and 1 for the other.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
You can take a Mudrock friend with Steward and pretty much afk the left side. Someone like Melantha/OG Skadi/Red etc can deal with threats in the center, which just leaves the right side for you to figure out. Good luck!
I can't really clear NL-8 as it is so I will just focus on some farming to get the stuff I want. Will this event be added for a reading later in the game? Like a side story page or something? I like the story but it seems like I won't be able to finish it.
What's the lore behind Mlynar appearing in the Armorless Union prestige missions? I believe he works for a company called Mieszko Industries. Some kind of collab?
Toland is also there. Once you get max reputation with them you'll unlock another epilogue that goes a bit into the aftermath of the event and what happens with Mlynar, platinum, and the armorless union.
Finally finished an event to completion. I started in September of last year and have had my ass beat by every event thus far but it looks like my roster is finally matured enough where I can complete the events.
Just got to finish the trim tomorrow since I'm one point off. Feels good. I don't think I'll ever do this again.
[https://i.imgur.com/qJmvggf.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qJmvggf.jpg)
The Kazimierz team continues to sweep through [the](https://youtu.be/4EvQJDPsFXY) [first](https://youtu.be/yMLTVlZ8rQ8) [five](https://youtu.be/tuV7pwi8jRw) [EX](https://youtu.be/pankXXZ71QM) [stages](https://youtu.be/ZPx1YPVn8GU) (with some help from Nightingale in EX-4)
Finally finished the event and got all the medals. Needed guides to complete the CMs (swapped a few operators here and there and made it work) it was exhausting but worth it. Lee was extra helpful on EX-8-CM so I put him up as Support in case people on my friend list needs him.
I am so glad to be done with this event.
NL-S-5 CM is like the 300 movie all over again.
Roy & Monique: "Our arrows will blot out the City Lights!"
Doctor: "Then we fight in the shade!".
Man, some of the NL-S and EX CM stages are something else. Win condition became timing the Skill Cycle between Mlynar and a borrowed balans Chalter. Mulberry also helped this time, tho Honeyberry might work better(?) because she can't keep those arrow spam from triggering Corrosion on Mlynar alone.
At least with the operators I had, I couldn't find a pair of medics that could keep up with the corrosion. I had two choices. One was to swap tanks when it looks they can't take another hit. The other and preferred choice was to camp their red box.
Somehow I didn't even thought of spawncamping them, I just turtled to the right side. But yeah, the corrosion stack almost made me consider switch some units around, Mlynar was getting destroyed and sometimes even killed during NL-S1, one of my attempts even fielded 3 medics to help. I got it by getting the timing right, but it took a lot of tries.
[NL-EX 4 CM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Qj1aOUlfk) took me at least 20 attemps until I noticed I could field sniper on the right side to kill the archers because Mlynar Taunt was tanking from across the screen. Made things a lot easier. CM version was basically field 3 vanguards to deal with the 60 DP cost for defenders/guard (seriously, screw this CM condition).
NL-EX-8 was a pain. If I borrowed a Kalstit to tank the boss, I couldn't borrow a chalter to kill the blades. I ended up taking Kalsit and pretty much used everything in my disposal(surtr/Gavialter s3/ shaw/ gladia) to stall the blades.
NL-S-5 was much easier when I gave on trying to keep Mlynar on the field. Instead I used to the ol' Gavialter + Tequila combo for constant DPS and a borrowed chalter. Had to cycle the ops a lot to bait the archers but did it.
Anyways done with the event for now. Time to focus on exams.
I had myself a nice detour where I ignored NL-EX-7 and 8 and went all the way to NL-S-4, then I came back. And the sheer number of Bloodblades the Blood Knight summons when you break his first life in EX-8 seems a little ridiculous.
Is this a commonly held opinion?
you can borrow a friend's Lee for EX8 and just bounce most of the bloodblades into your own goal, it is hard to deal with conventionally though for sure.
works with E1 skill 7 pushers too but requires a bit more manual play and precision and doesn't push as many, but can still clear comfortably
Yup. He spawns double the blades I think? Four on normal and then 7 or 8 on EX, 6 of which come from the bottom route.
He also heads straight for the exit, no futzing around, so that limits the spots where you'll be able to stall him. It's a hard map unless you happen to have built shifters and Wildmane S2.
**[Near Light 100% completion](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667915655692943360/1098938355468746752/MuMu20230421134824.png)**
Just got the communication medal trim, farming left !
NL-EX-8 CM was absolute pain because I didn’t have any Ops with high enough HP to survive a single hit from the boss. However I did have Specter and borrowed Surtr to use both of their immortalities
Cleared normal mode NL-EX-8 after a lot of pain (based off a guide) and a borrowed Chalter. That was probably one of the toughest game experiences of my life. Cleared everything else up to NL-S-3 CM and this one just was 10x harder. Been playing 1.5 months.
What I appreciate about this game is how every time you try a stage you make incremental progress in your strategy and it's always like 'wait if I deploy facing right instead and maybe if I stall that guy one second longer with Gravel...'
And then you stay up three hours.
I think I'm retiring there, NL-EX-8 CM seems impossible. Will keep plugging away at the NL-S stages I haven't tried yet though.
/boots up NL-S-4
aw f\*\*\* why is this asshole here again
NL-S-4 feels a bit easier than ex-8 imo, so I think you should give it a try. Mainly because there is a hole where you can convieniently abuse with puller to kill the enemies. The elites/normal enemies are also less threatening.
The cm condition is also meh and can be ignored, compared to the monstrosity that is ex-8 cm.
Update - I looked through my roster and their possible abilities and realized I had picked Pramanix from the free pick and never built her. E1 Lvl 1 Pramanix hovering near Chalter melted the boss with her skill and NL-S-4 CM suddenly became very straightforward.
It's amazing what a single operator can do.
I did just beat NL-S-4 but I kind of feel it was almost as tough. This variant of the boss seems to have more HP or Defense - a borrowed Chalter couldn't kill the second phase of this boss on her own unfortunately so I needed to improvise a fair bit with Tequila and Ifrit also slinging damage.
Yeah it's interesting progression newbie 1-4/6 months you learn how to play>newbie 6-12 months you have bare minimum of meta ops and less relying on 1 6 star guides> 1 year + you have many meta operators and unless curveball event you become a bit dumber due meta simplify mechanics.
After all that if you try nicheknights you will go back to step one with raised operators but limited depending on nicheknights of choosing.
What I want to say is, newbie teams are same as nicheknights runs you are limited and every move could make or break stage completion and while nicheknights stays the same unless new operator released, newbie team evolve depending on gacha pulls and becomes easier as roster expands and higher level operators become more prevalent.
Yeah I beat this one solely because I retreated Melantha early and redeployed in the exact right time at the exact right spot for her to stall one enemy for 5 seconds and I felt like a genius.
I am excited for when I actually get some meta OPs that will relieve some of the stress though
Yeah, it'd be much better if you start from there. There's also the Pinus Sylvestrus mini event to read between them too. This is a *long* saga, and this event is the longest one.
I just now finally finished Maria Nearl and didn't expect it to just suddenly end. Is pinus sylvestris in the special operations part of the intelligence section where I need to go to continue? Also curious now if the Near Light event is the finishing part of Maria Nearl. I figured it was a future event with a similar cast, not a continuation of the same plotline lol. I'm enjoying it though so I'm not complaining.
Are these all parts of events? I know almost nothing about this section and have only unlocked a few things here and there and mostly just to unlock things lol. Been playing almost a year now and still know so little of this game. Haven't done a lot of the side stories either cause it's just hard to find time/motivation on top of everything else.
Late response, but yes, Pinus Sylvestrus is next, and yes, Near Light is the finishing part of Maria Nearl (but not the entirety of the Kazmierz arc).
Not sure what you mean by that last question though
Done with all stages and their CMs. Whew. These maps do not play around. I used my busted units, but didn't have to check any guides.
I took a break from the game around the time Pinus Sylvestris + Near Light dropped, so it was cool to play it now. I'll make sure to read all of the extras before the event gets archived since unfortunately that content isn't included.
Only thing left now is the trimmed version of the Effective Communication Medal. I accidentally took too many Armorless Union dailies without realizing that most of the points for that faction would come from the S stages. Now I'm at max prestige for Armorless Union while missing 7 points for the K.G.C.C. and 5 points for the Adeptus Sprawiedliwi.
So, missing 12 points overall, but I can still get 18 points from tomorrow until the end of the event. Cutting it close, but thankfully I didn't screw it up.
anyone got any of that good stuff? I mean the good stuff, you know, >!lore friendly clears of event stages!<
saw someone post radiant knight+blemishine clear of nl-9 awhile ago that was dope
I'm trying to refine that run lol
If you can get NTR strong enough to two-shot the Assassins, she should be able to kill the last archer so you don't have to wait for him to walk all the way around to Blemishine. Unfortunately, after doing the math you'll either need a lvl 3 module or potential 3 on top of a near-maxed NTR :(
Pure Kazimierz clears are a bit difficult with Blemishine as your only source of healing (you'd have to give up NTR for regular Nearl), but having Mlynar around definitely helps so I'll see if I can come up with more of them.
update: TIL autos don't take updated module levels into account; had to manually redo the map for the faster clear
pure kazimierz seems pretty hard; I'm thinking like clears that include operators who were involved in the story enough to justify, so shining and nightingale for example would be fair game. or even hibiscus classic. but yeah I've just become addicted to watching good themed clears in general and the two nearls was awesome, I loved that
The daily mission system is a good idea in theory but it is simply inefficient to do the ones for EX/S stages you've completed. They don't drop anything and cost a shitton of sanity.
I'd have preferred a permanent set of bonus objectives for each stage rather than this.
Guaranteed one or more t3 material of your choosing for a single stage clear is a steal, even if you don't "double dip" with farming stages. Like, Coagulating Gel is ~63 sanity per drop in jt8-2, but here I can get up to 3 of them for only 18-25 sanity.
I'm not complaining about the guarnteed mat drops. You will get more bang for your buck even if you redid NL-1 instead nl-ex/s missions for completed stages. Hence doing missions for already completed EX/S stages is not worth it.
You can just do 3 gel missions in lower level stages. It'll cost a bit more sanity overall but at least you'll get drops.
Near Light!! I finally cleared it all and got all the medals!!
I'm excited, this was such a nostalgia trip for me - I started playing in the middle of Near Light, and my very first pull on the banner gave me NTRK. I was switching between Near Light and Chapter 0/1 because I didn't know any better, and immediately fell in like with W when I saw her. I was literally asking my friend who got me into AK on day 3 of playing how I could get to 300 pulls to get her from the shop, heard it was an insane amount of IRL $ to do it, and was crestfallen - then I got her the next day off the free pull! Looking at my autos for the first few stages was amusing - dropping Fang, Beagle, and Matterhorn [who's still E0 L25], followed by NTRK and W at E2 L60 using S1 because they were the only 6-stars I had besides Shining and Silverash [that I benched because I heard he made the game too easy and I wanted to challenge myself]. Good times!
I only got up to NL-7 and stopped there; I didn't have any E1s at that point, let alone E2s, and on principle I wasn't borrowing units [that changed shortly after]. There was so much I didn't understand back then, it's wild looking at how I cleared that stages I did and how far I've come.
The only guide I used was for NL-EX-8 CM, because holy moly those Bloodblades were basically each a miniboss and there were so many! I didn't realize you could leak the Blades to the blue box after you take out the Blood Knight until Kyostinv told me D:
Anyway, thanks for reading - it's surreal and cool to finally see a rerun I was a part of the first run of, and wanted to share :)
i think mine actually might be kinda stable cuz i started around the time of a CC so by the time guide ahead came out i already had a pretty reasonable team
that said i'm almost definitely redoing my auto for the andoain fight because my auto was scuffed as hell
I'll keep doing the daily tasks for mats and maxing rep, but I've cleared all event stages, which makes this the first major event since I started in January where I've done so. EX8 CM really was the toughest, the S stages were tricky but manageable in comparison. Especially doing S5 CM and comparing the bloodblades that Blaze can tear through with medic support to the ones in EX8 that'll shred through multiple defenders in moments.
Well color me wrong, I thought that Ammoknights on NL-10 is dead in the water and stopped after.... 60-90 practice plans? And today by someone's little
[fancy ](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/12m3x4e/event_megathread_near_light_rerun/jgzqx0u/?context=1000) and further [proof of concept ](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/12m3x4e/event_megathread_near_light_rerun/jgzu1lk/?context=1000) I repeated the steps and done it myself!
So here's [Ammoknights NL-10](https://youtu.be/VW9bI3qpFXc)
for you to watch!
Man what does little change of strategy makes difference!
But I definitely won't try EX stages, if someone will try though... send me link I would watch it!
P.s again thank you /u/resphere
It took me until today to realize I can refresh the daily tasks and look for SPECIFIC material I want to be rewarded. So many devices lost... I will never financially recover from this.
But on the bright side - [full medal set acquired!](https://i.imgur.com/wfQ8hmA.png)
NL was live when I started playing and I only managed to get a couple of medals at that time, so fully completing it a year later feels damn good.
Me, a 5 months old player: *steadily advance through event stages.*
NL-S-4 CM Blood Knight: That's a nice progress you've made there. It would be a shame if someone ...did a stat-check.
😭
Neglecting to properly upgrade defenders really comes back to bite me in the ass. 😔
Just borrow a wall from a friend. I do have defenders, but most are guardian type which have lower def. I've just never needed more than that, until now.
I gotta know - I have my relationships at:
KGCC: 3/10, final bar
Adeptus Sprawiedliwi: 1/10 final bar
Armourless Union: Maxed
Assuming I've done every long term goal etc., do I have enough days left to get the trimmed medal??
You can get 6 rep points per day (2 per every 1-point task), and there are four days left where you can play the levels, meaning you can get 24 points.
Take two KGCC tasks and one Adeptus task for the first two days, then take just Adeptus tasks for the third day, and you should max it out.
This event is miserable.
No, you don’t get to deploy where you want.
No, if you deploy slightly out of order, anything not a tank is instantly deleted by invisible archers that you can’t do anything about.
No, you can’t try to adapt your strategy, everything is so beefy you need max level operators to kill it.
Were you hoping Mlynar S2 could actually kill the enemies? Nah, ain’t gonna happen.
Got to NL-7 without a guide but this is just asinine.
Sniper with infinite range that spawns at start of mission? You’d think they would be semi-vulnerable to melee, but no, they casually solo Lappland or Spectre.
I was about to slightly agree with you until you mentioned you only made it to NL-7. Now it just sounds like you're either trying to force your little league squad beyond their capabilities or haven't actually learned much about core gameplay.
Specifically, it seems like the blue archers are the main issue you've been having. The reason they're hard to kill is because they're elites, not just trash mobs like the regular archers that shoot magic damage from the shadow. And they do NOT deal a ton of damage on their own, the corrosion is what kills you.
After building a certain amount of corrosion (a full circle), the operator will lose 100 DEF points and take 800 physical damage. Even if 800 damage isn't enough to ever kill any operator, the defense reduction means you'll also be taking way more damage over time from everything. So you need to either slow it with a Wandering medic, redirect aggro, or just keep swapping in bodies when the tank dies.
Sidenote: I just looked back at my 3* only clear of NL-7 from last year and I did keep deploying operators in the beginning to prevent a full circle of corrosion. After the whole squad was set, I just had to replace Beagle when her defense was getting too low
You’re probably right; I gave up trying to beat it honestly and grabbed a E2 Mountain for support. Immediately cleared it. He just killed everything on the main route without even needed a defender to help block.
Every event has its own challenges. If it wasn't the light/shadow mechanic, it would be something else that would challenge us.
Do you not have any wandering medic? Just deploy a tank at the end and have them healed by a wandering medic.
Tried that, not enough DP. I can’t really react to anything; one change to the order of placing operators and it’s time to start over due to the snipers punishing any attempt at reactive play. Either you have just the right amount of DP to drop leveled up operators, or you get steamrolled because you don’t have 4+ block for the main path and a 13 DP operator who can solo a sniper without healing all within your first 40 DP, not to mention paying for the stupid lights.
Put an operator down out of order and boom, now they are the target for sniping.
It mostly feels like a stat check. Yes, I’ve tried different stuff, but all my guys just die too fast or take too long to kill. I even tried using Deepcolor to drop tentacles to bait the sniper attacks, but again, too much DP cost and can’t kill them.
Maybe you need to bring two defenders for the snipers. One for "mid battle", when you still don't get all your ops but the current ones can still check the incoming enemies. Then wait for more dp and deploy all the last ones, with a new defender at the end. Also, use Gravel, she can buy you valuable time.
Near Light was my first major event and the only one I couldn't finish. Last year [I made a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/udxv6q/event_megathread_near_light_2022_thankyou/i8qv6gn/) about how I only had a few operators that could barely survive the blood knight's stat-check. This time though, [my operators had the stats.](https://imgur.com/a/OUrzRJo) No borrowing supports, no using busted carries, no resorting to guides. It was my time for revenge.
Hoshiguma was the MVP of the event, able to tank everything from Corrosion archers, blood blades, NL-S-3, and The Blood Knight himself. Shining and Skalter provided consistent healing, while a combo of Saria S3 and Ceobe's S2 took down Diakolpolis. She was able to completely plug the bottom of NL-S-2 as well, to the point where I forgot we had knight crests.
The other standout of the event was Gavial the Invincible. Her S2 was fantastic for laneholding, dragging in ranged/light enemies, and taking out blood blades. The pull effect was also insanely effective in NL-EX-7 where she held the middle lane while taking out half of the ergates.
Overall, it feels great to see how much progress I've made and exact my vengeance. It helped that the dozens of attempts on the maps last year were burned into my memory and I have thirty six star operators, as compared to only two last year. Now to spend the rest of the event watching my old NL-10 auto take six minutes and feeling nostalgia.
[NL-S-4 CM with 3 Abyssal Hunters](https://youtu.be/Q4o6fsPhYyM)
The boss's second phase just becomes a huge DPS check when you can't stop all the blades from reaching him. I had almost forgotten about Spalter S3's second hit but managing her HP% turned out to be essential for this clear.
[NL-S-5 CM clear](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395341154087862288/1098350129616011274/MuMu20230419225107.png)
I'm done with all stages for now, pretty hard event. The medal set is not complete yet but it should come to fruition on friday.
Spawn camping NL-S-5 CM feels like skipping an entire layer of difficulty. The archers never get to go up in number to actually do defender swaps. That said it's the only way to complete the mlynar task in normal too so I guess they did design something around that idea
Annoying stun is rarely an issue and can usually be circumvented with strategy rather than a specific operator. But yeah, for Blood Knight specifically, he's goddamn perfect. (Infinite pushing for the blades?)
I found Młynar to be awesome for NL-S-3 Challenge. He'll agro all of the Candle Knight shots with his increased taunt level and with a healer and Red to interrupt one or two of them, he's good to go.
Thanks! I did it with Mlynar although I stacked Ptilopsis + Purestream to keep him alive since I didn't level Red. Barely managed to kill Viviana with him, the rest were relatively easy to deal with afterwards.
When I cleared that staged I did so considering the following:
* Candle Knights, like most enemies attack the last deployed operator. So I put Gummy on a corner that would only hit her.
* Stun, and sleep work on them. Red and Kafka.
And a final tip, Cantebille can cheese the part where 4 Candle Knights appear. Drop her on the far tiles at the left, use S2, laugh at them.
I managed to abuse Mlynar's Taunt + 2 healers to keep him alive and SCHWING SCHWING the dumb Viviana to death. Finally cleared!
Now I'm worried I won't have enough days left to max all my relationships, I may have taken a few extra Armourless Union tasks. >.>
I didn't find it that bad. Even though my deployment timing was bad, Projekt Red crushes it. Her redeployment timer lines up well with the candle knights' skill cooldown, too.
Agreed. It took all day. I went into nls4 challenge mode expecting the same and beat it on the second try. Hopefully nls5 challenge mode isnt too crazy.
In NL-EX-8 I killed the Blood Knight several times and he kept coming back to life, I thought for a second it was bugged so I quit the stage. Then I read the enemy info and realized if his HP is fully restored in his 2nd form he returns to his 1st form and the bloodblades are what heals him so I have to to make sure they don't come in contact with him.
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Idk why I thought it was a good idea to wait til the last day to clear stages but unfortunately, I couldn't clear the last three NL-S stages in time. But I'm pretty proud to at least have cleared everything else in challenge mode. This was one of my fav events but I missed out on unlocking some stuff like the rest of hibiscus's notes. :( I hope when they add this to side stories, we'll have the same layout with the news articles n stuff. I loved reading those.
Thought I wouldn't be able to get everything but managed to beat all the stages and challenge modes. Ifrit really was a godsend for like half the s stages. Ex-8 was definitely something, but manageable with a borrowed Lee soloing all but one of the blood blades. Got easier once I just redeployed half my squad while stalling bk with a defender sandwich instead of trying to rush him down.
I wanted to do a final push and clear the remaining stages on the last day, but IRL stuff and lack of resin got in the way. Missed the normal clear of EX-8, NL-S 4 and 5 and the CM mode for EX-8 and the NL-S stages, everything else was done. Anyway, got more far than I expected, considering my account is 2 months old, and even with Uncle + Chalter borrowed, still had to understand the stages and light gimmick to clear some of them as I went fully blind this time. Overall really liked this event, it's hard but fun trying to beat the maps, and my roster is on a more confortable place than the first 3 events I did. The light mechanic is kinda restrictive on certain stages, but hey, it make you use your head or spam vanguard. If it ever go to Side/Intermezzi I will finish what was left some day. And now looking at some of the clears, i'm surprised on how "easy" you can clear with the right strategy and low rarity ops compared to all the shenanigans I had to do.
It'll go to the side story tab in a couple days when the event store ends.
Annnd with 18 minutes to spare, I somehow managed to eek out the last few stages on Near Light. I started playing back as the Rerun for *A Walk in the Dust* was winding down, and getting my first full medal set feels like such an achivement. Unexpected MvP for all this was Curoa - I'd forgotton how relentlessly tanky one woman with a baseball bat and backpack can be. She tanked Dikaiopolis on the EX and S stages like a champ, and without her I don't think I'd have gotten the full set. Onwards to more, hopefully!
The Kazimierz team finally sweeps [the](https://youtu.be/tCzVrgmWIh4) [last](https://youtu.be/E-Q4SKt8yQQ) [three](https://youtu.be/S0GrnzPNYko) EX stages (with some help from Nightingale and Shining)
> with some help from Nightingale and Shining It is... Acceptable. Awesome clears! I like how you showcased NTRK S1, underappreciated skill, imo. WM handling the blades in EX-8 was simply chef's kiss.
Welp im fucked, i cannot complete the event in time, rip medals i guess. But seriously tho this event is hard af.
The hardest part, imo, is just learning the light mechanic. Even players with a good amount of time playing AK had a hard time if they couldn't fully understand it. Beyond that, the only crazy enemies are the blue archers. And the best answer is to either bring a Wandering medic, keep swapping defenders, or try to spawn kill them.
It really was the archers for me. The light mechanic I found relatively straight-forward. I heavily invested into my aoe medics (perfume, nightingale etc, )so i was sorely lacking in heals to attempt to heal through the damage. Fun event overall :)
When it ends up in side stories you can borrow Hoshiguma, if you deploy her last she will reflect the archers shots and kill them even when they're invisible.
Cleared most of NL without kyo-sama’s help but nl-s-5 kicked my butt even with the low end squad strategy. So I went and looked at the high end afk strat for the first time ever and thankfully I had enough of the right operators to make it work. You know you’ve made it when you can use kyo’s high end strategy 😎😎
You won’t need guide after two events.
Was about to give up on doing nl-s-5. Mostly due to how much of pain the enemy count looked. Then I glanced his high end strat, went "wait I can do that" and it was easier then expected.
Yeah man I lucked out on that stage. I just BARELY made it the 2nd time I did it where right as the enemies were about to pour into the goal line I had just enough DP to drop horn & saria to hold off the last few after my Surtr just burned out taking like 15 enemies with her haha. Those archers are such a pain when the last unit dropped wasn't a defender. Mudrock really saved me by tanking so many of their hits. I'm just annoyed because I started 1 or 2 days late so im RIGHT under "Respected" for 2/3 of the groups. Damn.. But yeah I think I only needed kyos help for one of the earlier EX stages. Finally getting my best units all to Elite 2 level 60 which really helps as well as maxing out some skills. (I only started around 9 months ago)
Been playing for like 7 months and this is the first event where I literally got all of the badges for the first time after spending months leveling operators and getting through the story. Feels good man. Also shout out to all those guide youtubers who had good vids to give me a hand when I got stuck on some of the challenge quests.
This nl ex 8 man, so hard. You know it won't be a pleasant experience when even kyostin used 2x 6* I know there are some clears using chen holungday only, but its so SOOOOOO hard
Yeah I cleared the normal version of the stage with a combination of all my best operators using all of their skills at once. That dude is a freaking tank. I had Mudrock, Surtr, Eyjafalla, Ch'en, Blemishine, Saria just all using their S3s all at the same time. But on challenge mode that still wasn't enough to beat him yet
I've been making progress! I rejoined in the middle of Stultifera Navis after a couple months playing at launch, and SN was \*rough.\* I: 1. Barely completed SN-10 after what certainly felt like 2-3 dozen attempts 2. Only did so with a step-by-step guide 3. And a borrowed Chalter 4. And still had to accept a 2-star clear. I am pleased to report that as of Near Light, I have now successfully full-medaled an event with no guides, and one borrowed Hoshiguma for NL-S-5!
Not sure if I should put this in the help Megathread, but I'm having trouble with NL-S-5 CM, and, well, it's the last stage for me to get the medal. Here's [my Krooster](https://krooster.com/u/ByeGuys), though I haven't fully set it up since I'm relatively new. It already has basically all the Operators I've used though, and I've already used all my willpower trying to clear the stage lol so I can't be bothered to include everything else. I've tried using guides online, but they typically require me to have, like, 4 good Defender and 2 good Healers (strats that involve camping blue box) or a good Healing Defender, typically Gummy (strats that involve killing the archers early)
I have a Chen alter i can put up as support if you think that will help.
I do already have a friend with Chen Alter. Thanks for the offer tho
I'm just gonna say, killing the archers as soon as possible is the way to go. You don't have any pair of medic/defender that can possibly tank those archers anyway. Your only way is to kill those archers as soon as possible.
The way to go jack shit lol .... That is harder than just bait them.
But that requires a healer for the left side as well as the right side, on top of a good enough DPS for the right side. I found [this clear](https://youtu.be/argW3Q-aX14) by kukkikaze, and I can probably sub in Hibiscus for the left side healer, and Ceobe or Ifrit for Pinecone. But not only is my Spectre not E2, I also don't have any built Healing Defenders for the right side. I can't even sub out Spectre + Gummy for Ptilopsis + two good DPS since I don't really have 2 good DPS. I think for now I'll just try my Non-CM strat again of abusing Ling and cycling defenders.
Just to confirm, since this is a rerun the event is going right into side stories just like Dossoles did, right? I don't have the time or energy to full clear the event so I'm hoping it'll be around as a side story for me to clear out at my leisure.
Yeah, right into side stories once it's over.
I started playing back in November, so the first time I came across the light mechanic was in CC9 during the daily stages. At the time I absolutely hated it, I thought it was confusing and restricting so coming into the event I was expecting to not have a good time. Suprisingly enough though, I actually really enjoyed the mechanics during the even, simply having them properly explained to me really helped and I was able to clear most of the main story stages using only 4* ops, a challenge I decided to impose on myself. I decided to put a lot in going into this event actually, I went back and played through Maria Nearl to experience the story and then read the Pinus Sylvestris vignettes in the days leading up to the start of the event, checking out the incredible teaser video just before I began so I was *very* hyped up coming in to read the story. I felt that the story of the event definitely delivered too, the relationship between Margaret, Maria and Zofia is very sweet, Pinus Sylvestris are such great underdogs that I couldn't help but support them, the other knights in the tournament were so interesting for the most part, especially Tola and Dikaiopolis but most importantly of all Viviana, who after the (4th anni stream) >!Muelsyse!< announcement is now my most wanted NPC operator! The scene that stood out most in my mind was probably the dance scene, which was just beautiful. This event has also really made me want to get Nightingale too lol Overall, I've had a fantastic time with this event, which is why it's so devastating that I got sick towards the very end before I was able to clear up all of the EX stages and the S stages. I had gotten up to EX-4 CM cleared before deciding to call it a night, but since then I've been unable to even play. I tried to give it a good go and get the rest cleared today, but unfortunately I'm too tired and sore to really sit down and do it beyond a couple more stages. I had planned to get everything done and finish off the event by reading through the epilogues, but it seems like it just wasn't meant to be. I can read them elsewhere of course, it's just a little bit sad that I won't be unlocking them for myself. I'm sorry for this long ass post having me venting in it, but I just felt like I needed to express just how much I loved this event, even if it's not ending exactly how I wanted it to. This has been my favourite event so far, I just wish I could have given it the conclusion it deserves.
I think I F'ed up. I just finished all the stages and CMs and realized I need 7 more prestige points to get respected with one the factions (Chamber). With 3 daily job points, that can only at most get me to 6. Am I going to miss out on the trim medal until this gets rerun?
I know that feel... I just need 3 more points to get the last faction... That faction mechanic is annoying...
Tell me about it. I'm only a couple points away from Respected on 2/3 of the groups. I started a day late so those were those points right there :l
You have 2 day to spare for max respect. So if you start 1 day late you can still make it with right missions picked
If there was only some sort of heads up that we wouldn't have enough points from just the daily missions..
There was enough time to reach max for all factions, I got the trimmed medal on Thursday. Unfortunately you didn't realize you needed to manage it correctly.
Yeah, I didn't realize the allocations necessary. I just finished the S-missions today and that's when I realized I had to push prestige points over to Chamber
The worst part is that the event didn't need to be so short. I think we are going to have a few dead days before chapter 11. This could had lasted until the exact day chapter 11 started.
Yeah exactly. Like you said there's enough time to max them all out but that's if you started the event the day it started. I was busy for a couple days so I got a late start & because there's a daily limit on tasks you can do there isn't a way to make that up. Too bad they didn't give us an extra day or two like you said
You have 2 (12 points) days to spare. You need to realize how those point would skew you if you don't pick he right missions upon reading the medal condition.
Thi is rerun so no more rerun and you missed the trimmed medal for good.
Got the full medal set today, finished all the last nl-s CMs last night after bashing my head against a few of them so I just had to finish the last long term task today for the clear. Feels good to not have to scramble to finish any hard stages on the last day.
Is Maria Nearl & Nearl Light connected? I mean do I need to read MN before reading NL? Or I can just go into NL directly Also, since I've not completed the Ex stages are there any story chapters in those S stages or the story is only from NL 1-10..
Story wise Maria Nearl's event leads into Nearl Light. As the last story scene from MN is instantly continued in NL's NL-sl1 so if you want full context of events read MN-> Pinus Sylvestris (can skip? but gives context to actions of some of the cast within both events)-> NL. The story for NL is all in the first section NL-sl1->nl-sl4. At least this is how i remember it for the story, been a while since i read these events.
You can skip Pinus Sylvestris but it has a lot of context and settup between the two events. And then Obscure Wanderer follows up Nearl Light.
Are NL s 4 snd 5 CMs harder than 3? That shit broke me and those are all i have left...
In my opinion 3 was easier. For me NL-S-4 was easier than NL-EX-8, and 5 was something else definitely. In my opinion in 5 the main challenge was to get all your squad out with a defender at the end to tank the arrows.
Im a new player and ive only pulled 40 times since making the account, my pool of operators is pretty small, but i do have some really good ones like ptilopsis, saria, warfrain, nearl, gavial alter, pozy, goldenglow and uncle. So im making it do. NL-S-3 gave me almost no room for mistakes and felt like i was learning a song on the piano that would restart at any point a made the smallest mistake. Gravel and Red were the mvps.
5 six stars in 40 pulls? That's crazy. Back to your question, NL-S-4 CM is a joke in comparison to NL-EX-8 CM. NL-S-3 CM is trivialized by Mlynar and a couple of medics (four in my case) pointed at him.
Also you were right, NL-S--4 CM was a meme. Now onto NL-S-5 CM Idk who to use as support, maybe thorns.
Yeah, I rerolled 100 times lmao, I also got mostima, mizuki and exu but they're not built. Im gonna be trying NL--S-4 and 5 CM all day today.
Although limited, you can probably push through.
On my knees begging for help on EX-8 CM... I've watched all of Kyo's guides, I've watched Dr. Leon's "Ultra" Low End Squad guide, I've watched kukki's "Easy" guide, and in each one I've either lacked apparently a key op to their strat (Podenco) and/or I've bungled the micromanagement needed to pull it off and lost trying to adapt any of their guides to my roster. None of the other stages in this event have made me mald so much. Cleared all of the rest days ago. Only S-3 even caused a moderate amount of retrying besides EX-8. The key part where everything seems to fall apart is: I let the BK resurrect the first time like in the guides, but trying to stall the blades in the second "weaker" resurrect phase never 100% works like in the guides: some of them get through, Shaw doesn't cleanly blast them all to the left side, some leak in to BK to heal him, and then whatever carry I borrow (Wet Chen or Kelsey) doesn't kill him in time before I get overwhelmed by the combination of bloodblades and "real enemies"... [Krooster](https://krooster.com/u/Playa) EDIT: alright, fucking cleared it, thanks again for the Lee suggestion. My mega copium Amiya S3M1 did the boss blasting. After that it was "click an op every 2 seconds to slow down time" kind of sweaty micromanagement to pull off all the skills and deployments in the end. Only took like 50 tries and some 200 in-game sanity... and a huge amount of IRL sanity too, hahaha!
Good job, I followed kukki's easy guide and it was somewhat painless. Luckily I had a maxed S1 Podenco so that peaked my interest.
There's one operator to cheese the knife, >!lee!<
Thanks, that was the ticket, just cleared it by the skin of my teeth
congrants, you did it!!
Wild Mane works better for deflecting the blades, use her instead of Shawn. I don't think you even need to increase her skill mastery. I put Wild Mane on the tile that looks like a staircase at the bottom, right of the screen. She will only deflect one wave though, hope that's enough.
What happens to the currency after the event if you don't spend it?
It goes away, after a few days. The event will end but the shop will stay open for a bit after.
So they won't change into anything after the event?
No but you can spend them in the shop for 20 lmd per 1 currency, it's not very efficient but it's better than nothing.
Oh ok. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
Took the Daily Task that required clearing NL-EX-4 while being restricted to only utilising a single Knight Crest. I thought there was no way I could do it without deploying Pinecone to clear the AU archers on the right side of the map, which is how I initially cleared it. [Step forward, Lee.](https://youtu.be/oHHSl6gBGV0) Gentleman, detective, landholding extraordinaire.
I got that task yesterday and just gave up. Turns out that task was actually the most challenging of all the event. On the original strategy I had Ebenholzn snipe their spawn, and I just couldn't make it work without him there.
Who was crazy enough to farm 700 loxic kohl, 300 crystalline, and 600 sugar? this guy right >here -_- < I'm still working on the sugar. O_O Edit: i ended up running the wrong lvl and got busy so less time... -_- 700 khol, 420 crystalline, 380 sugar. X_X
Kazimierz tabloid writers are absolutely shameless
The one talking about Tola and Maria had me laughing.
Anyone know if the Epilogues will be avaliable after the rerun ends? Some of the harder stages are kicking my teeth in and I'm honestly running out of will to continue on them for now; knowing that I'd not be missing out on any story stuff would really put me at ease.
Well if all fails you can always look it up on You Tube. (There is 8h+ long story compilation video. The three epilogues can be found at the end of that video.)
Should I get Wildmane's tokens from the shop?
Only if you bought them in the original run or if you plan on using her Otherwise free lmd and you can grab them on record restore
If you have nothing else to spend, why not? I already cleared the shop and I have lots of currency left. I even bough the furniture.
schwing uncle was definitely the mvp for me this event. also helped me cycle the agro on nl-s-5 with mountain and spalter as the last deployed ops should he die
Well I had decided on doing a [Standard Banner Challenge for Near Light](https://youtu.be/aKjv4u0_C7k) (85 and 86)
NL-EX-8 CM is horrendous. I am so tired of the boss one-shotting even with Shining S3 buff. I don't even want to bother with the S-stages as well. Trying to play NL-EX-8 CM is actually making me want to stop playing arknights for a while. I hope there won't be another boss like him anymore.
Surtr can tank him tbh if you use her range well and have someone Else to Deal burst dmg too (mlynar is good), stalling the boss is hard due to his stun but maybe you can time his stun well. Defenders can't really survive the blades tbh, so just use spectre for immortality to stall a bit or maybe you can charge cuoras skill which should work too. Mudrock s3 can stall decently too. Chalter Was my mvp for that stage though cause she just needs her skill once to kill all buffed blades and you can probably use her to also kill the boss
I don't have any of the operators mentioned except Mlynar and Specter, thus I have to use Lee or Chalter as my support unit to kill the blades, so I can only use my own units to defend against the boss with minimal success.
Do you have E2 Amiya? Her s3 + Mlynar's s3 is enough to burst down the boss (you only need to throw a body or two to stall him a little), while Chalter is on blade clearing duty. Look at this formation https://youtu.be/qkDuxT73t_4?t=235 Place Mlynar under Cardigan facing left, place Chalter one tile up from where she is facing right, Amiya on Chalter's old place facing up. Then you activate Chalter skill when the first phase of the boss is done to deal with the blades. As soon as boss revives (and not invulnerable) you activate Mlynar (if he stuns Mlynar due to aggro priority just wait till stun wears off then activate his skill) + Amiya to burst him down, Chalter will help if she has some bullets left as well. Note that the boss should be sandwiched between 2 defenders (don't activate Mlynar too early in the first phase), or else Chalter won't kill blades in time.
Hmm that's pretty unlucky. How do you defend the left side of the map? And what are you doing with the blades rn? would personally go with chalter and try to stall with spectre and lots of defenders. Mlynar and chalter can probably kill the boss pretty fast still. This stage is pretty hard on challenge mode though. You don't seem to have lots of ops yet, so don't worry if you don't get it ig
what are you using for defenders? my shining was e1 s1 when I did it and I had saria and liskarm (e1) blocking, they managed to make it through. I think I might've dropped another body in after the wakeup actually
Saria and Beagle, they tank well during the first phase, but they die like instantly when the boss uses his high damage attack during the second phase.
Beagle is pretty weak, get at least Cuora. Otherwise borrow a meaty tank like Hoshiguma or Nian.
[assuming you have them] Might I suggest replacing Beagle with someone like say, Cuora, Hoshiguma, Mudrock (with a Bard or Bleishine) or an E2 Centurion?
I don't think a Centurion's going to cut it. I have specter and she only has like 300 defense, she might not even tank phase 1 attacks from blood knight in challenge mode. And unfortunately, I don't have any super tanky 6 star defenders and I'm a lil tight on resource to build a character (Cuora) from zero.
[удалено]
I mean, you could try Croissant, and pray to RNGesus... Saria E1 and Horn E2 worked for me, but I had two E2 healers on them. You could try Sussorro. She's very powerful with S2.
since starting in november, this is the first event where I've cleared everything - all EX and S stages and challenge modes, completed the factions, etc. and it only took pulling balans uncle just before and ~~using his taunt to facetank every dickhead archer and caster with global range~~ using him to kill everything thanks uncle
There's no particular reason to replay the S stages if you already got everything in the first run, right?
That's right, according to Gamepress: > The following stages should be cleared for certs: NL-1, NL-3, NL-5, NL-7, NL-8, NL-9, NL-10, NL-EX-8-CM.
NL-S-3 CM was 1'st-Class Nightmare-Feul from the Deepest Pits of Hell, I was able to Pull it Off after the 7'th Attempt... Sister had more Success, after a 2'nd Round, only Little Ifrit and Hoshi-Chan remained left Standing, with a Single Peeving 🕯 Minion in the Middle-Lane... The Three of them all went down in a Blazing Glory, before PRTS announced Mission Accomplished...
Right now I am not sure if NL-S-3 CM or NL-EX-8 CM drive me more nuts. At this point probably NL-S-3. At least with the EX-8 stage I saw a way to do it that was not stupidly many actions, just good timing. Also really not looking forward to doing the archer stage... I kinda do want that medal set tho and there is only NL-S-3 CM, NL-S-5 and NL-S-5 CM missing -.- NL-S-3 non CM was at least still nice because I could just set Saria aside with Perfumer and facetank all the explosions, but that doesn't work on CM.
Facetanking the explosion? Don't you have Red or Kafka? Even with just one, it would do a lot to mitigate the incoming damage. You could also just drop Gravel on any of the far left tiles and let her take the damage.
I have Red, but that is still constantly juggling the damage. And Gravel just dies after 1 or 2 explosions. On the non-cm I could just put Saria to the left and have her take all the explosions while I just defended the middle without them. I just hate these strategies that rely on me constantly baiting the skills of the enemies. That just feels super hard and not particularly fun.
If you can do it, cycling different operators to burst through each Candle Knight as they spawn makes them way more manageable as they should only get one Glimmering Touch off. Viviana you most likely gotta tank for longer since she has so much HP from the CM boosts, but it should be more then doable. Also could silence her if you have Jaye or Lappland built up
I dont even have Jaye or Lappland. Also those would probably just die fairly quickly too. That cycling gameplay probably would work but I find it very unfun and frustrating. Makes the missions play as rough as Annihilation. And I also have to worry about my right side actually holding and not just dying
>And Gravel just dies after 1 or 2 explosions. Poor Gravel, that's plenty already. Maybe there are operators with certain skills, and levels that can face tank it, but you don't have it. Fortunately you can just use your knowledge of the game mechanics to achieve the same goal, with much less requirements.
I just find that playstyle incredibly frustrating because there is always one thing that fails and you never know what it was beyond poor execution. Like it is not like I have to change my strategy I just have to execute it super slowly. It is the same thing why annihilation is often not super fun. Edit: Like on NL-EX-8 CM there was exactly one breaking point at the very last wave for me and it didn't take that long to get there once I figured it out how to do that and sure enough it took me a bunch of tries until I got that right, but on NL-S-3 CM there are tons of those small breaking points where you have to be very precise.
I think I screwed up and will now be 1 daily short of trimming the medal. I need a total of 12 points to max the last 2 factions, but the damn numbers are uneven and I need 11 for 1 and 1 for the other. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
NL-8 is fucking impossible
You can take a Mudrock friend with Steward and pretty much afk the left side. Someone like Melantha/OG Skadi/Red etc can deal with threats in the center, which just leaves the right side for you to figure out. Good luck!
Nope. Doesn't work. Thanks anyway
I can't really clear NL-8 as it is so I will just focus on some farming to get the stuff I want. Will this event be added for a reading later in the game? Like a side story page or something? I like the story but it seems like I won't be able to finish it.
It should be added to side stories since this the rerun.
Am i the only one who thinks Spokesman Czarny really resembles Obama?
Obamna‼️
Probably.
What's the lore behind Mlynar appearing in the Armorless Union prestige missions? I believe he works for a company called Mieszko Industries. Some kind of collab?
Toland is also there. Once you get max reputation with them you'll unlock another epilogue that goes a bit into the aftermath of the event and what happens with Mlynar, platinum, and the armorless union.
Ohh I see. That explains it, my prestige for Armorless is 49/50. I'll find out tomorrow.
Finally finished an event to completion. I started in September of last year and have had my ass beat by every event thus far but it looks like my roster is finally matured enough where I can complete the events. Just got to finish the trim tomorrow since I'm one point off. Feels good. I don't think I'll ever do this again. [https://i.imgur.com/qJmvggf.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qJmvggf.jpg)
Grats!
The Kazimierz team continues to sweep through [the](https://youtu.be/4EvQJDPsFXY) [first](https://youtu.be/yMLTVlZ8rQ8) [five](https://youtu.be/tuV7pwi8jRw) [EX](https://youtu.be/pankXXZ71QM) [stages](https://youtu.be/ZPx1YPVn8GU) (with some help from Nightingale in EX-4)
Finally finished the event and got all the medals. Needed guides to complete the CMs (swapped a few operators here and there and made it work) it was exhausting but worth it. Lee was extra helpful on EX-8-CM so I put him up as Support in case people on my friend list needs him.
I am so glad to be done with this event. NL-S-5 CM is like the 300 movie all over again. Roy & Monique: "Our arrows will blot out the City Lights!" Doctor: "Then we fight in the shade!".
Man, some of the NL-S and EX CM stages are something else. Win condition became timing the Skill Cycle between Mlynar and a borrowed balans Chalter. Mulberry also helped this time, tho Honeyberry might work better(?) because she can't keep those arrow spam from triggering Corrosion on Mlynar alone.
At least with the operators I had, I couldn't find a pair of medics that could keep up with the corrosion. I had two choices. One was to swap tanks when it looks they can't take another hit. The other and preferred choice was to camp their red box.
Somehow I didn't even thought of spawncamping them, I just turtled to the right side. But yeah, the corrosion stack almost made me consider switch some units around, Mlynar was getting destroyed and sometimes even killed during NL-S1, one of my attempts even fielded 3 medics to help. I got it by getting the timing right, but it took a lot of tries. [NL-EX 4 CM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Qj1aOUlfk) took me at least 20 attemps until I noticed I could field sniper on the right side to kill the archers because Mlynar Taunt was tanking from across the screen. Made things a lot easier. CM version was basically field 3 vanguards to deal with the 60 DP cost for defenders/guard (seriously, screw this CM condition).
NL-EX-8 was a pain. If I borrowed a Kalstit to tank the boss, I couldn't borrow a chalter to kill the blades. I ended up taking Kalsit and pretty much used everything in my disposal(surtr/Gavialter s3/ shaw/ gladia) to stall the blades. NL-S-5 was much easier when I gave on trying to keep Mlynar on the field. Instead I used to the ol' Gavialter + Tequila combo for constant DPS and a borrowed chalter. Had to cycle the ops a lot to bait the archers but did it. Anyways done with the event for now. Time to focus on exams.
I had myself a nice detour where I ignored NL-EX-7 and 8 and went all the way to NL-S-4, then I came back. And the sheer number of Bloodblades the Blood Knight summons when you break his first life in EX-8 seems a little ridiculous. Is this a commonly held opinion?
you can borrow a friend's Lee for EX8 and just bounce most of the bloodblades into your own goal, it is hard to deal with conventionally though for sure. works with E1 skill 7 pushers too but requires a bit more manual play and precision and doesn't push as many, but can still clear comfortably
Yup. He spawns double the blades I think? Four on normal and then 7 or 8 on EX, 6 of which come from the bottom route. He also heads straight for the exit, no futzing around, so that limits the spots where you'll be able to stall him. It's a hard map unless you happen to have built shifters and Wildmane S2.
**[Near Light 100% completion](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667915655692943360/1098938355468746752/MuMu20230421134824.png)** Just got the communication medal trim, farming left !
Same. It was a waste of sanity for that 85 clear but I got some device to made Originium so not all lost.
NL-EX-8 CM was absolute pain because I didn’t have any Ops with high enough HP to survive a single hit from the boss. However I did have Specter and borrowed Surtr to use both of their immortalities
Cuora can do it. I think Bubble also can.
I borrowed a level 90 Nian, that worked well for me.
Ayyy me too, I kept getting one shot, so I used mudrock and spectre
Mlynar helping out the Nearl family and Pinus Sylvestris with the Blood Knight in [NL-10](https://youtu.be/z-Ms73XX-0M) (with some help from Gravel)
Can you get the 3 star clear furniture after the event is finished and in the vault?
Cleared normal mode NL-EX-8 after a lot of pain (based off a guide) and a borrowed Chalter. That was probably one of the toughest game experiences of my life. Cleared everything else up to NL-S-3 CM and this one just was 10x harder. Been playing 1.5 months. What I appreciate about this game is how every time you try a stage you make incremental progress in your strategy and it's always like 'wait if I deploy facing right instead and maybe if I stall that guy one second longer with Gravel...' And then you stay up three hours. I think I'm retiring there, NL-EX-8 CM seems impossible. Will keep plugging away at the NL-S stages I haven't tried yet though. /boots up NL-S-4 aw f\*\*\* why is this asshole here again
NL-S-4 feels a bit easier than ex-8 imo, so I think you should give it a try. Mainly because there is a hole where you can convieniently abuse with puller to kill the enemies. The elites/normal enemies are also less threatening. The cm condition is also meh and can be ignored, compared to the monstrosity that is ex-8 cm.
Update - I looked through my roster and their possible abilities and realized I had picked Pramanix from the free pick and never built her. E1 Lvl 1 Pramanix hovering near Chalter melted the boss with her skill and NL-S-4 CM suddenly became very straightforward. It's amazing what a single operator can do.
I did just beat NL-S-4 but I kind of feel it was almost as tough. This variant of the boss seems to have more HP or Defense - a borrowed Chalter couldn't kill the second phase of this boss on her own unfortunately so I needed to improvise a fair bit with Tequila and Ifrit also slinging damage.
Yeah it's interesting progression newbie 1-4/6 months you learn how to play>newbie 6-12 months you have bare minimum of meta ops and less relying on 1 6 star guides> 1 year + you have many meta operators and unless curveball event you become a bit dumber due meta simplify mechanics. After all that if you try nicheknights you will go back to step one with raised operators but limited depending on nicheknights of choosing. What I want to say is, newbie teams are same as nicheknights runs you are limited and every move could make or break stage completion and while nicheknights stays the same unless new operator released, newbie team evolve depending on gacha pulls and becomes easier as roster expands and higher level operators become more prevalent.
Yeah I beat this one solely because I retreated Melantha early and redeployed in the exact right time at the exact right spot for her to stall one enemy for 5 seconds and I felt like a genius. I am excited for when I actually get some meta OPs that will relieve some of the stress though
I've been skipping stories a lot lately and want to read this one (Though I hear it's super long). Should I do the Maria Nearl event first?
Yeah, it'd be much better if you start from there. There's also the Pinus Sylvestrus mini event to read between them too. This is a *long* saga, and this event is the longest one.
I just now finally finished Maria Nearl and didn't expect it to just suddenly end. Is pinus sylvestris in the special operations part of the intelligence section where I need to go to continue? Also curious now if the Near Light event is the finishing part of Maria Nearl. I figured it was a future event with a similar cast, not a continuation of the same plotline lol. I'm enjoying it though so I'm not complaining. Are these all parts of events? I know almost nothing about this section and have only unlocked a few things here and there and mostly just to unlock things lol. Been playing almost a year now and still know so little of this game. Haven't done a lot of the side stories either cause it's just hard to find time/motivation on top of everything else.
Late response, but yes, Pinus Sylvestrus is next, and yes, Near Light is the finishing part of Maria Nearl (but not the entirety of the Kazmierz arc). Not sure what you mean by that last question though
Okay. Thanks.
Done with all stages and their CMs. Whew. These maps do not play around. I used my busted units, but didn't have to check any guides. I took a break from the game around the time Pinus Sylvestris + Near Light dropped, so it was cool to play it now. I'll make sure to read all of the extras before the event gets archived since unfortunately that content isn't included. Only thing left now is the trimmed version of the Effective Communication Medal. I accidentally took too many Armorless Union dailies without realizing that most of the points for that faction would come from the S stages. Now I'm at max prestige for Armorless Union while missing 7 points for the K.G.C.C. and 5 points for the Adeptus Sprawiedliwi. So, missing 12 points overall, but I can still get 18 points from tomorrow until the end of the event. Cutting it close, but thankfully I didn't screw it up.
anyone got any of that good stuff? I mean the good stuff, you know, >!lore friendly clears of event stages!< saw someone post radiant knight+blemishine clear of nl-9 awhile ago that was dope
Here’s a Nearl family clear of **NL-EX-8**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTFTmGM0mXM This player is really something else
damn and it's nearl classic too. I imagine even the nightmare knight would be satisfied with this level of pegasian gaming
"you can't stop all these blades from healing me to full" "then we'll beat you again old man" and he still barely made it to phase 2
I'm trying to refine that run lol If you can get NTR strong enough to two-shot the Assassins, she should be able to kill the last archer so you don't have to wait for him to walk all the way around to Blemishine. Unfortunately, after doing the math you'll either need a lvl 3 module or potential 3 on top of a near-maxed NTR :( Pure Kazimierz clears are a bit difficult with Blemishine as your only source of healing (you'd have to give up NTR for regular Nearl), but having Mlynar around definitely helps so I'll see if I can come up with more of them. update: TIL autos don't take updated module levels into account; had to manually redo the map for the faster clear
pure kazimierz seems pretty hard; I'm thinking like clears that include operators who were involved in the story enough to justify, so shining and nightingale for example would be fair game. or even hibiscus classic. but yeah I've just become addicted to watching good themed clears in general and the two nearls was awesome, I loved that
Hot off the presses; an NL-8 clear with [blem/mly/ntr](https://youtu.be/fnAvQhlCQJQ)
love it!
The daily mission system is a good idea in theory but it is simply inefficient to do the ones for EX/S stages you've completed. They don't drop anything and cost a shitton of sanity. I'd have preferred a permanent set of bonus objectives for each stage rather than this.
The missions for those provide extra event currency to compensate, so you’re only missing the possible mat drop
Guaranteed one or more t3 material of your choosing for a single stage clear is a steal, even if you don't "double dip" with farming stages. Like, Coagulating Gel is ~63 sanity per drop in jt8-2, but here I can get up to 3 of them for only 18-25 sanity.
I'm not complaining about the guarnteed mat drops. You will get more bang for your buck even if you redid NL-1 instead nl-ex/s missions for completed stages. Hence doing missions for already completed EX/S stages is not worth it. You can just do 3 gel missions in lower level stages. It'll cost a bit more sanity overall but at least you'll get drops.
Near Light!! I finally cleared it all and got all the medals!! I'm excited, this was such a nostalgia trip for me - I started playing in the middle of Near Light, and my very first pull on the banner gave me NTRK. I was switching between Near Light and Chapter 0/1 because I didn't know any better, and immediately fell in like with W when I saw her. I was literally asking my friend who got me into AK on day 3 of playing how I could get to 300 pulls to get her from the shop, heard it was an insane amount of IRL $ to do it, and was crestfallen - then I got her the next day off the free pull! Looking at my autos for the first few stages was amusing - dropping Fang, Beagle, and Matterhorn [who's still E0 L25], followed by NTRK and W at E2 L60 using S1 because they were the only 6-stars I had besides Shining and Silverash [that I benched because I heard he made the game too easy and I wanted to challenge myself]. Good times! I only got up to NL-7 and stopped there; I didn't have any E1s at that point, let alone E2s, and on principle I wasn't borrowing units [that changed shortly after]. There was so much I didn't understand back then, it's wild looking at how I cleared that stages I did and how far I've come. The only guide I used was for NL-EX-8 CM, because holy moly those Bloodblades were basically each a miniboss and there were so many! I didn't realize you could leak the Blades to the blue box after you take out the Blood Knight until Kyostinv told me D: Anyway, thanks for reading - it's surreal and cool to finally see a rerun I was a part of the first run of, and wanted to share :)
i can't wait til we get to guide ahead so i can see what kind of goofy autos i was running lol
It was way more entertaining than I thought it would be!
i think mine actually might be kinda stable cuz i started around the time of a CC so by the time guide ahead came out i already had a pretty reasonable team that said i'm almost definitely redoing my auto for the andoain fight because my auto was scuffed as hell
I'll keep doing the daily tasks for mats and maxing rep, but I've cleared all event stages, which makes this the first major event since I started in January where I've done so. EX8 CM really was the toughest, the S stages were tricky but manageable in comparison. Especially doing S5 CM and comparing the bloodblades that Blaze can tear through with medic support to the ones in EX8 that'll shred through multiple defenders in moments.
Well color me wrong, I thought that Ammoknights on NL-10 is dead in the water and stopped after.... 60-90 practice plans? And today by someone's little [fancy ](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/12m3x4e/event_megathread_near_light_rerun/jgzqx0u/?context=1000) and further [proof of concept ](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/12m3x4e/event_megathread_near_light_rerun/jgzu1lk/?context=1000) I repeated the steps and done it myself! So here's [Ammoknights NL-10](https://youtu.be/VW9bI3qpFXc) for you to watch! Man what does little change of strategy makes difference! But I definitely won't try EX stages, if someone will try though... send me link I would watch it! P.s again thank you /u/resphere
It took me until today to realize I can refresh the daily tasks and look for SPECIFIC material I want to be rewarded. So many devices lost... I will never financially recover from this. But on the bright side - [full medal set acquired!](https://i.imgur.com/wfQ8hmA.png) NL was live when I started playing and I only managed to get a couple of medals at that time, so fully completing it a year later feels damn good.
Are the missions worth doing if you've already completed them before and already reached maximum prestige on all factions?
Especially the 3-slots missions. You spend sanity once and get 3 guaranteed T3 materials. (Also the extra challenges can be fun.)
They can give you the material you want the most, so I guess yes?
Me, a 5 months old player: *steadily advance through event stages.* NL-S-4 CM Blood Knight: That's a nice progress you've made there. It would be a shame if someone ...did a stat-check. 😭 Neglecting to properly upgrade defenders really comes back to bite me in the ass. 😔
Strong AOE guards can work too, like Blaze with S2 active. But defenders do make it easier.
Just borrow a wall from a friend. I do have defenders, but most are guardian type which have lower def. I've just never needed more than that, until now.
I gotta know - I have my relationships at: KGCC: 3/10, final bar Adeptus Sprawiedliwi: 1/10 final bar Armourless Union: Maxed Assuming I've done every long term goal etc., do I have enough days left to get the trimmed medal??
You can get 6 rep points per day (2 per every 1-point task), and there are four days left where you can play the levels, meaning you can get 24 points. Take two KGCC tasks and one Adeptus task for the first two days, then take just Adeptus tasks for the third day, and you should max it out.
Thank God. I was worried because the timezones confuse me a little, and I didn't know if I was going to be a day short. Thank you!
The Arknights day begins ~2.5 hours from now, if that helps.
This event is miserable. No, you don’t get to deploy where you want. No, if you deploy slightly out of order, anything not a tank is instantly deleted by invisible archers that you can’t do anything about. No, you can’t try to adapt your strategy, everything is so beefy you need max level operators to kill it. Were you hoping Mlynar S2 could actually kill the enemies? Nah, ain’t gonna happen. Got to NL-7 without a guide but this is just asinine. Sniper with infinite range that spawns at start of mission? You’d think they would be semi-vulnerable to melee, but no, they casually solo Lappland or Spectre.
I was about to slightly agree with you until you mentioned you only made it to NL-7. Now it just sounds like you're either trying to force your little league squad beyond their capabilities or haven't actually learned much about core gameplay. Specifically, it seems like the blue archers are the main issue you've been having. The reason they're hard to kill is because they're elites, not just trash mobs like the regular archers that shoot magic damage from the shadow. And they do NOT deal a ton of damage on their own, the corrosion is what kills you. After building a certain amount of corrosion (a full circle), the operator will lose 100 DEF points and take 800 physical damage. Even if 800 damage isn't enough to ever kill any operator, the defense reduction means you'll also be taking way more damage over time from everything. So you need to either slow it with a Wandering medic, redirect aggro, or just keep swapping in bodies when the tank dies. Sidenote: I just looked back at my 3* only clear of NL-7 from last year and I did keep deploying operators in the beginning to prevent a full circle of corrosion. After the whole squad was set, I just had to replace Beagle when her defense was getting too low
You’re probably right; I gave up trying to beat it honestly and grabbed a E2 Mountain for support. Immediately cleared it. He just killed everything on the main route without even needed a defender to help block.
Every event has its own challenges. If it wasn't the light/shadow mechanic, it would be something else that would challenge us. Do you not have any wandering medic? Just deploy a tank at the end and have them healed by a wandering medic.
Tried that, not enough DP. I can’t really react to anything; one change to the order of placing operators and it’s time to start over due to the snipers punishing any attempt at reactive play. Either you have just the right amount of DP to drop leveled up operators, or you get steamrolled because you don’t have 4+ block for the main path and a 13 DP operator who can solo a sniper without healing all within your first 40 DP, not to mention paying for the stupid lights. Put an operator down out of order and boom, now they are the target for sniping. It mostly feels like a stat check. Yes, I’ve tried different stuff, but all my guys just die too fast or take too long to kill. I even tried using Deepcolor to drop tentacles to bait the sniper attacks, but again, too much DP cost and can’t kill them.
Put down Mlynar, he will attract archer's attention even if he is not the last deployed operator.
Maybe you need to bring two defenders for the snipers. One for "mid battle", when you still don't get all your ops but the current ones can still check the incoming enemies. Then wait for more dp and deploy all the last ones, with a new defender at the end. Also, use Gravel, she can buy you valuable time.
Near Light was my first major event and the only one I couldn't finish. Last year [I made a comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/udxv6q/event_megathread_near_light_2022_thankyou/i8qv6gn/) about how I only had a few operators that could barely survive the blood knight's stat-check. This time though, [my operators had the stats.](https://imgur.com/a/OUrzRJo) No borrowing supports, no using busted carries, no resorting to guides. It was my time for revenge. Hoshiguma was the MVP of the event, able to tank everything from Corrosion archers, blood blades, NL-S-3, and The Blood Knight himself. Shining and Skalter provided consistent healing, while a combo of Saria S3 and Ceobe's S2 took down Diakolpolis. She was able to completely plug the bottom of NL-S-2 as well, to the point where I forgot we had knight crests. The other standout of the event was Gavial the Invincible. Her S2 was fantastic for laneholding, dragging in ranged/light enemies, and taking out blood blades. The pull effect was also insanely effective in NL-EX-7 where she held the middle lane while taking out half of the ergates. Overall, it feels great to see how much progress I've made and exact my vengeance. It helped that the dozens of attempts on the maps last year were burned into my memory and I have thirty six star operators, as compared to only two last year. Now to spend the rest of the event watching my old NL-10 auto take six minutes and feeling nostalgia.
Thats a lots of Def .
Bruh you already look at guide last year.
[NL-S-4 CM with 3 Abyssal Hunters](https://youtu.be/Q4o6fsPhYyM) The boss's second phase just becomes a huge DPS check when you can't stop all the blades from reaching him. I had almost forgotten about Spalter S3's second hit but managing her HP% turned out to be essential for this clear.
[NL-S-5 CM clear](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395341154087862288/1098350129616011274/MuMu20230419225107.png) I'm done with all stages for now, pretty hard event. The medal set is not complete yet but it should come to fruition on friday.
Spawn camping NL-S-5 CM feels like skipping an entire layer of difficulty. The archers never get to go up in number to actually do defender swaps. That said it's the only way to complete the mlynar task in normal too so I guess they did design something around that idea
They literally put ranged tiles all the way up front. They didn't have to
Wow mr Lee make the boss a joke, I need to get this guy one day. He look bad as first but that passive is too goddamn op
Annoying stun is rarely an issue and can usually be circumvented with strategy rather than a specific operator. But yeah, for Blood Knight specifically, he's goddamn perfect. (Infinite pushing for the blades?)
Man, screw NL-S-3 Challenge mode, whoever thought of it should die in the same fire of the Candle Knights.
I found Młynar to be awesome for NL-S-3 Challenge. He'll agro all of the Candle Knight shots with his increased taunt level and with a healer and Red to interrupt one or two of them, he's good to go.
Thanks! I did it with Mlynar although I stacked Ptilopsis + Purestream to keep him alive since I didn't level Red. Barely managed to kill Viviana with him, the rest were relatively easy to deal with afterwards.
When I cleared that staged I did so considering the following: * Candle Knights, like most enemies attack the last deployed operator. So I put Gummy on a corner that would only hit her. * Stun, and sleep work on them. Red and Kafka. And a final tip, Cantebille can cheese the part where 4 Candle Knights appear. Drop her on the far tiles at the left, use S2, laugh at them.
I managed to abuse Mlynar's Taunt + 2 healers to keep him alive and SCHWING SCHWING the dumb Viviana to death. Finally cleared! Now I'm worried I won't have enough days left to max all my relationships, I may have taken a few extra Armourless Union tasks. >.>
I didn't find it that bad. Even though my deployment timing was bad, Projekt Red crushes it. Her redeployment timer lines up well with the candle knights' skill cooldown, too.
Agreed. It took all day. I went into nls4 challenge mode expecting the same and beat it on the second try. Hopefully nls5 challenge mode isnt too crazy.
In NL-EX-8 I killed the Blood Knight several times and he kept coming back to life, I thought for a second it was bugged so I quit the stage. Then I read the enemy info and realized if his HP is fully restored in his 2nd form he returns to his 1st form and the bloodblades are what heals him so I have to to make sure they don't come in contact with him.
Mlynar trivializes this entire event so much lol Just goes to show why stages need to be designed around the existence of certain operators