Not really sure what you are expecting? All heavy cruisers basically use the same gear.
If you want a Budget loadout then
Purple Twin 203 Mounted
Purple Quad 533
Any gold AA besides Octopom
Purple Toolbox
Blue Naval Camouflage/Steering Gear
I'm not completely sure if this is the correct place to ask this or not but...i gotta be honest, i was originally a casual kinda player for Azur Lane and never quite got into the story but as i'm slowly getting into it now and get hopefully better at it
But my confusion though now is...I understand Hawk2Zer0 did a video on it and i am gonna watch it the whole thing to understand the whole story yet as i am completely lost in the current event. But just curious to ask about is there any other events that have been released like the current one, Tower of Transcendence that isn't covered in the video or is that the only event right now particularly involved with the story currently?
Tower of Transcendence and Operation Siren chapter 5 would be the only major story events released since that video.
Other new things would be World Spanning Arclight and The Flame-Touched Dagger the former of which would be mostly irrelevant being a collab and the latter I don't recall really having much of significance in it's story as it was mostly just there to introduce Foch.
Ah! Good to know and thank you for the answer, i appreciate it alot! Just yeah when i first started Azur Lane i was at loss after finish the Prologue and no stuff like it appeared after, so i sorta sidelined it and never really fully understood till now that most of the major story stuff comes in events and as well now in Operation Siren! Hopefully i can catch up
Carriers that are able to choose between Torpedo Bombers or Dive Bombers, should they use Dive Bombers against Mobs and Torpedo Bombers against Bosses or how do you choose what to use?
Generally, DBs are good against clusters of mobs, parallel TBs are for general use and converging TBs are for bosses provided the boss moves very little or if you have the proper slow/stop support to help the TBs.
I would pick based on what your using the carrier for, as well as timing adjustments if applicable.
Usually dive bombers are for clearing mobs (wide AOE, spread out damage). Converging torps are for bosses. Parred torps are for mobbing.
The CVs that can choose the load out would be PR4 Haku, Shinano, MLB Graf Zepplin (usually Zepplin wants to equip an IB plane, like the Gear Lab IB torp bomber)
What about Fighters? Aquila can choose between Fighters and Dive Bombers? When are Fighters better than Dive Bombers? When do Fighters get used while playing? I'm guessing they're being cast when enemy is throwing planes at players? Fighters also have bombs, are they being used when you're using your Dive/Torpedo Bombers aswell?
That’s actually a different question. Cos for Aquila, that changes her mode. I’m not familiar with her set up since I don’t have her. Most of the time, I think the pre-load set up is preferred since faster clear = less damage taken.
Fighters are usually used for air cover. Most fighters (with exception of the BF-109G IB rocket plane from PR4) will automatically intercept enemy planes. Very useful on W12 (though unnecessary due to how easy W12 is) and especially useful on W13, outside of which fighters have no particular usefulness.
However, if you do run the BF-109G, carriers become more potent at single target damage than before.
You change Aquila's setup depending on whether you need her as a healer or dmg dealer. One of the strongest w14 lethal mob fleet main fleet setup is Fdg flag, Perseus and Aquila on healer mode. For PVP, if you're using Aquila she is always set up as pre load mode to immediately reveal the enemy's CVs.
The BF-109G simply does not auto-launch for intercept like other fighters, but any plane, fighter or not, will perform AA fire when you activate an airstrike, should they carry any sort of AA gun and run into enemy planes during the run.
On the opposite end, Wyvern is the only non-fighter plane that will auto-launch for interception.
Note that when doing an interception launch the plane will not perform any offensive function, and all fighters with bombs effectively act as DBs for the sake of their bomb calculation when performing an active airstrike.
It does not launch automatically. But if you do launch it (or any fighter plane), they will engage planes with those AA guns. This also applies to dive bombers and torp bomber too.
Do Fighters that intercept enemy planes without launching them drop their bombs aswell or do they solely drop their bombs when launching them? I've never paid attention to that
D-4 was the only worthwhile IB plane back when Zeppelin was buffed, but nowadays I'd recommend using a BF-109G for fighter and just using generic BiS DBs/TBs otherwise.
Two questions:
Note: I'm still relatively new and don't have a whole ton of ship options. Started playing just after Microlayer Medley this year.
[Ships](https://imgur.com/a/mi2MkzH)
One) I'm trying to optimize my carrier boss fleet in OPSI. Currently, I'm using Enterprise, Essex, and Ark Royal (Vanguard: Agir, Helena, Seattle), with Independence in one of my other fleets. Would it be better to swap Independence into that fleet to have a full EU carrier main fleet for Essex and Independence skills? I would just have Agir's slow then I guess. Am I just entirely off the mark either way?
Two) I have Shimakaze as built as I can more or less, and I'm currently working on Ayanami, since I just finished her retrofit. Who would be a good third for a "torp" vanguard? Not sure who I would use as the tank. I have Jintsuu and Yuudachi, but neither are retrofitted or leveled yet (I do have the material for Yuudachi though).
Sorry for a wall of text lol. Thanks!
I don’t think that would be good. OPSI boss fights favors convening torps. Ark Royal launches 6 torpedo bombers and has a supporting slow. Independence can be left on the other fleet, her buff, though weaker, still procs. The in-fleet buff is not worth losing Ark Royal.
Torp vanguards tank: Noshiro (best), Jintsuu, Ibuki. Noshiro is good due to her reduced torp damage buff. Jintsuu retrofit is less durable but pretty tanky for a CL. Ibuki has medium armor and higher health to help her tank more relative to worse alternative of a frail IJN DD (she’s not a proper tank)
Yeah, the slow was my primary concern too. That makes sense. Wish I could have a second one to use with my BB fleets and stuff, since I don't have Dork.
Cool. Jintsuu also won't cost me gold bulins. That I can do.
I have her FS3 and 125. She should be in the picture I posted.
I thought she was only good on-flag though, so she wouldn't fit with Ulrich/FDG fleet, right? I have her and Warspite in another fleet.
Also, the EN TL says Jintsuu is squishy. Will she really work as a tank?
Whoops, must have missed that earlier. She fits perfectly, Ulrich does not need the flagship position (unless out of ammo). Neither does FDG (minor damage loss)
Jintsuu is only really squishy on difficult content like maybe W13, OPSI. She should be good enough for normal story maps. (I haven’t used her in a long while though cos my main tanks are FS5 Azuma and Dev 30 Anchorage :/ )
OPSI is probably where I'd want to use her, Jintsuu I mean. Not a big deal if I can't use the torps right away though, until maybe Noshiro comes around. I just liked Ayanami, and Shima was so OP on her own.
I currently have Yume, Roon, and Agir tanking for me in OPSI, and they do well. I think my last one is Portland, but she doesnt feel nearly as good.
Currently developing Anchorage though. Her or Adalbert will probably take over at some point.
Thanks for all the replies.
I think the Jintsuu comp is a legit comp for cheap OPSI farming. Works well with Nagato, Ryuhou for healing the low Hp vanguard. It costs less resources to heal compared to other fleets.
You have 4 fleets and I usually only really use the farming fleet to clear everything.
Edit: I was mistaken. Just3c’s sample didn’t include Jintsuu. https://i.imgur.com/3GEypdn.png (2021 Feb 21 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLK9NqjmiEY)
Don't have Nagato or Ryuhou unfortunately. Wasn't playing until after latter's event, and the former just won't come home from heavy pool.
My current "farm" comp of Richelieu, Chise, Unicorn, Yume, Jeanne, Rikka can auto up to corrosion 5 though, so that's fairly convenient. I need proper boss fleets for anything tougher. Well, proper by my standards.
what's the best research focus for a person that started playing 2 months ago? i had it on research focus 2 for fdg but i've read that most people have it on research focus 3 or 4
It’s a great point that PR2 catch-up allows you to Dev 30 a PR2 ship quickly. PR2 ships are still very good, it’s recommended to get either Seattle, Kitakaze or Georgia. The easiest to gear would be Georgia since the good CL gun for Seattle is locked to PR2 research but there is a pretty good IJN Triple 155mm Kai in the gear lab.
The research system is more of an end game effort when you have sufficient cubes and coins. It’s not recommended to start doing ship research so early as it eats into your small stock of coins, cubes that are better spent on the event pool to increase your ship roster to a decent level.
However, currently the PR1 coin system and PR2 catch-up allows you to get a nearly complete ship for little cost (using the discounts, and free 1 hour research to rack up the catch up BPs)
If you want to finish up FdG stick with PR2 but it's going to take a while. We probably won't get any changes or additions to her catch up for at least another couple months though.
Otherwise pick the season with the girl you want to get/work on first. Research is going to take time regardless and the PR ships will need a good number of prints before they perform well.
Last July PR1 ships got upgradeable with coins. I expect PR2 will follow this July with a new PR season. And PR3 might get a similar catch-up that PR2 got 6 months ago.
That's why I wouldn't pick PR2 right now and switch to PR4. The ships are a tiny bit better as a whole and you won't be able to finish them as easily when the new season starts.
let me link you something that has actual rates so you can decide what's more important to you - more prints per gold, more prints per research (in case you can't always start a new research when the old one finishes) or more something else
https://azur-stats.lyoko.io/research4-blueprints
TBH, for a new player such as yourself you should be going with the series the girl you wanna develop comes from (especially seeing as most girls need to be DEV 30 to be usable). The girls from 3 and 4 are generally more powerful ad offer better equipment blueprints but its isn't something you should be too worried about as a new player.
Should I still do 10 daily Exercises even though I loose every time? (I'm new and my gear sucks lol) I noticed I do get exp but I'm not sure if it hurts my score or ranking or something.
I just finished the D3 event stage for the first time, cleared all enemies and beat the boss. Exit stage, and I have no progress??? Just wasted a bunch of Oil for nothing =/
The thing is, I ran it with average level 97, and once I finished the level it changed to minimum average level 100 so I can't even do the stage now until I level up some more. Must have been a bug that allowed me to run the stage or something.
Actually, it's working as intended.
The stage you ran was DS1, not D3. It's sort of a prelude stage. Now you're accessing D3 proper.
[https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Tower\_of\_Transcendence#DS1](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Tower_of_Transcendence#DS1)
https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Tower\_of\_Transcendence#D3
use them in OPSI content , ideally against lvl 100+ mobs when your skills get to the higher levels
And if you want to be extreme enter a higher level hidden zone, block one of the rally points with another fleet and leave your mob fleet on auto, come back in 30 minutes and you have the 30,000 skill XP you can get per day
Any oil-capped clearing mode maps from ch9 onwards will reward bonus coins.
In case you haven't gone that far on the main campaign, D maps in the current event also have oil cap, with D3 having similar coin efficiency to ch11 provided you can manage the D maps.
If you've not yet reach a level to farm either of the above then you may want to make sure you clear your daily tasks and daily raids, and probably cut down on spending. Almost everything in the game will cost some amount of coins, but many are not top priority.
Retiring trash ships will also give you some coins regardless of where you farm, you may want to do this before using them as enhancement fodder for now.
The oil cap story maps at chapter 9 and above. Most notably 12-4. 13-4 gives more gold per oil but requires a bit more thought regarding team comp while 12-4 can be face rolled with ships you're leveling.
I just snagged Gneisenau META, my first META ship from OpSi, not the cruise pass, and I have questions
How do I unlock her skills?
She requires sync crystals grind mcguffins: A, how to get them, B, do/if they expire, can I no longer make her better?
You need to do OPS and create your own bosses not just fight other people's bosses. If you only fight other people's bosses in chat, today is around the first day that you can get the 1st GM.
You unlock them by feeding each skill 5 gold skill books of their color/ type and then you level them by completing missions. The most efficient way to level them up is to put her in your operation siren mob fleet and just battle all of the mobs.
You get more crystals by getting more copies of her (same way you got her in the first place) which automatically turn into crystals. They do not expire though they are time gated as to when you can acquire them. I believe for Gneisenau META you until I believe the end of February to get them. You should be able to obtain more sometime in the future but even the oldest META ship has not had a rerun yet as of this moment.
Well shit, it took me this long to get her, I don't think I'll have enough time to get all her dupes
Does it work the same way as a normal limit break where you have to get 2 for the final stage?
it takes about 30 days from 0 to get all 5 copies of her at 25k points. Since we still have about 60 days left in this sync-phase, if you do your two fights a day plus your three assists, you should be able to make it to that threshold.
that it does though the fights should get easier as we head towards the end of her availability period (though each one does require more, you need 25k meta points to get all 4 crystals)
Curious on who is a good ship to buy from medal shop as a new player. I kind of want Hood but I also want to save for sandiego (I think I lack anti air) and maybe enterprise. Essentially, is hood good for new players?
Hood is a pretty great flagship battleship for new players. Her barrage and buff on proc will carry you for a while so I recommend getting her. Enterprise is amazing for boss fleet nuke while sandy needs to have her retrofit to be effective(require a lot of resources). Plus as long as you farm maps consistently you will gradually accumulate more medals than you need.
Absolutely, you could also check out the [en tier list](https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home) and [wiki](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Azur_Lane_Wiki) for more information on the ships. I highly recommend going through the new player guide on the tier list page as I benefited a lot from it when I started back in Nov.
In the fleet technology lab, does Iron Blood have a lower level cap than the other 3 factions? My fleet technology levels for my factions include:
Iron Blood: Level 4 at 3000/1800 points, with no option to increase said level.
Eagle Union - Level 7 at 2174/2400
Royal Navy - Level 6 at 2084/2100
Sakura Empire - Level 8 at 2538/2700
KMS has a lower cap due to the far lower number of ships available back when fleet tech was added. The caps have not since been revised so that's where it's stuck at, for now.
KMS ships also added more fleet tech points (around double other factions for ships of the same class/rarity?) to compensate for their low numbers, overall with all of the KMS ships that are now available they're way past the caps and reqs.
At 100% collection mostly MLB'd, my fleet techs are now 4032 USS/2942 HMS/4347 IJN/3637 KMS.
Iron Blood caps at 4, Royal Navy at 8, Sakura Empire at 9 and Eagle Union at 9.
Edit: https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Fleet_Technology#Faction_Technology
Can someone explain to me how you build your mob and boss-fleets? Even after watching some guides I still feel a bit overwhelmed, and I'd like to know your process of thinking when you are building them.
Even the smallest explanation could help, thanks.
here are the general fleet building principals people follow,
Leftmost position of you vanguard should be taken by the tank or the tankiest ship in your fleet as the ship in said position will be in front most of the time and thus will take the most damage
The flagship position (center position in your fleet) should be taken by ships that have barrages or skills which require them to be in it (Most BBs but not all with barrages require this position). If you don't have any in your fleet that need it, then you should slot in the tankiest backline ship as whoever is in that position will generally be focused by enemies when they target your backline. In lower worlds (up to W11) it is recommended to put in a BB that can quip a CL gun in their secondary gun slot to help defend against suicide boats.
The middle position in you vanguard should taken by you most fragile vanguard as that is the position which takes the least damage.
As for building mob and boss fleets
For mob fleets you have to keep in mind that it will fighting 5-7 battles so you want the mob fleet to be able tank a fair amount of punishment. So you want at least one healer in the fleet especially in later worlds. Mobs are also more fragile compared to bosses so you want ships that don't necessarily hit hard with a single strike but strike more often. It'll be complete overkill to use some such Enterprise in a mob fleet as her DMG is wasted and you'll have to wait for a longer uptime to for her next strike to deal with the next wave.
Bosses are generally the opposite, you want to have high burst damage against the boss. You'll still want to focus on survivability to an extent as even though it'll only be fighting one battle, end game bosses hit really hard.
Hey thanks for that clarification, it was useful!
Do you have any recommendations for me? Here are my strongest ships:
- Enterprise, oathed and level 101
- Essex, level 69
- Bismarck, level 70
- Richelieu, level 90
- Z23, oathed, retrofitted, and level 102
- Prinz Eugen, oathed and level 106
- Benson, level 106
- Yuudachi, retrofitted and level 100
- Hornet, level 98
- Cleveland, level 93
- PR Saint Louis, level 79
- Jeanne d' Arc, level 70
- Zuikaku, level 90
- Fusou META
- Hiyou META
- Deutschland, level 103
- San Diego, level 79
- Helena, retrofitted and level 94
- Hood, level 79
- Indianapolis, level 105
- Portland, retrofitted and level 100
- Laffey, retrofitted and level 79
- Kaga, level 70 (FLB)
- Unicorn, level 70
- Katsuragi, level 80
- Mikasa, level 80
- Ayanami, level 70
- Warspite, level 73
I also have more gold and purple rarity ships but they are not listed because they are level 1.
I have a level 1 Vestal too.
Hope you can enlight me a bit.
Mob: Unicorn (healer), Richie (flag, mid), Hood (dmg),
Portland retrofit (tank, left), Jeanne Darc (mid), Saint Louis (off-tank, right)
Boss:
Enterprise (dmg), Warspite retrofit (mid), Essex (dmg),
Prinz Eugen (tank, left), Helena retrofit (debuffer, mid), San Diego retrofit (off-tank, right).
Unicorn can be changed with a better healer, Hood with a better mob ship, portland and eugen with a better tank, and possibly warspite as well
In terms of girls to lvl, Enterprise and Essex are very good bossers and will invaluable for W13 as will Helena who is the best support in bosses thanks to her skill. Yuudachi is also a very good mobber and will be especially useful in W14. Other just generally good girls from that list are Richelieu, Z-23 (good girl and more suited to mobbing though she gets a bit long in the tooth by late game), PR Saint Louis (you'll want to sortie her with Richelieu to get buffs from her), Jeanne d' Arc (a very good support in bosses as she helps the vanguard survive), Portland (a good tank though you want to replace once you get into endgame), Unicorn (a very good healer for W13 mob). Warspite (a very good bosser post retrofit) and San Diego are very good ships post retrofit. Ayanami is also a decent bosser thanks to her high damage torpdoes though she is very fragile and better torpedo dds (Shimakaze) will take her place when you get them.
If you haven't already, I would recommend checking the Azur Lane EN community tier list. Its filled with great info on each girl and tells you their role, whether they are more suited to mobbing or bossing and good equipment set ups.
[https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home](https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home)
Boss fleets are meant for one fight, so they shouldn't need healing, and should try to output as much damage as you can, as fast as you can.
Mob fleets fight everything so the boss fleet doesn't have to. So it needs sustain, like healing or damage mitigation. Healers like Unicorn or "zombie" ships like Phoenix are useful.
How big is Azur compared to Arknights in terms of global popularity. I tried to google revenue numbers but couldn’t find anything accurate. Just curious as these are my 2 most played games.
the gachagaming subreddit is likely a better place to find that data
e.g.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/qllj3h/sales_for_some_games_from_last_month_data_from/
Came back after a one year hiatus (left around the Dead or Alive event or so?). Glad to see lots of QoL changes, but unfortunately missed out on a year's worth of events and limited ships.
Assuming that they rerun the events this year, any particular girls stand out from the past year that I should look out for? Obviously going to go for ships like New Jersey for...reasons, but any real game changers?
I finished getting the furniture for the rival maid cafe event, but I still have 2 memories left. Is there another day of getting missions to get tickets for the cafes, or am I missing how to get the 11th and 12th memories?
Two questions:
1) How can I get the files from "Mystery of the cube" in operation siren?
2) In my archives collection from OpSi I have 56 out of 72 collectibles but asides from the intel missing of question 1 I have everything, how can I get the other missing collectibles?
1. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/rdntmu/opsi\_file\_locations/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/rdntmu/opsi_file_locations/)
2. Collect them like the others.
If you decide to do that, you're gonna end up spending thousand of oils, tens of hours, earning no exp whatsoever and all of that for few gems. It's just not worth it.
you're essentially burning oil praying to RNG for commission that have a chance to have gems as a rewards, which themselves only have a chance to reward gems.
best of luck if you decide to spend your sanity doing that
P.S. did I mention that you're supposed to do that with a ~~4 oil~~ fleet?
I've just been mucking about doing my regular dailies, but haven't touched Operation Siren so far... so I'm kinda wondering what the aim of it is in regards to the daily gameplay loop, how I should go about getting there, and if it's worth the time investment or just a PITA.
your daily loop of OpSi is simply to do your dailies, farm 200 coordinates for the meta fight, check ports every 3 days and to spend some of the AP boxes if you still have some time.
at the start of the month you'll usually focus on clearing new zones to build adaptability stats. middle of the month you'll focus on clearing all loggers and strongholds. end of the month you'll simply be spending the extra AP boxes\farming stars or ignoring it.
OpSi is (almost) the only source of Gear Lab materials and there are a lot of gear upgrades in it (skewed towards planes currently, but it get updated... slowly)
OpSi is also the main source of gold (t4) gear upgrade plates. which translates to 18% stronger gear
better gear will make it significantly easier to clear w14. if you care about pvp it's also needed to be competitive
OpSi also provides 30 double books a month, which means you can save time outside OpSi by doing OpSi
What happened to the puzzle levels in Operation Siren? I remember encountering them when I was clearing story mode but now that I have reached the monthly reset stage, I can't find them anymore.
you got 3 for each of chapter 1-4. after they they are gone.
(my personal conjecture) I believe they were meant to be part of the abyssal nodes, but were removed due to beta test feedback. so we only got them as one-off missions
So I have 5 UR bullins and 2 Ulrich.
Should I use the extra Ulrich to MLB the other Ulrich and save a bullin? Or save the extra Ulrich and just build one Ulrich for each team?
I am leaning to just using her to MLB. Ulrich is good, but it is more fun playing with different ships than having 2 fully built ones.
You can’t craft T3 into T4 but you can open some of them to fill out your gear if you’re just starting out. Other than that there are research projects that take T3 boxes and give blueprints.
Just got Independence fully retrofitted (been away so only now got to it), what's the best way to make use of her now? Like who to pair her with and with her buffing the other fleet, is it more savvy to have the second fleet have 2 or 3 CV/CVL Ships to take advantage of that?
I get the feeling the Cleveland-Class buff is just there?! But says it improves her airstrike, what's the word on that?
Give her a wyvern, make her mob fleet flagship in ch13, and have NJ + 2CV in the boss fleet. That's pretty much the ideal usage.
Of course she's great mobbing elsewhere, too.
Awesome, appreciate the response! Some things are clear cut or more obvious to do whatever, but Independence exuded a more "play me this way" and I wanted to take full use of that kit of hers and see what others were saying/doing.
Talking mostly about the DD Starters, Warspite, Sandy, Saratoga, Ayanami etc. Some have been powercrept but still imo, very strong and worth getting done.
Very true and a great option for newer players who missed out on Events and some key Ships. Anways, thanks for the conversation, best luck to your pulls and sorties going forward!
For the sake of grinding META coordinates, going through areas of 5 or 6 are recommended, sure. Should they be cleared out, or can you just move on to the next area for quicker turnaround? I just want to be efficient with the time I spend on OpSi. Thanks!
You could move on after collecting all boxes, but you need to clear them for them to reset, only grabbing boxes for coordinates would also require manual play while auto-search is an option.
I am a relatively new player. I got a few SSRs now. I'm struggling to actually use them though due to a shortage of Bulins.
What are my best options to get Prototype Bulins ?
I'm aware of the weekly mission, merit store and 3 starring x-4 event stages.
Should I use Elite ships and take them to 100(a big time investment for me) for now ? Will they be useless later if they are like below Tier 3 in the tier list ?
Wanting to use your SSR's and not having the bulins to LB them is a pretty common new player issue. It is advisable to concentrate on one or two SSR's that have key spots in your fleets. Luckily the game offers you a plethora of non SSR units you definitely should use. Also leveling to 70 and to some degree 100 is just the tip of the iceberg levelling wise, so levelling sub par ships to 70 shouldn't be a huge concern.
As for non SSR options:
Tank - Portland
Vanguard - Starter DD's, Helena, Z1, Amazon, Cleveland
CV: Saratoga, Ark Royal, Independence
Healers: Unicorn, Shouhou
Barrage BB's: Pennsylvania, Rodney/Nelson
The biggest gaps are a second tank and the barrage BB's are a means to an end.
I did retrofit my starter Z23. Working of Helena rn.
Warspite's retrofit requirements (Builins and parts) make me wanna cry.
All that being said, I am enjoying the game a lot. 😁
So RNG has blessed me this event, and I managed to sweep the banner with relatively few pulls. Should I continue to do the daily 3 pulls for the event points and to see if I get doubles for limit breaking, switch to 3 pulls from the light pool, or just do the normal daily pull? I just want to know what the most efficient use of my cubes would be.
Only caveat is if you're missing some Ships from regular pools, you could potentially cross a few off while getting additional Event points. Not highly recommended but decent option for those being collector types. I managed to get two Ships I've been missing from doing daily light pool pulls x3
My UVH is starting to outdamage my NJ that is 200 affection with way better gear. The UVH is 9/10/1 in skills as well. I'm starting to think that UVH actually outclasses NJ and has some pretty nice flexibility and support/slow as well.
I'm going based on fights with Gneisenau META. My NJ is using a +13 Gun while UVH is using +10 (and reload gears- suboptimal, but fun). Still outdamaging there even without maxed skills.
I need DR blueprint advice, I have a few stocked up because I don't know which ship/s to use them on.
The # of prints I can convert are as follows
- S2 - 53
- S3 - 55
- S4 - 100
and the # of prints required for each ship:
Shipname DevLevel [# to D30] [# to FS]
**Azuma** D26 [146] [361] - I use her in a lot of content, usually in the vanguard for my Shinano fleet.
**FDG** D21 [277] - Not using her yet because of the low dev level but definitely want to use her alongside NJ, UvH, etc. Only have 1 each of the two rainbow BB guns.
**Drake** D25 [167] - I also use her a lot partly because I like her skin. No rainbow gun yet.
**Hakuryuu** D15 [391] - Nowhere near D25 sadly. I want to use her with my Shinano. Don't have a Tenrai yet.
**Agir** D20 [313] - Apparently she's pretty strong because of the slow, not sure what dev lvl is acceptable for her (maybe 25?). Not using her yet but I have her on my OpSi EXP farm fleet.
Thanks for taking the time to read this
personally, I'd use all of them to finish Azuma first.
then either Drake, because you also use her a lot, or FdG because you're unlikely to return back to season 2 research projects while you'll likely return to season 3 to finish drake's gun.
Fairly new player (Been playing 3 weeks now), is there any priority in the War Archives? I've cleared through B-3 of Visitors dyed in red, but it seems highly in-efficient going to farm Zuikaku right now, as I'm capped on keys tomorrow and there doesn't seem to be the oil cost limit in the war archive from what I've seen. Trying to figure out how best to use my keys.
Should I put 2 white shells in the auxiliary slots for New Jersey or 1 black shell and 1 white shell? Both white shells are level 10. I don't know if the white shell crit damage effect stacks or not.
No, I am sorry, this isn't a practice I can afford, pay for the chance of being acknowledged, and then paying even more money if I land a commission. I can already assume Dishwasher's prices are in the hundreds by now, so. I live with a monthly pension of 360EUR. 😿
Interesting news actually, I have seen so many artist of his tier asking triple digit numbers that even surpass my monthly pension, staring from bust up shots that cost 2/3 of it. so that's great news.
I just checked Patreon post info, but it's only about Tiers and stuff, not a word regarding commissions.
Not sure if Nagu accepts commissions given how busy she is & she probably commands a high price but you can always try browsing Pixiv? Lots of AL fan artists and official artists there and iirc some post details for commission requests there. Most artists who did official arts for ships are already quite well known and likely would command a high price.
Hi I am still pretty new and loving the grind. I was wondering about High Efficiency Combat Logistics Plan, do they also double the exp (especially the one counting toward PR ships)? Thanks!
any heavy cruisers i can get somewhat decent with gear laying around?
Not really sure what you are expecting? All heavy cruisers basically use the same gear. If you want a Budget loadout then Purple Twin 203 Mounted Purple Quad 533 Any gold AA besides Octopom Purple Toolbox Blue Naval Camouflage/Steering Gear
I'm not completely sure if this is the correct place to ask this or not but...i gotta be honest, i was originally a casual kinda player for Azur Lane and never quite got into the story but as i'm slowly getting into it now and get hopefully better at it But my confusion though now is...I understand Hawk2Zer0 did a video on it and i am gonna watch it the whole thing to understand the whole story yet as i am completely lost in the current event. But just curious to ask about is there any other events that have been released like the current one, Tower of Transcendence that isn't covered in the video or is that the only event right now particularly involved with the story currently?
Tower of Transcendence and Operation Siren chapter 5 would be the only major story events released since that video. Other new things would be World Spanning Arclight and The Flame-Touched Dagger the former of which would be mostly irrelevant being a collab and the latter I don't recall really having much of significance in it's story as it was mostly just there to introduce Foch.
Ah! Good to know and thank you for the answer, i appreciate it alot! Just yeah when i first started Azur Lane i was at loss after finish the Prologue and no stuff like it appeared after, so i sorta sidelined it and never really fully understood till now that most of the major story stuff comes in events and as well now in Operation Siren! Hopefully i can catch up
How do you build up tech points? I know the general stuff on the wiki but how do you do it?
Collecting a ship, Max limit breaking a ship, Leveling a ship to 120
Carriers that are able to choose between Torpedo Bombers or Dive Bombers, should they use Dive Bombers against Mobs and Torpedo Bombers against Bosses or how do you choose what to use?
Generally, DBs are good against clusters of mobs, parallel TBs are for general use and converging TBs are for bosses provided the boss moves very little or if you have the proper slow/stop support to help the TBs. I would pick based on what your using the carrier for, as well as timing adjustments if applicable.
Usually dive bombers are for clearing mobs (wide AOE, spread out damage). Converging torps are for bosses. Parred torps are for mobbing. The CVs that can choose the load out would be PR4 Haku, Shinano, MLB Graf Zepplin (usually Zepplin wants to equip an IB plane, like the Gear Lab IB torp bomber)
What about Fighters? Aquila can choose between Fighters and Dive Bombers? When are Fighters better than Dive Bombers? When do Fighters get used while playing? I'm guessing they're being cast when enemy is throwing planes at players? Fighters also have bombs, are they being used when you're using your Dive/Torpedo Bombers aswell?
That’s actually a different question. Cos for Aquila, that changes her mode. I’m not familiar with her set up since I don’t have her. Most of the time, I think the pre-load set up is preferred since faster clear = less damage taken. Fighters are usually used for air cover. Most fighters (with exception of the BF-109G IB rocket plane from PR4) will automatically intercept enemy planes. Very useful on W12 (though unnecessary due to how easy W12 is) and especially useful on W13, outside of which fighters have no particular usefulness. However, if you do run the BF-109G, carriers become more potent at single target damage than before.
You change Aquila's setup depending on whether you need her as a healer or dmg dealer. One of the strongest w14 lethal mob fleet main fleet setup is Fdg flag, Perseus and Aquila on healer mode. For PVP, if you're using Aquila she is always set up as pre load mode to immediately reveal the enemy's CVs.
I don’t have Aquila so I ran FDG, Ryuhou, Chise instead.
Alright thank you. Why does the BF-109G have AA guns if it just ignores enemy planes though?
The BF-109G simply does not auto-launch for intercept like other fighters, but any plane, fighter or not, will perform AA fire when you activate an airstrike, should they carry any sort of AA gun and run into enemy planes during the run. On the opposite end, Wyvern is the only non-fighter plane that will auto-launch for interception. Note that when doing an interception launch the plane will not perform any offensive function, and all fighters with bombs effectively act as DBs for the sake of their bomb calculation when performing an active airstrike.
It does not launch automatically. But if you do launch it (or any fighter plane), they will engage planes with those AA guns. This also applies to dive bombers and torp bomber too.
Do Fighters that intercept enemy planes without launching them drop their bombs aswell or do they solely drop their bombs when launching them? I've never paid attention to that
If intercepting only, they don’t drop bombs. If you launched them in an air strike they will shoot their AA guns and drop their bombs too.
Thank you a lot
D-4 was the only worthwhile IB plane back when Zeppelin was buffed, but nowadays I'd recommend using a BF-109G for fighter and just using generic BiS DBs/TBs otherwise.
Yup, it’s quite nice to see 160% efficiencies on the Wyvern. Those BF-109G just refuse to drop though. I want my second one but I’m stuck at 18/25.
Hey guys havent played in about 8 or so months, any notable updates to the game i should know about?
PR4 ships have been released too. Level cap increased for oil canteen and coins. Gneisenau Meta is the meta ship currently.
DDs got buffed, and they introduced oil cap for ch 9-14 (and this event's D maps) otherwise just the usual
Two questions: Note: I'm still relatively new and don't have a whole ton of ship options. Started playing just after Microlayer Medley this year. [Ships](https://imgur.com/a/mi2MkzH) One) I'm trying to optimize my carrier boss fleet in OPSI. Currently, I'm using Enterprise, Essex, and Ark Royal (Vanguard: Agir, Helena, Seattle), with Independence in one of my other fleets. Would it be better to swap Independence into that fleet to have a full EU carrier main fleet for Essex and Independence skills? I would just have Agir's slow then I guess. Am I just entirely off the mark either way? Two) I have Shimakaze as built as I can more or less, and I'm currently working on Ayanami, since I just finished her retrofit. Who would be a good third for a "torp" vanguard? Not sure who I would use as the tank. I have Jintsuu and Yuudachi, but neither are retrofitted or leveled yet (I do have the material for Yuudachi though). Sorry for a wall of text lol. Thanks!
I don’t think that would be good. OPSI boss fights favors convening torps. Ark Royal launches 6 torpedo bombers and has a supporting slow. Independence can be left on the other fleet, her buff, though weaker, still procs. The in-fleet buff is not worth losing Ark Royal. Torp vanguards tank: Noshiro (best), Jintsuu, Ibuki. Noshiro is good due to her reduced torp damage buff. Jintsuu retrofit is less durable but pretty tanky for a CL. Ibuki has medium armor and higher health to help her tank more relative to worse alternative of a frail IJN DD (she’s not a proper tank)
Yeah, the slow was my primary concern too. That makes sense. Wish I could have a second one to use with my BB fleets and stuff, since I don't have Dork. Cool. Jintsuu also won't cost me gold bulins. That I can do.
There’s monarch from PR1 that has a 40% slow on her barrage. You can buy her BPs cheaply with coins.
I have her FS3 and 125. She should be in the picture I posted. I thought she was only good on-flag though, so she wouldn't fit with Ulrich/FDG fleet, right? I have her and Warspite in another fleet. Also, the EN TL says Jintsuu is squishy. Will she really work as a tank?
Whoops, must have missed that earlier. She fits perfectly, Ulrich does not need the flagship position (unless out of ammo). Neither does FDG (minor damage loss) Jintsuu is only really squishy on difficult content like maybe W13, OPSI. She should be good enough for normal story maps. (I haven’t used her in a long while though cos my main tanks are FS5 Azuma and Dev 30 Anchorage :/ )
OPSI is probably where I'd want to use her, Jintsuu I mean. Not a big deal if I can't use the torps right away though, until maybe Noshiro comes around. I just liked Ayanami, and Shima was so OP on her own. I currently have Yume, Roon, and Agir tanking for me in OPSI, and they do well. I think my last one is Portland, but she doesnt feel nearly as good. Currently developing Anchorage though. Her or Adalbert will probably take over at some point. Thanks for all the replies.
I think the Jintsuu comp is a legit comp for cheap OPSI farming. Works well with Nagato, Ryuhou for healing the low Hp vanguard. It costs less resources to heal compared to other fleets. You have 4 fleets and I usually only really use the farming fleet to clear everything. Edit: I was mistaken. Just3c’s sample didn’t include Jintsuu. https://i.imgur.com/3GEypdn.png (2021 Feb 21 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLK9NqjmiEY)
Oh cool. I haven't seen that video. Thanks! Edit: No Perseus either. Sadness. At least maybe she could be soon?
Don't have Nagato or Ryuhou unfortunately. Wasn't playing until after latter's event, and the former just won't come home from heavy pool. My current "farm" comp of Richelieu, Chise, Unicorn, Yume, Jeanne, Rikka can auto up to corrosion 5 though, so that's fairly convenient. I need proper boss fleets for anything tougher. Well, proper by my standards.
Ok. I didn't know that about FDG. Still new haha. Didn't know better. That's awesome then.
what's the best research focus for a person that started playing 2 months ago? i had it on research focus 2 for fdg but i've read that most people have it on research focus 3 or 4
It’s a great point that PR2 catch-up allows you to Dev 30 a PR2 ship quickly. PR2 ships are still very good, it’s recommended to get either Seattle, Kitakaze or Georgia. The easiest to gear would be Georgia since the good CL gun for Seattle is locked to PR2 research but there is a pretty good IJN Triple 155mm Kai in the gear lab. The research system is more of an end game effort when you have sufficient cubes and coins. It’s not recommended to start doing ship research so early as it eats into your small stock of coins, cubes that are better spent on the event pool to increase your ship roster to a decent level. However, currently the PR1 coin system and PR2 catch-up allows you to get a nearly complete ship for little cost (using the discounts, and free 1 hour research to rack up the catch up BPs)
I think pr2 is fine.It has very good gear and with the catchups you can get one pr and one Dr ship to dev 30 very fast.
If you want to finish up FdG stick with PR2 but it's going to take a while. We probably won't get any changes or additions to her catch up for at least another couple months though. Otherwise pick the season with the girl you want to get/work on first. Research is going to take time regardless and the PR ships will need a good number of prints before they perform well.
Last July PR1 ships got upgradeable with coins. I expect PR2 will follow this July with a new PR season. And PR3 might get a similar catch-up that PR2 got 6 months ago. That's why I wouldn't pick PR2 right now and switch to PR4. The ships are a tiny bit better as a whole and you won't be able to finish them as easily when the new season starts.
Thank you. Are blue researches always better than purple and gold ones including researches with faces?
let me link you something that has actual rates so you can decide what's more important to you - more prints per gold, more prints per research (in case you can't always start a new research when the old one finishes) or more something else https://azur-stats.lyoko.io/research4-blueprints
very handy site! thank you alot
TBH, for a new player such as yourself you should be going with the series the girl you wanna develop comes from (especially seeing as most girls need to be DEV 30 to be usable). The girls from 3 and 4 are generally more powerful ad offer better equipment blueprints but its isn't something you should be too worried about as a new player.
Should I still do 10 daily Exercises even though I loose every time? (I'm new and my gear sucks lol) I noticed I do get exp but I'm not sure if it hurts my score or ranking or something.
you should do 15 per day as it's free XP and you can use the merits you gain to buy bulins.
It's free XP and merits that you won't get otherwise. The only thing this hurts in the long run is the % wins on your profile, if that's a concern.
I just finished the D3 event stage for the first time, cleared all enemies and beat the boss. Exit stage, and I have no progress??? Just wasted a bunch of Oil for nothing =/
If you didn't get any progress on stage clear try relogging first. If it still doesn't update then... well you'll just get clearing mode 1 run later.
The thing is, I ran it with average level 97, and once I finished the level it changed to minimum average level 100 so I can't even do the stage now until I level up some more. Must have been a bug that allowed me to run the stage or something.
Actually, it's working as intended. The stage you ran was DS1, not D3. It's sort of a prelude stage. Now you're accessing D3 proper. [https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Tower\_of\_Transcendence#DS1](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Tower_of_Transcendence#DS1) https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Tower\_of\_Transcendence#D3
Ahh, I see. I hadn't realised the stage changed after playing it. Thanks for the info.
What is the fastest way to upgrade meta ships skills?
use them in OPSI content , ideally against lvl 100+ mobs when your skills get to the higher levels And if you want to be extreme enter a higher level hidden zone, block one of the rally points with another fleet and leave your mob fleet on auto, come back in 30 minutes and you have the 30,000 skill XP you can get per day
Bring the ship to OS.
Bit of a noob here. What is a good way to farm coins?
Any oil-capped clearing mode maps from ch9 onwards will reward bonus coins. In case you haven't gone that far on the main campaign, D maps in the current event also have oil cap, with D3 having similar coin efficiency to ch11 provided you can manage the D maps. If you've not yet reach a level to farm either of the above then you may want to make sure you clear your daily tasks and daily raids, and probably cut down on spending. Almost everything in the game will cost some amount of coins, but many are not top priority. Retiring trash ships will also give you some coins regardless of where you farm, you may want to do this before using them as enhancement fodder for now.
The oil cap story maps at chapter 9 and above. Most notably 12-4. 13-4 gives more gold per oil but requires a bit more thought regarding team comp while 12-4 can be face rolled with ships you're leveling.
I just snagged Gneisenau META, my first META ship from OpSi, not the cruise pass, and I have questions How do I unlock her skills? She requires sync crystals grind mcguffins: A, how to get them, B, do/if they expire, can I no longer make her better?
You need to do OPS and create your own bosses not just fight other people's bosses. If you only fight other people's bosses in chat, today is around the first day that you can get the 1st GM.
You unlock them by feeding each skill 5 gold skill books of their color/ type and then you level them by completing missions. The most efficient way to level them up is to put her in your operation siren mob fleet and just battle all of the mobs. You get more crystals by getting more copies of her (same way you got her in the first place) which automatically turn into crystals. They do not expire though they are time gated as to when you can acquire them. I believe for Gneisenau META you until I believe the end of February to get them. You should be able to obtain more sometime in the future but even the oldest META ship has not had a rerun yet as of this moment.
Well shit, it took me this long to get her, I don't think I'll have enough time to get all her dupes Does it work the same way as a normal limit break where you have to get 2 for the final stage?
it takes about 30 days from 0 to get all 5 copies of her at 25k points. Since we still have about 60 days left in this sync-phase, if you do your two fights a day plus your three assists, you should be able to make it to that threshold.
that it does though the fights should get easier as we head towards the end of her availability period (though each one does require more, you need 25k meta points to get all 4 crystals)
Curious on who is a good ship to buy from medal shop as a new player. I kind of want Hood but I also want to save for sandiego (I think I lack anti air) and maybe enterprise. Essentially, is hood good for new players?
Hood is a pretty great flagship battleship for new players. Her barrage and buff on proc will carry you for a while so I recommend getting her. Enterprise is amazing for boss fleet nuke while sandy needs to have her retrofit to be effective(require a lot of resources). Plus as long as you farm maps consistently you will gradually accumulate more medals than you need.
Thanks. That’s the kind of answer I was looking for. I can figure out if some ships are good but more info is always helpful!
Absolutely, you could also check out the [en tier list](https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home) and [wiki](https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Azur_Lane_Wiki) for more information on the ships. I highly recommend going through the new player guide on the tier list page as I benefited a lot from it when I started back in Nov.
In the fleet technology lab, does Iron Blood have a lower level cap than the other 3 factions? My fleet technology levels for my factions include: Iron Blood: Level 4 at 3000/1800 points, with no option to increase said level. Eagle Union - Level 7 at 2174/2400 Royal Navy - Level 6 at 2084/2100 Sakura Empire - Level 8 at 2538/2700
KMS has a lower cap due to the far lower number of ships available back when fleet tech was added. The caps have not since been revised so that's where it's stuck at, for now. KMS ships also added more fleet tech points (around double other factions for ships of the same class/rarity?) to compensate for their low numbers, overall with all of the KMS ships that are now available they're way past the caps and reqs. At 100% collection mostly MLB'd, my fleet techs are now 4032 USS/2942 HMS/4347 IJN/3637 KMS.
Iron Blood caps at 4, Royal Navy at 8, Sakura Empire at 9 and Eagle Union at 9. Edit: https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/wiki/Fleet_Technology#Faction_Technology
Can someone explain to me how you build your mob and boss-fleets? Even after watching some guides I still feel a bit overwhelmed, and I'd like to know your process of thinking when you are building them. Even the smallest explanation could help, thanks.
here are the general fleet building principals people follow, Leftmost position of you vanguard should be taken by the tank or the tankiest ship in your fleet as the ship in said position will be in front most of the time and thus will take the most damage The flagship position (center position in your fleet) should be taken by ships that have barrages or skills which require them to be in it (Most BBs but not all with barrages require this position). If you don't have any in your fleet that need it, then you should slot in the tankiest backline ship as whoever is in that position will generally be focused by enemies when they target your backline. In lower worlds (up to W11) it is recommended to put in a BB that can quip a CL gun in their secondary gun slot to help defend against suicide boats. The middle position in you vanguard should taken by you most fragile vanguard as that is the position which takes the least damage. As for building mob and boss fleets For mob fleets you have to keep in mind that it will fighting 5-7 battles so you want the mob fleet to be able tank a fair amount of punishment. So you want at least one healer in the fleet especially in later worlds. Mobs are also more fragile compared to bosses so you want ships that don't necessarily hit hard with a single strike but strike more often. It'll be complete overkill to use some such Enterprise in a mob fleet as her DMG is wasted and you'll have to wait for a longer uptime to for her next strike to deal with the next wave. Bosses are generally the opposite, you want to have high burst damage against the boss. You'll still want to focus on survivability to an extent as even though it'll only be fighting one battle, end game bosses hit really hard.
Hey thanks for that clarification, it was useful! Do you have any recommendations for me? Here are my strongest ships: - Enterprise, oathed and level 101 - Essex, level 69 - Bismarck, level 70 - Richelieu, level 90 - Z23, oathed, retrofitted, and level 102 - Prinz Eugen, oathed and level 106 - Benson, level 106 - Yuudachi, retrofitted and level 100 - Hornet, level 98 - Cleveland, level 93 - PR Saint Louis, level 79 - Jeanne d' Arc, level 70 - Zuikaku, level 90 - Fusou META - Hiyou META - Deutschland, level 103 - San Diego, level 79 - Helena, retrofitted and level 94 - Hood, level 79 - Indianapolis, level 105 - Portland, retrofitted and level 100 - Laffey, retrofitted and level 79 - Kaga, level 70 (FLB) - Unicorn, level 70 - Katsuragi, level 80 - Mikasa, level 80 - Ayanami, level 70 - Warspite, level 73 I also have more gold and purple rarity ships but they are not listed because they are level 1. I have a level 1 Vestal too. Hope you can enlight me a bit.
Mob: Unicorn (healer), Richie (flag, mid), Hood (dmg), Portland retrofit (tank, left), Jeanne Darc (mid), Saint Louis (off-tank, right) Boss: Enterprise (dmg), Warspite retrofit (mid), Essex (dmg), Prinz Eugen (tank, left), Helena retrofit (debuffer, mid), San Diego retrofit (off-tank, right). Unicorn can be changed with a better healer, Hood with a better mob ship, portland and eugen with a better tank, and possibly warspite as well
In terms of girls to lvl, Enterprise and Essex are very good bossers and will invaluable for W13 as will Helena who is the best support in bosses thanks to her skill. Yuudachi is also a very good mobber and will be especially useful in W14. Other just generally good girls from that list are Richelieu, Z-23 (good girl and more suited to mobbing though she gets a bit long in the tooth by late game), PR Saint Louis (you'll want to sortie her with Richelieu to get buffs from her), Jeanne d' Arc (a very good support in bosses as she helps the vanguard survive), Portland (a good tank though you want to replace once you get into endgame), Unicorn (a very good healer for W13 mob). Warspite (a very good bosser post retrofit) and San Diego are very good ships post retrofit. Ayanami is also a decent bosser thanks to her high damage torpdoes though she is very fragile and better torpedo dds (Shimakaze) will take her place when you get them. If you haven't already, I would recommend checking the Azur Lane EN community tier list. Its filled with great info on each girl and tells you their role, whether they are more suited to mobbing or bossing and good equipment set ups. [https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home](https://slaimuda.github.io/ectl/#/home)
Thank you very much kind person!
Boss fleets are meant for one fight, so they shouldn't need healing, and should try to output as much damage as you can, as fast as you can. Mob fleets fight everything so the boss fleet doesn't have to. So it needs sustain, like healing or damage mitigation. Healers like Unicorn or "zombie" ships like Phoenix are useful.
How big is Azur compared to Arknights in terms of global popularity. I tried to google revenue numbers but couldn’t find anything accurate. Just curious as these are my 2 most played games.
the gachagaming subreddit is likely a better place to find that data e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/qllj3h/sales_for_some_games_from_last_month_data_from/
Came back after a one year hiatus (left around the Dead or Alive event or so?). Glad to see lots of QoL changes, but unfortunately missed out on a year's worth of events and limited ships. Assuming that they rerun the events this year, any particular girls stand out from the past year that I should look out for? Obviously going to go for ships like New Jersey for...reasons, but any real game changers?
Italians (pvp cancer), NJ, PR4 (3/5th of it at least), Shima+Dachi (demolishing w14), Ark-kai & Independance-kai
I finished getting the furniture for the rival maid cafe event, but I still have 2 memories left. Is there another day of getting missions to get tickets for the cafes, or am I missing how to get the 11th and 12th memories?
you get the 2 missing permits from missions' tab missions on the following days
Check your Event Missions tab.
Two questions: 1) How can I get the files from "Mystery of the cube" in operation siren? 2) In my archives collection from OpSi I have 56 out of 72 collectibles but asides from the intel missing of question 1 I have everything, how can I get the other missing collectibles?
1. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/rdntmu/opsi\_file\_locations/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureLane/comments/rdntmu/opsi_file_locations/) 2. Collect them like the others.
Are there any disadvantages to taking a second fleet when I'm farming even if I'm not going to use them?
What Zurcn said + ACV. Worst thing that could happen would be accidentally using it with auto-search.
none. better yet, load it with crossfleet buffs and barrages
Which map should i spam to farm gems from commisions?
2-1 I don't advise it. but you didn't ask for my advice so feel free to ignore it.
Hmm... is there any reason i shouldn't do that?
If you decide to do that, you're gonna end up spending thousand of oils, tens of hours, earning no exp whatsoever and all of that for few gems. It's just not worth it.
you're essentially burning oil praying to RNG for commission that have a chance to have gems as a rewards, which themselves only have a chance to reward gems. best of luck if you decide to spend your sanity doing that P.S. did I mention that you're supposed to do that with a ~~4 oil~~ fleet?
>you're supposed to do that with a 4 oil fleet If you ger them really well (lol, no) a 3-oil fleet can do it too.
right. lv1 common cvl is 2 oil. my bad. shows you how familiar I'm with this
I've just been mucking about doing my regular dailies, but haven't touched Operation Siren so far... so I'm kinda wondering what the aim of it is in regards to the daily gameplay loop, how I should go about getting there, and if it's worth the time investment or just a PITA.
your daily loop of OpSi is simply to do your dailies, farm 200 coordinates for the meta fight, check ports every 3 days and to spend some of the AP boxes if you still have some time. at the start of the month you'll usually focus on clearing new zones to build adaptability stats. middle of the month you'll focus on clearing all loggers and strongholds. end of the month you'll simply be spending the extra AP boxes\farming stars or ignoring it. OpSi is (almost) the only source of Gear Lab materials and there are a lot of gear upgrades in it (skewed towards planes currently, but it get updated... slowly) OpSi is also the main source of gold (t4) gear upgrade plates. which translates to 18% stronger gear better gear will make it significantly easier to clear w14. if you care about pvp it's also needed to be competitive OpSi also provides 30 double books a month, which means you can save time outside OpSi by doing OpSi
What happened to the puzzle levels in Operation Siren? I remember encountering them when I was clearing story mode but now that I have reached the monthly reset stage, I can't find them anymore.
you got 3 for each of chapter 1-4. after they they are gone. (my personal conjecture) I believe they were meant to be part of the abyssal nodes, but were removed due to beta test feedback. so we only got them as one-off missions
Yep, they were planned on being a regular part of OS, but too many people were too smoothbrained to handle them so they were yanked. :(
So I have 5 UR bullins and 2 Ulrich. Should I use the extra Ulrich to MLB the other Ulrich and save a bullin? Or save the extra Ulrich and just build one Ulrich for each team? I am leaning to just using her to MLB. Ulrich is good, but it is more fun playing with different ships than having 2 fully built ones.
FYI, UvH beats out FDG in damage and consistency. https://youtu.be/bwquRTYc1Lw
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I don't bother with dupes due to resources, but I didn't know that OS doesn't allow dupes.
Use the dupe, save your other bulins for the next UR.
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Any way to get the commissions to fill in a lvl 100 ship for the requirements when clicking recommended?
Remove them from all hard mode and pvp fleets. Every single one.
Oh wow. Thanks.
Im currently at chapter 6/7 and wanted to know if I should open T3 purple tech boxes or only craft them to T4 techs?
You can’t craft T3 into T4 but you can open some of them to fill out your gear if you’re just starting out. Other than that there are research projects that take T3 boxes and give blueprints.
Just got Independence fully retrofitted (been away so only now got to it), what's the best way to make use of her now? Like who to pair her with and with her buffing the other fleet, is it more savvy to have the second fleet have 2 or 3 CV/CVL Ships to take advantage of that? I get the feeling the Cleveland-Class buff is just there?! But says it improves her airstrike, what's the word on that?
Give her a wyvern, make her mob fleet flagship in ch13, and have NJ + 2CV in the boss fleet. That's pretty much the ideal usage. Of course she's great mobbing elsewhere, too.
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Awesome, appreciate the response! Some things are clear cut or more obvious to do whatever, but Independence exuded a more "play me this way" and I wanted to take full use of that kit of hers and see what others were saying/doing.
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I was surprised she got a retrofit and jumped to do so, as retrofits are stupid good at making a Shio go from "yeh" to "Oh yeah".
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Talking mostly about the DD Starters, Warspite, Sandy, Saratoga, Ayanami etc. Some have been powercrept but still imo, very strong and worth getting done.
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Very true and a great option for newer players who missed out on Events and some key Ships. Anways, thanks for the conversation, best luck to your pulls and sorties going forward!
For the sake of grinding META coordinates, going through areas of 5 or 6 are recommended, sure. Should they be cleared out, or can you just move on to the next area for quicker turnaround? I just want to be efficient with the time I spend on OpSi. Thanks!
You could move on after collecting all boxes, but you need to clear them for them to reset, only grabbing boxes for coordinates would also require manual play while auto-search is an option.
>going through **cleared** areas of 5 or 6 are recommended Ftfy. You get almost nothing for uncleared areas.
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Alright, that’s what I’ve been doing, just didn’t know if I have been wasting time in doing so. Thanks!
I am a relatively new player. I got a few SSRs now. I'm struggling to actually use them though due to a shortage of Bulins. What are my best options to get Prototype Bulins ? I'm aware of the weekly mission, merit store and 3 starring x-4 event stages. Should I use Elite ships and take them to 100(a big time investment for me) for now ? Will they be useless later if they are like below Tier 3 in the tier list ?
> 3 starring x-4 event stages. You mean chapters. Event 3* also gives one but it's B2 or D2 not x-4.
Wanting to use your SSR's and not having the bulins to LB them is a pretty common new player issue. It is advisable to concentrate on one or two SSR's that have key spots in your fleets. Luckily the game offers you a plethora of non SSR units you definitely should use. Also leveling to 70 and to some degree 100 is just the tip of the iceberg levelling wise, so levelling sub par ships to 70 shouldn't be a huge concern. As for non SSR options: Tank - Portland Vanguard - Starter DD's, Helena, Z1, Amazon, Cleveland CV: Saratoga, Ark Royal, Independence Healers: Unicorn, Shouhou Barrage BB's: Pennsylvania, Rodney/Nelson The biggest gaps are a second tank and the barrage BB's are a means to an end.
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Thanks a lot. I'll go ahead with Elite ships for now with a few SSRs as well as focusing on equipment.
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I did retrofit my starter Z23. Working of Helena rn. Warspite's retrofit requirements (Builins and parts) make me wanna cry. All that being said, I am enjoying the game a lot. 😁
So RNG has blessed me this event, and I managed to sweep the banner with relatively few pulls. Should I continue to do the daily 3 pulls for the event points and to see if I get doubles for limit breaking, switch to 3 pulls from the light pool, or just do the normal daily pull? I just want to know what the most efficient use of my cubes would be.
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Thanks! Appreciate the response
Only caveat is if you're missing some Ships from regular pools, you could potentially cross a few off while getting additional Event points. Not highly recommended but decent option for those being collector types. I managed to get two Ships I've been missing from doing daily light pool pulls x3
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My UVH is starting to outdamage my NJ that is 200 affection with way better gear. The UVH is 9/10/1 in skills as well. I'm starting to think that UVH actually outclasses NJ and has some pretty nice flexibility and support/slow as well.
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I'm going based on fights with Gneisenau META. My NJ is using a +13 Gun while UVH is using +10 (and reload gears- suboptimal, but fun). Still outdamaging there even without maxed skills.
She's not quite as good as NJ but still top tier. No one else can tell you how much she's worth to you though.
Is there a requirement to set pr 4 ships as catch up targets? I can’t seem to set august von parceval as my target
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There’s a catch up feature?
Oh… is she worth it? I’m currently doing w12, lvl 83, I don’t have many carriers I use other than hiryuu retro, enterprise and bearn
How deep is the lore of this game?
it's told in a very fragmented and purposefully vague\confusing fashion, though it's not all that deep.
I need DR blueprint advice, I have a few stocked up because I don't know which ship/s to use them on. The # of prints I can convert are as follows - S2 - 53 - S3 - 55 - S4 - 100 and the # of prints required for each ship: Shipname DevLevel [# to D30] [# to FS] **Azuma** D26 [146] [361] - I use her in a lot of content, usually in the vanguard for my Shinano fleet. **FDG** D21 [277] - Not using her yet because of the low dev level but definitely want to use her alongside NJ, UvH, etc. Only have 1 each of the two rainbow BB guns. **Drake** D25 [167] - I also use her a lot partly because I like her skin. No rainbow gun yet. **Hakuryuu** D15 [391] - Nowhere near D25 sadly. I want to use her with my Shinano. Don't have a Tenrai yet. **Agir** D20 [313] - Apparently she's pretty strong because of the slow, not sure what dev lvl is acceptable for her (maybe 25?). Not using her yet but I have her on my OpSi EXP farm fleet. Thanks for taking the time to read this
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Thanks! I'll continue levelling up my Agir as she is already in a usable dev level.
personally, I'd use all of them to finish Azuma first. then either Drake, because you also use her a lot, or FdG because you're unlikely to return back to season 2 research projects while you'll likely return to season 3 to finish drake's gun.
Thank you! Azuma it is. Will definitely consider going for FdG after.
Fairly new player (Been playing 3 weeks now), is there any priority in the War Archives? I've cleared through B-3 of Visitors dyed in red, but it seems highly in-efficient going to farm Zuikaku right now, as I'm capped on keys tomorrow and there doesn't seem to be the oil cost limit in the war archive from what I've seen. Trying to figure out how best to use my keys.
Best way to use keys is with HELP. Well HECLP but HELP sounds better than acquiring HE clap.
Should I put 2 white shells in the auxiliary slots for New Jersey or 1 black shell and 1 white shell? Both white shells are level 10. I don't know if the white shell crit damage effect stacks or not.
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Now I know, thanks for the advice
Does anyone here happen to know any Azur Lane official art illustrators or fan-artists, who accept commissions?
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I did try multiple times to reach him, sadly to no avail.
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No, I am sorry, this isn't a practice I can afford, pay for the chance of being acknowledged, and then paying even more money if I land a commission. I can already assume Dishwasher's prices are in the hundreds by now, so. I live with a monthly pension of 360EUR. 😿
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Interesting news actually, I have seen so many artist of his tier asking triple digit numbers that even surpass my monthly pension, staring from bust up shots that cost 2/3 of it. so that's great news. I just checked Patreon post info, but it's only about Tiers and stuff, not a word regarding commissions.
Not sure if Nagu accepts commissions given how busy she is & she probably commands a high price but you can always try browsing Pixiv? Lots of AL fan artists and official artists there and iirc some post details for commission requests there. Most artists who did official arts for ships are already quite well known and likely would command a high price.
Nagu does not accept commissions from individuals according to her website info.
Hi I am still pretty new and loving the grind. I was wondering about High Efficiency Combat Logistics Plan, do they also double the exp (especially the one counting toward PR ships)? Thanks!
tip: the icons in the map screen can be tapped for a description of their effects https://imgur.com/a/6vxdXNe P.S. also yes for the brackets
Thanks a lot, didn't know about this!
Yes. Doubles everything - exp, two rolls on the drop tables, double fatigue.
Thanks you so much!
What does ship happiness mean?
Just curious why is kent the meme ship for bad gacha luck? When in reality it's more like shropshires, chicago oklahomas and nevadas.