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[Azur Lane] Access Mode: GRIDMAN UNIVERSE Rerun!
Ianator
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Azur Lane is a mobile shoot-em-up featuring shipgirl versions of a variety of WWII warships. Destroyers, cruisers, battleships, carriers and more are at your disposal as you relive historic battles and fight back against the evil abyssal Sirens.
In addition, Azur Lane: Crosswave is a shipgirl action game now available for PS4 and Steam.
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News and Event Information can be found on the Azur Lane EN Wiki at https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Azur_Lane_Wiki.
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Quick-and-Oily Tips and Advice:
- DO NOT REROLL. Your account name is unique and cannot be reused and your first few free rolls won't matter too much in the long run.
- Waifu Meta! You can make plenty of viable builds without event-exclusive super rare ships. Portland and Leander are retrofits which give great value for how early you can get them. Everyone in the Starter Squad is worth investing in.
- Do your dailies! You have six Daily Raids (twelve on Sundays), three daily Hardmode Story sorties and numerous Daily and Weekly Missions to complete which will give you a healthy supply of stuff.
- Daily reset is at 12:00 midnight, Mountain Standard Time (11:00pm PST, 2:00am EST). Shops and Exercises restock at midnight, noon and 6:00pm. Night Commissions go live at 8:00pm and expire at 3:00am
BIND YOUR ACCOUNT!
- To bind your game: Log in and go to Options > Account. Select the services you wish to associate with your account to link your accounts. (It is recommended you link multiple services.)
- To recover your account: At the title screen, tap whichever icon on the left corresponds to the service your account is bound to. The game will pull your account info and you can log in. (Please double-check that you are also logging in to the correct game server!)
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"Important" videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJBk9hmjOQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0majDKJPay4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI573hRAdDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVWEb-At8yc
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A small warning: Azur Lane's artwork is often very raunchy if not (mildly) explicitly NSFW. Please keep artwork within links rather than embedding with tags, even behind spoilers, and don't be a creep when discussing characters and their outfits.
Twitch | Blizzard: Ianator#1479 | 3DS: Ianator - 1779 2336 5317 | FFXIV: Iana Ateliere (NA Sarg)
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Current fleet is;
Laffey (DD)
Juno (DD)
Northhampton (CA)
Long Island (CVL)
Repulse (BC)
I shall hang on to my various resources for awhile I suspect. At least until I know what's what.
Don't wait to open your purple and gold equipment boxes. There's no reason and you can use the stuff right away when it's most helpful (I waited too long). I'd also recommend doing all of the daily battles you can each day (they're under Fight>Daily). I waited on those and just ended up missing out on some stuff. You can also start training skills now (in the academy). I'd recommend getting the skills of the ships you use to 5 for the moment. It doesn't take much to get there (and you'll be getting skill books from the dailies and from normal battles), and then you can figure out later which skills to go further on.
I'll also point out, since it wasn't obvious to me, that the Bulin ships are for limit breaking other ships. I wouldn't use them for combat. The purple Bulin can be used on anything Elite and below, and the gold Bulins are for Super Rare ships. I'd save the purple Bulins for actual Rares or Elites, though you'll get a lot from doing the daily and weekly missions. As far as when to limit break, if you're planning on grinding battles pretty frequently, I'd wait to limit break until they're at their level limit, but otherwise I'd limit break as soon as you can because they get a pretty big bump in strength. I personally haven't run into oil issues, but I don't spend hours grinding either. My main 2 fully limit broken fleets use about 60 oil per battle.
Upgrade and open equipment boxes once they are purple boxes. Eventually you will need 10 purple Sakura boxes and 5 gold Sakura boxes for the quest to unlock Akashi(start by tapping her in the gem shop a bunch) and once you get enough Twin 150mm TbtsK and Twin 203mm SKC34 from Iron Blood boxes you might want to start saving those for when magnetic torpedoes come out.
I had gotten that Universal Bulin and didn't know what she was, then I checked the comments on her and the top one was, "It's a loli that upgrades other lolis." Which was actually more insightful then you'd think.
Also, don't be afraid of the Exercises (basically automated combat against other player fleets). Initially you'll probably hit a wall where the ships you're up against are stronger than you, but you still get a half reward if you lose, your ships will get xp either way, and you'll often find people who gutted their fleets without remembering about exercises, so you'll always be able to find easy matches. My fleet has both lines over 8,000 at this point, and I'll still see fleets ranked higher than me that are like 3k or under consisting of 2 or 3 ships.
On the Sandy server, it's currently Warspite for another day. I just checked and I have 79 medals. Is she worth grabbing?
She has good stats but her skill only shines in PVP. You can earn 80 medals in 2 weeks pretty easily if you want whoever is next in the exchange.
I might wait, then. There are some others I don't have yet that I'd prefer.
I also am right at 20k merit. I can get either South Dakota or Eldridge. Any thoughts on those two?
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but it's no one but me. Join it if you want. Whatevs
Twitch | Blizzard: Ianator#1479 | 3DS: Ianator - 1779 2336 5317 | FFXIV: Iana Ateliere (NA Sarg)
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Once Washington is out with Fallen Wings things may shuffle a bit though.
I've basically been using the following two charts for my PVP
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Pick a person with a lower number and beat them up.
It's worked pretty well for me. I'm currently ranked in the mid 7,000's. Those numbers can be deceiving, though. I've had my 8000 strength fleet wiped by a 3000 fleet with only 2 ships, more than once.
The level of the girls plays a pretty big role it turns out.
I haven't gotten too deep in to PvP yet, but I've had a few nail biters. If you run out the clock it counts as a victory, which is pretty cool.
Outside of PvP I've been working on getting a number of ships up to par. I'm still fairly new so I haven't unlocked all the Fleets yet, though I'm about to get my third.
Question, what is the best way to deal with duplicates? I'd have figured using them for Enhancement fodder would've been the best use, but honestly it barely changes anything. I suspect straight up Retiring them is best?
Retiring them is only really useful if you get medals from it, so common aren't worth it. I think keeping up on enhancement would be good because I've got some of my ships around level 80 that I've neglected that can gain 40+ points in stats from enhancement. It will tell you in their bars what their current and max stats are, so don't waste enhancing on ships that are currently maxed. I think leveling them increases the max.
What I've been doing is keeping duplicates of ships I plan to limit break (2 each of common ones, more if needed for more rare ships) so I have them when needed, but that takes up a lot of dock space. I've increased it several times to where I have 190 max ships, but before I had a number of ships hit 70 (where I don't need to keep duplicates anymore) I was still constantly running into storage issues.
Extra blues above that are good medal fodder. Whites are basically used for enhancements.
If you're running out of space, I think it's better to sacrifice the purple bulins than your other purples you need as you get 1 extra medal.
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Also, formatting the info lists in the OP is not going like I want it to.
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...I'm low on fuel since I'm trying to progress on the normal maps.
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Tweet explaining some new mechanics. https://azurlane.koumakan.jp/Events/Fallen_Wings_Rerun. The events wiki page is currently based on the CN/JP version so some stuff like enemy levels and the exchange gachas rewards will be different in EN servers.
Twitch | Blizzard: Ianator#1479 | 3DS: Ianator - 1779 2336 5317 | FFXIV: Iana Ateliere (NA Sarg)
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Which is pretty sweet.
If you cleared A3 at least once on day 1, cleared B3 at least once on day 2, do the daily missions and clear the 6 normal maps once per day then you will get enough pulls in the exchange gachas to sweep phases 1-3 and do 449/1500 pulls in phase 4. Since all the ships, equipment, and furniture are in phases 1-3 then you don't have to grind past that unless you want more swings at the phase 4 loot pinata.
Twitch | Blizzard: Ianator#1479 | 3DS: Ianator - 1779 2336 5317 | FFXIV: Iana Ateliere (NA Sarg)
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Switch: US 1651-2551-4335 JP 6310-4664-2624
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Twitch | Blizzard: Ianator#1479 | 3DS: Ianator - 1779 2336 5317 | FFXIV: Iana Ateliere (NA Sarg)
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Twitch | Blizzard: Ianator#1479 | 3DS: Ianator - 1779 2336 5317 | FFXIV: Iana Ateliere (NA Sarg)
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Yeah, that might be it. Even if I control it and avoid 85% of them, I still take a hell of a beating. I use a vanguard in the high 70's for mob clearing. Even the large fleets on that stage barely scratch them.