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Sep. 19th, 2014 09:21 amWO blather- So I'm down to 17 characters I need to recruit in gauntlet mode and 57 X-weapons left to get. One trick I learned that was huge was the utility of procurement. I usually loathe wasting a slot on something not geared towards offense/defense, when I first saw it, I was all, "Why would I need to double item drops?" For one thing, it basically doubles the effect of EXP fever, since the mooks are dropping two EXP scrolls instead of one. So you get a crapload of experience and consequently, growth points. So I'm using all that to get the remaining characters who hadn't reached 100 yet to 100. Then at the very least I can get the 2 extra item slots and worry about promoting later.
But yeah, its a godsend in gauntlet mode, since its doubling all the drops. This is especially useful for trying to get the materials for someone's X-weapon, because you need two of the item they specifically drop. But since if you do manage to get them them to drop it, they drop two of them, that requirement is taken care of.
So yeah, since I didn't think blast was doing that much on top of frenzy/windslay/tri-element/wrath, I had a free slot to throw procurement in. Man am I glad I did that. So between that and being able to farm for tri-element and windslay on the mirror versions of Mt Nitou and Xuchang, I'm feeling good about getting everyone their X-weapons and being able to put the good stuff on them.
Both those boards are relatively short, straightforward and easy, even on chaos. Xuchang is probably 7-8 minutes at most. Mt. Nitou is slightly more annoying, because you have to wait for Cao Cao to reach Pang Tong, and then go through the whole process of him revealing himself being as Kyubi's tail in disguise and tricking Zhang Fei, Wei Yan, Benkei, Guan Suo and Bao Sanniang into attacking you. So it usually goes 10 minutes since you have to sit through all of that conversation.
I also learned the usefulness of fleet mail. It increases speed, but at the cost of attack. I'm normally not too keen on those items that sacrifice one stat for the sake of the other, since all stats are useful. The thing is, my Xu Chu is at lvl 100, 5 promotions. So his attack with all the increases is already at 999. Equipping fleet mail only knocks it down to the 940s, which is still by far past all the characters in the game, but his speed is like in the 300s now, meaning he flies through the battlefield, way faster than even red hare.
But yeah, its a godsend in gauntlet mode, since its doubling all the drops. This is especially useful for trying to get the materials for someone's X-weapon, because you need two of the item they specifically drop. But since if you do manage to get them them to drop it, they drop two of them, that requirement is taken care of.
So yeah, since I didn't think blast was doing that much on top of frenzy/windslay/tri-element/wrath, I had a free slot to throw procurement in. Man am I glad I did that. So between that and being able to farm for tri-element and windslay on the mirror versions of Mt Nitou and Xuchang, I'm feeling good about getting everyone their X-weapons and being able to put the good stuff on them.
Both those boards are relatively short, straightforward and easy, even on chaos. Xuchang is probably 7-8 minutes at most. Mt. Nitou is slightly more annoying, because you have to wait for Cao Cao to reach Pang Tong, and then go through the whole process of him revealing himself being as Kyubi's tail in disguise and tricking Zhang Fei, Wei Yan, Benkei, Guan Suo and Bao Sanniang into attacking you. So it usually goes 10 minutes since you have to sit through all of that conversation.
I also learned the usefulness of fleet mail. It increases speed, but at the cost of attack. I'm normally not too keen on those items that sacrifice one stat for the sake of the other, since all stats are useful. The thing is, my Xu Chu is at lvl 100, 5 promotions. So his attack with all the increases is already at 999. Equipping fleet mail only knocks it down to the 940s, which is still by far past all the characters in the game, but his speed is like in the 300s now, meaning he flies through the battlefield, way faster than even red hare.
