I don't lose a single girl to the deck battles and start each ship battle with a solar blast, yet failure is still possible. My teams aren't that imbalanced. Being doable doesn't mean it's not harder than it was designed to be.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't lose a single girl to the deck battles and start each ship battle with a solar blast, yet failure is still possible. My teams aren't that imbalanced. Being doable doesn't mean it's not harder than it was designed to be.

Oh, no question that there is a significant jump in difficulty from 5-5 to 6-5. In fact, while I haven't failed 6-5 yet, I've been farming 5-5 this evening since the reward difference is only 20 medals and I don't have to pay attention at all while earning a mix of manyus for my new girls.

What sort of power are you guys going into 6-5 with? I go into it with a red ship and 1.1 - 1.2 mill TP depending on helper and I have yet to come close to losing a map, the deck battles have come close to my first squad being wiped out a few times on that chance mob (down to 1 girl standing) but the ship is always 30%+ at the end. In fact the case where I almost lost the girls my ship was still 50% at the end.

Originally Posted by Zandel

What sort of power are you guys going into 6-5 with? I go into it with a red ship and 1.1 - 1.2 mill TP depending on helper and I have yet to come close to losing a map, the deck battles have come close to my first squad being wiped out a few times on that chance mob (down to 1 girl standing) but the ship is always 30%+ at the end. In fact the case where I almost lost the girls my ship was still 50% at the end.

1.01 mil TP here, and I lost my first squad against the deck-boss once (not a single special triggered on the second round of the battle, and it's a trigger-team!) and the whaleship against the ancient pest once (again, not a single skill trigger except 1 Grand Slash at the start of the map when the boss was about to run anyway, while the boss got several critical hits).
Generally, I finished the map with 30%-60% health left on the whale ship. Haven't tried the map again with Fritillaria's new earrings yet, but I don't expect major differences, just the deck-boss might be slightly easier.

Originally Posted by Zandel

What sort of power are you guys going into 6-5 with? I go into it with a red ship and 1.1 - 1.2 mill TP depending on helper and I have yet to come close to losing a map, the deck battles have come close to my first squad being wiped out a few times on that chance mob (down to 1 girl standing) but the ship is always 30%+ at the end. In fact the case where I almost lost the girls my ship was still 50% at the end.

My red ship base is 1.096M, helpers add anywhere from 70-100k. I've never lost my first squad, but it's been close a couple of times (way to hold that line Alpinia!). Like you, I've not had the whaleship fall below 30%.

I can only grind 6-4

I got lucky w/ RNG for 6-5 - sometimes, the Whale doesn't like to do special moves all the damn time LOL

If you can't farm 6-5, do 5-5 instead of 6-4

Originally Posted by maotd

If you can't farm 6-5, do 5-5 instead of 6-4

Exactly, if you don't have a good success rate on 6-5, stick with 5-5, you loose only 21 medals but you get them.

And to add to the discussion:

980k for my Slice team, with a good helper between 94-97k, I loose about 25% of 6-5.

So yeah, back to farming some gold coins to level up the girls, these last 2 weeks took a heavy toll on my stash.


edit: screw that, I'm gonna stick to 5-5 to get some Flowering Hearts. I don't have enough 2nd affection girls.