Originally Posted by Drip

More or less, yes.
Or, map clearing vs raidboss slaughter, since Nerine has an AOE special while Sakura has a single target special, not to mention the bonus atk and bonus damage.

They're really both terrific assets, even when they're not bloomed yet, so if you can't pick because of their skills, I'd suggest to pick the one who ranks highest on your scale-of-waifu.

Please explain what these raidboss slaughter are. Everytime I see a girl with that x% damage against raidboss I just think "Pfff! What a shame this unit only have one useful ability."

What's the point of these x% atk to raid bosses?

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On a different note, I still don't understand how that swan race works. I bet on the girls, after checking the results the game says I won and tell me to check my giftbox. I check and there's no rewards. Am I missing something?

Actually rewards from the races are given just after race result, even if you don't check the results. If you use the collect 20 items button, there is a great chance to get the reward without notice it. Check the collected gift history. Race reward should appears.

Originally Posted by maotd

Actually rewards from the races are given just after race result, even if you don't check the results. If you use the collect 20 items button, there is a great chance to get the reward without notice it. Check the collected gift history. Race reward should appears.

The problem with the past swanboat races was, that they rewarded currency, yet the exchange store for the event closed at the end of the event. For other events, the store occasionally stays open, but that didn't happen for the swanboat races we had so far. And, if you ask me, it's precisely the swanboat races where the event shop should stay open for a few more days after the event ended. For the other events, it's not an issue, since people have more freedom to manage themselves when they get the event currency, and can (SHOULD!) simply use it as soon as they obtain enough to get whatever they desire.
The swanboat races on the other hand, have a one hour window to spend the last currency that people aquire, which is very frustrating if you have to sleep during that time, or happen to be at work.

Originally Posted by PSthebest

Please explain what these raidboss slaughter are. Everytime I see a girl with that x% damage against raidboss I just think "Pfff! What a shame this unit only have one useful ability."

What's the point of these x% atk to raid bosses?

Some of the events we get are referred to as "Raid Boss events"; simply put the event currency and other rewards are earned by summoning special Raid Boss monsters and/or assisting to kill other summoned Raid Bosses. The most recent one we had was back in October. These Raid Bosses are massively tough and hit pretty hard and each team of girls is limited to 5 rounds of combat before a draw is declared and combat either continues with the next team, or combat ends if there are no more teams. Because you can only fight these bosses with your Raid Points, you really need to maximize your contribution and ideally not have to spend multiple points to ensure that the boss will be defeated before it flees at the end of its 2-hour window.

That's where x% damage against Raid Bosses comes in handy and it makes a tremendous difference. Otherwise it also works on the raid bosses that occasionally pop up after missions, but it's generally overkill there.

Originally Posted by Taon

Some of the events we get are referred to as "Raid Boss events"; simply put the event currency and other rewards are earned by summoning special Raid Boss monsters and/or assisting to kill other summoned Raid Bosses. The most recent one we had was back in. These Raid Bosses are massively tough and hit pretty hard and each team of girls is limited to 5 rounds of combat before a draw is declared and combat either continues with the next team, or combat ends if there are no more teams. Because you can only fight these bosses with your Raid Points, you really need to maximize your contribution and ideally not have to spend multiple points to ensure that the boss will be defeated before it flees at the end of its 2-hour window.

That's where x% damage against Raid Bosses comes in handy and it makes a tremendous difference. Otherwise it also works on the raid bosses that occasionally pop up after missions, but it's generally overkill there.

Oh thank you for reminding me, I actually forgot about the Raid Boss Events. But I never had problems with those. In fact, my only concern was to attack the boss before the players nuked it and I get the message "The Raid Boss has already been defeated."
I actually didn't even use a full squad on these events to help me fight the bosses more often. I never looked foward for a girl with raid boss % atk increase and I'd rather have an ability that's helpful all the time instead of in a specific event.

most raid boss events, especially in phase 2, get those very meaty bosses with 10+mill hp. those generally do need nuking, otherwise you risk them getting away. just fyi

Originally Posted by Unregistered

most raid boss events, especially in phase 2, get those very meaty bosses with 10+mill hp. those generally do need nuking, otherwise you risk them getting away. just fyi

Last time we had a raid boss event, it wasn't too bad. Several players managed to deal 6-7 Mil damage on weak attacks, and we didn't have Bloomed form yet at that time. I figure Nutaku noticed the same, and considering we do have Bloomed form now, it wouldn't surprise me if they slightly re-balanced things on the next raidboss event. We'll just have to keep an eye on how that turns out.

Originally Posted by Drip

Last time we had a raid boss event, it wasn't too bad. Several players managed to deal 6-7 Mil damage on weak attacks, and we didn't have Bloomed form yet at that time. I figure Nutaku noticed the same, and considering we do have Bloomed form now, it wouldn't surprise me if they slightly re-balanced things on the next raidboss event. We'll just have to keep an eye on how that turns out.

The raidbosses were the same strength as they were on dmm, its just that over time you should expect the bosses to get stronger is all. At the time we had the last one, 12 blooms were supposed to be out. We just have some strong whales here because of the deals. I would still expect raid bosses to still get more difficult for people to kill as time goes on and we slip further behind on the number of blooms we are supposed to have.

Although, whales will always be able to take them down. It's just if you are not a whale, you might have a little bit of trouble if your whale friends get spread too thin. I like to ensure I just have a good list of actives so I don't have to rely on whales, although I myself am bit of one, and thus why I purge my list so often of people who miss a day or two.

Right in saying bet at least 50 on everything today?