Thread: [Event 14] Crucible of Combat vs The Demon Pride Union Event

Originally Posted by Raene

From a team-work perspective, if you're working together with your union to defeat bosses: I would say that HP is nice, but really unneeded. Perhaps if you're a union with alot of Solo-players, but that's not really the structure of this event.

This event allows deaths really leniently- you simply die, and join another raid! No downsides. Also due to the fact we want to QUICKLY down bosses, if your guild is active enough you can simply Glass-Cannon into a raid, deal say, 20% of the boss's HP, and let another 4 union members do the same thing after you die. Each spending only 3-5 turns attacking, and then leaving for another raid to do the same.
Of course, working in teams is alot more efficient, 1 person can apply debuffs while the others deal DPS, but that's another topic entirely. Also this approach uses alot of Seeds/BP, which after the -50% cost and the previous event, alot of our members have more seeds than they could possibly ever use. (I have 600+ seeds, for example.)

Basically it depends on your union: If you have strong and active members who can mop up High- Level Demons, just go glass cannon buffs.
If you've only got 1-2 players trying to slug through an extended fight and can't afford to die- Then maybe spend some into HP - See also: You should've joined an active union! (Too late now though)

I have noticed alot of debuffs are bouncing off of the Demon bosses ineffectively, and Dizzy/Charm effects are EXTREMELY useful in general if you can get them to stick.
I would say pump everything into attack, double rate, triple rate and burst.
You can take some out of double/triple/burst and feed extras into HP if you feel the need for it.

Boss has 0 debuffs that they cast on the player, so "Chance to resist Ailments" is 100% useless, definitely never spend anything for that.

It'd vary amongst union definitely.

I choose HP 2nd cause it's the closest thing we have to defense. I dunno about yours but our Ultimate can deal around 4~5k per hit and over 10k if buffed. Extending our lifeline to get in hits is important, even if we can delay her overdrive with the ridiculousness that she goes between rage and stun these fights, her regular hits will pick us off and heals are in no way enough since they're fixed. We can't exactly glass cannon when we can't survive til our cannon is ready, that being a full burst.

Regardless, the union I'm in isn't going to have any problems with completing event and we're up to the 50~60's already with some already done with their 3 mil.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

Regardless, the union I'm in isn't going to have any problems with completing event and we're up to the 50's already with several already done with their 3 mil.

That's sort of ominous since those who've already done their 3mil PP (especially those just spamming Lilims on auto) might take a break for the rest of the event, leaving others to do the thankless heavy lifting of grinding Ultimates for the rest of the week. If you're counting on people to pitch in when they're no longer getting personal rewards, then you have a much more optimistic view of human nature than I. Expect participation to decline significantly over the course of the week as the novelty of the event wears off.

Originally Posted by sanahtlig

That's sort of ominous since those who've already done their 3mil PP (especially those just spamming Lilims on auto) might take a break for the rest of the event, leaving others to do the heavy, thankless grinding of defeating Ultimates for the rest of the week.

That's a possibility, though I think that can apply to pretty much anyone at this point. Since not everyone is in a hurry to get the new soul p currency and there are no event eidolon/weapons, some people will most likely just mooch off their union for the rewards.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

That's a possibility, though I think that can apply to pretty much anyone at this point. Since not everyone is in a hurry to get the new soul p currency and there are no event eidolon/weapons, some people will most likely just mooch off their union for the rewards.

Honestly I don't even know if the new souls are even useful at all. Their skillsets seem... Mediocre. Lvl Up Bonus is pretty trash (defense and Afflication RST) and no 3rd ability.
They'll probably end up being Jewel and Harem fodder, like most R quality hime's

Originally Posted by Raene

Honestly I don't even know if the new souls are even useful at all. Their skillsets seem... Mediocre. Lvl Up Bonus is pretty trash (defense and Afflication RST) and no 3rd ability.
They'll probably end up being Jewel and Harem fodder, like most R quality hime's

Their mastery bonus is enough for me. Morgan's tree gives defense and Shingen's gives hp. Oh and the fact I've been long done with all the current souls.

Shingen (like, actual Shingen instead of the two earlier in the line) should be fun for glass cannon burst shenanigans though, if you have the kamihime available to make it work.

Shame that the game system so far just doesn't exactly encourage Morgan le Faye's 'buff the hell out of one kamihime to carry the team' style. Still, I give props to the designers for coming up with different ideas.

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Originally Posted by sanahtlig

That's sort of ominous since those who've already done their 3mil PP (especially those just spamming Lilims on auto) might take a break for the rest of the event, leaving others to do the thankless heavy lifting of grinding Ultimates for the rest of the week. If you're counting on people to pitch in when they're no longer getting personal rewards, then you have a much more optimistic view of human nature than I. Expect participation to decline significantly over the course of the week as the novelty of the event wears off.

I can't speak for others, but as someone who's near 3m pp already I plan on farming the whole event because it's easy weapon exp fodder. I have several SSRs and SRs I still need to max.

What would be the best course of action with an inactive union/union leader..... Not getting any buffs and pretty much not able to solo far enough without buffs. I think I'm kind of screwed at this point in this event concidering I was away for a few days and didn't have time to switch to an actually active Union Don't want to waste to many resources if I won't get much out of it anyway. Rather save up for a raid event or something that gives SSR's

Originally Posted by Raene

Honestly I don't even know if the new souls are even useful at all. Their skillsets seem... Mediocre. Lvl Up Bonus is pretty trash (defense and Afflication RST) and no 3rd ability.
They'll probably end up being Jewel and Harem fodder, like most R quality hime's

Union events are not that often. It takes a long time to get enough points for the legend one. They are really good

They new souls give a permanent buff to your main heroine. That's reason enough to collect them.

Man, after all the buffs, I thought I can beat Ultimate solo... I was wrong... I had to expend 3 Elixirs as most of my Union mates are offline atm... and that was only lvl 1... Currently have 26k Attack...