Thread: [Event 48] Advent Battle vs Illuyanka

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

Do what you can. Go as high difficulty as possible, but where you can clear it. This is the general rule for advent events.

For your future reference, below contains advice for general content (non event) and 2 other events.

First, raid events, possibly the easiest one for you... if you have enough seeds on hand (recommended 200+). Jump into any public raid, get a couple of hits in and grab the rewards. Even when you hit once, you'll still get the full rewards (outside of MVP and sub-MVP). The only thing to watch out for is... don't be a dick and enter ragna raids with 19/20 ppl and still more than half HP, or something similar.

Union events are... well I hope you find a good union, that is all that makes the difference in your getting all the rewards in the event (plus a good ranking, therefore more rewards). Well, that and your individual PP, but that improves as your setup improves. The only thing you need to optimise is really measuring the AP to grail ratio. Currently it's more worth to solo Standard Lilims, and more worth to assist Expert Lilims. Always join a Lilim raid hosted by your union member.

Annnnnnd general. Rule of thumb for farming elemental materials is go ultimate. The lowest drop rate of gold chests (tier 3+ materials) in there is 2, compared to a whopping 0 in expert. Due to the possibility of getting cucked by RNG, my recommendation is run the level that guarantees you get stuff at least.

Accessories are straightforward. Farm the highest tier you can manage.

Raid disasters/ catastrophes are an interesting case. My recommendation for levels below ragnarok at the moment is to solo standard before farming expert, considering the platinum chests they drop don't differ by a lot. Then, touch ragnarok when you're able to do at least a decent amount of damage before dying (being able to stay alive while the boss is below 75% HP is a good starting point), and at this point solo is probably out of question until you get a better setup. As for joining these raids, ragna obviously gives you the best stuff, but stick to the rules of not being a dick. ESPECIALLY for water ragna. If you wanna know why, check out the elemental catastrophia info dump thread... or you can ask for an explanation here.

Thanks for the tips.

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

Currently it's more worth to solo Standard Lilims, and more worth to assist Expert Lilims. Always join a Lilim raid hosted by your union member.

Cobble, it depends on what context you are speaking. "In General" as you said this advice is, then Starting and clearing your own expert is usually better than Standard Lilim (The last Union Raid was the only exception that I remember where farming standard actually had a possibility of returning more grails). In this users case, as a newer player, he should farm the Lilim that he can clear himself, which will most likely be the Standard one for now. As soon as he's able to clear the Expert one, then he should. From there it's just testing each difficulty as each union event starts to see which one produces more Grails. Typically it will be the Expert.

Originally Posted by ARCHON

So I'm kinda a noob at this and I've got to ask, whats the best way to farm certain mats?. Like, I can only do Expert difficulty and am now basically rich in the shells but I want to farm scales so I can purchase the Soul Points. Should I just continue with Expert or is it better to go back to advanced?

I can agree with Cobblemaniac, but i want to add something. Higher difficulties have much better loot/stamina ratio so there is no reason to farm lower difficulties (just do quests /jewels for first kills). As you can farm only experts, not ulties - you can't get everything, so you must set your priorities.
1) eydolon is garbage, Tiamat is much better. It's only a pile of orbs for future shop, not more.
2) get assault sr sword - it's very cheap and effective.
3) get 20 HE - if you will spend this HE on even experts, you will have much more mats
4) forget about jewels - you may spend leftovers there, but 3k jevels are expencive
5) you must try to get MLB hammer, but it's very hard. Gun is cheap, but not realy good. If you can get at least LB1 hammer - do it.
6) soul points - spend only leftovers t1-t2 mats there, you will be limited in t3 mats on experts.

did they increase the drop rate of those rainbow chests?

I already have all souls available in the game, and almost everything from this event (not interested in more than one hammer). Is it worth to exchange for more soul points? What is the purpose to keep getting more soul points at this point of the game when there is nothing more to unlock?

Not all players are veterans; there are beginning players all the time. And, on the long future, there will be use to the Soul points to enhance the Souls, but I don't have much info on that.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I already have all souls available in the game, and almost everything from this event (not interested in more than one hammer). Is it worth to exchange for more soul points? What is the purpose to keep getting more soul points at this point of the game when there is nothing more to unlock?

Future stuff. I think comes with 2nd anniversary, you will be able to use them to acquire MP(Master Point) which are used for unlocking new EXes for each soul & you will also be able to distribute them to give each soul new passives with each soul having their specific passive trees. You don't exactly have to go out of your way to farm SPs coz you won't be using them all, but make sure to exchange the leftovers.
On a side note, MP can also be gained with exp, but requires a shit ton of exp.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I already have all souls available in the game, and almost everything from this event (not interested in more than one hammer). Is it worth to exchange for more soul points? What is the purpose to keep getting more soul points at this point of the game when there is nothing more to unlock?

Once you have nothing else to buy, might as well buy the Soul Points.

Is it worth farming for, once you have all the Souls? I doubt it.

I decided to take someone else's lead and threw light at it myself...



My grid is also here if anyone wants to see it:
https://i.imgur.com/OYUNOTx.jpg

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I already have all souls available in the game, and almost everything from this event (not interested in more than one hammer). Is it worth to exchange for more soul points? What is the purpose to keep getting more soul points at this point of the game when there is nothing more to unlock?

I doubt you'll need soul points as they haven't tossed new souls on the DMM side for who knows how long (it's dead like the storyline)....

So, that's more for newer players to catch up really... i'd honestly get the SSR gun before the Soul points cause I don't need soul points while there might be a chance to use the gun later on if they start FLB-ing the advent weapons.... in order of priority, everything else is worth more than the soul points if you don't need any soul points

sure that gun is stuck being HP and DA for a while (if not forever) but it honestly would get used sooner than the soul points and that's saying something...

Originally Posted by MagicSpice

I doubt you'll need soul points as they haven't tossed new souls on the DMM side for who knows how long (it's dead like the storyline)....

So, that's more for newer players to catch up really...

Again speaking uninformed, SPs are needed on dmm not because of new souls but because of new EX skills and passives, you need SPs to buy MPs, dont refer to future content if you arent fully aware of it.