Tower Megatread

Five posts in a row. Nice.

First of all, a thing that should help everyone who is going to plan for this:

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Fire is veeeery heavy in B frame debuffs, and veeeery low in everything else. And the good stuff is basically all locked behind specific SSR Hime.

Now then, for my grand plan. As always, don't do what I do. Make your own plans.

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I simply don't see myself having the Grid or the Hime to complete this Tower. I don't know if I'll even succeed in turtling 16F, if I'm right, I'll take 750 damage/t and heal for 660 HP/t. And this is if I am able to keep Culyune at 100% uptime, which means bursting every 5 turns. Well, Fire Mammon is there to help, but that still sounds like a stretch.

I'd also "love" to turtle 17F/18F/19F, since I don't think I am completing those without. But 17F first and second waves seem like they'd be a stretch to turtle, 18F and 19F both have DoTs.

I might revisit my plans for 17-19F once I'm done with 16F, but for now... nope. I don't see it happening.

question, if i give up during a floor if the last wave boss has a tiny sliver of hp remaining so that i can kill it with a on element team can i actually do that or will it reset completly? i am at floor 17 at kyuki and she has a tiny sliver of hp remaining lol i kinda want to kill her with my last few fire himes that i have left.

She does not reset her life. You can always give up the battle and come in with the correct element to clear for full floor reward.


Dejnov.

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Originally Posted by Dejnov

She does not reset her life. You can always give up the battle and come in with the correct element to clear for full floor reward.


Dejnov.

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thanks mate will do just that might not get the turn clear bonus but atleast 950 more medals and floor 17 cleared feels like a good accomplisment for me

Thanks Slashey for taking the time to double/treble/quadruple/quintuple post. The Wind Tower view you provided was extremely useful to me. Not that I did a good job this time, but it may have been worse without.

The journey up to 15th floor was pretty uneventful. I should have put some more effort into assigning my himes, though - I had I think Culyune with Ithaqua and someone else who basically all bounced off giving the exact same buff to the team. 15th floor I took off-element first - reason being, if I failed within a small margin of the top, I could then claim complete with an all-R fire team using Solomon. Unfortunately, without thinking, I selected my Thunder team (my usual strongest element) and then suddenly realised that's the absolute worst choice for wind. And then, cleared it flawlessly in about 12 turns. The gap between my team's power levels may have grown some in the last few months.

Which should make clear exactly how bad my Fire team is, that it took another 3 runs to get a fire run completed. First team got halfway through 3rd stage, 2nd run I thought I could just walk it, and it turned out I couldn't (probably could have if I'd played it smarter - just regular attacks until rage, then use all abilities and full burst before ougi, instead of throw everything at it on start, then realise it was going to take several rounds of attack, only now she's raging). Weirdly I now have a good collection of fire SSR himes (I had none at the start of the year, I'm up to 6 now and my draw-luck-drought is over), but after having no reason to build the team up for years, the lack of slv30 weaponry or a decent main eidolon is telling.

16 and 17 both took two teams. In retrospect, I may have been better off launching each floor from 15 onwards off-element here; I might have climbed higher or at least completed in fewer turns. Still, 17th floor completed puts me in the top 300, for significant improvement in rewards I'd really have needed to be top 150 or even 50, and that was never going to happen for Fire.

Next tower is in August, according to the Event Encyclopedia, which is Thunder. Unless I pick up some significantly better Wind himes by then, it'll be just as bad as the wind tower for me so maybe I'll take my own advice then. At least Thunder will be a viable alt team for that one! I may post my mostly-SR assault strategy for that if Slashey does. Worth it to give him something to laugh about at the very least. :bgrin:

Congrats to everybody who got past floor 15. I remember when that was an impossible mission for me. I'd probably have made a full clear if it had been only 15 floors / 16 keys this time (if I had used my fire "A" team instead of saving good fire himes for floor 16+) dropping only some tens of points for not clearing fast enough, which is a nice indication of progress. Pity there's so little to actually think about now though beyond these events. It's a long, grinding path onwards and I still don't have my S-level soul. Back to the raids, I suppose.

This tower was a huge mess for me cause of that stupid maint :(

So, the second Wind Tower has ended. For future reference, here are the winners:

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01. Rori Juice                15800 [62k,110e,344H] (Isekai)
01. Xellosp                15800 [63k,120e,311H] (=Akatsuki=)
01. nonsensei                15800 [63k,  GE,302H] (Drama Club)
01. Char Aznable        15800 [65k,160e,274H] (Lalka Doll)
05. SwampyKong                15790 [69k,160e,339H] (Terminus)
06. Ken                        15780 [68k,105e,370H] (談笑颩甡學習俓驗 (Talking and laughing))
06. VERYVOODOO                15780 [69k,  GE,299H] (Ixion)
06. Geidt                15780 [77k,160e,339H] (Drama Club)
09. SiegeDragon                15770 [71k,100e,323H] (Isekai)
10. Loma                15760 [72k,160e,299H] (Weeb Wanks)
11. Arphael                15750 [65k,120e,282H] (Khaos)
11. Simple                15750 [64k,150e,329H] (Nakama)
11. Arrow                15750 [77k,100e,325H] (Gacha)
14. SamZ                15730 [70k,  GE,291H] (=Akatsuki=)
14. Ke3jackson                15730 [60k,140e,294H] (Susurrus)
16. Umarekawatta Senshi        15710 [70k,  GE,300H] (Isekai)
17. Erox Ikaruga        15710 [73k,  GE,314H] (Perfection)
18. Yotsuba Ophis        15700 [71k,110e,333H] (Khaos)
19. MrGareBear                15680 [61k,  GE,277H] (Khaos)
19. dreamlitz                15680 [68k,  GE,315H] (Nonsense)
[e means Elemental, c Character Atk, GE for Guardian.] For reference:
22. Slashley                15590 [58k,100e,309H] (Kingdom AR)

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Good work, everyone.

Personally? Just really glad to have cleared all missions. I had to turtle three entire floors for it, but hey, did it. Turns out Culyune is OP as fuck when it comes to turtling. So anyway, at most 21 people got 15.6k points, which I find interesting due to that huge dip between rank 19 and my 22.

Alright, we should be getting Thunder Tower in a few days. Like, four or something.

First of all, a thing that should help everyone who is going to plan for this:

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https://i.imgur.com/bq2m9ud.png

Wind has fairly good access to most stuff, with the exceptions being Cleanse(/Prevention) and damage cuts which are locked behind specific SSRs.

Notice that this time around, this is mostly just taken from English wiki page. If there are mistakes such as missing Hime or wrong values, I blame them. On a side note, Aken's spreadsheet has been private for quite some time now. Not sure why.


Now then, for my grand plan. As always, don't do what I do. Make your own plans.

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https://i.imgur.com/70ElM53.png

Ha ha I have made such effort this time! I can't even be bothered to name what Hime I'll use on most floors now! This thing won't help people without Wind Medea all that much, now will it?

And two notes to self:
1. This run is mostly a Medea test, as I am specifically running Medea on all (non-turtle) floors. Shingen/Yori might be stronger for many floors, but I am doing this to specifically test Medea.
2. No, Ascle-Azazel won't actually be duo-turtling two floors. I need other Hime to complete Missions. But it really doesn't matter who I bring, so there wasn't any point in naming them. I'll have a look at which Hime are available when I get there.
Overall, as long as I complete all missions, I'll be happy. So will probably land around rank 20-30.

Can I get advice on the best ways to spend the tower rewards? Is it best to get as many special soul points as possible since this is the only way to get them?

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Can I get advice on the best ways to spend the tower rewards? Is it best to get as many special soul points as possible since this is the only way to get them?

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No. Try to get the 10k points (or conserve them till you can get to 10k in future events), to get the weapon limit break stuff* (holy steel argentum). You can get spec soul points in dawnbreak/crucible battles when they return and you can swap raid points for it as far as I remember.

* this is the only normal way to limit break the better SSR hime weapons