Thread: Challenge of the Holy Warrior Event

got her maxed after ...what ? 2 days since her event started ? without using sc's either....on 2 different accounts. She's not that hard to max. Still don't really like her that much

Originally Posted by JSmith12

Maribel is an odd one when it comes to heavy armors. Generally they excel in health and defense and attack less so, yet Maribel while still excelling in health, lacks in defense and makes up for it in attack. It is also true that in terms of skill activation higher rarity units are always quicker and Maribel is good in that respect.

It comes down to preference I think to some degree. I personally want a heavy armor that takes hits though having one deal them out is good in some situations. Again to reiterate, Maribel is a good choice when she is fully maxed out and awakened. You can even have her skill be under-powered because it always doubles attack and defense.

The key thing that is preventing me from fawning over her (which I would in other situations) is that she is difficult to get a hold of. Last I checked, drop rates for any event farming are rather atrocious. I have been trying to farm for mages in the last event for nearly its entirety and I only got two, and that was for two weeks where this is for one only.

TLDR: Maribel is a good choice of unit. However she would be difficult for some players to max out and that would take time. Early players should rather focus on other units for either defense or attack and have Maribel be a long time project until she is usable.

Maribel shines most when ranged spots are at a premium, so it's not so easy to back up Bernice/Gellius with ranged damage dealers and still have a healer. Both of those (and Deine obviously, but that's a given) outclass her in doing the HA's job but those two have crappy damage output and thus it's useful to have a blocker who can hit hard. That said, she still needs her skill to do that as well, and if you're saving it for Aura'd wolves or something, her Attack is decent without it but you're better off using an AW samurai instead if you have one. Maribel is for those moments where you need decent damage output without backup while having the survivability to tank a few heavy hitters (ones that will overwhelm healers trying to keep up samurai or advance guards)

This event has pretty standard drop rates AFAIK (50% on last map) so it's not particularly hard to min-cost, 4/5 her (use rainbows for last skill level). 60 Cha/6 Sta isn't as bad as some event maps have been and the maps are rofl-easy unless you're fairly new so farming can begin from day 1 and last through Day 14. Even without SC use (some item farm events come to mind as essentially REQUIRING SC use to max the event unit) it's not unreasonable to think those who want a min-cost, 3/5 or better Maribel by event end will have it (barring downright terrible luck)

farm events are 1 week events. Star events last 2 weeks

Originally Posted by lolix

got her maxed after ...what ? 2 days since her event started ? without using sc's either....on 2 different accounts. She's not that hard to max. Still don't really like her that much

wat? how did you manage that kind of sorcery? >_<

Personally I'm having subpar luck with unit drop, even having spent a few crystals already. Though my CR/SU luck is as strange as usual - my first 3 combines so far got me to 4/5 skill and -1 cost. It never really seems to work the other way around for me.

Edit: Meanwhile on my alt...constant stamina waste, no sc used -> same number of drops. First 3 combines nets 3 CR and 3 SU . . . mmk

Sometimes, i do want HA to kill things, or at least deal some damage while soldier generates UP for rest of the team, and goblins dont need that much of defense but latter ones which can be tankable thx to her awesome multiplier. ( keep repeating myself <_< )

Not having much luck on her. Only got 2 drops of her + the guarantee drop on clearing Map 4 for the first time.

I swear you cannot get a Skill Level and a Cost Reduction with the same unit combination (sans the first one). I got her reduced all the way down to the limit, but her skill was always stuck at 2/5. Then all of a sudden she starts taking levels and I get to 4/5 after a day or so. Crazy RNG being all troll like.

so many posts comparing leeanne and maribel wut.

maribel has AW, leeanne doesnt. that alone pretty much gives maribel > leeanne. doesnt hurt to have 2 blockers as well. max hp is also a thing that factors in regarding a tank's usefulness. a 3k def tank is useless if he only has 1k hp; a barrage of 10% dmg can kill him because healers didnt heal on time.

anyway, been farming maribel nonstop since her revival began. no SCs used, but only managed 7 copies aside from the guaranteed one on map 4, which gave me only cr2 3/5. hopefully i can mincost before event ends, but it does kind of look grim ;/

Originally Posted by Samyy

^i didnt understand what you are trying to say in that last statement(u were arguing leanne>maribel(non skill up)if you forgot~)... :v define "almost every other situation" where leanne /any tank outshines mari.
leanne will surely survive anything with 3 healers.so ? is that what you advice people to do ?

Sigh... let me make this clear for you:

1) Maribel is an upgrade to those who only have Leanne, Bernard and/or Garret.

2) "Almost every other situation" had "the others" before it, referring to the other HAs: Bernice, Gellius and Deine. those 3 are simply better blockers in almost every situation you do want 4 blocks.

3) Where did you get "Leanne will surely survive anything with 3 healers"? She's a freaking SILVER! NOBODY is going to expect her to tank "anything" heal support or not.

4) Without skill, Leanne is comparable in durability to Maribel until Maribel hits high AW'd levels.
Hard Numbers for you:
Level 50 pre-CC, 50 affection:
Maribel: HP 1725, Defense 241
Leanne: HP 1545, Defense 356

CCMax, Max Affection
Maribel: HP 2329, Defense 367
Leanne: HP 1931, Defense 507

AW-Max Maribel: HP 3267, Defense 455

Defense Numbers assuming skill use (Leanne Max skill, Maribel's numbers don't change, only duration)
Pre-CC:
Maribel 482 vs. Leanne 569.6
CC:
Maribel 734 vs. Leanne 811.2
MAXED
Maribel 910 vs. Leanne 811.2

Maribel only catches up in Defense DURING SKILL WHILE AW'd. HOWEVER, due to her large HP advantage, and the fact she kills stuff faster, plus faster skill timer and longer duration, her durability becomes superior at late CC levels without REQUIRING AW to be superior in durability.

The entire discussion arises from the fact she needs skill to be clearly superior in durability to a unit two rarity tiers lower than her (though with skill she is about 100 defense under Deine with her AW buff included but with about 600 less HP; cheaper though). We're not saying Leanne is a godly tank because she simply isn't. She IS a good tank for her cost and rarity. Clear?

i'm here just farming slivers since i got her maxed since the original event (2 somas so far...)