Thread: Challenge of the Holy Warrior Event

Originally Posted by JSmith12

Now Maribel is on par with the max level awakened black units, but is it worth it? In the long run of course but considering the difficulty in maxing her level, skill, affection, and awakening,(and just getting her) it will be a long ways off. For the sheer sake of ease, Leanne is still a better unit to focus on in the short term as she is far easier to max in all areas.

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion as well. I was excited about a possible replacement for my Leeanne but went eh in the end. Only thing Maribel has over Leeanne is that Maribel have more hp than Leeanne. I'm guessing i'll just grab maribel and slowly max her out over time. For those niche situations I guess. And Hentai.

Finally, guide time. Not like anybody needs a guide for such an easy event...

Good timeofaday, brave Princes! It is that time of the week again, and it is actually a Revival time! Yes, again, devs didn't stop on the first one like with Domination and Gold Rush, didn't even stop for a break, as unbelievable it is, and so we plunge straight ahead to our second revival!
So let's relive the Holy Warrior's Challenge!

Revival runs: 2016-11-15 to 2016-10-22

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Rewards
This is a Unit Farm event.

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(Re)Introducing the Mujahideen* Holy Warrior Maribel, the original wielder of the Holy Awakening, with all good (double attack and defense for duration!) and bad (mediocre stats out of skill) it brings. For ones only having silvers (or worse yet, Garrett XD) on Heavy Infantry front, she's definitely a nice addition. And while Bernice trounces her survivability-vise, Maribel's damage in skill is second only to Deine, and sometimes there is a need for a tank that can not only take damage, but dish out their own. (and no Samurai or Mage Armor to fulfill that)
Awakening gives her an ability to randomly take no damage from enemy's attacks, and Skill Awakening ups her skill to 2.5x multiplier for 70 seconds, but makes it one-shot.
Oh, and since she is from the beginning of events, she benefits from having her cost inflated by less. Only 4 CR to go, compared to modern event unit's 5!)

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* Googe Translate. Don't ask. :P

Noted enemies:

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│ Name      │ Attack type │  HP   │ Atk  │ Def  │ MR │ AS  │ Notes               │ 
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│ Pink HA   │ Physical    │  1600 │  450 │  200 │  0 │ 150 │ Map 2 /             │
│ BallTrower│ Ranged      │  2200 │  450 │  200 │  0 │ 150 │ Map 4 | splash AoE  │
│           │             │  2400 │  450 │  200 │  0 │ 150 │ Map 5 \             │
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│ Blue      │ Physical    │  5600 │  650 │  400 │  0 │  75 │ Map 2               │
│ Heavy     │ Melee       │  7700 │  770 │  400 │  0 │  75 │ Map 4               │
│ Armor     │             │ 19200 │ 1092 │  400 │  0 │  75 │ Map 5               │
├───────────┼───�  �─────────┼──────�  ��┼──────┼──────┼─  ───┼─────┼──────�  �──────────────┤
│ Ghost     │ Physical    │  1200 │  400 │ 2000 │  0 │  70 │ Map 3 (attacks all  │
│ Armor     │ "Melee"     │  1440 │  400 │ 2000 │  0 │  70 │ Map 5 (whom touches │
└───────────┴───�  �─────────┴──────�  ��┴──────┴──────┴─  ───┴─────┴──────�  �──────────────┘

Stat correction: 0.9 for first maps, 0.8 for second, 1.0 for third, 1.1 for forth, 1.2 for fifth.

Maps

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First Battle

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│ Charisma │ 20 ║ Experience │  150 ║ Initial UP │ 10 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────�  �────────────┼───�  ��──╫────────────┼  ────╫───────────�  �┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  2 ║ Gold @ 3*  │  750 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 22 │
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Gimmick: -
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Iron Ball & Armor

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│ Charisma │ 25 ║ Experience │  300 ║ Initial UP │ 10 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────�  �────────────┼───�  ��──╫────────────┼  ────╫───────────�  �┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  2 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1125 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 40 │
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Gimmick: -
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Spirit Armor

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│ Charisma │ 30 ║ Experience │  350 ║ Initial UP │ 15 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────�  �────────────┼───�  ��──╫────────────┼  ────╫───────────�  �┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  3 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1500 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 66 │
└──────────┴────�  �────────────┴───�  ��──╨────────────┴  ────╨───────────�  �┴────┘

Gimmick: Ghost Armors can wander through ranged spots
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Lines of Armor

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│ Charisma │ 35 ║ Experience │  400 ║ Initial UP │ 20 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────�  �────────────┼───�  ��──╫────────────┼  ────╫───────────�  �┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  3 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1875 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 45 │
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Gimmick: -
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Lines of Armor 2

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│ Charisma │ 60 ║ Experience │  500 ║ Initial UP │ 20 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────�  �────────────┼───�  ��──╫────────────┼  ────╫───────────�  �┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  6 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 4500 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 95 │
└──────────┴────�  �────────────┴───�  ��──╨────────────┴  ────╨───────────�  �┴────┘

Gimmick: Ghost Armors can wander through ranged spots
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Comments about the event

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Seeing as it is a revival of an rather ancient event, maps should pose no real problem for any developed army, not to mention Awakened one Newer Princes should prepare for Heavy Armors (so bring magic and / or bandits to the fray) and be mindful of wandering Ghost Armors.
There are some silvers to choose from:

• Soldier (Crave) (map 1);
• Rogue (Cecily) (map 2);
• Mage (Valerie) (map 3):
• Archer (Soma) (map 3);
• Witch (Calliope) (map 4);
• Heavy Infantry (Leeanne) (map 5)

Unfortunately, mage+archer's map don't drop Maribel.

New Characters Arriving

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Claire and Misha. Sweet merciful Aigis above, MISHA AND CLAIRE! We are finally getting em (some of the) skipped units!!!

Apprentice Knight Misha

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│ HP  │ 1236 ║ Range │ Melee       │
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│ Atk │  493 ║ Block │  1          │
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│ Def │  277 ║ Cost  │  8          │
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│ MR  │  10  ║       │ (CC stats)  │
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Skill: Heal I: Instant; Recover 30% HP; WT: 20; CT: 20
* Our little miss "best non-shrineplat valkyrie" is finally with us!
** Picture is from the later update to silvers that raises theit level cap from CC50 to CC55.

Steel Archer Claire

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│ HP  │ 1467 ║ Range │ 260         │
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│ Atk │  485 ║ Block │  0          │
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│ Def │  174 ║ Cost  │  11         │
├─────┼──────╫──�  �────┼───────────�  ��─┤
│ MR  │  00  ║       │ (AW stats)  │
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Skill: Increase Attack III: 35s; attack 1.8x; AS: 62; WT: 16.7; CT: 25
Awakened Ability: Rapid Fire: 10% chance to fire 3 arrows.
Skill Awakening (NI): Full Auto: 18s; attack 0.9x; raises attack speed but arrow speed same; attacks 3 targets at same time; AS: 27; WT: 23.3; CT: 35
* Our little miss "one of the best gold rarity units", "near-platinum-level Archer" is finally with us!

New Classes Being Introduced

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None

All Hail to the Revivals!

ЗЫ. Links:

• MWAWiki (EN)
• Seesaa (JP)
• GCWiki (JP)
• WikiWiki (JP)

bad drop rate as usual, 3 stars last map after 2nd try( a soldier was killed in first time 1st =>2 star) and still only 1 Maribel

Originally Posted by Samyy

please tank iron golem with leanne..k thanks

Last I heard, the golems are only getting tanked by VERY specific units and are better off being killed by range with tokens to slow them down unless you have said units ready to roll. Maribel might qualify, but that's one of those niche situations Ericridge mentioned near the end of his post. In most situations, Leanne is better at the HA's job until Maribel gets to high AW levels.

Here, maribel could perform even better than bernice thx to her higher skill multiplier. Like i said on my other post, maribel here is better than leeanne too because:

Leeanne's skill has 30 seconds initial, while
Maribel's skill has 12.5, consider maxing Maribel's skill/cost is way easier and cheap than leeanne but thats another matter. I used leeanne on bernices spot but sucked because after lions came her skill still had like 10 seconds to be activated, i couldnt placed her earlier either because of other units. (sophie solved all my problems at next try )

What im trying to say is most moderate-hard maps have few situations where heavy def needed, i mean you dont need to block bosses 7/24, they just come at mid and at the end of the stage and i think Maribel's 25 sec cooldown is not so bad like leeanne's and 40 sec uptime is even better for that.

Lets say a boss need to tanked longer than 40 seconds where maribel becomes useless, i think Leeanne becomes so too as well. I mean Leeannes skill has even lower uptime which can led her to misery even earlier than maribel.

Also, Maribel is again better for early rushes due to her higher atk than leeanne, cuz she can kill the stuff thx to her high attack and when big guys come she'll already be ready thx to her low initial. I'll just try to get her maxed even while having max aff sophie and leenne, dunno what to do with bernard tho, probably maribel aw fodder

The thing about Maribel is she isn't a typical HA so it's tricky comparing her to the others. Outside of Garret (and Deine but she's a Black anyways) the rest have a clear, heavy focus on defense while due to her stats and skill she's something of a bulky dps instead. As far as tanking goes, the fact that Maribel is often compared to Leanne, a Silver, instead of Gellius (a plat like her) or even Bernice (gold) says a lot about her full-time tanking ability. Also keeping in mind she'd have to tank an extra enemy if she AWs hurts her in comparisons to Leanne as well.

TLDR: If you have Bernice, Gellius or Deine and a bulky dps like Shizuka, Cornelia or Elva (there are other bulky dps, of course, these are just examples) then you don't really need to worry about getting a good Maribel. If your only tank is Leanne, or you have no bulky dps, she's a solid fill-in for those roles if you have no other options. Be careful if you AW her though.

Alt is min-cost, 4/5
Main is -3, 5/5
Both are opposite guess i'll get 2 perfect maribels till event ends.

Nice event revival !
Thanks for the tips about maxing Meribel... if she's not so tough in defense compared to Bernice, I don't see the point of maxing her... for DPS there are better options

Only reason compared to Bernice is if ranged deployment slots are at a premium, it's nice if your blocker can kill stuff solo. Not sure if Bernice is capable of tanking golems with skill up, need some numbers on them, I believe Maribel can with max skill and high AW level (though with 4 blocks, doing so with either is risky, given the golems' apparently massive attack stat it seems you wouldn't want other enemies smacking your blocker as well while healers are trying to heal up from that massive hit).

Just mincosted Maribel and normally I'd feel pretty good about that, especially since I don't have another HA besides Leeanne. Then I see this talk about her having low stats for a platinum and that her skill is basically her saving grace, and now I'm all kinds of grumpy since that's only at 2/5. Sigh, at least her final map is easy as heck.