Originally Posted by
lolix
first of all , congratz. That's a very impressive lineup. Deine , despara , elizabeth , sherry ? Yes pls. That being said , this is going to be a detalied response , so prepare for a wall of text.
Now , to answer your questions :
1. I'll go by importance order (in my opinion ofc) :
Imelia is a great duelist to have and while you have a very impressive ranged line up , your duelist squad is kinda slim , considering you have just sherry , claudia and condrad.
Edit : forgot kerry. Still , not a really high impact duelist either.
EDIT 2 : didn't noticed that Imelia is just at cr 3 >>>> why was i under the impression she was at 1 cr ? Regardless , she's not max cr , but generally event units break even in cost at 2 cr. She still have the stats so this becomes your choice. SHe would be harder to field , but once on field , she is sitll a ball of stats. But if you feel that cc-ing is not worth on a non max cr duelist , you might put that on hold
Sherry is a good general duelist , but the other 2 are a bit more specialized , and generally more usefull vs liches or mages (or dragons i guess) , or very high armor/resistances because of claudia's true damage/condrad's very high damage (even tho he loses defense)
You can never go wrong with leveling another duelist. As charles (was it charles or lafate?) said a while back , you can never have enough duelists. I kinda agree.
Waltz. dancers are good units ,and seeing the only other we have right now is premium , and the other event dancer (that we haven't gotten yet - hana - but she's an entirely different beast so , i'd go with waltz right now) , aren't really viable options , i'd level waltz. Oh , also , the greatest abusers of dancer buffs are units that can hit either with aoe or with multiple hits. Lucky for you , you got elizabeth (which already has dps compared to nanaly ). Place waltz near her , and see things die. I would also get waltz leveled as soon as possible.
Yuyu is a personal favorite of mine , and she is a really good witch to have , seeing as she's an elf (increase attack speed and attack damage ) and she's also a gold. She would benefit greatly from sherry's passive for example (she already has dps comparable to belinda which is a plat. I think she might be higher actually) , but luckly for you , you got despara , she's not a priority right now. She might be usefull in the future tho.
Also , i would level another soldier (probably julien) because we're going to need 2 soldiers in the future aparently (i've yet to have a map that required me to deploy 2 soldiers , but dmm veterans do advise to have 2 gold+ anyway)
Also , i would raise another iris (if you have no problem with raising duplicates). Fedora is quite a bit worse then iris untill her SAW. And having just 1 fedora , 1 iris and 1 alissa , seems a bit weak. Ofc , there are others that dislikes duplicates and would advise cr/su-ing main iris. Cheap to deploy healers is not a general bad idea either , so that;s up to you , but i'd go with second iris.
2. First of all , i dunno why do u have sooo much archers. I personally see very little point on cc-ing and raising something like Shao , if i'd have spica,bashira and elizabeth , and the black archer whose name i can't remember for some reason. Spica and bashira are the golden sntadard. Getting elizabeth is great. Getting 2 more archers after them is a bit pointless , seeing that we will rarely have maps that will require (or have the slots at that) for 4 archers and 1 VH.
Now to answer , your base question , yes i would keep leveling the cc-ed/AW-ed units , untill 40 or 50 then only use armors with triple fairies. That's the most efficient way to level up without wasting gold.
3. Rachel gains 15 range. Pretty meh IMO. Claudia gets a bit more damage vs dragons (1.3 instead 1.2) which is so situational that i wouldn't even bother. Barbi and cyrus aw's are rather meh as well. They will get better after SAW tho. Fedora's AW is meh as well. As i said , cheaper healers are good , but to awaken an unit for 1 cr....not sure if gusta.
Now let's talk what i would awaken :
a. Imelia - she will buff both herself and condrad , and she is a very good general duelist
b. Deine. SHe becomes more expensive but gets even more base defense , which works great with bernice's passive. You want an imortal tank ? this is it. Only better alternative being gellius , but that guy can just take a beating. Deine can also dish out.
c. Despara - she gains attack speed , which might not seem much , but at the amount of damage she naturally does , she becomes a pretty damn high dpser after AW. + she gets a god damn panther.
4. Not a priority. You won't really really need min costed silvers that often. Maybe an ocasional soldier or caliopee , but those are not must have priorities. I actually kinda like khuri and shes a great silver , but with yoyr ranged prowess , i dunno if you really need her. especially since archers are pretty damn cheap to place , and even if cost would be somewhat of a problem , i'd rather place a max cost elizabeth then a min costed khuri.
Seriously , don't even bother with this point right now. U will have time in the future to think for yourself. Hell , u might even want to cr and SU kerry before min cost a silver , since she actually gets buffed by sherry and having a cheap valk is not a bad ideea (they are meant to be placed early anyway)
5. keep rainbows till SAW. And if space is a problem , generally try feeding them to units with abilities that get signifiantly better with levels (aka ones that increase damage/defense/etc) by a certain procent , rather then units that get ....dunno , let's say cd reduction from them
6. Okay , i gave u a lot of points , so ill put everything in order , as i would do it :
Id start with power leveling imelia >power level waltz > awaken imelia > level iris > level julien > awaken deine/despara(at your discretion). Then just level normally your other units
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He has 2 mages (cyrus/barbi) and he has kerry as a valk. missed it as well first time