1.5x Story and Dailies Drop Rate Boost Discussion Thread

[IvanLedah21]

@Jay Rich: Berna is basically a panic button. Her evasion chance, HP + Defense affection bonuses, combined with Black rarity stats and the 1 sec initial timer on Assassinate 3 (combined with her own Assassinate chance up passive, especially after AW), as well as her low cost allow you to drop her in front of an enemy that made it past your primary blockers. She survives way longer than the other rogues, has a higher 1HKO chance, and can try assassination right off the bat. Her Skill AW (not yet in Nutaku) makes her Assassination attacks AoE, further enhancing her usefulness as a backup panic button (plus Block 1 means she won't actually block the other enemies, reducing damage taken while still attacking them and possibly 1HKO'ing them). Not someone you'd use often, but is useful when you need that panic button.

@ZeroZet: IIRC Sophie's Skill AW gives her godly stats but the skill cooldown gets much worse, Sherry goes from pure Attack Up to Charge Up then next use ranged 5-target murder, Shizuka goes from samurai to pure duelist (1 block, massive increases to attack and defense), Spica loses ranged bonus but her arrows become magical, Robert attacks instead of heals, Despara gets AoE at the cost of range and lower attack boost, Monica gets the hilarious Gatling Gun, Marius' becomes a mode switch (heal OR attack instead of only healing during skill). If I missed any whose role either changes or is significantly affected by Skill AW, I'd like to know.


Derailing current conversation to get back to Thread topic for a moment: I'm assuming this is just super shitty luck, but this morning I did 3 Spirit Rescue G runs in a row where I got 0 drops despite 3* on all 3 runs. Anyone else hit this, or did I just get bad luck? (like I said, assuming it's just the latter, but if it's the former... might need to tell Nutaku)

[Eab1990]

AW Berna also won't cost you or any other rogues a three-star when she/they dies (though she has to be deployed if other rogues die).

[Unregistered]

Zero drops doing Spirit Rescue G is my standard luck

[Ramazan]

AW Berna also won't cost you or any other rogues a three-star when she/they dies (though she has to be deployed if other rogues die).

Im not sure if rogues are specifically better than any units in some situations, most other units are better at handling them imo, correct me if im wrong, tho berna is exception ofc with her %30 assassination chance, i saw her assassinating whole swarm and not letting anything passing through.

[Eab1990]

Im not sure if rogues are specifically better than any units in some situations, most other units are better at handling them imo, correct me if im wrong, tho berna is exception ofc with her %30 assassination chance, i saw her assassinating whole swarm and not letting anything passing through.

Tokens do invalidate AW Berna a bit, but if you're tight on cost and/or short on duelists that can survive, using free RNG can help.

For example, if we got a revival of Solano's Mighty Ogres X.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGo8g9PWbUo

[IvanLedah21]

AW Berna also won't cost you or any other rogues a three-star when she/they dies (though she has to be deployed if other rogues die).

While this is true, those rogues ARE taking up deployment slots in your team, where you could instead bring Memento and do the same thing with 5-cost skeletons. Granted those skeletons don't have 50% evasion nor assassination chance but they're not taking up slots in your team either. Only reason I can see to actually make significant use of AW Berna's "rogue = token" ability is if you have multiples of Berna. Other rogues will likely die quickly against anything that you'd actually need tokens instead of duelists to slow down, while taking up deployment slots and not being able to use their assassination chance immediately. Of course, I believe it still applies to AW Berna herself, so there's that at least (if evasion and assassination RNG let you down). Would be nice if Berna's AW ability applied to Ninjas as well, they're also sneaky people of the night XD

Lol at the idea of a Berna Clone Assassin Squad

[Eab1990]

Well, I already sold both of my Berna clones for Danchou, so I can't test out that strat anymore.

Would've been great for Dwarfs and Giants though.

[Jay Rich]

Seems like Berna is a good unit to have but can also be very particular as you can always use other units should you have them. Still it is good to have her.

On topic I am making most of the dailies to get orbs and story mod to farm units to upgrade my own. Though I am burning through the cash doing so. Have gone from 4,000,000 down to 1,200,00 cash and still have units I need to upgrade. My goal at the moment is to max my units lvls without CCing and AWing them, so that none of my units are sitting at lvl 1-20 anymore. If they were all ready CCed and Awakened then I am lvling them to their max lvl.

Though it is only when you try to lvl all your units that you realize how many you really have, whether you use them or not. It is very costly and was slow going until this drop rate increase but now I burn through the cash quicker haha, had hoped to AW Betty so I could 'Gold Get' but don't have enough DC's for a AWing Spirit. So I guess I'll have to make do with the cash I got, though it isn't going to be enough to take advantage of this drop rate forever, Unless I start selling the units here and there to get more gold.

[ZeroZet]

I just leave it here:


And with later patches this Whirlwind of Death hits fliers as well!

[Jay Rich]

I just leave it here:


And with later patches this Whirlwind of Death hits fliers as well!

Wow that's overkill definitely changes my opinion of Berna, not that I thought her as a bad unit not at all but with a skill like that no one/army would stand in your way!!