The End of the Dark Knights Guide

[ZeroZet]

Good timeofaday, brave Princes! It is almost September, the month of great expectations, so what's the best way to start it than with a brand new event! And it finally brings us a long-awaited Dark Knight! (but not one we waited for...)
So let's witness the Last Moments of Dark Knighthood (even if we didn't see its first ones )

Event runs: 2016-08-30 to 2016-09-13

Rewards
This is a Star Trial event.
Main reward:

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1. Achieve total of 5 ☆ on missions - Elva becomes a friend
2. Achieve total of 6 ☆ on missions - Elva: Skill level 2
3. Achieve total of 7 ☆ on missions - Elva: Skill level 3
4. Achieve total of 8 ☆ on missions - Elva: sortie cost -1
5. Achieve total of 9 ☆ on missions - Elva: skill level 4
6. Achieve total of 10 ☆ on missions - Elva: skill level 5
7. Achieve total of 11 ☆ on missions - Elva: sortie cost -1
8. Achieve total of 12 ☆ on missions - Elva: skill level 6
9. Achieve total of 13 ☆ on missions - Elva: initial level 30
10. Achieve total of 14 ☆ on missions - Elva: skill level 7
11. Achieve total of 15 ☆ on missions - Elva: sortie cost -1
12. Achieve total of 16 ☆ on missions - Elva: skill level 8
13. Achieve total of 17 ☆ on missions - Elva: initial level 50
14. Achieve total of 18 ☆ on missions - Elva: skill level 9
15. Achieve total of 19 ☆ on missions - Elva: sortie cost -1
16. Achieve total of 20 ☆ on missions - Elva: skill level 10
17. Achieve total of 21 ☆ on missions - Elva: sortie cost -1

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Introducing the Dark Knight Brotherhood Vice Leader Elva! As a Dark Fighter she packs defense comparable to attack-oriented Heavy Armors and attack of defense-oriented Valkyries into solid 2-block body with 10 MR to boot. Upon Awakening into a Paladin, she loses her awesome design gains more defense the less health she has, (same deal as avenger's attack). And she herself is our "attack-oriented" variant, who wields a saw-sword and speeds up (and increases) her own attack on skill, gaining assassination chance passive on Awakening. ...Dat cost tho...

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Side rewards:

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┌─────────┬──────────────────┐┌─────────┬──────────────────┐
│ # of *  │     Reward       ││ # of *  │     Reward       │
╞═════════╪══════════════════╡╞═════════╪══════════════════╡
│    5    │  Gold Armor      ││   14    │  Gold Spirit     │
├─────────┼──────────────────┤├─────────┼──────────────────┤
│    6    │  DC × 3          ││   16    │  Platinum Armor  │
├─────────┼──────────────────┤├─────────┼──────────────────┤
│    7    │  Gold Armor      ││   19    │  DC × 7          │
├─────────┼──────────────────┤├─────────┼──────────────────┤
│    8    │  Gold Spirit     ││   22    │  Platinum Spirit │
├─────────┼──────────────────┤├─────────┼──────────────────┤
│    9    │  Gold Armor      ││   23    │  Platinum Armor  │
├─────────┼──────────────────┤├─────────┼──────────────────┤
│   10    │  DC × 5          ││   24    │  Rainbow Spirit  │
├─────────┼──────────────────┤└─────────┴──────────────────┘
│   12    │  Gold Armor      │
└─────────┴──────────────────┘

Noted enemy stats

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┌──────────────┬─────────────┬───────┬──────┬──────┬────┬─────┬─────────────────────┐
│ Name         │ Attack type │  HP   │ Atk  │ Def  │ MR │ AS  │ Notes               │ 
╞══════════════╪═════════════╪═══════╪══════╪══════╪════╪═════╪═════════════════════╡
│ Dark Knight  │ Physical    │ ????  │ 800  │ ???? │ ?? │ 110 │ Aura reduces attack │ 
│ Grand Master │ Melee       │       │      │      │    │     │ of our units by 80% │ 
├──────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼────┼─────┼─────────────────────┤
│ Living Armor │ Physical    │  9500 │  751 │  400 │ 10 │ 130 │                     │ 
│(Cannon,Black)│ Ranged Aoe  │       │      │      │    │     │                     │ 
├──────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼────┼─────┼─────────────────────┤
│ Elva         │ Physical    │ ????  │  600 │  ??? │ ?? │  63 │ No skill aura       │ 
│              │ Melee       │       │  700 │      │    │  24 │ Skill aura          │ 
├──────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼────┼─────┼─────────────────────┤
│ Greater      │ Physical    │ 42000 │ 5000 │  150 │ ?? │ 122 │                     │ 
│ Daemon       │ Melee       │       │      │      │    │     │                     │ 
├──────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼────┼─────┼─────────────────────┤
│ Lesser Demon │ Physical    │  2700 │  350 │   70 │ 40 │  45 │ Ignores roads       │ 
│ (whip)       │ Melee       │       │      │      │    │     │ Paralysis           │ 
├──────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼────┼─────┼─────────────────────┤
│ Red Dragon   │ Magic       │  3300 │  301 │  300 │ 40 │ 110 │ Flying              │ 
│ (small)      │ Ranged      │       │      │      │    │     │ Has walker form     │ 
├──────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼────┼─────┼─────────────────────┤
│ Red Dragon   │ Magic       │  6600 │  751 │  300 │ 50 │ 110 │ Flying, when dies   │ 
│ (Big)        │ Ranged      │       │      │      │    │     │ switches to walking │ 
├──────────────┼─────────────┼───────┼──────┼──────┼────┼─────┼─────────────────────┤
│ Red Dragon   │ Magic       │ 13200 │  901 │  500 │ 60 │ 110 │                     │ 
│ (Big, walker)│ Ranged      │       │      │      │    │     │                     │ 
└──────────────┴─────────────┴───────┴──────┴──────┴────┴─────┴─────────────────────┘

Stat correction: 0.9 for first maps, 0.95 for second, 1.0 for third, 0.95 for fourth, 1.0 for fifth, 1.0 for sixth, 1.0 for seventh, 1.1 for eight.

Maps

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Schemes of the Dark Knights

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┌──────────┬────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 20 ║ Experience │  120 ║ Initial UP │ 15 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  1 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1050 ║ Life       │  5 ║ Enemies    │ 18 │
└──────────┴────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Map:

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Video:

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Drops: *
*Should have been Nenya T_T

Double-edged Power

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┌──────────┬────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 30 ║ Experience │  150 ║ Initial UP │ 15 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  1 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1200 ║ Life       │  5 ║ Enemies    │ 26 │
└──────────┴────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Pursuit

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┌──────────┬────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 40 ║ Experience │  200 ║ Initial UP │ 15 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  3 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1500 ║ Life       │  5 ║ Enemies    │ 30 │
└──────────┴────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Artillery in the Swamps

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┌──────────┬────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 50 ║ Experience │  250 ║ Initial UP │ 25 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  5 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 2250 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 60 │
└──────────┴────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Gimmik: Poison
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

The Dark Knight Commander's Resolve

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┌──────────┬────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 50 ║ Experience │  250 ║ Initial UP │ 25 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  5 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 2250 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 44 │
└──────────┴────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Gimmik: Poison
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

The End of the Dark Knights

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┌──────────┬────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 50 ║ Experience │  250 ║ Initial UP │ 30 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  4 ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1950 ║ Life       │ 10 ║ Enemies    │ 34 │
└──────────┴────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Gimmik: Poison
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:

Final Battle in the Hell G

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┌──────────┬─────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 100 ║ Experience │  200 ║ Initial UP │ 30 ║ Max deploy │  8 │
├──────────┼─────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  2  ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1800 ║ Life       │  1 ║ Enemies    │ 18 │
└──────────┴─────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Gimmik: Makai miasma (half attack and defense)
Map:

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Video:

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Drops:
Completion Reward:

The Treasonous Knight G

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┌──────────┬─────╥────────────┬──────╥────────────┬────╥────────────┬────┐
│ Charisma │ 100 ║ Experience │  200 ║ Initial UP │ 20 ║ Max deploy │ 10 │
├──────────┼─────╫────────────┼──────╫────────────┼────╫────────────┼────┤
│ Stamina  │  2  ║ Gold @ 3*  │ 1800 ║ Life       │  5 ║ Enemies    │ 57 │
└──────────┴─────╨────────────┴──────╨────────────┴────╨────────────┴────┘

Map:

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Video:

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Drops:
Completion Reward:

Comments about the event

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Holy silver EVERYTHING farm fest! As we still don't know how future event schedule would look like, be sure to farm up a good scores of every silver you can. There's also the debut of our lovely futa Silver Angel as a farmable unit - be sure to stock up on her, as all angels (but event Miruno) share her skill, so you would be able to raise them up with her copies.

For maps themselves, be on lookout for Dark Knight-Commander's fearsome debuff aura and prepare to face the newest Superboss, Greater Demon Pig with his OVER 5 THOUSAND XD attack, on his home field of Underworld, where we can fight only at half strength... So, good luck! ;D

On the good side, you will have a chance to see both Black DRK's at their respective G maps: Premium one, Cornelia, on Treasonous Knight, and the esteemed Danchou Knight-Commander Grand Master of Unchivalrous Order of Dark Knights in Hell. Even if they will be in their unawakened forms, and so only at fraction of their true power, that's still something)

New Characters Arriving

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Note: This is based off of current JP version stats for perfected units.

Vice Leader Elva

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┌─────┬──────╥───────┬───────┐
│ HP  │ 2920 ║ Range │ Melee │
├─────┼──────╫───────┼───────┤
│ Atk │  649 ║ Block │  2    │
├─────┼──────╫───────┼───────┤
│ Def │  460 ║ Cost  │ 26    │
├─────┼──────╫───────┼───────┤
│ MR  │  10  ║       │       │
└─────┴──────╨───────┴───────┘

Skill: Reckless Sword: 20s; attack 1.4x; shortens intervals between attacks; AS: 35; WT: 32.5; CT: 65
Awakened Ability: Instant Death Strike: 2% chance to assassinate attacked enemy on each strike.
Awakened Skill (NI): Ultra Reckless Sword: 20s; attack 1.5x attack speed raised, but current HP halved when skill ends; AS: 29; WT: 35; CT: 70

Treasonous Knight Cornelia

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┌─────┬──────╥───────┬───────┐
│ HP  │ 2970 ║ Range │ Melee │
├─────┼──────╫───────┼───────┤
│ Atk │  804 ║ Block │  2    │
├─────┼──────╫───────┼───────┤
│ Def │  599 ║ Cost  │ 30-27 │
├─────┼──────╫───────┼───────┤
│ MR  │  20  ║       │       │
└─────┴──────╨───────┴───────┘

Skill: True Dark Aura: 15s; all enemy attack decreased by 30%; AS: 62; WT: 1; CT: 85
PRE-Awakened Ability: Certain Kill Attack: 20% chance to deal x1.8 damage.
Awakened Skill (NI): Holy Knight's Protection: 55s; defense and magic resistance 2.5x; 20% attack nullification for allies and self; AS: 62; WT: 5; CT: 70
Awakened Ability: Holy Enchant: 20% chance to deal x1.8 damage. 100% chance against Undead or Demons.

*Her pre-AW art is too cool to not use here

New Classes Being Introduced

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Dark Fighter / Dark Knight / Paladin.

2-blocker with a good mix of attack, defense and MR, but for very hefty cost. Upon Awakening loses their coolness, but gains more defense the more health he loses (up to x1.5 on half HP or less).

ЗЫ. Links:

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