Thread: The Feng Shui Master and the Crimson Cult event guide

Good timeofaday, brave Princes! It is that time of a week, and finally it is the time for an Item Collection event! Hope you still have some chocolate / eggs left in your stash, because...
It is time to settle the fight between The Feng Shui Master and the Crimson Cult!

Event runs: 2017-05-30 to 2017-06-13

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Rewards

This is an Item Collection event. Farm up as many event items from maps as possible to reach milestones to upgrade the copy of event unit you'll get in the end

Introducing the Feng Shui Master Pippin, a Platinum rarity, Feng-Shuist. Her class is pretty much must-have, between ability to heal 2 (3 post-awakening) units at the same time and terrain effect reduction lessening the severity of HP losses from poison and heat and shortening duration of bad weather, so maxing her out is a priority, right? Well... yes and no. Thing is, Pippin herself is weaker one among Feng Shui users, matching Gold rarity Shrine one in power and with skill that reduces the number of simultaneously healed targets in exchange for more than doubling her power. So, before Awakening her skill turns her into a Priestess with lower range, and only after Awakening she retains her multi-healing, reduced from 3 to 2. Said Awakening gives her passive buffing all Feng Shui Users' attack by 5% and skill duration by 20%, but one rarely run multiple Feng-Shuists, if ever, so most of time it is a nice self-buff. Her Skill Awakening is weird, as it turns her into a rather powerful Archer with exchanging healing for attacking one enemy, tripled attack, increased by one-and-half range, and faster attack speed, briefly (10 seconds duration, 20 seconds cooldown). That certainly adds a versatility to Pippin, but you are giving up healing increase for that, so consideration is necessary here.
So, definitely a must-have unit for any player who don't have any Shrine Feng-Shuist, but most likely only a collection value for those who do have them. Still, just look at this fluffy tail cosplay!

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Even if she's not an event reward, she's still new, so...

Introducing the Royal Guard Alicia, the first, Platinum rarity, Royal Guard. Hers is the special class (meaning, comes pre-evolved but takes two sets of orbs to awaken) that in some ways aims to be a Heavy Infantry killer for team composition, as Royal Guards have comparable defense, have good survivability boosters on their skill and even regenerate HP on themselves later on, with additional rebalance patch. Blocking only 2 enemies compared to Heavies' 4 can be an advantage when you have them tank especially nasty enemy, as to not get overwhelmed by adds. Anyway, Alicia in particular have vaulted Increase Defense IV and boosts all spear wielders' (royal guards, valkyries, pegasus riders and dragon riders) attack and defence by 5% upon Awakening. Skill Awakening ups the defense multiplier to x3, extends same x3 to attack and keeps it up for the whole minute, all at the cost of attack speed decrease and massive initial wait and cooldown. She can only be obtained by spending $14 (1400 Nutaku Gold), but for that price comes with 14 SC, 300 DC and 30 Diamonds. Well worth every cent. After all, who can say no Anna's imouto?!)

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And last but not least, our new Shrine Black...

Introducing the Moon Shadow Bow Cavalry Rion, the DPS queen. Well, not quite as much at the moment, but in the future, definitely) She is a Black rarity Bowrider, a melee-slot ranged unit with cavalry's usual better refund on withdrawal and aversion to blocking (reduced attack) and wielder of legendary Quad Shot! Her initial passive reduces all cavalry (bowriders/valkyries/pegasus riders/dragon riders) cost by 1. Awakening upgrades that to -2 cost, and grants cavalry's usual full refund on withdrawal, as well as mitigates aversion to just 70% attack on blocked unit (oh, and makes arrows fly faster). But her real shining point is her Skill Awakening. Why? SEPTUPLE SHOT! Yes, you read that correctly, seven arrows in each attack! And now place a Dancer in range... So bust your wallets and whale hard B)

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Main reward:

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1. Achieve total of 25 bone fragments - Pippin becomes a friend
2. Achieve total of 50 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 2
3. Achieve total of 100 bone fragments - Pippin Initial Level 10
4. Achieve total of 150 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 3
5. Achieve total of 200 bone fragments - Pippin sortie cost -1 (CR1)
6. Achieve total of 250 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 4
7. Achieve total of 300 bone fragments - Pippin sortie cost -1 (CR2)
8. Achieve total of 400 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 5
9. Achieve total of 500 bone fragments - Pippin Initial Level 20
10. Achieve total of 600 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 6
11. Achieve total of 700 bone fragments - Pippin sortie cost -1 (CR3)
12. Achieve total of 800 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 7
13. Achieve total of 900 bone fragments - Pippin Initial Level 30
14. Achieve total of 1000 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 8
15. Achieve total of 1100 bone fragments - Pippin sortie cost -1 (CR4)
16. Achieve total of 1200 bone fragments - Pippin Initial Level 40
17. Achieve total of 1300 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 9
18. Achieve total of 1400 bone fragments - Pippin sortie cost -1 (CR5)
19. Achieve total of 1500 bone fragments - Pippin skill level 10
20. Achieve total of 1600 bone fragments - Pippin Initial Level 50

Side rewards:

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1. Achieve total of 45 bone fragments - Gold Armor
2. Achieve total of 90 bone fragments - Nina, Spirit of Gold
3. Achieve total of 135 bone fragments - Platinum armor
4. Achieve total of 180 bone fragments - Nina, Spirit of Gold
5. Achieve total of 225 bone fragments - Fragment of crystal
6. Achieve total of 270 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
7. Achieve total of 315 bone fragments - Gold Armor
8. Achieve total of 360 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
9. Achieve total of 405 bone fragments - Platinum armor
10. Achieve total of 450 bone fragments - Florika, Spirit of Black
11. Achieve total of 495 bone fragments - Crystal Shard
12. Achieve total of 540 bone fragments - Florika, Spirit of Black
13. Achieve total of 585 bone fragments - Gold Armor
14. Achieve total of 630 bone fragments - Christia, Spirit of Rainbow
15. Achieve total of 675 bone fragments - Platinum armor
16. Achieve total of 720 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
17. Achieve total of 765 bone fragments - Crystal Shard x 2
18. Achieve total of 810 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
19. Achieve total of 855 bone fragments - Gold Armor
20. Achieve total of 900 bone fragments - Florika, Spirit of Black
21. Achieve total of 945 bone fragments - Platinum armor
22. Achieve total of 990 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
23. Achieve total of 1035 bone fragments - Crystal Shard x 2
24. Achieve total of 1080 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
25. Achieve total of 1125 bone fragments - Gold Armor
26. Achieve total of 1170 bone fragments - Florika, Spirit of Black
27. Achieve total of 1215 bone fragments - Platinum armor
28. Achieve total of 1260 bone fragments - Florika, Spirit of Black
29. Achieve total of 1305 bone fragments - Crystal Shard x 3
30. Achieve total of 1350 bone fragments - Christia, Spirit of Rainbow
31. Achieve total of 1395 bone fragments - Gold Armor
32. Achieve total of 1440 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
33. Achieve total of 1485 bone fragments - Platinum armor
34. Achieve total of 1530 bone fragments - Celia, Spirit of Platinum
35. Achieve total of 1575 bone fragments - Crystal Shard x 3
36. Achieve total of 1620 bone fragments - Florika, Spirit of Black
37. Achieve total of 1665 bone fragments - Gold Armor
38. Achieve total of 1710 bone fragments - Florika, Spirit of Black
39. Achieve total of 1755 bone fragments - Platinum armor
40. Achieve total of 1800 bone fragments - Christia, Spirit of Rainbow

Noted enemy stats

Name	Attack type	HP	Atk	Def	MR	AS	Notes
Cultist (red)	Magical Ranged	3000 5000	200 300	50 50	50 50	50 50	Skill Aura
Cultist (crimson)	Magical Ranged	3000	200	50	50	50	When killed, becomes Transformed Cultist
Transformed Cultist	Physical Ranged	20000	1200	200	50	126	Demon, attacks all in range
Oni Crowd Ninja	Physical Ranged	8000	800	500	10	70	Fast, dodges physic attacks
Manticore	Physical Melee	9600	400	300	50	88	paralysis,disengages paralysed blockers
Manticore under 1/2 HP	Physical Melee	4800	880	300	50	50	No paralysis very fast

Stat correction: 0.95 for the first map, 1.0 for second, 1.05 for third and fourth, 1.0 for fifth, 0.9 for sixth, 1.0 for seventh and eights, 1.0 for ninth.
Table above shows unmodified values.

Maps

Threat of the Crimson Fog (E)

Charisma	20	Experience	140	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	8
Stamina	1	Gold @ 3*	900	Life	10	Enemies	30

Endure the threat of crimson fog that obstructs vision and hastens monsters!
Gimmick: Crimson Fog (weather effect that reduces units' range and speeds up monsters)
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Drops: x2
Bone fragments: 2 per clear, 0.1/cha, 2/sta

Defensive Battle in the Forest (N)

Charisma	30	Experience	180	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	8
Stamina	2	Gold @ 3*	1200	Life	10	Enemies	24

Prince visits the village of the tribe who keeps the seal in order to prevent the resurrection of the Demon Lord. Protect the village from attacking cultists!
Gimmick: -
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Drops: x3
Bone fragments: 1-3 per clear, 0.033 to 0.100 / cha, 0.500 to 1.500 / sta

Chase and Recapture (H)

Charisma	40	Experience	240	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	8
Stamina	4	Gold @ 3*	1800	Life	10	Enemies	39

Take back the bone fragments of the Demon Lord that was stolen by cultists!
Gimmick: Crimson Fog (weather effect that reduces units' range and speeds up monsters)
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Drops: x3
Bone fragments: 0-6 per clear, 0.00-0.15 /cha, 0.00-1.50 /sta

Bone Power of the Demon Lord (X)

Charisma	50	Experience	300	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	8
Stamina	7	Gold @ 3*	2100	Life	10	Enemies	57

Defeat the cultists who gained a demonic power from the bone fragments!
Gimmick: Crimson Fog (weather effect that reduces units' range and speeds up monsters)
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Drops: x2 x2
Bone fragments: 0-16 per clear, 0-0.32/cha, 0-2.286/sta

The Ninja and the Bandits (G)

Charisma	80	Experience	370	Initial UP	15	Max deploy	9
Stamina	9	Gold @ 3*	2700	Life	10	Enemies	44

The group have gone to a country in the east, for the bone fragments of the Demon Lord.
Gimmick: -
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Drops: x3
Bone fragments: 15 per clear, 0.1875/cha, 1.667/sta, guaranteed

Crimson Encirclement (H)

Charisma	40	Experience	260	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	8
Stamina	5	Gold @ 3*	1950	Life	10	Enemies	30

The cave of the dwarfs guarding the bone pieces ... surrounding the army of red armors. Protect the small folk!
Gimmick: -
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Drops: x3
Bone fragments: 0-10 per clear, 0-0.25/cha, 0-2/sta

Evil Conspiracy (X)

Charisma	70	Experience	350	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	8
Stamina	8	Gold @ 3*	2550	Life	10	Enemies	41

Be mindful of Manticores with their paralysing poison stings and protect the Fae village from the hands of the cult!
Gimmick: Crimson Fog (weather effect that reduces units' range and speeds up monsters)
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Drops: x2
Bone fragments: 13 per clear, 0.186/cha, 1.625/sta, guaranteed

Demon Worshipers (G)

Charisma	90	Experience	400	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	10
Stamina	12	Gold @ 3*	3000	Life	10	Enemies	46

The cult calls demons. Now the Demon Lord has taken hold of it's new body.
Gimmick: Crimson Fog (weather effect that reduces units' range and speeds up monsters)
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Drops: x4 x2
Bone fragments: 0-26 per clear, 0-0.289/cha, 0-2.167/sta

Pippin's Decision (G)

Charisma	100	Experience	400	Initial UP	10	Max deploy	8
Stamina	2	Gold @ 3*	3000	Life	10	Enemies	33

Join forces with Pippin and bury cult's evil conspiracy.
Gimmick: Crimson Fog (weather effect that reduces units' range and speeds up monsters)
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Drops: [img]http://image02.seesaawiki.jp/a/s/aig....png&#91;/img]
Completion Reward:

Comments about the event

A proper Item Collection event at last! And for Feng Shui user, a key to combat terrain and weather challenges and class every player should strive to have! As always, higher the map difficulty, better the item payoff, and if you want to perfect the unit, you will have to cough up quite a number of Sacred Crystals or leftover treats. Of course, there's always a valid choice to aim only for 1100 items instead of 1400-1500, for CR-4, or even for 700, for CR-3. Another interesting points of decision are: do you want a steady guaranteed increase in bone fragment numbers, or willing to risk playing RNG drop roulette for substantially higher reward? Or maybe you you just want to grind silvers and fodder?
Anyway, in the guaranteed corner we have "The Ninja and the Bandits" with its 15 fragments for 80/9, and "Evil Conspiracy" with 13 fragments for 70/8. Ninja one wins in both fragment count (1.667 per stamina) and fodder (tin can and DCx2), and feature Ricardo as a silver drop. But it is more annoying, with ninjas and all. Conspiracy offers 1.625/sta fragment income and Ruby, with side dish of Misha.
Gamble corner is populated with G-tier "Demon Worshipers" with whopping 26 fragments possible for whopping 90/12, and "Bone Power of the Demon Lord" with respectable 16 possible fragments for only 50/7. Later one actually wins out, with 2.29 fragments per stamina point at max, and offering Platinum Spirit (and Giovanni), but 90/12, that offers 2.17 fragments at max and additional Rainbow Spirit, is supposed to gave better drop rates. You can alway bring your Thief along for buffing the rates, as long as your team can handle powered-up enemies.

On the event itself, most maps feature crimson fog weather effect, that robs you out of a full range and speeds up enemy walking speed from time to time, so adjust accordingly. Enemy composition is varied, from magic-throwing cultists to dark elves avengers and their pet chimeras to demons and ninjas... Best bring a good physical attackers with a dash of magic specifically to deal with that pesky dodgy shinobi on their map. If your team can handle it, Leda boost the drop rate for items and so very worth to bring along.

On a silver farming front, here's a run-down of possible drops:

• Bandit (Eunice) (map 2):
• Rogue (Barrad) (map 3);
• Archer (Soma) (map 3);
• Pirate (Giovanni) (map 4);
• Magic Fencer (Ricardo) (map 5);
• Ninja (Kagero) (map 6);
• Valkyrie (Misha) (map 7);.

There's also tin can on map 5 and 6, Celia (the Platinum Spirit) on map 4 and Christia on map 9, so good luck!
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New Characters Arriving

Note: This is based off of current JP version stats for perfected units.
Platinum Feng Shui Master Pippin

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HP	2121	Range	220
Atk	320	Block	-
Def	190	Cost	14
MR	15

Skill: Focus Heal: 25s; attack x2.2, but number of allies healed -1 (so down to 1 at CC levels, and to 2 after Awakening); WT: 20; CT: 40; AS: 167
Awakened Ability: Pulse of the Land: While on the active team, all allied feng shui users gain 5% attack and 20% increased skill duration.
Awakened Skill (NI): Hunting Time: 10s; attack x3.0, and range x1.5. Attack speed increases; long-ranged single-target physical attack. ; WT: 10; CT: 20; AS: 44

Platinum Royal Guard Alicia

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HP	2700	Range	melee
Atk	439	Block	2
Def	640	Cost	20
MR	10

Skill: Increase Defense IV: 45s; Defense x2.0; WT: 12.5; CT: 25; AS: 74
Awakened Ability: Spear of Victory: Royal Guard, Valkyrie, Dragon Rider, and Pegasus Rider classes +5% attack and defense when Alicia is part of a team.
Awakened Skill (NI): Giant Killing: 60s; attack and defense x3.0, Attack speed decreases; WT: 50; CT: 100; AS: 86

Black Bowrider: Moon Shadow Bow Cavalry Rion

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HP	1995	Range	260
Atk	710	Block	1
Def	348	Cost	14
MR	0

Skill: Quad Shot: 15s; Launches 4 arrows with each attack; WT: 1; CT: 35; AS: 62
Pre-Awakened Ability: Swift Attack Command: While in the active team, all allied bowriders/valkyries/pegasus riders/dragon riders gain cost -1.
Awakened Ability: Gale's Command: While in the active team, all allied bowriders/valkyries/pegasus riders/dragon riders gain cost -2.
Awakened Skill (NI): Shadow Moon Septuple Shot: 20s; Launches 7 arrows with each attack; Defense x0.5; WT: 5; CT: 60; AS: 62

Other

New Classes Being Introduced

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Links:

• MWAWiki (EN)
• Seesaa (JP)
• GCWiki (JP)
• WikiWiki (JP)
• iceinhell's blog post (EN)

All Hail Item Collections!!!

ЗЫ. Sorry for the massive delay, work got too busy.

Thank you for yet another guide ZeroZet. Small question, isn't Alicia the first Royal Guard we got? Shouldn't she be in the "Other" tab then? Or is she not there because she's not part of the event but a coincidence that she got introduced now?

Does Alicia get a threesome scene w/ Anna? LOL

she's a cutie

Royal Guard - just a stat buff tank huh - sounds useful!

Holy cow, i've been playing this game for about a year and haven't spent any SC on premium summons. Just got back to back black rarity Deine and Rion!!

Thanks a ton for the guides, they are really helpful and I look for them on every event. Cheers and good luck everyone!

Thank you for the guide! Beautiful work as always and I personally appreciate the comments you give for each unit, it really helps to understand them and their use.

Can't say I am going to go mad trying to perfect Pippin, not even for the sake of cuteness. She does not seem like a unit you would field early so even min-costing her would take a backseat from me trying to get other units done. I also really dislike her skill awakening despite how powerful it is. Any SAW (or even skill in some cases) that over rides a units' inherent class characteristics is a fault for me. Sort of like how Samurai can attack multiple blocked units but certain SAW's drop their block to one, kind of defeats what makes them special in the first place.

Lastly Alicia. Ah Alicia, the unit I will never get along side Sapphires. Breaks a collectors heart it does.

I've never really understood such lines of thinking. Block number can be a double edged sword and the ability to gate monsters by shedding blockers without the inefficiency of withdraw & redeploy is actually pretty hax. Shizuka in particular is really good at using her SAW to pick fights and solo lanes with minimal healing support.

I suppose it depends on each persons play style. True it can be of use quite well, but my line of thinking would be, why not place a strong duelist instead?
I should note that I am far from a skilled player and I used Samurai as an example. A lot of this is still in the hypothetical scenario for me. Hopefully for not too long.

On the subject of Shizuka though, if you shed blockers, how does priority work? Which enemy is allowed to pass and which stays?

Gotta train and CC Niel - failed dat ninja map pretty horribly lol

don't know if I can't whip up Sherry to lvl 60

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did it w/o Niel. Used Lolonee

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skin of my teeth fuk... All right, just 2 moar maps to 3 star

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and @ 165 Bone Fragments - yeah, won't make it LOL who cares? I need SC and can't waste SC. Used 2 Easter Eggs. Have 3 Easter Eggs left - won't use anymore :V

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I suppose it depends on each persons play style. True it can be of use quite well, but my line of thinking would be, why not place a strong duelist instead?

Acually , i tend to agree with you on that point. I kinda preffer specialized units over versatile units. I mean , there are some good ones , like shiho , but thats mostly because her saw lets her be either a permanent witch or permanent healer.... Still , there aren't that many great dual class-like units IMO

My views exactly. Dual class units tend to be hit or miss, especially when SAW is considered. My favourite though has to be Priest Warriors. Passive healing and blocking enemies? Yes please!

It's a bit of a double-edged sword when you think about it. Niche units shine when needed but are not very useful at other times, Avengers are notorious for this.

Versatile units can fill more roles but they won't be as good as units devoted to those attributes. Even my favourite Priest Warriors, they're great when I need them and am low on range slots but they won't be as good as a regular Healer which is why I don't take them in at all times.

At the end of the day it's really the situation that dictates the units that you need. Sometimes you need versatility, others you need specialization.