Good timeofaday, brave Princes! It is that time of the week, and so we are getting ready to greet a new girl into our har... I mean army.) This time it's a cutie fresh from the education, so let's let's give some "special training" to the The Trainee of the Cannoneer School!

Event runs: 2017-06-13 to 2017-06-20




Rewards
This is a Unit Farm event.You obtain copies of event unit as a direct drop from event maps and upgrade it via regular unit combination for Cost Reductions and Skill Ups


Introducing the Gunnery Recruit Kanon! A Platinum rarity Artillery Officer, she is a physical counterpart to the Mage, bringing AoE to the party when magic is ill-suited. Her skill is interesting in that it trades some attack for a bit better speed and slowdown of all enemies hit by the explosion. Awakening adds another tradeoff to her resume, reducing her range a bit to increase the attack (as Artillery naturally gains range upon Awakening, in result she simply stays at the same range, but with better firepower). Skill Awakening, whenever it hits our shore, is where her real power lies: with it she fires one shot supercharged with x3 attack and splash radius. Screen clearer (for trash packs) indeed) Do note that it takes 2.5 seconds from the activation of the skill to actually fire the superbomb, so don't let enemies clear Kanon's range before that. And if you activate that awakened skill just after she finishes shooting the normal cannonball, it will also enjoy the tripled AoE (but not tripled power)!






Even if she's not an event reward, she's still new, so...
Introducing the Curse Master Eva, the first, Platinum rarity, Curse User. They are dedicated ranged slot debuffers, making all enemies in range suffer the loss of 10% of their attack and granting all enemies under 5% of said enemies max HP struck by somebody while in range of curse user and instant and merciful death. In exchange, their own stats are nothing to write home about. Eva's skill doubles both attack reduction and instant death threshold. Awakening grants get additional 15 range on top of class-specific increase, to serviceable 255, to spread her message of peace and equality (in death) further. Skill Awakening, whenever it comes to our side, trades her own attack for even stronger multipliers to both curses (and better uptime).
Quite a specialist unit, but can definitely see some use, especially against fattest HP sponges (as long as they are not outright immune to assassination, like Majins are) and maybe even to survive some hard-hitters here and there. But still, pretty niche usages all in all.






Noted enemy stats
Name Attack type HP Atk Def MR AS MAP Notes
Percis
 Physical
Ranged AoE		 4560
6000		 400
400		 70
70		 0
0		 157
157		 4
5
Kanon

 Physical
Ranged AoE
 12000
15000
15750		 350
800
800		 100
100
100		 0
0
0		 157
175
175		 1
5
6		 Slow moving speed
Skill aura
hardest-hitting foe
AW Mel
 Physical
Ranged AoE		 13650
 730
 100
 0
 172
 6
 Slow moving speed
Massive range
AW Janna
 Physical
Ranged AoE		 18900
 550
 150
 0
 157
 6
 Slow moving speed
Massive AoE splash
Stat correction: 0.9 for first and second map, 0.95 for third and fourth, 1.0 for the fifth, 1.05 for the last.
Table above already shows corrected numbers.



Maps


The Cannoneer Girl (E)
Charisma 20 Experience 140 Initial UP 10 Max deploy 8
Stamina 1 Gold @ 3* 750 Life 10 Enemies 39
On a routine monster subjugation a sudden cry for help is heard!
Gimmick: -
Map:

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Let the Training Begin (N)
Charisma 25 Experience 180 Initial UP 10 Max deploy 10
Stamina 2 Gold @ 3* 1125 Life 10 Enemies 68
In order to help Kanon's training, challenge the demons on the river side with few footholds!
Gimmick: -
Map:

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Drops:


Positional Advantage (N)
Charisma 30 Experience 220 Initial UP 10 Max deploy 8
Stamina 3 Gold @ 3* 1500 Life 10 Enemies 33
Hit the opponent surging in quickly the slope!
Gimmick: Enemy movement speed up (large).
Map:

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Drops: x2


Impressive Formation (H)
Charisma 40 Experience 300 Initial UP 10 Max deploy 8
Stamina 5 Gold @ 3* 2250 Life 10 Enemies 51
Protect yourself from attacks of the opponent going through your formation!
Gimmick: -
Map:

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Drops: x2


Going Even Higher (X)
Charisma 55 Experience 420 Initial UP 10 Max deploy 8
Stamina 7 Gold @ 3* 2700 Life 10 Enemies 43
High power from long distances, pay attention to wide range attacks and complete training!
Gimmick: Desert heat: medium (-50% HP on deployment)
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Drops:


School Comrades (G)
Charisma 90 Experience 580 Initial UP 12 Max deploy 8
Stamina 12 Gold @ 3* 3600 Life 10 Enemies 34
Guns school students gather together! Behold the results of your training!
Gimmick: -
Map:

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Drops: x2
Kanon drop is guaranteed every time.




Comments about the event
For the cannoneer-themed map there's a surprising amount of heavy armor enemies, especially toward the latter maps. Incoming damage is mostly physical, so defense is your friend. Last map features three artillery officers in their Awakened and state with skill auras up, and boy they kick some behind!.. Mel have devastating range, Giana - giant AoE and Kanon is just hard-hitter. You'd want to distract them all with lightning rods lest they decimate your formation. All in all, bring your good mages and some tough defensive tanks, as well as some low-cost blockers for early up-tight situations.

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

Map 5 drops tin cans, but as last map offers guaranteed Kanons, you will most likely be doing that one anyway.


New Characters Arriving
New Characters Arriving[/B]Note: This is based off of current JP version stats for perfected units. There are some patches modifying unit stats we don't have, so our versions may have slightly different stats.

Platinum Artillery Officer: Gunnery Recruit Kanon



HP 1556 Range 300
Atk 901 Block -
Def 205 Cost 27
MR 0
Skill: Training Bomb: 20 seconds; attack is reduced to 0.9x, post-attack delay is slightly reduced, and enemies struck have reduced movement speed.; AS: 134 (base 174); WT: 25; CT: 50
Awakened Ability: Carronade Cannon: -20 range, x1.2 attack.
Awakened Skill (NI): Heavy Cannonball: 5s; Attack windup time increased; attack and splash radius increased by 3.0x; one shot; WT: 27.5; CT: 55



Platinum Curse User: Curse Master Eva



HP 1523 Range 255
Atk 433 Block -
Def 188 Cost 9
MR 10
Skill: Curse Voice : 20 seconds; 20 seconds, class attribute effects are increased by 2.0x (i.e. -20% to enemy attack and instand death to enemines below 10% HP); AS: 182; WT: 27.5; CT: 55.
Awakened Ability: Range Up I: +15 Range.
Awakened Skill (NI): Curse Song: 30 seconds; will not attack, but class attribute effects are increased by 2.5x. (i.e. -25% to enemy attack and instand death to enemines below 10% HP); WT: 30; CT: 60





Other
New Classes Being Introduced:

Curse User / Great Curse User
A debuffing special class that reduces attack of all enemies in range by 10% and allows instantly defeat enemy who falls below 5% of its HP when he is stuck in range of curse user. Skill doubles that effects. Own attack and attack speed is poor, but utility it brings is pretty neat.



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...That's quite a Drill Sergeant Nice going on here

ЗЫ. Expect more delays for further event guides. Stormblood is calling!