Thread: A growing number of questions

I agree with sora. No point in spending scs for buffs. It will be a slower pace , but scs aren't that easy to get if you're not willing to pay for them. Keep them for events/a good batch of premium summons and hope to get 1-2 good units to build a core team. Then again , that's just my opinion

Just a general tip for CCing - always focus on the HAT team first. Healer+Attacker+Tank.
I will recommend you skip soma if you can gather 200 DC crystals fast enough for spica. You really only need 2 archers and we happen to have access to 2 of the top 3 archers. Nanaly-Spica-Bashira. Not forgetting you'll need 6 silver archers to CC both of them and even more to awaken them. I managed to complete crystal keeper H with a lone CCBash archer + random ranged, so gathering 200 for spica should be doable with abit of luck.

You might wanna start focusing on the gold units you have for CC, because most gold units have application even post-AW unlike silvers.

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Originally Posted by soranokira

edit: just noticed lafate's post. I have a different take on things: Return to Ruins (RtR) is great for exp, and if you're a newbie with the free 20d gold buff, you shouldn't be too hard up on gold. I myself cycled between RtR and Deep Forest Road (commission sorties) when I started in DMM aigis not long ago. You can consider using SCs to speed up leveling, but I might suggest to do so after reaching rank 101 or when the next event starts. now that we have no events in aigis, you shouldnt need to rush to bring your units up to a satisfactory standard.

sigh. There is reason I didn't say RtR. RtR will level units faster yes, but it drains gold like no ones business. Even with the gold buff you wouldn't be okay. Hell when I was doing it I was draining my entire gold pool, and that was with having obscene luck with gold armors on the monday dailies. I'd barely have enough to make it to the next daily. So with the fact that people need to be saving gold... not a smart thing to do.

Also sigh at lolix mentioning premium summons. Sure if you are a paying player go ahead it won't matter. If you aren't it will. There is a reason I and a lot of the go to people for info even on the DMM side say to get slot expansion and second barracks first before even thinking about premium summons. Even then it is only really for specific units during their spotlight only.

I disagree actually. Well , i mean , first i was talking about the goddess buffs. I don't think there is a need to use them , to advance on story missions. It's a waste of scs IMO. Sure , it will level slower if he doesn't get accest to dragon hunting/flame dragon maps to farm , but considering his team , he won't have the gold income anyway (since he can't do H dailies yet for gold) to keep up with the amount of xp units he gets.



Other then that , regarding inventory space. It's generally a VERY good investment , but not for his levrel. I mean , i am already a pretty old player myself , and i've only expanded my inventory just a couple of times , without actually needing more. Sure , later i will need to aquire at least a second baracks , but right now , i have very little trouble with my inventory space. I don't see a need to rush an expansion when he doesn't even have the units to use said slots. He's better of doing a couple of premiums and hope for some good picks IMO , since getting a few plat/blacks early can really improve his odds in future events. Other then that , i do agree that he should do said summons on certain spotlights.

@lafate actually, that's why I mentioned using gold buff + RtR, as well as occasional Deep Forest Road farming when there's not enough gold. if you're not actually leveling units to 50, but only to 30~40, it doesn't burn as much gold (estimated 100k gold per 40~50 level up using RtR farm). Also, I discharged all units obtained from Deep Forest Road. most of my starting units were also powerleveled to 50 using exp armor, so I made sure to reduce the gold I needed.

You do have a point with regards to farming DH (rank exp and gold saving, even if at the expense of unit leveling speed), but at least I wouldnt suggest using goddess buffs (7 SCs for that is a bit too much, I'd rather suggest using those 7 SCs to refill charisma to level units so they can actually pass castle retake)

Divine protection really only hits me as potentially worth it if it's during an oddball event like Summon Beast that has an unusual number of tough maps and you could plausibly earn some or all of your crystals back by 3 starring several more maps. That's a pretty rare edge case though. Most events won't feature 12 maps and a unit as dependent on Skill Ups as Solano.

Originally Posted by Lafate

There is a reason I and a lot of the go to people for info even on the DMM side say to get slot expansion and second barracks first before even thinking about premium summons. Even then it is only really for specific units during their spotlight only.

As a free player I kinda wish I had listened to that advice more even though the number of blacks I've drawn is stupid high relative to the modest number of crystals used (First pick Sybilla, and recently I acquired Despara and Sophie). At first I did a good job of resisting the temptation to premium summon thanks to the fact that I (somewhat ironically) pledged not to chase black units even during spotlights due to the odds being so bad. But man, the last few spotlights pretty much broke my resolve due to all the nice plats. Gellius, Uzume and Thetis (I don't have Rowanna) were all very high up my list and I wouldn't have turned down a Lyla, Marius or Cellia, either. Hell, I didn't even really mind getting Monica too much either. But well, random chance turned out to be random, so out of the plats I targeted I've only ended up with Thetis, which is kind of annoying. I guess I should quit whining though given that there's some dude who recorded himself doing 20 pulls on youtube and got nothing out of it but a bunch of golds and a Cypria.

Okay, so, with the dawn of the new month comes an excuse to spend! I went ahead and did some Premium summons and got... another Iris, another Fedora, and another Sakuya. Oh, and Sasha. And some silver unit.

So now I want to take the opportunity to ask - silver units are obviously useful as fodder, but do duplicate gold and higher units have any use other than reducing the cost of the original unit?

All golds can be used as substitutes for CC'd silvers when combining AW fodder. So instead of 30CC'ing a Eunice/Mortimer, you could use Conrad to AW a Rogue or something.

There's also events on DMM where gold+ males are worth 2x exp. There's one going on right now, actually.

Beyond that, there's a few that can be used as skill fodder for plats (Conrad example again, Dahlia/Lyla have the same skill).

Originally Posted by MalusCorvus

So now I want to take the opportunity to ask - silver units are obviously useful as fodder, but do duplicate gold and higher units have any use other than reducing the cost of the original unit?

You'll also be able to eventually (like, way, WAY down the line) discharge Gold+ units for a new currency used to buy some kewl new unit. Or so I heard from DMMers.