Quote Originally Posted by Kotono View Post
Great, now you have access to the rest of the story maps. Just don't bother with Immortal beast for a long while. That one is castle retake on steroids.

I only ever grind off of Dragon Hunting.
Yeah, I saw that in the guide, too. I've now run Dragon Hunting twice, first time was a 2-star (placed a healer in the wrong spot and the wizard murdered her ), second was a 3-star for 3600 gold! Which is great, because I have burned almost 70,000 gold on upgrading troops since I first started posting (I started at a good bit over 200,000 by selling a lot of gold armours and not having anything upgraded past 30).

I also managed to get the completion bonus for Retake the Castle somehow, so got a silver out of that without having to run it again. Off to run Dragon Hunting again!

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Quote Originally Posted by Tenhou View Post
Correction: Don't bother with Immortal Beast at all. It's somewhat designed to "not be beatable" even though it is, since it is the final challenge and all that :P

Dragon hunting is actually very character exp inneficient since you can get one unit less total from the map. I'd recommend Flame Dragon once you're able to take it, or Remnant Vanquish 3. Those will give you the most units while still not taking the biggest toll on your gold (Return to Ruins is actually the most efficient, but it will drain your gold like a company going bankrupt).
That's good to know. I know I can do Dragon Hunting, I am probably going to stick with it for a while. What I've been doing with these maps is: Grind the map I know until I'm 1 run from leveling up. Use whatever charisma I have left to try the other maps out. If I win and level up, then great. I know how to beat that map now. If not, then it doesn't actually matter, as long as I save just enough charisma to go back and finish the map I know I can beat for a refresh.

It's been working pretty well so far. Today I had 130-odd charisma left when at 297xp to level up, so that gave me a lot of room to play around with Retake the Castle.

Edit: It kind of bugs me that the Dragon Hunting mission goes way down the list, though, instead of staying near the top. /me pokes it.