yeah, i've pretty much downgraded to farming hard water quests and hell coin quests (since i can actually clear it). still need those AP refills (and i currently can't add diamonds right now) considering 106 AP (about 150 given friend gifting) doesn't last long with missions taking 12 or 18 AP

as for letting a friend clear the quest... hard to do when 90% of my friend list is filled with either trisha and/or weaker power than isabelle (who is pretty much stuck unless +8 rolls around cause i didn't realize i could forge further being rank 38). there's a rare appearance of a friend that somehow has 198k power on trisha, but that's a one time a day thing it looks like. other than that, i need a claire that has about 59k power or some serious healing in her kit to survive water hell

and i do have grace, but her gear sucks... she's only lv27 2 star as well.... she can do some damage, but dies so insanely fast to anything at or above her level. i honestly do better with sasha who is about her power level, but is lv30

have both celium and dora... who are both lv5 2 star.... gonna take a while for them

add on the fact that i pretty much need to feed the pile of water books (currently at 39 of the weakest water one) to a non-matching element to bring them to speed or end up grinding something else...

that's the main problem, so much grinding and your AP drains insanely fast. it's like 5 grinds to get just a tiny bit done at this point, which all leads to diamonds...

haven't played a game this tedious since Final Fantasy 12 and that was a nightmare to do a lot of stuff in it... i'm honestly gonna throw money at this game at some point, say screw it and hope for the best cause i'm gonna be here a long while otherwise... easily a few weeks to get just ONE step done and i got about 5 of them to go (and by then, the isabelle shards will be gone and i gotta go back to HOPEFULLY re-pulling her like I did once...)

at least i can easily solo lv10 raid now and cause reasonably solo lv30 raids if need be (as long as it isn't golem)