Wall of text time xD Kasumi META is in fact pretty good for a Elite META ship. Her Torpedo buff for DDs is nice, but there are ships that do that better then Kasumi. Second thing: U-96 is a very good sub, if you have other iron blood subs she is pretty good. Enterprise and Illustrious are both good. Its hard to compare them because they fill different roles. Enterprise is a damage monster with her stupid skill, Illustrious is a supporter with her shield. Enterprise is still one of the strongest Carriers in the game, so I would get her instead of Illustrious. Illustrious is good for world 15 with her double fighter load out, but is not a must have. Doing the research for Ibuki after you finished roon is a good idea. Ibuki is probably the strongest pr1 ship atm with her new augment. Her preload torpedo dmg is just insane. Friedrich der große is strong, but without her fate simulation she feels more like a strong SR Battleship and not like a UR. Even with both of her fate sims she is still not as strong as New Jersey and alsace. She is not bad, her barrage is pretty good for mobbing and her 10k hp make her a good choice for the flagship position, she just doesn't compare to new Jersey or Alsace. And the last thing: Don't craft the Beehive gun! It's a meme gun with terrible dmg! The elite version of that gun is very good for barrage focused BBs and BCs. Don't use the SR version pls
I used Lusty on w13 and 14 in my boss fleets, her shield and heal with the augment module helped my vanguard to survive lethal and high danger, her dmg si abymal thou, i can agree. And FdG si a fantastic ship in mob fleets up until w15, i hear a lot of not strong this, not strong that, she is quite above the SR ships in performace, especially with her fate sim. Her proximity barrage is the next best thing after sliced bread on w14, i would like to see Alsace surviving there on lethal XD. As for the confetti gun, i think he should make one, every Azur Lane player should have one of those, but only one XD. I for example unironically use it on low lvl maps, if i have a BB or BC to put in the flagship position, but i want my vanguard or carriers to get the MVP at the end of the battle XD.
@Xelnage2006 Yay for walls of text XD Oh yes, I definitely saw quite a few vanguards with a similar passive, at least Kasumi's barrage is nice. I only have the starter sub and the Herring from prior event, so I think U-96 will fit right in, I may even replace Herring with some other Iron Blood sub alter on. So in short I am better off getting Illustrious to help me in world 15, but I will end up getting both anyway, since both are available in starter quest rewards, which I am yet to finish. I am also not entirely sure I want to give the mob fleet slot to Enterprise and my boss fleet is pretty much BB due to support barrages, which may be entirely inefficient XD. Oh Ibuki also got a dedicated augment recently that gives s on torpedo launch, so she will evade all attacks at the start of combat due to preload, so be it just for a moment. Friedrich der Große is a natural continuation of mini-Friedrich, who carried me through all maps so far - she does not die, she has a low-cooldown guaranteed barrage that covers entire screen, I'm in! Also I feel like keeping NJ and Alsace in a boss fleet right now. I will craft and use the beehive! Bees are amazing! Natural pollinators and they make honey. Feels like a huge waste of upgrade materials, but I want to try it out XD
@@hoodini04 Illustrious and fdg are both good ships I never said that they are bad. I use fdg myself. I wrote in my comment that fdg is good for mobbing and that she is very tanky. Her DMG output is just not on the level as alsace or new Jersey. And in my comment I said that fdg is not that strong without her fate sim (She is still better than most SR Battleships, she is just not as strong as some of the other URs). Illustrious is strong yes, but not a must have. I personally think that it doesn't make sense to compare a DMG dealer to a supporter. It would make more sense to compare Illustrious support capabilities to Unicorn or perseus. If I didn't make it clear enough fdg is still a UR and still a very strong ship. And yea the beehive is something every AL player has xD
@WhileIHaveElectricity Enterprise is good for Boss fleets. Her skill is not that good for mobbing. Ibuki is the best girl in the entire game, and everyone who says otherwise is wrong xD. Jokes aside, Ibuki is very good with her augment. For FdG, she is strong (she is a ur ship). She is not on the same dmg level as alsace and NJ. She takes a lot of time and resources to level, so be prepared for that. Little side note: all UR ships (except warspite) are very strong. Of course, not every UR is equal in strength. Some are better than others in certain situations. As an example: Ägir is one of the tankiest ships in the game, but because of her heavy armor, she melts in worlds with many torpedoes. In these worlds brest, azuma or Napoli are better choices than Ägir, because of their medium armor
@@Xelnage2006 Sorry, my comment came out more defensive than i meant it to be, im just sick and tired of reading all the tierlist sheeps dissing FdG as weak trash whenever a new UR BB comes out. She is and amazing ship, i hope we can agree on this. As the Lusty part of my comment, i just provided some other use case for her than w15 fighter slave in support fleet. A lot of people use her just for that, when she has sone niche other roles, like in fleet AA via fighters, or boosting the suvivability of the vanguard just enough to beat bosses, when you have enough dmg already. @WhileIHaveElectricity Also just a bit of a fun fact: teh cross fleet barrage of the gacha UR ships works even if you have one of each in both of your fleets. This is the reason i have 2 of each, and some times i build 2 fleets made of entirely gacha UR ships to go on w12 or 13, and enjoy the cross fleet barrage galore XD
Great video! I love to see the progress on your journey through Azur Lane. The maintenance and with it the new event will start on the 12th, and usually thursdays are maintenance time, with a few exeptions every year. To get a UR on its first banner, the pity is ar 200 pulls on her banner, not 200 cubes, and since big event banners are 2cubes/pull, you need 400 cubes for pity, thou i wish you get her on your first multi. Yes, META ships do not take up any dock space, fortunately, it is a fairly recent improvement. They have in my opinion the best base designs in the game, and the most mediocre performace, they are quite weak compared to regular SR ships, with a few exeptions, they are for collection purposes only, and Wichita META is a particularly bad ship unfortuantely. Lets hope Nagato META will be at least usable. We get a new purple META ship with each season of the cruise pass, and a new gold one with each season of bullying one trhough OPSi, and occasionally some in events as the B/D3 drop and 0.5% rate up in banners. For the gear, you have a lot of decent gear unclamied in various places, like the newbie thing in your main screen, and the stage completion rewards, you always skip. XD Those are really good, since they are already at +6, you dont need to put coins in them to be usable. Suisei is not really a good fighter, you are better off with purple Hellcats and F4U Corsairs from 3-4. The gold Twin 410mm is a meme gun, make one, try it out, and you will know why, the purple version is a decent one for BB-s with barrages on main gun volley activation. The High Performance Hydraulic Steering Gear, or the washing machine as we call it is the best thing you can put on a heavy cruiser, make as much as you can, they are always on high demand. For main fleet ships, putting HP grear on them is pointless, they are dmg dealers, they need FP/AVI, and HIT, you can always use the purple fire radars until you have the black and white shells from the core shop, or the gold radars. The toolkits are best to put on low base HP ships, like DD-s and CL-s, it will help them survive much more. As for Unicorn, please prioritise her retrofit, it will give her a preloaded air strike, and she will heal the most damaged ship in the main fleet too with her first one, so she will heal a lot more up front at the start of each battle, and her dmg potential is way higher with the extra air strike. And Laffey too, she will carry you up to ch11 with her retrofit. Ibuki as your TORP beast is a good choice, she got a new augment module too, but she needs Noshiro to each her maximum potential, and she is quite fragile for a CA, she is basically a TORP heavy glass cannon, best used as manual boss killer. Saratoga is also a good ship, but again, she needs her retrofit and augment module to be competitive, both of those are a huge coin sink. In the cruise pass, you got those blue combat data packs, different form teh exp packs, you can use them as substitute for the exp grind on PR ships. I dont know how hey work exactly, never used them, but it will help with the grind on the early PR ships. Thats all i have from the top of my head, if you have any questions, ask away, or what would be a more convenient method is through Discord, if you have a server. Wish you all the luck fro Amagi on thursday!!
@hoodini04 Thanks man! I'm loving it so far! I actually recorded this a week ago thinking the UR event was going to start then, not entirely sure where I got that notion. Completely forgot about 400 cubes, I guess I am no at safe as I thought, I'll have to pray to RNJesus for Amagi. Good luck with her too! I do like METAs, especially for the skills levelling up through gameplay. I actually used Foch META ever since I got her, she has a decent barrage, but until recent I did not notice the massive oil cost. These METAs are oil guzzlers and I don't think I would have used one, if I realised the cost immediately, though it does not matter for later stages as much with oil caps. I am yet to try out Wichita meta, though I don't feel too good about skills. I looked at Nagato META skills and she feels like a support for Sakura ships/vanguard ships, though she does have a barrage at least. Oh ye the unclaimed stuffs, I wanted them there for a video pretty much, I am yet to make the said video XD. Sad to hear about Suisei! I am a fan of Hellcats actually, though F4U is probably a better idea, since these are upgradable into flappy boys. I am enticed by the bees, but something tells me the individual shrapnel damage does not stack or is only somewhat usable on massive enemies. And yes, I am using the Elite version of this gun for my colley->barrage BB/BCs. I will switch to washing machines, when I feel like my vanguard loses HP too quick, so far I can just make two though. I am starting to get some damage items for main fleet, so far just the carrier ones! I do have a couple of shells, but I don't think these are the same as shells from prototype shop. I think I want to stick to what I have for now for BB/BC items, though I will get some damage items in, if I feel lacking in that department! I don't mind spending some plates, unless they are purple. I will probably just start buying the prototype shells and just upgrade the stuff I want keep in the long run. I am definitely prioritizing Laffey and Unicorn for retrofit, followed closely by Saratoga. It looks like the augments will cost 20-25k a pop to max out, but it's not that much, my gold usually overflows anyway. I will try out Ibuki, but for now I am levelling up Kawakaze, who is supposedly fulfilling the same task. I looked it up and apparently I can get Noshiro from the archives, so I may end up trying her out. Oh the combat data? I think those can be converted into blueprints to buy out the good stuff from the core data shop. Getting EXP for combat task seems decently easy, should be doable in a few evenings of focused grind, Roon didn't take me too long. Good luck on Amagi too!
@@WhileIHaveElectricity Absolutely valid point on the combat data, i just pointed it out, in case you didn't know what it is for. For Ibuki and Kawakaze, i would say Ayanami retro is closer to what Ibuki should be, but if you want an Ibuki equivalent in DD form, Shimakaze is the winner. In general IJN vanguards are the TORP marsters, with low AA and HP, thou there are a few who fill those nieches too. The importance of the BB aux gear will come soon for you, as you are tipping your toes in to the DD hell chapters, they will need a LOT of HIT and FP stats to actually hit the high EVA enemies, and those few hits should be hard. And at the same time, you need to boost the survivability of your vanguards, the high TORP enemy DD-s can melt your front whitout massive over lvl-ing, and the right fleet compostion (CA-s and CL-s take more TORP dmg than DD-s, and have naturally lower EVA too). Chapter 10 is the worst, with all of its bosses are DD-s, and 10-4 having the worst boss ever. The black and white shells are not in teh prototype shop, but in the core shop, the one with the currencxy from the hard mode maps. There are 2 of those, one wiht the skins and soem good limited aux gear, the other refreshes monthly, it has ships you can only get from here, gear boxes up to the rainbow variant, limited 1 per month, and a bunch of gear, among them the best submarine aux, some old evet limited gear, and teh most useful aux gear in the game. The prototype shop has the rainbow bulins, old UR retrofit items, and the juicy rainbow gear form PR research thou 2 of those are in the gear lab too. I would advise you to look areund carefully in all the various shops, all of them have a lot of ships, some of them are still quite useful, and a lot of them obtainable only via these shops. So beware, if you buy a ship from here, and accidentally crap her, you lost that ship forever. Yes, META ships have higher oil cost than their normal counterparts, mainly because the rarity upgrade, and Foch is a CA, so yes, she is costly to field. In general, past chapter 9, with the oil cap, teh best xp/oil ratio is on the 3rd stage, the best coin/oil ratio is on the last stage. And chapter 12 and up has SR ships as drops on teh last stage, so it has the added benefit of getting the occasional medal boost too. Thanks with the good luck, but i think you need that more than me, i have over 1500 cubes, i need coins more than luck😅. Between PR research, retrofits, and the occasional augment module development, my coins are constantly below 100k, and before big events i usually tone down the faming too, to have the oil prepared to grind😆. Anyways, hope i helped, and check out the new Belfast skin coming out during the first batch after maintenance, it is something else🙃.
Unfortunately the META ships are not that strong with the exception of Helena, Jintsuu and U-556 (these 3 can be used on end game content with no problem) but their design are really fire. Its so good seeing someone's journey in azur lane since its my favorite gacha, glad you are enjoying it so far, AL is a really hard grinding game and take it a lot of time to get things done. No need to worry about the god tier ships until you reach chapter 9 (can still be cleared even with non meta ships but it will be hard) so enjoy your favorite ships with no worry until there :)
@LawlietKim Absolutely agree on META designs, but I do prefer how the skills lvl up by playing on them, as opposed to academy. Tehy may not be as strong kit/stat-wise, but still decent. Agree on Helena META, I am grinding for her.
@lawrenceallen2627 Congrats! I decided not to pull for her, conserving cubes for UR event! I can only applaud your size (your bank account and cube storage)
Wall of text time xD
Kasumi META is in fact pretty good for a Elite META ship. Her Torpedo buff for DDs is nice, but there are ships that do that better then Kasumi.
Second thing: U-96 is a very good sub, if you have other iron blood subs she is pretty good.
Enterprise and Illustrious are both good. Its hard to compare them because they fill different roles. Enterprise is a damage monster with her stupid skill, Illustrious is a supporter with her shield. Enterprise is still one of the strongest Carriers in the game, so I would get her instead of Illustrious. Illustrious is good for world 15 with her double fighter load out, but is not a must have.
Doing the research for Ibuki after you finished roon is a good idea. Ibuki is probably the strongest pr1 ship atm with her new augment. Her preload torpedo dmg is just insane.
Friedrich der große is strong, but without her fate simulation she feels more like a strong SR Battleship and not like a UR. Even with both of her fate sims she is still not as strong as New Jersey and alsace. She is not bad, her barrage is pretty good for mobbing and her 10k hp make her a good choice for the flagship position, she just doesn't compare to new Jersey or Alsace.
And the last thing: Don't craft the Beehive gun! It's a meme gun with terrible dmg! The elite version of that gun is very good for barrage focused BBs and BCs. Don't use the SR version pls
I used Lusty on w13 and 14 in my boss fleets, her shield and heal with the augment module helped my vanguard to survive lethal and high danger, her dmg si abymal thou, i can agree. And FdG si a fantastic ship in mob fleets up until w15, i hear a lot of not strong this, not strong that, she is quite above the SR ships in performace, especially with her fate sim. Her proximity barrage is the next best thing after sliced bread on w14, i would like to see Alsace surviving there on lethal XD. As for the confetti gun, i think he should make one, every Azur Lane player should have one of those, but only one XD. I for example unironically use it on low lvl maps, if i have a BB or BC to put in the flagship position, but i want my vanguard or carriers to get the MVP at the end of the battle XD.
@Xelnage2006 Yay for walls of text XD
Oh yes, I definitely saw quite a few vanguards with a similar passive, at least Kasumi's barrage is nice.
I only have the starter sub and the Herring from prior event, so I think U-96 will fit right in, I may even replace Herring with some other Iron Blood sub alter on.
So in short I am better off getting Illustrious to help me in world 15, but I will end up getting both anyway, since both are available in starter quest rewards, which I am yet to finish. I am also not entirely sure I want to give the mob fleet slot to Enterprise and my boss fleet is pretty much BB due to support barrages, which may be entirely inefficient XD.
Oh Ibuki also got a dedicated augment recently that gives s on torpedo launch, so she will evade all attacks at the start of combat due to preload, so be it just for a moment.
Friedrich der Große is a natural continuation of mini-Friedrich, who carried me through all maps so far - she does not die, she has a low-cooldown guaranteed barrage that covers entire screen, I'm in! Also I feel like keeping NJ and Alsace in a boss fleet right now.
I will craft and use the beehive! Bees are amazing! Natural pollinators and they make honey. Feels like a huge waste of upgrade materials, but I want to try it out XD
@@hoodini04 Illustrious and fdg are both good ships I never said that they are bad. I use fdg myself. I wrote in my comment that fdg is good for mobbing and that she is very tanky. Her DMG output is just not on the level as alsace or new Jersey. And in my comment I said that fdg is not that strong without her fate sim (She is still better than most SR Battleships, she is just not as strong as some of the other URs). Illustrious is strong yes, but not a must have. I personally think that it doesn't make sense to compare a DMG dealer to a supporter. It would make more sense to compare Illustrious support capabilities to Unicorn or perseus. If I didn't make it clear enough fdg is still a UR and still a very strong ship. And yea the beehive is something every AL player has xD
@WhileIHaveElectricity Enterprise is good for Boss fleets. Her skill is not that good for mobbing.
Ibuki is the best girl in the entire game, and everyone who says otherwise is wrong xD. Jokes aside, Ibuki is very good with her augment.
For FdG, she is strong (she is a ur ship). She is not on the same dmg level as alsace and NJ. She takes a lot of time and resources to level, so be prepared for that.
Little side note: all UR ships (except warspite) are very strong. Of course, not every UR is equal in strength. Some are better than others in certain situations. As an example: Ägir is one of the tankiest ships in the game, but because of her heavy armor, she melts in worlds with many torpedoes. In these worlds brest, azuma or Napoli are better choices than Ägir, because of their medium armor
@@Xelnage2006 Sorry, my comment came out more defensive than i meant it to be, im just sick and tired of reading all the tierlist sheeps dissing FdG as weak trash whenever a new UR BB comes out. She is and amazing ship, i hope we can agree on this. As the Lusty part of my comment, i just provided some other use case for her than w15 fighter slave in support fleet. A lot of people use her just for that, when she has sone niche other roles, like in fleet AA via fighters, or boosting the suvivability of the vanguard just enough to beat bosses, when you have enough dmg already.
@WhileIHaveElectricity Also just a bit of a fun fact: teh cross fleet barrage of the gacha UR ships works even if you have one of each in both of your fleets. This is the reason i have 2 of each, and some times i build 2 fleets made of entirely gacha UR ships to go on w12 or 13, and enjoy the cross fleet barrage galore XD
Great video! I love to see the progress on your journey through Azur Lane.
The maintenance and with it the new event will start on the 12th, and usually thursdays are maintenance time, with a few exeptions every year. To get a UR on its first banner, the pity is ar 200 pulls on her banner, not 200 cubes, and since big event banners are 2cubes/pull, you need 400 cubes for pity, thou i wish you get her on your first multi.
Yes, META ships do not take up any dock space, fortunately, it is a fairly recent improvement. They have in my opinion the best base designs in the game, and the most mediocre performace, they are quite weak compared to regular SR ships, with a few exeptions, they are for collection purposes only, and Wichita META is a particularly bad ship unfortuantely. Lets hope Nagato META will be at least usable. We get a new purple META ship with each season of the cruise pass, and a new gold one with each season of bullying one trhough OPSi, and occasionally some in events as the B/D3 drop and 0.5% rate up in banners.
For the gear, you have a lot of decent gear unclamied in various places, like the newbie thing in your main screen, and the stage completion rewards, you always skip. XD Those are really good, since they are already at +6, you dont need to put coins in them to be usable. Suisei is not really a good fighter, you are better off with purple Hellcats and F4U Corsairs from 3-4. The gold Twin 410mm is a meme gun, make one, try it out, and you will know why, the purple version is a decent one for BB-s with barrages on main gun volley activation. The High Performance Hydraulic Steering Gear, or the washing machine as we call it is the best thing you can put on a heavy cruiser, make as much as you can, they are always on high demand. For main fleet ships, putting HP grear on them is pointless, they are dmg dealers, they need FP/AVI, and HIT, you can always use the purple fire radars until you have the black and white shells from the core shop, or the gold radars. The toolkits are best to put on low base HP ships, like DD-s and CL-s, it will help them survive much more.
As for Unicorn, please prioritise her retrofit, it will give her a preloaded air strike, and she will heal the most damaged ship in the main fleet too with her first one, so she will heal a lot more up front at the start of each battle, and her dmg potential is way higher with the extra air strike. And Laffey too, she will carry you up to ch11 with her retrofit. Ibuki as your TORP beast is a good choice, she got a new augment module too, but she needs Noshiro to each her maximum potential, and she is quite fragile for a CA, she is basically a TORP heavy glass cannon, best used as manual boss killer. Saratoga is also a good ship, but again, she needs her retrofit and augment module to be competitive, both of those are a huge coin sink.
In the cruise pass, you got those blue combat data packs, different form teh exp packs, you can use them as substitute for the exp grind on PR ships. I dont know how hey work exactly, never used them, but it will help with the grind on the early PR ships.
Thats all i have from the top of my head, if you have any questions, ask away, or what would be a more convenient method is through Discord, if you have a server.
Wish you all the luck fro Amagi on thursday!!
@hoodini04 Thanks man! I'm loving it so far!
I actually recorded this a week ago thinking the UR event was going to start then, not entirely sure where I got that notion. Completely forgot about 400 cubes, I guess I am no at safe as I thought, I'll have to pray to RNJesus for Amagi. Good luck with her too!
I do like METAs, especially for the skills levelling up through gameplay. I actually used Foch META ever since I got her, she has a decent barrage, but until recent I did not notice the massive oil cost. These METAs are oil guzzlers and I don't think I would have used one, if I realised the cost immediately, though it does not matter for later stages as much with oil caps. I am yet to try out Wichita meta, though I don't feel too good about skills. I looked at Nagato META skills and she feels like a support for Sakura ships/vanguard ships, though she does have a barrage at least.
Oh ye the unclaimed stuffs, I wanted them there for a video pretty much, I am yet to make the said video XD. Sad to hear about Suisei! I am a fan of Hellcats actually, though F4U is probably a better idea, since these are upgradable into flappy boys. I am enticed by the bees, but something tells me the individual shrapnel damage does not stack or is only somewhat usable on massive enemies. And yes, I am using the Elite version of this gun for my colley->barrage BB/BCs. I will switch to washing machines, when I feel like my vanguard loses HP too quick, so far I can just make two though. I am starting to get some damage items for main fleet, so far just the carrier ones! I do have a couple of shells, but I don't think these are the same as shells from prototype shop. I think I want to stick to what I have for now for BB/BC items, though I will get some damage items in, if I feel lacking in that department! I don't mind spending some plates, unless they are purple. I will probably just start buying the prototype shells and just upgrade the stuff I want keep in the long run.
I am definitely prioritizing Laffey and Unicorn for retrofit, followed closely by Saratoga. It looks like the augments will cost 20-25k a pop to max out, but it's not that much, my gold usually overflows anyway. I will try out Ibuki, but for now I am levelling up Kawakaze, who is supposedly fulfilling the same task. I looked it up and apparently I can get Noshiro from the archives, so I may end up trying her out.
Oh the combat data? I think those can be converted into blueprints to buy out the good stuff from the core data shop. Getting EXP for combat task seems decently easy, should be doable in a few evenings of focused grind, Roon didn't take me too long.
Good luck on Amagi too!
@@WhileIHaveElectricity
Absolutely valid point on the combat data, i just pointed it out, in case you didn't know what it is for.
For Ibuki and Kawakaze, i would say Ayanami retro is closer to what Ibuki should be, but if you want an Ibuki equivalent in DD form, Shimakaze is the winner. In general IJN vanguards are the TORP marsters, with low AA and HP, thou there are a few who fill those nieches too.
The importance of the BB aux gear will come soon for you, as you are tipping your toes in to the DD hell chapters, they will need a LOT of HIT and FP stats to actually hit the high EVA enemies, and those few hits should be hard. And at the same time, you need to boost the survivability of your vanguards, the high TORP enemy DD-s can melt your front whitout massive over lvl-ing, and the right fleet compostion (CA-s and CL-s take more TORP dmg than DD-s, and have naturally lower EVA too). Chapter 10 is the worst, with all of its bosses are DD-s, and 10-4 having the worst boss ever. The black and white shells are not in teh prototype shop, but in the core shop, the one with the currencxy from the hard mode maps. There are 2 of those, one wiht the skins and soem good limited aux gear, the other refreshes monthly, it has ships you can only get from here, gear boxes up to the rainbow variant, limited 1 per month, and a bunch of gear, among them the best submarine aux, some old evet limited gear, and teh most useful aux gear in the game. The prototype shop has the rainbow bulins, old UR retrofit items, and the juicy rainbow gear form PR research thou 2 of those are in the gear lab too. I would advise you to look areund carefully in all the various shops, all of them have a lot of ships, some of them are still quite useful, and a lot of them obtainable only via these shops. So beware, if you buy a ship from here, and accidentally crap her, you lost that ship forever.
Yes, META ships have higher oil cost than their normal counterparts, mainly because the rarity upgrade, and Foch is a CA, so yes, she is costly to field. In general, past chapter 9, with the oil cap, teh best xp/oil ratio is on the 3rd stage, the best coin/oil ratio is on the last stage. And chapter 12 and up has SR ships as drops on teh last stage, so it has the added benefit of getting the occasional medal boost too.
Thanks with the good luck, but i think you need that more than me, i have over 1500 cubes, i need coins more than luck😅. Between PR research, retrofits, and the occasional augment module development, my coins are constantly below 100k, and before big events i usually tone down the faming too, to have the oil prepared to grind😆.
Anyways, hope i helped, and check out the new Belfast skin coming out during the first batch after maintenance, it is something else🙃.
Unfortunately the META ships are not that strong with the exception of Helena, Jintsuu and U-556 (these 3 can be used on end game content with no problem) but their design are really fire. Its so good seeing someone's journey in azur lane since its my favorite gacha, glad you are enjoying it so far, AL is a really hard grinding game and take it a lot of time to get things done. No need to worry about the god tier ships until you reach chapter 9 (can still be cleared even with non meta ships but it will be hard) so enjoy your favorite ships with no worry until there :)
@LawlietKim Absolutely agree on META designs, but I do prefer how the skills lvl up by playing on them, as opposed to academy. Tehy may not be as strong kit/stat-wise, but still decent. Agree on Helena META, I am grinding for her.
I got Zuihou in the first ten pull and i also have 582 cubes and 165,110 coins
@lawrenceallen2627 Congrats! I decided not to pull for her, conserving cubes for UR event! I can only applaud your size (your bank account and cube storage)
soon, best holy floof will grace us with her presence (╯˘ -˘ )╯
@Kracovia809 Praise the holy floof!