EDIT 10/15/2021: With the map oil/gold adjustment overhaul, 7-2 is no longer that good for coin farming. Instead, I would suggest 12-4 as it grants a massive ~2000 gold per run now! EDIT 9/15/2021: With the introduction of Yuudachi Retrofit, she's very strong now, I would highly suggest farming a copy of *best dog* now. (Stage 6-4) Timestamps, BlueStacks, and Discord: Chapter 3: 3-2 (Purple Steam Catapult + SB2C Helldiver) - 1:02 3-4 (Akagi/Kaga, Purple Repair Toolkit + Purple F4U Corsair) - 3:52 Chapter 4: 4-3 (Erebus/Terror) - 6:52 4-4 (Unicorn/Cleveland) - 7:24 Chapter 5: 5-1 (Helena + Gold/Purple Twin 127mm) - 8:27 5-2 (Queen Elizabeth + Gold Hellcat) - 9:32 5-4 (Rodney/Nelson, Unicorn + Gold Bofors) - 10:40 Chapter 6: 6-1 (Vestal, Helena + Gold SG Radar) - 11:45 6-4 (Yuudachi *best dog* + Gold 610mm Torpedo) - 13:24 Chapter 7: 7-2 (THE BEST OVERALL, TONS OF GOLD + GOLD ROOMBA) - 14:17 Chapter 8: 8-1 (Inazuma aka Rem) - 15:55 8-2 (Ikazuchi aka Ram) - 16:04 8-4 (Maya aka the white-haired Takao sister) - 16:11 Chapter 9: 9-3 (Nicholas) - 16:22 Chapter 10: 10-2 (Honolulu) - 16:50 10-4 (JINTSUU) - 17:04 Chapter 11: 11-2 (Agano + Good XP) - 18:26 11-3 (Sendai) - 18:40 11-4 (Columbia) - 19:02 Chapter 12: 12-4 (Choukai + The best for PR XP farming) - 19:19 Chapter 13: you’re crazy Top 3 Stages to Farm (TLDR) - 20:32 #3 - Stage 3-4, for the two amazing carriers Akagi/Kaga, the super versatile Repair Toolkit, and the budget-friendly F4U Corsair #2 - Stage 12-4, for Choukai, A TON OF GOLD and for the most amount of experience which is amazing for PR grinding (THE NEW BEST STAGE FOR BASICALLY EVERYTHING) -#1 - Stage 7-2, for the amazing amount of gold-the general ease of farming, and the Gold Roomba- Affiliate Link: BlueStacks (the emulator I use to play Azur Lane on PC) - bstk.me/o1V6qD1Yc *This channel will get a small commission for every download, so this is a way to support me in my conquest to get a new mic + IT'S COMPLETELY FREE! Discord Server Link: discord.gg/eEAEZnw
What about St. Louis? Is she not farmable from Chapter 10-3? Also, thanks for posting this! I've been playing Azur Lane since Jan. of this year, and I didn't know about 7-2 at all!
Combine Retro Sara and Enty for max F You damage. If both of their skills pop, itll clear the whole screen. Best for PvE but I've found it viable in PvP if you got a really good BB for as flagship
Theres a Sara promo, to get her you just need to Buy Gems, which I do recommend the $0.99. Less than dollar for Sara while also getting X2 Gems, it's a steal imo especially for early game.
@@generic_fox43 I dropped Satatoga(r) for LIttle Illustrious. Paired with Ent (lvl 8+ on both) is pretty much instant win PvE or PvP soon as Lucky E and Take Off! proc (usually do same time).
@@jordzking6330Time to rub some salt in your wounds, I got kaga after 3 days of farming. I started AL back in Dec 2023, just got Kaga just this Tuesday
Guess that's relatable for everyone playing the game longer than 4 weeks. I had times where blue aux plates were even more rare than purple ones though... well... if I would spread out on aux gear as I most likely should, I guess I would still have this problem... ^^
@@ItsAnderYTThose things go so fast, btw kind of out subject but did you use North Carolina before, if yes is she good, I thought I'd use her with my Monarch and E
@@rollsross8570 I've been leveling her up a lot to test her for Chapter 13 lately. She sounds perfect for Chapter 13, but I still haven't gotten around to testing her enough yet.
You forgot to mention that 3-2 also has the 2nd best non-research/non-event DD Gun (Single 127mm) with almost the same DPS as the Twin 127mm but has more RoF so it's good for barrage focused DDs/CLs that also want good DPS like An Shan Class and Z23. Purple Steam Catapult is the 4th best for CVs, but it's still the most accessible so it's worth farmijg for if you don't have the others(3rd is Purple Aviation Tank, giving the same AVI stats and more, 2nd is the Homie Bacon, decreasing airstrike cooldown by 4% and the best would be Gold Steam Catapult).
The cooldown in Homing Beacon usually won't make any difference. You're going to drop each airstrike 1 or 2 times depending on the stage and the CD on the Beacon isn't big enough to allow you to drop an additional strike. The main usage is if you want to fine tune a specific ship's airstrike to synchronize with another ship's skill, airstrike or barrage (especially on auto mode). Otherwise, the AV tank is still better in general.
As a player with one and a half year experience in game who cleared all chapters, I do not recommend farming maps for gear, because it is pointless. I would just go for waifu and move on. You can get good gear from golden boxes, core data shop and research. The only time you want to farm gear is event limited gear like French Gun. About 12-4 for XP farming I would say it's good if you're missing Choukai. As soon as you get her you can switch do 12-1. It's a lot easier than 12-4 and the difference in XP is minimal (12-4 - 113 lvl mob fleets and 845 base XP, 12-1 - 107 lvl mob fleets and 825 base XP). You can also do 12-2 if you're too lazy to reduce danger level in 12-1 to safe. The rest of the Guide sounds good to me.
It depends really, if the Shipfu you want has abysmal drop chances, you might end up retroactively farming for that nodes gear regardless. When I farmed 3-4 I didn't get the ships, but I did get a ton of repair kits and other nice stuff.
@@mxtung4209 yes, it's RNG in boxes, the RNG grinding stages is honestly worse. I've grinded 7-2 a LOT (most of my Izumo and Neptune grinds were here) and of the 4x gold Twin 113mm AA guns I have, not a single one of them are from 7-2. I've gotten enough blueprints from research for 1 and 3 out of gold boxes. I've gotten a total of 5/15 needed to make one from 7-2 and I am currently sitting at 9/15. I've got about a years worth of play, played most of last year, left January this year and just came back a week ago, and I have 8x gold Barracuda's. You just need to open gold boxes. Watch the shop and buy bundles of gold boxes when they're on sale, also buy them from the event store shops when you can. Concentrate on Royal Navy boxes if you're looking for Barracudas and the Twin 113mm AA, you'll get them. Of course, you'll get a lot more of the purple versions of them than the gold ones, but you will get the gold ones too. I've also gotten a total of 8 gold Seafang fighters between Royal boxes and research, which are basically on par with the F6F Hellcat. Go for Eagle Union boxes if you want the gold Twin 127mm DD gun, the F6F Hellcat, SB2C Helldiver, gold Quad 40mm Bofors and Tripple 406mm MK6 BB gun. Go for Sakura boxes if you need the Tripple 155mm (Belfast gun) and the gold Quad 610mm Torpedo launcher. Focus on Iron Blood boxes if you need the Twin 203mm (Eugen gun) and Twin 105mm AA.
Please, don't tell people to not farm equipment. It's okay if you don't like it, but it's a horribly bad advice to give. I've started the game not long ago, have opened to this point almost like a thousand purple and gold boxes. All they contain is blue DD guns and the occasional trash purple DD gun. If I have followed your advice, I'd LITERALLY have no gear to put on my otherwise T0 and T1 ships I have managed to find in my first 2 weeks of gameplay. I'd have blue airplanes and white main guns on ships like Essex, Kii, London Retrofit, and so on, and so on. I'd be in serious trouble with the current event for example, I couldn't finish T6 with the equipment I got from those boxes. Relying on those dumb boxes is the greatest mistake I can imagine, several times worse than using a Bulin as a vanguard ship. After like 3 weeks I stopped opening those boxes, because they worthless. I no longer feel that I should open them. It's just junk, a literal waste of time clicking them even if you have hundreds of them.
On 7-3 there's also a great ship that can be use on chapter 12, 13 called isuzu. her retrofit is very power at against plans. (if you can't get san diego retrofit. isuzu retrofit is the best option for replace san diego retrofit) btw compare to the difficulty, 11-1 is the great place for farm exp also. 11-1 is kinda same with 10-4, but it give more exp than 10-4. so 7-2 (beginner) and 11-1 are two best place for exp farming.
I got crazy lucky with Rng, Kaga dropped on my first try of the Chapter 3 submarine tutorial mission which at that point my account was only 5 days old. Akagi dropped roughly 10-15 rounds later, also from the submarine alert on the same chapter. Thanks for the guide!!!
I really recommend 7-3, cause you can get Isuzu, one of the best AA Light Cruiser(post retrofitted) in the game, she is the IJN of San Diego on a cheaper cost and is only slightly weaker to Sandy and Seattle. I use her at LvL98 in Chapter 12(safe) and she destroy everything herself, leaving Atago and Takao freely rampage the surface fleet. However, if you think farming Choukai is hard, wait till you farm Isuzu. I took me longer, so much longer that I gone numb farming her. Some people are lucky, I am not. After I got my 1st Isuzu, I never touch 7-3 ever again.
Fairly concise guide for a newcomer, although I do believe you over-sold how good Akagi and Kaga actually are. While they are perfectly capable carriers for a new player, without Nagato the fox sisters drop sharply in effectiveness later on, primarily because their skills are extremely bad for being gold rarity ships. Hell, this is true for most older Sakura ships. Here's to hoping the hint about possibly improving older ships that was teased about during the anniversary livestream means the two fox sisters will be getting some love.
Akagi's skill that requires Kaga also works with Kaga BB from Crimson Echoes so if you have her then there's no need to stress out over not being able to get regular Kaga in fox mines
hopefully along with the timestamps I've made it's as clear-cut as possible! My goal is to get people the information they want quickly and descriptively, so I'm glad that it seems to be that way.
As a veteran player,im say that this video is wonderful! Nice explanations about the equipments and item drops. Hope for more videos and good luck for incoming new French event! Richelieu, Algerie here i come!
Goddammit man why did you had to put Admiral's Hipper "HA?!" on a loop with such earblasting volume whenever she's on screen? What do you mean I'm just hearing the image?!
I had a hard time understanding because the speech speed was a little too fast in some parts (not English native speaker), I had to listen back and forth to understand some parts, but the content helped me a lot. Thanks.
hey man commenting from the year 2023~ I hope you are well! I hope you make an update to this cool guide that was very helpful to me when I was starting out~
Personal tip: if you guys really want Akagi and Kaga, try your luck at SOS. I got them both from there in just 1 month and 3 weeks of playing this game. The drops are crap but trying your luck there maybe, just maybe, will give you the AKaga
That was a really well made video, hats off. You explain stuff in a very structured, calm manner whilst not sounding monotone. You got yourself a new sub. :)
Between you and niklasso, I'm well informed about ships, gears, farming places and equipment. Thank you! I'd really love if one day this game would be in spanish for all those people who like this game and its "Event Story" and don't know english. I have a good domain of english and I'm doing a translation of the "memorials" you get when playing events, campain, and so...
Aaaaaaaa thank you for the guide!!! I've been starting on this game slowly, and have been wanting a good guide explaining where or why to farm things, and you did both! Thank you so much!!!
Indeed a helpful video Ander, thank you so much! Although I have all the equipment listed, I still have to farm for Maya and Ikazuchi I guess I could simply skip Jintsuu since I got my lvl 120 Noshiro but since I am a Sakura Empire collector, gotta farm for her as well!
You should use the filter to find ships easier. Regarding 7-2 you should mention that the gold gear is only dropped by the flagship, people might mistakenly leave before the flagship and miss out. You should also mention since you went through each stage when gold boxes start becoming a boss/merchant fleet drop.
Amen to farming 12-4 have not been able to bust into chapter 13 yet so that has been the go to for all PR ships currently farming 12-3 to get all the Sakura empire ships
hahahah! Awesome! Thanks so much! I've always thought the Inazuma as Rem and Ikazuchi as Ram connection too. . . but my theory is Ram and Rem are cosplaying as Zero Two (Darling in the Franxx) to get Ikazuchi and Inazuma. :)
Hey man! I have been watching your videos to build my fleets and all is well now. Thanks for the guides! But what caught my attention the most is that you have a dock capacity of only 200, yet you're able to clear maps until 13. I was just wondering if you ever made a video of dock space management because I always run out of spaces every time I'm done grinding a stage for SSR shipfus, even though I have about 210 now. Thanks and have a nice day!
Best tip with Jintsuu is to clear 10-4 hard ASAP. Because she's a boss node only drop, having the ability to ignore all the mob fleets and challenge the boss three times a day is huge. It's how I got her to drop.
Stage 4-3 beside monitors is additionally good as it contains 3 purple blueprints needed for some research gear once player starts investing in it. To a smaller degree stages 7-3 and 6-1. Also missed honorable mention of Houshou from 7-4.
Sorry, I realise that it sounded like I was trying to say it was your fault that you didn’t have them, I was meaning it in terms of that I’ve just farmed the two stages way to much, especially for Maya. That did not come across how it sounded in my head.
@@ItsAnderYT Is just me or Gangut is super underrated? She is probably my best farming BB ever, she overheat after shooting 5 times, but you never shoot that much when rush farming, also she is a R so cost less oil
@@KiyoKiyoshi277 Gangut is absolutely amazing for farming. That skill that buffs her blue gun is absolutely incredible. If people are underrating her, they should reconsider that.
Love your content and been watching most of your videos since they're really helpful!! It would be nice if you can do a review on gear reccomendations for pr 1 ships..I'm getting roon soon and wondering what gears will be good for her..Done farming Monarch and Ibuki too Thanks
This might be a bad take from me, but I find that farming in AL is either a waste of time, a waste of oil, or both. You want XP? Just use the ships you want to level up. Daily missions, exercises, regular maps, hard maps, event maps, there are plenty of opportunities to level up your ships without resorting to boring farming. Also the passive XP gains are great, use the dorm and the big daily commission to prep your ships enough before using them if you need to. You want research XP for PR ships? Make sure to match the ships you want to level up and the category of ships required for the research XP, and here you go, two birds one stone. You want coins? You'll get plenty enough doing daily stuff and through mission rewards, it really stacks up quickly. You want a ship? Don't farm, just go back to the map regularly, unlock the map in hard mode, try raking up XP for your ships and for the research at the same time, three birds one stone. You want gear? Keep playing diligently, and you'll get it.
I kid you not, I've been farming 3-4 for a straight week, at least 9-10 hours per day and I still haven't gotten either Fox sister. I'm at my wits end, I've been getting some XP and Repair kits at least and some enhancement ships for my fleet, but god damn is it soul crushing seeing all that oil and time I've spent on getting these 2 ships.
This is a really helpful video, but I was wondering if it'd be possible to elaborate further. Surely it depends on how much time is gonna cost you making an expansion of this video, but here's the thing: so like, in my case, I find myself in a good spot in terms of battleships thanks to Richelieu and Tosa carrying me, and Monarch working her way up there as well. Problem is, let's leave aside tier lists, I'm generally kinda lost about other ships. Surely, you'd want Aircraft Carriers for that air superiority, but it tends to become oil expensive if you have to compensate weak gear with more ships, so I personally tend to not use any even if leavign Essex, Centaur, and Saratoga out makes me cry inside. I'm in a terrible spot for Heavy Cruisers as well, and I have way too many good Light Cruisers and Destroyers (and legit no decent Submarine). I also don't have a single Gold AA gun, nor I have the recommended purple one (believe it or not, but at least I'm 12/15 for the gold one in 5-4). So, TL;DR for someone like me stuck in 7-2 and mostly unable to do Hard modes, what would be the ideal kind of ships (not talking about specific characters, but the general kind) to have a good balance between oil efficiency and good DPS? Also, as your leveling through story (let's assume just story for simplicity) what should you look for to gear these ships? Like, considering I'd like to retrofit Ayanami, I'd farm 6-4 as I level her, 2 birds with 1 stone. Kind of a long and convoluted explanation, but that would be cool to see. I'm legit bouncing around between making San Diego and Helena retrofits, switching to Ayanami because she's also crazy good, farm gear here and there because why not, but I also need to focus on AA as my stuff is terrible. So yeah, kinda lost and doing this inefficiently, I'm actually getting nothing out of it, if not levels.
Also, don't forget those golden gears only drop from bosses (and Siren, but the campaign doesn't have those). Forgot once again mentioning 7-2, as restarting them over and over will net 0 gold roomba.
not even single jitsuu drop, i even manage to completed 4 pr ship (ibuki, kitakaze, azuma and monarc) from farming 10-4 only. omg, i still farm that stage to complete my beloved odin.
W13-4 farming is not practical for me outside of using very specific fleets. So yeah, if you want exp just stick with 12-4. It may be a bit weird due to the focus on airplanes after W11 asked you to focus on other things, however. If you're not in a hurry to get PR units, I'd recommend just doing 7-2 because of purple plates.
I remember trashing out my sb2c when I watched your guide I immediately put on all 10 of it on all my carriers No I know how enterprise Essex rocks with those helldiver
I burnt myself out back during the fox mines, still haven't gotten Akagi, and haven't really been able to catch up each time I came back. I feel lost every time I come back, and while I have quite a few high leveled shipfus, I have next to no idea who to use for any fleet. Every fleet I make kinda just feels off after I use them for like a half hour.
Ander I’m fairly new to the game currently at chapter 4, is this video of yours relevant to the current version of Azur Lane? If it is it would really help me a lot
Personally, I wouldn't farm for the Twin 100mm. Very few ships can use it well, so it wouldn't be worth the grind to get all the blueprints for it. Since it is not that versatile, I'd say just wait until you get it from a Gold Sakura Empire Equipment box. For a DD IJN fleet, Jintsuu is much better, especially after Retrofit. The buffs she gives to torpedo damage is absolutely insane, and she is able to dish out a lot of damage herself. Kawakaze is fine, but nowhere near as good as Jintsuu.
This is really gonna help me. About almost a month in now and I have been grinding whatever units I can. Suffice to say I have poor gold and oil management haha......ha. Did get kaga early though so there is that I guess
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EDIT 10/15/2021: With the map oil/gold adjustment overhaul, 7-2 is no longer that good for coin farming. Instead, I would suggest 12-4 as it grants a massive ~2000 gold per run now!
EDIT 9/15/2021: With the introduction of Yuudachi Retrofit, she's very strong now, I would highly suggest farming a copy of *best dog* now. (Stage 6-4)
Timestamps, BlueStacks, and Discord:
Chapter 3:
3-2 (Purple Steam Catapult + SB2C Helldiver) - 1:02
3-4 (Akagi/Kaga, Purple Repair Toolkit + Purple F4U Corsair) - 3:52
Chapter 4:
4-3 (Erebus/Terror) - 6:52
4-4 (Unicorn/Cleveland) - 7:24
Chapter 5:
5-1 (Helena + Gold/Purple Twin 127mm) - 8:27
5-2 (Queen Elizabeth + Gold Hellcat) - 9:32
5-4 (Rodney/Nelson, Unicorn + Gold Bofors) - 10:40
Chapter 6:
6-1 (Vestal, Helena + Gold SG Radar) - 11:45
6-4 (Yuudachi *best dog* + Gold 610mm Torpedo) - 13:24
Chapter 7:
7-2 (THE BEST OVERALL, TONS OF GOLD + GOLD ROOMBA) - 14:17
Chapter 8:
8-1 (Inazuma aka Rem) - 15:55
8-2 (Ikazuchi aka Ram) - 16:04
8-4 (Maya aka the white-haired Takao sister) - 16:11
Chapter 9:
9-3 (Nicholas) - 16:22
Chapter 10:
10-2 (Honolulu) - 16:50
10-4 (JINTSUU) - 17:04
Chapter 11:
11-2 (Agano + Good XP) - 18:26
11-3 (Sendai) - 18:40
11-4 (Columbia) - 19:02
Chapter 12:
12-4 (Choukai + The best for PR XP farming) - 19:19
Chapter 13:
you’re crazy
Top 3 Stages to Farm (TLDR) - 20:32
#3 - Stage 3-4, for the two amazing carriers Akagi/Kaga, the super versatile Repair Toolkit, and the budget-friendly F4U Corsair
#2 - Stage 12-4, for Choukai, A TON OF GOLD and for the most amount of experience which is amazing for PR grinding (THE NEW BEST STAGE FOR BASICALLY EVERYTHING)
-#1 - Stage 7-2, for the amazing amount of gold-the general ease of farming, and the Gold Roomba-
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What about St. Louis? Is she not farmable from Chapter 10-3? Also, thanks for posting this! I've been playing Azur Lane since Jan. of this year, and I didn't know about 7-2 at all!
@@lionel23 St. Louis is also farmable, but since she can also be built in the build pool, I didn't include her.
Personally I would add the farming nodes of 15cm SKC and 203mm Eugeun gun. It saved me a lot of time when I started a new account
Btw 7-2 also gives you purple Baracudas..
Man thanks for all of this tips
Recommended farming points: *Exists*
Events maps: "Pour all that oil over me, baby"
HAHAHAHAH damn boi xd
Missing Waifu's:
*Shouhou: 2-2, 2-3 and 2-4
*Souryuu: Chapter 3-1, 3-2 or 3-3, then 13-4
*Fusou and Yamashiro: 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 (also 6-SOS)
*Isuzu 7-3
*Houshou 7-4 (also 7-SOS)
*Jenkins & Radford 9-2
*Niizuki 9-4 (also 9-SOS)
*Hiyou 12-2 and 13-2
*Junyou 12-3 and 13-3
*Dewey 13-3
*Bunker Hell, I mean Hill 13-4
They appear only in A and C maps so Akatushi yes, Zuikaka no.
how dare you leave Nicholas out of the list
I left out everyone that's in the vid. Hence "missing".
I don't see any Bulins on that list
@@universalbulin9398 They were sacrificed limit breaking my post...
At least they are there in spirit, I suppose.
4-1 has Saratoga as a drop, one of the best carriers, so it's really recommended to farm as a newbie.
Combine Retro Sara and Enty for max F You damage. If both of their skills pop, itll clear the whole screen. Best for PvE but I've found it viable in PvP if you got a really good BB for as flagship
Theres a Sara promo, to get her you just need to Buy Gems, which I do recommend the $0.99. Less than dollar for Sara while also getting X2 Gems, it's a steal imo especially for early game.
@@generic_fox43 I dropped Satatoga(r) for LIttle Illustrious. Paired with Ent (lvl 8+ on both) is pretty much instant win PvE or PvP soon as Lucky E and Take Off! proc (usually do same time).
Glad i got 2 saratogas in 5 runs
my lvl 113 super buff retrofitted idol agrees with you
my voice is high again in the first second, i wonder if my video editing software is bugged lol
Just let it be that way, always get's a chuckle out of me that helium voice :D
LMAO i thought that was intentional. you should keep it.
I just noticed your voice volume is lower than other channels so I always ramp up the volume for you.
Oh man let it be, I dig it.
Nah your just hitting reaching adulthood
Akagi's also skill works with Kaga(BB) and Kaga's also work with Akagi-chan and Akagi(Muse)
Also repair ships have 4 AA guns each, since AA Gun +1
Oh ho, this is really useful info
May the RNGesus bless you
I don't even wanna hear about kaga and akagi I've lost hope on farming them
Damn, thanx for the info...i got all of the akagis type but i never get the kaga before
@@jordzking6330Time to rub some salt in your wounds, I got kaga after 3 days of farming. I started AL back in Dec 2023, just got Kaga just this Tuesday
*Gets all the gear needed*
Purple upgrade plates: I don't feel so good
No seriously Purple plates have become my biggest problem, farming them is hell
Guess that's relatable for everyone playing the game longer than 4 weeks. I had times where blue aux plates were even more rare than purple ones though... well... if I would spread out on aux gear as I most likely should, I guess I would still have this problem... ^^
honestly yeah, those purple general plates are always gone for me too. trying to upgrade a rainbow dildo to +10 takes so long...
@@ItsAnderYTThose things go so fast, btw kind of out subject but did you use North Carolina before, if yes is she good, I thought I'd use her with my Monarch and E
@@rollsross8570 I've been leveling her up a lot to test her for Chapter 13 lately. She sounds perfect for Chapter 13, but I still haven't gotten around to testing her enough yet.
@@ItsAnderYT Thanks, gonna try leveling her up anyway since I'm kinda getting bored
I literally was about to search for this on RUclips and then this pops up in my recommended... thanks Ander!
You're welcome!
Nice
Probly u should thank YT algorithm too lol
It happens to me too
Same
You forgot to mention that 3-2 also has the 2nd best non-research/non-event DD Gun (Single 127mm) with almost the same DPS as the Twin 127mm but has more RoF so it's good for barrage focused DDs/CLs that also want good DPS like An Shan Class and Z23. Purple Steam Catapult is the 4th best for CVs, but it's still the most accessible so it's worth farmijg for if you don't have the others(3rd is Purple Aviation Tank, giving the same AVI stats and more, 2nd is the Homie Bacon, decreasing airstrike cooldown by 4% and the best would be Gold Steam Catapult).
I didn't know about the 127mm, I guess I'll have to do some more research!
I FORGOT ABOUT THE HOMIE BACON TOO noooooo
The cooldown in Homing Beacon usually won't make any difference. You're going to drop each airstrike 1 or 2 times depending on the stage and the CD on the Beacon isn't big enough to allow you to drop an additional strike. The main usage is if you want to fine tune a specific ship's airstrike to synchronize with another ship's skill, airstrike or barrage (especially on auto mode). Otherwise, the AV tank is still better in general.
@@Homiloko2 Beacon is more for Unicorn and other CV/CVLs with proc on strike skills.
Was going to mention that gun being one of the best early game for DDs, glad someone else did.
@@Ishlacorrin Beacon is good for Unicorn?
As a player with one and a half year experience in game who cleared all chapters, I do not recommend farming maps for gear, because it is pointless. I would just go for waifu and move on. You can get good gear from golden boxes, core data shop and research. The only time you want to farm gear is event limited gear like French Gun.
About 12-4 for XP farming I would say it's good if you're missing Choukai. As soon as you get her you can switch do 12-1. It's a lot easier than 12-4 and the difference in XP is minimal (12-4 - 113 lvl mob fleets and 845 base XP, 12-1 - 107 lvl mob fleets and 825 base XP). You can also do 12-2 if you're too lazy to reduce danger level in 12-1 to safe.
The rest of the Guide sounds good to me.
It depends really, if the Shipfu you want has abysmal drop chances, you might end up retroactively farming for that nodes gear regardless. When I farmed 3-4 I didn't get the ships, but I did get a ton of repair kits and other nice stuff.
But its still nice to get gear along with the ships
Gear from boxes & PR are RNG heavies though. I've been playing for 6 months, and I've only gotten 1 Hellcat, and zero Barracuda.
@@mxtung4209 yes, it's RNG in boxes, the RNG grinding stages is honestly worse. I've grinded 7-2 a LOT (most of my Izumo and Neptune grinds were here) and of the 4x gold Twin 113mm AA guns I have, not a single one of them are from 7-2. I've gotten enough blueprints from research for 1 and 3 out of gold boxes. I've gotten a total of 5/15 needed to make one from 7-2 and I am currently sitting at 9/15. I've got about a years worth of play, played most of last year, left January this year and just came back a week ago, and I have 8x gold Barracuda's. You just need to open gold boxes. Watch the shop and buy bundles of gold boxes when they're on sale, also buy them from the event store shops when you can. Concentrate on Royal Navy boxes if you're looking for Barracudas and the Twin 113mm AA, you'll get them. Of course, you'll get a lot more of the purple versions of them than the gold ones, but you will get the gold ones too. I've also gotten a total of 8 gold Seafang fighters between Royal boxes and research, which are basically on par with the F6F Hellcat.
Go for Eagle Union boxes if you want the gold Twin 127mm DD gun, the F6F Hellcat, SB2C Helldiver, gold Quad 40mm Bofors and Tripple 406mm MK6 BB gun. Go for Sakura boxes if you need the Tripple 155mm (Belfast gun) and the gold Quad 610mm Torpedo launcher. Focus on Iron Blood boxes if you need the Twin 203mm (Eugen gun) and Twin 105mm AA.
Please, don't tell people to not farm equipment. It's okay if you don't like it, but it's a horribly bad advice to give.
I've started the game not long ago, have opened to this point almost like a thousand purple and gold boxes.
All they contain is blue DD guns and the occasional trash purple DD gun.
If I have followed your advice, I'd LITERALLY have no gear to put on my otherwise T0 and T1 ships I have managed to find in my first 2 weeks of gameplay. I'd have blue airplanes and white main guns on ships like Essex, Kii, London Retrofit, and so on, and so on.
I'd be in serious trouble with the current event for example, I couldn't finish T6 with the equipment I got from those boxes.
Relying on those dumb boxes is the greatest mistake I can imagine, several times worse than using a Bulin as a vanguard ship.
After like 3 weeks I stopped opening those boxes, because they worthless. I no longer feel that I should open them. It's just junk, a literal waste of time clicking them even if you have hundreds of them.
When you got to Maya at 16:14 I was expecting you to say "who is basically Emilia from Re:Zero"
15:43 Tfw 7-3 (Isuzu mines) doesn't have an honorable mention. _Sad shikikan noises_
I totally forgot about her! My bad.
Zoey crimson would freak if she saw that this wasnt in here she has been grinding that forever!! ;P
@@isaiaharmstrong1478 Really? Pour ssk she is (I also don't have her bc too many (consecutive) events to focus in main history xD)
I don't have her because I'm a newer player and I'm only at 5-1
@@isaiaharmstrong1478 ohhh well, u got there eventuality, I'm in 7-1 right now
i got my jintsuu on literally my first ever 10-4 run. saved me a lot of oil lol
I got my Erebus and Vestal on the first times I played those nodes,
All yesterday
Damn, I still can't get her drop. Ironically I got Akagi on 2nd 3-4 run and 4 runs later Kaga dropped lol.
16:22 Thank you for the shoutout Ander-senpai
haha, yw!
maybe I'll grind for Nicholas since she sounds like a pretty good waifu
@@ItsAnderYT she's Laffey 2.0 but instead of being drunk like Laffey, she's a pill-popper lol.
she's also a fletcher, so you also can use nicholas retrofit with fletcher and get pretty decent results
hey it's the guy in every hololive comment section xD
*sweating nervously*
On 7-3 there's also a great ship that can be use on chapter 12, 13 called isuzu. her retrofit is very power at against plans. (if you can't get san diego retrofit. isuzu retrofit is the best option for replace san diego retrofit) btw compare to the difficulty, 11-1 is the great place for farm exp also. 11-1 is kinda same with 10-4, but it give more exp than 10-4. so 7-2 (beginner) and 11-1 are two best place for exp farming.
I got crazy lucky with Rng, Kaga dropped on my first try of the Chapter 3 submarine tutorial mission which at that point my account was only 5 days old. Akagi dropped roughly 10-15 rounds later, also from the submarine alert on the same chapter.
Thanks for the guide!!!
I really recommend 7-3, cause you can get Isuzu, one of the best AA Light Cruiser(post retrofitted) in the game, she is the IJN of San Diego on a cheaper cost and is only slightly weaker to Sandy and Seattle. I use her at LvL98 in Chapter 12(safe) and she destroy everything herself, leaving Atago and Takao freely rampage the surface fleet. However, if you think farming Choukai is hard, wait till you farm Isuzu. I took me longer, so much longer that I gone numb farming her. Some people are lucky, I am not. After I got my 1st Isuzu, I never touch 7-3 ever again.
Fairly concise guide for a newcomer, although I do believe you over-sold how good Akagi and Kaga actually are. While they are perfectly capable carriers for a new player, without Nagato the fox sisters drop sharply in effectiveness later on, primarily because their skills are extremely bad for being gold rarity ships. Hell, this is true for most older Sakura ships. Here's to hoping the hint about possibly improving older ships that was teased about during the anniversary livestream means the two fox sisters will be getting some love.
Akagi's skill that requires Kaga also works with Kaga BB from Crimson Echoes so if you have her then there's no need to stress out over not being able to get regular Kaga in fox mines
Thank you for a very informative and straightforward guide... Most youtubers either don't talk or tell it directly to us.
hopefully along with the timestamps I've made it's as clear-cut as possible! My goal is to get people the information they want quickly and descriptively, so I'm glad that it seems to be that way.
20:33
Some italian guy in chat is writing "give me feets give me feets"
Giorno no, we don’t want another Kira incident.
Thanks Giorno for the translation!
Thank you once again. You've improved my newbe knowledge of this game and ability to tell good from bad gear by a huge lot.
As a veteran player,im say that this video is wonderful! Nice explanations about the equipments and item drops. Hope for more videos and good luck for incoming new French event! Richelieu, Algerie here i come!
As an Azur Lane newbie, this video was so indescribably helpful. Thank you very much!
Goddammit man why did you had to put Admiral's Hipper "HA?!" on a loop with such earblasting volume whenever she's on screen?
What do you mean I'm just hearing the image?!
I had a hard time understanding because the speech speed was a little too fast in some parts (not English native speaker), I had to listen back and forth to understand some parts, but the content helped me a lot. Thanks.
I made a tldw:
Stage Farm
2-2 to 2-4:
Ships: Shouhou (hard training quest)
3-2:
Gear: Steam Catapult and SB2C Helldiver (best divebomber)
Ships: Hiryuu (PVP)
3-4:
Gear: Repair Toolkit (best recovery gear) and F4U - Corsair(best purple fighter)
Ships: Akagi and Kaga (can be used in arena)
4-3:
Ships: Erebus and Terror (Infinite Darkness skill)
4-4:
Ships: Unicorn (one of the best support) and Cleveland (dps, fleet buff, aa)
5-1:
Gear: Gold Twin 127mm (top tier fp focused dd)
Ships: Helena (top tier light cruiser, debuff)
5-2:
Gear: Gold Hellcat
Ships: Queen Elizabeth (hms fleet, buff)
5-4:
Gear: Gold Quad Bofors AA gun
Ships: Unicorn (one of the best support), rodney and nelson (damage and stats)
6-1:
Gear: SG Radar (for bb/bs - eva + acc)
Ships: Vestal (repair ship) and helena (top tier light cruiser, debuff)
6-4:
Gear: Gold Quad 610mm torps (manual best torp)
Ships: Yuudachi (worse than laffey retrofit)
7-2 (Gold Mine):
Gear: Twin 133mm AA (roomba)
8-1:
Ships: Inazuma (looks like rem)
8-2:
Ships: Ikazuchi (looks like ram)
8-3:
Ships: Maya
9-3:
Ships: Nicholas
10-2:
Ships: Honolulu
10-4:
Ships: Jintsuu (torp buff, ijn fleet)
11-2:
Ships: Agano
11-3:
Ships: Sendai
11-4:
Ships: Columbia
12-4 (pr xpfarm):
Ships: Choukai
hey man commenting from the year 2023~ I hope you are well! I hope you make an update to this cool guide that was very helpful to me when I was starting out~
Personal tip: if you guys really want Akagi and Kaga, try your luck at SOS. I got them both from there in just 1 month and 3 weeks of playing this game. The drops are crap but trying your luck there maybe, just maybe, will give you the AKaga
The quest for neko repair (akashi) ship plus her cat paw is a must. Especially as it's a 100% to get best repair ship.
Thank you for the guide, bookmarking it till I can just remember by heart where to go. This vid really is helpful and I will be using it a LOT.
That was a really well made video, hats off. You explain stuff in a very structured, calm manner whilst not sounding monotone.
You got yourself a new sub. :)
I’m especially enjoying the Laid Back Camp OST in the background.
St. Louis drops from 10-3 who is also in light build but you can get your waifu here as well.
For someone who somehow opened video after 3 years of this video life ship from 6-4 now has good retrofit and u must got it
Between you and niklasso, I'm well informed about ships, gears, farming places and equipment. Thank you!
I'd really love if one day this game would be in spanish for all those people who like this game and its "Event Story" and don't know english. I have a good domain of english and I'm doing a translation of the "memorials" you get when playing events, campain, and so...
Aaaaaaaa thank you for the guide!!! I've been starting on this game slowly, and have been wanting a good guide explaining where or why to farm things, and you did both! Thank you so much!!!
Yes but, this video is 2 years ago :/
@@ghoulishpugold2348 This was my same exact thought. :/ Is there an updated version of this vid? Or are these Stages to farm still relevant?
@@franzuhle1146 no idea
If the term: "too useful" would exist, you'd be the perfect definition.
Indeed a helpful video Ander, thank you so much! Although I have all the equipment listed, I still have to farm for Maya and Ikazuchi I guess I could simply skip Jintsuu since I got my lvl 120 Noshiro but since I am a Sakura Empire collector, gotta farm for her as well!
You should use the filter to find ships easier. Regarding 7-2 you should mention that the gold gear is only dropped by the flagship, people might mistakenly leave before the flagship and miss out. You should also mention since you went through each stage when gold boxes start becoming a boss/merchant fleet drop.
"When a different boss theme plays, its a mine"
thank you i just started to play azur lane this week and i find your vids really helpful
Oh RNG GOD..
Give this man your blessing in every his content...
Amin..
Here I am, 3 kagas in, still no Akagi... Edit: Make that 4
Lmao I got One kaga the one Akagi www
Chapter 8 you can also get Abukuma, which buffs your torpedoes; and Isuzu, an excellent AA ship
Amen to farming 12-4 have not been able to bust into chapter 13 yet so that has been the go to for all PR ships currently farming 12-3 to get all the Sakura empire ships
hahahah! Awesome! Thanks so much! I've always thought the Inazuma as Rem and Ikazuchi as Ram connection too. . . but my theory is Ram and Rem are cosplaying as Zero Two (Darling in the Franxx) to get Ikazuchi and Inazuma. :)
15:55
Rem with 2 horns >:)
16:04
Ram with 2 horns >:)
16:14
EMILIA-TAN
Of 5-6 days of straight up grinding 3-4 I got Akagi so I'm glad I visited here
I'm a noob and finding videos like this really helps, thanks man
Hey man! I have been watching your videos to build my fleets and all is well now. Thanks for the guides!
But what caught my attention the most is that you have a dock capacity of only 200, yet you're able to clear maps until 13. I was just wondering if you ever made a video of dock space management because I always run out of spaces every time I'm done grinding a stage for SSR shipfus, even though I have about 210 now. Thanks and have a nice day!
I didn't know what farming was and everyone was talking about it. After i watched this video, im farming alot
I remember the time when I was a complete beginner and attempted to do 3-2. Later, it was actually my first ever defeat D:
Dang this is useful. Thanks a bunch for making this. So easy to remember and Straight To The Point. That's what I love about this video.
Best tip with Jintsuu is to clear 10-4 hard ASAP. Because she's a boss node only drop, having the ability to ignore all the mob fleets and challenge the boss three times a day is huge. It's how I got her to drop.
thx alot! im pretty short on gold so the hint for 7-2 was amazing
Thanks mate! Great guide! Now that the event is over, I gotta dump my oil somewhere :D
Good thing you now have a really really long list of all the stages to do exactly that! Keep up that AL grind!
*America wants to know your location*
Dang dude your mic is WAYYYY BETTER NOW OMFG what did you do/buy????
Dude this vid is so helpful, thank you for making this!
Stage 4-3 beside monitors is additionally good as it contains 3 purple blueprints needed for some research gear once player starts investing in it. To a smaller degree stages 7-3 and 6-1.
Also missed honorable mention of Houshou from 7-4.
this is a good video with good info, gj man! love what you do to help others
I appreciate it :)
Thanks for the guide my man, really helps me, I've been playing on and off casually but decided to pump slightly more time for the time being.
I have five Mayas and three Choukais. I don't have a problem, you do.
I know. It's called bad luck.
Sorry, I realise that it sounded like I was trying to say it was your fault that you didn’t have them, I was meaning it in terms of that I’ve just farmed the two stages way to much, especially for Maya. That did not come across how it sounded in my head.
In every gacha game there is always that one sweet farming map. Examples
Girls frontline: 0-2, 8-1n, 10-4e
Azur lane: 3-4, 7-2, 12-4
Etc.
Thanks for all the hard work you put in this video, it's really helpful!
Your guides are the best. Btw, is a 1-1 fleet with phoenix and a good BB good to farm to 7-2?
You can farm 7-2 super easily with even just Cassin/Downes as vanguard. Phoenix should be fine with any barrage BB like the new Tosa or Amagi.
Ander ty man
@@ItsAnderYT Is just me or Gangut is super underrated? She is probably my best farming BB ever, she overheat after shooting 5 times, but you never shoot that much when rush farming, also she is a R so cost less oil
@@KiyoKiyoshi277 Gangut is absolutely amazing for farming. That skill that buffs her blue gun is absolutely incredible. If people are underrating her, they should reconsider that.
Love your content and been watching most of your videos since they're really helpful!! It would be nice if you can do a review on gear reccomendations for pr 1 ships..I'm getting roon soon and wondering what gears will be good for her..Done farming Monarch and Ibuki too Thanks
Stage 4-2 is great for stopgap gear like Twin 120mm DD gun, Twin 203mm CA gun, Twin 150mm TbtsK CL gun.
For 7-2 should i just clear three nodes and leave or clear the boss node as well? Thx for great guide mate :-)
the background music is a bop
that is why i like this video
good
Thank you so much for the nice reply and thank you for helping so many people with the game
Love the Laid back camp ost in the background
This might be a bad take from me, but I find that farming in AL is either a waste of time, a waste of oil, or both.
You want XP? Just use the ships you want to level up. Daily missions, exercises, regular maps, hard maps, event maps, there are plenty of opportunities to level up your ships without resorting to boring farming. Also the passive XP gains are great, use the dorm and the big daily commission to prep your ships enough before using them if you need to.
You want research XP for PR ships? Make sure to match the ships you want to level up and the category of ships required for the research XP, and here you go, two birds one stone.
You want coins? You'll get plenty enough doing daily stuff and through mission rewards, it really stacks up quickly.
You want a ship? Don't farm, just go back to the map regularly, unlock the map in hard mode, try raking up XP for your ships and for the research at the same time, three birds one stone.
You want gear? Keep playing diligently, and you'll get it.
Him: The SB2C Helldiver is the best dive bomber
USN Who tried the SB2C Helldiver during ww2: Are you trying to offend me?
6-3 for BB guns! You get the 406mm USN and 410mm IJN guns like candy there.
I kid you not, I've been farming 3-4 for a straight week, at least 9-10 hours per day and I still haven't gotten either Fox sister. I'm at my wits end, I've been getting some XP and Repair kits at least and some enhancement ships for my fleet, but god damn is it soul crushing seeing all that oil and time I've spent on getting these 2 ships.
Took me 2 months to get both with 4x kaga drop.
appreciate the yuru camp bg music
This is a really helpful video, but I was wondering if it'd be possible to elaborate further. Surely it depends on how much time is gonna cost you making an expansion of this video, but here's the thing: so like, in my case, I find myself in a good spot in terms of battleships thanks to Richelieu and Tosa carrying me, and Monarch working her way up there as well. Problem is, let's leave aside tier lists, I'm generally kinda lost about other ships. Surely, you'd want Aircraft Carriers for that air superiority, but it tends to become oil expensive if you have to compensate weak gear with more ships, so I personally tend to not use any even if leavign Essex, Centaur, and Saratoga out makes me cry inside. I'm in a terrible spot for Heavy Cruisers as well, and I have way too many good Light Cruisers and Destroyers (and legit no decent Submarine). I also don't have a single Gold AA gun, nor I have the recommended purple one (believe it or not, but at least I'm 12/15 for the gold one in 5-4). So, TL;DR for someone like me stuck in 7-2 and mostly unable to do Hard modes, what would be the ideal kind of ships (not talking about specific characters, but the general kind) to have a good balance between oil efficiency and good DPS? Also, as your leveling through story (let's assume just story for simplicity) what should you look for to gear these ships? Like, considering I'd like to retrofit Ayanami, I'd farm 6-4 as I level her, 2 birds with 1 stone. Kind of a long and convoluted explanation, but that would be cool to see. I'm legit bouncing around between making San Diego and Helena retrofits, switching to Ayanami because she's also crazy good, farm gear here and there because why not, but I also need to focus on AA as my stuff is terrible. So yeah, kinda lost and doing this inefficiently, I'm actually getting nothing out of it, if not levels.
Also, don't forget those golden gears only drop from bosses (and Siren, but the campaign doesn't have those). Forgot once again mentioning 7-2, as restarting them over and over will net 0 gold roomba.
not even single jitsuu drop, i even manage to completed 4 pr ship (ibuki, kitakaze, azuma and monarc) from farming 10-4 only. omg, i still farm that stage to complete my beloved odin.
this is the quality content i subbed for! thanks Ander
nice helpful content as always. any tips for where to spendd harddmode tries if we dont need a specific bluepriint?
I'd go with the hardest stage on hard mode that you can do, reason being you get more core data which will always be good to have.
W13-4 farming is not practical for me outside of using very specific fleets. So yeah, if you want exp just stick with 12-4. It may be a bit weird due to the focus on airplanes after W11 asked you to focus on other things, however.
If you're not in a hurry to get PR units, I'd recommend just doing 7-2 because of purple plates.
W13/14 is still not practical to farm even years later, 12-4 still reigns supreme for almost everything related to experience and coins.
I remember trashing out my sb2c when I watched your guide I immediately put on all 10 of it on all my carriers
No I know how enterprise Essex rocks with those helldiver
Maya also the only one in the Takao class without a chest
Lmao true
Maya sounds like the adopted child of the Takao sisters
oof
I burnt myself out back during the fox mines, still haven't gotten Akagi, and haven't really been able to catch up each time I came back. I feel lost every time I come back, and while I have quite a few high leveled shipfus, I have next to no idea who to use for any fleet. Every fleet I make kinda just feels off after I use them for like a half hour.
3-4 fox hell. I got out of that when I got Akagi on 11-2-2020 after 3 months trying to get her got Kaga after a month on that part.
Ander I’m fairly new to the game currently at chapter 4, is this video of yours relevant to the current version of Azur Lane? If it is it would really help me a lot
It's worth to farm 9-4 for the Twin 100mm?
Also who's better for a DD IJN fleet: Kawakaze or Jintsuu?
Btw really good and easy to understand guide.
Personally, I wouldn't farm for the Twin 100mm. Very few ships can use it well, so it wouldn't be worth the grind to get all the blueprints for it. Since it is not that versatile, I'd say just wait until you get it from a Gold Sakura Empire Equipment box.
For a DD IJN fleet, Jintsuu is much better, especially after Retrofit. The buffs she gives to torpedo damage is absolutely insane, and she is able to dish out a lot of damage herself. Kawakaze is fine, but nowhere near as good as Jintsuu.
Ty so much, this is really helpfull for a new player :3
Glad I could help!
Benn grinding Dewey for the past few months.
Such an oil sink.... And I cant even auto it XD been manually 13-3 for the past months.
Thank you.. Superb guide
@Ander Could you tell me what ships are you using for farming what PR ship in 12-4?
I just started playing and came here for some info on what to farm
But im also fine with the waifu recommendations
finally got my intrepid to lv120 and now have 2 priority ships on my new account, Ibuki and saint louis, time to work on Neptune now...
5:20 got Akagi on like my 5th Hard Stage Try....Kaga, tried like 300 times before she appeared.
You forgot that Maya also is the smallest in bust size in the Taco sisters.
oof
I started playing azur lane solely due to Akagi, I really want her!
This is really gonna help me. About almost a month in now and I have been grinding whatever units I can. Suffice to say I have poor gold and oil management haha......ha.
Did get kaga early though so there is that I guess
This is a great guide! Thank you.
(Sidenote: Please come home, Maya.)