Yeah I remember that some players skip R6 Siege collaboration for Alter Skadi and Kal'tsis. But they didn't knew that R6 operators are so good especially Ash.
And then there are people like me who literally started playing when the R6 banner almost ended. Meaning by the time I was able to play the event I only got one day to blast through the stages with weak units, resulting in me not even obtaining the welfare unit and ONLY getting FROST. It's not that much of a FOMO, it's just that I would rather not get Frost instead of making her feel alone in the base 😂.
2:11 There's a tutorial about vanguards, so I managed to read the class description in process when I started Arknights for the first time. Luckily I had an experience with PvZ, so my brain immediately connected the class to sunflower/sunshroom (but with offensive capability) and it clicked immediately lmao
Yeah, they literally teach you that in the tutorial. There are also 2 other turtorials showing that you should retreat your vanguard to deploy better unit or use vanguard to burst early DP by killing swarm of mobs. How the heck can you clear stage LS-5 without vanguards?
Orundum farming, no matter how inefficient it is will always hold a soft spot in my heart. It was the reason my, at the time f2p, ass had enough funds to pull Bagpipe and had an easier time clearing cc#0 at higher risks. But, seriously don’t do it.
My mistakes: 1. Using Originite Prime to pull instead of buying skins 2. Not doing Operation Annihilation weekly for free 1200 Orundum, because I was too lazy 3. Trying to complete events with underlevelled Operators and complaining then that I can only complete first 2 or 3 stages at best
For the base, I prefer 3-3-3. I have the factories run all gold until I have a huge stock pile and then I switch one to exp until my gold stash starts running low.
@@Vani1257 when people say 2-5-2 layout they mean 2 tradeposts, 5 factories and 2 powerplants. It is the most efficient layout for exp + LMD farming but in exchange you wont be able to upgrade all facilities with only 2 powerplants (so most of your dormitories will be lv1 and you basically cant fully upgrade the right side of the base since facilities on the right cant be downgraded like the other facilities if you want to change the energy allocation afterwards) it also requires you to manage the base a bit more often (though its very basic stuff). Even if you want to upgrade everything instead, it is recommended to go for a 2-4-3 instead of 3-3-3 (2 tradeposts, 4 factories and 3 powerplants).
Very first time in recruitment that I got 'Top Operator' (didn't get it again for a year), I accidentally pressed "Reroll tags" instead of "Confirm" because I was distracted by something else I was doing
My worst mistake is when I used up all the yellow certs that I've accumulated on elite materials, which causes me to miss buying Surtr in the standard banner. I have to wait months on end to buy her again. Still making me shudder thinking about it.
Regarding orundum farming using 1-7. As an early player, it is incredibly inefficient, but as a late game player, especially as a f2p, you must be farming for it. Orundum is an extremely valuable resource because it converts into green and gold cert, while also allowing you to pull for more operator, and with how many limited banner coming, those extra pulls come in handy. If you do the math, a single week of farming 1-7. is equal to 1300+ orundum, if you are using your sanity efficiently. That is just at most 500 less than a week of annihilation. If you choose to use sanity potions on top of that, than it’s 1500+. Over a month, that adds up. And surprisingly, the cost isn’t exactly that bad late game. Since you can hold onto the rock and choose how much you covert to shards, the cost isn’t too high. The reason why farming orundum is so controversial is because at the start of the game, the cost is not worth it since we’re all new players, and there wasn’t limited agent banner, so it made sense not farm for it. We already have annihilation and daily mission, so there is no reason to farm for it. The current state of banners, make orundum farming quite necessary for f2p. Again, only farm when you’re in late game. It’s best to farm it with a 3 factory and 3 trading post base layout since that’s the best way to generate lmd for the conversion. Also, at least 200+ gold before starting to grind rocks.
You don't even really need to be that late into the game to start farming rocks. If your operator selection is not that many due to luck, you can start farm rocks since it also a widely used material anyway.
I've looked for a guide on how to do this, but haven't found one that thoroughly explains the entire process. The hardest part for me is to devote the time to do all the 1-7 stages, instead of stages that cost 30 stamina. If we could skip stages, I would do rock-only sometimes just to have the rocks for upgrades alone lol.
At this point some players just really love getting brain damage from farming 1-7 on repeat. I know how efficient that stage is, it's painfully obvious, but seriously, how can you endure farming it 30 times a day for weeks and not burn out? It's such a lengthy and boring process.
I love this kind of content cause I get to see the things what other people in this community have went through and remind me not to do or something that I didnt think about, and that is very important. Appreciate this fantastic of a video again Mr. Vifer and may glory be with you on your next banner that you pull cause the last one was indeed atrocious...steel.
4:19 orundum farming is only recomended for those who have E2-ed most meta and strong units and is enough to reach endgame (not story) I personally do orundum farming, because any event that is to come my units/operators are all ready enough to finish those contents.. I'm not a whale but I used to be a monthly pack buyer but now my account is self sufficient with the base system, I don't need to farm for LMD because the base is doing it for me, I have a bunch of resources to the point that when I get a new 6 stars unit all I need to worry is the chips, the rest of the resources are already stacked in my inventory.
imma be honest i've been in this game since 2021 and only recently got my control center at max level and i STILL have no idea what anyone means by base set up. i farmed enough lmd through the regular lmd stages to stack to nearly 2mil because i genuinely do not understand what to do with the base to get a consistent money flow
By how much? assuming you use the best base combo, mine is always around 46K to 55K every single day with 243. Just curious, since I feel like it is not worth it for my account because I don't upgrade many operators at the same time or at a high level in a short time.
Back when i first started i was using fast redeploys like project red as guards and i didnt understand that the enemies will prioritize the last OP that you deployed
Saved 250 pulls for Ling Banner to get a spark for Nian (as I still haven't have her that time). Got a Pot 8 Ling, 2 Mr Lee and a Dusk. Had to swipe cards just to get Nian in the store. (yeah, pressure also builds up as I brought the skin earlier as there's an announcement that Nian's skin would be L2D)
I had strat regarding originium farming. Its a matter when you farm rocks, when you convert rock intp shards, and when you convert shards into originium. If you know your workflow and planning around an events, you can earn pretty good amount of originium while still upgrading chatacters here and there .
My newbie mistake is ignoring the free daily pulls for the Dusk banner. Also not looking at CN to plan for the Ash banner. 😅 For those who bought the packs… thank you for funding the anime! No joke the whale support is great.
yeah for first time I didn't know the usage of vanguards, not because of the DP Printing, but because I am a bit confused between "Vanguard" and "Guard" in general meaning, lol
There was a stage i couldn't clear because of big amount of enemy rushing in the beginning so i needed to place my operators as fast as possible. Then i checked through my operators and found that Scavenger gave DP Man, Arknight reallly gives Dopamine when you use your brain to overcome obstacles
My mistake was doing Chernobog annihilation without vanguard, 3-op struggles cause I didn't know about them DP-printer until like chapter 3. Found out by watching a clear vid that had Texas generating DP and research led to Myrtle. It was confusing cause most guide said DP. I didn't even know what DP was from the tutorial cause the deployment symbol was "C" :D
I could probably handle doing 252 but never swapped due to laziness. Though my biggest mistake occurred on CN. Two or 3 events in a row at some point where I never bothered with all of the EX stages simply due to laziness. I knew I could finish them but never did because of it. Such is life.
My first 6* pull was Siege, so I definitely clued into what her skills did and consequently what vanguards were about. I don't recall the game explicitly explaining all the roles either (someone simplify what supporters and specialists are supposed to do), but as a beginner one would think you'd spend some time at least reading skills on multiple units to figure out what you have in your toolkit compared to later when you may be less like to to read what ever 3/4* sniper does cause you just Ashe/Exusiai everything?
When I first played this game, I didn't know wtf a vangaurd was and I unconsiously use them without knowing, but when the quest came to where only Vangaurds came up, I then figured it out. Basically they were the mofos that can touch the ground! 😂😂
I made the same mistake with vanguards. I knew they were there to accelerate your DP, but because I didn't upgrade them, I thought that the non-Charger vanguards had to be placed as safe as possible so they didn't die. Sort of like "I invest DP now to get more later" Therefore, Vanguards was, to me, a horrible choice for rush stages kekw
The main problem is that while the tutorial tells you to use Vanguards to generate DP, the free Vanguard they give you is *YATO*, the one Vanguard that doesn't generate DP. So for the longest time I didn't actually know what they were for, and, just like the example given, I learned after watching a Kyo video
2:42 i learned how to use a vanguard when i needed a unit to make me CP quickly for my expensive ops. I first used texas before i found out that myrtle made a but load of CP quickly. I used her second skill for a while until i realized i need quick recharge on her skill, not healing. I basically learned through trial and error and i didn't think of watching many videos about good ops.
im a day 1 player and i decide to take a break right before rainbow 6 banner only to know later that its super limited and i felt like crap and so mad that im never getting it ever.
Raising 5 and 6 star operators as a beginner is such a huge mistake. Most six star operators need E2 to really shine, but that is such a huge resource commitment. New players are way better of by raising all 3 star and a few 4 stars and borrow fully build 6 star units. Getting a 4 star to E2 for borrowing is also a lot faster and cheaper. Cuora is my first E2 for this very reason.
I think I figured out how to use Vanguards because I'd played other tower defense games that use something similar. Like the sunflowers in Plants vs Zombies.
For the vanguard thing, I just looked at all the ability’s and traits of my characters cus I liked learning what they do exactly, and saw vanguards than generate DP, and I love when td games have ways to generate more “income” so I built a couple (Texas and Fang) and have used both of them for a long time to get the DP I need to deploy characters like Mudrock, silver ash, Ch’en, etc
100% sympathize with that vanguard comment. I actually thought for a while that it was a game balancing mechanic that yeah, 6*s are amazing but they're balanced by how expensive they are. And then I got Myrtle and Bagpipe and then promoted my Texas. Haven't looked back since and my squads are almost always filled with 6*s.
Seeing the comments filled with regret of not getting ash I truly appreciate the saying knowledge is power. I knew how busted the base skill was but never did i know that the ash and tachanka are busted in gameplay too.
1:59 not a problem if you're like me and got flametail as one of your first 6 stars lol she's a centurion under the guise of pioneer and you cannot convince me otherwise
i was a level 20-30 by the R6 collab event, and my naive self at the time didnt know they were actually limited time collab operators, however, the Gacha Gods were on my side. I have all R6 characters, I managed to pull all of them within the 10 free pulls+the other 10 I had at the time
Worst mistakes: -Dont use Myrtle (she's french, jeah...but usefull -raise Operators just because they are the first high star units you get -Don't save recourses (LMD and EXP cards 2), because you never know if you get Ifrit or Bagpipe out of the recruitment - Don't use Op to refill your Sainity or just for pulls (if you want skins too) - going all in at limited banners to early (cause of the dayly pulls) -use your yellow certificates to early (just use them, if you can get the 2 10 pulls, or you're wasting them and don't get the most possible pulls)
1:58 as a TD game enthusiast ever since my sony ericson phone, I can't relate to this. Resource is always needed to place tower, and the moment I know that there's tower that can produce those resource, instant upgrade, sincerely 99% flagpipe bringer. 4:19 is not a mistake to farm orundum after you have your end game squad(ez 18risk, ez event and story clear). I farm orundum pretty frequent and my squad built is still going strong, all my 6* are e2 lvl 60 with at least one mastery. Although I farm orundum I still keep my "always immediately e2 any 6*" policy a priority. And don't worry I don't neglect upgrading notable 4-5* ops, and still have a surplus mats even then. Well this force me to be a meta user(Savage is my only waifu upgrade(tbh there's also upgrade only for paradox)), but well I don't mind as long as I got extra orundum for pulls. PS: I can upload a video of my ops if you don't believe me. The farmed orundum help me spark Nian before, and help me get 300 pulls for Texalter. I'd say I roughly farmed around 40 pulls worth of orundum already(and increasing bc I cleared ch.11)
For those seeing this in the future: There is an upcoming Monster Hunter collab with a busted Yato Alter in a few months. Don't miss out on it, it's also a 120 pull guaranteed that will almost certainly never return.
Oh boy ... 2:00 I also didn't use Vanguards when I started, except for Texas but even then I only used her S1 cause I thought her S2 didn't generate DP. 😅 5:25 I buy every skin I want even if I don't have the operator. I'm hoping to get them either by being spooked or recruitment. 7:53 Same here I wasn't very aware of Limited operators. When Nian banner dropped, I only wanted Weedy but ended up having Nian which I didn't build until Ling Event
Yep. The pain is real. I was just like that "100 pull on the Ash limited banner" guy. But I bit the bullet and cashed out for the last 20 rolls to get to spark. Needless to say, it took 120 rolls to get Ash.
I learned vanguard by trying the annihilation events and seeing that it doesn't regen dp and looking through all the operators for something that might help
About pulling on limited, i saved for ling i did 220 pulls and i did not get her i got lee and some other ops but no limited, i pulled on texas alter i has 120 pulls or total, i used everything i used everything i got from the event as well and i ended uo at 210 or so pulls and i did not get texas, but i got rosmontis so thats passable
I remember using fast redeploys as blockers since normal guards were expensive. I also didn't choose the Top Operator tag on my alt account since I thought it meant that it's for operator meant to be deployed on high ground tiles.
I'm about a month into the game and only starting to learn the more in-depth mechanics and efficiency jargon. I didn't even understand half of what was said here but what I did know was I'm gonna be playing a gacha game so I made it clear to myself that whatever happens I won't spend any money on it and not rely on fancy 6star ops. If I couldn't beat the game with what I got then it's a skill issue. So far, I got two top operator tags in recruitment. I didn't even know you could combine them with other tags and was so scared of the tag dropping that it was the only tag I picked to make sure it didn't drop. Got Bagpipe and then Saria so that was cool
I wonder how much LMD/ exp do people usually get from 252 setup? I have 243 setup and I get around 55k.LMD/20k exp and around 110 gold bars daily(all of the right side facilities are maxed too)
My biggest mistake was probably not caring about tags in recruitment and just after like 4 months of playing I realized that some tags in recruitment give you guaranteed 4/ 5 stars. (I thought only top/senior operator tags really matter) also using all my OP for pulls, but that's fine though, because there's maybe a dozen skins that I really like and I already have enough of OP to get them
People saying you have to login more often to make 2/5/2 worth it is a myth. It's also counterintuitive logically, the level 5 dorms will recover your operators morale faster than level 1 dorms so you can rotate operators faster in 2/4/3 than you even possibly can in 2/5/2. Also, not having enough operators makes no sense as you'll have the exact same number of slots to use, maybe +1 slot if you never leveled up your right side buildings. Even if you have to use lower production % operators the extra factory is base +100% before you even add in operators so even if they were like 5% production it would still be more than 2/4/3. It's purely higher production simply because drone production is roughly equal to 50% of other building's production and Power Plant operators have a lower production ceiling than other base operators so a PP op can add 5-10% actual production to your base. Not to mention you aren't really losing any slots since you're taking the power from dorm buildings (which clearly you don't need if you're rotating every 12 hours).
I buy skins for Ops I don't have and I don't fall for bait banners just don't pull, they are permanent characters, you will get them eventually there is no rush
i regret pulling for a standard banner right before the limited banner. pulled for fartooth for about 150+ if not more and not getting her (i got 5 6-star tho). nearl trk came and i was short about 30+ pulls to spark her (ye i spent about 270 pulls). she's the only limited i'm missing rn
i also m9 ling and upgraded her module to lvl 3 only to collect dust. i ain't big brain enough to use her but it's nice to know that i have some back-up powerhouse if i ever needed her
I have Blemeshine skin and I'm just copium that she comes when I off-banner, but no. 30 ifrits instead. I also spent like 2 weeks on launch capped on sanity cuz I had no idea what I was doing lol.
How does people not realise what a Vanguard does? The game has a resource called Deployment Point which is literally baked into the game's primary gameplay mechanic. That in of itself already implies a method to acquire said resource exists. It's just a matter of deducing the conundrum through common sense and logic. If it is a primary resource and a method to acquire them surely exist, it must be in the most obvious part of the game, one of the character classes, hence Vanguards.
when i first started playing arknights, it was before/during dossoles holiday, and i pulled standard banner over event banner because i didnt know chalter was broken op at the time 💀
on CN i got the whole R6 squad + a silver ash spook in 20 rolls, but on EN i had to spark ash at 120, and that's where my mistake lies, i spent OP to do the final multi to spark her but if i had just waited 2 days i would get the second x10 ticket to spark her, so, dk, 33 OP instead of a free ticket doesnt look like a good idea
8:50 "skipping NTR to get Ling, only to never use Ling and now have to save enough to spark NTR on texas banner" I actually did this but the only difference is that I don't consider it as a mistake: I got both Lee and Ling, have used Ling plenty of times, and I have more than enough pulls to spark NTR on Texas banner. Well, unless I don't get Texas within 300 pulls, in that case I'll spark her, or Penance if I get Texas but not Penance. If I get both Texas and Penance within 300 then I can spark NTR.
My only regret is E2ing Frostleaf first for some obscure reason I just like her design. I E2ed multiple other chars just because I liked them but Frostleaf is the only one i virtually never use. I literally use Midnight more
my greatest mistake was listen to people to keep my PO for skin and then i don't get chen alter. after that I realize skin won't affect anything and start to use PO for gacha.
I always think buying skins for operators that you still don't have is a sort of "catalyst" (its a chemistry terms), so I can get the operator more easily. But it is still 50/50 to my experience, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't In chemistry, catalyst is something you add to a reaction to make things go faster and easier
As someone who has 1 year worth of playing AK then 2 years not playing it, only to return last month I'm very interested on how to efficiently farm for orundum. Since I just farm at 1-7 or that other place that uses 15 Sanity and has a 333 setup that's now a 252 setup. Tips?
@@daristaufiq4560 just wanna know how it's actually done by the majority of the player base since this video kinda implies I'm doing something wrong here, that's why I wanna know the "correct" way if there is one.
I usually don't buy skins unless i have that operator, because i want to see the normal skin in battle and after that the skin, if i use the skin first that would feel like playing with default anyways
I let my sanity cap because its too stressful to pressure myself to play a game when I am not feeling it. So I try my best to not care anymore. Also one time I had 300 sanity one time bc all my potion was about to expire and I didn’t want to spend a long time using it.
As f2p myself.. The only rules i apply to my account " Ok,you can be dumb enough to depleted your orondum for non limited operator (flash back 200pull for eyja near r6s collab),you can up any ops you want, but dont you dare spending OP other than bought a skin " imprint into my brain
My newb mistake was not reading their traits and talents. I've been using Myrtle to hold a lane and wonder why she can't block a single enemy whenever I activate her skill HAHAHA
Well I always have or plan for 120 pulls at EACH limited banner. The only time I didn't do it was on W's banner, which was the first limited banner...and to date she is not in my rooster. ALL other limited OPs are with me.
Tbh, I'm already an ak vet, yet I still don't know how to utilize base production. I'm using a 252 base and I think my base lmd is 36k. I just randomly put ops in the base since I don't know combinations, nor should I raise specific ops to utilize production. If anyone can help me with that id really appreciate it since the videos I watch are so complicated.
The only reason I learned how to use vanguards was because I saw Texas in the 5-star choice thingy, thought she looked cool, and brought her to EVERY. SINGLE. STAGE
I got an r6 4 star character but i decided to make a new account since I haven’t played it for 3 years and my account is level 3, my new is just 32 now, now I’m starting to think i should’ve continued my old account.
2:53 those newbie players do not use vanguards in game is the one blinded by using highest Attack damage operator and completely ignore the core mechanics of the game
I had no clue you can change the type of factory to trading post, so i was running 1 trading post for almost 2 yearrs! Suffice to say i had big lack of LMD... Oh well, at least those 3000+ surplus of exp tickets were useful actually and could slow down on gold bars due to me having over 1000 at some point.
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The biggest mistake is letting Vifer pull for you
This
Honestly? This.
True😂
Huh i was thinking of letting vifer pull mine for at least pot4 texas with 350 pulls for his content
But I'm REALLY afraid if he'll just scam me hard
I never saw any luck so bad..
I really feel bad for the people who didn't get pull or who missed the R6S collab event, The true limited banner that will NEVER get a rerun.
Yeah I remember that some players skip R6 Siege collaboration for Alter Skadi and Kal'tsis.
But they didn't knew that R6 operators are so good especially Ash.
And then there are people like me who literally started playing when the R6 banner almost ended. Meaning by the time I was able to play the event I only got one day to blast through the stages with weak units, resulting in me not even obtaining the welfare unit and ONLY getting FROST. It's not that much of a FOMO, it's just that I would rather not get Frost instead of making her feel alone in the base 😂.
Yeah i feel bad for anyone who doesn't have ash as emergency stun
It's me. I'm people.
In the hundred pulls I did swipe for, I only got Frost.
Blitz and (obviously) Ash never came home.
Part of it was, as a brand new player, I already had Exu and didn't want to throw my entire wallet at another sniper.
Wish I had
Don’t make this mistake in Arknights either: _Letting Scamfer do pulls for you._
First thing that came to my mind when clicking this video
2:11 There's a tutorial about vanguards, so I managed to read the class description in process when I started Arknights for the first time. Luckily I had an experience with PvZ, so my brain immediately connected the class to sunflower/sunshroom (but with offensive capability) and it clicked immediately lmao
They are sunflower with sword unless you are flag then yeah you just a flower 😅
@@abrahamwijaya6631 Yeah lol.
PvZ knowledge (and reading) actually saving the newbie me from making this mistake
I was a btd6 player so i thought oh this is the banana farm/merchantmen
Yeah, they literally teach you that in the tutorial. There are also 2 other turtorials showing that you should retreat your vanguard to deploy better unit or use vanguard to burst early DP by killing swarm of mobs.
How the heck can you clear stage LS-5 without vanguards?
@@winslycan1309 retreat vanguard is the high end ability pls dont instruct newbie lmao
Orundum farming, no matter how inefficient it is will always hold a soft spot in my heart. It was the reason my, at the time f2p, ass had enough funds to pull Bagpipe and had an easier time clearing cc#0 at higher risks. But, seriously don’t do it.
no.
i love 1-7
Orundum farming is the reason i could get all the ops i wanted, its great if you dont need to level anything
but can't you farm orundum via Annhilation?
@@astrid2432 it has a weekly cap and its mostly not enough for people who really want to make sure they get to have the ops they want
@@astrid2432 once you up all op u need , no need for base resources , farm base orundum take place then
My mistakes:
1. Using Originite Prime to pull instead of buying skins
2. Not doing Operation Annihilation weekly for free 1200 Orundum, because I was too lazy
3. Trying to complete events with underlevelled Operators and complaining then that I can only complete first 2 or 3 stages at best
For the base, I prefer 3-3-3. I have the factories run all gold until I have a huge stock pile and then I switch one to exp until my gold stash starts running low.
I also use 3-3-3 base. After 24 hours of making LMD I'll switch with EXP production and then switch back to LMD after 24 hours and vice versa.
Same bro
What means 3-3-3? I‘m fairly new and never heard of it.. same like 2-5-2. Can someone please explain this?
Meaning 3(tradepost) 3(factories) 3 (powerplants) but i usually use 2-4-3
@@Vani1257 when people say 2-5-2 layout they mean 2 tradeposts, 5 factories and 2 powerplants. It is the most efficient layout for exp + LMD farming but in exchange you wont be able to upgrade all facilities with only 2 powerplants (so most of your dormitories will be lv1 and you basically cant fully upgrade the right side of the base since facilities on the right cant be downgraded like the other facilities if you want to change the energy allocation afterwards) it also requires you to manage the base a bit more often (though its very basic stuff). Even if you want to upgrade everything instead, it is recommended to go for a 2-4-3 instead of 3-3-3 (2 tradeposts, 4 factories and 3 powerplants).
Very first time in recruitment that I got 'Top Operator' (didn't get it again for a year), I accidentally pressed "Reroll tags" instead of "Confirm" because I was distracted by something else I was doing
Oof.
Same
Same. Glad they implemented the unselected rare tag warning.
My worst mistake is when I used up all the yellow certs that I've accumulated on elite materials, which causes me to miss buying Surtr in the standard banner. I have to wait months on end to buy her again. Still making me shudder thinking about it.
Regarding orundum farming using 1-7. As an early player, it is incredibly inefficient, but as a late game player, especially as a f2p, you must be farming for it. Orundum is an extremely valuable resource because it converts into green and gold cert, while also allowing you to pull for more operator, and with how many limited banner coming, those extra pulls come in handy.
If you do the math, a single week of farming 1-7. is equal to 1300+ orundum, if you are using your sanity efficiently. That is just at most 500 less than a week of annihilation.
If you choose to use sanity potions on top of that, than it’s 1500+. Over a month, that adds up.
And surprisingly, the cost isn’t exactly that bad late game. Since you can hold onto the rock and choose how much you covert to shards, the cost isn’t too high.
The reason why farming orundum is so controversial is because at the start of the game, the cost is not worth it since we’re all new players, and there wasn’t limited agent banner, so it made sense not farm for it. We already have annihilation and daily mission, so there is no reason to farm for it. The current state of banners, make orundum farming quite necessary for f2p.
Again, only farm when you’re in late game. It’s best to farm it with a 3 factory and 3 trading post base layout since that’s the best way to generate lmd for the conversion. Also, at least 200+ gold before starting to grind rocks.
You don't even really need to be that late into the game to start farming rocks. If your operator selection is not that many due to luck, you can start farm rocks since it also a widely used material anyway.
My dumb ass with 400+ golds 🥲
@@GranMaj yep, especially for meta players who only upgrade certain operators anyway, it actually helps
I've looked for a guide on how to do this, but haven't found one that thoroughly explains the entire process. The hardest part for me is to devote the time to do all the 1-7 stages, instead of stages that cost 30 stamina. If we could skip stages, I would do rock-only sometimes just to have the rocks for upgrades alone lol.
At this point some players just really love getting brain damage from farming 1-7 on repeat.
I know how efficient that stage is, it's painfully obvious, but seriously, how can you endure farming it 30 times a day for weeks and not burn out? It's such a lengthy and boring process.
#1 mistake is buying the gummy starter pack... you can never recover from that.
supah would like to disagree
I bought it, why is it bad?
I love this kind of content cause I get to see the things what other people in this community have went through and remind me not to do or something that I didnt think about, and that is very important. Appreciate this fantastic of a video again Mr. Vifer and may glory be with you on your next banner that you pull cause the last one was indeed atrocious...steel.
Been playing for 2years and man I still love this game
2:24 It does like in the first few stages But no one reads so... ya tho it forces you to use in one early stage cause no natural dp
4:19 orundum farming is only recomended for those who have E2-ed most meta and strong units and is enough to reach endgame (not story)
I personally do orundum farming, because any event that is to come my units/operators are all ready enough to finish those contents.. I'm not a whale but I used to be a monthly pack buyer but now my account is self sufficient with the base system, I don't need to farm for LMD because the base is doing it for me, I have a bunch of resources to the point that when I get a new 6 stars unit all I need to worry is the chips, the rest of the resources are already stacked in my inventory.
Definitely the base set up. Even with the whole right side maxed out in my base I'm getting more lmd with 2-5-2 than when I was using the 2-4-3 setup
Doesnt it have the downgrade? Like you can only have lv.2 dormi. Which make you a lil bit slower to gain trust.
imma be honest i've been in this game since 2021 and only recently got my control center at max level and i STILL have no idea what anyone means by base set up. i farmed enough lmd through the regular lmd stages to stack to nearly 2mil because i genuinely do not understand what to do with the base to get a consistent money flow
Wait, you can do 2-5-2 setup while maxing the right side of the base?
@@GranMaj yes
By how much? assuming you use the best base combo, mine is always around 46K to 55K every single day with 243. Just curious, since I feel like it is not worth it for my account because I don't upgrade many operators at the same time or at a high level in a short time.
Back when i first started i was using fast redeploys like project red as guards and i didnt understand that the enemies will prioritize the last OP that you deployed
I think Vifer is the best Arknight youtuber for entertaining right now. I love the content and the scam energy of his videos
Saved 250 pulls for Ling Banner to get a spark for Nian (as I still haven't have her that time). Got a Pot 8 Ling, 2 Mr Lee and a Dusk. Had to swipe cards just to get Nian in the store. (yeah, pressure also builds up as I brought the skin earlier as there's an announcement that Nian's skin would be L2D)
I had strat regarding originium farming. Its a matter when you farm rocks, when you convert rock intp shards, and when you convert shards into originium. If you know your workflow and planning around an events, you can earn pretty good amount of originium while still upgrading chatacters here and there .
My newbie mistake is ignoring the free daily pulls for the Dusk banner. Also not looking at CN to plan for the Ash banner. 😅
For those who bought the packs… thank you for funding the anime! No joke the whale support is great.
Ignoring free daily pulls is not a newbie mistake. Shit says free.
My mistake too 😂
@@Zero_Shift it was all so new back then so I was distracted/confused/what have you. It was a good lesson though.
yeah for first time I didn't know the usage of vanguards, not because of the DP Printing, but because I am a bit confused between "Vanguard" and "Guard" in general meaning, lol
Remember guys, reading is the only way to cover your mistakes
There was a stage i couldn't clear because of big amount of enemy rushing in the beginning so i needed to place my operators as fast as possible. Then i checked through my operators and found that Scavenger gave DP
Man, Arknight reallly gives Dopamine when you use your brain to overcome obstacles
My mistake was doing Chernobog annihilation without vanguard, 3-op struggles cause I didn't know about them DP-printer until like chapter 3. Found out by watching a clear vid that had Texas generating DP and research led to Myrtle. It was confusing cause most guide said DP. I didn't even know what DP was from the tutorial cause the deployment symbol was "C" :D
I could probably handle doing 252 but never swapped due to laziness. Though my biggest mistake occurred on CN. Two or 3 events in a row at some point where I never bothered with all of the EX stages simply due to laziness. I knew I could finish them but never did because of it. Such is life.
1:56 I remember somewhere is tiped that vanguard unit is good at the beggining of mission
The biggest Arknight mistake trusting this mf named Vifer with your rolls 😡
Gonna save my savings for Kirin Yato. Either Eckogen or Kukkikaze will use my savings 😂
My first 6* pull was Siege, so I definitely clued into what her skills did and consequently what vanguards were about. I don't recall the game explicitly explaining all the roles either (someone simplify what supporters and specialists are supposed to do), but as a beginner one would think you'd spend some time at least reading skills on multiple units to figure out what you have in your toolkit compared to later when you may be less like to to read what ever 3/4* sniper does cause you just Ashe/Exusiai everything?
Farming rocks isn't bad if your in the endgame
If you have no ops to raise
When I first played this game, I didn't know wtf a vangaurd was and I unconsiously use them without knowing, but when the quest came to where only Vangaurds came up, I then figured it out. Basically they were the mofos that can touch the ground! 😂😂
I made the same mistake with vanguards. I knew they were there to accelerate your DP, but because I didn't upgrade them, I thought that the non-Charger vanguards had to be placed as safe as possible so they didn't die. Sort of like "I invest DP now to get more later"
Therefore, Vanguards was, to me, a horrible choice for rush stages kekw
The main problem is that while the tutorial tells you to use Vanguards to generate DP, the free Vanguard they give you is *YATO*, the one Vanguard that doesn't generate DP. So for the longest time I didn't actually know what they were for, and, just like the example given, I learned after watching a Kyo video
2:42 i learned how to use a vanguard when i needed a unit to make me CP quickly for my expensive ops. I first used texas before i found out that myrtle made a but load of CP quickly. I used her second skill for a while until i realized i need quick recharge on her skill, not healing.
I basically learned through trial and error and i didn't think of watching many videos about good ops.
im a day 1 player and i decide to take a break right before rainbow 6 banner only to know later that its super limited and i felt like crap and so mad that im never getting it ever.
Would love more videos like this, have a few friends just starting the game and they are probably making these mistakes that I definitely never did.
I can relate with the skin part, I've had the W skin since the Skadi alter event and I still dont have W yet
Well my 1st 6 star is siege so I didn't lack dp yet I still don't know what vanguard is so...
Raising 5 and 6 star operators as a beginner is such a huge mistake. Most six star operators need E2 to really shine, but that is such a huge resource commitment. New players are way better of by raising all 3 star and a few 4 stars and borrow fully build 6 star units. Getting a 4 star to E2 for borrowing is also a lot faster and cheaper. Cuora is my first E2 for this very reason.
3:27 " I learned it from PVZ"
learning from the GOATed game
Hm, this is the part that scamfer, actually talks about true facts
I think I figured out how to use Vanguards because I'd played other tower defense games that use something similar. Like the sunflowers in Plants vs Zombies.
Please do more video like this.
It's really comforting because i know im not the only dumb person in this community lol.
For the vanguard thing, I just looked at all the ability’s and traits of my characters cus I liked learning what they do exactly, and saw vanguards than generate DP, and I love when td games have ways to generate more “income” so I built a couple (Texas and Fang) and have used both of them for a long time to get the DP I need to deploy characters like Mudrock, silver ash, Ch’en, etc
accidently refreshed recruitment when i had a top operator tag... was sleepy, but not so much after that mistake
100% sympathize with that vanguard comment. I actually thought for a while that it was a game balancing mechanic that yeah, 6*s are amazing but they're balanced by how expensive they are.
And then I got Myrtle and Bagpipe and then promoted my Texas. Haven't looked back since and my squads are almost always filled with 6*s.
Seeing the comments filled with regret of not getting ash
I truly appreciate the saying knowledge is power. I knew how busted the base skill was but never did i know that the ash and tachanka are busted in gameplay too.
1:59 not a problem if you're like me and got flametail as one of your first 6 stars lol
she's a centurion under the guise of pioneer and you cannot convince me otherwise
i was a level 20-30 by the R6 collab event, and my naive self at the time didnt know they were actually limited time collab operators, however, the Gacha Gods were on my side. I have all R6 characters, I managed to pull all of them within the 10 free pulls+the other 10 I had at the time
Worst mistakes:
-Dont use Myrtle (she's french, jeah...but usefull
-raise Operators just because they are the first high star units you get
-Don't save recourses (LMD and EXP cards 2), because you never know if you get Ifrit or Bagpipe out of the recruitment
- Don't use Op to refill your Sainity or just for pulls (if you want skins too)
- going all in at limited banners to early (cause of the dayly pulls)
-use your yellow certificates to early (just use them, if you can get the 2 10 pulls, or you're wasting them and don't get the most possible pulls)
1:58 as a TD game enthusiast ever since my sony ericson phone, I can't relate to this. Resource is always needed to place tower, and the moment I know that there's tower that can produce those resource, instant upgrade, sincerely 99% flagpipe bringer.
4:19 is not a mistake to farm orundum after you have your end game squad(ez 18risk, ez event and story clear). I farm orundum pretty frequent and my squad built is still going strong, all my 6* are e2 lvl 60 with at least one mastery. Although I farm orundum I still keep my "always immediately e2 any 6*" policy a priority. And don't worry I don't neglect upgrading notable 4-5* ops, and still have a surplus mats even then. Well this force me to be a meta user(Savage is my only waifu upgrade(tbh there's also upgrade only for paradox)), but well I don't mind as long as I got extra orundum for pulls.
PS: I can upload a video of my ops if you don't believe me. The farmed orundum help me spark Nian before, and help me get 300 pulls for Texalter. I'd say I roughly farmed around 40 pulls worth of orundum already(and increasing bc I cleared ch.11)
For those seeing this in the future: There is an upcoming Monster Hunter collab with a busted Yato Alter in a few months. Don't miss out on it, it's also a 120 pull guaranteed that will almost certainly never return.
i bought the cny chen skin during the first ancient forge run. i did not get normal chen until a few months ago 😅
S1M3 Mayer has been clutch for me in a lot of situations
Oh boy ...
2:00 I also didn't use Vanguards when I started, except for Texas but even then I only used her S1 cause I thought her S2 didn't generate DP. 😅
5:25 I buy every skin I want even if I don't have the operator. I'm hoping to get them either by being spooked or recruitment.
7:53 Same here I wasn't very aware of Limited operators. When Nian banner dropped, I only wanted Weedy but ended up having Nian which I didn't build until Ling Event
Yep. The pain is real. I was just like that "100 pull on the Ash limited banner" guy. But I bit the bullet and cashed out for the last 20 rolls to get to spark.
Needless to say, it took 120 rolls to get Ash.
Danbo farming 1-7 for all eternity: Have I told you the definition of insanity?
I learned vanguard by trying the annihilation events and seeing that it doesn't regen dp and looking through all the operators for something that might help
I've been playing for a year and I have no idea how to farm originum or what a 2-5-2 is
About pulling on limited, i saved for ling i did 220 pulls and i did not get her i got lee and some other ops but no limited, i pulled on texas alter i has 120 pulls or total, i used everything i used everything i got from the event as well and i ended uo at 210 or so pulls and i did not get texas, but i got rosmontis so thats passable
I remember using fast redeploys as blockers since normal guards were expensive. I also didn't choose the Top Operator tag on my alt account since I thought it meant that it's for operator meant to be deployed on high ground tiles.
I learned about vanguards bc the game told me in a tip on early chapters if I remember correctly
I'm about a month into the game and only starting to learn the more in-depth mechanics and efficiency jargon. I didn't even understand half of what was said here but what I did know was I'm gonna be playing a gacha game so I made it clear to myself that whatever happens I won't spend any money on it and not rely on fancy 6star ops. If I couldn't beat the game with what I got then it's a skill issue. So far, I got two top operator tags in recruitment. I didn't even know you could combine them with other tags and was so scared of the tag dropping that it was the only tag I picked to make sure it didn't drop. Got Bagpipe and then Saria so that was cool
My mistake is I forgot I had 2 sanity potion due in 23 hours
And I forgot it because I was playing star rail
I wonder how much LMD/ exp do people usually get from 252 setup? I have 243 setup and I get around 55k.LMD/20k exp and around 110 gold bars daily(all of the right side facilities are maxed too)
My biggest mistake was probably not caring about tags in recruitment and just after like 4 months of playing I realized that some tags in recruitment give you guaranteed 4/ 5 stars. (I thought only top/senior operator tags really matter) also using all my OP for pulls, but that's fine though, because there's maybe a dozen skins that I really like and I already have enough of OP to get them
People saying you have to login more often to make 2/5/2 worth it is a myth.
It's also counterintuitive logically, the level 5 dorms will recover your operators morale faster than level 1 dorms so you can rotate operators faster in 2/4/3 than you even possibly can in 2/5/2.
Also, not having enough operators makes no sense as you'll have the exact same number of slots to use, maybe +1 slot if you never leveled up your right side buildings. Even if you have to use lower production % operators the extra factory is base +100% before you even add in operators so even if they were like 5% production it would still be more than 2/4/3.
It's purely higher production simply because drone production is roughly equal to 50% of other building's production and Power Plant operators have a lower production ceiling than other base operators so a PP op can add 5-10% actual production to your base. Not to mention you aren't really losing any slots since you're taking the power from dorm buildings (which clearly you don't need if you're rotating every 12 hours).
I buy skins for Ops I don't have and I don't fall for bait banners
just don't pull, they are permanent characters, you will get them eventually there is no rush
If i remember correctly there's a farming stage where you need vanguards that's how i started to use vanguards
7:43 I'm also addicted to pulling, good thing I got lucky on my limited operator pulls. 🤣😂
i regret pulling for a standard banner right before the limited banner. pulled for fartooth for about 150+ if not more and not getting her (i got 5 6-star tho). nearl trk came and i was short about 30+ pulls to spark her (ye i spent about 270 pulls). she's the only limited i'm missing rn
i also m9 ling and upgraded her module to lvl 3 only to collect dust. i ain't big brain enough to use her but it's nice to know that i have some back-up powerhouse if i ever needed her
i also e2'd sideroca cause of booba and i reallly thought her S2 is a lot like mountain's S2 but it's not lmao
I have Blemeshine skin and I'm just copium that she comes when I off-banner, but no. 30 ifrits instead. I also spent like 2 weeks on launch capped on sanity cuz I had no idea what I was doing lol.
How does people not realise what a Vanguard does? The game has a resource called Deployment Point which is literally baked into the game's primary gameplay mechanic. That in of itself already implies a method to acquire said resource exists. It's just a matter of deducing the conundrum through common sense and logic. If it is a primary resource and a method to acquire them surely exist, it must be in the most obvious part of the game, one of the character classes, hence Vanguards.
when i first started playing arknights, it was before/during dossoles holiday, and i pulled standard banner over event banner because i didnt know chalter was broken op at the time 💀
on CN i got the whole R6 squad + a silver ash spook in 20 rolls, but on EN i had to spark ash at 120, and that's where my mistake lies, i spent OP to do the final multi to spark her but if i had just waited 2 days i would get the second x10 ticket to spark her, so, dk, 33 OP instead of a free ticket doesnt look like a good idea
8:50 "skipping NTR to get Ling, only to never use Ling and now have to save enough to spark NTR on texas banner"
I actually did this but the only difference is that I don't consider it as a mistake: I got both Lee and Ling, have used Ling plenty of times, and I have more than enough pulls to spark NTR on Texas banner. Well, unless I don't get Texas within 300 pulls, in that case I'll spark her, or Penance if I get Texas but not Penance. If I get both Texas and Penance within 300 then I can spark NTR.
Ling is the trust farm master bar none. She enables me to basically farm resources and trust of operators at the same time.
My only regret is E2ing Frostleaf first for some obscure reason I just like her design. I E2ed multiple other chars just because I liked them but Frostleaf is the only one i virtually never use. I literally use Midnight more
I did the same as papapickles and till this day I regretted that choice of not swiping till 120 pulls
my greatest mistake was listen to people to keep my PO for skin and then i don't get chen alter.
after that I realize skin won't affect anything and start to use PO for gacha.
I always think buying skins for operators that you still don't have is a sort of "catalyst" (its a chemistry terms), so I can get the operator more easily. But it is still 50/50 to my experience, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
In chemistry, catalyst is something you add to a reaction to make things go faster and easier
As someone who has 1 year worth of playing AK then 2 years not playing it, only to return last month I'm very interested on how to efficiently farm for orundum.
Since I just farm at 1-7 or that other place that uses 15 Sanity and has a 333 setup that's now a 252 setup.
Tips?
What about your op condition?
@@daristaufiq4560 just wanna know how it's actually done by the majority of the player base since this video kinda implies I'm doing something wrong here, that's why I wanna know the "correct" way if there is one.
the worst mistake is not reading because it makes you make mistakes
good timing, i just started plaing
I usually don't buy skins unless i have that operator, because i want to see the normal skin in battle and after that the skin, if i use the skin first that would feel like playing with default anyways
I bought angelina's bloodline of combat skin when it came out. I've never had her show up
I let my sanity cap because its too stressful to pressure myself to play a game when I am not feeling it. So I try my best to not care anymore. Also one time I had 300 sanity one time bc all my potion was about to expire and I didn’t want to spend a long time using it.
As f2p myself..
The only rules i apply to my account
" Ok,you can be dumb enough to depleted your orondum for non limited operator (flash back 200pull for eyja near r6s collab),you can up any ops you want, but dont you dare spending OP other than bought a skin " imprint into my brain
My newb mistake was not reading their traits and talents. I've been using Myrtle to hold a lane and wonder why she can't block a single enemy whenever I activate her skill HAHAHA
omg happened to me too😭 I just kept spamming abilities and start to wonder why enemies all walk past her
Well I always have or plan for 120 pulls at EACH limited banner.
The only time I didn't do it was on W's banner, which was the first limited banner...and to date she is not in my rooster. ALL other limited OPs are with me.
"How did you learn what a vanguard was?"
Seige was my first 6 star LOL
Tbh, I'm already an ak vet, yet I still don't know how to utilize base production. I'm using a 252 base and I think my base lmd is 36k. I just randomly put ops in the base since I don't know combinations, nor should I raise specific ops to utilize production. If anyone can help me with that id really appreciate it since the videos I watch are so complicated.
The only reason I learned how to use vanguards was because I saw Texas in the 5-star choice thingy, thought she looked cool, and brought her to EVERY. SINGLE. STAGE
Going into the game at Stultifera Navis and not getting to Lumen.
I mean, I can still take him from support..
Desperately clear 9-19 to just realize "oh.. i have no resources to upgrade operator again" :D
*but now my siverash and thorn are lv. 60
I got an r6 4 star character but i decided to make a new account since I haven’t played it for 3 years and my account is level 3, my new is just 32 now, now I’m starting to think i should’ve continued my old account.
i bought the tachanka skin, but this was before i reach my "i can jstu read teh event story later" epihamy so i never wound up actually getting him
didnt start hoarding 300 pulls until way late, still missing dusk/nian/rosmontis
Can anyone explain me aboout what is 252,243,333,...
2:53 those newbie players do not use vanguards in game is the one blinded by using highest Attack damage operator and completely ignore the core mechanics of the game
I had no clue you can change the type of factory to trading post, so i was running 1 trading post for almost 2 yearrs!
Suffice to say i had big lack of LMD... Oh well, at least those 3000+ surplus of exp tickets were useful actually and could slow down on gold bars due to me having over 1000 at some point.
I did buy Carnelian skin when I did no get her, I really wanted her, so I dont feel bad to spend on that skin.
Me buy Silverash skin when don't have him and wait after 1 years to get him home 😅