Talk:Summer 2015 Event/@comment-26374503-20150831063836/@comment-24978536-20150831112638

My fleet's good performance back when clearing E-4 Medium might have been thanks to sparkling too. I kept my whole fleet sparkled on clearing runs, and I had no problem reaching the boss node through the northern route and cleared the map in 10-11 sorties (final kill was done with the night battle route). When I started farming, I used the exact same composition as I used in pre-final clearing runs, but without sparkling. The results were: 8 retreats in 10 sorties, 1 A-Rank and 1 S-Rank at boss node.

That is probably more of a case of extreme shiftings in RNG and it is a fairly low number of sorties in any case, but I can't help but think sparkling was a major factor in my clearing runs. Afterwards I didn't sparkle either, but switched to night battle route from which I had an about 66% success rate, though it is just a guess really, as I didn't keep a track of my sorties.

Sparkling really takes a lot of patience though, especially when you do it for farming... I personally lack the patience, which is why I don't usually recommend it for others either.