Talk:Summer 2015 Event/@comment-13988853-20150821020522/@comment-26516641-20150821050430

Your fleet is around the same lvl as mine when I cleared E-7 easy. Contrary to popular belief, you DO need to sparkle at least your escort ships. RNG may troll you of course to node B every time and then, but at least your resources stays intact. With sparkled escort ships, they dodge the ninja subs and the BWS more often. On the other hand, if you don't sparkle your escorts, you risk getting sent back pre boss node and most of the time the resource consumption for the repairs and node advancement is pretty damn high.

So sparkling does help yes. Even if 1-1 is boring and very time consuming. Hence why its best to do E-7 at the beginning of the day rather than midway, since you have more time to sparkle when you get sent off course by the compass.