Talk:World 3/@comment-24315475-20140923061641/@comment-24978536-20140924120320

Perhaps it may be the sparkling making the difference. I don't have the patience to sparkle ships for farming runs and not even clearing runs this time around. Whenever I try the south route, the first enemy fleet always survives with at least one or two ships, and their torpedoes proceed to crit my DD to red. Even if my DD survive at orange, the light carrier's air strike has proceeded to take them down red from orange. One sortie usually ends up costing me 2 bucket, and the sortie almost always ends in retreat at the first node.

On the other hand, in northern route, most enemy compositions are in diamond formation. That formation is actually a pretty lackluster one for the enemy, except in boss nodes in general - the accuracy of the enemy ships isn't great, and even the damage potential is not very high. Usually, only ships like CLT seem to get damaged to red, and CV and CA sometimes by the Hoppo-chan node, depending on the engagement form. My clear rate at the northern route is much better than at the southern route, and it doesn't cost many buckets either.