Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-24663938-20160329090327/@comment-1853279-20160402111700

With the right setup, it's fairly easy to level destroyers and light cruisers in 3-2 in relative safety. Every so often RNG will hit and you will have to spend a bucket, but constantly running expedition 2 and doing your daily quests is more than enough to keep up. I don't use quite the same set up as Hayashi's guide, but it was informative and was a good starting point for me to find what worked for me, so it's good reading.

The one thing I'll add, with stockpiling coming up soon, is that the lower the resource consumption you can get on these grind maps, the better. In normal conditions, dropping from 50 to 40 fuel consumed per node isn't a big deal, for example, but adds up when you're running that several dozen times.

Level 40 used to be a good starting point for easy, but these days events seem to be getting more demanding in spots. Level 50 as the others suggested is probably safer and still quite attainable within a month, for a decent stable of ships.