Talk:World 4/@comment-95.24.101.183-20180826120145

Someone in Discord chat said, that eventually people figure out how to farm. I think I'm getting somewhere.

4-1

History of sorties: https://imgur.com/a/hNqPipZ

Composition: BB 2-3 CV(L) 0-1 CA(V) 2-3 CL (CLT are fine too), speed doesn't matter.

Routing

From here, I will describe everything as your BB is always in the fleet (it just happened that way that I need to level several BBs atm). You always go to A and can reach the boss node with 3 CVL and 2 CL(T). Having CV(B) might send you either A or C, if you have 3 or more carriers in C, then C->E (transport node). So, to sum up:

BB 3CVL 2CL(T) always go south A-B(fuel)-D-G-J.

BB CV CVL CA(V) 2CL(T) go either south A-B(fuel)-D-G-J or north C-F(skip)-D-G-J.

BB mixed 3CV(L) 2CL(T) have a chance to go to A or C, if north then C->E (dead end transport node).

If you dont have 2 CL(T), then compass sends you G-H-I (dead end skip battle), probably because of BB in your fleet. My runs with subs ended up like that.

Farming

The idea behind it - you can farm 4-1 practically non-stop. 4 battles give you a lot of bonus morale from MVP and S-ranks, your carriers and flagship never drop below 30 morale, if your CL(T) demoralized - just replace them. Another upside - you don't need to waste buckets after every sortie (occasionally Chi-class CA in the boss node and Ta-class BB in G can crit one of your ships for 40+, other than that there are no threats). The sourthern path also replenishes your fuel supplies, 50-100 per run, ~80+ rolls very often. Req composition allows you to play with aircraft setup and rig MVP for one of your carriers, just like the old 3-2; overall fleet comp is very powerful, no useless exp-leechers like DD's, you can bring CA(V) if you want, no punishment for sending heavier fleets, routing is fixed.

EXP gain (S-rank):

A or C ~140-170

D ~150-180

G ~250-280

J ~320-350

Node J drops Hiryuu, Uranami. Confirmation: https://imgur.com/a/3XCFGRX

My catch for short 2hr session is 3x Kaga, 2x Hiryuu, 4x Kongou-class BB, Uranami, a billion of CA and CL, if you don't need them for mods - count them as additional resources of every kind, mainly metal.