Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28265054-20160710100732/@comment-460323-20160810152407

Rimedimichelangelo wrote: Friendly advice: when people tell you to stockpile your buckets, they mean it.

I know that you're doing Easy mode but for future reference, you might want to spend nearly 0 buckets at least a month before the event, light-speed grinding be damned. I have seen plenty of Admirals clearing events on Easy with non-Kai Ni everything simply because they had enough resources.

In retrospect, I see that several Admirals here did repeatedly stress the need to level many ships so this is a lesson for me too: don't tell the newfaces to grind too close to an Event. Unless you're running 4-3, 1-5 and 3-2 shouldn't take too much buckets. There's really no reason for newer players to run 4-3 though, so that shouldn't be a problem. Assuming that OP had been running exp2 throughout the grind + done his daily/weekly along the way, he should already be maxing his bucket gain rate imo.

While heavier ships can do without K2, non-rare DD/CLs are practically useless without K2 and can really drags down the fleet. Tho given the current trend, installation bosses may be the bigger issue here.