Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26355650-20151201042252/@comment-26716060-20151201060607

Hey. I know how you're feeling. While I was farming Akizuki on easy mode, I had a felling that, if I had bad luck, I could spent all my resources there to take a chance on Akizuki and don't have the resources to clear the event later. Worse yet, could spent it all and get nothing, no Akizuki and medal. Now I'm halfway through E-5, and did E-3 farming on easy to get Akizuki before changing to hard and clear it.

I don't regret it, not because RNG blessed me with her after using more than half of my resources on E-3 alone, but, from my experience, the other maps are less resource heavy (except buckets, you still use them a lot on E-5). Also because farming Akizuki on higher difficulties it's impractical. The cost to reach the boss and get a victory it's 2 to 3 times higher, because you need to use support expeditions to stand a chance. While on easy its not necessary if you have a good composition.

So, I say if you really want Akizuki, you could keep farming. I think you still have plenty of time. But I think it's safer to clear it on easy, not on hard, then E-4 on medium and finally 1st class medal, like you said. That can save you a few thousand resources and give the opportunity to clear the event and then go back to farming, if things don't go well. Only force yourself to clear E-3 on hard after farming if you have a lot of resources yet. Otherwise It's too much gambling to try clearing all on hard and do the E-3/E-4 farmings before changing difficulty. It could go perfectly, with Akizuki, Graf, Eugen + loots + first class medal, or it could go terribly wrong, with none of them.