Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31314029-20170529164650/@comment-26366865-20170529204934

If you’re going for anything above Easy, you need to consider and prepare for ship-locking, something you’re most definitely not taking in account considering you leveling priorities.

First of all, CAs. 4 of them are nowhere near enough for a medium event, let alone a large one. You should aim for all 4 Myoukous + at least 3 other combat CAs (I don’t include Maya as a combat ship btw). Remember, you can end up using as many as 4 CAs in a single map – that’s your entire current fleet gone.

Next, DDs. Daihatsu carriers should be your top priority – namely Kawakaze, Kasumi and Hibiki. I usually wouldn’t advise you to spend a blueprint on Arashio just yet, but since you already have her at a decent level, might as well go all the way to the end. You should then focus on getting a couple more TCI ships, with Ayanami and Hatsushimo being the obvious choices. A couple more high-stats DDs like Akatsuki and Asashio wouldn’t hurt either, and definitely have priority over “generic” ships like Asashimo (she’ll only be good at lvl 84 with your ASW equipment).

Additionally: farm 5-4 for Shoukaku, assuming you have it open (and get some nice xp in the process); Kai and modernize any ship you plan on keeping, and use them on early, easy maps; get more RADARs, Ryuusei Kai and Observation planes; and try to complete critical quests (like F21 and F33) ASAP.

Here are some guides on leveling DDs and CAs. Since you don't have a lot of time to play, maximizing its efficiency is important:

http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Shinhwalee/Guide_to_Power_Leveling_Heavy_Cruiser_(CA)_in_World_3-2A

http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Hayashi_H/Grinding_DDs_and_CLs_on_3-2A