Talk:Winter 2015 Event/@comment-26117481-20150223042901

I know there are already tons of these, but I hope you all don't mind another end of event obligatory post.

I started about 3-4 days into this event and, being the noob that I was, didn't even realise there was an event going on for a couple of days (I thought the event arrow indicated world 7 >.<)

By the time I realised there was an event going on, I was already HQ lvl 15 with an average ship level of ~20. Of course I could only choose easy mode at this time.

E-1 was more difficult than expected seeing as I had no clue what ASW equipment was, and I had to frantically try to craft some in order to even have a chance at victory

E-2 stumped me for 2 days and forced me to farm 3-2-A in order to get BBs and raise the average level of my ship musumes. (The only BB I had was a lvl 25 Mutsu at this time T__T)

E-3 was hell. My resources were super low to begin with (around 2k of each and 20 buckets) and this map wanted them all. Add to the fact that I only had 8 battle ready (if you can call lvl 30s battle ready) ships, I ended up farming 3-2-A so much that I thought I might as well put on a conical hat and work in a rice paddy field. The map had me stuck for days until my godly support exp critted and took out 3 ships at the boss node. Thank you very much based RNGoddess.

E-4 I attempted on a whim a day before the event ended. I had heard it was easier than E-3, but it still sounded pretty difficult to me. Luckily I ended up clearing it in 7 runs with only 1 withdrawal before the boss node. Beating this map made my day, I thought I would never get Katori, but RNG proved me wrong once again.

In the end, I went from HQ lvl 15 and average ship lvl of ~20, to HQ lvl 50 and ave ship lvl of ~50. Pretty nice jump if you ask me. I also ended up getting Amatsukaze, Hamakaze, Urakaze, Maikaze, Tokitsukaze, Ooyodo, Akashi x 2, I-8, I-58, I-19 and I-168. Again, thank you RNGoddess.

Anyways, that is all, I hope this wall of text wasn't too long, and I hope to see more stories of other people's experiences with this event. :3