User blog comment:SlashZero/Summer 2015 E-3 Hard S Rank Pre-final & Farming Composition/@comment-139.216.148.160-20150902133618

Thanks for the guide! It had certainly been full of ups and downs tackling E3 Hard for Mizuho

At first I was getting S Ranks easily but RNG only granted me Hieis and Kirishimas (and their gold background ugh, the tease) Then sometime in the middle of last week, my RNG got thrown into the trench where i could only get A Ranks. Tinkering around with the fleet did not help (e.g. OTO 152mm/Radars on Kaga/Taihou small slots)

I was pretty much resigned to leaving Mizuho for the next event but decided to go at it intermittently this week where I would train my Murata/Tomonaga at E5-Ging and return when they're maxed rank since Taihou kept getting her 30 slot destroyed to 0. I stopped tinkering and returned to follow your guide to the letter again, had a couple more A Ranks today and suddenly broke through with 1 S Rank (my first in a week). Lo and behold RNG has rewarded me for my perseverence (Mizuho dropped like wtf luck is that)

I guess there was a certain something in your guide that I missed and my tinkering failed me a bit; (Maybe I was getting AS instead of AS+ when i traded those fighters for 152mm/Radars? Didn't really pay attention and don't want to bother with the calculations) Anyway lesson learnt: If you're using someone's guide, follow the instructions to the letter if you want similar results

Thanks once again. Screw E3. Time for some Maruyus at E5-G