User blog comment:Fujisuke/The Saltz of E3 Hard/@comment-25863825-20160215164005

If your levels were more than enough, there are several issues in your fleet. Here's what you could change in my opinion:

- Maya doesn't really need an FCF if you are going for Last Dance. Ideally you want everyone to be available to deliver the best. Just replace it with something like a Sanshiki.

- Saiun is not necessary. Given the wall you have to face during Last Dance, scratch or damage than can actually pass through the enemy's defense don't mean jack. Thus, some T-reds on the way don't hurt.

- I would rather go with a Double Attack setup for Abukuma personally. (In fact, she obliterated the boss for me, haha.) But if you raised her luck ... why not ? I still think it's too low to be reliable at CI-ing consistently.

- Directly following from the previous tip, I'd swap out Abukuma and Shimakaze because the latter has a Searchlight, so she is more likely to take hits instead. As a consequence, no one will get injured before attacking, maybe.

- Tone with a Mixed cut-in setup ? It's bad. The Cut-in chance is horrendous. I would rather take her out and replace her slot with Kiso who's much more useful as another preemptive striker, and with Double Attack setup too.

- Double attack KTKM is more than enough, seriously, she doesn't need a Cut-in setup here. Plus you're preventing her from firing a preemptive torpedo with the current setup.

- Place your CI setups last and your DA setups first, so the more precise hits are more likely to sink the remaining boss. (Exception being a decently lucky ship as flagship with a searchlight, imo)

- Following all the previous points concerning the Escort fleet, you could go with this fleet in rough order: Shimakaze/Abukuma/Kiso/Ooi/Kitakami/Yukikaze

- Last but not least, take benefit from launching both supports if you're still having trouble, preferently entirely sparkled for the node one. (needless to say that you also should sparkle your entire combined fleet.)

Anyway, grats on clearing, I guess ?