Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-32647310-20171015050812/@comment-26366865-20171016170242

I was just going to comment on your bad choice of upgrades, but after reading your reply, I think a lot clarifications are in order.

AnimeFreak40K wrote:

This said, I am working on getting all of them at the very least to K2 (or at least Kai in those that don't have a K2 yet) if for nothing else except their cool gear.

Frankly the jury is still out on whether or not I am going to keep Ayanami once I get her gear at K2 (I made a list of ships I want to get to K2 for gear purposes, quests and the like and I don't remember where I put Ayanami XD)...and I'm not sure if Asashio is worth it at the moment. I mean, she doesn't get any new equipment and there are other DDs that do give equipment and the like. The only DDs with noteworthy equipment are the Akizukis. Unless you’re farming searchlights or Poiguns for improvement fodder or something like that, you really shouldn’t care about what equipment they have, since they are all craftable anyway. The fact that you’re dismissing Ayanami and Asashio, who have 2nd and 3rd best stats of all DDs (1st is Yuudachi) shows how screwed your priorities are on this point.

It’s fine to stick with the girls you like, and you can probably get through Easy with just them, but if you want to be able to tackle Hard maps, you’ll definitely need some top-stat ships.

Incidentally, you should definitely take a look at the ships by top stats pages, since you clearly don’t have much of a clue about which ships have the best stats (looking at the comments about Jintsuu and Myoukou/Haguro here)

AnimeFreak40K wrote:

My CAVs are... I don't know actually. I thought out of the 4, Kumano was the weakest? I could be wrong here... either way, she's got awhile for K2, and I think Suzuya will get to that point first... either way, I think that is a weak point out of the fleet; I rely so much on Suzuya, and I kinda feel 'bleh' if I need 2+ CAVs for, well, anything really. This said, moving forward (thinking after-event here), should Kumano get the BP before Chikuma, as Chikuma is ready to go right now?

Again, top stats. CAVs are regularly used both for branching and on Transport maps, so what you have is certainly not enough; you should at the very least give them some levels, and get Suzuya and Chikuma to Kai Ni when you can spare the blueprint. Yes, Kumano is marginally better than Chikuma, but unless you’re planning on power-leveling her all the way to 84, there’s no point in waiting.

AnimeFreak40K wrote:

Jun'You and Ryuujou are my present go-to CLs so they can get XPs, I'm finding Ryuujou a little harder to work with than I'd like due to her limited plane-slots though... Jun’you is slow, and will regularly get screwed by branching. Ryuujou is very situational due to her slot spread, as well as being very weak unless she’s Kai Ni – you should definitely get her there ASAP if you plan on using her regularly.

AnimeFreak40K wrote: Now, I am aware that many of my choices for ships in particular (such as Hamakaze getting the first ring and is first waiful) are waifu/art/character-based rather than stat-based...which may or may not be a hinderance... but meh? This is fine - motivation to keep playing is a very important point - but again, balance is key if you want to progress beyond clearing events on Easy.

AnimeFreak40K wrote: As far as equipment goes, I've been making it an effort to get good/decent gear in a (reasonably) effecient manner. Ok, to put it bluntly, the majority of your upgrades have been nothing more than a waste of time. There’s no reason whatsoever to improve junk like base 12.7cm, base 20.3cm or T94 DCs, especially considering you have better versions of them just sitting there, as well as plenty of equipment that are already top-tier, such as quint torpedoes and AP shells.

And yes, I’m aware that most of them are free in terms of screws since they only cost 1, but time is very important resource as well. It’ll take a looong time to get a decent amount of upgrades to deal with the many situations the game will throw at you, and you’ve wasted at least a couple of months on stuff that is completely useless.