Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171207155334/@comment-32647310-20180102110746

Kenji135 wrote: It is. Large scale events are always insanely difficult on Hard relative to Easy.

First you have the sub hime node where there's 2x chance your boss killers are gimped if not outright Taiha-ed.

Then you have to deal with the 2~3 BB hime node where there's 6~9x chance of your ships getting rekt. There's also 3~4 imps to screw with you because why not.

The boss itself isn't as crazy hard as Spring 2016 but the road there is just bloody. You can really feel the difference married ships and expansion slots can make.

You can, of course, clear it without paid items, but that would meant pouring more hours into the game. It could take 2~3 hours to fully sparkle 24 ships for 3~4 failed run that last ~30 minutes. The first few runs are fine, but your sanity starts to crumble at ~20 runs and feels miserable after days of failed runs. Then you start slapping damecons at everyone but get trolled at sub node or have 3~4 of your ships rekt at BB nodes.

Then Fall 2017 came about and practically bitch slap you for not buying slots / scrap your ships months in advance to make slot for the Nishimura ships.

Given that you have the option of shifting difficulties to go 'Normal' or 'Easy' mode, I'm still not sure what the problem is.

And I completed Fall with little problem as well using 4 Nishimuras. Granted, I had to look a little for Yamagumo (fortunatly she dropped while doing the EO maps for medals and) and only got Asagumo while trying to clear the boss. For further irony is that I didn't even use Yamagumo because it turned out while she was leveled high enough to work, there are DD's that were just plain better.

The only REAL problem I had with Fall was that I was trying to clear it on Medium, and I just couldn't do the damage to sink the Night Strait Princesses, even using a Sub-Tank. I chalk this up to my ships not being high enough level (neither of the Fusou Sisters were K2, for example). So while it pained me to move from Medium to Easy, I did it. And I completed the event.

...so again, given that Fall 2017 was my second event and that I was able to clear half of it on Medium with no problem (and I admit that I should have at least *tried* E3 on Medium...but I didn't), I still don't see the problem.