Talk:Christmas 2013 Event/@comment-39.219.244.73-20131227141151

A few tips here for lower level admirals:

1. There's been rumors that drop rates are affected by HQ level. This is partially true, but not for reasons you may believe. Higher level admirals simply habe better chance to get S victories and going all the way to boss nodes from having stronger ships. It's just statistics. Just don't lose hope and keep trying. The game itself is fair, even if circumstances may not be.

2. The OMFG!!! SUPERGRAVITYCANNON death beam is essentially an opening torpedo attack launched by a 6-sub fleet during regular combat phase. Some of the same basic stats that protect you from torp attacks (evasion, armor) will also protect you from the tsundere beam. Try raising those.

3. If you have a Saiun, equip it on your strongest CV/CVL and take her with you. You do NOT want to be T-crossed by Haruna or Kirishima.

4. Always take Iona if you can afford her. At your level her existence will save you from the pain of dealing with Nagaras. God, I swear I'll turn my Nagara into a death machine on par with those little monsters.

5. Keep running resource-gathering expeditions with all your available fleets. When you sleep, run the long expeditions first, and ignore all combat quests that you have to put effort into. Just run the first daily battle, flagship kill, 10 daily battles, and if you've reached E3 run the 3 transpprts quest. Run all non-combat quests you can. Run crafting quests with default minimum ONLY to get buckets.

Good luck and have fun.