Talk:Prinz Eugen/@comment-26375216-20151129013740/@comment-78.145.84.251-20151202021829

@The Anon above:

I saw this same argument the other day phrased as "the game isn't easy for veterans like people say" or something like that.

My response?

Autumn 2014 she was practically given away. Comparatively.

There she was a map clear reward for E3. You had a clear goal and focus to work towards and you got her freely as part of clearing the event. If you prepared to clear the event properly then you have her. Regardless of how difficult the map itself was, you had a clear, direct route to obtaining her.

Autumn 2015? She's a low-chance random drop in an off-route dead-end node on E4 (note: a map later). Behind at the very LEAST a So class and two Wos (one with Pokeballs) and that's on easy difficulty; giving you a full three nodes of taiha to avoid (because god knows its a NIGHTMARE to S-rank it without a full fleet, so fleet command retreats are damaging to the chance). And then you have to S-rank an installation class flag node, and to just add a little more spice said node includes two new unique opponents which are damn difficult to kill with anything bigger than a Destroyer. Further, there's a chance of getting outright NOTHING from the node, so you might complete the run and get no drop at all. Oh and if you're playing it on easy to farm the most efficiently then unless you've done a bunch of very careful tweaking to the boss health to force it into one formation (which makes it a bit harder too I believe) you have a 1 in 3 chance if her not even being an option as a drop.

Sorry but comparing those two...last year she was basically handed out on a silver platter; because you can control map clears a hell of a lot easier than you can control RNG drops.