Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-27722462-20160202183950/@comment-26351458-20160203031718

Hi,

Your current situation is very good if you are looking to clear easy mode. From my experience, E-1 is generally very easy (with the best branching fleet) regardless of difficulty, so if the rewards differ a lot between difficulties, then you should definitely try E-1 on hard/medium mode (I cleared E-1H Summer '15 with an avg lv30 fleet). Be sure to wait a few days for more event info/data generously provided by the almightly frontrunners, so you can maximise efficiency.

The devs tweeted that the final map will be hard, so I would recommend completing the last couple maps on easy; that way you won't have to worry about fleet-locking/salt.

I would recommend grinding a little bit at 3-2A just to get some more modfodder (while not losing buckets), but don't spend too much resources in case there are very good ships to farm in the event (which there usually are).

If I had to choose something to develop it would be more ryuusei kai, but I don't think it's necessary; you're pretty much good equipment-wise if you were to go H/M, M/E, E, E (map difficulties).

As for post-event levelling, I would basically choose the elite ships of each class especially if they're not K2 yet (Kongou class, RJ, JY, Hiryuu & Souryuu, Kasumi and Abukuma at no particular order).

In regards to your final question, Kasumi K2 (not B) has better overall stats, she is more versatile (Daihatsu) and she is required for more quests. However, both ships are required for quests if that's something that matters to you. Otherwise, you have other ships that can be removed (two Shirayuki). You may have to consider expanding your fleet, since there are other ships to obtain (e.g. Akashi and foreign ships).

I wish you GLHF!! [especially if AD Hime returns -_-]