Talk:Village of Treasures - Instrument Gathering Stage 2/@comment-169.236.78.22-20170203023736/@comment-169.236.86.42-20170203033031

Well…I guess since everyone's posting about they're progress and giving advice I'll join in.

I'm a new saniwa (lvl 73), I've only been playing for 50 days.

My team isn't the best, blame character pride and attachment because they're amongst the first swords I got. There are 4 uchigatana, Souza, Izuminokami, Yamatonokami, and Hachisuka (all lvl 93+), 1 tachi, Mitsutada (lvl 93), and 1 wakizashi, Nikkari (lvl 93). All the uchigatana are equiped with at least one catapualt and Nikkari is equipped with two arrowmen, all troops for all swords are gold.

After playing for 3 days I have nearly 20k beads (~17k), 2 flutes, 0 koto, and 2 shamisen. However I did not keep track of how many runs I went through. Estimating between the number of passes given for free per day, the amount per refill, and the difference in the amount of koban I started with (only ~22k…I spent koban on a background) to what I have now (~19k) adding 2 thousand gained and spent from expeditions, I've probably ran through map 4 ~24 times.

Noteable experiences from runs:

Having long range troops is very helpful! Sometimes it's enough to take out an enemy during the long range phase. If I'm super lucky, it'll take out the captain after the second draw.

The team listed above can potentially survive 4 uchigatana draws in a row with only one member lost and minor to moderate troop loss.

The team listed above can potentially survive 3 naginata draws in a row with no members lost but heavy troop loss.

Any member of the team listed above can survive a tachi from the second draw.

Yari are still a pain in the ass. None of the swords above can survive a hit from the buffed yari that shows up after the first draw.

'''I highly recommend dropping out after loosing at least 2 members of your party! The exception being right before the boss node. Any team of 3 at around lvl 90 can probably handle the boss node and still get an A rank.'''

'Worst runs: (1) Forced retreat three times by drawing 2+ yari and/or 3+ naginata anywhere in the map and only got 25% of what I had obtained. (2) Drew too many enemy cards in a row and chose to retreat with only ~180 - 199 beads.'

'Best runs: (1) ~400+ beads obtained with and without the special pass. (2) ~500+ beads obtained with and without a special pass. I had a run without a special pass where I got 500+ beads and obtained an instrument.'

Average beads obtained per run: ~280 - 360.

I hope this helps out relatively new saniwa like myself! Especially if you don't have ootachi whom you think are at a lvl to take to this map. You don't need any of the rarer swords. I have many of them but I'm not comfortable taking them into this map at they're level. Considering the amount of troops they can equip, if you have one that's at least lvl 80 I say it would be good to try having them on your team!