Talk:Underground Treasure Chest - Easy 2/@comment-28290173-20160528075238

I've been playing around with different formations and I think I've come up with the best way to combat floor 40 because I'm grinding for Gotou (this is with thanks to Kit for the advice the other night). Obviously the best thing you can do is have a >level90 Tonbokiri on your team to stab the yari after everyone's gone but not all of us have a Tonbokiri at that level so I had to improvise.

I noticed that most of the time (exception below), only a high levelled tachi (level80 and above) and oodachi are capable of clearing out one of the yari's troops. So if you don't have lvl99 Tonbokiri I'd suggest at least 4 swords on the team who are capable of taking out at least 1 troop off the yari.

As for troop loss, the classic "choose the top middle formation (橫隊陣)" advice is the one to go to, unless it is disadvantageous, in which case choose the one right underneath it (方陣), as these two formations will boost leadership while the others will decrease it. With this rule I can still expect lose the odd troop from kiwame Atsu but hey this is a lot better than 10 missing troops and the team half-dead with just one run of floor 40.

The only exception where you should choose the most advantageous formation instead of the middle two is at boss node. I'm sure this is RNG trolling me as well but I haven't been able to kill the yari if I pick any other formation that isn't the most advantageous (instead of taking 1 troop off the yari at a time, the tachi begin to take 1HP off its troops in which case you're never going to kill it), so if you want a drop then ditch your troops and pick the advantageous formation regardless of which one it is.

If anybody has anything better than this though I'd love to hear it since I really want Gotou home