Talk:Village of Treasures - Instrument Gathering Stage 2/@comment-24.139.110.35-20170220034535

OH MY GOD. FINALLY finished this thing today in the afternoon but let me tell you a story of a new Saniwa who got into TR recently and is too poor to buy stuff from the shop so I'm playing this thing the hard way. Started around Jan 15-25 I think. To lazy to look up the date. I couldn't participate in the Regiment Battle cause to new and weak for this world so focused on power leveling, unlocking maps and grinding while also doing the Koban thing to maybe get an expensive background only to find out about this event. So decided to try it for the Kogi, Koga and Kiwame set. My strongest team consisted of lvl 60's. 1 Uchi-Yamanbagiri, 2 Waki-Nikari and Namazuo and 3 Tantous-Sayo, Atsushi and Maeda and only had 27k Koban. I have no Oodachis, Naginatas, Yaris or Kiwames. How bad could this be right? HORROR! ALL. OF. THE. HORROR.

4th map is best for bead grinding but my team would get hit so hard by the level 2's of every card. No time to work on a new team cause everyone else was still too low leveled and would take too long. Heck, I ahdn't even unlocked Era-5 yet. SO worked to get 10k beads off the bat, took a "day-off" to power level my main team to 70 and sent my auxiliary parties Koban hunting. B-team at B-1, C-Team at D2 and D-Team at D-4. Every. Single. Day. Also gold catapults and archers. Love them so much. Thank you Gold Troop event.

So CALCULATING. Every pass gives you 3 rounds. For an easy time you'd probably have to make 200 beads per round, 600 beads per pass, 5k beads a day. Just focusing on beads and not the instruments if you really wanna make the 100k mark by the end of the month. That means you need at least 50k Koban or just make sure your alter parties are constantly out expeditioning for Koban like I did. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. NO. EXCEPTIONS. That's also discounting the 2 free recharge passes you get every day, which totaled at 40 free runs with 3 rounds each, 24k possible beads in a month. Also the 3 special passes you get as rewards. Really those things SUCK. Only grants 1 round and they were all bad runs. NEVER trust them. I have also learned to distrust the Kaika Card.

We all know the horror stories - Use special pass and get monsters, Kaika with only monsters, Kaika at the last nodes, survive to boss but its a sucky run with low beads, get 700+ beads but loose them all cause decided to play devil's advocate and die by high level monster at last node or survive but loose anyways cause your captain is dead. They REALLY should make some kind of rule exception for this like yes you do get sent back but don't loose your beads. So unfair you auto-loose cause your captain dies even though you freaking win.

After thinking about it the RNG was surprisingly merciful during the beginning. Got enough instruments for Izuminokami and Hasebe BGMs. Thought I wouldn't get Kogi but persevered and got him. Kept grinding for Koga and managed. Noticed the last 5k beads before each of those big rewards would always be the hardest. Then came the last big leg of the race and that's when RNG decided "Hey, guess what? You thought the beginning was bad? I was being nice to you so now you will really suffer." It was like the minute we hit those last 40k and my team hit the level 90 mark the Yari and Naginata appearance tripled and got even more level 3's and the 4's started to show up. Also yes, my miserable team went from 60 to the 86-95 mark by the end of this. Also the monsters REALLY hated Maeda because MAN they tended to go for him first and Sayo is my little champ cause while he tended to die almost as much he tended to be the smartest and aimed for the freaking captain most of the time. It was almost always "Would someone please aim for the freaking captain. Thank you Sayo." I'm gonna Kiwame that little guy first the minute I can.

SO, long story short - it is very possible to get through this event with an Uchi, Waki and regular Tantou party but its gonna be brutal. MAKE SURE your captain is your "defensive strongest" cause it would really suck if he dies first for dumb reasons *cough* Naginata*cough*. If you want beads then focus on beads. If you can get to the boss node for the beads and instrument good but don't risk loosing your bead horde.

Long post is looong. I am tired and I am out. Goodnight.