Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26501688-20151028070807

Based on love? Stats? Sword type?

When I first started playing the game, I was absolutely in love with Honebami's pretty face and hair, so I made up my mind to have him on my first team come what may. And since he and Namazuo practically come in a set, I wanted to have them both on the same team. I got Honebami pretty late, about 2 weeks after I started playing. By then my first team consisted of my starter Yamanbagiri whom I was also very fond of, Kogitsunemaru the first tachi I smithed on day 1, Namazuo, Ishikirimaru, Hotarumaru and Doudanuki. Back then, Doudanuki was still Doutanuki the Tachi. Well, I replaced Doutanuki (I'm sorry Q_Q) with Honebami and force-trained Honebami although Doutanuki would have balanced out the team better. I learnt the hard way that having half the team as low hp low defense swords is challenging for PvP and day battles with yari. But in the end, it still kind of worked out. All my main team are above level 90 now and able to win most PvPs.

The longer I played, the more swords I began to favour, and being more experienced with the needs of the game and events, I now look into a few factors to decide which swords to train:

1) Still has to be a sword that I like enough. Kakaka as a tachi is probably decent enough to use, but I can't stand him (sorry kakaka fans) so I won't use him.

2) Fulfill my ultimate aim of forming a full team of the same type of swords i.e. 6 uchigatana, 6 wakizashi etc. Just in case the game devs go crazy and decide to make an event that's only beatable by one sword type or something. Though probably if more naginatas are released, I might not want to train anymore because Iwatooshi was a nightmare.

3) 3 troop-slot swords because they have higher defences after being equipped, so I'm training all of them even if there are a couple whom I don't like much.

4) Swords with special abilities. Currently only Hakata was touted by the game devs as having a unique ability (ability to earn more koban in specific events?). This was my reason for picking him for my world 6 tantou team.

The list of swords I'm training can be found on my wiki profile: http://touken-ranbu.wikia.com/wiki/User:Winterblues

So how do you guys decide who to train? Who are you currently training? 