User blog:SolarMist/Ancient Japan's Got Talent!: Haul

Event: "Ancient Japan's Got Talent!"

Type: Tower / Sealstone

The name.

I'm sorry, but THE NAME LOL Whoever translated the name is brilliant. It sounds so much better than "Stepping Down! Dance of Takamagahara" XD

This tower was okay. Overall, it was harder, though thankfully, some of the things that changed became better.

The Good Stuff

 * We get 60 more items from beating the GGs!
 * The magatamas for Satori (Techno Pop) and Rokumeikan had lower costs. Previously, 500-item WGs had magatamas that cost 120 items; for Satori and Roku, they only costed 50.
 * The 100f GG was a leader card! Dancing Doll was the first non-selfish GG leader card since Hina Matsuri, where Sannin Kanjo was the 150f GG.
 * The 200f GG's total stats are higher than the previous ones again.

The Bad Stuff

 * Wallflower's magatamas cost 5 items more than the previous magatamas for 250-item WGs.
 * Nataraja's defense in the tower was raised.
 * The low-tier 5* WG's cost rose from 750 items to 900 items. Even with the additional items from beating the GGs, it's still a 90-item difference.
 * The event got shortened by 24 hours. Again. >.>

The Stuff in the Middle

 * The HP needed to complete this tower remained the same. (Bad: less time to cover the same amount of HP. Good: at least it didn't increase...)
 * There are less WG choices; specifically, there was only one SWG once again, and there were only two 500-item WGs (even Hina Matsuri and "The Ninjas' Elegy" had three 500-item WGs, and those are kind of like test towers or outlying towers; Hina Matsuri was the first 200-floor tower while Ninjas' Elegy was an apology for "Alice in Ayakashi Land", I think).
 * Something that amused me: Going off of only raw stats (ie: ignoring the abundance or lack of appropriate cards), Julien (Bayashi-5) was harder to beat than Dancing Doll. xD

Guardian Ghosts
I BAGGED ALL OF THEM NYAHAHA Beating them wasn't an issue at all.

Gentleman Rocker Cyril makes me happy and sad. He was absolutely hilarious in the storyline, but he's worse than my magatama-less Go-Go, who is actually less helpful in towers than my boosters @__@ Keeping him for his attitude, though xD

Dancing Doll is so pretty! :D And a great camouflage leader. A pity that she actually hampers my Anima attack team; then I could start testing my luck against the Divina whales xD She's good to go in my potential Anima defense team.

Ryukyu Luke (he's so cheerful :D) has replaced Kashinkoji on my attack team. Farewell, Kashin; you've served me well for seven months. And I'm keeping you anyway, so don't you worry :D

Nataraja is my strongest Phantom reducer. I have plenty already, but at least she's stronger than the others that I have. In addition, she has the third highest total stats of my daemons; Libra (Calm) and Kinnara (Nenbutsu) are ahead of her.

Sealstone Daemon
I found Romantic Tutu's first sealstone (red) on 29f. I unsealed her before the day ended without any items or levelups used!

I maxed her skill on December 2, 2013, aka in five days. I used no items and only one levelup.

I found red and orange sealstones this event.

My primary leader? I have no clue. I think I had no primary leader because I was busy trying to fight the WGs, too XD I was above level 120, and my DS was above 400.

Tutu is pretty good! Say what you will about the relative lack of Phantom attackers, but her skill is on par with Immortal Mountain's: it follows the type advantage mechanism and it has an awesome trigger rate. In addition, Tutu's stats--both of them--are the highest of all tower sealstone daemons so far. And speaking for myself, she has the highest total stats out of all of my 4*s; the only daemons with higher total stats than hers (for me) are all 5*s. Good for those who need a boost in conquest.

She has higher spirit and not as good of a defense:spirit ratio as the other tower sealstone daemons, but tbh, it doesn't really matter much if you have a lot of DS unless you're somehow a magnet for a lot of overconfident attackers. xD

I set my defense (excluding my leader) to 4x level 1 untransmigrated Barbettas and changed my IGN to Defense=1* at some point. I set them back to normal when the event ended A few people decided to believe that I wasn't a trap, though I think some of them were also confident that they could handle a trap since they used... um... total overkill on me. xD

Wandering Ghosts
I met each wandering ghost a decent number of times. (well, excluding Susanoo, whom I saw once--but that's to be expected since I barely completed one lap of 201f xD)

I had a 90.6% chance of beating Kinnara. Unlike my encounter rates for Bonnie Anne (Tanabata), Takemikazuchi, and Jeweled Branch of Horai, I was meeting Kinnara a lot. A lot a lot a lot. And I won every single match against her except for her first appearance on 201f. xD

Found Kinnara first thing in the morning one day; I had 257 HP and found no WGs until the tap that brought my HP from 9 to 1 on 184f, when I had 883 roses. I found Kinnara and beat her; Satellite Cannon, Calm Libra, and HW Dragon Princess activated (though the latter did absolutely nothing lol), and Kinnara activated as well. Brought me to 903 roses, and I could get Kinnara :D My first 5* WG! Finally! And it's one I can use, too, since I'm running Divina teams with Kenshin Uesugi as leader and consequently get attacked by a bunch of Anima teams who can beat me if just one of their skills activates, even if all of my daemons' skills activate >.>

Adding Kinnara to my defense team boosted my minimum, maximum, and average defenses. Maybe it's because I replaced my magatama-less Kashinkoji (poor guy got booted out of both teams in a single event, yeah xD); I guess Kinnara's higher base defense (+4500 raw defense) is really beneficial.

Kinnara has the second highest total stats out of my daemons, only behind Calm Libra (who, quite frankly, is probably going to stay in my conquest team for a very long time). She and Nataraja pushed Munenori Yagyu and Kenshin Uesugi out of my conquest deck. (Well, Kenshin will be pushed out once I max Nataraja xD Kinnara's already maxed.) Kinnara also has the third best defense:spirit ratio in my deck :3

And now for a story that makes me headdesk because it was a ridiculous loss:

I encountered Rokumeikan between classes and had very little time to change my team into something appropriate, so I reset priorities for my attack team and intended to use brute force to win. The problem was that I didn't realize I lacked sufficient AS to use this method and sent out Kenshin [lead], calm Libra, Lu Bu, and a lv1 Pillow Phantom, which took 111 AS and had a total raw attack of about 38.5k.

Since Kenshin and Libra were effectively self-boosters (+2070 and +2970 respectively for a total of +5040 attack) while Lu Bu and Pillow Phantom had no effect... >_> I didn't watch the battle animation, so I don't know which skills activated. Maybe it's for the better that I don't know how close I got. xD

The really sad things:

1) I could've set Lu Bu or HW Dragon Princess or someone like that as leader, and I would have probably won thanks to the +15% leader advantage.

2) I could use a 98 AS team to beat Roku with 100% success.

xD And speaking of teams, the WG teams I used are below. All of the non-5* WG teams have a 100% chance win rate (aka you do not need to rely on your daemons' skills, even if the WG activates their skill).

WG Team: Dance O'Matic - 30 AS

 * 5x Wind Weasel

WG Team: Wallflower - 42 AS

 * Leader: Sleeping Beauty (Summer)
 * 4x Wind Weasel

WG Team: Satori (Techno Pop) - 105 AS

 * Sleeping Beauty (Summer)
 * Sanuki no Miyatsuko
 * Momotarō
 * Susanoo (original, yes)
 * Sherry
 * They're all Divina, so the leader can be any of them.

WG Team: Rokumeikan - 98 AS

 * Faithful Hound
 * Bunny Battler
 * Lu Bu
 * Gregory
 * Barbetta (Ultimate)
 * Any of the Phantoms can be the leader.

WG Team: Kinnara (Nenbutsu) - 175 AS

 * Leader: Satellite Cannon
 * Libra + 0 magatamas
 * Lu Bu + 2 magatamas
 * Dragon Princess (Halloween)
 * Sasuke Sarutobi (Halloween) + all 5 magatmamas
 * I had the best chances by using brute force. To win, I needed either Satellite or Lu Bu to activate, even if Kinnara activated her skill.
 * Chance of winning: 90.6%

WG Team: Susanoo (Enraged)

 * ... well, I didn't exactly use any team against him xD the only time I ran into him, my phone was running low on battery and I wanted to finish my HP usage but I couldn't battle him since I ran my AS dry. Besides of that, stalling for time would have killed my battery, and I wouldn't have been able to battle against Susanoo anyway.
 * My team against Kinnara has a 45.5% chance of winning against Susanoo.

Rankings
I did horribly during FH. xD 336 roses, rank #28849. My WG encounter rate was apparently pretty low in FH.

My performance during SH surprised me. Right now, the rankings are still being calculated, but I got 784 roses and am ranked #3570! What on earth?! I guess my ability to defeat the low-tier 5* WG really helped. Looks like I secured Rio + 2 magatamas. She's my second SH tower reward and the first one to have magatamas.

And, looking at just her stats and skill, she really isn't that bad. 10k+ attack, a regular (not slightly) increase attack skill, and she's a Phantom. Good to see a nice Phantom card. Especially since I need Phantom attack boosters >.> The only ones I have right now are 5x Wind Weasel (maxed skill), Devoted Chimp, Skeleton Knight + 3 magatamas, Margareta, and Summoned Toad + 1 magatama. Yeah.

TR... that drove me crazy. I ended this event with 1120 roses and #10814 in total rank. I've never been this close to total ranking. Wish I could have gotten in; I really wanted Ameno Tajikarao for his art and skill. But nope. -shrugs- Oh well. At least I didn't spam items like crazy to get him, so no regrets. And I have two decent Divina reducers, so at least I'm not completely lacking in them (though I still want mooooore).

What's more is that right before I went to sleep, I had a rank of 95xx. I woke up an hour after the event ended. If I had woken up a couple of hours earlier, I could have spent 4 more hours of HP. In addition, I lost to Kinnara once by chance, I had a stupid loss with Rokumeikan, and there's a possibility I could have won against Susanoo; if I had won all of those, I could have been in the rankings.

-shrug- Nothing I could've done to change that, really; stalling for time for Susanoo would mean nothing if my phone died before I was done stalling, Lady Luck made me lose just once against Kinnara (which, given that my win % is basically 9/10, is quite astonishing considering that I met Kinnara waaaay more than 10 times!), and getting to class on time was more important than getting 15 more roses.

5* Magatama Trade-in
Hey, that's pretty nice! Looks like they finally decided how to let us use our leftover items. I had 220 roses leftover, so I got a Diamond Magatama and fused it to Nataraja.

A pity that these are only available right after Big Fusion Success Offer xD But still, it's pretty nice.

tl;dr
Got all GGs. Got Kinnara (Nenbutsu), my first 5* WG. Secured Rio + 2 magatamas. Came close to Ameno Tajikarao, which makes me sad but not devastated. Will be able to add Nataraja and Kinnara to my conquest team. Ryukyu Luke and Kinnara ganged up to kick poor Kashinkoji out of my attack and defense teams almost simultaneously xD Got a Diamond Magatama from the post-event magatama trade-in. Obtained and maxed Romantic Tutu using no items and only one levelup in five days.