User blog:SolarMist/Trouble at the Old Inn: Haul

Event: "Trouble at the Old Inn"

Type: Tower / Sealstone

This tower was horrible!


 * XP was cut in half!
 * Emperor Napoleon's defense was raised.
 * This tower required 68+ more hours than the previous tower, "Ancient Japan's Got Talent!"
 * One needed more than 50 hours' worth of items/HP refills in order to complete the tower using zombie mode.
 * Minor: We get three less stamps from beating the GGs. (Crane Wife gave two stamps instead of three, and Hair Dryer gave three stamps instead of five.)
 * For many people, the number of barely-covered females was waaaaaaaaaaay too high. Sure, they're pleasing to many eyes, and yes, it's a hot springs (so convenient), but seriously, what happened to the males? The only people with male bodies in this event were Ping Pong Pete, Emperor Hadrian, and Sukuna Hikona. In addition, note how much we can see of the males compared to how much we can see of the females.
 * Moon Viewing Set (Hot Springs)'s tower defense was raised. (At least she has nice stats for a 900-WG...)
 * Was Raging Rodan's high trigger really worth an increase in her tower defense? On that note, it seems like more people than usual were having trouble finding her magatamas...
 * Magatama costs increased for everyone except MVS.
 * The GGs weren't good enough to compensate. (Even when you ignore Dancing Doll's epicness.) Especially Napoleon. Worse than Nataraja in every possible way (excluding art, of course, since opinions vary on that) and more difficult to reach?!

In addition, the types are still badly unbalanced. ... yeah, I know there's conquest, but seriously...
 * Emperor Hadrian has a nice base defense of 9700, boosts defense, and has a very high trigger rate! And he's a Divina. Unless my memory is failing me, when was the last time there was an Anima defense booster with similar raw stats and a similar availability? And isn't Hadrian one of the first VH trigger defense boosters with his availability level?
 * TR 5* is another Divina. As AKFrost pointed out, we're been getting an awful lot of Divina TR 5*s in tower >.> From most recent to least recent: Yumi, Amaterasu, Kaguya-hime, Kotetsu (Focused), Orihime, Shotaro Fuma, Ohina. (not counting 2012 towers)
 * Divinas are Yumi, Amaterasu, Kaguya-hime, and Orihime. Note how Yumi is another attack increaser with very high trigger rate (hey, what about the Animas? I mean, I know they have Glacie, but...) and how the last three all have leader skills.
 * Animas are Kotetsu (Focused) and Ohina. Both have leader skills.
 * The only Phantom TR 5* for towers starting in 2013 is Shotaro Fuma! And she's a reducer, to boot.

Probably one of the few hands-down good things: The sealstone daemon is actually worth getting compared to previous ones. Akaname boosts Phantom defense by 20% to 27% and also has a high trigger rate. (Plus she's a Phantom. :P)

Guardian Ghosts
This was my first tower in which I didn't reach 200f. (Well, technically my second, but I'm not counting "Elegance! Hina-matsuri Rebellion!") I reached 160f. Admittedly, I spent a couple of days farming in 2-2-1, but that's only because I knew I wouldn't be able to reach 200f anyway.

I spent 5 candies at the very start of the event because the event literally just started and there was no warning of the XP cut (I was one of the people who started filling in the spreadsheet at the beginning of the event and later was one of the first to ask about the XP cut). It was early morning for me, so I wanted to use my levelup before I went to bed and later to school.

Sealstone Daemon
I found Akaname's first sealstone around 35f.

I maxed her skill on February 3, 2014, aka in five days. I overestimated the difficulty of getting her sealstones. xD Maybe it's because I usually had Kenshin Uesugi (Summer) as leader and 400+ DS. I used 1 spirit water and 12 charms... and only two of those charms were actually activated xD

I found yellow and green sealstones this event.

Wandering Ghosts
Got Emperor Hadrian + 1 magatama. He's in my defense team now.

All non-5* WG teams below have a 100% chance of winning--i.e., I did not rely on skills.

WG Team: Bath Pass - 30 AS

 * 5x Wind Weasel

WG Team: Hot Spring Egg - 47 AS

 * Faithful Hound
 * Margareta
 * 3x Wind Weasel
 * They're all Phantom, so the leader can be any of them.

WG Team: Széchenyi - 85 AS

 * Leader: Sanuki no Miyatsuko
 * Kiri
 * Bunny Battler
 * Margareta
 * Kotetsu

WG Team: Emperor Hadrian - 117 AS

 * Leader: Kiri
 * Lu Bu
 * Sanuki no Miyatsuko
 * Norma
 * Faithful Hound
 * Since Norma is also an Anima, she can be the leader, too.

WG Team: Moon Viewing Set (Hot Springs) - 177 AS

 * Leader: Dragon Princess (Halloween) + 0 magatamas
 * Lunar Hare
 * Shotaro Fuma (Tanabata)
 * Libra + 0 magatamas
 * Big Kite Zamashi + 1 magatama
 * I had the best chance by using a combination of brute force and defense reduction.
 * To win, I needed one of my reducers to activate alongside any other daemon if MVS activates her skill. If she doesn't use her skill, then I just need one of my reducers to activate.
 * Yes, it was the highest when DP was leader rather than Lunar Hare or Shotaro.
 * Chance of winning: 92.58%

WG Team: Raging Rodan

 * Leader: Befana + all 5 magatamas
 * Nataraja
 * Munenori Yagyu
 * Sanuki no Miyatsuko
 * Susanoo (original) + 0 magatamas
 * Never met her, of course. I wanted to see how I would do against her anyway.
 * I tried swapping out Susanoo for Sasuke (HW) + 5 magatamas. It lowers my chances slightly. And it costs more AS. :U
 * ... hey, the last SWG was also raging. xD
 * Chance of winning: 55.63%

Rankings
SW, SW, DN

5* Magatama Trade-in
I got a Diamond Magatama. At least they kept the prices the same ^^

tl;dr
Got all GGs up to 150f (Shingen Takeda (Hot Springs). Got Emperor Hadrian + 1 magatama for my defense team. Got a Diamond Magatama from the post-event magatama trade-in. Obtained and maxed Akaname using 12 charms (only two of which activated) and 1 spirit water in five days because I overestimated the difficulty of completing her sealstone set. xD

And it's back to homework I go.