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This article aims to provide advice on the better ways to farm for certain ships in order to use them as Modernization fodder. Those ships notably include:

  • Maruyu for luck modding
  • DE for HP/ASW/Luck modding

Maruyu

Maruyu Kai is the best way to reliably modernize the luck of any ship in the game.

For more information on this topic, see Maruyu modding.

LSC

Maruyu is a reliable LSC craft

  • She can be crafted by using the minimum resource amounts.
  • Her crafting rate can be improved by crafting with as few "free docks" as possible.
  • LSC attempts are advised only when reaching the resource caps in order to avoid wasting any resource gains.
Maruyu
     Note
15001500200010001Recommended recipe
Notes
  • Unlike other recipes, the number of free docks should be minimum (ideally 1).

Sorties

Dropping Maruyu is usually the best way to farm her as it is generally cheaper than the LSC cost.

3-5

3-5 is the best place to farm Maruyu, being relatively cheap and fast. The main downsides are the morale drain resulting from ending the sortie on an "off-route node" and the low amount of ranking points awarded.

  • It is important to first clear the map in order to have the proper drop rate.
Recommended Fleet
  • 1 (F)BB(V), 3 CVL, 2 CAV/AV
  • Route = B D H J
  • Fleet setup reference: [1]

Drop rate:

Enemy Compositions HQ ≥ 85 HQ ≤ 84
       1.4% 0%
Last Dance
Post-Clear 		2.5%
All Other Enemy Compositions 0%
  • This means it is impossible to get her here if the HQ is 84 or lower.
Tips

4-5

4-5 has one of the cheapest comp to farm Maruyu and awards a large amount of ranking points relatively quickly. The main downside is the drop rate is reduced significantly when owning any copies of her.

Recommended Fleet

Drop rate:

Enemy Compositions 0 Maruyu 1+ Maruyu
      

      

3% 1.75%
All Other Enemy Compositions 2% 0.75%

Therefore, it's only recommended to farm Maruyu here if with 0 owned copies in the base.

Tips
  • Node T flagship is a soft-skin installation Harbour Princess 
         , requiring equipment such as   AA Shells and    Landing Equipment to deal with her.
  • 2 DDs should be capable of carrying  /  and   Armor Bulges to increase the pass rate. They should also be able to do decent OASW damage to deal with submarines. Therefore, the best setup for them should be a strong special DLC/Tank +  Sonar + 2 Bulges (One bulge in RE).
  • The last DD should be the one doing AACI duty, preferably Hatsuzuki Kai Ni  as she has an extra slot to bring along an extra WG42 as well.
    • If she is married and is a high enough level, she can also OASW with 1 sonar and help with the sub node.
  • For the comp using Nelson-class, it's best to utilize her touch at node H.
    • As a result of using only one carrier filled with Jets, AS/AS+ isn't possible, so it's best to settle with AP (approximately 120-130 air power).
  • All the comps listed above have some of the upsides and downsides mainly because of the Jets usage, so it's up to players to decide which comp is better:
    • The comp with 3-4 Jets generally have more passing rate, which also helps reduce the chance of taking damage, and lower the Fuel, Ammo and Bauxite usage in general. But in exchange, you have to spend 50% more Steel compared to the steel cost from min LSC.
      • This is generally not a problem for the players who spam Tokyo Expedition a lot. Furthermore, steel isn't used much over time anyway.
    • On another hand, the comp without Jets are more efficient for all resource in a long run as you will spend less of them for the same rate of Maruyu in min LSC. But the passing rate for these comps are also lower.

6-2

Recommended Fleet
  • 1 (F)BB(V), CV(B), 2 CAV/AV, 2 DD
  • Route = C E J K

Drop rate: 2.0 %

Tips

DE

DE are the best way to modernize the HP of any ship in the game, as well as the only way to modernize ASW and a good way to modernize Luck.

For more information on this topic, see DE modding.

Sorties

  • DE can only be obtained via drops, and only limited time drops so far. Thus, there is almost no truly reliable way to farm them.
  • Unlike any other ship type in the game, DE are subject to unique drop cap behavior, similar to overfishing.
    • To farm for them efficiently, knowing how their drop mechanic works is important.
      • Having more than 3 duplicates of a certain DE will decrease its drop rate on all maps.
      • Using an individual DE as fodder 10+ times will start decreasing its drop rate on all maps, as seen in map 1-3. It's safe to assume the same counter is applied for map 7-4.
For more information on this topic, see Overfishing Cap.

7-4

So far, only 7-4 has a constant set of DE drops, making it a reliable farming location.

Recommended Fleet

Drop rate:

  • The drop rate of all DE here depends on the above-mentioned drop behaviors, as well as the current limited drop pool.
  • To check their drop rate, please refer to KcNav or PoiDB.
Tips
  • 4 OASW (with 3 strongs) is the absolute minimum requirement to stabilize the route. Fewer than 4 will increase the retreat rate.
    • A "strong OASW" is defined as a setup utilizing ASW Synergy (Small Sonar + Depth Charge). For Hyuuga Kai Ni , Helicopter + Zuiun (Kai Ni) + Sonar will also work.
    • It is important to keep in mind that most retreats here are due to submarines. Especially at HQ 120 where 7-4 is mutated into its last scaling stage, node J always has 3 So-Class Flagship , the boss gains more armor, and the boss node in LD always has a So-Class Flagship as well, making farming more difficult if lacking enough strong OASW.
  • CVE should be either Zuihou or Ryuuhou for OASW. While not as strong as the strong OASW setup above, they can still sink some weaker submarines on the way.
  • Hyuuga Kai Ni  should not have the usual 2 gun setup as it does not work well there, reducing the clear rate. It is better to give her 2 fighters to carry air power, along with 3 other equipment that can deal with submarines as mentioned above.
  • All DE have damage, accuracy, and evasion bonuses here, so they can be a good option to bring along. One of them can be used as flagship to get as much EXP as possible, making this map one of the best options to grind them.
  • Shigure also has great accuracy and evasion bonuses (but no damage bonus), being the only DD with any bonus here, making her a great DD pick when paired with her above mentioned RE capability.
  • For LBAS:
    • 4 fighters that will never be pulled out of this LBAS and never resupplied. Their slots will never go below 3 and can continue sortieing to keep the cost cheap.
    • In this map, split the attacks and target both node E and the boss node P for the best efficiency.

Misc

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See Also

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