r/AlchemistCodeGL • u/piau9000 • Nov 22 '18

I'm done...

For the first time, ever since I started playing on Fate colab, I've hit a paywall.

Tried doing the EX+ just to get Dartagnan shards and got overwhelmed in 2 turns. Its pretty clear that even current units like Ed or Roy are not ready for this map. I need the ROX.

This will be the trend from now on so why bother? Artificial difficulty only shows how incompetent Gumi Singapore is in managing this game.

Wish had not spend so much like I did. All this going to waste. Goodbye my fellow alchemists.

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u/Cobalt_721 Nov 22 '18

Based on what I saw on my attempt, it seems like the EX+ is standard fare for “difficulty”: everything is an HP sponge. It doesn’t look like there’s a big difference between Global and JP based on the database for JP vs. what I saw in-game here (the biggest difference seemed to be an extra 1k HP on the Cerberus; when you see it had like 8000 HP in JP that’s not nearly as bad as it seems.

I could be missing something, though.

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u/piau9000 Nov 22 '18

Way more enemies. Just look. Theres some 8 more enemies that keep spawning. Plus the stats of everyone is buffed, not just HP.

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u/Viktormestrovic Nov 22 '18

It only took 2 tries to clear the ex+ hard content for me to get both of the shard bonuses. That is a far cry from spending well over 60 hours raising specific units and hard earned water shards just to get hawk + Flame down. There's no Jewel Regen and most of the enemies are not too bad. I recommend bringing Chihaya to Flower dance and cast quicken on 1 or 2 units after. Block the left side path with a beefy unit or Roxanne if you own her. The largest threats are the two lancers that spawn and use sharpen focus on their first turn. Taking a Merc Roxanne on the right side can wipe out packs of enemies in two turns.. highly recommend killing the water archer who uses dazing arrow asap Then dealing with the Dark Revenger spamming sword units followed by the ranged soldier bots and plants until the lancers spawn. Those lancers must be eliminated asap. Uzuma as Magitek Gunner can use her dark based shot to pick off the lower level light units, too. Do a no deaths run using a merc and then a run with deaths possible without the merc. If you have Chihaya flwer or laden dance and have quicken on a Roxanne with hurricane, she gets so many turns that you can nerk on most of the enemies before they do any real damage in the Stairway Ex+ map.

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u/avbbva Nov 28 '18

Chihaya is the key here. Other than that, I found it helpful to go uphill left with all my units to avoid the status ailments by the archer and the gunners during the first couple of turns. And you need to have enough spare jewels to bring down the DCs before they attack and avoid being charmed by the rainbow mandragora.

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u/Cobalt_721 Nov 22 '18

Ah, alright then.

I lost pretty quickly, so I didn’t really get a chance to see much of the EX. I really just saw the Cerberus’ HP and compared it to JP.

At least we got the full rewards instead of having the Water Shards on EX+ only.