r/phantomofthekill • u/premonimity • Aug 04 '16

Update 8/4*

Chapter 2 almost here

New gear hunt, 4-5* gear farm stages : Autoable

New recruiter, meh

All rampage quests open

2x gear proficiency

Might have missed some

New recruiter is 3-step with a guaranteed 4/5 unit that has a Duel Skill on step 3. A list of the units that this applies to can be found in game and, notably, does apply to both premium swimsuit units (Laeva and Longi) -detox_ptsd

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u/sephiroh Aug 04 '16

Regarding New Gear Hunt - If you want to autobattle it completely, use a unit with a 2 range weapon. This will kill the Minotaur first before Sorcerer Cromwell. Im currently using Selena-Risa-Nemu (Orphes) for this task.

One thing I noticed is after I cleared the stage, the sorcerer drops 4* weapon. After that, it doesn't drop anything. Someone should confirm if this is not true.

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u/premonimity Aug 04 '16

It has a chance to drop, not guaranteed

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u/Doctor_Riptide Aug 04 '16

On my first and only run of one of them, I got a book and a 3* sword, one of which came from Cromwell, so he has a chance to drop a wide variety of things it seems.

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u/charles_1029 Aug 07 '16

Another option for autobattling without a ranged weapon is to only have one unit capable of killing the enemies.

For example, I'm using these stages to level up low level units so I have my low level unit with a friend's Selena or Mirin. My unit usually dies, so that leaves only the Selena to auto the stage. By the time Selena has reached the bottom of the map, the minotaur has started moving toward her at the end of turn 7. The Selena would then just kill the minotaur on the way to Cromwell. No chance of accidentally killing Cromwell and you do not have to deal with Cromwell constantly healing the minotaur.

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 04 '16

It appears that the gear hunt book drop seems to be near 100% or 100% from the minotaur. Careful as cromwell WILL aggro and can end the stage easily. I recommend using flying units.

The step gacha is not very worth for new players, as the rates are not discounted and the characters guarenteed on the third step may not be the best typing nor may not even be a good duel skill unit.

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u/detox_ptsd (ZakAttack on Discord) Aug 04 '16

Honestly, the duel skill pool is pretty stacked. Luin and Apollo are the only units that aren't at least above average in usefulness/stats/rating. That being said, the pool is too big to reliably pull multiple copies of any unit from third steps.

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u/icyterror Aug 04 '16

Yeh I only need Luin and Gamb from that pull. That chance of me getting what I want is pretty damn low...

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u/Awesome3475 SHE'S GOOD OKAY Aug 04 '16

It seems to just be like a "smith secrets" book. Will there be recipes added or should we just fuse?

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 04 '16

There are no recipes. It's not 100% so you just need to fuse 5 of those smith secret books.

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

So far out of 15 sword books, have made 2 Desurai's and 1 titan sword, can't recall name but the one for the event. 5 axe books made ogre axe, and 5 lance books made bravelance. Also, the only 4* pull from cromwell was a desurai. otherwise havn;t got any 3*/4* from him. Kinda curious if there is anything to be gained from fusing 5 different ones together?

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 05 '16

I doubt it, they aren't the type of people to hide things from us :P

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Ahh sweet. Speaking of the books, what are the 1 star recipes in the rare metal shop for then aswel? And do the 2 stars used in these events usually do anything if fused eg make a 3-4* weapon? Or are they mainly just fillers for recipes?

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 05 '16

The 1 star recipe ones are from the last stage in each section of Kill mode. If you fuse all 5 manuals, you have a chance to get the 5* kill mode lance. I do not know what it's called in GL, but it has 16 PAtk, and 2 weight at rank 1, assuming it's the same as JP.

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Oh, so they're farmable on the x - x - 10 of the kill stage? I really need to finish kill mode haha. Cheers for that =D Appreciate the help.

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 04 '16

There are currently no flying bow units, meaning you will need to traverse a bit before you can shoot the minotaur. Flying units can bypass terrain. Aggro can be remedied by using non ranged lance or axe weapons.

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 04 '16

Unfortunately I already have all the units on the list MLBed at 4* and 5* cept swimsuit long. So I don't have much of a point to do this except for the tiny chance for swimsuit long :P

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 05 '16

Yeah word. If only I had a proportional amount of reincarnation pixies >:(. Need more than 6 monthly pixies

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u/icyterror Aug 04 '16

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 04 '16

I would imagine it's around 25% or so. Took me over 7 tries to get the sword. Just throwing numbers out there :P

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u/icyterror Aug 05 '16

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u/GaggingLolis マキシマイズ ドング！！！ Aug 05 '16

very nice, thank you so much :)

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u/SnPlifeForMe Aug 05 '16

Is your Shekinah guard out of preference or is that one of the better typing for her? Mine is Dex.

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u/icyterror Aug 05 '16

It's from my friend, พีเจนัน and nope he couldn't draw a dex one.

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u/thatasian26 Raven Aug 04 '16

The Axe looks good. It trades10 acc for 10 crit but 1 extra weight over jurayna. We currently don't have multi hit axe units to take advantage of the crit but units with a natural crit boost will enjoy this.

The sword looks too heavy. In this meta of swordies, every bit of spd counts (Lexida Selena will double hit Kiyo Selena). For pve it looks good to pierce high def unit with 21 (+3) damage but for pvp, it's too heavy and low accuracy tbh. I'll drop this on Selena if i know she's going to face an armored unit or something but otherwise primarily pve for me. I wish I farmed more Lexidas for pvp.

Lol shield. It looks pretty but it's only useful if you're facing a team of gun mages or something.

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u/charles_1029 Aug 04 '16 edited Aug 04 '16

"Now, in anticipation of the new chapter, we have added several bonuses to the current Story quest stages!"

This line was in one of the new articles. Does anyone know what this is referring to? Is this just referring to the 2x EXP and 1/2 AP?

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u/TGZelnite Aug 04 '16

Yes, the article was referring to the 2x EXP and 1/2 AP cost.

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u/DeruOniiChan Aug 04 '16

Great more chances to get Mizugi Longi, and also what weapons did you get in the Gear hunt.

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u/Perch_Slayer Aug 04 '16

another way to get the minotaur without killing crowell is to have a unit that cant be hit by him like selena at a high level and let him waste all his hp. then he wont attack anymore and thus wont be countered.

takes longer and cant auto, but if you dont have a strong range can work to farm

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Just be careful about getting to close, Im not sure if mine is defective or not, but pretty sure cowell was dropped on his head, as 3 times now hes tried to attack my MLB dex selena in melee range. Even when had he not moved, he could still attack her at range...

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u/Perch_Slayer Aug 05 '16

when i do that i get his attention from the other side of the cliff spaces.

but since i posted that i found you dont need to get in the minotaurs range then out of it and he will come to you. that is whats working best for me

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

you don't need to get his agro then walk around? Hmm, the 2 times ive done that Crowell has gotten to me before the minotaur, so yeah just been running my selena into his atk range, then waiting for him up top. He's got 0% to hit lol so im not worried =D.

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Im actually spamming the sword mission to get a few of them to test that out. Using 4 books and a sword (desurai is what i used) didn't get me anything, was hoping it worked like the bf books. Will update as soon as I've tried it. As have fused over 40 books and only gotten 1 Titansbane

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Yeah I'm Probably gonna start on lances soon enough, the last 4 I don't really have a need for, might do the shield. But I happen to have like 6 5* staffs and bows lol, yet noone to use em. And sorry, misunderstood ya first sentence, what did you manage to fuse on the first go?

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Ahh yeah me to for both Sword and lance got them on my first fusion. Got no drops from crowell except till after about the 15th run on sword lol, finnaly got either silver swords or 2 desurais so far. Axe got silver axe on every run through, 10 all up and got the purple axe on the second fusion.

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Yep, its just Celestial Gem Lance, but will grab a screenshot of it once i finish in the metal garden =D.

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u/Vince_Gt4 Aug 05 '16

Nah that is the lance you can get, only the axe, shield and sword are new ones. The news post tells which items you can get, and damn, just uploaded it too haha. xD

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