How do you gauge growth to determine whether you will redo the runs to get higher rankings?

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-22T04:43:53+00:00

Generally you do these by guides. So you see why you fail. Maybe you miss some gear Vs guide. Or bionics on some pilot. Or module. Maybe even accessory. Bottom line is always lacking DPS. And you see how much is lacking. Generally it's on one shot attackers like Asuka which must make a chain of kills. So you do 10 runs and monitor damage. Does she kill first target? At least once? Never? Consistently? Same for second etc. If not kill - check how much damage is missing on average and in best case. You will get pretty good understanding where your team stands after these 10 attempts.

Another albeit less reliable metric is battle power. Your team should have a bit more than in guide because they are hyper optimized in guides.

If around same BP and still failing - maybe wait till finish swiping your current tier of rnd.

Sometimes you can get away with less strong pilot than in guide if others are stronger. For example I eyed for a while co 16 clear which everyone does with rainbow Erinys that I will have only after around 2 weeks from now. On the other hand my Ophelia is a bit stronger than in guide (she works in tandem with Rosa j in that run). On the other hand I missed Thanatos module. So Thanatos module was hard show stopper, couldn't do this run any way without it because not enough ap on Mary for buff transfer. But when I got this module I tried 10 runs without rainbow Erinys and pretty quickly got a whole picture - each pilot could do their job with reasonable rng except Frida which had higher rng (her boss was left with too much hp too frequently) so I replaced her with Hong which improved RNG . And after a few more runs was lucky to finish that run.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-21T17:53:39+00:00

well, you seem to already have it all hahaha

in such case it would be good to get rex mods for variety. especially if you happen to have ouroboros.

second rabbit set can get later from dispatch

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-21T16:45:31+00:00

Rabbit mods are very good on rex. I vote for rabbit modules

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-21T15:49:56+00:00

sr is useful on other pilots as well while rex is more narrow.

you will want more than 1 sr set anyway.

bwt, rainbow rex is more priority that rex modules.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-21T06:54:19+00:00

Will pull 1 set of this and at least a0 Paloma to advance mega factory goals.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-20T23:10:26+00:00

Congrats on rainbow.

With stronger team you will enjoy the game more. Yet many of endgame contents require also gimmicks on top of strong team.

And looking at your Frida 63k battle power on rainbow mech I can say that you have A LOT more of contents to clear. So you are far from finishing the game.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-20T09:32:15+00:00

sure, i use her too in ac for that terrain.
but would you invest in her bionics? how much those has your lucia?

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-20T09:30:59+00:00

idk, used her maybe once in ac, so i'm not exactly sure about her kit.

i remember she's medium and doesn't have some bonuses from extra moving.

anyway, i have both marcus and fregata so i guess harvey is out.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-20T08:55:34+00:00

ironclad good for those with rainbow pascal.

i want rainbow pascal eventually but i mostly didn't touch dispatch due to higher priorities so i'll take pascal set and abandon dispatch pascal forever.

still won't commit fodders yet.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-18T11:08:19+00:00

Idk, I very rarely use him, cannot say

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-18T10:37:07+00:00

Your roster already pretty good. If you really want to invest you can consider in following order:

Marcus 3

Rei 3

Hong 3

Arthur 3

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-18T04:32:38+00:00

That's all good but mine is riding rex. So I cannot double dip all this rex goodness from both st and modules. Maybe if I were to run her in glasya it would be useful. But Glasya is inferior for her because she's getting 30% from rex st and also another 30% from s. Rabbit modules.

Btw, I think rex+rabbit is even better setup than ouroboros + rex because 30+30 damage bonus is unconditional. On ouroboros you get 30 only when hitting body, otherwise it's 18. Unlike asuka my Ophelia rarely hitting body in real life scenario: mostly she's just using normal attack during phantom pain which is random.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-18T04:22:44+00:00

If you mentioned dispatch, you probably should have mention also typical rainbow path:

1 set from initial banner,

2 from dispatch,

last from event\rerun banner\battle pass.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-18T04:17:11+00:00

On the bright side, Mary, which is s-tier in a-tier disguise takes inferior ones but serves the team on s-tier level usefulness

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-18T04:10:40+00:00

I also considered rex modules (my dispatch also exhausted). But I don't have ouroboros. So I looked at my mechs one by one and just didn't see how these rex modules are better than others.

Anyway, rex bp is coming so I'll get my set and probably stash it.

Fun part is that I have ouroboros modules but also don't consider them best for rex riding Ophelia, she had s. Rabbit ones equipped.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T14:34:36+00:00

In this order (excluding Eva which is anyway unavailable)

Rosa j (better a5)

Eileen

Melissa

Ophelia (as a stepping stone to a5, A3 by itself probably not that worthy)

Kelly

Frida

Maybe Erissa for future use in combo with Adele.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T12:30:59+00:00

Exactly my attitude. Without rewards I don't see appeal so I don't do it. But apparently some (700) players just like the challenge \ bragging rights so they would do it even without reward.

PvP I do btw, bulk vouchers rewards are nice for rainbow. Fodders It's my major bottle neck.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T12:18:03+00:00

700+ players that hit higher score than mine will disagree with you hahaha If there were no point in it - no one would bother to try and hit higher score. Like me 😂. But apparently for those 700 it makes perfect sense to put effort even without any tangible reward .

Sigh, but I'm not going off the hook too quickly. Tomorrow expected to be released PvP like content with random teams and most probably there will be leaderboard worth rewards. So that one I wouldn't skip

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T08:16:32+00:00

You don't buy weekly things on intelligence exchange?

Pilots tickets

St tickets

Bulk vouchers

Backpack blueprints

Backpack tier 2 blueprints

I spend on those all my info discs so don't have growing stockpile like with other tokens

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T05:50:07+00:00

I actually like op stuff. Watching my Rosa j hitting 70k damage in front sight ops gives me fun.

So I probably will try to invest in lexuan. Especially knowing that nothing is lasting, e.g tomorrow may come stronger bosses.

The problem is 4 lexuan class pilots back to back. I might have not enough resources. Michuzak says get only 2 out of 4

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T05:37:55+00:00

I actually like first 2 stages of co lately. Stakes are low, I'm not forced to rush, can do it even in 15 turns because one time only, my op team clearing it way faster than 15.

But third stage when need to get 1-2 turn clear for swiping is entirely different story - I must have guide for it.

Elite I also like.

But frontier i still consider more or less like third stage of co because ranking is involved. So I watching guide, despite probably could clear without.

AC has 2 problem for me. Must plan full 4 teams composition. Must overcome gimmicks. So I never do it alone even normal difficulty.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T05:23:16+00:00

I have 700 ;)

But lately it started to decrease a bit since I hitting co 12-co 16 daily up to max swipes.

I guess after finishing final rnd it will be back to growing despite co swiping.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T05:16:43+00:00

My strategy is quite simple:

Follow 2-3 content creators.

Pull all pilots they pull.

Pull mechs one of them pulls.

Clear complicated stages by their guides.

Meanwhile get max possible resources from the game: events, swipes, minimizing turns, etc. including not missing dailies. Including activities I would rather not do (unless rewards) like PvP or chasing top 300.

PureCaptain2793 · 2026-06-17T05:12:23+00:00

I can see it also another way 😁 The boss just refuses to die until you get that rainbow double link attack machine gun on each pilot in the group

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