DeathscytheX

I couldn't do more than one. Especially since this is the first one I've played that's not some basic game. I've unlocked more stuff in the lab. With all the shipfus I'm getting I wish I could make like 10 squads. I see my first event just popped. I wont count the Christmas one since it didn't seem to have its own little area like this one does. TBH I have no idea wtf is happening. I read subs are kinda new. I got my first and I run those missions a few times a day when they pop. I'm wading my way through my 3 daily hard mode tries, and the memories thing. I'm to the point where fleet two can handle their own. I have Saratoga pretty loaded out to anchor that crew. I moved Repulse to Fleet two for not but she'll be replaced by Hood as soon as she comes off the next commission.

I got my Prinz Eugen, San Diego, and got Suruga from the event build orders. I kinda wish Belfast wasn't my best girl now because I probably would have gotten her already, damn you RNGesus. I got the rest of the starter squad as well so I'll commish Laffey and Z23 up to par. Although its apparently its marginal, I picked the least powerful of the 3... but Javelin is too much of a cutie patootie with the purple hair. I Oathed her today and I see what you're saying like WTF why didn't Laffey get an Oath skin until now? (which btw I adore now that I've seen it) I do like Laffey in the anime because she doesn't give a fuck half the time. I really like her Snow Rabbit skin too. I've totally have had self control so far but the minute that Iridescent Rosa skin comes back for Belfast its an instant purchase whether I have her or not yet. Ugh, why doesn't Yostar want my money now!!! Its literally my favorite skin in the whole game 😏  Prinz's Profusion of Flowers is a near second, and Ayanami's Pulse of the New Year is too cute, but I don't have her yet. This is why I can't play more than one mobile game. Eventually I'll break down and buy a ton of gems. They deserve it really with how much enjoyment I get from this game. Plus I've been able to buy stuff without paying a dime from just full clears of mission chapters. Its honestly one of the more generous cash shop games out there... like even for a full blown PC MMO game. I've at least gotten a good 1000+ gems from just playing the damn game. I've used those to expand my dock and depot, along with expand the classroom and dorm slots for free. Oh and I also got Ooshio's super sexy Christmas skin for free for some reason as well. It was featured on one of the main parts of the Christmas festival and kinda wanted it a lot but wouldn't buy it for a rare level ship. It may have been a tiny grind for free gems, but damn at least they tell you want you have to do to get them. They could just give me my Belfast and rake in cash as I buy everything for her (I seriously will, I absolutely adore her), but either way I'll throw them a bone. Helena's New Year skin is super cute too, I'll buy something for this event before its over just to show them some love for not being total P2W dick bags.

I guess I need to get back into FFXIV and play this for Queues like you do. I forgot where i was, but there was a main story dungeon that had a damn near hour wait and I kinda put it aside ever since. At the time I was frustrated with time and just kind gave up on it as much as I loved the game. With as many players as FFXIV has I feel like they can tweak the queue times. Yeah there are more DPS players by far, but holy shit you require way more than healers and tanks in some instances. surely you can find them faster for us. Like give Healers and Tanks a bigger buff than DPS for doing a big carry half the time in these things. I'd do anything for a less than 15m queue time.

Heh, welcome to the hell of Mobile Games my friend

Yea, I'm not going to lie juggling more than one mobile game is pretty challenging and I've actually ditched quite a few to bring the number more in line with what I can handle (and will most likely be dropping another one here soon) but it's so much apart of my daily routine that I hardly notice the amount of time I stick in (most of the time I log in about 2 hours a day between all 10 of them just to get daily log-in bonuses and what not). Really my main focuses though are Azur Lane, Girls Frontline (gun waifus, got way more time invested in it then I do AL and way more money sunk in), Sword Art Online Memory Defrag (mostly just a log-in, collect daily shit, and log-out game for me now), and AFK Arena (a nice game that requires very little time, just log-in and do your daily shit plus collect built up exp/treasure/money and log out. Game literally takes care of the rest). The other six are mostly just time wasters.

Make sure you do what you can for the event, there are some nice little prizes if you do (like an SR ship if you collect 8000 of the green currency). Whether that's just building 3 ships, killing 20 enemies, doing the 1 hard clear, or going all out and clearing the event stages you can. This is a really good way of filling in wholes in your team if you're lacking ships (and an extremely good way to level your ships). I'm in complete play mode right now (spent and hour this morning clearing out all the daily event tasks) as I want me more ships (though I'm going to have to drop more money on gems so I can expand my docks again).

Subs came out like 4 months ago or so. I generally don't do much with them unless it's an event as they can come into event missions with your fleets. I have quite a few of them (most of the SR ones) but honestly don't really understand their purpose currently (yes like I said I don't do much reading up on this).

Oh my god do I adore Laffy's Oath skin, so fucking adorable! It's about fucking time best girl got her oath skin. Kawakaze's Oath skin is also freaking adorable, so much so I had to go and oath her this morning (spending the last of my gems on it and now I can't afford Cleveland's New Years skin x.x ). I'd kill to get my hands on Ayanami's New Years skin, so fucking awesome looking (I have a thing for those kimono skins which is why I love the fact that most of the Sakura Empire oath skins are traditional wedding kimonos). Quite frankly I have only spent like $15 on gems since I started playing a year and a half ago (all for Laffy, I have every skin but one for her currently) because Yostar just hands them out like candy. Emergency maintenance? Here have 200 gems on us. Technical difficulties? Here's another 200 gems on us. We're feeling generous? Here's another 200 gems. Out of all the mobile games I've sunk time into Azur Lane's developers are real good about compensating us for anything unexpected and it's really a nice change of pace. Gotta say I love their micro-transaction model but it also makes it really hard to say no to buying shit when something I want pops up (I've done a really good job so far considering I also have two other games that fight for my money constantly (one of which wins more times then not)).

DPS queues are bad everywhere and it's not so much affected by lack of tanks and healers anymore, it's mostly because there's just to many fucking people playing DPS (I mean I get it, way easier to just do damage to an enemy but come on. Tanks are so much easier to play now that I'm thinking of actually switching to being a Tank main). I'm currently in the middle of leveling my Warrior and let me tell you it's not all great on the tank side. I've had, depending on the day, up to hour long queues due to the lack of fucking healers. Fucking ridiculous but I can't complain because when the tank queues pop quickly it's so fucking nice (I finished all my leveling queues in an hour and a half today, was very nice). It could also be your Data Center as well. I hear Primal queues are pretty fucking bad sometimes (not that Crystals are any better) due to the imbalance between healers/tanks and DPS. Considering your still in Heavensward content I'm not all that surprised either (I'm assuming this is where you're at based on the last bit of stuff you talked about). I rarely, if ever, see anything Heavensward related pop when I'm in queue for anything. Most of what I've been getting on my Warrior lately has been ARR and Stormblood content with the occasional Shadowbringers Trial/Dungeon (could be even worse on you Data Center depending on the population distribution between old and new players). I mean I'd love to help you out with my awesome tank queue times but they haven't mastered cross-data center queuing yet (I fucking love running old content with the exception of a few dungeons that I absolutely hate).

I think what demoralized me was I waited over an hour for a hard mode striking tree. Normally the boss only queues weren't that long. Either way the Healer left as soon as we got in the instance after just popping in the queue. Of course we tried a few times and weren't successful, we waited another 30 min to see if a healer would join in, and then people started leaving to no avail. It was pretty disheartening. An hour and a half I could have played a lot of something else rather than waiting.

Uuuugh I want Ayanami's new year skin too... but I went with Prinz when I had the gems since I don't have Ayanami yet... but if I get her before its over, I might slide them some cash. I'm kinda sad Indy doesn't have an Oath skin, she's gonna be after Enterprise whose currently sitting at 98 affinity. I've totally picked the martial bliss buff every day. I read being secretary only gets them to 90, so I been cycling them out. and putting them in the dorm after 90. After those two Yukikaze is next. I guess I have a thing wanting to oath all the tsundere shipgirls and watch them change their tune when they get to crush tier. A Belfast drop will immediately put all of that on hold though. 😏

I should get all the ships from this event. I've totally destroyed my cube count building 10 every morning. I got Suruga, Kasumi, and Kinu on the first batch. Ryuuhou dropped for me this morning which got me pumped after two days of nothing. I just need Noshiro and 18 more phases of the green money to get Hibiki. I shouldn't say I didn't get nothing the past 2 days because I did get Sandy, and a bunch of elites good for limit breaks later. I'm on the verge of maxing Indy. Should I be building 10 a day? Absolutely not, but tryin' to get Belfast dammit!

Before all of this I couldn't even take oil from my canteen because I had so much... but with the event going on, I'm totally struggling with oil. Mostly because I'm trying to do too much at once. I finally got to level 40 so I unlocked catmanders, research projects, I've spend 2-3k in oil a day on the big 12000xp commish since I'm getting so many girls and my 3rd fleet has unlocked. I already have Prinz and Suruga in the 50s from that alone. Plus I do all the daily missions I can, sub missions, hard missions, clear a normal mission or two, and run all the event missions to max currency while working on the new chapter. I cant do event hard yet because only Enty and Javelin are in the 70s and it wont let me attempt it without an average of level 70s I guess. Although the last boss i fought I barely beat on B-3, she destroyed my fleet 2. That was my first defeat. With Indy and Portland paired and Javelin's evade, Fleet 1 pulled through. Ambercrombie's artillery volley procing at the right time helped as well. My fleets are def not oil efficient though. I've upgraded my canteen and merch to the max I can until I reach 50.  I've just been sitting here listening to youtube videos and playing on an off all day since I got 2 days off in a row next week. I probably should be more productive tomorrow.

Oh and then when I put Yuki as Secretary it unlocked a secret new missions which was neat. The only one I knew about was head patting the munitions girl 30 times in a row... now I'm curious what other secrets there are to find.