grumble mumble Micah... grumble double rares... grumble mumble
Edit2: Checked hard mode... not worth it yet. Getting one shoted isn't cool. Gonna farm some items for now and lvl them up together with new maiden.
That's good advice. That's why I'm going for 3 stars on all easy maps and lvl up a bit maidens and their equipment for now.
@Rawr: 8x actually. Legendary is 100x common.
The very first stage is strangely hard (and harder than most of the following stages). You can cheese it by getting a bait in the middle row while you sneak your melees past it (with the top and bottom row) so they can destroy the crystal while avoiding the orc. The rest is not as hard.
The boss lvl 10 is good, but bosses starting lvl 20 have 1% chance to drop legendary, so you may want to focus on them instead.
@Rawr: 8x actually. Legendary is 100x common.
Also, from quick tests (tested 0, 100 and 200 def), defense seems to be 1% reduction per 100 def. So it's not really noticeable.
@Keyen, well 60lvl boss also has leg item so I'm still going to get him once every... those couple hours ;p
Honestly, best way to tackle hard mode is to have one tank and 3 ranged. Dodge tank preferred since not getting hit helps a lot more than being able to take a hit. You just need to know mob skill cooldowns and animations so you can pick up your tank before they get hit, because most skills are ohko.
Currently my tactic is baiting out opponents preferably one by one and healing up between fights. To achieve that I have the healer's skill on lvl 11, so she essentially full heals everyone. I'd just need some decent cooldown reduction equipment her.
I stopped using my healer personally because max level heal wasn't doing much to my tank's 400k+ hp. Not to mention some hard enemies 1 shot that anyway.
I can't find use for Luna or Heet and it doesn't mean that their lvl is low. Just... somehow I think it would be much better to use Helen+Suzume+Roxelana+Althea team and eventually swap Suzume/Althea with Nuka.
Edit: Ok, now that I'm thinking about that than if Heet or Luna can get higher attack than Althea and I won't care for 3* than I might have some use of them.
Well, I throw the thief girl out and took the ice mage in. Honestly, it'll take days for her to be useful, but I hope it pays out.
Also, I just realised that I can actually control where to drop the AoE attacks.