The next event in Kantai Collection will start when the anime ends, so I want to gather as much resources as I can before it starts to prepare for it. How can I do that?
How to quickly amass resources
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There is a few ways to collect xp depending on your goals and your ship types.
For Expeditions, you are talking about Expedition 32. It requires a training cruiser and will give a varying amount of xp depending on the ships level and the training cruisers level. The wiki has formulas but it generally boils down to the higher te level of the CT flagship and the lower the level of the ship(s) you want to train, the more xp.
Alternatives to 3-2A are for DD/CL map 4-3. (copy pasted info from the wiki again)
- Put your DD/CL as flagship and give her all ASW equipment to ensure that she can get MVP at every SS node.
- A fleet with 0-1 DD, and 0-1 CA will almost always let you reach two SS nodes (F->K or F->D)
- 1 DD/CL + 1 BB + 2 CVL + 1 CLT + 1 SS
- When starting, you may go to Node J before moving to Node F. If RNG brings you to Node J, use Line Ahead formation to allow your BB/CVL/CLT to kill enemy's BB/CAs or disable their CV as soon as possible. Defensive formations are almost useless.
- When you hit the two SS nodes, use Line Abreast formation to maximize your damage on the enemy submarines. CVL can also help with ASW. Getting MVP in these 2 nodes allows your flagship to stay sparkling all the time, and you can farm non-stop as long as you can provide ships for other positions. End the sortie after the two SS nodes.
- Be aware, never take 2DD or 2CA, they will branch you the wrong ways.
- Be sure to stop at K. at D, there is a chance to go to the Bauxite resource node, i personally risk it and press on. sometimes i have to fight at node G then.
If you have access to 5-4, you can use this to train either similar to 3-2A or to try to go for a ranking spot (aprox 20 runs/day). The type of enemies is harder then at 3-2 though and the enemy CAs will ignore subs. If you try the ranking option, you can quickly level any fast ship, just give it flagship position. (if it can equip drums, use it as a drum carrier)
Finally, i use PVP alot for leveling ships. Even if you take a loss, it will give a large amount of xp for the effort
PS: For the desperate and resource rich.
Expedition 22 and 23
22 requires 1CA 1CL 2DD 2XX and uses the same ammo/fuel as 4 battles (aprox.) it gives 400xp and takes three hours. (flagship level 30+, total level of all ships combined 45+)
23 requires 2BBV 2DD 2XX, grants you 100bauxite but still uses 4 battles of fuel and ammo, gives 420xp and take 4 hours.(flagship level 50+, total level of ships 200+)
1 run on 3-2A gives 320xp, +10% if you S rank it and a double bonus for the MVP. and takes a minute or 3. I don't think anyone runs these 2 but if you are running 3-2A and these two expeditions, well, your wasting resources more because your not running 2,5,6
Best Answer
There is 3 ways to collect resources
1/ Automatic regeneration
As long as you are under the softcap, you regenerate your resources at 3 every 3 minutes (except bauxite, which recovers 1 per 3 minutes)
The softcap scales with HQ level and uses the following formula. 250x(HQ level+3)
2/ Expeditions
Expeditions are the best way to collect resources and can be collected till you reach the hardcap of 300.000
the best expeditions to run vary and also depend on your activity (exp 2 has the best ammo/time rate but only lasts 30 minutes)
most expeditions also give multiple resources and all of them require very specific compositions or equips. check the wiki for detailed descriptions.
Also, sparkling your fleet gives you a chance (+/- 16% per sparkled ship) of a great success, which increases the resources you get by 50%.
3/ Sorties
Fuel and ammo can be gotten from sorties to world 2-3. The only way to do this with profit is using subs, ideally 2 or 3 (the less the more you profit but the higher the risk for damage). be advised that most subs remodel into aviation subs that are more expensive to run and higher level subs start getting long repair times. This is a hard way for getting extra resources but can outdo expeditions.
Bauxite can be gotten from world 2-2, possibly while farming world 2 bosses for one of the quests. make sure not to use planes or you'll loose more bauxite then you gain.
edit: with recent updates, you could use a seaplane fighter to secure AS with minimal plane losses. Aviation Subs could be ideal for this due to their low slots and the way Rounding works, you usually wont suffer bauxite losses.
Steel is harder or impossible to get this way. 3-2 has a steel node but results in a hard battle afterwards.
4/ quests
If you are careful about how you do (daily/weekly) quests you can run most with a profit. building three ships with minimum resources gives you some extra's. if you do this daily, the resources start piling up.