In general, the SCAR example I used in e4ex will beat almost all normal non-ranking content, it is a very strong Echelon. Swap out the Tank as needed and SCARs will steamroll pretty much everything.

The boss in e5ex is far easier than e4ex. You have an EMP here, making it pretty much trivial if you have a Sniper Fairy.

@@Serzha how the hell does her shield go down then i got 2 hocs and maxed out meta squad blasting her now for 13mins and she still not dead

More than 1 HOC hardly matters, HOCs are not single target DPS, you need 1 HOC to break her Force Shield and you could use a Mortar to help kill the summoned enemies, but other than that you just need actual DPS, which is provided by strong Dolls or Sniper Fairy (use Sniper Fairy). The example Echelon in this video is EXTREMELY weak, relying entirely on the power of Sniper Fairy (use Sniper Fairy). The boss is exactly the same as in e4ex other than having no escorts and 100% instead of 80% starting FS value, so adding in EMP lowering her stats by 90% she should be WAY easier to kill. If you killed her in e4ex and can't kill her in e5ex, you must've forgotten to bring something. If you show what you are using, it'd be possible to suggest improvements, but "maxed out meta squad" means absolutely nothing in this game, there are far too many Dolls who are good in specific situations and not in others.

@Halera- Yeah, i've noticed that as well surprisingly, i was able to go to the left without teleportation, lol :D

The example Echelons provided are lower requirement than this, read the description. The linked Mech example in the description also shows a RFSG for clearing regular nodes, with far lower requirements than this. LTLX is recommended for the regular enemies because she completely negates Hannibals (cleanses their shields, activates their stun/vuln phase), but pretty much any proper SG can tank them if your DPS is good enough. Yes, killing the boss with a Mod3 G11 is relatively easy, because her %hp damage (great against bosses) ignores HP Shields (great against this boss), but that's a 6* Mod. The ARSMG example I have provided here uses no 6* Mods because they're very expensive and not required. Sniper Fairy is recommended for the boss because it makes it FAR FAR easier, Warrior Fairy offers almost nothing in comparison for the boss. What the hell is Airstrike supposed to do here? Tickle the enemies? Airstrike has ONE USE and ONLY ONE USE, Dinergates/Tarantulas. Also what is this teambuilding? You don't need both RO and UMP45. They both compete for pos5, and UMP45 can't tank things here as they hit too hard. Ribeyrolles is far better as a pos4 AR than any other AR because she buffs the other two actual DPS immensely, running 3 just direct DPS ARs with no damage buffing falls off heavily past the early game. The example I used has LTLX because a SG just tanks these enemies better than SMGs, with them being quite tanky (thus getting plenty of hits in) and there spawning gunners (which shred any SMG not named Suomi) during the boss fight.

@@Serzha i dont have sniper fairy or ltlx so i was just offering some compositions that might provide ideas thats all i had to mes around with the fairies and units i had levelled and invested because im a returning player, it cant hurt to offer more potential compositions some ppl might be in my position thats all

If you don't have Sniper fairy, you are not crafting 500x4 Fairies, which you should be doing EVERY day. Craft more Fairies.

The final stage is easy enough on EX that you should do it on EX. You also get a Corrupted Core Mask which lets you choose a 5* Doll from a selection in the Shop. If you somehow cannot do it on EX, normal is practically identical but with weaker enemies.

That's going to be tricky, since the HOC pierces the shields. The one he's using is the very first one you get, I'm not sure how quickly you can build it now, that's all been revamped a couple of years ago so it's faster for ppl to catch up, but you don't need a theater or anything to get the essential ones.

Getting BGM good enough to beat normal mode is simply bringing BGM. Even with minimal levels, all you need is for her to lower Force Shields enough to allow killing the boss in time. Further improvements to HOCs includes crafting (or less recommended, doing combat sims) for SCRs to level up your HOC, doing your weeklies and just upgrading the rarity of the HOC.

Sorry didn’t read description lol my apologies.

Talents on parts matters far far far far far more than rarity of part. A 3* Part with a good Talent is infinitely better than a random 5* Part with no/bad Talent.

@Serzha I know that now I didn't farm GZ4 that much so I haven't accumulated them yet, guess that'll be a new goal ✌️

Reminder that pause and restart exists.

Read the description, there's a RFSG example right there. Also raising a Coalition Echelon is instant, provided you have the resources for it (do your Coalition Drills). You should be capturing units all the time anyway due to regular Impulses regenerating every 12 hours and having a cap at 14 anyway.

I'm uncertain of what you're on about here? The SCARs version is almost entirely AFK with the only manual control being activating LTLX and P10c skills. The low requirement AR team has some significant wiggling of the main tank, because ARs don't have dual targeting or amazing DPS (or room for several support dolls), but even that isn't super complicated.

@@Serzha Sorry, I had tried a fair few times and got frustrated. It was more seeing when to activate the skills, in particular P10's, as the S10 screen is so small the mass mob of Paradeus units blotted out the grid. Thankyou for the guide by the way, I quite literally could not have beat 16 without it.

The whole reason I have not done this is because outside of recommending certain Talents for Vehicle Parts, I can't really show exact weapons (other than "Use a Cannon vs KKCO/Hydras"), because what Talents you have is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than which Component they are on most of the time. A general suggestion of what to do and what to bring can be found in the GZ Tower section of the Vehicle guide: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQENRjDL5jSjJgn0NlppjHlIt5jeV5a2GHplwrNOLSpL2FPazZCw2pNKYHK6P2Ip5v2yjA0Fqz4H75_/pub I cleared up to 34 or so with just random crap with the Talents I was looking for, and others have agreed that this is pretty much how it works. There is too much randomness in which Talents you get on which Parts. For example: You absolutely want Heavy Weapon Shields on one of your Heavy Weapons. For the Tank this means either of the two can have it, and whichever has it doesn't really matter too much. For the Mech you can only have one Heavy Weapon, and getting it on something that hits rapidly (like a Grenade Launcher) is optimal for constant HP Shield generation. You'd preferably have a Cannon on your Tank at all times, so having Heavy Weapon Shields on that means you could use whatever other Heavy Weapon has another Talent you want, while if you don't have Heavy Weapon Shields on a Cannon means that you need to use a Heavy Weapon with said Talent, and have something else on your Cannon. Similarly, having Shield Deflection vs Paradeus is really useful, but which Defense Component it's on really doesn't matter too much, just that you have it. Having both Shield Deflection and Armor (and possibly even Evasion, though even I don't have that yet) on a Defense Component means that is likely the optimal Component for you to use for Paradeus, no matter which one it is and what rarity it is (I was using a 3* Slat Armor until very recently). There's also certain niche Components that can be useful in some situations but are too hard to use to recommend generally (I cleared floor 34 Hydras with Explosive Reactive Armor, but the timing is way too tight and if you miss it you INSTANTLY die, because Vehicles do not have Crit Frames).

Rex zero would work fine (though premod she's a bit worse than p22), with the caveat that the SG would have to be leader for her to shield them. I would still recommend you get (and raise) p22 for later, as she's permanently available in Isomer (Faith of Blood II).

M91/38 is better and M14 is good at early game. For the others, most of them I think is pretty niche except SCAR-H when going with SCAR-L as they're a perfect boss shredder. Just use the one you have fully build. (Maxed skill, fully calibrated equipments, Maxed levels,etc.)

So first off, guide hub is here and you can find teambuilding guides from that easily: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRm5yR_cXKbM105z8O8MQAaU9EWmj9t8Sx7N-axvfQItmqzQIp6qz1cqVAqpuVHEP7C5Gu1vrDkNqQE/pub Mod prio page is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ty239kyJbBs1sLhTo1JvSWuN0mIJsK1nwVdI6OLLtXo/view?rm=minimal With that out of the way: The HGs are chosen both for their tiles and their skills, the skills absolutely matter. SAA is given for free from career quest progression (T-Dolls, Grade III+, clear e4-4), you should have a free one at level 70 4-link or so (or if not, keep doing your main story). You can easily farm P22 from Isomer campaign (Faith of Blood II), though something like Mk23 or so could also work. Makarov is not usable premod, accuracy debuffs are not very useful. Astra is fine as a RoF buffer, but not really what we need here. My Star in this vod is using bad equipment, so if you just mod1 your star and fully enhance her HV ammo/VFL that should be a good start. Specifically for this vod: Sniper Fairy is the key to this map and what you should focus on if you want to clear it in time, only the skill level matters (skill level 10 with the fairy only at level 1 would be perfectly fine, skill level 7+ may work though I do not have that to test) as that is what allows us to kill the boss, and helps with the rest of the enemies. Remember you can repair before every fight. for SGs: SPAS-12 comes pre-leveled to 65 and is perfectly servicable as a generic SG. CAWS has 2 more Armor at max level, but just like with SPAS-12 her skill isn't really worth considering (neither SPAS-12 nor CAWS have useful skills). Again, SPAS-12 is perfectly fine as a starting SG, and you'll have chances to use Core Masks to get better SGs (crafting SGs is extremely expensive and not recommended before you have a good selection of 5* fairies). (LTLX would be the recommended option to Core Mask for when the next one rolls around) on RFs: M14/Springfield is fine enough for a first RFHG, but Springfield is not a good RF (you just get her pre-leveled, so that's why I use her in examples) Grape (Carcano M91/38) is absolutely amazing against non-elites (deletes non-elites with her 45x nuke), but is NOT good for bosses and elites (she kills Doppels, Gladiators, Minotaurus, etc in one hit, but only has a 3x mult against bosses and elite enemies). In this specific instance, the RF is there more to kill other things like the Grenadiers (the Sniper Fairy kills the boss), so Grape would be perfectly fine as Grenadiers are not elite. Also Type88 (Hanyang) is good and all when modded, but not the highest priority, again see the mod prio page. For the other RFs: M99 is useless, QBU-191 is mediocre (not worth it), QBU-88 is useless, and De Lisle is very very very niche and unlikely to be of too much use. SCAR-H is a VERY strong RF (30% extra damage for dolls on her tiles, which should be her + the other dps) passively, with a minor RoF buff in addition. She is absolutely best used together with SCAR-L (Unity skill enables SCAR-L to deal ridiculous amounts of damage), but is perfectly functional as a generic RF. Depending on how you approach the game, there may be some Dolls you want to dupe, and if you do want to consider duping, keep ALL COPIES OF SCARS. They are literally the strongest Dolls in the game at the current time. The two SCARs together are absolutely AMAZING, and linking them with duplicates rather than just using cores is a bit of a waste.

There's a saying: Just scar it.