User blog:Djamboe/Journey to floor 1520 of hell

Journey to floor 1520 is not an easy task, even for veteran players. Need a combination of strong units, good skill, and also dedication. You have to play for more than 10 hours, can your concentration hold up? It's a very very boring task. Then, even if you manage to fullfill all of those criterias, your work can be invalidated by a mere crit to MC, especially from bosses that can OHKO you. So, luck is also a factor to be taken into account.

For this month, I've doing Challenger's Cave 1520 trial twice. First time I got wrecked at floor 1360, so sad. I setup wrong squad, I thought I already put my certain units at Squad 4 but I'm wrong, its have different units, and in the end I have to pay with my defeat. So close to finish it, so sad.

After that, I rebuild my Squad formation and do research with various Skill combination. In this game, they (alphapolis) hide the effect of various skill. The skill description only mention things like: raise stats, increase atk, decrease action speed, often stun enemies, can seal, etc. But the value of how much the chance of that proc never mentioned. So player have to do trial and error to determine how valuable that skill is. Personally I recommend to bring 1 heals, 1 skill that can stun/seal, 1 buff, and 7 passive, either to weaken enemies or to strengthen allies.

1st Squad=|-|2nd Squad=|-|3rd-5th Squad= My Squad composition

My skill combination

Long story short, I started my run again. This time I make sure to bring correct squad formation. Also bring a new skill combination that I think would be best to ensure my survivability in cave. But game is hard, it's not that simple to reach my floor destination, of course 1520th floor, with my current condition. Firstly, my MC doesn't have 8 Generals title from GW, last GW I only managed to rank 10th, sad. Without it, MC that even with 8 Generals title is weak, become even weaker. He struggle against mere horse, cat, snake, slime, and also other random weak mob. Secondly, my strongest unit I can bring to cave is only SSR, Glam Vivian. My luck with gacha force me to do it. Fortunately from my last run I got Hobgoblin King, so I use him.

From 1st floor until 800 (I think) I'm doing AFK, sometimes have to heal but not moving units, so maybe not full AFK in the end. After that until 1520th I play manually, pay attention to enemies unit and positioning, move my units that in danger, use skill to stun enemies / heals units / buff them. Sometimes have to force close application because some enemy lucky crit to my unit. If you dont know it will reset your floor, when you start again it'll resume from beginning of that floor. Useful when your unit got killed, and you dont want to lose that. I'm doing cave run in small session, usually after 100 floor I rest for a bit, then resume later.

When playing, pay attention to floor number ends with 5 or 0, because thats where strong unit/boss or swarm appear. I set my speed to 1.5x or even 1x when there is time when I have to full concentrate, for example when strong boss appear or multiple enemies swarm my MC. By doing that I can use my skill according to battle condition more accurate. For some reason I feel that when I use 3x speed my units die faster, lol, maybe just my imagination.

After long hard battles, I came victorious. Reached floor 1520 after playing for 2 days and got my second LE Goblin King, it's all worth it. If you want to try 1520 you must first know that half assed effort won't yield great result. Good luck!