Day 3: Hitting the early benchmarks
My listed goals for today were the following:
-Hit Pirate Level 65+
-Evolve spare Nami to Thunderbolt Tempo Nami
-Obtain Calgura
-Evolve Arlong to Enraged Arlong
-Boost Bege, Arlong to Lv. 50
Let's go through the checklist. I did manage to hit Pirate Level 65, albeit just barely. I managed to get that missing INT Armored Crab, and thus got TT Nami. I got Calgura too. I got Enraged Arlong, and got Capone to Lv. 50. The only thing I wasn't able to pull off was getting Enraged Arlong to Lv.50, but hell, 4 out of 5 isn't bad at all.
Aside from the above, big things that happened? Well, I decided to start off by buying that starter pack promotion that they've got going on for $5, and got myself Trafalgar Law which I'm pretty pleased with. I now have a grand total of three DEX units, so he won't be seeing play as a captain anytime soon. But he DOES play a vital role by the end of today...
I'm slowly working my way through the story now that I can't simply power through with endless stamina. Today, Loguetown was half off and I cleared it without too much trouble. Admittedly, I got my ass handed to me by Tashigi once, because I got overconfident in my beatstick Gear 2nd team and thought I could KO her first to try for a drop, then clean up her fodder afterwards. Nope, got KO'd instead.
EDIT: What drops is already predecided when you begin a stage. Kill anything in any order you like
As of my current progress, I'm now sitting at 9 gems as I've been putting them to good use and dumping almost all of them into expanding my box space. I'm currently sitting at 250, and I imagine I'll be bumping this up to 300 by the end of the week at the latest.
On ships, the Merry Go is currently at Lv. 8, and I have 6 cola stocked. I'm guesstimating 30 more cola if I'm lucky, and 100 cola if I'm unlucky to max the Merry, but once the Merry's ready, oh boy, watch your asses, 15 stamina fortnights.
I managed to catch the second turtle time today and as luck would have it, it was a DEX Turtle island. DEX, that I only have three units for, one of them being the Brook from the Frieza prizes. Ah well. I timed it so that my level up would occur in the process of turtle farming, letting me get in about 6 runs off of 52 stamina, and I put the turtles to good use. Since my current go-to threshold for units is Lv. 50, I dumped turtles on story Brook, figuring that as my only DEX unit as well as being a Slasher, he was a decent choice for now even if I never level him past 50. The rest of the turtles were dedicated to pushing Arlong to Lv. 50 to evolve him, and boosting Bege to Lv. 50 as well.
On team goals, not much has changed other than being able to freely run GP Usopp in both my Lucci and Marco teams, not that they've been tried out extensively yet. What I DID do today was form a surprise 4th team that's quickly rising to be my most consistent beatsticks. It currently goes:
Slasher FC - Arlong
Ashura Zoro - Unevolved RR Law
Candelabra Mr. 3 - Story Brook
It's not the most amazing thing in the world, but I've got a good foundation that stands to get much better in the near future. Throw in a Mihawk as captain, replace Brook with Kohza, and throw in Nolan in place of Ashura or Mr. 3 for a 2 or 3-man DEX Slasher burst. Later on, I'll be able to slot in more powerful slashers like Doffy here. Lots of good stuff is going to be coming out of my slashers in the future.
Oh. And I got Mohji and Kuroobi, for what that's worth. I'm 99% sure I'm going to get rid of Kuroobi once I can confirm that he's not useful, but I'm pretty sure that Mohji has a mission tied to him. That'll get done before he goes bye bye.
Highlights:
-Reached 4/5 of today's goals
-Obtained Law via New Player offer
-More books for the book gods
-Less green turtles, more of any other pls
-Merry Go is on FIRE!
....too soon?
Goals for Tomorrow:
-Reach Pirate Level 70
-Enraged Arlong and Candelabra Mr. 3 to Lv. 50
-Clear Wiper Exhibition Colosseum
End of Week Goals(11/15):
-Pirate Level 80+
-Get Sadi from her fortnight
-Clear all Exhibition Coliseums
-Marco and Lucci Lv.50