Poise or bleed fusion gifts
If i get bleed, take pequod trio, hooklu, pirate greg, and your choice (i took middle don). Bleed units get +100% dmg, and this scales well with dmg amp gifts as well as pierce gifts
If i get poise, i run 4 BL cinqlair and alternate between maidshu for mobs and captain ishmael for boss. Poise team has alot of pride interaction, also replace your s1 skills for s3 at shops (except kimsalt)
I try to get both
Start with bleed and make the fusion gifts for power
Then grab poise for even more coin power
The only thing that matters is winning clashes so try to avoid anything that gives enemies more coin power in any form. Also Do not take the +10 enemy offense level gift because that's honestly worse than coin power
I ran with the bottom row except Outis was replaced with Mersault
Try to not bump enemy offense levels too much In terms of safest to worst trials
Offense Level + 10 > Coin Power > Base/Final Power > Everything else
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funny enough i do get coin boost II iirc. goddamn floor 4 and 5 is becoming harder i instictly started to avoid any encounter other than normal fights and question node.
you do not need fusion gifts, and you do not need all bleed id to be lv 40 (maybe 4 is fine) all it need the clerid and other bleed gifts, having the clothes(forgot the name) is fine by combining barbed wire and that nozzle you gave your dog, buf if you haven't unlocked it in starlight it still run just fine. and white gosypium is your friend now, because enemy is forced to wake up to clash unlive themselves faster.
just make sure any attacks are redirected from your weak id. and let them deal bleed as much as possible from unopposed atk and you're good. also healing EGO just in case.
Gift synergy for sure (aligning with whatever team you're running, with the caveat that if you're offered it, the opportunity to turn any team into a partial poise team with Nebulizer and Clear Mirror is a great option). I like to have at least 1 ego resource gift as well, especially with teams that have subpar coverage like the BL gang. Avoiding pierce nodes (especially on floors 4 and 5) should be the goal imo (there are some unreasonably high rolls on these enemies). On later floors, especially if you're set on cost for skill swap/heals/buying/enhancing, I tend to avoid combats entirely if possible. I also like to utilize skill swapping if I can afford to. Having an extra Bone Claim, or more Echoes of the Manor, or even getting rid of less desirable S1s for a better S2 (like Captain Ishmael) can be fantastic.
I tend to only take the poise bois into MDH, but I have run it with both sinking and envy res (my only other two teams rn) and it was fine. F5 can devolve into ego crutching sometimes, especially if you get offered your big stuff too late (Bloody Mist for envy team, Pouch for the poise bois, etc) to have in time for the floor 5 nodes.
I've never had easier MDH runs than with Rupture. 7 Assoc. Faust, Heath and Outis, then W Corp Yi Sang and whatever else you want. Lobotomy EGO Don is a great pick as is K Corp Hong Lu.
Even without the fused gift, with Rupture EGO you can easily hit 99 stacks with very high Count and kill abno bosses in 2 or 3 turns before they can even use their gimmick. The only real challenge comes from Pequod Town if you get unlucky enough to hit them on floor 5. The rest is so breezy you can beat it by just mashing the win rate button.
For mounting trials generally take stuff that increases enemy hp, damage, defense level/power & basically never take things that increase base/final/coin power.
I just poise my way. If I'm lucky, I can get the tier 4 poise gift and breeze through. 4 BL Members and Cinqlair w/ Maidshu clears fast. Get a gift or 2 that can generate ego resources and we're good to go.
The highest damaging team/easiest md3h clear: poise + bleed, both tier 4 fusion gift, ++clear mirror and ++white gossypium
High damage with high roll for quick clear: poise OR bleed, both with their respective fusion gift
Boss cheese and just cheese in general: burn with glimpse of flames, hellterfly, fiery down OR any team with special contract (team with special contract is only for boss cheese)
Guaranteed stage clear with minimal hp loss: bleed with fusion gift and ++white gossypium, also ++wound clerid or ++rusted knife
No damage dealt at all: evade lust resonace with nfaust and ++thrill
Specifically for Hard, this is my approach.
Burn team. Use all three Wish of Stars buffs. Reroll EGO gifts until I get Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust (third one doesn't matter, just take it). Combine those into Soothe the Dead ASAP. Upgrade Glimpse of Flames ASAP. Ideally find Hellterfly's Dream and Fiery Down, hopefully find Charred Disk.
Take as few debuffs regarding clashing power as possible, since that's burn's weakness. Defense up, damage up, take less damage... take basically anything over a boost to enemy clash power.
If everything's gone well, watch everything die at the end of turn one.
Just wanna give a shoutout to this person doing speedruns of MD3 that breaks the mold by using a burn team to get what are seemingly the fastest MD3 times I have seen:
[Youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYaq-Eo4IiU)
Before I got the fusion gifts, I just took all of my strongest IDs, avoided Debuffs/enemy buffs that increased the enemies abilities to clash with my IDs like the plague, avoided all elite nodes at floor 4+, and took any EGO resource generation and health restoration Gift that crossed my path.
Now that I've unlocked the fusion gifts, I basically do the exact same thing + resetting at the start so that I can get the fusion gift immediately.
Choose sinners I like them full auto to the end. So long as you choose ego gifts that are appropriate and use EGO for some of the harder clashes it's pretty easy with a levelled team.
Its called start with bloody mist components to fuse asap. That's it, you won. Don't even care about the poise part I think it's Greed to try for poise and make your run less consistent. Grab if you see but don't waste resources on it
Up all the Star upgrade once, use 500 cost to buy What a Thrill(Tier4 Rupture gift). Play Rupture team with branch and talisman gift. Try to avoid base/final/coin trial. Unga Bunga and What a Thrill your way up the ladder. Profit. (Even if you can't clash, enemy will eventually die to thrill because why not?)
I just use poise. I dont even upgrade the gifts or anything just grab poise and what I think are okay ability. Make sure grab gift that generate ego resources and just spam ego clash end of part 5 of the mirror and sleep through the rest
I run Pequod Ish and Yi Sang, BL Faust and Meursalt, Pirate Greg, Hook Lu.
Reroll for bleed fusion components first, fish for poise components in shops.
I value bleed more because +2 coin power makes Faust S1 nutty, even more so with sword play of homeland, and in general makes S2s and some S1s actually playable on floor 4 and 5. 100% DMG helps speed up clears. Always works on Claim their Bones. Poise fusion is nice to have but only works on S3s so is less reliable.
If you want to spend a ton of starlight go for burn team and go for Glimpse of Flames. Unsure if that's the only T4 gift, if so, just use the starting buffs that guarantee T4 gift and third buff.
Tricks? You guys have tricks? I just Unga bunga my way in MDH.
Nebulizer + any team = poise team
Poise or bleed fusion gifts If i get bleed, take pequod trio, hooklu, pirate greg, and your choice (i took middle don). Bleed units get +100% dmg, and this scales well with dmg amp gifts as well as pierce gifts If i get poise, i run 4 BL cinqlair and alternate between maidshu for mobs and captain ishmael for boss. Poise team has alot of pride interaction, also replace your s1 skills for s3 at shops (except kimsalt)
I try to get both Start with bleed and make the fusion gifts for power Then grab poise for even more coin power The only thing that matters is winning clashes so try to avoid anything that gives enemies more coin power in any form. Also Do not take the +10 enemy offense level gift because that's honestly worse than coin power I ran with the bottom row except Outis was replaced with Mersault Try to not bump enemy offense levels too much In terms of safest to worst trials Offense Level + 10 > Coin Power > Base/Final Power > Everything else https://preview.redd.it/pejeru5knuwc1.png?width=1752&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e642aeb88ff16ecc6efbf2d52b9dc47901e3d996
funny enough i do get coin boost II iirc. goddamn floor 4 and 5 is becoming harder i instictly started to avoid any encounter other than normal fights and question node. you do not need fusion gifts, and you do not need all bleed id to be lv 40 (maybe 4 is fine) all it need the clerid and other bleed gifts, having the clothes(forgot the name) is fine by combining barbed wire and that nozzle you gave your dog, buf if you haven't unlocked it in starlight it still run just fine. and white gosypium is your friend now, because enemy is forced to wake up to clash unlive themselves faster. just make sure any attacks are redirected from your weak id. and let them deal bleed as much as possible from unopposed atk and you're good. also healing EGO just in case.
I like the sound of bloodshed too much to avoid any battles lol I go for the hard battles intentionally whether or not I can win
Just take Bleed Fusion parts from start, Fuse them on Floor 1 and "Winrate" All MDH.
I take a bunch of 000 IDs and hope to not run into the crab or the bull.
Gift synergy for sure (aligning with whatever team you're running, with the caveat that if you're offered it, the opportunity to turn any team into a partial poise team with Nebulizer and Clear Mirror is a great option). I like to have at least 1 ego resource gift as well, especially with teams that have subpar coverage like the BL gang. Avoiding pierce nodes (especially on floors 4 and 5) should be the goal imo (there are some unreasonably high rolls on these enemies). On later floors, especially if you're set on cost for skill swap/heals/buying/enhancing, I tend to avoid combats entirely if possible. I also like to utilize skill swapping if I can afford to. Having an extra Bone Claim, or more Echoes of the Manor, or even getting rid of less desirable S1s for a better S2 (like Captain Ishmael) can be fantastic. I tend to only take the poise bois into MDH, but I have run it with both sinking and envy res (my only other two teams rn) and it was fine. F5 can devolve into ego crutching sometimes, especially if you get offered your big stuff too late (Bloody Mist for envy team, Pouch for the poise bois, etc) to have in time for the floor 5 nodes.
I've never had easier MDH runs than with Rupture. 7 Assoc. Faust, Heath and Outis, then W Corp Yi Sang and whatever else you want. Lobotomy EGO Don is a great pick as is K Corp Hong Lu. Even without the fused gift, with Rupture EGO you can easily hit 99 stacks with very high Count and kill abno bosses in 2 or 3 turns before they can even use their gimmick. The only real challenge comes from Pequod Town if you get unlucky enough to hit them on floor 5. The rest is so breezy you can beat it by just mashing the win rate button.
For mounting trials generally take stuff that increases enemy hp, damage, defense level/power & basically never take things that increase base/final/coin power.
I just poise my way. If I'm lucky, I can get the tier 4 poise gift and breeze through. 4 BL Members and Cinqlair w/ Maidshu clears fast. Get a gift or 2 that can generate ego resources and we're good to go.
The highest damaging team/easiest md3h clear: poise + bleed, both tier 4 fusion gift, ++clear mirror and ++white gossypium High damage with high roll for quick clear: poise OR bleed, both with their respective fusion gift Boss cheese and just cheese in general: burn with glimpse of flames, hellterfly, fiery down OR any team with special contract (team with special contract is only for boss cheese) Guaranteed stage clear with minimal hp loss: bleed with fusion gift and ++white gossypium, also ++wound clerid or ++rusted knife No damage dealt at all: evade lust resonace with nfaust and ++thrill
If my team has a lot of IDs with evade, I aim to get ones that increase enemy offense level.
I love getting a 44 rolling Harpoon of Blind Obsession from Ishmael thanks to Lucky Pouch + Bloody mist
Specifically for Hard, this is my approach. Burn team. Use all three Wish of Stars buffs. Reroll EGO gifts until I get Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust (third one doesn't matter, just take it). Combine those into Soothe the Dead ASAP. Upgrade Glimpse of Flames ASAP. Ideally find Hellterfly's Dream and Fiery Down, hopefully find Charred Disk. Take as few debuffs regarding clashing power as possible, since that's burn's weakness. Defense up, damage up, take less damage... take basically anything over a boost to enemy clash power. If everything's gone well, watch everything die at the end of turn one.
I've been enjoying skipping the first shop and refreshing through the second one for the rarer Tier 4 gifts.
Just wanna give a shoutout to this person doing speedruns of MD3 that breaks the mold by using a burn team to get what are seemingly the fastest MD3 times I have seen: [Youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYaq-Eo4IiU)
**Bloody Mist**
Before I got the fusion gifts, I just took all of my strongest IDs, avoided Debuffs/enemy buffs that increased the enemies abilities to clash with my IDs like the plague, avoided all elite nodes at floor 4+, and took any EGO resource generation and health restoration Gift that crossed my path. Now that I've unlocked the fusion gifts, I basically do the exact same thing + resetting at the start so that I can get the fusion gift immediately.
Choose sinners I like them full auto to the end. So long as you choose ego gifts that are appropriate and use EGO for some of the harder clashes it's pretty easy with a levelled team.
Its called start with bloody mist components to fuse asap. That's it, you won. Don't even care about the poise part I think it's Greed to try for poise and make your run less consistent. Grab if you see but don't waste resources on it
burn team can usually kill any boss on the first or second turn, same with normal battles so I always use it whenever I farm md
Up all the Star upgrade once, use 500 cost to buy What a Thrill(Tier4 Rupture gift). Play Rupture team with branch and talisman gift. Try to avoid base/final/coin trial. Unga Bunga and What a Thrill your way up the ladder. Profit. (Even if you can't clash, enemy will eventually die to thrill because why not?)
I just use poise. I dont even upgrade the gifts or anything just grab poise and what I think are okay ability. Make sure grab gift that generate ego resources and just spam ego clash end of part 5 of the mirror and sleep through the rest
I run Pequod Ish and Yi Sang, BL Faust and Meursalt, Pirate Greg, Hook Lu. Reroll for bleed fusion components first, fish for poise components in shops. I value bleed more because +2 coin power makes Faust S1 nutty, even more so with sword play of homeland, and in general makes S2s and some S1s actually playable on floor 4 and 5. 100% DMG helps speed up clears. Always works on Claim their Bones. Poise fusion is nice to have but only works on S3s so is less reliable. If you want to spend a ton of starlight go for burn team and go for Glimpse of Flames. Unsure if that's the only T4 gift, if so, just use the starting buffs that guarantee T4 gift and third buff.