Nine-Colored Deer, the New Workshop Meta 

At 5:09, the "Craft x1.111..." on the very left should be "x11.111..." instead. Oops.

Who knew that a collab or event would give an operator who is niche on the battle but very meta in making materials in the workshop. Might try this strat out and make it a routine

oohh i knew youd do a vid on her base skill. i was pretty skeptical at first of whether shes worth using over nian or not, but to think even other material like building and skillbooks worl on her skill. definitely gonna use the building trick for more furniture parts as well

Now Ceylon and BP and Meteorite can finally rest.

ive played arknights since launch and made it my project to e2 every operator... struggling on exp and glad to see my suspicion that the exp farming stage is inefficient confirmed... and due to your videos i have found out that i could have had 252 the whole 2.5 years and i want to go cry now... thank you

damn.. i kept reading her base skill as casualty

Homing crap, I didn't understand her base skill until this! Thanks so much!

I never used her because i always assumed that causality is lost once you remove her from workshop. That was always my issue with those weird skills, that you have no in-game numbers how much you generate etc. and you just need to do all the calculations in your head. Good to see you're actually given causality counter when you're using her,

I love how on the discord chat everyone is complaining about the hour but this Nine-Colored Deer fan is like "BUt tHe BaSe skiLls" 😂

Just wondering... If you finally maxed causality, but somehow you're lucky that you get byproduct from 10% chance at the same time, will you get 2 byproducts because of causality + base 10% chance while only doing 1x crafting?

nice explanation! you earned a sub :>

But wait... What was the result of the 5 AM testing session? Does 9CD's pity still apply, even at 0 morale? It would speed up the process quite a bit.

"Arknight is perfectly balance game with no exploit"

If you need to craft a tier 4 material, but you dont have ways to build up causality, is it better to farm for t1/t2 materials(like rocks) or building materials and use them to build causality or is it better to simply use another operator to craft the tier 4 materials? Do tier 1/2 stages have better efficiency than tier 3 because of causality?

dumb question, but, does putting NCD in the dorms reset the causality and karma values? i’d have to assume not, given that the caps are past what morale she could possibly get

If I'm out of base mats, is it sanity efficient to use 9CD instead of Hellagur for crafting skill books 2 and 3?

what. why is it that if i stack craft mine, for example 2 morale craft, stack 5 and it becomes 10 morale. but then when i craft it only gives me 2 points

does it make sense then to use the guaranteed byproduct for chips? i for example have like more specialist than guard chips, would i able to not loose any sanity on chip conversion loss?

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Is a 252 with a single tier 3 workshop really the best? It feels... counterintuitive? I personally run a 153, all t3.

Is there any way I could persuade you to add coroserum to the spreadsheet with blemishine, 9 colored deer, and the 100%-80% math?

E2 skill havnt necessity to use pls save carbons for times of changing chip type with no loss

But I don't want to switc to 252! It gives me a headache to have stuff unmaxed.

I don't get it, how do you spend 40 morale, operators only have 24 right?

Oh man tysm

By less "interesting" do you mean less advantageous?

What did you sacrifice to get 5 factories and 2 power supplies?

time to farm unlimited rocks

How does Arene get 100%?

Yassssdss finally

Imagine being so poor you're scrounging over random blue scraps.

*tries this* *gained Causality bonus at 25 point* MY MAIN OBJECTIVE IS NOT EVEN REACH, YET IT CAN RUIN

sounds dumb i think il just stick to using nian

I saw JP player practically use the skill on video, but spreadsheet and your explanation are best. Thanks as always, dude.

interesting on the spreadsheet but seems quite tedious since you only get one craft per two rotations out of the dorms...

Sorry for double post, but was thinking about this and was curious - is it worthwhile for 9CD to craft skill books too *[edit]* in order to build Causality up as well? *[/edit]* Or best to leave those to ops who can increase byproduct rates?

Building materials : "finally, my time has come"

While her E2 skill is less impressive, as someone with horrible luck in crafting those high expensive materials with Nian, I would still consider using Nine Colored Deer for the guarantee over the 'chance' of all the other skills.

So no more sanity wasted farming chips and not getting the ones you wanted. Though i think the byproduct for chips can be any of the 8 types no matter the original formula, but still, knowing that you have virtually no losses is amazing, specially considering the day restriction in those stages and that you don't only need chips during CC.

Was literally looking for this info in your iceberg video a few hours ago. Thanks for the summary and explanation!

wow, im pretty new and didnt even think that higher tier recipes give better rewards thought nine colored deer's skill was terrible compared to like a +80% biproduct, will absolutely be using her now

Wait but if she needs 40 points, then doesnt it mean i have to wait for her to rest in the dorms for every item i need to craft? Cuz after 24 morale she has no more morale. Will she still gain the points?

Time to bring this video back up, since you can get her again today in login event

I'm so happy that HG has crafted a unique operator with niche gameplay but amazing base skill. I think they did this so that even if most of the players don't use her in gameplay but will use her for base. I was just looking at her skill yesterday thinking this skill would be very useful, and now I get this video recommended. Also 9CD looks so elegant and divine, and her voice is so soothing. Truly an amazing waifu.

Something important to note, her Causality also works on Chip conversion, so you're now no longer losing out on chips for operator promotion. This is, and I'm using very advanced technical jargon, *FUCKING AWESOME*

It's a good day when Peter grace us with a video

Thank you so much peter. Was waiting for your video. Also thank you to others doctors for additional calculations. 🙏

bro using literal deity to work for him endlessly what a madlad

I know I'm like a week late but in case this is seen, should I go for E2 if I don't have Nian? I have Arene but I'm worried I won't get Nian in the banner....again and was wondering if E2ing is better or simply using other Workshop Ops

God I love AK community. They're the one only who gets excited over improvement that requires 10 times more work.

Too bad i don't have her...

aww man I've already crafted all my building mats into boxes everyday, for some reason.. either way, great analysis! gonna have mudrock rest now, her job making rocks is over

Holy smokes. I didn't understand the description - I thought calamity would reset once you get any byproduct, not when you get a guaranteed byproduct. Now I just need something to do with all of those furniture parts...

This video needs to get more views! Really good info!

Was waiting for this, thanks for the information!

Do you have a google doc/ guide showing the best possible combination and rotation to have your operators in if you have all operators e2?

Very good calculation, thankyou 👍👍 ill sacrifice building mat for now on since i had a bunch of them

the thumbnail💀

It's all good, but base is already a hasle. I just use whatever. Good video for those minmaxing though

You, sir, are a life saver Thank you so much!

To be precise, NCD do not get points when base byproduct chance triggers. It can save points from wasting on 36/40, as well as make lose morale on building mats without getting points

I always use her when converting chips since it guarantee that my total chip count stays the same

3:50 Can I and should I downgrade from 243 to 252 even if I have everything maxed out (even right side)? is it worth it

Thanks for this info, this is now part of my daily routine, even have fiametta so I can do it twice a day when I'm not using her for proviso!

I'll E2 her anyway for the E2 Art. Also is it not ideal to max level all your factories?

This was very informative. thanks.

Ok cool. But after doing like 6 crafts she's out of morale. Like how does this matter? Wow you might get a byproduct every 2 days of doing a convoluted farm?

abusing the good will of a goddess may have moral consequences :) /doge

Nice info video! BTW could you explain Ling's base skill? She seems like a really good partner with Dusk at the CC, but at the same time, it seems like HG did a thing so they cannot stack due to moral condition, so how do we work around it?

You sir have opened my eyes

thank you for your extensive research and explanation :D

I don't know bro... Why all of these calculations give me a headache

Great work with the NCD crafting overview Peter. Cheers!

Question, does she lose it if you put her in dorm? (Im assuming no)

For Nine Colored Deer's (NCD) second skill, I think you forgot to include that when you have 72 Karma it won't use the Karma 10% of the time. (it reads, only consumes if it "fails" to make a byproduct and 10% is the base byproduct chance for all operators) I feel like it should work out to be on average the same as Arene's skill because you do 10 crafts and you get one byproduct ignoring the base 10% chance. NCD=10%(base)+10%(skill)=20% =Arene's skill. Am I missing something?

time to spam orirock

do you recommend giving skill summary tier 1 to 9cd or la pluma?

can you compare event and story stages with the introduction of 9cd

Sorry, I don't quite get the credit store part. Are carbons only best to buy when they're at 75% discount?

Does this change the optimal way to upconvert skill books from the current way of just using Hellagur?

Thx for the trick, now I'll make sure to work her to the bone ;D Inside workshop obviously.

Cool! i hope the next collab ops have something meta on base skill,like R6S and NDC does

I'm burning through my carbon sticks and recharging NCD with Durin and Saileach to go back to work hehehe

Here now that I can make stonks as well thanks to the 9CD rerun, thanks again Peter

Me with Arene while others in dorm : best i can do is +10%. Jokes aside i would love to use her problem is idk how much Memory Fragment, Karma/Casualty, etc. i have

Back to this girl, she can give you byproduct by gaining causality, but i think it's kinda long, you need to fill up to 36 points and each point equal 1 morale, normally an operator has 24 morale, you use them all, then you restore them again up to 20 morale (12 morale to reach 36 points and 8 morale to make the most expensive material (idk how to call it)) to just make 1 byproduct, imagine you up M3 a skill, it needs 6 D32 Steel and you're trying to use this girl to get profit, so how long is it for you to get all profit from making D32 Steel to M3 the skill? 🐸

Dam I didn't even pay attention to her base abilities

For me seem arene = karma, not better. Arene have 20% ≈ every 5 or 2 from 10. 9cd have basic 10 % and always 1 from 10. Same ratio of 2 from 10,but with less random. So 9cd for all ==4, couse Can be cheated. and arene for 8.

uh the thumbnail doesnt look like arknight video

look like i can't escape math wherever i go

holybalans of the Terra. thanks for the tutor!

So it's a pity system for the workshop then?

Finally, building materials is useful, again

Does her skill work even at 0 morale to spam byproduce? or do we have to stick her in the dorm every time we want to gain karma? the extra effort might make or break her in this case.

I saw what you did with the workshop

Is the base 252 layout just for the building materials? Or is it the meta now? I just returned to the game after 1 year.

Are skill summary get that effect?

You kept showing orirock concentrations as the mat you should use to abuse her skill, does that mean she can't make byproduct off of higher tier mats such as Poly Preps or D32 Steels?

Thanks for video Well rounded as always

Having looked at her skills and archetype, I was a bit disappointed because her design looked cool. The skill seemed rather off due to me not being too familiar with Workshop and Byproduct mechanics too much, but I'm glad it's this good! Once I max out my base (which should be soon, stocking up for LMD to E2 Ling after she drops, if I hopefuly get her...) I'll get to abusing it! Thanks for the info man, cheers! ^^