Azur Lane BEST Stages to Farm for Gear/Ships/Gold/Experience

Here’s an Azur Lane Guide regarding some good stages to farm for gear and other resources like gold and noteworthy ships! Hope you enjoy it!

Timestamps, BlueStacks, and Discord:

Chapter 3:
Introduction - 0:00

3-2 (Purple Steam Catapult + SB2C Helldiver) - 1:02

3-4 (Akagi/Kaga, Purple Repair Toolkit + Purple F4U Corsair) - 3:52

Chapter 4:
4-3 (Erebus/Terror) - 6:52

4-4 (Unicorn/Cleveland) - 7:24

Chapter 5:
5-1 (Helena + Gold/Purple Twin 127mm) - 8:27

5-2 (Queen Elizabeth + Gold Hellcat) - 9:32

5-4 (Rodney/Nelson, Unicorn + Gold Bofors) - 10:40

Chapter 6:
6-1 (Vestal, Helena + Gold SG Radar) - 11:45

6-4 (Yuudachi *best dog* + Gold 610mm Torpedo) - 13:24

Chapter 7:
7-2 (THE BEST OVERALL, TONS OF GOLD + GOLD ROOMBA) - 14:17

Chapter 8:
8-1 (Inazuma aka Rem) - 15:55

8-2 (Ikazuchi aka Ram) - 16:04

8-4 (Maya aka the white-haired Takao sister) - 16:11

Chapter 9:
9-3 (Nicholas) - 16:22

Chapter 10:
10-2 (Honolulu) - 16:50

10-4 (JINTSUU) - 17:04

Chapter 11:
11-2 (Agano + Good XP) - 18:26

11-3 (Sendai) - 18:40

11-4 (Columbia) - 19:02

Chapter 12:
12-4 (Choukai + The best for PR XP farming) - 19:19

Chapter 13:
you’re crazy

Top 3 Stages to Farm (TLDR) - 20:32

#3 - Stage 3-4, for the two amazing carriers Akagi/Kaga, the super versatile Repair Toolkit, and the budget-friendly F4U Corsair

#2 - Stage 12-4, for Choukai, and for the most amount of experience which is amazing for PR grinding

#1 - Stage 7-2, for the amazing amount of gold, the general ease of farming, and the Gold Roomba

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Background Music:
Yuru Camp△ OST

Composed by: Akiyuki Tateyama, Sho Aratame, Eri Sasaki, Hero Nakamura
Arranged by: Akiyuki Tateyama, Shinichi Yuki, Eri Sasaki, Hero Nakamura
Performed by: Akiyuki Tateyama, Nobuhiro Shioya, Yu Manabe, Mai Kakumoto, Yumiri Hanamori, Nao Toyama, Asaka, Eri Sasaki
Lyrics by: Jin Tanaka, Kento Nagatsuka, Eri Sasaki

Outro Music:
TheFatRat - Jackpot

[ItsAnderYT]

EDIT 10/15/2021: With the map oil/gold adjustment overhaul, 7-2 is no longer that good for coin farming. Instead, I would suggest 12-4 as it grants a massive ~2000 gold per run now!
EDIT 9/15/2021: With the introduction of Yuudachi Retrofit, she's very strong now, I would highly suggest farming a copy of *best dog* now. (Stage 6-4)

Timestamps, BlueStacks, and Discord:
Chapter 3:
3-2 (Purple Steam Catapult + SB2C Helldiver) - 1:02

3-4 (Akagi/Kaga, Purple Repair Toolkit + Purple F4U Corsair) - 3:52

Chapter 4:
4-3 (Erebus/Terror) - 6:52

4-4 (Unicorn/Cleveland) - 7:24

Chapter 5:
5-1 (Helena + Gold/Purple Twin 127mm) - 8:27

5-2 (Queen Elizabeth + Gold Hellcat) - 9:32

5-4 (Rodney/Nelson, Unicorn + Gold Bofors) - 10:40

Chapter 6:
6-1 (Vestal, Helena + Gold SG Radar) - 11:45

6-4 (Yuudachi *best dog* + Gold 610mm Torpedo) - 13:24

Chapter 7:
7-2 (THE BEST OVERALL, TONS OF GOLD + GOLD ROOMBA) - 14:17

Chapter 8:
8-1 (Inazuma aka Rem) - 15:55

8-2 (Ikazuchi aka Ram) - 16:04

8-4 (Maya aka the white-haired Takao sister) - 16:11

Chapter 9:
9-3 (Nicholas) - 16:22

Chapter 10:
10-2 (Honolulu) - 16:50

10-4 (JINTSUU) - 17:04

Chapter 11:
11-2 (Agano + Good XP) - 18:26

11-3 (Sendai) - 18:40

11-4 (Columbia) - 19:02

Chapter 12:
12-4 (Choukai + The best for PR XP farming) - 19:19

Chapter 13:
you’re crazy

Top 3 Stages to Farm (TLDR) - 20:32

#3 - Stage 3-4, for the two amazing carriers Akagi/Kaga, the super versatile Repair Toolkit, and the budget-friendly F4U Corsair

#2 - Stage 12-4, for Choukai, A TON OF GOLD and for the most amount of experience which is amazing for PR grinding (THE NEW BEST STAGE FOR BASICALLY EVERYTHING)

-#1 - Stage 7-2, for the amazing amount of gold-the general ease of farming, and the Gold Roomba-


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[TNinja]

Recommended farming points: *Exists*
Events maps: "Pour all that oil over me, baby"

[hassathunter]

Missing Waifu's:
*Shouhou: 2-2, 2-3 and 2-4
*Souryuu: Chapter 3-1, 3-2 or 3-3, then 13-4
*Fusou and Yamashiro: 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 (also 6-SOS)
*Isuzu 7-3
*Houshou 7-4 (also 7-SOS)
*Jenkins & Radford 9-2
*Niizuki 9-4 (also 9-SOS)
*Hiyou 12-2 and 13-2
*Junyou 12-3 and 13-3
*Dewey 13-3
*Bunker Hell, I mean Hill 13-4

[rafaeael]

4-1 has Saratoga as a drop, one of the best carriers, so it's really recommended to farm as a newbie.

[Tyler_Not_Taylor]

I literally was about to search for this on YouTube and then this pops up in my recommended... thanks Ander!

[ItsAnderYT]

my voice is high again in the first second, i wonder if my video editing software is bugged lol

[VerkoAviarhidea]

Akagi's also skill works with Kaga(BB) and Kaga's also work with Akagi-chan and Akagi(Muse)

[rollsross]

*Gets all the gear needed*
Purple upgrade plates: I don't feel so good
No seriously Purple plates have become my biggest problem, farming them is hell

[Elveder]

As a player with one and a half year experience in game who cleared all chapters, I do not recommend farming maps for gear, because it is pointless. I would just go for waifu and move on. You can get good gear from golden boxes, core data shop and research. The only time you want to farm gear is event limited gear like French Gun.

About 12-4 for XP farming I would say it's good if you're missing Choukai. As soon as you get her you can switch do 12-1. It's a lot easier than 12-4 and the difference in XP is minimal (12-4 - 113 lvl mob fleets and 845 base XP, 12-1 - 107 lvl mob fleets and 825 base XP). You can also do 12-2 if you're too lazy to reduce danger level in 12-1 to safe.

The rest of the Guide sounds good to me.

[Homiloko]

When you got to Maya at 16:14 I was expecting you to say "who is basically Emilia from Re:Zero"

[VerkoAviarhidea]

You forgot to mention that 3-2 also has the 2nd best non-research/non-event DD Gun (Single 127mm) with almost the same DPS as the Twin 127mm but has more RoF so it's good for barrage focused DDs/CLs that also want good DPS like An Shan Class and Z23. Purple Steam Catapult is the 4th best for CVs, but it's still the most accessible so it's worth farmijg for if you don't have the others(3rd is Purple Aviation Tank, giving the same AVI stats and more, 2nd is the Homie Bacon, decreasing airstrike cooldown by 4% and the best would be Gold Steam Catapult).

[gravityhurts]

16:22 Thank you for the shoutout Ander-senpai <3
Just be aware that stage 9-3 has an annoying map layout. The nodes and boss aren't hard but the way the places they spawn is. I farm for her before the hm of ch9 so yeah...

[alexisv]

15:43 Tfw 7-3 (Isuzu mines) doesn't have an honorable mention. _Sad shikikan noises_

[Luisfagostini]

i got my jintsuu on literally my first ever 10-4 run. saved me a lot of oil lol

[mosquito]

On 7-3 there's also a great ship that can be use on chapter 12, 13 called isuzu. her retrofit is very power at against plans. (if you can't get san diego retrofit. isuzu retrofit is the best option for replace san diego retrofit) btw compare to the difficulty, 11-1 is the great place for farm exp also. 11-1 is kinda same with 10-4, but it give more exp than 10-4. so 7-2 (beginner) and 11-1 are two best place for exp farming.

[ihatecabbage]

I really recommend 7-3, cause you can get Isuzu, one of the best AA Light Cruiser(post retrofitted) in the game, she is the IJN of San Diego on a cheaper cost and is only slightly weaker to Sandy and Seattle. I use her at LvL98 in Chapter 12(safe) and she destroy everything herself, leaving Atago and Takao freely rampage the surface fleet. However, if you think farming Choukai is hard, wait till you farm Isuzu. I took me longer, so much longer that I gone numb farming her. Some people are lucky, I am not. After I got my 1st Isuzu, I never touch 7-3 ever again.

[azurblueknights]

Fairly concise guide for a newcomer, although I do believe you over-sold how good Akagi and Kaga actually are. While they are perfectly capable carriers for a new player, without Nagato the fox sisters drop sharply in effectiveness later on, primarily because their skills are extremely bad for being gold rarity ships. Hell, this is true for most older Sakura ships. Here's to hoping the hint about possibly improving older ships that was teased about during the anniversary livestream means the two fox sisters will be getting some love.

[Bored_Kaga]

Akagi's skill that requires Kaga also works with Kaga BB from Crimson Echoes so if you have her then there's no need to stress out over not being able to get regular Kaga in fox mines

[misterpatches]

I got crazy lucky with Rng, Kaga dropped on my first try of the Chapter 3 submarine tutorial mission which at that point my account was only 5 days old. Akagi dropped roughly 10-15 rounds later, also from the submarine alert on the same chapter.

Thanks for the guide!!!

[conquerorzen]

Thank you for a very informative and straightforward guide... Most youtubers either don't talk or tell it directly to us.