After 3 days of tweaking my strategy over and over I finally managed to pull off risk 22! Ngl, I'm really proud of myself. It'd be especially frustrating if I didn't clear it, cos I already had working strategy where I killed everyone, even Faust, except for last red weeb, so giving up when I was so close, would be incredibly annoying. Thank you for your Ceobe, myrrhmidon! I really needed that M3 on S2 and mine only has M2. This is as far as I can go with my current lvls/masteries though. At the end Ange would probably finish Faust off if her skill was M3. We'll see what new contracts comes out tomorrow. After losing countless attempts seemingly randomly I learned 1 thing. If you lose and don't know why either you did something wrong or your strategy just doesn't work. If it relies too heavily on rng, it's probably not good anyway. I like how by the end my final strategy was so much better and efficient than what I started with lol.
Nice job! I like your timing with Gravel, blocking both Faust's critical shots and random enemies in Ifrit's death lane. Seems pretty efficient, if stressful. Myrtle soloing the invisible enemies was a surprise; I didn't think she could take them down by herself with the +Defense risk.
I managed to get Risk 24, though I just pretty much copied this strategy, except I used Bagpipe instead of Weedy. Not as satisfying as coming up with my own strategy, but considering how long it took me to clear it I'm happy.
By the way, has anyone seen any Saga ships? I was looking over at Pixiv and Lofter but I've mostly either seen her solo or with Ceobe (both being hungry doggo-type characters?), but nothing really shippy.