Arknights: LMD Farming and CE-5 Guide

LMD is one of the most pivotal parts when it comes to your teams upgrades and success. Upgrades and leveling can only be done with LMD and the higher you go the more costly it gets. LMD comes from various places but let’s get into the best place to get them.

LMD should be farmed at Cargo Escort, CE-5. For 30 Sanity you can obtain 7500 LMD which can be used however you want. Below are the different ways to get LMD. 

Mission Rewards

A decent source of LMD and other resources! Please complete your Daily and Weekly Missions because it’s super easy and quite rewarding. Get into a routine of completing your checklist of Dailies every time you log on. Not only will you get LMD you will get Orundum, Battle Records (EXP), and even Recruitment Plans.

Base Trading Post

In the Base there is something called the Trading Post. At the Trading Post you can exchange Gold Bars for LMD. Gold Bars can be obtained from Daily, Weekly, Log-in rewards, and the Factory. If you have 2 Trading Post rooms you need 2 Factories producing Gold Bars to have a balanced output. If you need tips and a guide on Base Setup check ours out.  

Story and Log-in Rewards

Whenever you complete any mission you will small amounts of LMD as a reward. Nothing to really write home about but it’s good to know you’ll be getting LMD even while you farm other materials. 

Log-in Rewards are what the game gives you just for showing up. LMD and other great stuff can be obtained, so make sure you log-in daily!

Store

The Store is a place where you can get LMD for real money and occasionally for free. The growth packs offer a ton of stuff other just LMD so if you’re looking to spend some money on the game and get some stuff, try out the growth packs.   

If you want free LMD and stuff all you gotta do is play the game and level up! Every 5 levels you will receive a free Enhancement Pack. Make sure to claim it every time you reach the next milestone. 

Another great place in the Store is the Certificate shop in the Commendations (Green) section. Qualification Certificates (Green) are the easiest of the certificates to obtain. It comes from duplicates which you will receive a lot of if you do recruiting. Purchase the LMD from this shop as it cost only 10 certificates for 4000 LMD with a limit of 15. That means a total of 60,000 LMD for just 150 certificates. If you buy out the entire first section you will be able to access the next section and more stuff to buy. 

The Store will refresh every month so if you’ve got some extra Qualification Certificates and need LMD go get 60,000 worth! For more tips on the Store check out our Buying Guide.

The Best Way To Get LMD

If you want the get LMD quickly and have a good amount of Sanity (energy) then do the Cargo Escort Missions. CE-5 will give you 7500 LMD for 30 Sanity but remember the stage is only available on certain days like Tue/Thur/Sat/Sun. So make sure you farm enough to match the upgrading you’ll be doing. Check below on how you can clear the stage.

CE-5 Lower Tier Clear

This is a showcase of CE-5 with all lower tier units and that everyone can obtain easily. Remember if you want to make this easier on yourself you can either use stronger units or increase the level of the units.

This will be the squad you can use to clear the stage. Try to keep them the same level or higher or else you might run into some trouble. Skill upgrades at rank 3 and up. Cuora can be obtained from the Certificate Shop (Red) and Gavial and Courier can be obtained from the Credit store. Pick them up as they are great units!

First you want to drop down Courier and Melantha as soon as possible in the image below and then Gavial and Kroos.

Then as soon as you can put in Plume. If you want to stay healthy or your healer is underleveled then consider dropping Fang after Plume to take the first hit and then retreat him. 

At this point you should be activating all abilities and keeping your squad alive. Then once you have enough DP drop 12F in the middle. 12F is cool because he has a 50% chance to dodge physical attacks.

Keep activating abilities and once you have enough DP drop Lava down to take out those big guys. 

Once guys start coming out drop Jessica on the top to thin out the waves and do damage. 

When Lava has killed the enemies retreat her and drop down Hibiscus or another healer in the back.

Whenever you can you should switch out Courier for Cuora so that you can survive longer and tank more. At this point you shouldn’t need any more DP.

Just keep activating skills and you should be home free and complete the stage with lower tier units. 

Then you’re done!! Simple and very rewarding.

James Chow

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