Azur Lane Tales of the Paranormal Farming Guide and Priorities

Tales of the Paranormal is well worth heavy farming in Azur Lane. You should spend your active oil reserves here to secure the exclusive Ultra Rare (UR) gun, obtain event ship HMS Tiger, and clear limited upgrades from the event shop.

To get started, push through the standard event maps until you unlock oil-capped Hard stages, clear the daily SP stage, and settle your grinding loop on the highest available Hard map.

Why Tales of the Paranormal Is Worth Farming

The primary value of Tales of the Paranormal comes from its exclusive gear and high-value event shop inventory. Major events of this type introduce equipment that is difficult to replace and rarely reappears quickly in standard shops.

• Exclusive UR Gun: Event-exclusive weapons typically offer distinct firing cadences or specialized armor modifiers that give backline battleships or vanguard gunboats high burst damage against bosses.
• HMS Tiger: Available both as a drop from map farming and as a direct purchase in the event shop, allowing you to secure the ship without relying solely on gacha construction.
• Oil Cap Efficiency: Hard stages feature fuel consumption limits, allowing you to run full six-ship fleets for maximum commander experience, ship leveling, and shipyard combat data collection without exhausting your oil stockpile.

Map Progression and Grinding Targets

Clear through the standard stages once to collect first-time milestone rewards, then establish your daily farming routine around oil-capped stages.

Always complete the daily SP stage first every day. Once completed, direct the rest of your daily oil budget to automated runs on the final Hard stage, ensuring both fleets consistently earn S-rank victories for optimal drop rates.

Event Shop Priorities

Focus your event points on exclusive items and non-farmable progression materials before purchasing standard supplies.

1. High Priority (Limited Items)

• Exclusive UR Gun: Purchase this first. Event-exclusive armaments can take over a year to return through the Prototype Gear Shop or event reruns.
• HMS Tiger (8,000 Points): If she does not drop naturally during your stage grinding, buy her copy before the event shop closes.
• UR Specialized Bulin Custom MKIII / Shards: Essential for limit-breaking UR ships without requiring duplicate gacha pulls.

2. Medium Priority (Progression Bottlenecks)

• Cognitive Arrays and Cognitive Chips: High-value materials required to awaken ships past level 100 and level 120.
• T3 Auxiliary and Main Gun Upgrade Plates: Useful for sustaining +11 to +13 gear enhancements if your point totals allow.

3. Low Priority (General Stock)

• T4 Tech Boxes and Skill Books: Buy these only if you have surplus points after securing all exclusive gear, ships, and cognitive materials.

Fleet Setup Recommendations

Because Hard stages cap your fuel consumption, take advantage of the fixed cost by deploying full fleets optimized for clear speed:

1. Mob Fleet: Run a fast-reloading battleship or carrier flagship capable of clearing early enemy waves before your vanguard takes heavy attrition. Pair them with a durable vanguard tank in the lead slot and high-damage gunboats.
2. Boss Fleet: Focus on high single-target burst damage. Pair armor-break battleships or concentrated torpedo airstrikes with a vanguard debuffer to defeat the boss quickly upon spawn.
3. Submarines: Conserve time by disabling submarine auto-summon on regular mob nodes, reserving their deployment for the stage boss if clear times slow down.