Since weekly reset is soon, decided to get the 3 HMS Weekly Chests now. Been raid grinding, and the release of Smash has made it a lot harder for me to dedicate as much time to Dragalia as usual. I can start that game up thinking I'll play it just for 10 minutes or so, and then 4 hours pass, wasting a lot of potential Stamina/Wings because their full on both my accounts. Either way, decided to see if the HMS pug experience is any different compared to before the raid. Also, image posting isn't working for me, so
here's an imgur link of my 3 Clears.
HMS Weekly PUG Clears
1st Team Makeup was Vanessa and 2 Mikoto's. Game was pretty straightforward. Vanessa has the role of "tanking" by getting the aggro of Midgard, so his spitballs and Tempest attacks would hit towards to wall and away from everyone else.
2nd Team Makeup was 3 Mikoto's. Everyone was pretty overgeared, so it was completed really quickly.
3rd Team Makeup was Ezelith, Vanessa, and Mikoto. This was the hardest of the three, mainly because I had to keep using my 1st skill on the stunned Ezelith to make sure Tempests and spitballs wouldn't kill them. I guarantee the run would have failed if a less geared/experienced Verica was playing, because there were multiple times I had to use my regen heal on Ezelith while everyone else was full health, and furiously rebuild my regen heal again before Midgard did more full team attacks. An Ezelith playing perfectly leads to fine runs, it's just Ezelith's who aren't on top of their game who can lead to a lot of runs ending early, even if Vanessa/Euden/Mikoto take many more hits during a run.
Overall, the runs were fine, not too different from what I'm used to. I overgeared my Verica specifically for runs like my third clear, where I can essentially "heal" carry some teams to makeup for some lack of skill. Thankfully my skills haven't gotten too dull from not doing HMS daily like before. I still personally find this content the most fun, and am definitely looking forward to the next High Dragon.