Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't remember the event stages ever being hard, power-wise (I started day 1). My main issue was the "OH MY * THIS RNG IS THE WORST" of those events (which I recently reminded myself of by doing a bunch of those permanent reprints for their flower gems). Ugh. So terrible.

(And that was as a mostly F2P person who had little idea what was going on, aside from tips posted here)

The RNG was what made them hard, even the perm reprints do not have the same RNG as the originals since they removed some of it to make them easier about a year ago. Also for a lot of older events you had to watch your team speed and positioning, these days default setup with teams close to the same speed works 100% and has for the last at least 6 events.