Personally, I use the FGs only for the gacha and storage expansions, with the first one having a higher priority. I expand only when I'm no longer comfortable with needing to sell something to make enough room to start a new mission. I use only the FGs found in the game - I'm not buying any.

The thing is, you want to have as many 5*+ knights as you can get.

In missions like the national ones or the whale ship ones you'll need a lot of stronger girls. The units below 5* may be enough at the start, but when the missions get harder, they'll need to be replaced by stronger ones.

Additionally, this is a game based on collecting different units. Since we have quite a number of different characters with their own voices and quirks, I'd think not using the gacha is kind of a waste.

Other than that, the Nutaku gacha got unofficially buffed, so it's easier to get good units off it compared to the original DMM one. It's actually one of the few (if not the only) advantages this version has over the other.

The answer to the OP's question depends on the answer to another question: are you willing to spend money on this game?

If yes, then the flower gems have significantly more value for expanding your inventories and refreshing stamina (not raid points since they regenerate fairly quickly).

If no, then the only way you're going to get the better performing/higher stat girls is to play the gacha and yes, you should use FGs for it.

The event girls are fine for a good while when starting out and a few of the event girls can hold their own or better against many gacha 5* (Edelweiss, Lavender for instance), but for the most part, event girls aren't as strong as the gacha 5* if you disregard the equipment slots with one caveat: if you're not spending money on the game, then you're not likely getting any dressblooms which means the only way to build gacha girls skills/equipment slots is to fuse dupes and that is going to take a -long- while to do so.

i only use FGs for gacha and character expansion. expand characters for every 5 new girls i get, and since i get 5 FGs for maxing their affections, that's 4 extra FGs to go towards gacha.

So I've decided that though Event girls are better in the short run, Gacha would be more useful in the long run because I would eventually come across dupes while doing it. Also as Volarmis reminded me Whale mission exist. I was only thinking about getting a solid team of 20, and forgot I needed more for Whale. But here are my responses to each reply I hadnt gotten to yet.

Sinister
I didn't account for abilities in my calculations. I do agree that abilites are needed and that some Event 5*'s abilities suck. Thank you for the information, I'll look more into abilities of both event and Gacha Girls


Volarmis
I completely forgot about the whale honestly. And Gacha is the best way to get to doing whales sooner. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Taon
I can't agree that gacha 5*s are "stronger" than Event girls. I mean, yes, if you disregard the fact that event girls have 4 slots and lv.5 skills, then a Max level gacha 5* 1 slot lv.1 skill would be stronger by pure base stats.

Guest
Hello and welcome, be it a guest or someone that just decided not to log in.
Taking in account that each new girl can give 3FG's because of 2nd affection, I can see how this system can be quite useful.

Originally Posted by Neison

Taon
I can't agree that gacha 5*s are "stronger" than Event girls. I mean, yes, if you disregard the fact that event girls have 4 slots and lv.5 skills, then a Max level gacha 5* 1 slot lv.1 skill would be stronger by pure base stats.

That's precisely why I said gacha 5*s are stronger, not only by pure base stats but more importantly their abilities; the only edge most event girls have are the initial dress/skill slots; most gacha 5*'s with full slots will outperform event 5*s. You can take a gacha 5* to full slots, you can't take an event girl to better stats/skills.

Originally Posted by Taon

...and for the most part, they are stronger by not only pure base stats but more importantly by skills. The only edge most event girls have are the initial dress/skill slots; most gacha 5*'s with full slots will outperform event 5*s; this isn't even debatable.

I agree,
But rolling 3 extra 5* dupes from gacha is a low probability. I wouldn't argue the fact that rolling a 5* would be stronger in the long run. I am arguing that using gacha to get 5*'s was a waste of FGems (which i now understand is not). However, being that as it may, 5* event's will continue to be stronger than a 5* gacha whom have only 1-2 slots. Yes, you could take the equipment that you get from the event and put it on a 5* gacha girl, but unless they have 2+ equipment slots open, those equipments would be better spent on the Event girls. Yes the gacha pool has girls with better Abilities, but it also has ones with just as bad or even worse abilities as some Event girls. Without Dupes 5* gacha girls will never beat Event 5*s.

TL:DR : I agree, if Gacha 5* has 2+ equipment slots.


*UPDATE*
So decided to roll gacha, because yea Gacha isnt a waste of Flower gems.

Gacha is garbage.

You did just roll 2 of the best 4* in the game tho... for a new player that is not terrible.

Also on the gatcha vs Event girls debate. With 100% affection or even 2nd affection now the stat difference becomes very noticeable also most event girls not only have weaker passives but also weaker active skills making that lvl 5 skill not as good as it first seems.

Example to back up statement:

Gentian Event Girl vs Hop Gatcha Girl

12224 / 5484 / 2426 / +3% atk for each nest up to 12% / -10% skill rate for 2 enemies / 20-30% skill chance at 2.2x single target damage

13672 / 6728 / 2466 / medium dodge / +1-15% atk based on affection / 28-37% skill chance at 2.4x single target and HP Drain

They are both slice girls, both single target. Hop starts with 28% skill chance and Gentian ends at 30% with rank 4 being 27%.

1 Equip slot = +1800 stats at max equip level
4 Equip slot = +5600 stats at max equip level

so 3800 more stats from equip but Hop is already +2700 up in stats... so over all you get +1100 in stats with bad passives and a worse activate skill that doesn't heal.

TL;DR: Apart from 3-4 of the first event girls, Gatcha girls are better to have. Only time this is wrong is if they have an OP passive like Geranium and her 1.2x skill activation chance.

Originally Posted by Neison

So decided to roll gacha, because yea Gacha isnt a waste of Flower gems.

Gacha is garbage.

Bad luck on that one, but don't get discouraged.
As I've mentioned, the rates for good rolls on Nutaku seem to be higher than on DMM (from my own experience).
Considering that, this roll of yours was just unlucky.
Well, in the end it is a roll of the dice.