Thread: [Event 03] Advent Battle vs Garuda

Originally Posted by Abu

Wow. I'm def behind. Am I the only one with a job? Doesn't help that I need today for farming light lb mats. Working another Saturday tomorrow doesn't help, either. Or the nine hour work days

People with jobs are supposed to spend money to keep up with those who don't. That's why stamina restoratives are sold in the cash shop.

Drops are way worse for me, im averaging 10 gold drops per day. Over 8 days thats 80 allowing me to get 3 weapons and 2 eidolon.

Last event i got 134 gold drops this also allowed me to get 3 weap and 2 eido aswell since they cost a little more, however i had 34 gold mats left over allowing me to get grimoires
so even with the cost decrease of items this event, best case scenario suggests that nothing has changed and being able to max out weap or eido is still not possible, but in reality without the sunday expert sp things are actually worse.

If you are willing to put in the time for an event you should be able to complete it. Poorly excecuted events and crappy gacha no wonder people are already throwing in the towel.

am i the only one who gets every material EXCEPT feathers, that are supposed to be most common?

Originally Posted by felix

am i the only one who gets every material EXCEPT feathers, that are supposed to be most common?

Ya ya, I just brought that up like a page back. We're all gonna end up running Beginner on a loop for the last day to fix our inventories at this rate.

Originally Posted by CoitusYou

Drops are way worse for me, im averaging 10 gold drops per day. Over 8 days thats 80 allowing me to get 3 weapons and 2 eidolon.

Last event i got 134 gold drops this also allowed me to get 3 weap and 2 eido aswell since they cost a little more, however i had 34 gold mats left over allowing me to get grimoires
so even with the cost decrease of items this event, best case scenario suggests that nothing has changed and being able to max out weap or eido is still not possible, but in reality without the sunday expert sp things are actually worse.

If you are willing to put in the time for an event you should be able to complete it. Poorly excecuted events and crappy gacha no wonder people are already throwing in the towel.

They end up reducing the cost of stuff in the ixion event but that is still 3 advents between then and now.

Originally Posted by Abu

Wow. I'm def behind. Am I the only one with a job? Doesn't help that I need today for farming light lb mats. Working another Saturday tomorrow doesn't help, either. Or the nine hour work days

guy above you named Sniddy has a job see comment

I have a job too, minimum wage job at a pizzeria

I can only play dis game twice a day

not desperate enuff to spend $ on the game

only do dat for games I actually enjoy

Originally Posted by President Ramu

Ya ya, I just brought that up like a page back. We're all gonna end up running Beginner on a loop for the last day to fix our inventories at this rate.

In the last event I found that best "farming spots"
- first bronze mat in 20 ap fight;
- second bronze mat in 30 ap fight;
10 ap fight just not worth it - you can make a full 30 ap run with no mats at all.

Last event during Sunday, after running level 56 to 57 worth of gold mat SP, I was extremely low on iron and bronze mat since those special SP quests drop very little of them. I solved my lack of them with running expert.

I've been running standard on my alt and expert on my main. While I do spend a good portion of AP on raid boss spawning for my alt, I can definitely say that I generally get more than double and some times triple the amount of materials running expert than I do standard, to the point I've even gotten to page 3 of material drops while never breaking a single page for expert yet.

Personally I wouldn't bother with standard if you can do expert. I haven't had any issues with the rates and get a good amount of all running expert. Though in the end I'm sure RNG still plays a big part.

But yes don't run beginner, it's a complete waste aside from the first time for the jewels.

Originally Posted by Aidoru

Last event during Sunday, after running level 56 to 57 worth of gold mat SP, I was extremely low on iron and bronze mat since those special SP quests drop very little of them. I solved my lack of them with running expert.

I've been running standard on my alt and expert on my main. While I do spend a good portion of AP on raid boss spawning for my alt, I can definitely say that I generally get more than double and some times triple the amount of materials running expert than I do standard, to the point I've even gotten to page 3 of material drops while never breaking a single page for expert yet.

Personally I wouldn't bother with standard if you can do expert. I haven't had any issues with the rates and get a good amount of all running expert. Though in the end I'm sure RNG still plays a big part.

But yes don't run beginner, it's a complete waste aside from the first time for the jewels.

That's useful data, thanks. I think the problem though isn't that they don't drop at all, they just seem to drop in similar amounts (in Expert at least) to the Silver mats, but the exchange requires triple or quadruple their amount comparatively. It's like they adjusted the drop rates to "help us out" but they just moved the slider over a rarity level and forgot that we NEED a bunch of "shittier" drops due to the exchange rate.

I'm sure it'll even out in the end, it just seemed so silly compared to what we're used to for me to have no trouble at all with the gold chest drops but be in dire need of the bronzes.

In the last event I was running low of supernatural cards (low tier bronze for SP) and expert fights gives me 0-2 per battle and 3+ bells (second tier bronze)
So I tried other difficultes and found that Begginer gives me 0-2 cards per battle and Standart - 3-6 cards. Bell's drop in them was near zero.

Well. About raids: if you can do expert - do expert. I don't see any weapons in the platinums from standart.
Mats for himes is not an issue, only fangs level 3rd need expert SP quest farming.

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Originally Posted by President Ramu

That's useful data, thanks. I think the problem though isn't that they don't drop at all, they just seem to drop in similar amounts (in Expert at least) to the Silver mats, but the exchange requires triple or quadruple their amount comparatively. It's like they adjusted the drop rates to "help us out" but they just moved the slider over a rarity level and forgot that we NEED a bunch of "shittier" drops due to the exchange rate.

Only thing I actualle exchange - second tier jewels. Because you get 1 per week or trying to drop silver chest in the SP quest, which can give you that jewel.
Expert SP quests gives all high-tier hime materials and low-tiers drops a lot from the raids, quests or SP quests.