Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast
Results 11 to 20 of 29
  1. #11

    Join Date
    Nov 2017
    Location
    USA EST
    Posts
    1,425
    Credits
    1,295
    Items Username ChangeUser Name Style ChangeProfile MusicThread Title Style Change
    Quote Originally Posted by Kimoi View Post
    Auto party...?
    meant to say auto "battle"

    might have mixed some game terms since... i'm honestly playing a lot at once...


    Quote Originally Posted by Dunhere View Post
    The usual caveats regarding small sample sizes and anecdotal evidence apply, but in 3 days of 100 10 pulls each, I've gotten 62, 68, and 61 R weapons, or an average of ~64. I don't know what the odds were previously, but this feels lower. The other side effect is that, with fewer chaff drops to resell, less of the gem cost is recouped. I'm not looking forward to having to spend even more time farming gem quests just to keep up.
    honestly, i tend to feed N stuff as exp fodder cause it's at least 200 Exp per batch (and i usually can feed 3-5 batches given i can hold 150 weapons and 140 eidolons). never felt the need to sell off stuff to get gem refund cause events still hand out gems like candy... plus the 30 min gem quests feed me about 30k-100k gems depending on how much drops (i get about 3k-7k per run) and how many runs i can get in (cause all the browsers i tried want to be picky, even puffin which runs the best)

    also, that's how much R weapons you're pulling? either i'm really lucky or that's really unlucky
    Last edited by MagicSpice; 04-04-2018 at 10:40 PM.


  2. #12

    Join Date
    Jul 2017
    Posts
    3,601
    Credits
    3,784
    Quote Originally Posted by Dunhere View Post
    The usual caveats regarding small sample sizes and anecdotal evidence apply, but in 3 days of 100 10 pulls each, I've gotten 62, 68, and 61 R weapons, or an average of ~64. I don't know what the odds were previously, but this feels lower. The other side effect is that, with fewer chaff drops to resell, less of the gem cost is recouped. I'm not looking forward to having to spend even more time farming gem quests just to keep up.
    Sounds about right. I think that previously, the average drop on R weapons from 1000 pulls was about 80.

    And yes, you'll recoup less thanks to selling the stuff but... think positively! Less Ns means LESS time spent watching that stupid "Connecting..." in the Mass Sell menu after the first batch. Also, recouping less doesn't really matter since Gems are now an infinite resource. Hell, my "break point of 84 AP for infinite Gems" math didn't even include selling anything back...
    Quote Originally Posted by MagicSpice View Post
    meant to say auto "battle"
    The jargon that these forums generally use is AB and AAB, I believe.

    AB = Auto Battle (no skills)
    AAB = Auto Ability Battle (with skills)

  3. #13

    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Singapore
    Posts
    1,431
    Credits
    1,038
    If I were to guess correctly, the skill up materials (chalices? Forgot the name) are gonna drop way more often in larger quantities from event rewards, although not sure about advents?

    If so, that would make these materials basically the "compensation" for the decreased R rates in the gem gacha. That said, the way I see it, if you don't exactly have much to limit break at the moment, this gacha system still fares pretty well in terms of giving R weapons considering they also give half elixirs, so that's a matter of pure patience... or luck if you're really short on those. If you're already tight on gems, this gacha does kind of fuck you over.

    Until the buff to the gem gacha rolls over, I guess the best methods of getting skill ups goes in this priority:
    1. Getting event grails for optimal enhance
    2. Getting event SRs (especially from raid gacha?)
    3. Getting raid SRs (Piggybacking wind ragna seems like a particularly good way to farm it, but no I'm not encouraging every newbie player to rush it)
    4. Rolling the hell out of gem gacha

  4. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
    Less Ns means LESS time spent watching that stupid "Connecting..." in the Mass Sell menu after the first batch. Also, recouping less doesn't really matter since Gems are now an infinite resource.
    Exit mass sell into anything else briefly to avoid the long connection time.

    While I grant your infinite gem math, I don't feel that paying more gems to get less fodder so I can spend the elixirs that drop instead spending more of my time farming gem quests is a win here.

  5. #15

    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Location
    Singapore
    Posts
    1,431
    Credits
    1,038
    Quote Originally Posted by Dunhere View Post
    Exit mass sell into anything else briefly to avoid the long connection time.

    While I grant your infinite gem math, I don't feel that paying more gems to get less fodder so I can spend the elixirs that drop instead spending more of my time farming gem quests is a win here.
    That does depend on your definition of win. A loss to patience sure, but ultimately I think it fufils the timesink aspect of the game even more than it does now... Unless you didn't come into the game for that (I did, so I win...?).

  6. #16
    Unregistered Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac View Post
    If I were to guess correctly, the skill up materials (chalices? Forgot the name) are gonna drop way more often in larger quantities from event rewards, although not sure about advents?

    If so, that would make these materials basically the "compensation" for the decreased R rates in the gem gacha. That said, the way I see it, if you don't exactly have much to limit break at the moment, this gacha system still fares pretty well in terms of giving R weapons considering they also give half elixirs, so that's a matter of pure patience... or luck if you're really short on those. If you're already tight on gems, this gacha does kind of fuck you over.

    Until the buff to the gem gacha rolls over, I guess the best methods of getting skill ups goes in this priority:
    1. Getting event grails for optimal enhance
    2. Getting event SRs (especially from raid gacha?)
    3. Getting raid SRs (Piggybacking wind ragna seems like a particularly good way to farm it, but no I'm not encouraging every newbie player to rush it)
    4. Rolling the hell out of gem gacha
    It's mainly just union events that spit out tons of grails.
    The main related change for advents would be the price reduction. Once the major changes kick in, the SR weapons each cost 50/30/0/0 to max out/get 4 copies of. Currently it's 215/105/60/0. (copper 1/copper 2/silver/gold chest materials, respectively).
    The raid event changes don't really impact this particular aspect of the game much, IMO. Unless we count the reduction of 1 guaranteed copy of each SR weapon.

  7. #17

    Join Date
    Mar 2018
    Location
    The Hammer, Canuckastan
    Posts
    9
    Credits
    9
    What/when are these gem quests? (I know the all-day sunday one). If possible, what time EST is it (if you don't know the EST I'll figure it out).

  8. #18

    Join Date
    Nov 2017
    Posts
    963
    Credits
    532
    Items Thread Title Style ChangeProfile MusicUser Name Style ChangeThread Title Style ChangeThread Title Style Change
    Quote Originally Posted by Rattington View Post
    What/when are these gem quests? (I know the all-day sunday one). If possible, what time EST is it (if you don't know the EST I'll figure it out).


    Mind you this is Nutaku time.
    Looking for a kinda good account? Send me a Private Message or meet me at Discord: L'aventale.-#4530

    Quote Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac View Post
    Lavendaddy do your thing.
    Kamihime ID: 2700172

  9. #19
    Quote Originally Posted by Laventale View Post


    Mind you this is Nutaku time.
    I can just do those gem quest on Mon., Tue., Sat. and Sun. Because I live in Europe...
    Furthermore those Gem Quest give more gems than the daily gem quest on sunday... 6k+ always

  10. #20
    Unregistered Guest
    Btw guys, check the 5/22 update (Pride reprint that introduces the light lilim). I interpret that as changing the expert gem quest to be available at all hours, but limited to twice a day. How close am I?

Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 123 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •