Originally Posted by
Semaphore
With the great soul ticket even drawing to a close, there are a few things that I think are striking. One is that there's a huge dichotomy between players who went all on in farming soul tickets and those that didn't. Aargaez is currently #1, having beaten it 14809 times. I'm #10, with 8035. #15 only has 2150, or barely 1/4 of what I have at #10. If you only count what I've done in the last 15 hours, that would be good for #21 on the list. A lot of people might say, oh, I couldn't beat the boss 8035 times because it takes me 3 attempts or 5 attempts or whatever. But you didn't start 8035 battles, either.
Another interesting thing is that the very top of the list isn't a cluster of the very strongest players. The players in the 7-14 range tend to be much more powerful, both in PVP and PVE, than those in the 1-6 range. The 7-14 range includes 4 of the 5 players who have been daimyo in the last three months, for example, and 3 of the 4 who have completely cleared the PVE campaign. Something similar to this happened the last time this event ran, too. I thought that some players who finished very high then might use their 100+ soul tickets to vault into the top tier and seriously contend for winning daimyo, but it really didn't happen.
In my case, the ticket to the top tier was the water gun event that also gave a lot of SSR EVO cards. I got 12 SSR EVO cards to drop from that event. But rather than spending them on whichever SSR generals seemed nice at the time, I saved them and spent most of them on SSR Takeda Shingen of Kai when I could draw her, sometimes a month or two later. Having a ton of soul tickets helps, but it's no replacement for using your EVO cards on the right generals.
My final observation is that either the drop rate was increased or I was much luckier this time. If you convert all souls dropped from the event to soul tickets, last time, I got about 100 tickets in 6515 wins, or about 1 ticket per 65 wins. This time, I got about 160 soul tickets in 8035 wins, or about 1 ticket per 50 wins. The mix of souls and soul tickets and not having exact counts means that I can't do exact statistical computations. But my intuition is that that difference is likely to be statistically significant, as I've got a large enough sample size.