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.
Now that's one hell of a dungeon this time.
100% assured, 100% achievable way to get UR Evo card.
Buckle up kids, it's grinding time.
And this Kaneko Sword seems to be cherry on top. I think it might be pretty interesting to try it on Tiger of Kai.
The Takonamaka Kaneko Sword from last stage of the Halloween event is good too.
Level required is 30. Initial atk at level 0 is 250. Per upgrade level is I think around 40-45 atk bonus. Gives x2 focus fire on the primary target and heal block for 1 round. If worn by Uesugi Kenshin, deals 150% damage (the kaneko from trade is atk bonus). The upgrade cost is the same with Kuniosa sword, sword of light and shadow, modified nanban pistol, etc.
If someone is still undecided about Pumpkin Dungeon, a little observation after first day (not as detailed as Semaphore does, but still)
I cleared 6 of 8 enemies in dung. left first two untouched, because I wanted to see if I can reliably get enough of more rare event items (less rare are easy enough to get so I didn't bother).
So, after 300 attacks how close I am to my UR Evo card? My drops were:
11 out of 20 required Witch Hats
13 out of 50 Jack-o-lanterns
40 out of 300 Spooky Ghosts
plus those that you get from getting stars on enemies and those from quests.
So YES, you DO WANT to farm this event, and you WANT to melt any koban you have into rations. I've been playing this game around six months and this is the best chance to get UR Evo I have seen.
EDIT:
I almost forgot. Did I mention crapton of exp cards and ocasional chance for golden tickets?
Last edited by Machcio; 10-26-2017 at 04:12 PM.
A decent chance at UR evo, but at the same time drop rates of those items are so ridiculous low that getting any evo cards will be heavy grinding for the whole event time.
Original Himetsuru Sword from the end is junk. I haven't gotten a Takenomata Kaneko Sword from the end, but that looks like it might be useful for Uesugi Kenshin and useless otherwise. A comment on the Japanese Wiki makes it sound like the damage bonus might also apply to UR Dragon of Echigo. I'll check if I can get one.
Kaneko Sword (P) from the port, on the other hand, looks to me like top tier endgame quality gear. The Google translate of the Japanese wiki didn't make the description clear, but once you check the item's page, people say explicitly that it means a single target attack turns into two targets, two turns into three, and three turns into four.
Throw in that you increase Uesugi Kenshin's attack by 150% and that also turns Uesugi Kenshin into a top tier general worth comparing to Tiger of Kai, Sanada Yukitaka, and Master Strategist. I'll have to test it when I get one to see if that's really what it's doing. As of yesterday, Uesugi Kenshin was really only useful for reflect damage.
The opponents are also notably easy, so I pull all but Master Strategist off the team so that the battles can end faster rather than having to wait for a bunch of skills to stack.