which leads to my now lv40 62k isabelle getting face rolled by the lv40 water daily....
she needs a strong earth ally (that isn't trish cause they love to buff spam and NOT attack) to survive... cause even trying to dodge attacks don't help much when enemies love focusing on me.... if isabelle dies, then i'm screwed
more so, i can somehow clear the lv40 gold mission reasonably... so i did manage to get isabelle's talent grid as far as i could (roughly lv9 abilities and 3 star rarity).
i can get more of her shards from the event, but it's a slow process since I NEVER see shards drop from the easiest mission, and i'm too weak to clear the hardest... so i'm getting a shard per run roughly 70% of the time from an 18 stam mission (and i'm sitting at about 106). she also doesn't have her weapon cause i'm at about 34 shards for it and arena takes 18 wins to get each batch of 3 shards (or i gotta get lucky on the shops).
fact of the matter is, i'm pretty much walled by content unless i build up another girl... which will take a while cause i got the cat at lv25 2 star and trish (who I think REALLY sucks) is lv25 3 star. others would be lv30 sasha (2 star) and the fire assassin girl at lv27 2 star.
other than that, i can grind out equipment, but it's all practically +7 blue gear for isabelle.... raids are giving shards at a painfully slow rate... in fact, everything that's NOT the gacha or advanced explorations gives shards so horrendously slow
simply put, doing this from a free player aspect (cause i only added money for the 300 diamond package that gives 90 a day) is what's holding me back a ton. hate to say it, but this game is sadly looking to be heavily pay to win, especially when diamonds are used for EVERYTHING in this game
oh, and did i mention it takes over 7 hours to fully refill stamina without diamonds (which no longer give half my max per purchase)?
sorry to sound like i'm complaining, but this game makes you grind WAY MORE than you really need to.... and the only real way to speed it up seems to be throwing money at the game. it's looking like pero pero seduction (which i quit) turned up to eleven....
and before someone says "i can't handle the grind", i have played kanpani girls which was super grind heavy.... so was osawari island and kamipro in a way...
then there's an MMO called Elsword where throwing money can only go but so far cause you still have to deal with stupidly low RNG or long grinds that are 100-1000+ runs...
it's jsut different for this game cause you really can get everything by whaling... hence why there's some players at 7 star purple gear already