Hm, considering it's only a 5 shard difference I do wanna correct myself and agree that EX Wilds would be a better choice, trade them in with Kurito.

You're saying to get the cards first, the ones that wont be available again, as the first choice.
Thing is... I have many many level 1 cards. N > R > SR obviously, but still, around 25 SR cards, only 3 of which are level 100, and only 6 of which are 50+.

The EX cards... what can they be used for? I dont have any EX cards, and unless I am mistaken, and the EX cards can be used to send you over 100, they dont seem like a good buy for me right now. But are you saying to get the EX cards, and then trade them to Kurito? Does she actually produce anything good? I've only done a few trades with her, and I had looked at a chart for items values when doing the trades, but was disappointed with each trade. Also... do the EX cards provide more than 1 level when used on an SR card, or an R or N?

The cards that are available for trade. Is there anything special about them? Other than they will no longer be available, I looked them up, and their SED doesn't appear to be anything extraordinary. Is there something special about them I dont know?

Thanks for the help guys.

The most convenient answer would be to just get the SR 1s over EX still...getting a ton of EX Wilds takes a lot of time to process with Kurito (2 HR timer sometimes) and honestly some of the rewards really are not great. In fact I would say I don't normally get an SR3/5, I usually get pudding. Worst results for EX Wilds would actually be a single half pudding, the limited cards once you already have it, or the PeroGlasses, and the first two happen quite a bit. Although in the long game it's very good for a mostly f2p to trade in EX Wilds for puddings, especially since pudding can be traded in again anyway for a good shot an SR3 if you don't want pudding. EX wilds won't increase your SED much in the short term if that's what your looking for, that's a choice you'll have to make. EX wilds also can't be used at all until a card is at 100 and you've finished some of the "one time only" missions. And there's nothing special about the tradable cards other than they're going away soon.

Lol the more I'm thinking about it the more convoluted it gets...especially since there's a lot of hard data still lacking on Kurito and trading in EX Wilds. But again, for short-term SED, EX Wilds aren't a good choice.

Last event girls were 1000/400/200, which felt like a better value for the lower SR and R. The wording sounds like they won't be available as Shards rewards again, but we'll likely see them in revival gatcha. I wouldn't pick them up unless you really like their art.

Ex Wilds are hard to come by outside of Shards event, so I would advise skipping the R and SR wilds. Even if you aren't interested in Ex leveling, Feeding Kurito Ex wilds one at a time will net you way more than 1.33 SR wilds on average, although I would advise feeding something else with an ex wild to push into the 1501+ point bracket, to be most efficient.

Lastly, keep in mind that there's no guarantee what the trade prices or girl/item availability will be next time.

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(Not an update, but another unregistered mook posting.)

Honestly, it doesn't seem to matter much which of the new cards anyone gets. They all have nearly identical bodies, faces, and totally vacant expressions. Only the hair/clothing is different. So you can't really even pick a favorite, and the only thing that really separates them is the max SED. If you can get the SR, great...if you have to choose between the two Rs the one that costs more shards actually has less max SED.

I regretted not being able to get Damocles last time. I probably won't get her this time either, and I'll be stuck with crystal crotch catgirl and/or the other R.

I can't remember if Shards 1 was just longer or if this one just felt harder. I know I had a higher multiplier because I had a free SEC for getting the 1000 rank bonus. Plus 1800 shards is a LOT harder to get. I think it was 1600 to get them all last time. I'm right at 1600 shards for this event, so I'm feeling the 200 shard difference pretty hard. I think I can barely make it, but last time I came away with all three girls and a bunch of consumables. This time I end up with all three girls or two out of three and some consumables. What a shame.

If the wiki is accurate, both shard events are the same duration. It might have been your SEC that made it easier, or it could be as simple as more people competing this time.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If the wiki is accurate, both shard events are the same duration. It might have been your SEC that made it easier, or it could be as simple as more people competing this time.

I think the main thing is the cost of the cards. That and the SEC that made it easier. This time, they didn't give a 'free' SEC and they increased the cost of all three new cards. That makes this event harder than the last one if you want all three.

I still like the shorter events like this. I can't keep up with events that require attention every 10-30 minutes for longer than a few days.

Originally Posted by JSensei

I can't remember if Shards 1 was just longer or if this one just felt harder. I know I had a higher multiplier because I had a free SEC for getting the 1000 rank bonus. Plus 1800 shards is a LOT harder to get. I think it was 1600 to get them all last time. I'm right at 1600 shards for this event, so I'm feeling the 200 shard difference pretty hard. I think I can barely make it, but last time I came away with all three girls and a bunch of consumables. This time I end up with all three girls or two out of three and some consumables. What a shame.

Looks like it was 1,600 last time...which is weird since I feel the same difficulty issue, though last time I had a +9 slayer boost (had more money back then) whereas this time I'm using a +7 (missed the R slayer, oh well).

One thing I will note though is that last time I was attacking Rank 5's for the streak, and then moving up between Rank 3-4 and burning pudding along the way to hit the top 1000 in the leaderboards. This time around after I built up my streak to a satisfactory point I spent about day hitting Rank 2 and...after a series of consecutive losses, came to the conclusion that if I was gonna play hard, I might as well do Rank 1 and that came out pretty odd as well (Rank 2 consists of alot of trap decks, whereas Rank 1 has mostly attackers, guess players on the highest tiers don't care about defense at all, not that I'm complaining seeing as we both benefit from it).

I got all 3 girls last time and this time around, the difference being this time I literally didn't spend a dime and only burned about 4 pudding halves just to be on the safe side in terms of ranking placement. Other than that, not much difference in difficulty in the general sense, only personal due to my frustration with brute forcing Rank 2's troll defenses.

As Unreg stated, both shards events are of the same length. SEC in the terms of shard payout multiplier helps tremendously, but I think anyone highly devoted might still be able to get by without needing all of them, provided you are willing to sacrifice a bit of sleep for the cause. Thus, your perceived difficulty is probably the mix of both the higher slayer multiplier and the lower cost of both girls.

Playing pretty consistently while I was awake over the course of the event (alarm set for every 30 minutes during the day) netted me just over 700 shards with only the N slayer. Having just one of the better slayers would have allowed me to get more than one card out of the event. There's actually a wide range between having SECs and not having them. You're right, you probably don't need all of the SECs, but you definitely do need some of them.

What's somewhat confusing to me is that even with this pathetic showing I'm placing below 700th. Did the defense trolls just set and forget their decks?