Originally Posted by Drynix

Since Nip101 says that the first part of EG is low impact, should I save my egacha tickets for the second part? I'm a 100% free player, so they are pretty limited for me. Currently on a 65% SR chance with 2 tickets, so 100% for certain that I can get 1 SR card.

Should I wait till the second week of spend em now?

Hard to say. When the phase changes, the alpha cards from phase 1 turn into beta cards, and the beta cards are removed. However, the multiplier you got from phase 1 beta cards still counts, so having those would help during phase 2 as well.
On the other hand, I think the alpha cards from phase 2 have a bigger multiplier than the cards from phase 1, so that would be an advantage of those. If you're really short on gacha tickets, I'd save them for phase 2, and hope to get the phase 2 SR.

Do make sure to run the regular N gacha though, just to grab the N card from there (and do it again in Phase 2), with all the other multipliers, it does give a noticable increase!