Originally Posted by
ChibiKika
"loads of money" is kinda inspecific, but admittedly you won't find many players willing to buy "OVER 9000!!!!! *crushes scouter*" puddings but if you can latch a contract with just one decent to moderate spender (and I don't mean a measly $20, no offense Kotono), your credit into the event works incredibly well. It may not be 150 Limited SR worthy, but it'll get you fairly far...so I would like to believe at least. Take Hiiro for instance. Hiiro, I'd wager, has somewhere around 1m event SED but over 100 SEG Elimination cred and the note is that most, if not all, of them came from him (her?) being the spawner and redirecting it out to a heavy hitter (or several, depending on circumstance) in such a way that it was guaranteed to be taken out.
4-5m pero for elixir, while on paper sounds necessary, really isn't. You could just use 1 focus to make a weak attack on a boss and throw it at all your punch buddies, use the residual participation prize income from that to buy elixirs as you go, and nix regular bosses when you burn through the focus too fast. The ultimate punchline to it is that you never attack anything more than once, but at the same time you may not be able to support others as a devoted spawner.
You don't need $200 to get all the slayer girls (or wait, are you also counting card reveals into that? I don't really count them because I usually have surplus before the event to begin with). At worst case scenario, $150 but unless you have rotten luck or PPS devs are trolling you (which incidentally may happen more often than we expect), I'd say $45 if you're fairly lucky, $90 if you're not. This is based on the estimate that there are ~20 SR girls stored in the event box, it takes on average 3 event gacha tickets to get an SR (using Reveals), N and R slayers are usually grabbed as an "on-the-way" kinda thing, so you'd need at most 60 tickets, 20-25 Reveals (I'd suggest you gather the reveals before the event itself), and you should be set.
And $300 for pudding...would fall into the "MONSTER TRUCK RALLY!!! *moshing*" degree. Non-aggressive players need only spend $100 (literally $105...or something like $110.25 if you use paypal cuz of that retarded 5% slap-on) to buy about 150 puddings to use in emergencies should they get called to takedown duty without being physically ready to perform.
Point is, yes you need to find a P2W player just because you're a F2P player doesn't mean you can't mooch off the P2W guy and based on how much help you can bring him, he'll be just as happy as you are at getting your goodies.