SEG rate for this event

[JSensei]

Anyone else noticing that it feels really low? I have a hard time getting SEGs to show up, and aside from the occasional SEG storm when 3-6 people share one at the same time, there aren't many being shared.

Going to be hard to hit 300 this time around.

Anyone else feel this way?

[fromelette]

Its been inconstant as usual for me. Spawned 3 in a row earlier, but in my first 10 spawns I got no SEGs.

[Drip]

I had that feeling during the previous round already, that despite hitting hundreds of regular guards in the first phase, I hardly ran into SEGs during phase two. Supposedly, killbeating regular guards increases the spawnrate, but I still ended up elixering away a ton of regular guards to get to the SEGs.
Maybe they lowered the spawnrate, maybe it's just RNG. Ah well. As long as I reach 100 SEGs, I'm fine.

[AnruferDesTodes]

I had that feeling during the previous round already, that despite hitting hundreds of regular guards in the first phase, I hardly ran into SEGs during phase two. Supposedly, killbeating regular guards increases the spawnrate, but I still ended up elixering away a ton of regular guards to get to the SEGs.
Maybe they lowered the spawnrate, maybe it's just RNG. Ah well. As long as I reach 100 SEGs, I'm fine.

It's all RNG, some people just see patterns.

[nip101]

I'm having pretty bad luck finding them time around to. Hard to say if its cause I'm not constantly checking for other seg this round or bad rng. No slayers probably doesn't help either, saving my tickets for shards lol.

[stefan]

Anyone else noticing that it feels really low? I have a hard time getting SEGs to show up, and aside from the occasional SEG storm when 3-6 people share one at the same time, there aren't many being shared.

Going to be hard to hit 300 this time around.

Anyone else feel this way?

Its hard to get 100 hit not 300.

In this three days I have only 4 SEG encounters.

I play all day and have 4 Event Card who increase encounter rate of SEG but that doesn't help.

But because I have friend who encounter it a lot I have 22 win over SEG.

I also have 1,862,364 Event SED.

Maybe because I'm the free player. I don't have another explanation.

[Drynix]

Free player myself with both N-card, all 3-R cards an 1 SR slayer card. Rougly 5 mil SED. The spawn feels lower for me aswel, on 71 kills myself. Normally I should have hit the 100 mark here alraedy. But hey, it might just be some bad luck for us all going arround and we reinforce it towards eachother through this topic.

[JSensei]

Are the slayers increasing the spawn rate this time? In past events, getting some number of EP increased your spawn rate as did having R and SR slayers. I didn't see any notifications of either of those.

If you grind it out, you can get SEGs. It just takes a LOT of elixirs. I've burned through over 200 elixirs so far to get 156 SEGs (a LOT were shared, but I'm producing about 10-15%)

[Drynix]

I figure that the special effect cards are what we call slayers.

[JSensei]

I figure that the special effect cards are what we call slayers.

They are. In previous events, there was a screen that said that slayers increased SEG encounter rates in addition to the SED multiplier, but this event doesn't say that. Therefore, I don't actually know for sure if slayer cards actually increase the encounter rate.

There's also another interesting wrinkle at play. Mind you, I am NOT complaining. Just pointing out a fact. A few months ago, only a few players had a base SED of 2 million or more. Even with every slayer card available, the heaviest of hitters only had event SED of 60-80 million. Most of the heavier hitters in my friend list were in the 20-50 million range. This meant that they could share a lot of SEGs.

Enpatsu has a base SED of 4 million. Christofor has 3.8 million. BoyToy has 3.6 million. With full multipliers, I would estimate their event SED has to be in the 120-160 million. This means that short of a really high level SEG, the top players couldn't share a SEG if they wanted to. This definitely changes the game for a lot of people that get by on poking, which is a lot of people.

On the flip side, it means I have no problems weak hitting a 60M SEG for 400k and then sharing it because I have no doubt that those very same players will be able to make short work of it. In fact, they almost assuredly appreciate me NOT using a sexual drink on it because it means more EP for them.

This means as Elite Guard events go forward, more and more of the sharing will have to come from lower level players. Due to my free to play status, I consider myself a sort of low level player even with a base SED of 2.05 million. I just don't spend E-Gacha tickets on EG because I have zero trouble hitting the top 1000 and generally have an easy time coasting to the top 500 level.

Again, I'm not complaining that the top players don't and can't share SEGs. I'm merely pointing out that the flow of the events changes as the players with the highest base SED get ever higher event SEDs.

For what it's worth, I share as many SEGs as I can find, even when I can one-hit them. I'm a fan of the community and go for a 'team player' approach. Sharing is caring after all.