Talk:XXX-Mas Adventures/@comment-63.231.147.137-20200104021544/@comment-2602:30A:2EAA:9E0:E991:F1AC:A2E0:F346-20200104180039

Wow, calm your titties.

Everyone and their mom knows you can't complete the set on these without A) having a strong deck to begin with B) having a shit ton of resources (including rubies) saved up (OR being willing to spend cash) and C) understanding the event setup and gaming the system well.

I can't speak to how well you stand in A and B, but I'm guessing by both your results and the articulate and intelligent way that you expressed your frustration that you might be lacking in category C.

Just to give you an idea of where I stand, I had about 4 million gold and 1500 gems saved up, and an 11k deck. I didn't push hard because--after the WoF mess--my experience has been that it's impossible to stay in the top 500 unless you have 1600 gems MINIMUM near the end to buy more marathon points, because a ton of other people do. These aren't people spending money on the game. In my experience, before WoF, there were probably at most 100 people making huge swings in the top 1000 or so during the last few days of the event. That number increased drastically in the events after the WoF came out.

Even though I didn't go nuts, I did play smart. Thanks to the folks sharing in this wiki, you go into every week with a decent guess at how things will set up, and less than a day into a phase, people will post EXACTLY how things are set up. This is why, in phase 3, I could look at the numbers and plan the smartest way to spend my limited resources. Like I said, I knew top 500 in marathon was impossible for me, so I prioritized Hank runs, and getting event cards only to the extent that they helped my Hank runs. Thanks to the info on the wiki, I could tell that the smart move (for me) was to push everything I had into Magical Apparatus runs early on, run multiple Level 6 repeats, and spend a few rubies buying extra runs at level 5 and level 6.

Final results for me: full artifacts, 5 star Lady Crystal, 4 star Gremlin Hunter. Those high level MA runs are key: Not only do they give far more dupes (which is why, unlike you, I don't think I ever had only SIX dupes of either card at either part), they also give much higher probability to the two cards.

I still have a lot of complaints about the game--mainly the fact they implemented a system that let a few players make years of progress in a few weeks, then nerfed the system so that everyone else has zero chance of catching up, and then tailored every event to providing a challenge to that lucky group of super-players. That said, this event actually offered a lot of fun/rewards that were useful and accessible to everyone else, and as for you personally, I think you could stand to gain a lot by being much smarter about how you play. Maybe not enough to clear everything in the next event, but enough to have fun and get something out of it.