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This will be the first event I really don't bother with (beyond artifacts and golden coffers for dupes.)

In the past, I would usually play along until Week 3, since you never really know what'll happen then and I didn't want to be caught without enough dupes to take advantage. Week 1 is easy enough, just spend some gems on silver farming and make sure you're on track with dupes. I could even sustainably clear quests in Week 2 and try to maximize that output before stuff got really expensive, and as a bonus I could usually clear a few tournaments if I timed everything right.

Now there's really no meat on the bone even for relatively veteran players. You usually have enough low-star items for leveling thanks to previous MA spamming or cycling silver boxes for tournaments, but now there's a sizeable cost to replenishment. I'm even a bit weary about burning gems, since gold is effectively more scarce now and I'll probably need to convert more gems in order to pay for upgrading my stones.