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Hello Lujtg74, thank you for the good questions, I think discussing these might help all of us.

I'll be referencing cards by their tier in a particular week. So silver cards are week 1 tier 1.

I'll be calling badges cups (currency name change eveny event).

>> 1. How many dups of the rare event cards do you try to collect in Week 1 to ensure that you feel confident that you can get to the 249 that you need to have by the end of Week 3 by getting extras in the gift chests.

I don't particularly target any number for week 1 tier 1. Firstly you going to get a plenty from opening week 1 gold coffers, secondly you are going to get 200-300 more while opening MA gifts in week 3 trying to stay in top 100.

'''>> 2. Similarly how many of the first epic cards of each event deck do you try to get in Weeks 1 and 2 so that you are not dependent on having to get too many in Week 3 in the gift chests. Do you shoot for the full 166 or some lower number?'''

Let's try to devise the perfect formula here :) (it'll probably save me some time too next time)

For week 1 tier 2:

Let's assume we are going to save all week 1 bronze cups until week 2 and then spend them all to complete week 2 tier 1. That's 125k + 192k bronze cups or about 42 week 2 bronze coffers. Or 168 week 2 tier 1 (week 1 tier 3) dups - which is about half of all the dups we need.

We would also open about 10 week 2 gold coffers which would give about 10-18 week 2 tier 1 dups each with (guessing here) about 50% chance. That is 70 more dups. Finally we earn in week 7425 silver cups, almost enough to open 15 silver week 1 coffers with 9-15 dups each, or 180 dups total.

Overall we would get 168 + 70 + 180 = 418 dups of week 1 tier 2. That' a plenty (we need 332).

For week 1 tier 3:

We have opened 15 silver week 1 coffers which gave us about 285 gold cups, plus we competed 6 times in the tournament and earned 750-800 gold cups. So we could open 10 (11 if very lucky) week 1 gold coffers. That gives 7-15 dups in each or ~110 dups of week 1 tier 3 total.

In week 2 we open 42 bronze coffers with 60-100 silver cups in each which gives 3,360 silver cups. Plus we earn 10,780 silver cups from the map locations. Which is 14,140 silver cups total, enough to open 5 silver week 2 coffers (and gives about 380 golden cups). From the silver coffers we get 9-15 dups, which gives us 60 dups more total.

In week 2 we going to win 7 tournaments and earn 7*500+3*250 golden cups, adding 280 cups from silver coffers gives 4630 golden cups, enough to open 9 golden week 2 coffers. That equates to 9 times * 50% chance * 10-18 dups = 63 dups of week 1 tier 3/week 2 tier 2 epics.

At this point we earned 110+60+63=233 dups, still about 100 dups short. At 12 dups per coffer we need 9 silver coffers to be safe. That's 9*2500=22,500 silver cups farmed. That also gave us 684 golden week 2 cups.

For week 2 tier 3:

At this point we opened 10 golden week 2 coffers and earned 7-15 dups in each, or 110 dups total. We need to earn 166 total, or 56 dups more. In week 3 we need to open ~5 silver coffers with 9-15 dups each to earn 60 dups total. That's 5*7,500=37,500 silver cups farmed.

In total we farmed 60,000 silver cups, which means fighting 75 cups location 800 times for 11,200 energy or 3,640 gems. This is an enormous amount of farming, as I probably mentioned earlier. More than twice than those 334 fights which one has to do to get back in duels after reset. But this still not as much time as you will need to spend opening silver boxes for MA.

Now the actual numbers might ran 10-15% better as you are going to get more than the average number of dups from each coffer if you are picking the one with the highest numbers (with some strategy here too to increase you chance to no run short a few dups).

I am also not counting the event quests (although I stop rather early once the cost starts getting too high) and perhaps the first 5-10 locations in week 3 map.

>> 3. Are there cases where you consider it worth while to expend 100 gems in Week 3 to open an additional gift chest?

The math for me is simple - opening a new level 5 gift by opening 60 silver boxes costs ~115-120k gold. And 100 gems is worth 280-295k gold, plus it always gives you 23.7k bonus cups. Since I always run short of gems during the events, I never spend gems for MA. But I do open level 5 second time for 100k bronze cups specifically during those attempts where the first attempt gained something unwanted.

>> 4. How many Silver treasury chests do you normally expect to have to open in Week 3, in order to complete the collection dups of the first legendary card of each event deck to 83.

5 coffers is typically enough. And yes that's a hell lot of farming location 33, or the 60-cups one if that's more reliable.

>> 5. Do you know of any wiki discussion area here in miraheze where there is a discussion of the different artifacts?

Not really. I asked around but thus far wee have too few visitors. I found that the power lowering artifacts are nice and my Fairy deck now has 2 of these - one on Bone Walker and one on Dark Twins - that helps you weaken the boss decks which are rotating during the fight.

I do run Smutstone Tools locally to optimize my deck for the Campaign map, and Fairy is actually the best one imho for Castle 27 out of the standard decks. I do not expect any of us would ever 10-star an event deck, so event decks are mostly good during the events, apart from the very special cards which have Allied Strike or similar effects.

>> 6. Is there any good reason to seduce the non-event non-primary deck, rare, epic and legendary cards to 5-star?

One rather obvious reason is to be able to dust these cards, but I would probably not do it until you could get a sizable chunk of dust from a single card, say 20-50k dust. I used to estimate dust value being 8 gold per 1 dust, but with the suspect recent nerfing it's closer to 6 gold per dust.

Thanks again for your questions, and good luck!