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Wanderer2020: Sorry for being so late with my actual questions which I will list below.

Basically in summary there are 4 of both the Primary event deck and Secondary event deck that are available to collect dups of in Weeks 1 and 2. Actually the Rare cards are only available to be collected in Weeks 1 and 3. And the first legendary cards is only collectable in Weeks 2 and 3. The second legendary card of both event decks is only available in the gift chests in Week 3.

So my questions that I hope you can provide me your opinion on when you trying to get both even decks to the 5-star level during an event are the following.


 * 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. Do you try to get to 249 or some lower number counting on getting enough in the gift chests while your are trying to collect the 83 of the second legendary cards in the gift chest?
 * 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?
 * 3) Are there cases where you consider it worth while to expend 100 gems in Week 3 to open an additional gift chest. Example: You are at Gift level 5 where there are 4 of the 10 gift chests with legendary cards. You open a chest and it does not contain legendary cards. Now 4 of the remaining 9 chest have legendary cards. Do you now expend 100 gems to open another gift chest, since the expected return of legendary cards becomes (4*15)/9= 6 2/3 legendary cards. For the first gift chest the expected return of legendary cards was 6. {(4*15)/10=6}
 * 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. In this event even though I only completed through mission 92 in Week 2, I managed to take top 3, 6 times. Some strategy and some luck involved. So, I opened the Gold Treasure chest 10 times in Week 2. Via this process I got 110 dups of the first legendary pair of legendary cards, I hit one card to exactly 83 and the other card I got to 27. That left me 56 short on one of the legendary cards. The implication to me is that I would have had to open at least 5 Silver Treasury chests in Week 3, probably 6 and possibly 7. Based on your normal hope of getting 4 top 3 finishes during Week 2, that would imply to me that your normal expectation would be to need to open between 8 and 12 Silver chests during Week 3. Is that correct? How do you farm/get that many silver pirate badges in this Event. That would be between 60K and 90K silver pirate badges.... According to the event information if you complete all of the missions there are only 33,110 without farming. Do you really farm that many on mission 33?

I think that I may still have a long ways to go before I can make a big dent in the Phase 3 missions. But I do not know if that precludes me from taking a shot at getting whole event decks to 5 starts.

Do you know of any wiki discussion area here in miraheze where there is a discussion of the different artifacts? It seems clear to me based on how the events work that some artifacts that work fine in the Campaign side of Smutstone are not nearly as effective as other artifacts when it comes to the events. Example: Backstab is not nearly as good as Lucky Dodge since the additional damage from backstab does not damage Mission Bosses or Artifact Bosses.

Lastly, is there any good reason to seduce the non-event non-primary deck, rare, epic and legendary cards to 5-star. (other not being able to soul bind you primary decks of Passion, Fairy and Nature to level 11 and 12) I currently think that I will not do so, since this would slow down the dropping of 5+-star event cards, should I ever get an event deck fully up to 5-star. My assumption is that any 5-star event cards will drop in future event bronze, silver, and gold chests. I presume that they will not drop in duels chests, even if they are at 5-star.