Talk:New Journey/@comment-109.36.133.173-20200712162914/@comment-162.234.160.158-20200716221423

Ya'll seem to have different definitions of "difficult." Yes, getting those resources are difficult if you can't play every day, or if you didn't start out with a reasonably powerful set deck before the event.

However, by the standards of past events, this event wasn't "difficult" at all. Yes, you had to spend rubies to keep playing, but it wasn't the arbitrary ruby/gold sink that past events were, where you just farmed old levels as much as you could to get ahead of the next guy. So long as you cleared all of the checkpoints, you got pretty close to top 500, and more importantly, you got millions of bronze injectors, and upwards of half a million silver injects. As others have noted, if you began with a decently strong deck, the actual rubies you had to spend on potions to clear all the stages wasn't terrible--for many, it was well under the 1000 they got for Marathon Top 500.

Now compare this to other events. For a tournament-based stage 3, you have 7 chances to get your last cards, and you need to win top 3 in five of them to complete card 6. If you're lucky, you draw a weak bracket, but what's more likely is that you have a few folks who want to win as badly as you do, meaning the price of top 3 is thousands of Mojo. Or look at past magical apparatus events: Using the normal Event Chapters or the Guardians format, the difficulty usually ramped up much faster, farming Silver tokens was usually much stingier, which meant you got FAR less currency to use on free gears and extra spins.

In the current event, even if you only cleared 13 or 14 checkpoints, but still went pretty aggressively doing and redoing stages, you'd have about about half a million silvers and probably about 6 million bronzes, if not closer to 8 million or 9 million. Now this is the hard part: You have to do some rough math. It costs at most 1.5 million bronzes to get 12000 gears to open a Level 6 apparatus--this is if you're very unlucky and only get about 250 silvers every bronze coffer. For each MA opening, it costs 100k bronze for the 2nd draw, 150k for the 3rd, 300k for the 4th, and 450k for the 5th. At this point, you need how many extra Level 6 openings to buy using your bronzes, and how many bronzes to instead save to spend on extra draws. If you're smart about it, you can easily get 30 plus draws.