User blog comment:Jcep31/Valkyrie Crusade Appreciation/@comment-3206725-20151015102941

I always hear complaints how this game is awful for beginners. I started the game few events before you(Summer Oracle), and had similar experience.

Summer Oracle: getting to know the game, got HSR and SR cards from event. Couldn't get UR. Well, I started in 2nd half of the event ;)

The stolen grimoire: Couldn't get UR, got HSR.

The Fairies' New Wings: here I could easily kill AWs and managed to get 2 HUR EQs. One of them was from drops, one was mixed almag. This was turning point for me that made me able to kill FAWs ~80% of the time.

Alchemist: I was afraid lolitas wouldn't drop for me. I managed to get 4 UR alchemists. With them and awakened EQ my team skyrocketed in power. Oh, and I got 8 laprases, lol.

The Outskirts of town: Griffin was my first awakened GSR ;) And they gave Alice and Dark Alice in Witch Gate! On my first day when I looked on awakened cards list Alice caught my eye as "cuuute". I really wanted her, and... This event I got her. It was my first event where I attempted intermediate EH. With mixed results. Got multiple HUR regeas, kept 1 copy of HSR Morta and Nona. Nona went on FAW team to stop instant kill attacks.

Dark Eyes: this event was pretty bland for AW and FAW, but I still got like 6 Dark Eyes. Jeane caused quite a lot of farming for whole guild, and I managed to snatch both HUR Atalanta and Jeane. I still have 6 Jeane's in my present box, that I can't even fit into my normal storage. Not enough jewels to get more slots ;) I already had yggdrassils so I bough chaper workshop, which is pretty useful as well. I rarely do less than 12m to LAW on free attempt, and usually it's around 20m. Sometimes it's 40+. Also, I managed to get multiple copies of Witch Gate girls, 26 copies of Smokey, and with 50 keys used for intermediate I lost only handful of battles. SRs drop like crazy since LAW was introduced and I barely keep with evolving to HSR. I have all color buffers, some of them H/GSR.

The biggest  problem for me at the moment is awakening GURs. Every time I attempt I want to quit the game. I always do 35% awakening and in my 19 attemtps total I got only 2 successes(that's 10% success rate, not even close to 35! With 35% I would have 6-7 GURs by now :/). I'm always at 0 cool orbs(still trying to awaken second EQ) and 0 dark orbs(hello 10 failed tries on Atalanta, thank you for eating my resources). I have tons of other stones in those colors, but orbs. just. do. not. drop. I got only 3 from 50 keys in EH and a lot of Jackpots. Most orbs drop for me in Witch Gate, but even then it's not that much :/ Maybe one orb per 3 WG... And those 10% awakening cards don't drop easily as well :/