Talk:Valentine's Day Grand Prix/@comment-67.249.65.41-20160131013826/@comment-116.14.132.95-20160201050142

Witch Gates can have AWs and FAWs, but never LAWs, thankfully. Regarding whether to use swords and shoes in WG and EH, I should point out first that it's best to maximize your vitality and BPs first by max leveling all three great temples, getting three yggdrasil trees, and if possible, getting a magic school to level 4. With the improved vitality and BP limits, you'll get much more mileage out of every shoe and sword you use. That said, if at this point, your vitality and BP limits are still low, and you wish to save the shoes and swords for use later on when your limits are raised, you could choose to avoid Witch Gates altogether for now until the limits are raised, especially since sometimes, those gates could troll you with many empty steps, forcing you to spend well over 100 vitality to complete, which, in fairness, rarely happens, but isn't impossible. For EH, right now it's at 7 vitality per step, so you'll only ever spend a fixed 42 vitality completing a lap of EH. The AWs in beginner EH are only ever at level 100 to 150, so those should be manageable, and you can give those a shot.

If you wish to make a full GUR team, then yes, you'll need to buy the deck cost boosters in the shop using jewels. A full GUR team would run up a deck cost of over 420, which is a number that's impossible to reach unless you buy the cost boosters in the shop. The cost boosters in there will rack up a total limit increase of 110.

For the castle, yes, you need jewels to level up the castle from 9 to 10, I think it's 2000 jewels, might be wrong on that.

For AUB, I wouldn't say you necessarily need a strong lineup, you do need a team of 5 AOE attackers generally, though sometimes, you might get lucky in terms of finding an opponent who doesn't bother putting up a decent defensive team, aka, having only 1 defending character, or 5 slimes, or 5 gold girls, something like that. You still get good AUB points fighting them. The easier prizes to target would be the alliance prizes. As long as the alliance does well and gets the full 5 points at the end of each round, you get to enjoy the reward too. Much easier than slogging it out for 800k or 1m points for the individual reward