User blog comment:Scythe of FEAR/About the new updates that Nubee chose.../@comment-25560888-20141130011425/@comment-108.201.7.168-20141130022343

That'sa pretty nice stash of swords, but remember that most do not have so many, and especially not the newer players/rankers. If every event has BP costs and you try to rank, it is going to take many many light swords to rank t300 just 1 time. I don't know the exact number but I'd say at least 50+ lightswords per event...? That's a ton! And it would take many events to replish swords (I have like 40 from past 4 events).

Math for 50+ lightswords (light b/c those are the ones that drop from FAWs):

T300 for this event is 6.8 mil in 1st two days. Assuming 3mil/day to hold t300 in next 11 days, total points = 39.8 mil. Assuming 20BP = 8 AW + 2own FAW + 10 FAW from others, with 5000p/AW and 30000p/FAW that means 20BP = 400,000points, or 1 BP = 20,000 on average. By this ratio 39.8 mil points= 1990 BP. If you don't sleep at all and w/ Twitter refill it's 96 + 20 = 116 BP/day. 1990 - 13*116 = 482 BP. Light swords fill up half the BP of 20 max, so 10 BP = 1 lightsword. That means 48 lightswords. 50+ for some margins of error and sleep/work/showering.

Notice that I've been pretty generous with amount of FAW traded back, max BP, no witch gate, no taking into account job, etc. All of those will lead to higher numbers of lightswords used.


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