Talk:Archwitch Ymir/@comment-158.58.234.8-20180925144931

The way to grind the lightning stone shards is just silly in my opinion.

1. The player has to have a key for the Elemental Gate during the correct day.

2. An enemy has to appear in the Elemental Gate, and those can be between one and three (maybe more?). But in the worst case, it's going to be just one.

(We don't count defeating the enemy in the 30 minutes time, let's just assume the player can. But if you like, you can count this as a point.)

3. The enemy drops between one and three coins after defeat. Most of the time, it's just a single coin.

4. Then the player has to tap the right panel from the panel challenge!

Let's not get started on the keys which are random drops from enemies that appear at random, from areas that apear at random... Uh, well, one could argue that keys can be bought at the store, so let's entertain the idea that everybody buys their keys.

Let's not count the amount of vitality that has to be invested in running the Elemental Gates. That of course comes combined with the vitality needed to run the FOUR bonus areas. Alright, let's assume the player buys Valkyrie Shoes from the store. (I don't count the Valkyrie Swords, needed to recover battle points, for those are a rather common archwitch drop... Er... Let's assume they are also bought from the store.)

The process of acquiring the Lightning Stone is heavily governed by the randomizer, to a point where it is not fun anymore. At least four events have to have a favourable outcome. For players who don't invest heavily in jewels - about double the amount of events. And even if you invested jewels in elemental keys, valkyrie shoes and swords (it will not be a small investment in cash), you still have no guarantee that you'd get the stone shards you need.

In the end, it's not going to be the players who are the most dedicated to get Ymir. It may not be even the players who invested heavily in jewels to buy consumables, it will be the players who are the luckiest.

One will not be able to say in good faith: "I didn't get Ymir because I wasn't dedicated enough."

One will not be able to say in good faith: "I didn't get Ymir because I didn't pay enough."

One will be able to say in good faith: "I didn't get Ymir because I wasn't lucky enough."

It would have been so much less frustrating if the developers have just put Ymir behind the paywall: "Play the 900 jewels summon for 30 times in a row and you might have a 0.5% chance to get Archwitch Ymir!" That way she wouldn't be just a tease.