Talk:The Rarest of Stones/@comment-29474392-20170316002038

I was looking over the event details, and happily realised that although the ace still gets the tickets, the sender gets 30 tickets from the Dailies if they defeat 10 Mercurius - a much fairer system than previous box summons.

Then I went through and calculated the amount of tickets we can get and I was a bit surprised by how low it is. A t300 player would be fine. We play every day and would complete the dailies (worth 60 tickets) each day and we'd get the rr tickets so would end up with an easy 1600 tickets to spend.

And it's also fine for players who log in every day and can complete the dailies. They'll end up with 800 tickets, maybe more depending on when they rank.

But this event is not so great for the casual players and I've never thought box summons good for beginners. In a usual (though I'm not sure exactly what that means anymore - but say an event like the last one) a beginner could get lucky and have the SR or UR drop. They could amalgamate the SR for the UR. Same for casual players.

But this event, the beginner would really need good comrades or a good guild so that their FAW's could be killed. And even then they might struggle with sufficient vitality to encounter 10 Mercurius a day.

Sure, some of them might get lucky and have the UR or SR drop early on in the summons, but we all know the odds of that. And they can get 1 card from subjugation rewards. But... I can understand why this wouldn't be such a good event for them and I hope next Box Summons things are evened out a bit more.

Just realised I forgot the ticket drops in EH. Maybe they'll be startling and the panels will be increased... I've defeated 5 Mercurius today and received 0 tickets. But maybe I'm just unlucky and the rate of that is generally higher, or perhaps the rate from assisting is higher?

I don't mean to knock the event. Personally I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying the art and the daily rewards. But whether I'd be enjoying it so much as a beginning or mid-level player is another thing.