Talk:Celestial Grand Prix/@comment-162.236.174.72-20150701022113/@comment-25563155-20150701200825

If you have a good stash of swords and good enough teams to do high scoring runs in advanced EH with at least one element (preferably 2), you should be able to get top 300. As others said before, shoes are not really necessary, though they do help in farming up some extra keys. I ranked 213th last event pretty much from EH alone; I had 0 FAW assists and most of the days only spent my free viatality. Got most of my score during the 2 cool element days when advanced battles were unlocked. Ate up LOTS of swords; about 20 full and 20 light ones plus all the lights I got from EH. The rest of the days though I just cruised with the free vitality refill and didn't go out of my way to hunt for keys, so there's some room for improvement.

Of course, this was the first EH event; as time goes on, probably more and more players will get 4 EH worthy decks (or waste less keys on intermediate runs just to get some early awakenings in), so ranking this way is bound to get harder. Still, it's a viable route to take atm with the added bonus of not having to rely on senders.

Finally, the ranking reward card factors in greatly as well. Last event it was pretty bad, so I imagine quite a few regular rankers took the event off and chose to buff up their teams in EH instead. A really good RR card will probably make it a LOT harder for free players to get top 300, though if you have the teams, resources, comrades and are willing to spend a lot of time on the game, it should still be very much possible.