My literal favourite part of this event so far is Izumi
is so damn excited about drawing the ‘glasses’ for item search
and then
LOOK AT HOW MAD HE IS. AND IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO FIGURE THIS OUT BECAUSE I DIDN’T REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT THE LAST SPORT’S FESTIVAL OTHER THAN CRYING OVER TETORA AND CHIAKI, BUT
Mao got yo back, Makoto. Mao got yo back. (I hope you asked before taking those, both of you. Especially you, Izumi, cuz I’m pretty sure those are Keito’s;;;) How long do you think HE was waiting to make this joke/reference.
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I am legitimately sitting here, screaming in absolute denial and rage because I cannot get Eichi to trigger his last conversation and I swear to Andraste--
fklasdf. ...Ahem. Tsumugi should be up pretty soon, I just need to make sure I typed everything correctly. Until then uh... have a small, shamelessly self-indulgent thing I thought of while I was at work? I just worked two and a half weeks straight without a day off, I think I’m entitled to weird one-shot drabbles.
characters/groups. ryuseitai, (most) oddballs. Focus is on Kanata and Midori, with commentary from the other 3rd year oddballs.
timeline. alternate ‘what-if’ set to Nuclear Ignition
warnings. not beta’d, mostly plotless, mild ooc? I’m working on it;;;
It takes a little under thirty minutes to get the stage cleared. The audience is still whispering as they’re ushered away, just loud enough to be heard backstage.
Shinobu is huddled up on top of a speaker, poised and ready to pounce as ever; but there’s a spark of fear when his attention darts around the stage, especially up towards the lighting equipment, waiting for something to fall again.
Tetora is close to him, a little less shaken up in favour of anger. His face twists into a confused, furious frown, that says he isn’t sure how this happened. He doesn’t try to squirm free when Kuro appears from nowhere, turning his face to check for injury. (As opposed to earlier, when Hajime tried and had gotten little more than an agitated hiss that prompted the poor thing to find Kuro in the first place.)
Blue eyes survey the scene passively before landing on the red form just beyond the curtain. A soft hum fills the air when Kanata approaches and smooths a hand across the other senior’s back, “Chiaki?”
Chiaki doesn’t react immediately. He lets out a slow breath before sending a smile up at the blue ranger, “I couldn’t find Takamine.”
“Midori’ll be found in his own time~ Let me worry about that~” Kanata knows how fake the smile is. He’s known Chiaki long enough--known others that do the same long enough--to know how fake it is. But if that’s what it takes to keep him on his feet, he’ll let it go. “It wasn’t your fault.”
“No, I know.”
“I know you know... now I just need you to believe it.” The smile falls a little and Kanata shakes his head, “I’ll look for Midori? Shinobu looks like he needs to talk.”
It isn’t a lie. Kuro’s dealing with Tetora, trying to sooth his anger and get him to redirect the adrenaline rush of emotion towards something more productive than scaring other first years. Shinobu still hasn’t come down and is beginning to wiggle and squirm in place in an anxious manner. Chiaki gives a mild nod; he tends to be the best choice when Shinobu gets like this and doesn’t need to be asked a second time to go trying to get the boy down.
Kanata smiles after him, waits until he’s sure they’re all fitfully distracted before his smile falls. His attention drifts around the stage. Thankfully, nothing had crashed to the floor. One of the lights had fallen just enough to knock into a speaker, which caused a sharp static to interrupt the music and thus the entire live, and put everyone off beat. The first years reacted the worst, by fair, and while Kanata’s extremely grateful none of them were hurt... he would have liked them to have been sheltered from the reality of a failed live just a little bit longer (forever, if he could have his way, but he knew that was entirely unrealistic).
As much as he worried about the first years and as much as he knew he would need to pay mind to Midori when he found him (he had a very good idea of where the boy had run off to hide), he was just that little bit more worried about Chiaki. He and Chiaki knew, very well, that lives occasionally faced technical difficulties. Whether purposeful or purely coincidental, they both knew things happened and knew well enough that things went on. Things could be salvaged and they would be, they would both make sure of that. The problem with Chiaki, however, was that when something went wrong, it took him days and sometimes weeks to get back on his feet. To convince himself that it wasn’t his fault, when he knows it wasn’t. Because if there was one thing that could ever be said about Chiaki, it was that he hated to disappoint people that looked up to him. Fans, schoolmates, their underclassmen... everyone.
Kanata let out a slow breath, willing himself back into a calm state of mind. Getting upset wouldn’t do anything. Not until he had someone appropriate to aim the anger at. With a smile and a hum, he strolled off stage, intent on finding Midori so that the five of them were at least together and they could assure the three first years that everything would be ok.
All the while, he chose to ignore the interested gazes following him.
♠
“That... could have gone better.”
“It could have; but, it did not.” A small, mirthless and empty chuckle, “It’s always quite an event when one of us puts on a show... the young ones would have had to learn that sooner or later, no matter how hard Morisawa and Shinkai wish to protect them from that reality. I’m rather surprised we got so far in the year without any other... incidents.”
“I’m sure the rumours about Tsukinaga coming back are enough of an incident, never mind if he does come back.” Shu sends a sidelong glare to his companion, his arms crossed to accommodate Mademoiselle, “Should we stop him?”
Rei gives another laugh, harsher than before, his expression becoming a disbelieving sort of amused, “Do you wish to cross Shinkai’s path when he’s like this? You aren’t worried about the boy--the green one. I know you aren’t, you’ve your own young one to worry for, as do I. Besides, we’ve no reason to worry about the boy. He won’t be caught in the crossfire.”
“Perhaps not... but someone is going to end up crossing him sooner or later.” Shu gives a short scoff, “We both know it won’t be his Majesty.”
“Perhaps, perhaps not. At any rate, Shinkai knows what he’s doing and Tenshouin... well....” Rei’s eyes close when he smiles this time, a marvelously innocent mask to hide just how malicious the amusement really is, “If it was him, of course... we’ve never quite been able to prove anything, save words of gossip. But if he were to involve himself in something so silly as interfering with Ryuseitai’s show... well... gods have mercy on those who challenge the sea, I suppose~”
♠
There’s a lot of things that Midori’s learned since he started at Yumenosaki. A lot of things he kind of wishes he didn’t know, but also a lot of things he never thought would be as useful as they are... but then there was his newest discovery.
Not that live shows really were as terrifying as he always thought (his heart is still pounding against his rib cage with nervous, excited adrenaline; while simultaneously trying to plummet to the depths of his gut in disappointment) but this...
When Kanata finds him (and that alone is terrifying because how does he always do that?), when his eyes open from their closed smile, Midori feels a new sort of dread.
“Midori~ Everyone’s worried about you.” Kanata holds out a hand to him, “Come back to the stage. Chiaki and I have something to tell you three. Don’t worry~ I promise, it’s not bad news at all. It’s very good news, in fact. And then we can all go get something to eat. Ice cream sounds good, doesn’t it?”
It takes a moment for Midori to accept the offered hand. In that moment, he’s lost in the rare sight of seeing the upperclassmen’s eyes so clearly. Not hidden behind his bangs and not hidden behind a smile. Not the calm blue they usually are; true to his legacy as RyuseiBlue, there’s an uncommon and terrifying mystery in them today. A cloud and clash that reminds him of watching the sea during a storm.
A second later, they’re calm again, curious and patient and waiting. Midori finally takes his hand and lets the third year pull him upright, leading him off with a gentle hand against his back, humming a happy tune to himself that’s almost enough to make Midori forget the terrifying expression. He almost wants to ask Chiaki about it--or maybe one of the others in Kanata’s class, someone who’s known him longer.
Almost. But he’s also quite content pretending he never saw that and hoping that maybe, just maybe, this talk really will be good news.
... This is what I do at work and I am not the least bit sorry just a little bit ashamed ah-hahahahaha. I have two Valkyrie drabbles and another Ryuseitai one in a notebook somewhere. Stop me.
I dunno, just. The thought of Kanata being borderline hostile-protective of his group?? Makes me?? Really happy?? He’s not yanyan but he’s getting there. Also, I’ll leave it up to interpretation whether Eichi did or didn’t have anything to do with their live failing. You can take it however you wish :3 //if you spot typos lemme know! Also, feedback is nice but please be gentle, mod is an anxious mess and still getting voices down;;;
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Ok. Eisi is kinda sort back! I needed a break after the heartbreak from Nuclear Ignition and... also to wait until the Revival Event started back up so I could do a sort of in-depth post about what’s what, so! Long post ahead!
First things first: What exactly is a revival event?
For those who haven’t heard, during a recent update--the one before Midsummer Night’s Dream--Happy Elements initiated something super spiffy: The Revival Events!
So far, only SakuraFes is available; but, this is great news for new players/people who missed things the first time around! Revival Events are exactly what they sound like: They’re old events, come back with special conditions and, what’s great, is they operate exactly like our regularly scheduled events!
So, let’s move on to how the revivals work.
The most important part of the revival event: There is an entry fee and (something that resembles) a time limit.
When you click on the banner from the homepage, it takes you to a screen (that I foolishly neglected to cap) with a list of what events you can choose from (for now, only SakuraFes). From there, you tap your desired event and it will take you to another screen with the Event Banner and a box beneath it that essentially says you must pay 15 Diamonds as an entry fee. You’ll get the obligatory confirmation box to ensure you want to proceed and, upon confirmation, be redirected here:
Yay, our first revival event!
One of the most obvious differences you’ll note off the bat, is that all four lessons are open from the get-go (I can’t confirm if this was how the event worked the first time around, so maybe someone else can?). So, right there alone you can immediately earn your fifteen diamonds back by completing the trophies and conversation requirements. After some quick checking on the wikia, I can confirm that the trophies and conversations are the same from the initial run, which brings us to the points and lives.
But first a forewarning: revival events span for three days between regularly-scheduled events, and are put on hiatus when the new event starts. If you attempt to go to the Revival Event while a new event is in session, you’ll get these screens:
(The latter showing up when you click the box) The second screen essentially showing you what days the Revival is scheduled to run.
Obviously, this is to keep from conflicting with lives from the new events, so this isn’t a terrible deal, at all. I’ll let ya’ll know how things go on the final day o/ So, on to the next section!
Lives and Reward Systems
So, the good news is, that Lives work the same as they do in any event--you have three tiers that are spawned randomly as you play lessons. Playing event-specific lessons yields a higher spawn rate (supposedly. I know it’s factual, but I have better luck on daily course lessons than event lessons)
The events level up the exact same as they do in a normal event; they start at level one and slowly claw their ways up to level 45 (normal), 30 (rare), and 15 (emergency). Spawn rates for emergency still seem to be absolute crap, though. At least for me. Then again, I have horrible luck with this damn game. (If you don’t believe me, I didn’t max Arashi’s lives out until like the fifth day, ok.)
But, moving on, there have been some changes to the lives and rewards for the revival!
As with new events, lives triggered during revivals have a chance for encore lives!
Am I actually excited by that? Debatable. But, hey, I’ll take extra points where I can, given how shit-tier the spawn rate is.
Again, upon checking the wikia, the lives seem to be the exact same: Adonis for Dance and Koga for Vocal, Normal/Rare lives; and Mao as a Performance-Emergency live. SakuraFes didn’t seem to have a third Normal/Rare, so I’ll report back on that when we start getting into the events that started that!
Not much else to say about Lives... they work the exact same and I am having a hell-sent time getting them to spawn. Yay. (Adonis still isn’t max level for me, ah-hahahaha... but Koga and Mao are, so I probably shouldn’t complain too much.)
After a quick comparison, there do seem to be differences between point rewards for Revival, compared to the initial run. Foremost, diamond rewards are replaced with candies and bread (and possibly water, I only glanced at the first ten or fifteen rewards.) and there are only singular rewards for each card. You get one of each and that appears to be it, even for the 3-Star cards. No real biggie if you’re like me and just trying to complete your albums.
This also applies to the four- and five-star cards; you get one of each, which means their base level cap is fifty and sixty, respectively. For players that have been here a while, that may not be high enough to get into your teams, but for newer players, go for it. Embrace what you can get. Or just stare at how cute they are, because they are really cute.
The real kicker is how cards are divvied up, so here’s the run down:
3-Star Adonis @ 1.320 Points
3-Star Koga @ 2.600 Points
3-Star Shinobu @ 9.900 Points
4-Star Mao @ 990.000 Points
5-Star Subaru @ 1.700.000 Points
Upon being compared to the initial run point bonuses, this is about what it would look like if SakuraFes had been running under the current Encore Live point-based system, so that’s not too far off. Just... without duplicate cards.
Ranking cards are now part of a thing called “Special Bonus” which can be accessed
by clicking the second tiny banner on the right there that says “スペシァルボーナス”
Like a normal event, the buttons will have little numbers floating by them when you have rewards to claim, so keep an eye out, friends! As for what the special bonus rewards look like spaced out:
3-Star Souma @ 80.000 Points
4-Makoto @ 1.800.000 Points
5-Star Hidaka @ 3.800.000 Points
So that’s how the points run down so far, so lets move on to more technical aspects of the event with some really fun news that actually is fun news!
Cool things about revivals!
Gatcha bonuses are still in effect! If you scouted for the last gatcha (in this case, the one with Tori, Yuzuru, Hajime, and Nazuna), and got them, their bonuses remain in effect until their banner is taken down!
Wherever you stopped before the event went into time-out mode, you pick up there immediately when you start back up! (Case in point, if you look above, my points were at 205.363 after the first round; I started back up there as soon as the event resumed today!)
You still get diamonds from the event story! So, as you unlock the SakuraFes story, don’t forget to collect your diamonds!
This is a really fun way to hoard water bottles. I am hoarding water bottles right now. Just remember to keep an eye on their inbox life so they don’t go poof.
Mmmm. I don’t have anything else to add right now, but if anyone has any questions, I’ll do my best to answer. Happy revivals to everyone participating!
Hello! I started playing just as the current event started, so I joined as soon as I could. I just wanted to ask if event points earned in the current event are carried over to the next event? (I'm sorry this is such a dumb question, but the top players' points just seem so far away and unreal to me orz)
It's not dumb at all sweetie ♡ Sadly, points do not carry over. Those points are only good for this event and the current leaders are usually based heavily on sacrificing sanity, some sleep, and a lot of daiya;;;;
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I got it! Thank you so much! I'll say my daiyas for the next event then. Also, for Idol Road, do you know if I should get all of the other upgrades (and 100% my card) before my card blooms? If I let it blood, would those old upgrades no longer be accessible?
No problem, hun! Idol Road can be upgraded however you want :3 You can either do all the side branches first or bloom it first! All the upgrades before bloom will remain accessible until you purchase them!
So, like, if you want to hold off on unlocking costumes/skills/stories to save gems or just want to get the bloomed version as fast as possible, you can go straight for the bloomed card and go back for the other upgrades/extras at your convenience :3
Likewise, if you’d rather do all the side-branches of idol road first, just because, that’s also perfectly fine!
I see, thank you very much ^^ Wow, tiering is really hard then... I'm probably not going to make it this time since I started late but I saved up almost 300 diamonds so far. In your opinion is it better to spend diamonds on events to get the 5* or the scouting gacha? I'm trying to decide what to do with it next event/scout.
No problem, dear!
Tiering really is a difficult thing but don’t get too discouraged! You’re still new and there will be plenty of events in the future. This event is more difficult (in my opinion and many others seem to agree) mostly due to the new syst and the RNG for lives being tweaked.
My advice is definitely to save your daiya: build up your teams and pace yourself during the event. I’m on mobil right now, but when I get home I’ll do a more extensive answer :3 good luck for now!
update. ok, so I’m home for a little bit, so the advice I was going to give:
Since you’re still a new player, I would focus on building your teams up first and foremost. Pace yourself for the event--don’t worry about ranking or spending daiya on all the lives. Use the 5 LP you have and then wait for the natural refills. If you have the tiny candies or any water bottles, you can use those as you see fit, but I’d recommend saving them for Urgent Lives (The Yuzuru Lives)
Don’t worry too much about the rankings and focus on what you can get point reward-wise! The 3-star cards will be helpful for the future as your build your team!
If you want (and haven’t yet) you could do the Event Scout (The banner with Chiaki on the front page) It has a guaranteed 4-Star on the initial scout, even if it’s not the Event Card, it’ll be helpful and boost your team stats!
Remember that Daily Lessons are your friend for gathering gems and don’t do what I did and forget to update Idol Road.
We’re still not sure if this event is going to be a permanent system or if we’ll go back to the old system where the Live trigger rates and point system were a little better; so, for now, just focus on getting what daiya you can and saving up!
Hello! Do you mind if I ask you a question? I'm very new to enstars (just started a few days ago) so I was looking around for stuff on the event and found this blog. When I do the live, I get anywhere from 5 points to 50 points and sometimes over 100 if I get the bouquet. I was wondering if that was normal since I heard this live and encore system is pretty new and couldn't find things on it, or if I was doing something wrong and should be getting more points. Thank you in advance!
Hi there, nonnie! You can always ask questions and I’ll do what I can to help~
For this event, those point ranges are completely normal :3
I like the idea of past event gacha instead of this hell but... Idk, won't people that spend 1k daiya or more get mad bc now people will be able to get those cards for much much less just by having a little bit of luck...?
Mod’s on phone, so we’ll try to keep this brief, but: honestly, people are going to be mad regardless.
That sounds mean but it’s an unfortunate truth: there are people who’ve dropped money for events and managed to barely scrape making tier. There are people who dropped money but missed tier due to others who have more money/stronger teams/more time.
Likewise, there are people who missed entire events because of the region lock (case in point, i didn’t know about the roundabout method of downloading until late last year, so i missed the first half of the events) or more personal reasons (family emergencies, personal emergencies, etc., etc.)
There are people that get 5-star cards every other scout and people who are lucky to get even one after months of playing. There is no real winning. But it’s still a pretty good way to bank; maybe people ranked but only got one of the card they wanted. Maybe they were just short that 100 places. It’s a good investment. I’m not suggesting they be an exclusive scout–maybe something like the anniversary, where 1st and… what was it, 3rd scout guaranteed a 5-star. But this time it guarantees a past event card. Maybe it’ll be a 5-star, maybe a 4-star.
So, while we’re all talking about it, let me pose a question to all you lovely people out there:
If HE ever did do a limited scout with Past-Event cards in the gatcha... which card would you be hoping to get?
Would you be ok getting the 3-Stars from those events or would you prefer 4- and 5-Stars only?
What event did you miss (because you weren’t a player at the time or couldn’t compete for whatever reason) that you wish you hadn’t?
...in other news, I just realised that this is in direct correlation to the first Tanabata event from last year and that’s why the Ra*Bit and Akatsuki outfits looked familiar /facepalm. Stop reminding me I missed the event, why do you hate us orz;;;
also, for ease of answering: Here’s a Google Thing Because Eisi doesn’t know how to survey. I’d still love to hear specific answers to which cards people would hope for, but for an overall survey, there is a google thing
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this game seems no longer easy for new player... i hope H.E will fix that ;; And I agree with event gacha, I'll do spend crazy amount of money for Judgement Tsukasa if he's scoutable bcz i just started playing since eve event and seeing Judgement Tsukasa tier is pretty high, it's impossible for me to get even with my current team. Really, I was hoping for a better developing from H.E rather than they just focus on getting more money. If they need more budged for anime, do limited event scout
It’s true >= Newer players are just getting the short end of the stick and I feel really bad for all the players that are playing their first ever event for this nightmare. Thankfully, HE is pretty good about listening to their fanbase, so hopefully we won’t have to suffer through this again. Knock on wood, friends.
Maybe we’ll get lucky in the future and HE will address their prior idea to bring old events back/redo events. I know that was an idea they had a while back, but it never came through. They should know, though, that scouts are their best money makers.
I know plenty of people that spent money on the anniversary scout in hopes of getting a 5* of their best boy (I don’t actually know anyone that did, now that I’m thinking about it;;;) and yeah, even if it is limited, can you imagine how many people would drop money to scout for old event cards? I’d do it for pirate UNDEAD and the Halloween Rei and Koga. ...or the butler cafe. do we know who my favourite group is ah-hahahaha...ha...
Let us pray, friends. Let us pray, especially for the newer players. Be hopeful that this nightmare will end.
I am so glad there's other people that realise enstars was never meant to be a rythm game. I hate how HE changed a plot driven game into a roulette game. It sucks. I really hope they'll change it back. I wouldn't even be nearly this upset if your rank wasn't so dependant on the encores tho? Like in the beginning I played constant. i got to 500 points. A friend of mine got to 2000 points. so by now I've basically just given up. Luck based games aren't fun.. sorry just had to rant
It’s true. If the rankings were a bit more lenient to accommodate the points, I wouldn’t be nearly as upset. I honestly think that HE is banking on people spending more money to rank; but, hopefully, with the overwhelmingly negative response from fans, they’ll revert the system.
(Personally, I think if they want to make more money, the should just add past Events to scout gatcha like LLSIF does; drop rates are terrible, but everyone knows there are people out there that will spend money on it. I knew someone that spent nearly seventy dollars on the damn game, trying to get an SR–NOT EVEN AN UR–of the initial event Honoka. Pretty sure there are people here that would do the same. Anyways)
I am sorry the encores were so cruel to you >= that is a horrible ratio (and proof this game’s RNG needs to be tweaked drastically) Never apologise for ranting though, dear friend! Ranting is good ♥
Honestly, my advice for everyone this event is to just log in for daily bonus and go play in other lessons. Like. Do the event lessons for the daiya and to waste LP if you want? But I wouldn’t worry too much about using daiya on them. Unless you manage to get an Emergency Live, I guess. I really don’t think this event is worth the effort, as horrible as I feel for saying that;;;
I so agree to the past event card gacha. I only began playing during the mall event but Wataru is my best boy. I’d willingly spend lots of money to get his illusionist’s surprise and Phantom thief cards. But I mean then it’s my choice to embark on the random luck based journey. Now everyone, hardcore or beginner is all forced into the same shitty chance based system.
I also find it funny that it’s mainly people with the rankings that are saying that this system isn’t all that bad. Heck man Eichi is my least boy. Tori comes close after that. Shuu’s in a grey area, and while I like Yuzuru I was just going to snatch him up by casually playing. And even I am upset about just how low my rank is for this event. I played casually the last two events and maintained a 30k-40k rank ending on 40k something. Now I’m hovering around 70k but just getting ONE good encore can get me back to 30k (which to me is a good indicator of just how wonked the point rewards are when you compare non encore points to encore points). F2P or not, it’s all about luck, and if it isn’t on your side you can forget about this event all together.
That reminds me of another thing I noticed this new event: Card drop rates are lower (probably because spawn rates are lower). You reminded me by mentioning beginner players, so I’mma share a quick story:
My first event was the... summer Trickstar event, I think. It was the one right after the UNDEAD Pirate event. I was new, I was still relying on the (at the time) horrible guide on the wikia and looking for whatever I could find to help. (Which eventually lead to the birth of this blog, but moving on)
My first event was horrible. I don’t remember what I ranked, but I remember it wasn’t great. Didn’t rank, but I got all of the 3* cards from the event and got all of them to level 60. For a long time, they were literally my strongest cards. (I had that Mitsuru forever.)
The event after that--the Akatsuki & Fine memories and quarrels event--I was a little better, but still not super good. The only 4* I had was my initial and... maybe Yuuta or Koga. I can’t remember who I got first, but it was one of them and I was excited--oh wait. Nazuna, I got the Nazuna from that scout, too. Point being, very new cards, and--at that point--I hadn’t really figured out how idol road worked so many of my cards weren’t bloomed or anything. For the event, I again got all the 3*s and--to my utter delight--got a drop of the 4* for that event! Happiest day ever when I got Kuro, was literally elated, didn’t even realise how rare it was at the time, I was just super happy.
Same thing happened during the Sports Festival that followed. This was the first event I kind of tried to play seriously just to see how far I could get. I didn’t get the ranking 4*, but: I did get a drop of the points one (Mitsuru). (So, I was still unaware this wasn’t too normal).
Point of this story: A lot of my stronger cards were results of drops from the events. For players that have been here longer and have had time to build their teams, those drops don’t mean much. Most of us can (under former circumstance) hit the point 4* easily. (Case in point: I only played the last few days of the last event and managed to get two Keitos, a Yuuta.) But for newer players those drops are absolutely crucial in my opinion.
Since my teams started getting stronger, I haven’t gotten nearly as many drops as before--I don’t think I’ve gotten a 4* drop since the White Day Event, and even 3* drops are getting rarer--and that’s fine because I could get the points pretty easily, and if newer players were getting the drops, great!
But this new system seems to be against everyone that isn’t willing to dish money out and that just makes me really sad;;; This got lengthy, but you mentioning the new players being subjected to this hell made me realise it really is worse than I thought. Stay strong, friends, and hopefully we’ll go back to the old system soon.
(Also, I hadn’t even noticed the ones not complaining/saying they liked the system were rank, ah-hahahahahaha, that’s great. I hope the last day rush destroys them. That’s mean but seriously last day rush is hell and i hope it’s even more hell for this new system. I really do.)
