Re: Aegis Thousand Year War - DMM Online Game
Oh gosh I just noticed Phylis' new sprite, she's so cute <3 Seems like all silvers are getting a high rez update, hope Daniela is next (Soma and Daniela are just a pallet swap like most other silvers were that got updates). Also, fuck you 60/6 fairy daily (gold fairy only each run x.x).
So... when is it a good idea to spend crystals? So far, I've always been using them willy nilly, on whims like oh i want to try and get some fairies from challenge quests, and then proceed to get none at all(same on fairiy rescue High tier).
Currently at 15 stamina, is it a good idea to farm magic crystals..? The drop rate seems pretty bad until a 1.5x drop event comes back, and even then, I have to wait a couple hours if i ever want to spam run the 8 stamina one.
Oh, and will there be a part 2 to the 1 million players celebration? the 一弾 on the banner makes me think there's more to it.
Short Answer is:
Use them on events, farming dailies or inventory expansions
Long Answer:
Premium gacha is a gamble and unless you're willing to spend enough for 10-20+ rolls (50-100 crystals), you're not likely to get anything great. As a free player, it's MUCH better to save your crystals for event units that are a guarantee. Occasionally we even get black units from events (See Saki currently and Karma/Anna/Anya previously). There are also a handful of event plat units as useful as premium summon plats (Belinda, Maribelle, Yurina, Odette, Spica, Monk Rinn, Rikka, etc, etc) even without considering cost.
The big events can take 20-30+ crystals to complete, so you always want to have quite a lot saved up for those. Gacha units may generally have better awakenings and be a bit better than event units of the same rarity, but they are also incredibly difficult to cost reduce and skill up (Less so on skill up now with rainbow fairies), and will usually be weaker than a -4/-5 cost reduced event unit for their cost at base cost. You can have a pretty incredible team as a free player by avoiding premium gacha.
I'd say if you really want to premium gacha, save it for when you have more than 30-40 crystals and don't need inventory expansions or want to farm the current event girl. 30 is a good buffer for events. That goes for free and paying players. I try to stay above 50 (59 right now as a free player). Might premium gacha soon but I'm enjoying seeing how high I can get and want to farm Saki and maybe Akane a bit which will be expensive.
Better to save your crystals for the daily quest usually than the usual missions. Fairy mission is good (Still a gamble), gold armor mission is great if you need gold and you occasionally get a plat armor worth 1k exp. Probably the most important though is farming Magic Crystals (Red Crystals), especially with Saki and Akane in the shop right now. You may want to save up your crystals until you have 16 stamina if you're close to that level though. You can get some of the best event plats from the shop too, if you don't have Spica, she's one you really shouldn't miss. The units from the shop are generally premium unit quality and the cost reduction on them is more reliable than gacha.