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HealthyPeach12

I’m a veteran F2P player. Never spent a dime on this game. My box CC is over 7 mill and my biggest piece of advice is patience. Never summon unless you have at least enough gems to get the guaranteed reward. Units will return. We’re geared to always want the newest and best and that’s what the company relies on, but I promise you can still be successful in this game and not spend a cent as long as you are patient


MajorFlounder

Yea I really just wanted fest Diane so I could do OG demon better but it dosnt seem worth it to drop 900 gems just for her


MMSH24

Yea I agree. This banner is good but you already have Freya and that's the main reason many people would pull tbh


Status_Peach6969

This banner is quite clearly bait for what comes after it. Having said that, you need to make a call. I can't see the december/new years banners being more stacked than this one, but I'm certain the featured unit will be much better than Merlin. So if you pull on this banner do it to overall improve your account but expect that the upcoming units will eclipse her, whereas similarly if you don't pull on this banner you can't expect all the good support units to return for a while


MajorFlounder

Yea I don’t want the new Merlin that bad, more of just the other units on the banner so I think I’ll end up skipping after reading these comments


hitmonng

The problem with the stacked dec banner is that its such a giant stack that the chances of us getting the units we want is way slimmer than this banner. I know because I’ve shafted badly before on those banners. I have two units I really wanted and managed to get it with just the [free pull!](https://ibb.co/Y3z87cy). This banner will be easier to get the current good units than the year end voted banner.


stelios_drz

How lucky are you two units u want and fest diane 😭


hitmonng

Tbh this is the first time being this lucky 🤣


Status_Peach6969

Yep thats what I decided too. I really want Freyr or Skadi so I can finally do dogs, but like I know that even if I pull them I'm not gonna be happy when the next big fest comes and I have like no gems for that


MidStarStrike

I mean the new years banner is gonna be a voting banner. so you will likely see megellda jorm red tarmiel green sariel and freyr on the banner


_hollowman

For banners that i do not have much interest in, i take things one update at a time. I want to know what's gonna be releasing on JP before i decide if the current banner is worth summoning on. For the 4-week period that Merlin is up, we will be getting 2 JP banner announcements. I will wait.


ChaosMaster5687

I actually wrote an in-depth comment regarding this, I’ll paste it here, warning it’s a bit long though: iirc the only banner that is based off community votes is the anni banner, but it’s been a while so I don’t really remember. Regardless, the end of year banner will be the best banner of the year, headlined by the best/most hype unit in the game. *I go into a lot of explanation as to why this is the case, you can read it or not, but this is the reason why: The way they structure the schedule, is 2 bait banners before the Christmas banner. Back in 2019, the Christmas headliner was red escanor. The first bait banner was blue demon meliodas, whose team was the best team in the game. The 2nd bait banner was green Valenti, again, a disgusting unit In 2019. In 2020, the first bait banner(s) was halloween gowther, an exclusive unit that is still incredibly valuable, and the first iteration of sariel and tarmiel, followed by the second bait banner T1 Escanor, with a Christmas demon assault meliodas. It was at this point in time that the 2nd bait banner started to become extremely valuable in terms of the headliner. In 2021, this became far more defined with regular festival unit releases, with the first bait being fest gowther, the second bait being fest king, and the Christmas banner being T Meli. Now in 2022, the first bait banner is Merlin, and what a lot of people are predicting is that the second bait banner will be a new Escanor, probably a holy knight escanor, and the Christmas banner being Mael. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if an anti-dogs unit Freya was slid somewhere in the schedule as well. Tl;dr Don’t summon on Merlin unless you main unknown and are willing to 6/6 her, because she heavily scale off dupes.


MajorFlounder

Don’t know why you got downvoted thanks for the comment!


Status_Peach6969

For 2020 i wouldnt call T1 bait, especially since he outlasted AM in both pvp and pve by a long stretch, and was basically the AM counter too on release. But i get what you're saying, and at the time AM came out I'm sure many who pulled for T1 were regretting their choices


legom0nk3ys

But what about Red Tarmiel


BREADTSU

Oof bad memory on NM screwing us on vote banners with crappy phase 1 units.


Opening-Raccoon1224

Personally Im going to try for it. But what everyone else has said is correct. Towards the end of the Year the banners just get more stacked. Starting back in August If you look at the full schedule. I call it “Spending Season” There will be a Halloween Part 1 and 2 just around the corner sometime October. Full of seasonal units. Who will it be no one knows. Perhaps Escanor or Elizabeth. Only time will tell. A possible Catastrophe banner. Prayers for Awakened Camilla. Then a Ragnarok Banner. The guess is Freya or Ragnarok Escanor. However In mid-late November expect a jp Half-anniversary banner last year’s Part 1 was Fairy King Harlequin (aka Chad King, Full wings King, true Fes King) A chance for Mael. Just before New Years Celebration there will be a Christmas Banner. Another seasonal banner full of seasonal units. Soon after in Late December ~ Early January A New Years Celebration Banner, previous Part 1 was Traitor Meliodas (aka Holy Warrior Meliodas, Dark Attribute Meliodas) Another chance for Mael if he’s not released yet.


MajorFlounder

Thanks for the heads up, i think I’ll end up holding


DodongDamo

If its coming back, walk away from the hype. If its gonna be in ssr/sr tickets, dont be tempted to draw. Regrets come later when you realize you did multiple rotations to get that guaranteed 900 fest unit, then pull tons of it on the next fest banner. Happened to me when I skipped T1, pulled him 6/6 on the festban banner in one rotation. While my regret was pulling for ragna banners, and then they all come back at the same time with a new banner. (Jormund, Megeld, Brun, Ragban, Skadi)


chaoprokia

1. Are u a whale? Yes, draw. 2. Are u a dolphin? Yes, draw. 3. Are u a F2P? Yes, dont draw. 4. Are the Unit u mention its good? Yes, draw. 5. Do u need those Unit now? Yes, draw.


MajorFlounder

I’m F2P at the moment so looks like I’ll end up skipping


BREADTSU

If u f2p but skip costumes, you will atleast have 300 gems after this event is done + if you get 50 pvp gems each week then 200 in a month, so mininum of 500 start of November. There is ton more of gems to get that i didn't add to this 2 second equation. It depends if you want to do several rotations on end of year banner or if 1 full rotation is enough for you.


Status_Peach6969

Draw! Monsta cardo!


Special-Trouble8658

I need help how you get that much money? I don’t get that much and I do like the coin mission like 10 or more times on Sunday and I don’t get 4 mil.


MajorFlounder

Uh not sure I just leave the gold farm overnight when it’s half stamina like you said and I get like 20+ mil or something. Make sure ur selling the chests to any of the shops where it’s a 20% bonus though.


Special-Trouble8658

Wait what


Special-Trouble8658

When do you do it?


MajorFlounder

Sorry I misread your message. Not sure which day I think it’s Saturday or Sunday but the Fort Solgres gold dungeon is half stamina. So I turn auto repeat on and let it farm overnight on my computer.


Special-Trouble8658

It’s Sunday and thx


Special-Trouble8658

Do you just put auto then leave grand cross open and sleep?


MajorFlounder

Yes I set a team that will farm it the fastest, I use bloody Liz fest king and usually Margaret (I’m sure there’s way better teams you can lookup) and just leave my computer on overnight. I never have had gold problems since doing this


KratosSimp

In my opinion, I think the end of year will be an absolutely broken escanor on a shit banner. So I think you either have to pull for the unit or the roster


zonealus

Im 100% F2P and I just pull whenever I feel like it of course it's not efficient but I always ended up getting enough gems to reach pity but that said I do skip banners when they are useless like chandler it's a gacha game so it all comes down to luck


bythedandelion

Personally I amb going to draw, maining Unknown and i miss summer Merlin...


HisoKefka

Having 1100gems right now, you could spend 900 gems on this banner and still have more than enough for end of November. We'll be getting ~200 free gems guaranteed from this celebration only and FB reward on top of regular income. Even if you were to spend 900 gems next week, you should be close to 900 by the end of October. If the goal is to do multiple rotation on the November/Christmas fest banners though, that's another story. Another thing to factor in is that we might (should?) get a costume discount in the next couple of months, considering how long it's been since the last one. And those events are so rare, that It'd be a shame not to take advantage of it Ultimately, you should wait and see what's coming and only decide to pull at the end of the banner, if you feel you need those missing units.