On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 11:07 PM, Hitoshi Doi <doi@usagi.org> wrote:

Timothy Yeh <tenton@mac.com> wrote:
>| I make sure I have enough to T2 an event, which usually means
>| 15-20 stones or so in reserve.
>| Because guaranteed idolized SR is better for your team in the
>| long run than random attempts at drawing.
> Same with me.  But since I'm not as good as Tim,
> I usually try to keep over 50 stones.
> A long time ago I needed over 30 to get the second SR,
> but recently it's around 10 (normal) to 20 (medley festival).

>| You could do a draw and still have enough for getting that 2nd SR
>| from the event.> At Robert's LP level I think it's safer to have close to 50 stones

> to reach the second SR.


I'm just coming up on Rank 70, so each individual loveca doesn't earn me much in the
way of event points.  Think it took 12-15 of them to safely T2 the Hanayo event on
EN that just ended... but that's because people on the EN server don't like Hanayo

much.  They did a poll on Reddit about this -- it turns out that my top characters
are basically the EN server's most disliked characters, in reverse order.  In some
ways, that's convenient.  ^_^   Current event is Umi, who is wildly popular, so I'm

not planning to tier.  Next event is Honoka, however, and she's the only character
the EN server hates more than Hanayo, so I will likely be trying to T2 that one. 
Unfortunately the event song requires level 110 to unlock so I can't practice it in

advance on the JP server. 


Don't think I'm willing to spend 50 stones to reach T2.  For that many, I'd rather
pull 10+1.  At the moment, my teams are decent, but they're not good enough to make
it worth idolizing an event SR if I get two.  I got two Hanayos, but I haven't
idolized them yet (even though I really like the idolized version) because my team
is significantly stronger with the two regular SRs than it would be with the idolized
version and my next-strongest Pure character.  Once my teams are mostly SRs with a

few idolized Rs thrown in to fill them out, maybe that will be more appealing. 

--Robert