I don’t even GBF, but I’d pulled Azazel on my second pull on the banner, and my friend Kimi felt the need to explain to me
This sparked a conversation about the dragon bonding system in Dragalia and the gifts Euden gives his dragons and this happened
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Now that we’re all done with the free summons in Dragalia, here’s how the last few banners went for me.
For the wind focus banner, I got a dupe Tobias on the first day, then nothing until like a week later when I got a dupe Grimnir, but then the day after that I got Nino, so that was cool.
I think that was around when I did the platinum deluxe summons. The first one gave me Civilian Leif, along with a surprise Summer Patia [and maybe a dupe Summer Celliera if I remember right], and then the second one gave me Yukata Cleo. They weren’t my main picks for who I would have wanted, but at least they weren’t in the bottom rung.
I also got my scratcher summon around there, which got me a dupe Azazel. I think I already had a spare one sitting in my inventory, but maybe I’ll eventually grind for a second MUB copy through essences.
Then for the Halloween gala banner, I got Chronos from one of my early free summons, and then Halloween Laxi on my final free tenfold, and I did about 120 more summons to get Halloween Sylas. Along the way I got Summer Cait Sith, and dupes of Mid-0, Eugene, Curran, Ryszarda, Kimono Luca, and probably a couple of dragons I can’t remember.
And then for the hundredfold banner all I got was two H-Maritimus dupes and a Zhu Bajie dupe, lol. And I think I already have all the extra non-limited units they put in the spark pool so I’m not gonna summon any more on this banner.
Finally I cashed in my free dream summon to get Summer Verica, and my paid one to get Formal Noelle.
So all in all I think things went pretty well for me here, aside from the hundredfold banner which was kinda disappointing considering that I was missing most of the 5-stars on it. But getting eight new adventurers and two new dragons from all of this is really good. Not to mention the characters I got from the other recent banners like Regina and Basileus.
Mostly I’m just glad I didn’t have to do an entire spark on the Halloween banner to clear it out. I had exactly enough to spark without needing to dip into my unread stories, but I’m still glad I could stop partway through. I wasn’t entirely sure if that banner would be worth summoning on, but all three units in it ended up being really good. I dunno how much I’ll get out of Laxi since I already have Gala Audric, but Chronos is incredibly powerful [and helps make me feel better about still not having Gala Jeanne, lol], and Sylas looks extremely good as well. I still think his design is kinda bland, but at the very least he goes well with Curran, Lathna, and Heinwald on my shadow team. Both on an aesthetic level, and also on a gameplay level since he provides poison and shadowblight, and lots of defensive utility.
Funnily enough I feel like getting Halloween Sylas might have kinda invalidated the Summer Patia that I just got, but it’s still nice to fill out my roster, lol.
Realistically I don’t think I’ll ever use C-Leif, and his force-strike makes him feel really awkward to play so I’d rather just bench him, but there’s definitely units who I would have been more disappointed to get. Y-Cleo is also in a kinda weird spot, mainly because I have basically every good flame unit in the game already, but I really like her design, and i have a bias towards wand units.
I think i also won’t use Nino much, but at least I got something new from the wind focus banner, lol.
It’s nice to finally get Summer Verica and Formal Noelle, though. I haven’t actually touched the SinDom fights yet, but they should make them a lot easier to break into. I think I still need Summer Verica’s spiral materials to come around again before I can upgrade her S1, which is kinda annoying, but even without that she should still be worth using. Formal Noelle might be a little unnecessary, especially with all the times I see people use Summer Verica in off-element fights, but I still have a bit of a soft spot for Noelle, since I used to main her in the eHMC days, lol.
There also just weren’t many other units I was interested in dream summoning. Whenever we get our next one, my current target would probably be Sandalphon, and she wasn’t available on this one.
Since I didn’t have to go all the way to a spark, I now have around 130 summons left [plus the 1.5k wyrmite from the Trials of the Mighty that I haven’t picked up yet], and I still have all of my unread stories, so in theory I might be able to spark on both Christmas and New Years, but realistically I think I’m still planning on skipping Christmas unless it’s as strong of a banner as Halloween ended up being.
There’s also the ongoing gala dragon platinum summon to consider, but I don’t think that’s worth going for. I’m missing three out of ten of them, including Jeanne, but especially now that I have Chronos I don’t think it’d be worth the gamble. I’d rather just start slowly stockpiling diamantium for future dream summons, more interesting platinum summons, or to finish out a spark if I get desperate.
Also, while I remember, even though I won’t spend anything more on the current banner, it’s really neat that they’re lowering the spark count to 200 for it. I’m curious to see if this ends up being a sort of trial run for them permanently lowering the spark count for all banners. I think PriConne did something like that recently, so it wouldn’t be unprecedented. It’d feel a bit pointless if they do that but do another summon income reduction, but having a lower spark count would at least limit how much you’d have to whale in order to spark.
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