ThisIsNotMe

It goes K->M->B->A1->A2->A3->A4->A5->A6->A7->A7->A8->A9->B1->B2 etc.

If it is taking that long to get to the min stage to be able to forge, then it sounds like you were under the effects of the multiplier bug during the event and were going to a much higher stage then you would have been able to reach normal. Now that the event is over and can no longer reach whatever super high level you reached before, you are pretty much going to be stuck until they provide some sort of fix or you get enough perks to be able to reach your reset level.

No, the bug was never fixed during the event.

Just because you didn't get affected by the bug on the main game, doesn't mean you didn't get affected by the bug on the event. Hitting 8k to 10k in the event certainly sounds like you were affected by the bug on the event side.

The reasoning for the name is indeed sound based, but the sound is from the cranking of the handle on a gachapon machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gashapon

Make sure to click on the highest level for the girl. So 8 for Bunny, 3 for Estelle, etc. and the challenge button should appear. It doesn't appear if you are looking at a lower level's pose (and it defaults to showing the level 1 pose when you load into the game).

Make sure you click on the highest heart available and the challenge button will appear. It will not appear if you are currently looking at the pose for a lower level. So for example, in Xwen's photo they would want to click on the 8.

Because you need to do 351.64f8 damage total, but you are only doing 189.59F6 damage per second. It is going to take a lot of seconds to fill up. I'm going to guess this started after you reloaded the webpage. There is a bug that caused multipliers to get increased and it could be stacked multiple times for great effect. You were likely under the effects of the bug so you get much further in stages then you should have been able to normally. When you reloaded, your multipliers went back to their proper amounts and now you don't have the damage to beat the level. If you were to use the forge to go back to stage 1 you would see progress again, but you might have issues meeting your new min stage requirement to forge in the future.

Majority of the people who got her probably got her due to a bug that could increase your multipliers (and the bug could stack with itself to increase your multipliers even further). The event was poorly balanced. And I would be shocked if there was never another chance to get her.

If you were hitting that high of a level, you were under the effects of the bug that increases your multiplier.

Them fixing the bug won't help you. The bug is that your multipliers can get increased so you can progress further than you are supposed to. When you reloaded your multipliers went back to their proper levels. Also are you not able to use the forge?