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Looks like somebody decided to milk us players one more time. During last two MDRs I noticed that natural regen could bring me 1-2 shards only instead of usual 5-6 so I skipped both. However, I stockpiled enough kobans and SPs to try to get Blessed Elphiba today. OK, I was able to get her spending 4 SPs and 7500 kobans for 101 shards thanks for 10% discount. I noticed two strange things: - for me the drop rate was lower if I have an SP equipped. - I got only 3 shards for 2,5 days of natural regen, roughly 1 shard per 45 fights, or 2.22% drop rate. Bad luck in general, if I have 3-4 charges left and do 50 fights, the result might be as high as 10-12 shards. I risked to do 50 fights with 3 charges left and it happened 3 times of 4 tries. On the last run i tried to get last 4 shards w/o an SP equipped. It took 2x50 fights, one for 1 shard, another for 7. Exactly the same behavior was observed in the parallel CxH universe. I think that the days of "6-7k for a Mythic Girl" are over. Greed, inflation, bad code, whatever. 10k per girl looks more realistic now. Well, it's still better than 20k for several first Mythics anyway.

No, the normal drop rate must be higher than the one you got. In general, you should get 2.5-3 shards per 50 fights w/o SP booster, and getting the girl will cost you from 15k kobans for up to 22k in case of a really bad luck. This is my personal experience for the past year. Probably, you'll be lucky next time.

Although I already have a sensual mythic girl, Norou is just too good to skip her. Got her after a 40-50 minutes of clicking using x1 fights only. There were several complains about a worse drop rate for Lovebot Norou. However, she cost me ~9k kobans + 5SP boosters. IIRC, Angelic Lenaёlle cost me something like 12k kobans including 5SP boosters, so the drop rate wasn't changed much for me this time. Hope to fully upgrade them just before the next Mythic Days to come

Doing this might result in more people leaving the game. Personally, my goals were reduced to reading the story, performing daily missions, Seasons and Leagues participation to get as many kobans as possible to spend them during MD. All other activities were dropped as I don't want to spend kobans on them.

Probably you're right. I was able to hoard enough kobans to grab Angelic Lenaelle after getting Finalmecia, but saving 12k/month as a f2p player wasn't easy. I believe 12,5k was a little too much even with 5SP equipped, but I wasn't lucky enough during a second MD in a row. I had a single drop (+1 from SP) in 50 battles batch every other refill.

Wow, A Christmas gift from RNG 😃

It looks like I already had Christmas Arcana before the beginning of the event. That's I got after completing all 25 event missions: 100 extra shards.

'Catch them all' was one of the things that keep you interested in playing HH (the other two are "crush 'em all" and the story). With the story degrading with every world and reduced abilities to level up the mythics there are no more reasons to continue playing. I guess I'll stop it either facing 100M charge to continue through World 14 or desperately trying to give all 6 stars to Finalmecia.

Wise decision. If it needs much more money to be successful, there is no point in giving the same money for less.

I'd say they removed 650 kobans directly (the price of refills) and something like 240-360 kobans indirectly as a possible reward that could be won in daily contests with the help of those extra combativity tokens. Almost 1k in total. But I don't care anyway, because for me it's a minor issue in comparison with other 'balance changes'.

There are always 10 items. Even if you see less in pop-up, please look closely, it might be two or more identical items grouped in one.

Hi All, Is it just me or that Awakening thing broke "Level up that girl contest", because offering 2.5k exp book to level 0 girl gives much less contest score because of final girl's level stops at 50? I see pop-up with something like +5500 contest score, but it must be well over 8,5k. If so, do we really need those 1k+ books?

Thanks for sharing your experience! Being roughly 1.5 years in the game I'm seriously considering to quit it for good. All the recent changes are all about wasting more time and/or money. Let's look at that new, shiny but unpolished Awakening feature. Personally, it'll be a last drop for me for sure.

I don't play any other games than Kinkoid's ones at the moment. Fortunately, all these _contemporary_ game mechanics like lootboxes, microtransactions and DLCs weren't present during my active gaming life Well, it's normal to adjust the game balance a little, but not for 90%. With this change Kinkoid brought another element to the game , which most of players really hate - the grind. Well, I'm OK with the need to grind at the beginning, but everyday's grinding is not that thing we're all expecting from such a good game. Of course, some free players might consider buying monthly card, but others might leave the game to try something else. If it's the ultimate goal - let it be.

For me patches are for bugfixing and patch notes are for documenting fixes, so no need to read if I don't suffer from any bugs. Of course I read these notes to see where my tokens and in-game money went forever, but please don't expect everybody will spend their time reading something not-so-fun as the other parts of the game. Thank you for understanding.