Alex_i

Here's my drops for past two months (since August 14th). Used 456 1xEP orbs for 13 girls. Had very poor drop rates. Orbs per Girl Drop Rate Worst 84 1.19% Best 3 33.33% Median 37 2.70% Mean 36 2.78%

Started depleting my orb reserves. Used 1462 1xMP orbs for 10 girls past two months (since August 14th). The drop rate is similar to others', apart from Ravi-Sama's absurdly high drop rates. Orbs per Girl Drop Rate Worst 483 0.21% Best 8 12.50% Median 126 0.79% Mean 147 0.68%

Ranking based on levels was 74/100. Ended up 11th with 6046 points (mean 20.36). First top15 finish. Used mostly 1cor,2gin and 1x 3cor (for Pantheon wall) Def teams 189k & 155k (competition 202k & 168k) Had a good team for both halves - a bit better for 1st. Kind a easy league, although 54 opponents were still 490+ level. Prioritized taking tough fights on the 1st half as the expectation was that the 2nd half would be worse. However, nobody actually had maxed team on the 2nd half, which made my changes close to equal. Overall, solid gameplay resulted my first top15 finish. No real surprise really - knew from before that using cordyceps would result good finish. Different from previous runs, had now one equipped for all fights, which made the difference. I'll stop weekly updating here. Plan going forward is to reach cheap top30 finishes or moderate cost top15. No need to pay any extra as the top15 has been cracked. Reporting this will be very repetitive and not really interesting. For anyone planning promotion to D3, I have now documented in this thread my D3 start from beginning to top15 finish. This includes one way of gauging your place in D3 power ranking and all mistakes I made. Try to avoid those mistakes and good luck with your runs.

Not very useful element . Would have skipped normally but had too many CP saved for this MD. 962 fights => drop rate 5.20% 71 keys => drop rate 7.38%

Was also gearing up to break the level 1500. Was a bit surprised that 3x Cordy + 6x Mono gave only 0.01% change (team screenshot below). Then saw the post above. So OK can still be doable with headband. Equipped that and the changes went up to 3.55%. Was expecting a bit more. My mono gear is a bit outdated so maybe a mix with rainbow equipment would have been better. Anyway, cleared the level with 25th try. Can now start harvesting CP. Finally, the worships are worth something.

battles keys drop rate 962 71 7.38 %

Ranking based on levels was 70/100. Ended up 16th with 6104 points (mean 20.55). 3 points shy of top15. Used 1x 1cor,2gin and 3gin for rest (apart from 3 last fights) Def teams 179k & 188k (competition 205k & 202k) Had a very weak team the 1st half and good one for the 2nd. Easy league, although 54 opponents were still 490+ level. Was playing defense on the 1st half and finished with 20.3 mean. This got my hopes up as had competitive team for 2nd half - although the difficult fights were still left. Then comes the blessing change. Doesn't look very juicy. Thought this was it and equipped only single cordy. Then everything changes at the server reset and there're free points everywhere. Decided to go for refills although had wrong boosters equipped. This turns out to be a HUGE mistake. Although, got very good points. Had ~450 point lead for the 15th six hours before the end. Then people pass you during last minutes as it tends to be. However, still have 3 fights to go - one boosted opponent. There's a 44 point gap for the 15th. Feels doable and equip the cordys (need them anyway for a Pantheon wall). Script estimates 47 points (15.7 mean), need 44 (14.7) and got 41 (13.7). So, nice try but no cigar. Lesson from this: don't use excessive refills without optimal boosters. Used 4 - I take it as 750 koban penalty for poor gameplay. So don't play like this. Play like @430i instead. Congrats for top4 finish.

Ranking based on levels was 74/101. Ended up 23rd with 5965 points (mean 19.88). Mid top30 group finish. Used 1cor,2gin most of the time and 2x 3gin Def teams 183k & 179k (competition 191k & 206k) Had a good team for the 1st half and very weak for 2nd. Tough league, counted 55 max and 65 590+ level opponents. Also, chose not to upgrade my top girls available - including double blessed Sofia, which would have cost all my blue gems. So knew from start that this is going to be challenging. Obviously, all this had to be made up somehow. Ended up equipping a cordy for most of the week, which was enough. Fought only the max level opponents during the 1st half which made the 2nd half, where I had a massive disadvantage, more manageable. Very pleased with the result. If not mistaken, was the only non-max level player in top30.

Ranking based on levels was 73/101. Ended up 17th with 6097 points (mean 20.39). 60 points shy of top15. Used ~2x 3cor (one set from last week and 2nd for patheon wall) and 3gin for rest Def teams 167k & 183k (competition 185k & 191k) Nice week overall, decent team for 1st half and a good one for 2nd. Probably my best D3 week gameplay wise. Was able to fight most opponents unboosted. Need to be a little more powerful for top15 or use cordys. One small mistake as missed one fight - forgot to refill in time and noticed it too late. No point of making full refill for a single fight as it didn't matter result wise. Congrats @jelom for top4 finish.

Reward is books and gifts.

Ranking based on levels was 78/100. Ended up 22nd with 5688 points (mean 19.15). Barely top30 finish. Used 1x 3cor and 3gin for rest Def teams 161k & 167k (competition 167k & 185k) Had a good team for the 1st half and decent for the 2nd. But was a tough league and had trouble finding people unboosted. Also, missed the blessing change, which didn't help either. Counted 46 max and 58 590+ level opponents. Haven't kept records of the previous leagues but feels this is more than normal. So no room for slacking. Was even in danger of not reaching top30 so equipped cordys for the last fights.

Ranking based on levels was 84/103. Ended up 22nd with 5867 points (mean 19.17). In times of points finished in the middle of the top30 group. Used 3gin all the way Def teams 158k & 161k (competition 193k & 167k) Misjudged my chances and tried top15 finish when it was not realistic. Or well, it was clear that wasn't competitive on the 1st half but then the top dogs offered free points. Used a couple of refills to take advantage. However, turned out that those were the only freebies and rest of the half was a big struggle. Then the 2nd half was strong but not enough to compensate the damage done. Ended up spending 900 kobans for nothing (refills). Should have just chilled the first half and make decisions on the second. Just in no position to compete if either of the halves is weak.

Travelling between divisions like this costs you ~1k kobans every time. If you want to stay in D2, cut the boosters. Also, you can score 3p losses by fielding a weak team and/or using worse equipment. This might become handy when trying to juggle between 16th and 30th positions. I've had a league where gap was just ~30p. Once you're close to D3 caliber you might need to leave some challenges unused.

Finished the free path today. Not my favorite way of getting contest points but worked out fine. Had a quite a bit of unsold equipment but wasn't enough. Had to use 25 GPx10 orbs on top. Used all my stashed CP and ~100 kobans for a partial refill (kisses) to make the progress smoother. Now debating with myself whether to unlock the bonus path. If so this should have been done way earlier. There was this discussion about the value not too long ago. In my book this is borderline value.

Ranking based on levels was 79/100. Ended up 26th with 5505 points (mean 18.54). ~200 points leeway for 30th. Used 1x 3gordy, 1x 3gin, gin + 2chlo for rest Def teams 153k & 158k (competition 168k & 193k) Was apparent from start that top15 is out of reach hence the chlorella usage. No need to spend kobans - resulting my most profitable D3 run. Happy with this - it's good to see that top30 is reachable even on bad weeks. Missed the screenshot.

Ranking based on levels was 71/103. Ended up 16th with 6208 points (mean 20.29). Again a little short of 15th, ~40 points this time). Used 1x 3cordy, 3gin for rest Def teams 181k & 153k. Strong team for 1st half and for 2nd not so much. So the go-to strategy would be to do all fights on the 1st half. For me this is too expensive as I'm not fighting for the top positions. Bought two refills to leverage the better team and cordys from previous week. In hindsight a couple more would have done the trick. Also, didn't catch last three opponents unboosted, which could have worked out better. Need to come up with some metrics to gauge my own changes against the field. It's more difficult in the middle of the pack. The top is easier - here the biggest surprise was that Master HornDog changed his avatar 😜

Had this issue earlier today on Android. For me it went away just by retyping login info to the fields. Concluded from this that probably the login page just didn't recognize that both fields were filled. Might be different for others, of course.

Back to D3 after reaching level 750 girls, player level 464. Ranking based on levels was 84/101. Ended up 18th with 5967 points (mean 20.01). 70 points shy of 15th. League screenshot above - same league with bolitho76. 1x 3gin, 1x 3cordy (for pantheon wall), for rest 2gin + chlo Def teams 161k & 181k. Had one of the strongest teams (top 5) for the 2nd half. A couple mistakes: forgot to equip boosters for one set 15 fights (~30 points) and missed 3 fights at the end when 15th was already lost (~40 points). So the top 15 was within reach, at least with better boosters. Didn't expect this - very pleased with the result. Going forward don't expect this good results. Have some disadvantages: - low level (36 levels which translates to stats and better equipment) - small harem (-40% of passive bonuses + endurance penalty) - non-maxed club (-5% charm, hardcore and harmony) Below the same in more quantitative terms - comparison to a reference player (level 500, D2 farmer with 17 wins). This is a couple weeks old (was level 461) when I was in the same league with the guy. Player level part: stats (as seen on the player profile) substracted and converted damage, defense etc. Harem size part: reference player stats multiplied by the 40% penalty (when applicable). For crits max passive bonus multiplied by penalty. The endurance is just a rough estimation - Slynia's number from handbook minus mine. The harem endurance is also part of the stats shown on the player profile. Just to give an idea of disadvantage the lower lever players have.

Just out of curiosity, how much value you typically get from the saved XP? Maybe two contest wins (2x300 kobans)? I tend to use the XP here (and take the 2 levels) as long as I can claim the top 4.

Similar to previous OD events got 2 villain girls (+ mission girl). 3 day regen (with GA cards) got the grand price of the event, Travel Gwen. Luckily, the remaining 2 day regen got Anniversary Lenaëlle (had to buy one refill).

I'll finish at the 12.25k gate. The remaining regen + stashed resources would get me to ~12.7k but what's the point - rather save the resources. For me the event went south around the previous LC XP contest. Maximized the XP from league play, which resulted promotion to D3. I think this then cost me 100 Xtals per week (400 in total) and ultimately missing the 3rd girl. Anyway, the result is better than what I expected at the start of the event. Also, even with this performance the cards paid themselves - at least in my case. So can't be too sad.

Ranking based on levels was 82/100. Ended up exactly 45th with 4772 points (mean 16.07). A lot of misplays, lucky that those didn't end up mattering. 3x chlorella for 90% fights. Got the last shards for the girl and going now back to D2 for the next one.

Anniversary Nike, from 96 shards - jeez, what a waste. Previous was Stacy ~13 months ago (June 14th 2021).

Similar to others: drop rate 7.03% (711 CP). Had still reward SPs left and paid only for the refills, cost 5.8k kobans.

This was my impression too about the chlores vs gins. The legendary boosters are obviously relative ones so you get most out of them at max level. In my current situation using cordys makes no sense - the others are fine as they are more easy to come by. Anyway, I'll go now for the cheapest options as it's sufficient for time being. Obviously, I appreciate all the tips. Will make use of them later.