NA Alt Update 8.5: Godfest Rolls

Account background: I’m playing this account for my friend. It is non-IAP outside the various special deals. The purpose of this account is to see how far I can take it being non-IAP, but I eventually envision spending money on it in order to co-op farm with my main. The initial box review can be found here; the entire series here.

Previous update

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I managed to save a packs’ worth of stones and rolled them all. An interesting haul. I’ll go over each card after the break.

Godfest Rolls

I’d been praying for a Hereos godfest since I got this account and I went all in even though they were paired with an unimpressive Egypt 2 pantheon. It also helps that it was a wood gala as I’d love to hit some roleplayers like Sasuke and Leeza to help with Liu Bei farming. Here are my thoughts on each of the cards I rolled:

Card	Notes
	Of all the JP Callers to roll, it’s a dupe of the most useless one. To top it off, they weren’t even featured this day! Sigh. It’s difficult to imagine a future where she’s useful, but the most likely case where dupes would be good is if her leader skill gets buffed so she can sub for herself. That being said, this box has very little support for her leader skill as is and even if any hypothetical buffs turned out well, it’s unlikely I’d want to spend the resources to make the team a reality since Summer Myr is more than good enough for my solo endgame needs.
	The Hero I have the least use for immediately, but will probably be the best long term. He’ll eventually slot in on my Cao Cao team and whatever other fire farming teams that come along in the future. The three skill boosts will ensure his viability as a sub for a long time to come.
	The biggest miss of this batch. I guess there’s some possible godforsaken future where I have a physical team that would make use of her has an inherited skill (I mean, Arcline did see use on Xiang Mei so I guess it’s possible). Awoken Liu Bei is physical, so I guess there’s that, but considering the bulk of that team’s damage comes from Dios, who is balanced, it seems unlikely.
	Welp. This super-rare card that even my main doesn’t have is pretty much useless on this account. I guess if NA gets Bastet Ace he can sub there, but I certainly don’t have the sub support to run him as a lead.
	Well, this was completely unexpected. I’d much rather have Sanada, but Akechi is an amazing roll nonetheless. It’s a little unfortunate as the Sengoku are one of the few pantheons on my updated want list, but it’s better to risk rolling a dupe of a card you want than not having it in the first place. I’ve pretty much abandoned developing my dark box in favor of fire, but I can easily see flipflopping once NA gets the Sengoku ultimates. Now that I have two good reasons to go dark — this and Summer Claire for her machine killer — I could easily see revisiting this element.
	A small chance of being used for inheritance, but pretty much useless. I actually really like the Dragon Swordsmen for silvers, but this box is long past considering this type of sub.
	I guess I have a balanced sub for Robin Hood. Not quite as useless as Creuse, but I don’t expect to use him any time soon. Dios is balanced, by the way, and I can see this skill being used as a ghetto replacement for an orb or damage enhance inherit should the need arise.
	Her dark form has the machine killer I’ve been wanting for wood, but she’ll probably never see any actual use since she’s so difficult to skill up (and I’m currently feeding all my birds to fire Amaterasu). Here’s hoping we get the PAD Cross Collab as her Ana form looks pretty good. It’s somewhat sad that I’m not even considering using her awoken form; here’s hoping the entire pantheon gets some buffs someday soon.
	Bleh. Leeza would’ve been absolutely amazing and even Sharon would’ve been a nice addition. A dupe Laila is pretty much useless; I guess there are situations where I’d want to run two of them for the killers, but considering Cao Cao is already running short on skill boosts, running two single skill boost subs isn’t the most realistic proposition.
	Yuck.
	I’m not happy about this since I already have his wood form and I’d rather have new cards than redundancies, even if Wee Jas is quite good now. He’s a potential Myr sub, but considering I already have Summer Myr, I’m not going to invest in that team.
	I don’t see myself ever using her. Double orb changers are always nice to have for inheritance even if it’s unlikely that water will be good for farming. I don’t even think water has a good farming leader candidate at this point, but I guess there’s always MZeus. At the very least I have something to eat blue Trifruits when I’m farming for Urd and Ronove skill ups.
	This account’s first RSonia. Can’t say I’m excited, but I guess it’s another mass orb change option for my fire and dark teams. Can be paired with Akechi for a full board of enhanced darks, if that ever becomes relevant. It’ll take a while for her to become usable since Urd is next in line for fire Trifruits (and there’s no way I’m ever feeding PreDRAs for skill ups).
	Jackpot. This made this batch go from above average to quite good. My Summer Myr team is pretty much complete now.
	Yuck.
	Ugh, another non-featured dupe roll. Unlike Laila, Pollux has two skill boosts so if I never need to use both of them on a team for their god killers, they’ll at least carry their weight in that regard.
	This box was just asking for a Nut. I don’t see any immediate use for her, but the Indian 2 uuevos have me optimistic that the Egypt 2s will get similarly impressive ones. GungHo almost never meets my expectations — only making good cards when I hade no expectations for them in the first place a la Kaede — but one can at least hope.

Postmortem

This batch of rolls was an overwhelming success, netting two of the Heroes I coveted since I started this account along with some nice pieces like Akechi, Robin Hood, RSonia, Ceres, and Nut. There’s plenty of other rolls I would’ve preferred and I got my fair share of trash, but this was once again some favorable RNG for an account that seems to have a lot of luck on its side (I went 5/10 on Yamato and 3/7 on Andromeda skill ups to boot).

I’m a little uncertain what I want to roll for going forward, but considering my solo/endgame needs are met (for now), I can concentrate solely on improving my farming capabilities. I eventually want to save stones for rolling again, but for now I need to concentrate on developing my box; accumulating Tamadras and skill ups will be the highest priority and I won’t be afraid to dump some stones into that.

Beyond that, I don’t have a strong long-term vision for this account anymore. Summer Myr is functional and pretty much done. Same with Liu Bei. Cao Cao is coming along just fine. Maybe MHera is next? MAthena? There are some cards I still want — Ganesha being the foremost — but it feels futile targeting specific REM cards as non-IAP. The plan for now is to continue developing the cards I have, then wing it from there.