Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26093926-20150909014645/@comment-26520865-20150909104700

As a person who got Nihongou, the event was fun. Even though I was so angry at the chat, I thoroughly enjoyed the event, not only because of getting Nihongou, but in actual terms of content.

The weekly drop increase was good, it gave players time to get nice swords (i.e Uguisumaru, Iwatooshi, Mikazuki Munechika, and to an extent, Tonbokiri) though in a limited time. Which benefitted some but some didn't.

As for the maps, it gave something game changing that didn't got implement that should've been implement long ago, "Branching Rules" which, sadly, was only used in E2, but it a good step in the right path in terms of team formations in future maps. And there is also the implementation of sword specific paths with the bamboo which is good but lets hope in future maps it'll only be implemented for goodies and shortcuts and NOT needed to finish the stage. And its good they give nice goodies.

To sum up the opinions of my opinions of the map, the first map was good for training swords, it made me Toku some of the new swords I got, though the 5* yari kinda ruined it. The second map, it was okay because I really didn't benefit from it, but the introductions of "Branching Rules" is great. The third map is well, no comment. The last map how ever is very well, scary, the amount of nodes and dead-ends could really hurt some feelings (but mainly my experiences of dead-ends come from E3 but if I say something more about E3, it might get ugly) but in he end I got what I needed in the map. And the goodies were a nice reward to calm the frustration of going to th dead ends and all in all I got what I needed (well, except for one.....).

Now time to address my problems with the event.

One, is the over saturation of the 5* Yari and it is spread in all maps, it for me, is a very sad attempt of difficulty, like we've already deal with is crap in the 100F Osaka Event and in W6, and now we know this trend is never going to stop and it felt like the difficulty is not the structure of the map or the enemy composition but on the 5* Yari and the repair costs, but its mainly my fault for not accumulating many help tokens.

Second, the drop rates is for me, atrocious, according to the TKRB DB, Akashi has a 0.81% chance of dropping, 0.71% for Hakata, and 0.91% for Nihongou. For the benefit of the event, it increased its longevity so that the event is still interesting but to the players, it was a big slap in the face. It is glaring in E3, with Hakata and Akashi being the only worthwile drops there,expecially to the people who don't Hakata, at that time, and to people who lack Akashi too, and their drop rate is less than 1%, but people got a Hakata and an Akashi so it is possible, but they could've increased it to more than 1% because E3 is supposed to be for the people who lack those swords but in the end did the oppsite. Yes, I stressed on Akashi here but it also applies for Nihongou but for the benifit of E4 there was increased drops on rare swords. Did Nitro do something with it well........

Third, Nitro, I just say this, why is there no new sortie BG and a new BGM with it, and well the last help update was, smart actually, but really jerkish because they were like "Oh poor baby, the event is ending in a week, you're all out of help tokens, well pay up, want that sword then grind your ass out til your swords die or pay for more help token but there is freebies with it, well have fun!".

Now, I know, this opinion won't suffice for all people because there is people who got them all, people who lack Akashi. who lack Nihongou, who lack Hakata, and lack a special drop in E4 but no salt or bias could shake my opinion of this event being a relatively good event, especially compared to the last event. Do I believe that the event will get better, err, maybe since they reused the event last time to a short extent for the benefit of the Hakataless people and the trend of the 5* Yari will never stop, but hey it might change. Hope the game's quality will rise significantly in the future updates.

Also Nihongou is damn hot, a deffo swordbando for me.