Talk:Village of Treasures - Instrument Gathering Stage/@comment-30611250-20161202114315

For those strictly interested in the instruments hunting, I did some science!

I finished my Koga grinding at E-4 and I haven't exactly kept track throughout it, but I figured I averaged somewhere between 350 and 400 beads per run. With that assumption here's what I had to show for it:

E-4 runs:150~170 fue: 15 koto: 5 shamisen: 6 runs needed for 1 instrument: 5.8~6.5

Now, since I've got koban to waste, I wanted to see if grinding for instruments at E-1 pays off better time-wise. Seeing as E-1 is half the length of E-4, in theory with the same instrument drop rate, E-1 would be more efficient for grinding them if you've got koban to spare. Here's the results:

E-1 runs: 50 fue: 2 koto: 2 shamisen: 1 runs needed for 1 instrument: 10

Couple of things to make a note of is that I've got the 5th instrument near the very end at the 48th run, so had I stopped after, say, 45 runs that would significantly alter the results already. With that in mind, and the fact that my sample size is significantly smaller here, I think the actual real drop rate is somewhere around 12 runs per 1 instrument, meaning that there is likely no benefit to grinding for instruments at E-1 as opposed to E-4. The instruments that dropped do seem to be more even in the variety, as opposed to 15 fue that I got from E-4, but again, smaller sample size, could be meaningless.

Hopefully this helps everyone asking about best stages for grinding a bit, and if anyone else can share where all the koto and shamisen are hiding that'd be great~.