Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26093926-20150909014645/@comment-26811478-20150910113642

I honestly didn't get all that much out of this event; then again, I spent very little time on it.

The increased drop rates for rare swords was cool, but it doesn't motivate much when I already have the swords for which the drop rate increased. I personally would have preferred raising the drop rates for Kogitsunemaru. (Now that I think about it, it's strange that they would choose one sword in particular instead of a group of swords: what sets Uguisumaru apart from the other rarity-4 taichis?)

The resource nodes that gave items that usually cost real-world money were a nice touch, and I hope they come back in later events. I'm not that much of a fan of the one that gave troops, though.

Also, I agree with all those people up there that the event is a little too difficult for beginners (and probably an annoyance for those people who have already leveled up all of their swords, with the level cap). I generally err on the safe side, so I only took teams that were close to the level cap. I tried taking a lower-leveled team of tantou (around Lv15~18) to E1 to take advantage of the EXP increase, but it didn't go too well, so you can't train the swords that would benefit most from the EXP boost. (The first five floors of the current event are much more suitable for the really low-leveled swords.)

The rarity-5 yaris were what really turned me off of the event. Bumping into them once or twice in E1 and E2 where fine, but seeing them in every other node in E3 and E4 drove me nuts. Also, two runs into E4 and I realized that the EXP was lower than what you get in 5-1. So basically I'm tossing my swords in the way of definite damage when they could train far safer and faster by grinding regular maps (at that point they could take on the KBC with no problems). I know a lot of people were grinding for Nihongou and Akashi, but they weren't really must-haves for me, so I generally hit the boss node once or twice to get the First Clear Bonus and to see if the RNG would be nicer to me, then left the event alone.

Because I didn't spend that much time grinding E3 and E4, I didn't have to use very many help tokens. Instead, I would log on many times during the day to send my swords to repairs.