Talk:Moon Goddess Event/@comment-32898822-20170821222740/@comment-173.239.230.65-20170824052958

Again, I will repeat by saying this is OLD NEWS. We already had this event in the JP server, so veterans know what they are doing. This is not the re-run version of the event. 5 AP is the most efficient for general dango farming purposes.

I'll start by saying, you are not entirely incorrect by saying buying the 2k and you can still "clear the shop". First let me clarify what people mean when they say "clear the shop". They do NOT actually buy everything in the shop. They only buy the important items (1st Dango CE > Monuments > Pieces = Fous > 3-star EXP cards) and skip the impossible (if you're F2P) 5K CE and 4-star exp cards (overpriced because doing the 30 and 40 AP missions is actually more AP efficient).

If you want the exact math, you will basically require around an extra 30ish runs if you buy the 2nd Dango CE to "clear the shop" of the important items mentioned above. This may not sound like much, but it actually is cutting it very, very close. You will BARELY have enough time to buy all the important items. The event is only 6 days. You require a total of 6,400 dangos if you only buy the 1st CE and an extra 2k (8,400 dangos) if you buy the 2nd CE. It's basically an entire days worth of farming to make-up for buying the 2nd CE.

This is assuming you do not get lucky and never get a CE drop during farming (most cases), pull from the gacha for the event cards (like most smart people saving their quartz for limited banners) and do not use quartz or apples to refill your AP. You must also play the beginning of the event and not miss a single day of farming.

If you get very lucky, like in your case where you had Moonlight CEs drop for you during farming, then yes, you can be ambitious and think about actually clearing the shop by buying the 5k CE and the 4-star EXP cards. It's really not worth the effort at all, and as I stated before, you are putting yourself into an unnecessary hardship because the CE is not very good anyways. You buy it because you're a collector, nothing more. It's almost always better to have something like Formal Craft or an LB Ley Line equipped intead. Furthermore, it gets powercreeped completely because another event CE does the exact same thing and adds starting NP gauge too.