3/29 - Unchained χ ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

[faemarch]

A Dark Epic Medal Carnival!

● An Epic Medal Carnival of Darkness!

This deal introduces two new Tier 5 Medals (Special Attack Bonus range 80%～150%): 
　Dark Riku and World of Chaos!

And best of all, these two Tier 5 Medals will come pre-strengthened to 3 dots when pulled from this Epic Medal Carnival!

Read on for more details!

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■ New Epic Medal Details

 

Medal	Attribute	Reversed / Upright	Special Attack Bonus Tier	Special Attack	Target	Gauge Cost
Dark Riku	S	Reversed	5	Deals 8 hits. Lowers defense of all targets by 1 tier for 2 turns. Inflicts more damage the higher the slot number.	All	4
World of Chaos	M	Reversed	5	Deals 7 immensely powerful hits. Raises Magic-based strength by 2 tiers for 2 turns.	All	3

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■ Epic Medal Carnival Details

■Campaign Period: 
Mar. 29, 2017 12:00 a.m. to Apr. 17, 2017 11:59 p.m. (PT) 
Mar. 29, 2017 7:00 to Apr. 18, 2017 6:59 (UTC)

This 10-Medal Epic Medal Carnival guarantees the following: 
・You will receive at least one Tier 4 or higher Medal! 
　(Please check the bottom of this notice for a full list of all Tier 4 and higher Medals that are currently available.) 
・The following Medals will come with their Special Attack strengthened to 3 dots: 
　- Dark Riku 
　- World of Chaos 
These two Medals will come pre-strengthened to 3 dots only if pulled from this Epic Medal Carnival or from the Daily Deal or Small Deal during this deal period.

NOTE: This deal does not have a "Guaranteed within X turns" aspect. In other words, it does not guarantee that you will receive a specific Medal within a certain number of turns.

You also have a chance of getting one of the new Medals Boosted, which has 1,000 more base Strength and Defensethan the normal version of the Medal! 
・The boosted base Strength and Defense stat will be highlighted in yellow instead of the usual white text on the Medal details screen. 
・A Boosted Medal can have its Special Attack strengthened by fusing the normal version of the same Medal onto it. 
・However, make sure that you don't fuse the Boosted version onto a normal version, or else you'll lose the stat boost!

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See below for a list of all Tier 4 and higher Medals currently available. 
You are guaranteed at least one of the following Medals if you pull from the current Epic Medal Carnival Deal: 

Tier 5 
・Dark Riku 
・HD Roxas 
・HD Ursula 
・Illustrated Leon 
・Illustrated Riku B 
・Illustrated Sora B 
・Key Art #2 
・Key Art #3 
・Key Art #4 
・World of Chaos 
・Xehanort & Vanitas 

Tier 4 
・Boss Marluxia 
・Casual Roxas 
・HD Axel 
・HD Riku 
・HD Sora 
・Illustrated Ansem 
・Illustrated Aqua 
・Illustrated Cloud 
・Illustrated Kairi 
・Illustrated King Mickey 
・Illustrated Riku A 
・Illustrated Sephiroth 
・Illustrated Sora A 
・Illustrated Terra 
・Illustrated Ventus 
・Illustrated Xion 
・Illustrated Xemnas 
・Illustrated Sora & Pals 
・Pooh & Piglet 
・Sephiroth 
・Sora & Donald & Goofy A 
・SP Axel 
・SP Roxas 
・SP Xion

 

[appleboy82791]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

Still no guaranteed premium medal in a certain amount of pulls. I just don't understand it. There is still very little progress made by SENA to make the game equal with the JP version. I'm getting pretty tired of waiting and hoping for equal treatment. And this EMC lasts long enough to go well past the 1st anniversary so I guess that is the best we're getting. We don't even get a decent EMC for the first anniversary. That's pretty sad. I'm only still playing this game in hopes that by the first anniversary we would start getting some more stuff to make the games equal. But after seeing this, I think I'm going to give up hope pretty soon and ditch this disaster of a game sooner than expected. At this point, I'm only playing this game because it's a KH game. But even that is not enough anymore. My love of the KH series can only sustain me to a certain point and I'm nearly at that point.

And neither of the premiums seem that great to me. Both are kinda high SP cost. And the Dark Riku medal is just awkward. It has a debuff but also has the condition to be placed towards the end of the Keyblade slots. Those two things are completely contradictory. Yes, I know it's a 2 turn debuff, but still... it's wasted potential. Half of the medal's properties suggest putting it at the start of the Keyblade slots, and half of the Keyblade properties suggest putting it at the end of the Keyblade slots. It's not worth 4 cost.

 

[catcake]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

Meh, I think I'll rather get the Belle avatar board. Dark Riku looks cool though. I still have hope that we'll get something for the anniversary too, maybe an event or something. Looking forward to those 6k jewels for Union Cross release~

 

[BlackOsprey]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

I'll definitely pass. I've already got powerful reversed speed medals to spare and unguilted premiums wouldn't do me much good anyways.

 

[DefiantHeart]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

Tried using my prowess of darkness to get the new reversed medals... but all I got were old upright medals...bleh.

 

[ShadowXemnas]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

Yeah, not worth pulling one bit. The only saving grace for the Anniversary now is that we have so many Banners running simultaneously now that we could get as many during the Anni and some could actually be good. We'll see. In any case, best not to draw from this one. Tell SENA with our wallets that these draws will not work. We want our Mercy Pulls and will not stand to see them phased out. Mrgrgr!

 

[Harmonie]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

This kind of banner is kind of a double-edged sword, if you ask me. The bad is that you're never guaranteed any of the new medals. The good is that since they aren't guaranteed, you're quite a bit more likely to see them before pulling five or ten times.

With that said, I'd love to have Dark Riku, but only guilted. I'm probably not pulling... Maybe once. Depends on what I do with the 3000 I've collected over the 30,000 I've saved.

 

[Trist]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

The good is that since they aren't guaranteed, you're quite a bit more likely to see them before pulling five or ten times.

Got any source to back that up?

 

[Harmonie]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

Got any source to back that up?

I could be wrong, but I hear a lot of people getting lucky and getting these medals soon, even on their first pull. Logistically it just makes sense. When they're doing a five or ten pull, they're going to make them really hard to get quicker, because then why would you keep on pulling toward the amount they assume you're going to have to? But when it's not a guaranteed pull, they want to make them more likely to pull in general so people will not feel like it's a hopeless gamble.

Obviously, it doesn't work well for everyone. Which is why I'm not trying it. I have terrible luck.

 

[Pure]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

I could be wrong, but I hear a lot of people getting lucky and getting these medals soon, even on their first pull. Logistically it just makes sense. When they're doing a five or ten pull, they're going to make them really hard to get quicker, because then why would you keep on pulling toward the amount they assume you're going to have to? But when it's not a guaranteed pull, they want to make them more likely to pull in general so people will not feel like it's a hopeless gamble.

Obviously, it doesn't work well for everyone. Which is why I'm not trying it. I have terrible luck.

I'm not gonna do it. With my luck, I'm bound to fail fast.

 

[Chickenme]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

I could be wrong, but I hear a lot of people getting lucky and getting these medals soon, even on their first pull. Logistically it just makes sense. When they're doing a five or ten pull, they're going to make them really hard to get quicker, because then why would you keep on pulling toward the amount they assume you're going to have to? But when it's not a guaranteed pull, they want to make them more likely to pull in general so people will not feel like it's a hopeless gamble.

Obviously, it doesn't work well for everyone. Which is why I'm not trying it. I have terrible luck.

That would be the logical thing to think, but for what I've read you yill most lickely get something bad/decent, I mean yes, you can have luck and get what you want, but people only post about these things when they've had luck or when they've been very unlucky, so that's not really reliable. I'm going to copy-paste what I read:

KA3 and Ursula HD Banner statistics from 300+ pulls (first no mercy banner): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...RTyq_I1mAe5j8k_pJEUKRhV44/edit#gid=1240022530

• KA3 rate: 7.89% or 1 in 13 pulls on average
• HD Ursula rate: 7.35% or 1 in 14 pulls on average

HD Roxas Banner statistics from 600+ pulls (second no mercy banner): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...mLC6SCVQxI4qXUPevpVESIjAw/edit#gid=1427372895

• Key Art 4 Rate: 3.97% or 1 in 24 pulls on average
• Illustrated Leon Rate: 3.03% or 1 in 33 pulls on average.
• X&V Rate: 2.87% or 1 in 35 pulls on average
• HD Roxas Rate: 2.40% or 1 in 42 pulls on average

 

[catcake]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

Oh, guess I was super lucky to get HD Roxas then. Good to know, I've had a terrible luck so far with pulls, guess the game gives a break to everyone now and then.

 

[Leopardess]

Re: 3/29 - Unchained ? ENG Update: Dark Epic Medal Carnival

Chickenme, interesting statistics for those pulls. Normally, I am not super lucky, but since I had amassed a nice amount of jewels, I was tempted to pull on the HD Roxas banner. I decided to do one pull and only one pull. And...I got HD Roxas with three orbes on that one pull...plus Mysterious Figure...plus Key Art #2. Yeah, I got lucky!

But without full guilt, these Premiums aren't as effective as they should be. Waiting for extra Mickey and Brooms to guilt that HD Roxas. It's unbelievable.

So basically, it's all a gamble. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. Just set your limit on how many pulls you wanna do and go for it.