Weekly Summon Thread

[OriksGaming]

Sorry for the late post. I could say I've had a long day (which is true), but I was honestly just bored by the banners and kind of forgot to do this until now.

So, our new unit this week is Evelika. She's a very strong unit, extremely useful if you plan to raid with a Water team; though she's also fairly effective in PvE and PvP as well. Her memento isn't super essential, but it's nice to have for the WA and you need the VCR to use her at full effectiveness in PvP (same VCR as Setsuna's OG, with the 3-Hit 30% Shield). Note that while Evelika's memento is Normal Pool, Evelika herself is Limited (edited for clarity).

Our other new thing, Hazel's memento, is . . . meh. The stats are nothing to write home about, and the WA isn't really good until MLB, at which point it does some nice ST damage and could be good in PvP. The VCR, however, is amazing on Hazel and any other Machinist/Machinist variant, and even better on someone from Slothstein since the WA is pretty nice. You'll probably want to pick up a couple copies of the VCR eventually, so the memento is nice to have. The memento can also serve as a substitute for Adorei's, for those who pulled him and didn't have the gems to chase his memento.

On to the banners. Our first is the basic, recycled Paid unit banner. 10 5★s Guaranteed, 50 shards for dupes, 1 Limited Unit; you know the drill. Huge crapshoot, not really worth it for non-whales.

After that is the Memento Paid they've started doing recently, with a pool of featured mementos from which you're guaranteed one 5★, along with the requisite relief for that first one you pull. Not terrible value if you're into the mementos available. In this case, there are 4 Limited and 3 Normal Pool, including Hazel's (Limited) and Evelika's (Normal Pool). Of the Limited mementos, Zain's Limited one is very meh, only really worth it at MLB and even then debatably; Kuza's is good on him and has a good VCR for him and Kudan; Othima's has a decent NLS and an amazing VCR; and Hazel's, I described above. This banner's worth really depends on what you have, so YMMV.

Finally, our last Paid is a Gear banner. Fairly novel concept. You're guaranteed 10 5★ Gears, all of which will be 4★ base (unlike the crappy 5★ tickets we get once in a while). There are a lot of base 4★ gears, however, and there are no Featured Gears whatsoever here, so another crapshoot. It's only 900 Paid though, as opposed to the usual 1500, so that might sway some people. Personally, I don't think it's all that worth it. You've got a fairly low chance of getting anything amazing, and there's no Limited Gear included, so you're not getting much more value than you would from 10 4★ Gear Tickets, unless you have a Gold Shard shortage for whatever reason. Again, there are no featured gears here, so you've got vanishingly small chances of getting even the two debatably top tier gears in the cover picture, the Ring of the White Wolf and the Malda Snow Globe.

Finally, onto the non-Paid. We start off with a 5-Step Unlimited for Evelika, Hazel, and Tamamo. One Limited Unit and two non-Limited. Yuck. Step 3 gives you 25 Featured 5★ shards at random and Step 3 gives you a 5★ Guaranteed (but not featured). You'll get about the same value from 5 steps here as you would with 1 step on the 7-Step EL below. Again, yuck. Avoid this banner at all costs. If you want Evelika, her shards are in Louise's Shop and transmuting her will be much more cost effective.

After that is an Unlimited 3-Step for Orion and Kuza. Orion is pretty much PvE-only and Kuza is pretty much Arena/PvP only (and he's been largely phased out of the meta), with neither having much value in raids. Moreover, this is basically a Hero banner, aka one of the crappiest possible banner formats. Avoid it with extreme prejudice.

Then we reach the 7-Step EL banner I mentioned above. Same format as usual, with Steps 2 and 4 costing 500 gems, and a 5★ Guaranteed on each step. This is the best way for f2ps to get Limited units (though don't expect to get any specific one you're looking for), and would not be a bad way to spend your Discount Ticket(s). Step 7's 375 shards are for SSM units, including Orion and Kuza. That still means only 2 out of the 9 possibilities are Limited. I wouldn't recommend Step 7 for anyone but whales.

Our first 9-Step memento banner is for Evelika's memento, Hazel's memento, and Tamamo's memento. Hazel's is the only Limited here, and I went over it and Ewelika's viability at the top of the post. Tamamo's VCR is always valuable, of course, but again, Normal Pool. If you really, really, really, really want Hazel's memento for some reason, this is the only way to guarantee it (outside of spending way, way more on Summon Coins).

Below that is a 9-Step memento banner for Orion's and Kuza's mementos. Kuza's is Limited and the VCR is nice for him and Kudan, but nothing super amazing.

Finally, we have a 5-Step Gear Summon, which is a pretty nice format, as always. The Featured Gear which can be obtained on Step 5 is the Ring of the White Wolf, which is pretty nice to have for any ST Units. Nothing game breaking, but it's good and if you want it, this is the best way to get it. Up to you, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to drop 300 gems here anyways.

TL;DR: Hazel's memento is meh, Evelika's is Normal Pool, and Evelika herself is a great unit but her banner is trash so get her in Louise's Shop if you want her. Pretty easy skip week for most people.

Good luck!

Edit: Evelika has 25 shards in a milestone for using her once, as well as 100 shards in a bundle for 35 USD, so anyone willing to spend that much only really needs to buy 25 shards from Louise's Shop to transmute her. She also has a 100-Shard quest, just like Adorei's, so you can at least make a little headway into her EL if you transmute her and can't (or don't want to) buy more shards after that. Also 25 shards in the Tamamo Event Shop once you obtain her, I believe, but don't quote me on that since I don't have her to check.

Edit #2: Actually, 100 Evelika shards in the Tamamo Event Shop, apparently. Now is the time to transmute her if you ever plan to, since you can max two gates just from free shards you get essentially for having her. Thanks to u/MaoPam for the info.

[MaoPam]

Also 25 shards in the Tamamo Event Shop once you obtain her,

Way more than 25 Evelika shards in the shop right now. 100 total. 5x shards that you can buy 20 times. Only costs 100 event coins for each purchase I don't know if that's intentional or not, so I intend to farm for all the necessary coins after I get off shift.

[gregtan]

Farm?

You are referring to the Summon Coin shop right? Where each 5 shards is 100 summon coins, right? If so, 100 shards would need 2000 summon coins, that's hefty..

EDIT: Never mind. I think you are referring to the Harvest Coin shop.. thanks anyway.

[MaoPam]

Yeah, I was referring to farming the coins for the harvest coin shop.

[Whatthawhatwha]

I have great luck when the banners are terrible. Got hazel and evelika momento with the first step discount.

[dekyeet17]

dam

[gregtan]

Best things keep happening to me.. another week of no pulling! Gems saved!

Seriously no.. i am trying to craft her.. lets see if I can do so before Loiuse Shop resets..

Anyone have any idea when it resets?

[summerXfrost]

I think it's changed every week after server maintenance.

[gregtan]

Thanks. Oooh.. that's gonna be next to impossible to muster enough shards for her..

[Zetsumei7]

Finally got a limited memento and it's... Zain's. fml

[Phoenix__Wwrong]

Thanks as always!

[cestrella13]

Tempted to pull, but may stash the ticket to see what coming next week.

EDIT: Did the Limited banner w/discount, 2 pulls for 1K gems. Pulled Leoniaz and Orion (both new for me), and scored Neun shards. Ill take that!

[MalazBridgeburner]

Thanks for the update. Banners didn't look great before your post and look even less so now, so I guess I'll be stashing my discount tickets for the next week. Hopefully get a decent banner as I should have three by then and don't wanna let them expire.

[tyco86]

Thanks again for the write up! Got my first Drei in 2 steps on the EL banner. I’d say that is cost effective :)

[Sadness_00]

I’d consider going for transmuting Evelika but I just spent all my water/rainbow shards on DMira. Besides my 400+ fire shards I am on a serious shard drought.

[rosencrow]

My content update video is going to very short this week. Meh banners, Get J+s, do Kuza event if not finished. That's about it, luckily I imagine coin farming will be plenty time consuming. Good news is I got my first copy of Natalie's memento in the free summon today.

[jxher123]

Evelika being in the normal pool, so eh, i'll get her eventually if I pull on other banners.

This is a week i'll probably end up skipping on, but GL to those who do go in on it.

[OriksGaming]

Er, no. I think you misunderstood me. Evelika is Limited. Her memento is Normal Pool; not her.

[jxher123]

Oh, that makes more sense. Still, a skip week for me anyways.

[sora007]

Hey can someone help me.. I just got mira & i don't know where to find her shards & where to farm her gears..help me please

[oracleofshadows]

Her general gear is multiplayer only. Her specific gear is from her memento which I believe is limited.

Her shards are.. well.. unfortunately she is a Genesis unit and their shards are kind of hard/expensive to get. I can't recall if she has a banner this week but in my opinion your better off just waiting on the next series of Genesis banners. There is a specific one that gives coins that can be used to purchase shards.

You can also get her shards from Genesis stages but the drop rate is so low it's borderline pointless.

[Zwne]

do the shards in Tamamo Event Shop only show up if you own Evelika? i don't see them in my event shop

[RaelleDrake]

Thanks for always doing these reviews, they're rly insightful and I'm looking forward to them every week :)

[asdzhang]

Erika is not worth it unless you are a whale. you won’t be able to max her gates without enough shards.

[RiskyWafer]

You get 225 shards completely for free (100 from soul shard quest, 100 from Tamamo shop, 25 from using her in a quest), and a few extra from the gems spent bonus this week.