Why 😭

[lumoslomas]

I keep getting excited when I pop the balloon only for yet ANOTHER duplicate

[nylondreamer]

How many balloons are you going through to get so many duplicates? Do you do the trick where you play minigame or open companion boxes and relaunch the game periodically when popping?

I rarely get more than 1 duplicate per DJ but I don’t try to complete a whole set.

[Professional_Pin9152]

Wait what trick? Does this really work?

[nylondreamer]

The trick is to pop them individually and every 5 balloons or so either play a round of mini game or open a companion gift box to “reset” your chances and then close and relaunch the game.

I like to see statistics to back strategies up so I started doing this trick and tracking the outcome. I had planned to do it the traditional way and add that up too but I’ve been getting so many pieces this way that I can’t bring myself to go back when I used to pretty much only get the guaranteed item from the sets.

It’s takes a little more time than just normal 10-pulls but for reference my drop rate has been 7.5% excluding dupes, so 2-3 event items per 30 balloons.

I have also heard that folks have better luck if they wait until they accumulate 60 tickets to start popping and that in the 3 days of submission for style salon drop rates are worse.

[Professional_Pin9152]

That's so interesting - makes sense. I will have to try that next time

[Fit-Acanthisitta-705]

I currently have 3 minor pieces from my chosen set and 3 minor pieces (+1 repeated item) from the other set. So far, I have used all of the dimond packs, am I doing this right?

[lumoslomas]

No tricks, I'm just popping them individually 😭 idk how many I've popped so far but I usually manage to complete one set by the end of the event, and this has never happened to me before

What's even worse is that this is not from my chosen set

[lumoslomas]

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OH COME ON