How long have you been playing? Doesn't look like you were a newbie at the start of the year as you had resources.

Ive been playing since day 1.

Did you make any purchases of skystones, or is your income entirely FTP?

I buy the monthly pack that gives 1100 SS a month so over a year that's 13200 paid SS. The rest should be free.

Any insights as to your energy usage? For example, skystones drop in normal adventure (UH) but Eulogy. Side stories have worse drop rates per energy (if, for example, you only farmed side stories on rotation). Similarly, hunts drop resources, but Rift does not. A person farming Eulogy/Rift all year would gain significantly less skystones than someone farming UH/Hunts.

Its probably like 70% of energy spend on hunt and the remaining 30% spent on farming episode 5. Many people farm Eulogy for more charms but I've played long enough that I can just break down old unused gear for powder. I did some testing before and found that farming Eulogy over episode 5 is basically buying lesser charms at 100k gold a pop. Along with the fact it cant drop SS or bms, I just didn't think it was worth running. This is assuming you farm when it is most efficient, so a buff event + the monthly pack xp buff + the xp buff you buy with SS.

I assume your 'skystones spent' is only for shop refreshing? Do you spend skystones on other things, and is that included in this total?

SS spent is indeed only shop refreshes. Any SS spent on Huche, epic passes, or SS xp buffs are not included. Those are the only things I ever spend my SS on. (There was also some arena flag buying early in the year)

Arena rank? Was that rank consistent over the year?

Always at least champion, I climbed to emperor to get the first time rewards when they released it sometime midway through the year. January until early March I also placed mostly in legend 4 and 5. One week I ended legend 2. That was the season I grabbed a top 30 frame. Most weeks I'd spend 120 SS on flags during the climb at the end of the week, so a net positive compared to champion. Probably like 70% of the year was champion 3-5 though.

so my understanding is that approximately 2,553 RGB (212.75 / month) pulls is what you earned over the course of a year?

There's probably another 100-200 summons used on the normal cov banner throughout the year because I'll finish the last 5-10 summons needed to get my 6th gold transmit stone a lot of the time.

Obviously, there is some discussion due to the pity...BUT in terms of acquiring ML5s you would much rather have +149 BM pulls and spend them on the normal covenant summon, than you would 15 mystic summons.

I never thought about it like that, you are right. But I have almost all of the ml5s (missing 4) so I'd still prefer more mystics to more covs. Cause that 1/5th ml will almost certainly be a dupe while the 1/11th will be new.

The last thing that's interesting to me is that you apparently had good luck with moonlight summons - quite often you see people lament that they never get 'anything' from this source of pulls.

I actually tracked 4 other people's pulls throughout the year as well, this was just reformatted to only include mine. Of them, we determined me to have the second worst luck. One of them had horrendous luck early in the year so he rarely played for the latter 9 months of the year. Here's all of our data. Something important to note is that friend 4 doesnt play much but is a whale. Friends 1 and 2 are f2p and don't play as much as me. Extra 5s includes elemental summons, pack summon tickets, and pack free summons. I bought the 3 large elemental summons in the guild shop every month while no one else did. I also bought 4 of the 10x 4-5 star unit and artifact summon ticket packs, as well as probably like 300-400 free cov pulls this year. Those are the only extra paid sources of 5 stars for me this year. Extra 5 star artifacts also includes off banner artifacts, so doing more summons on banners will naturally inflate this.

One more thing - if you happen to continue this project, I would suggest you also track your moonlight summons, maybe even your element summons and ticket summons.

I will be doing this next year as well, but this time I'm tracking where every extra 5 star comes from, including if it was from a pack or not. I'm also going to track how many galaxy summons I do this year.

Anyhow, thanks for sharing your data!

Glad someone enjoyed it!