Talk:I Smell a Rat

I Smell a Rat, indeed!
What the what now? You can only summon for the rainbows this week, and according to the news the other time-limited units will not be available for featured summon until January 30th! I have only one Ling and one Xiao (the only non-time limited bonus unit). So without a bit of luck on the summon for the rainbow bonus units, you might find yourself severely limited on bonus units until week 2, when you can use some of your 4* summon tickets to hopefully get a few copies of Bai Hu & Zhu Que/Qin/Ling.

Actually only Ling is not a rainbow, so probably a team of her.

I Smell a Rat with BluEvanescent
Hello and welcome to the BluEvanescent, where tips and tricks are completely useless after 2 weeks of the event. And hoooooo boi, the entire banner is a complete whack and so does the event. So, what's seems to be the problem? Let's put it this way:

The entire I Smell a Rat event is an Elemental Battle, which means that the event points you'll received is fixed in every difficulty. The sub-goal for this is to reach the milestone, which is 30000 Event Points. But, you may ask, "how many battle do I have to accomplished?" Well, that's where the power of MATH is.

NOBODY SAID THERE'D BE MATH
The highest difficulty worth about 400 PTS and a cost of 40 NRG. Keep this in mind that with this, you can pretty much XP Grind your Rank if you so willing to. So, here's the real kicker:

Let x be the 30000 Points then y for points obtained in event and z for NRG cost

Total NRG = [(x/y)*z]

30000 PTS/400 PTS/LGD battle = 75 BATTLES

75 Battles * 40 NRG = 3000 NRG

30000 PTS/250 PTS/ELT Battle = 120 Battles * 25 NRG = 3000 NRG

30000 PTS/200 PTS/PRO Battle = 150 Battles * 20 NRG = 3000 NRG

And yes, I am not kidding. If you truly are desperate for grinding, even for a beginner, you should know the consequences about this very event you are trying to participate. And the reward? Well, considering yourself a power-hungry player. It rewarded you with the end of milestone with a 5 Star Guaranteed EX Ticket, which you HAVE TO KEEP until the end of December 28, 2020 (rip Flash Player, you will be missed)

So, what's the tip then? You'll see.

The Entire Battle in a Nutshell
The battle is a complete whack for people with already "OP" Units and beginners. This event relies basically on the previous events since 2017, which is: have bonus units equipped in the entire battle. If you wanna know how hard is this boss, let me take you for a ride.

Xing Tian hits like a truck with no brakes. By the start of the battle, he will cast an AoE Physical Damage to your units. If you don't have high HP and DEF units before this, you're history. And even if you survived, you probably have problems on inflicting him, let alone damaging with a right Elemental Affinity. All elements except Fire have 60% Resistance, including non-elemental. That's means you have no choice but to pick the right physical or magical damager units. Like I said, all elements except Fire. If you notice well, he has -20% Fire resistance.

Unless you befriend a high leveled unit or obtained a unit, this LGD battle is considerable hard for beginners. But, you have the option to pick ELT or PRO difficulty, if you want to.

The units you need may require something like this:

Tips and Tricks

 * Reduce his Defensive stats, as well as his Fire resistance.
 * Have units with the highest ATK/MAG stat.
 * For NRG, let the NRG reach to its 99.9% then buy NRG using Lapis once it reaches to 100% for twice the NRG.
 * In addition, if your EXP reaches in between 50-100, use the same technique for refilling NRG and then, battle by spending 1 or 2 battle in Chamber of Enlightenment; or my personal favorite: spend your Rank EXP in King Mog's Lost Map for a better chance to level up.
 * If you are that player that uses Bonus Units, then good for you. But, make sure they stay that way. Nobody want a Limited Time unit that became irrelevant by the next events. Xiao is good enough as she is completely non-Limited Time unit, even for beginners.
 * You best to battle the LGD, ELT or PRO difficulty if you have spare time.

Afterword
If you finished this entire event, then congratulations! Then again, there's also a Slot Machine for an added insult to an injury. Like I said, this is just a 2 week Event. You can finish this and reached the milestone, if you are willing to; or sticking yourself to the story, which you may find out the entire plot for both Season 1 and Season 2.

And that's where we draw the line. I'm Subject 3369 aka BluEvanescent, thank you for reading and signing out.

--Bluevanescent (talk) 01:14, 26 January 2020 (UTC)