Im currently play mostly in 19.5 tier (been once in 21). I usually spend ~$100 per month and I think it is a lot of money on mobile game (It is like 2 AAA titles, or 1 from EA/Ubi with full season pass). With that I can get 1-2 copy of unit that I realy want from banners.
I fight moslty +5/10 heroes, but today i saw +9 HS!Micaiah, and I wonder. How many orbs you have to use to get +10 merged unit on his premier baner? Are you gater orbs for months, or do you spend money(how much)?
Nilla would know best since they did that for B!Veronica. I ended up wanting to get a +Atk M!Grima and ended getting 13 of them before then. I want to say I was averaging 1 Grima per 140, so around 750-825$ to get him to +10. This was on a 3 unit focus with M!Grima being the only green, so the odds were higher than if it were on a 4 unit or 12 unit focus.
Well, I do think that most people with highly merged 5* exclusives often try to gather copies of the course of differend banners.
Personally I almost never try to get more than one copy, with a few exceptions
The main one being Sigurd who's my main focus for getting as many as I can of, just because I got lucky at first. So I want to use that luck as a stepping stone.
Got 2 of em on the latest banner with about 30 orbs. Making him +8 now.
It's all about luck and priorities.
Though I would say that it often takes quite some whaling to get such a high merged seasonal unit on their primere banner.
I just tried it in the summon simulator to get a +10 Brave Ephraim and it was 2044 orbs and $1090.
If you pull on the legendary banners, you end up getting a lot of the same units. Some people hate them but I think this is the best way to get a 5* exclusive to +10. The recent one that had Fjorm, Winter Robin, and Hardin on green or the Hector one with Hector, Bike, and Myrrh were both very good.
I still don't have any 5* exclusive +10 units but my BLyn is pretty close at +8. SY!Tiki is +6 and I will probably try to +10 her when she comes up again on a legendary banner.
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