god damn, how much lapis are you burning on the TM refills? I sort of want to do that...
I dunno, think I've spent 5-6k so far? It's not as big of a deal once you stop doing daily welfare pulls. I have all the units I want, just have to wait until more 6* awakens come out. Firion, Garland, and WoL should round out my pool of 6* units exceptionally well, then farther down the road I have Agrias. Also Terra, Kefka, and Vaan, but apparently their 6* upgrades are pretty bad.
Also, Brave Frontier was the last really good banner for a long damn time. I sorta want Snow from FF13 just to experiment with a 6* draw tank, but since he's a 4* base there's a pretty good chance that 7 welfare pulls wouldn't get him. Vanille has a good TM but I have no idea if Sazh's is any good, and they're both 5* trash otherwise. The FFZ banners suck, the Seiken Densetsu 2 banner sucks, Dark Fina is amazing but the rest of the banner is garbage, Orlandu is god tier but the rest of the banner is garbage, the Shine banner sucks, and the Dragon Quest banners seem ok. The next really good event banner is not until FF1, which will have 2 excellent 6* upgrades, a 5* base worth chasing, and solid TMs. Shortly after that is the Tidus (god tier) and Wilhelm (very solid) banner, which has two 5*s worth chasing and good TM consolation prizes. More good banners after that.
So yeah, the next couple months are gonna be pretty shitty for pulls unless we get more GL banners like the recent DK Cecil/Garland/Duane/CoD banner. Unless they surprise us, I'm probably going to just bank all my tickets between now and the Tidus banner, because at least I'll be getting good TMs if I fail to bring in Tidus or Wilhelm.
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There is undoubtedly a FFXV event coming very soon that GL will get simultaneously with JP which might be worth pulling on.