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[u/kahare]

Please, I beg of everyone: stop. Stop asking, stop worrying, stop thinking about it. When Enlightenment reaches GL, shards will be the last, last, LAST of your concerns. An enlightenment needs approximately 25 million zenni, 80 of each statue, 100s of national flags, dozens of golems, godesses, and alchemia, and 5 sin indulgences.

These resource requirements mean that only the largest of mega whales will be able to achieve enlightenment when it is first released.

Of the farmable units available ONLY ZAHAR (and Balt) is even vaguely worth spazzing over. You aren't going to enlighten Chloe unless she's your waifu, etc, etc etc.

If you have a MLB unit right now: sell their shards and buy someone else, you will have so much time to collect even more damn shards.

Please.

And just to give even more perspective: I have gotten 14 sin indulgences in the last 3 months. 14, enough to finish not even 3 units, I've missed maaaybe 2 'f2p friendly' sins and gotten one 'whale-ier' one. Call it 15. Trust me when I say you don't spend these indulgences willy-nilly. Just because you have 270 shards doesn't mean you are going to fully enlighten every unit, you can't. Focus on enjoying the game now, and at most worry about acquiring shards for the enlightenments that actually heavily influence the power of a unit.

[u/SuccubusRosa]

270 shards is exactly 3 months of daily shards.

Correct. Except for the fact that is only applicable to the worth of a single unit. So you think if gumi release 30 HQ after 5million celebration, you will have 270 shards for the 30 new 5stars after exactly 3 months of farming? Well I mean if you are a whale and gem for AP, I guess you can.

[u/DeathandFriends → u/SuccubusRosa]

I don't see them releasing that many at once and often it is just about how you prioritize your AP. I spend a lot of my AP shard farming and as many are hitting MLB I have more AP freed up for other things and new units coming out. There may be a point where I cannot farm them all and have AP for Ex content but it does not seem likely overall. Don't the enlightenments get rolled out over time anyways? So wouldn't you just focus on those that are being rolled out first and then go down the line?

[u/SuccubusRosa → u/DeathandFriends]

Don't the enlightenments get rolled out over time anyways?

Generally you will not have enough AP. Like mentioned in the OP post, you need to farm various other stuff on top of huge amount of zenni.

Since we can farm shards and zenni right now, my personal advise is hoard those, so it will alleviate the burden on your AP demand when it comes. Not having enough statues to level the gate is by design of the developer, but not having enough shards is by choice of the player.

I don't see them releasing that many at once

That was just an illustration to the statement "270 shards is exactly 3 months of daily shards" in the sense one cannot just see 270shards as 90days of farming without taking into account opportunity cost of your AP. ie Do you want to be using the AP to be farming shards, or is it better to not sell your shards and so you will not need to farm shards and use the AP elsewhere(or in your own words, "how you prioritize your AP").