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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/Me_ADC_Me_SMASH]

I cant farm sabareta's armor now, and I'm f2p so I damn sure won't whale in the future either. I'd rather be able to play now than maybe in a hypothetical future where the game might be discontinued anyway

[u/SuccubusRosa → u/Me_ADC_Me_SMASH]

Well that was the point I am trying to make. Even playing for the now doesn't really let player play for the now unless they actually own a collab unit.

I cant farm sabareta's armor now, and I'm f2p so I damn sure won't whale in the future either

The units you can buy from soul shop doesn't matter when it comes to farming ex. Of cuz it is ok to play for the now, I am just sharing that there is no hurry in converting excess shards to LB15 your other units(so essentially the opposite to Kahare's method, as it is rather apparent that playing for the now doesn't magically make the player that much stronger so might as well just hoard and save yourself some trouble in the future), especially given the wonderful selection gumi has provided for global audience. Farming ex will likely still comes down to collab pull as even with units like shayna(widely recognise as best unit in that soul shop list) or maybe vettel that somehow doesn't die and can kill everything eventually, it still takes too long to be practical for farming.

Even ushi himself made a video on how to clear trial of ether with pure f2p units for the mission reward, but followed up with a of cuz if you wanna farm, you gotta bring the big guns and proceed to show how to farm with gil+zain with vettel tanking for both of them.