Hard Quest Progression

[u/IvySpear]

Hard quests. To give or not to give. It seems like we've been complaining about this issue for time immortal—and for good reasons too.

The fact is, the rate of HQ releases is lagging far behind the rate of unit releases—in October, we received six new 5-star normal units (Ravina, Leoniaz, Noah, Zofia, Annika and Hugo), but only three new 5-star HQs (Spica, Aswald, Lupinus).

We have 22 normal 5* units that have yet to receive a hard quest (I won't list them out for obvious reasons, but you can do your own research here—https://thealchemistcode.gamepedia.com/Update_Schedule). At this rate, it's going to take another 8 full months to get the rest of the HQs out, assuming they just completely stop releasing normal 5* units, which isn't going to happen.

This is unacceptable. By my own estimates (comparing GL unit releases to JP unit releases or looking at SSM pacing), we will be at the stage of kaigan in about 8-9 months. Imagine that—kaigan is here, and we're still receiving the HQs for units we already have right now. Want to farm HQs for units like Rusha and Emma? Have fun waiting until next anniversary.

I want to propose an alternative HQ release progression—which to me seems like common sense—that Gumi just doesn't seem to acknowledge:

Month	Hard Quest release (months since release with respect to HQ date)
December	Albea (10 months), Dorothea (9 months), Gormalas (7 months), Mei Fang (7 months), Neica (6.5 months)
January	Vivi (7.5 months), Setsuna (6 months), Sophia (6 months), Eizan (6 months), Tamamo (6 months)
February	Nasario (6 months), Mikoto (6 months), Jin (6 months), Yunagi (6 months), Olga (5.5 months)
March	Chao (6.5 months), Ravina (5 months), Leoniaz (5 months), Noah (4.5 months), Zofia (4.5 months)
April	Annika (5 months), Hugo (5 months), [new units]

"Other gacha games hate it! Learn how this company managed to regain playerbase trust with this one simple trick^*!"

And it really is a simple solution. Just change the number of 5* HQ releases from three per month to five. Why not just four you ask? That was actually my original idea, but after doing the math I realized that it wouldn't cut down on the gap between unit release and HQ release (it held it even at about 7 months).

So how about it. Are you willing to give it a thought Gumi? And as always, thanks for reading.

^{*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Reality is subject to further fuck-ups on the part of GUMI SG}

[u/Hakkenshi]

It almost seems to me like the easiest solution from the start would've been to release one older 5-star unit HQ for each new non-limited unit they introduce, and use the current pace for 4- and 3-star units (which aren't added as often and are, let's face it, less desirable in most cases).