User blog:PantherRH/The New Daemon Bell

"Welcome to Zynga, where our goal is to suck all your money!"

Precisely the slogan I have in mind when I look at the new Bell Summon, being a Divina user. The last of the 7th Heaven band, Vaisravana, is the lead Daemon for the current Bell. What is worse, the rest of the chances are all Divina cards. Urgh.

I already have Fukurokuju, and she has been among the best and most lovely additions to my deck. She is just wonderful overall as one of the best members of 7th Heaven. In lore, she is actually the personification of a Chinese god, Fulushou (page links to the Japanese one), and one of the 7 Lucky Deities in Japanese myth. Of course, if I could, I would collect all 7, but money and luck are the problem. I currently have Ebisu and Benzaiten as well, and Hotei was in the previous Bell but I never touched it since the lead daemon was an Anima. Now though, wow.

I mean it is a 12.5% chance to get any of the Divina cards inside. Other than Fukurokuju and the standard 4* Magatama, there is also the violinist Jurojin. Vaisravana is obviously made for the leader card role, whereas Fukurokuju is geared for defense with her skill, and Jurojin is offensive.

In other words, for Divina users, this is, since I joined the game, the most worthwhile Bell Summon yet.

Of course, there is the matter of spending a ton of money for one bell summon. Let us do some calculations.

Effective spending means you only get 350 gold coins each time, which translates to 4 USD per purchase. To obtain a bell summon, you need to spend 12 USD, since you need 3x of the 350-gold-coin purchase to reach 980 coins. You are left with 70 coins if you use it once. So here we have:

1050 - 980 = 70 (1 try)

Subsequent tries will yield:

350 + 350 + 350 + 70 - 980 = 140 (2 tries)

350 + 350 + 350 + 140 - 980 = 210 (3 tries)

1050 + 210 - 980 = 280 (4 tries)

1050 + 280 - 980 = 350 (5 tries)

So by the fifth try, you finally save 1 purchase of 350 gold coins. How many times then, did you purchase the 350 option? Looking at the chart, you used 14 tries. In total, assuming you started from a base of 0 gold coins, you spent 4 x 14 = 56 USD to get the maximum possible efficiency, and 5 tries of the Bell summon. Each Bell Summon gives you 12.5% chance to get the lead daemon, 25% chance of getting either Jurojin or Fukurokuju, and 37.5% chance of getting the 4* Magatama.

Your worst draw would be getting 3 Magatamas and one each (or two of the same) of Jurojin and Fukurokuju. Your best draw, of course, is to get Vaisravana in one try.

Is it worthwhile? 1500 gold coins is currently the most efficient way to get 6 attempts at Rare Summon. The chances of getting a 5* out of that in 6 tries is superbly low, but thinking about 3 tries of that 6-pack, you get 18 cards. That is still a far higher chance of getting a good 5* (if not Divina).

Honestly, Bell Summon is the worst money-sucker out there in terms of the game's summon options, especially when there are viable options via Special Summon as well. But, if you are willing to spend that amount of cash, and perhaps, are working too hard IRL and use this game from time to time to let off steam, maybe you would like to use this calculation and think about it instead. Still, I would not recommend it unless you are that desperate, because really, your money would be better spent on the 6-pack from time to time (350x4 = 1400, which is just 100 gold coins short of the 6-pack; no further math is needed to see how far that will get you if you keep buying 350 gold coins for the 6-pack option).

Nonetheless, if you happen to be Divina, and think your money would be better spent on confirmed chances rather than on lottery luck, then perhaps, 5 tries of Bell Summon this time round might be something you can think of trying. If you do, good luck! I will add the Efficiency Ratio for Vaisravana once her stats are up. Jurojin is 1.06/0.98 (ATK/DEF) and Fukurokuju is 1.07 for both.

PantherRH (talk) 16:48, March 12, 2013 (UTC)