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guys I’m incredibly overwhelmed by all the compliments. Truly it means a lot. I love this community.

here is one more I did, I cannot for the life of me find the comic I used for reference. The Mary Jane wasn’t there, I added that part in, it was also coloured but I somehow reverted it to black and white 🤔

Same **** from last year with the tiny T7B fragments. Unless you're pushing for banquet master of ceremonies, miniscule amounts of new catalyst fragments are completely useless.

Just like with R4s; these fragments won't add up to a new rank anytime soon, and in fact before they add up to anything the game will already just give you a full catalyst or a full rank up gem from the next content or sale.

I'm a little confused how we came to the conclusions here, tbh

It appears the primary focus of the math here is on pulling a Banquet Champion from the Jubilant Crystal, which has a 4.5% chance - 5% if including Punisher. I'm unsure where the 1% figure originates.

Last year, each Crystal functioned as an independent coin flip - which, honestly, offered mostly poor value.
This year brings markedly improved SBCs, including a pity system at 15 if you miss the 7.77% drop rate on the Jubilant.

To illustrate further, if SBCs last year had a 1% Key chance, you'd expect just 1 Key per 100 SBCs on average (I opened far more and got none). This year, from 100 Crystals (excluding Milestones), assuming you don't strike out every time, you'd average 8 Jubilants.
If you're trying to avoid the T5A, that leaves an 85% shot at something immediately valuable, with a 5% Chance at a Banquet key.

Overall, you can expect vastly improved Rewards from opening SBCs and Jubilants this year compared to last, not even factoring in the improved milestones.

There's one thing that needs to happen to correct the perspective of the actual costs of these crystals. I get that the T5a isn't going to be exciting for anyone that isn't spending 10s of thousands of dollars, but the idea that these Jubilant crystals cost 4,500 units is a silly perspective. You don't get a Jubilant crystal for 4,500 units; you get 14 SBCs and a Jubilant crystal, plus whatever milestones those might have triggered a long the way. To lump this entire cost onto the Jubilant crystal is unfair and only makes it seem far worse than reality. At the end of the day, the T5a should really be a 2-3% in the SBC instead of 15% in the Jubilant, but we're not spending exclusively on Jubilant crystals.

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Lol... Just some miserable fella who probably feels good only when others feel bad thinking a thumbs down to everything is gonna turn a person's day upside-down.

I'm hoping RNG works out well, but this year is an improvement from last year. Now waiting to see how things go once it starts. Wish you the best sir, perhaps if you have an epic banquet pull you could share here!

Genuinely surprised (and flattered, of course) that this post and my calculator got featured in a KT1 video, so, anyone who came from Discord, Reddit and Youtube, welcome!

I hope my tool may assist you in this year's Banquet. Goodluck, and happy holidays everyone.

I've switched up on the crystals so im alot less hype. The drop rates on the jubilant crystal are abysmal and killed alot of hype

Pretty disappointed by the crystals, but the milestones and stuff are nice. Torn because I don't really care for any of the chosen champions at all even though I know some of them are good.