Am I missing something or is there a reasonable way to get T3CC?
I do the daily quest every single day. It guarantees 625 fragments, or about 22% of a complete catalyst, and in all my time doing it I've never received a fully formed catalyst from a chest. The hard path will usually give me maybe a few hundred fragments. So let's say About 1,000 fragments for doing both paths 100%, or just over a third of one catalyst for almost a fully bar of energy. At that rate, it takes about a month to form one catalyst, when a 4* requires three just to get to rank 4 and a 5* requires three to get to rank 2.
Okay, so do the 22 hour solo event, people say. The current solo event gives 3 fragment crystals at 22,100 points, and 7 more at 34,000 points. My experience with these is that they each give about 10% of a catalyst, so let's say 1 fully formed catalyst at 34,000 points. The most efficient way to get the points varies month to month, but generally you can get about 40 points per energy. So 850 energy and an absurd amount of grinding for one catalyst. If you're content to get a third of a catalyst each day, which isn't so bad, it will only cost you 552 energy and still a lot of grinding. (I'm ignoring the rank rewards for the 7h and 22h because for most players they are not regularly achievable).
Map 2 crystals give lots of T3CC, but if you're in a good alliance, you probably aren't doing Map 2 anymore. I've tried bugging my alliance to do it once in awhile, but I don't want to drag the entire alliance on my lame quest to get low level items.
This leaves me with the one single catalyst as the top prize for the class specialist alliance event. This honestly seems like the most reliable way to get T3CC, which is insane. I have T1A and T4B in overflow because I can't scrounge up enough T3CC to rank anyone. Am I missing something? Is there some secret way to get this stuff that I haven't thought of?
