Since Rafayel's myth is kind of a hot potato right now....
I'm fully assuming now the next banner is the Rafayel myth.
If we assume they want to have the full 15 days for it to run, it should come out latest of 17th (ends at 1st of September as Zayne's birthday starts). This means that if we take the usual announcement time they have for myths (3 days for all other 3rd myths other than Sylus's myth), we should wait an announcement around at 14th of August.
But we can also assume that they might want to have 1 day in between of Rafayel's myth and Zayne's banner, so those dates would be 16th start, ends at 31st of August, and announcemend around 13th of August.
It still can be announced earlier, but 17th is really the last day the myth can come unless they really want to anger everyone with shorter myth banner duration.
It is not the end of world if the myth comes.
It just means that another time to Valko to get his spotlight is after Zayne's birthday.
Full transparency, I have set my heart to getting R2 (R1 if it's looking too unlucky) from the myth with my existing resources that I have saved. But I do intend on waiting on pulling it for a few days as well.
I just want to implore to other Rafayel mains that feel skipping the myth is not possible, please consider these points:
Try getting the myth just with the resources you have currently
If you have to spend, spend as little as possible
If you can, consider waiting a few days to pull it
Wait on getting the MC outfit for the companion. They will be there forever, they aren't going anywhere.
Don't post gifs/screenshots/edits of the trailers, story or battle stuff while the banner is running, especially spoilers for the myth. This is a hard ask, but it will reduce FOMO for other people who are skipping the banner. Let's make it as easy as possible to skip for others who are holding out. They have my utmost respect. Also we will reduce the word of mouth marketing for the myth, which is extremely important for LADS.
In addition, don't comment, like or share any glorifying Rafayel myth posts. All of these will improve the reach of those posts, which can be meant to work against the boycott.
This way we can make our impact with Rafayel's myth, and get the myth to ourselves.
And to other boycotters, I ask not to shame people who want to pull the myth. Watching the myth from Youtube IS NOT THE SAME as watching it in the game. We lose possibly the strongest companion Rafayel will have to date, and have to wait for it for a year to rerun.
As a Rafayel solo main, this is THE highlight of the year for me, and I'm saddened if Infold decides to tarnish it by releasing it at a time like this.
