Nightbringer: Celestial Unblessing
Tfw you officially give up on the event with 3 days left ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you too are stuck in Box 1 or 2, you are not alone!
I've never exactly been a fan of the Celestial Blessings mechanic - loot boxes are a known con, and terrible for inviting and encouraging a gambling addiction.
But when they were first introduced in the OG game, they did actually give a fair amount of prizes, even if you didn't have the cheat cards from the gacha.
Icons and backgrounds aren't something everyone cares about, but the demon SSR and memory SSR were fun, there were DV to collect, and some handy resources.
It also gave enough AP for people to actually complete all the battles most days.
But as has consistently happened with Obey Me, anything that gives good results gets tweaked to be less rewarding and more punishing.
AP rewards were decreased. The amount of items per box was increased, thus slowing progression and worsening odds. And then the amount of points needed to open per box was increased.
In the OG game, the latter only applied to the mega CB event they have for HDD.
But in Nightbringer, a standard CB event has all three factors working against it - far less AP, more items per box and worse odds, and a higher cost per box.
Not only that, but in Nightbringer the CB event does not have any bonus days like the OG game does. There are no two days in which your score is doubled.
It also has less DV as rewards, and of course no demon SSR. The outfits and sprites are in boxes 3 and 4, ie on par with URs in terms of achievability, and others of course require a huge amount of DP to buy from Akuzon.
And on top of that, Nightbringer does not have the 12 hour sale for 200 AP costing 10 DP - instead it has one that costs 20 DP, twice the price!
10 DP is a sustainable amount, as much of it could be earned in the daily tasks. In Nightbringer, 18 DP can be earned a day... but buying two sales per day would cost 40 DP, an additional 12 DP.
The number of stages in the Nightbringer event is also higher, at 98 compared to the OG game's 83 - requiring an additional 120 AP.
Unless you've been seriously grinding, it's unlikely you've yet hit 100AP as your cap via levelling, so all in all...
Celestial Blessing in Nightbringer:
Requires unsustainable/bought AP
Fewer cards and devilgrams
Fewer backgrounds, icons, etc
Can you get further with cheat cards? Of course, obviously. But the fact remains that you can't get as far with the same cards as you could in the OG, and there is literally no point in playing the event (other than once to read the story) without scoring a LOT of cards in the gacha.
ie, Celestial Blessing events are P2P friendly only, and really whale-friendly only at that.
Unless it has a Demon UR or outfits you are willing to grind for when Lonely Devil comes around, it simply isn't worth it.
You don't get a good return on your AP.
You are far better off grinding hard mode for the UR+ pieces to build and skill up good battle cards.
The normal events are better than Celestial Blessing.
[I say this many times but please remember gambling is an addiction. These are just pixels on a screen, for fun. You can spend the same money to commission artists or writers and get something that is permanently yours to keep.]
