u/FJord_B

Good day. First of all, I wish everyone who are participating in the ILLIT GLITTERDAY event all the best of luck!

I would like to ask a question. It's sort of answered already in one of my posts before, but I just want a clearer answer and justification. My main group on the game is ILLIT. My current Performance Cards setup is full Lv. 60 UR WITH Ver. - I'LL LIKE YOU (photo 1). I do know that using a higher tier card will give me a higher score in gameplays. Currently, I have higher tiered cards for each member (GLITTERDAY Yunah XR [from trade] and Moka A [from card pull] cards; ILLIT Deco Polaroid Moka Max UR card, Arcade Rush Minju and Iroha A cards; and Night Bloom Wonhee A card) (photo 2).

I have this mindset that I should complete the theme first if I want to use it, that's why I haven't used the higher tiered cards since they're all different themes. My goal this week is hopefully complete the GLITTERDAY theme through card packs and trades. I just want to ask these:

1. Would using the same theme for all the members will give me a higher bonus or any perk compared to just using any card regardless of theme?

2. Would I benefit more from using higher tiered cards even if they're not the same theme?

Any insights and/or responses regarding this would be highly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Hello! I'm technically a new player. I installed the game back when LE SSERAFIM was the latest addition, but I just started playing regularly earlier this year. It's a huge learning curve for me from playing the other K-Pop rhythm game series, and I admit that I still don't know how some aspects of the game works since I'm more of a K-Pop fan, specifically a GLLIT and a Bunny, than a rhythm game enthusiast.

Which brings me to my question. I've been really wanting to complete at least one of the artists in the Arcade Fun Volume 2, preferably ILLIT. But it costs Hive Gems. I figured that if I played songs in the Studio in Hard difficulty, I could start earning for them, and it worked for me so far. I'm not really that good in the game yet, so I'm stuck at Hard. But I'm earning decent load of Gems per song, depending on what cards do I have for the artists and if I get an All Excellent for the song, which rarely happens.

The problem is, I already cleared all of the available ILLIT and NewJeans songs in Hard difficult way before the event started, and I'm almost done with TXT now. Those artists are the ones that I have decent cards of. I have no powerful cards for the other artists, and I fear that if I finish all of the songs in Hard difficulty, I might run out of options for earning Gems for future events.

Is my method sustainable? Is it a good strategy that I'm just not utilizing well, or is it there a better way for us F2P players to earn Hive Gems without spending real money, other than the free 20 Gems per day? Any help or insights would be really appreciated.

Thank you in advance!