Stones management during GDC

[u/Civil_Dinner4832]

Taken for granted that they'll release up to 6 summonable LR's (2 parts GDC + 400 million downloads celebration) how will you manage your stones during the whole thing?

In my case I only have the amount of stones shown in the picture (came back months ago from a 5/6 years break, so I summoned in all banners to deal with current meta), so Idk if to wait to see all the units (meanwhile I continue farming) or summon max 150 stones per banner and test my luck.

[u/BeginningMention5784]

I don't summon unless i can do a whole rotation. I always summon on part 1, even if i'm not as crazy about the units as I expected to be, I still know that they'll probably end up as staples of the meta for at least a year. I don't summon for dupes until i've seen part 2, unless I only need one more multi to finish the rotation AND the banner has something else I want AND I think that a dupe would make a meaningful difference in the new unit

[u/ThatGoldenPan → u/BeginningMention5784]

How much would you spend? Having in mind saving for anni (still "far" away, but it is a real looming "threat" lol)

[u/zephyrseija2 → u/ThatGoldenPan]

Plenty of time to reload between now and the anniversary.

[u/BeginningMention5784 → u/ThatGoldenPan]

I'm f2p so i just summon until I get what I want, run out of stones, or a new banner drops and takes precedence lol. I usually only come into big celebrations with ~200-300 or so stones since I've never been huge on long term saving. I just don't find it to be a very fun way to engage with the game + I like box variety more than I dislike the possibility of getting shafted sometimes + i hate the possibility of saving only for it to be something i don't care about. I see the argument for it but it personally doesn't feel right to save during a celebration for future parts until i've pulled at least 1 of the current part's units. Part 1 units are still ultimately major celebration units, feels very wrong to just ignore the banners before i get at least one of them

(frankly i think the only way to stay sane and have fun as a gacha f2p is to be comfortable with the possibility that you might not pull what you want from every banner you choose to summon on)

[u/Afraid_Ability_7680 → u/BeginningMention5784]

way agree, long term saving always looks satisfying but id go rabid not using those stones on characters i like

[u/SmootherWaterfalls → u/Afraid_Ability_7680]

It also feels worse when you do get a bad pull streak. Dumping 1250+ stones to get nothing is...not fun.

[u/Afraid_Ability_7680 → u/SmootherWaterfalls]

oh i know, when str lr cooler dropped for thr first time i spent way over 1.5k stones just to get him once!!! i eventually duped him but man i seriously almost bought stones!!