Qixi Festival Round 3 & Recap of Grandiose Ceremony

Hello! Sorry for the delay, I was traveling last week and didn’t have a chance to write. And I do mean that literally. 😅

So, yes this is my third Qixi Festival. Oh and side note today is my official two year anniversary of playing LOP!!! 🎉🥳🎉 Anyway back to Qixi, I decided to go very light on this event. I only wanted the dress I didn’t get last year, so that’s what I got. 😂

Just lovely. And aside from getting all the “free” gift packs with the absurd amount of coupons I’m sitting on, I don’t have any ingots left over to spend on anything else. My only complaint, and this goes beyond just the Qixi event, is that I wish the coupons went a lot further. Like, I wish you could basically get something without spending ingots on it. I mean, what am I supposed to do with the 700+ coupons I have left over? 🤷🏻‍♀️ And especially with so many repeat items from the previous years, what exactly am I supposed to spend 1000+ coupons on exactly? And why didn’t they bring back the discount on Lanling’s outfit?!?! I was sooooo disappointed about that. Ugh! Now I have to save up and buy his outfit, so I can you my devotion satchels and get that balanced partner bonus!!😫

Now onto the Grandiose Ceremony from last week. That was more interesting than I anticipated. I think I figured out the trick to placing better within each group, but I just didn’t have the time to test my strategy. What I wanted to see is whether having stronger confidants in the bottom categories improved your score in the long run. It was a trend I was noticing among a couple other players. But I used all my strongest as the leads and supporting confidants in the top three ceremonies. So hopefully when the event comes back around again, I’ll be able to see what method works better than others. I almost made it into the top 27, but missed it by 2 spots. 😩 Oh well, next time.

The above was a common trend for me though. As long as two other players were not competing against me in the top ceremony, I usually got first. But as the pool of competitors dwindled, my placement in all the ceremonies began to fall too. 😩 Anyway, it’s given me more motivation to make those attribute recipes in the kitchen so I can finally promote Yin Zhen to the top category and then start focusing on others.

With all that said, I think I’ve finally settled on who my top 8 partners are going to be and I’m uber excited to finish promoting them. 😂 It will be a little bit, but it will be worth the time and effort. I’m currently thinking I’ll go back into a long hoard so I can promote the final three at the same time. But we’ll see. 😉 And I’m going to leave you with this outfit I came up with, just cause.