Alright so the moment I've been waiting for is here, the Acheron/Aventurine banners. My goal was Acheron E0S1 and Aventurine just E0, so I went in with roughly 325 pulls worth of currency (tickets, jades, and some overflow in the star embers).
I think the end result was pretty good, I lost my 75/25 on the LC but won the rest, I do keep on hitting pity though which is typical of my luck!
According to warp tracker these are my pulls and pity values for the rate up banners. So won all 5 50/50's here but everything is red and nothing early. Game giveth and taketh away but I can't really complain here because I'd take this every time over the odd early pull or losing 50/50 and having to pity twice.
For the Light Cones, whilst I did lose the 75/25 here I sort of lost it in the
best way possible, by getting Gepards LC which is meant to be really good for Aventurine if you don't get his one!
So grand total of 116 pulls on the LC banner to get these two LC's, and 150 pulls on the rate up banners to get Acheron and Aventurine. 266 tickets spent altogether.
I have about 80 pulls left for the next banner I want (50 of which is sat in star embers but I suspect I'll just redeem for more pulls), for 2.7 think it's Fugue Tingyun or Sunday, for waifu/nihility this favours the Tingyun one but I'll see how their kits look and if I want them nearer the time. Meanwhile, back to saving. I have exhausted most of the easy to get jade sources.
I've managed to gear up and build up Acheron pretty well, level 80, full set of slightly not optimal gear but it's not bad, and her traces are mostly done but the last few are left to do (the most expensive ones that need 14 of the 4 * materials each). She's usable as is and in my limited testing is doing well, but I kind of knew that from when I borrow her from you lot
Aventurine is another story though and I need to start focusing my efforts on getting him to the same sort of place as my other SSR's, so that is my next goal starting now.
Bonus things:
Pela E5
Rat E3
4 Copies of each of the 4 star LC's on the LC banner