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Bye, Felicia.
The translation has me scratching my head a bit now. It's utterly charming in a simple, almost childish kind of way so I was presuming it was being done by someone whose first language was definitely not English, then out of nowhere Azusa drops the comment to Homura: "Would you be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?" (a spooky enough reference to hear today of all days) which surely would not have landed the same in Japanese, unless she spoke that line in English even in the Japanese text.
I've just looked and there is indeed a package that nets a total of 440 gems over 30 days (£2 on the first go, will likely be £5 on subsequent purchases). That doesn't sound like a lot but AT gems seem higher value than their equivalent in other games, going by what you've said and what I know from Tacticus, which requires 300 blackstone per pull whereas AT only requires 50 gems. I'm not using gems to roll the gatcha at all though, only tickets. That seems like a good way to bankrupt yourself, I'm saving my gems to buy characters and outfits with.
I just reached level 50 with Asagi so the level-up bundles are getting more pricey now, but her level 50 bundle still offers 600 gems and a load of other stuff for £12, whereas to buy 620 gems in the store would cost a whopping £40 (but you can also get 300/500 as part of bundles for £10/£20 so I'm not sure why anyone would just buy the gems). Like you say, it's definitely worth seeing what gives the best value for money.
And I can't be sure, but I think I might have unknowingly cheesed the action points used to play missions. There's a level-dependant limit on how many you can have at a time (mine is currently 48) but since the game starts you above that limit, it seems as long as you never dip below it you can continue to accumulate AP using items rather than time. I'm currently sitting on 1650/48 and have enough items to add another 3600 to that... Considering a mission costs 4-12 a go, I think I'll be good for AP for a while.
