Encore parties

Encore parties are week-long limited events. You perform daily tasks to earn encore coins, spend those at a mini gacha for event currency and rare rewards, and spend what that gives you in the event shop. Rewards range from skins to UR shards.

They are currently the best way to meaningfully ascend souls from previous ranking events, but they are expensive, and not only in crystals: the later rounds require real money. Not all encores are equal either. One may give 150 shards of a ranking UR; another a skin and a collection R/SR.

Terms

Over the 7 days of an event. A non-spender tops out at 87 coins.

Rebate rewards cost $10.

• ,When a Gate of Trials runs alongside an encore, this is among the cheapest ways to get UR tickets, and it offsets the crystal cost, so you keep saving for the Gate while clearing the 200-crystal daily task.
• ,Spend 200 crystals on gate tickets for the three days the Gate is available.
• ,On the other days, spend 140 crystals on stamina in the shop, then the remaining 70 through the “+” on the stamina bar.
• ,Spend as much as possible on the stamina bar, then whatever else it takes to reach 200.
• ,Buy UR tickets from the shop once you can afford them.
• ,Why it works: stamina and gate tickets both feed a Gate of Trials, so buying them is already saving for one. At stage 6 an artifact energy costs 12 crystals and a ticket averages 3 energy, so any UR ticket under 36 crystals beats buying gate tickets outright, and as a by-product of spending you would do anyway, they come out at roughly 19.5 crystals each.
• ,In short: easy artifact energy if you are saving for a Gate. Just do it.

• ,Exclusive items are mostly out of reach without spending, 47 to 57 is the ceiling, so F2P are mostly restricted to ticket purchases.
• ,The two worth having are mirror images and, especially, UR challenge tickets. Both are uncommon and valuable, and UR challenge tickets are cheaper here than almost anywhere else, but only when a Gate of Trials is running.
• ,Otherwise convert exclusive items into tickets: you are unlikely to have enough of them for anything good.

• ,Round 10 at the very most. Rounds 11 and beyond repeat the same rewards, extra exclusive items and tickets.
• ,Encores almost always run alongside a money rebate worth 16 coins, which brings the cost of reaching round 10 down to $47.
• ,The URs on offer change from encore to encore, and many are of little use now. Check the Food Soul Guide before committing, spending is rarely worth it unless you already have the unit built and want another ascension level.
• ,With monthlies you can run the crystal strategy above even without a Gate of Trials, since you can spend fully on the stamina bar once the three monthly stamina purchases are used up.