Man, this is looking like a really nice event after the eh that has been these past few weeks. A skillup event is excellent, but not seeing an announcement for a permanent skillup increase means I can either hoard my Sabo copies and get him to ~20 CD, or I can continue to hoard them in my box till that fateful day
comes. I'm not feeding my 3D2Y Zoro/Sanji books until the permanent skillup increase happens or another FN drops on Global with their books, whichever happens first. Getting them is half the battle, the other half is actually having them at usable CDs. Zoro more than Sanji since he's a great captain in his own right that can stall for days, but you guys get the point. Everything else I have left over from the now-gone FNs, I'm gonna feed if I can.
Turtles are always a good thing, having the Buster Call back so soon is nice although I really only want to skillup Dalmatian at this point so I don't care toooo much. Kuma being back is excellent, I can finish up his last two sockets and 4 or so skillups. Invasion Whitebeard...eh? I don't see the appeal of him at all, massive health cut aside. Seems like he has a super impractical CD even at max.
The only thing I gotta worry about for this week is clearing all of the Chaos coliseums and deciding how hard I wanna go in on Kizaru. Knowing that we'll have meat ups during the second half of the CP9 fortnight makes me feel more than okay with ignoring it for the rest of the week and focusing on clearing the coliseums(I still don't bother farming them yet, I pulled enough during the 2 Year Anni that I probably need one or more character's books from every incoming fortnight for the next 9 months, which means dumping my stamina on new FNs).
Finally, Kizaru. I now have the team, and I have enough gems to farm him pretty hard. But. Do I wanna commit all those gems to him? Yeah, I have Ace. And Jinbe. So he seems like a natural raid unit to farm. But do I need him ASAP? Tbqh, the answer is no. At least, not anywhere close to max CD. I've got other great QCK Shooter subs like Van Auger(pls no meme), SW Usopp, and Gladius. Fighters, I've got Legend Marco/Boa and 3D2Y Luffy, all who do great work on a Jinbe team. Yeah he increases my max burst and he's probably the best Shooter captain in the game for speedfarming(4 from double Kizaru, 1 from Ace's ship, 2 from max Charge Special, and 2 from using each Kizaru special once. That's 9 CD reduced on turn one, making someone like Zephyr have 8 turns to go for his Special to be ready). But. He's just sprinkles on an already awesome ice cream for me. I'll drop a few gems on him and farm him casually, but I won't go max or bust.
I learned self-restraint too late to save me from becoming a whale during 2YA, but I at least learned it soon enough to stop being a whale pretty quickly. Time to turn over a new leaf