So the event page for Dancing Avengers Flames of the Heart has just went live a few minutes ago and with that, we get a glimpse of the event’s contents regarding the free whatever, the event boss’s element, the event weapons and if there’s gonna be another mini-game. For this event, we, yet again, get another event skin and this time, it’s for Aliza.

Ever since post-anniversary 2018 events (Robomi Z), we’ve been getting less and less free characters but instead getting more and more skins, while the skins are appreciated, 2019 has gone full blown into the trend as the year (excluding Collabs) so far had only given 2 free characters (3 if you can “Second Advent” as a 2019 event), the 2 being the R Cat from “The Many Lives of Cats” and SSR Sandalphon (if and only if you hadn’t already gotten him from “WMtSB II: Paradise Lost”) and the rest have been skins.

Why am I upset? I’m deeply invested in Granblue’s stories whether they be casual stuff or heavily lore related, this easily means that with more skins, the less stories there are to be told = the less we also get to know some characters cause even if the free character might have really bland and non-important stories in their fate episodes, it’s these stories that let you, the player, get to know a character; for one, I certainly have developed my love for Aster mainly because of her event SR’s fate episodes even if they were just your everyday routine generally back when I was still in my noob days.

I think one of the reasoning behind the rise of event skins is that they believe no really uses the SRs and, most often than not, people just really use them as skins anyway; while the reasoning does prove a good point I still find it disappointing as even event SRs can provide their worth so long they’re built properly, i.e. Sevilbarra from “Reflections for a White Clover” whom I use for my light GW EX+ OTK setup or even the Swimsuit Olivia from “Bzzt! Amped-up Summer!” as she’s literally a Grand Olivia lite which can be completely useful in certain situations should you not have the grand version, I remember using her for time but I’ve got the Grand version now.

To be honest, I’m quite fine if not all events come with event SRs like what 2018 did but at least it still felt balanced as we still got quite a number of free characters last year compared to this year; I guess they’re only putting out free characters now if they really feel the need to tell a story on them be it supplementary to the current event or not as long as the character in question isn’t due for an SSR gacha release yet but yeah, I really wish we go back to a more balanced release of free skins and free characters during the new events.