Bummer! Well, apparently my bandwagoning with the huge guilds worked, and I went with the FQ refresh boon. It already paid off the first day by swapping air faerie for dark faerie, saving me three red codestones. Woot!
My next refresh: I refreshed level hoping for something with more free trainings, got gray faerie (warf, found in petpet shop for 1377 NP after haggling)... and got level. I didn't even check carefully what the original quest was, but it wasn't one of the "junk" cards, so I came out around the same or maybe a little ahead by refreshing (cheapest cards are around 1k, with some 2-3k).
Today's refresh was light for light again (though directly this time). I ended up paying 1698 for the second card. The first was worth 2119, so I saved 421 NP.
The days I didn't refresh, I got grey (which gave me strength), dark, water, and soup (which gave me strength and level, the two stats I sort of don't need right now...). I ramped up level to rapid train in the secret ninja school, and I've already caught strength up to 550+. I need to catch defence and HP up before going up to the next training level. I'll need the strength and levels eventually, but quests and training bonuses have already used up 9 of the 24 levels of buffer I left before the next boost....
Anyway, at least the cookie is making up for all the times I can't train. Let's see... I need 296 HP, 339 defence, 41 strength, 15 level, and then ~180 more HP if I want to squeeze everything I can out of this training level. And I need all that by November/December (and then some, so I can get to the 600 strength boost and the level 300 ability). We still have the faerie festival coming up, and I can buy more cookies, but I don't know how much FQing I can do at the rate I'm burning through these levels. *sigh*
I know 1 red codestone is still cheaper than an armoured negg, but maybe I should consider forgoing the defence for now anyway just to increase my chances of getting the strength boost and ability.
ETA: Well, dang. Armoured neggs are worth over 100k now. I wish I had access to my stockpile, though I'm not sure I'd sell them. JS should really drop more neggs (especially with KQ gone for so long) and fewer bottled faeries in the BD. They only dropped so many faeries at the start because everyone needed them, but the market is ridiculously oversaturated at this point.
Blue graffitied on my signature... But it made me laugh, so it's all good!
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