While it's probably possible for me to clear Nightmare raid on my F2P no pulls alt, I've decided not to since I haven't really done my proper due diligence in decking out my team for it. While my Euden and Botan are completely maxed, Melsa and Xuan Zang are just 4* 40 MC with 5.2 weapons. While this is fine for most folks building teams, I unfortunately can only give them MUB Brunhilda's, so I'd at the very least want to give them 5.3.0 weapons to compensate for how much less on-element strength I provide than the average veteran player. My biggest bottleneck is the fact that the majority of the welfare cast share weapon crafting mats (Melsa, Botan, Su Fang, Elias, and Xuan Zang, as well as Luca, Alex, and Elisanne from the main cast), so I need to grind that out a lot more.
I've also realized across my time with DL and other gachas that I really dislike getting carried, so I don't really want to be the lowest DPS contributor on any given pub group. I'm just gonna sit out of Nightmare until I can make proper teams for pubs. Carrying newbies through Expert and EX is a decent time though. Most of the Nightmare rewards are pretty inapplicable for me anyway, since I don't need more dragon fruit (all my dragons are max level, and I was able to instantly max Yulong with hundred of fruits to spare), dragon ore is pretty useless, and I still have over 30 Twinkling Sands, so most of the loot can end up not really helping out anyway. I'm probably gonna just go for the 1K/1K/3K emblems on my alt, still debating on whether or not I just elect for 3K gold emblems on my main.
On an unrelated note, I really hope the next chapter gives a freebie like Alex but freeze-resist. The main reason my Water IO team can't consistently auto is because whoever is P1 still ends up getting frozen most of the time, not helped by the fact that we still only have 2 25% Feeeze-resist Wyrmprints, one of which is a 5*.
