I don't have Xmas Chang either, so I use this team.
Remember to give all three main fighters the Occasional Holiday set for the maximum benefit.
Note about this. After doing the math, having:
- A gold team like this (even better if you have Xmas Chang and switch out 97 Robert)
- Occasional Holiday set on each main fighter
- The NY event option card "A Real Winner" on a unit
If you have the above or something similar (
learn more about gold farming teams here), then farming the Hard level of the Gold Rush produces more gold than farming Decisive Battle EX of the SamSho event to buy gold boxes with a full team of lv 85+ SamSho fighters (plus a lv 85+ Samsho supporter) with one 6* King of Darkness option card.
If we treat the average gold box to be 10k (trust me, this is generous) and add the 800 gold you get at the end for level completion, then we're getting roughly 35,000 gold per run on average. This is with 25 AP cost.
If you have the exact team that HoursLeft posted, with 3 sets of Occasional Holiday and the A Real Winner option card, then you are making 43,968 gold per run on average. This is with 15 AP cost.
So, for example, if you have 375 AP max, and you wanted to farm some gold, then with SamSho with a fully kitted SamSho team, you're getting 525,000 gold per full AP run on average. If you farm Gold Rush Hard with the team I mentioned above, then you're getting 1,099,200 gold per full AP run. ...yeah.
TL;DR: Ever since the "nerf" Netmarble did to farming events by making you exchange coins for gold boxes instead of just gold, it's no longer worth it to farm events for gold. You're better off just farming Gold Rush Hard anytime for gold, or better yet, saving your AP refill items for the mini-events that lessen AP cost for Gold Rush to farm gold. Use this time to either farm Epic Quest or farm SamSho for the affinity items, NOT for gold.