What to Hoard Before the Season
If your account is approaching day 120, this is the stockpile list. Every item here is worth more spent inside the season than before it:
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🗓 Updated: 2026-10-12
What to Hoard Before the Season
If your account is approaching day 120, this is the stockpile list. Every item here is worth more spent inside the season than before it:
- Diamonds.
- Recruit Tickets.
- Hero Fragments and Medals.
- All Speedups, including Research Speedups.
- Antitoxin.
- Raven Fruit.
- Resources.
- Weapon Materials.
The pattern: the season adds new ways to spend all of them, and several seasonal events reward consumption — hoarding converts directly into event points and progression once the Era starts.
Week 1 Purchases (Spenders)
- Battle Pass + Weekly Era Pass — +250 Resistance and Specialty XP. Best value timing of the season: buy them week 1 so the passes pay out across the full two months.
- Hold the Exclusive Weapon and Awaken Shard packs until the Exclusive Pass Event is active. Same packs, more value when the event pays you for buying them.
Claire SSR-to-UR Conversion (Era Day 8)
The Claire conversion opens at Era Day 8 — but do not touch it on day 8 without reading this first. The conversion lands Claire at 6 stars UR, and the road from there to 10 is where the problems live.
The Costs
- Claire eats SSR shards, not UR shards — the hoarded early-game shards are exactly what this conversion was designed around.
- Every substage costs x2: going 6 stars to 10 stars takes 1,600 shards total.
The Gains
| Star level | Damage vs maxed SSR |
|---|---|
| 9 stars | ~1.70x |
| 10 stars | ~2.20x |
The Passive Dip
The trap: her passive team buff drops when you convert. The SSR’s maxed passive is a 16% team buff; at 6 stars UR it is only 10% — a real couple of percent team loss while you climb back. It recovers at 9 stars (14%) and overtakes at 10 stars (22%).
Skipping the Dip: The Hall of Honor Strategy
You can skip the dip entirely by preparing Hall of Honor levels before converting:
| Hall of Honor level | Conversion outcome |
|---|---|
| Lv. 60 | Claire lands at 8 stars — Advanced Tenacity (+20% ATK / HP / DEF, +10% cooldown speed) |
| Lv. 100 | Claire lands at 9 stars |
| Lv. 160 | All 1,600 shards banked — instant 10 stars, no dip at all |
The bottom line on timing: for an account without a full UR line-up, this conversion is a huge PvP upgrade — a 2.20x damage carry built on shards you hoarded for free. Just time it against your Hall of Honor level and shard bank so you land at 8 stars or better, not at 6.
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