So I may be getting back into KHUx.
I have been playing it for the Classic Kingdom games since yesterday so I can get the Starlight Keyblade in KH3 when it comes out (and I finished getting that today, just need to wait for them to release my code with everyone else's now). But since I got Jewels for achieving those goals, I decided to go to the main game. I had previously logged in to claim the recent Anniversary present, where I had also found I had loads of Jewels and other things built up in my Present Box from the months of inactivity.
In total, I had over 40,000 Jewels. So I decided to look around the game as a lot seems to have changed since I last played.
First I tried out PVP since I never played that before. Got my butt kicked, my medals were severely outdated since I dropped the game before 7-Star Medals and Tier 7-8 Specials and all this were added to the game.
So I noticed there was a permanent "Newcomer" banner that guaranteed you a copy of 0.2 Kairi every pull. I remember her being a super hyped up medal back when she was originally coming to KHUx Global, as she was really useful for a while before that in KHUx JP. She's a really powerful buffer medal.
So I pulled enough of her (1,500 Jewels per pull) to Guilt her and max out her Special Attack Bonus. Each pull also gives a free Second Chance III skill medal IIRC.
Then I noticed I could evolve her to 7-Star. But it requires 5 of these Blue Fairy medals, with a number 5 next to them. They're used for evolving Tier 5 medals, like Kairi here. You can usually only get them from Silver/Golden Ticket banners, and you need to win PVP to get those. So I seemed screwed. But it turns out there was a VIP Board with those medals available for a limited time right now. I happened to have some VIP coins lying around so I used them to buy....4 Tier 5 Blue Fairy medals. Just one short.
So I flipped around the game some more to find out how I get more VIP coins. Turns out you need to pull from certain banners. The only banners that had them were the recently released HD Invi, Ira, and Ava EX+ medals. I'm with the Vulpes union and I like Ava as a character, and she seems like a really powerful medal. So I pulled from her banner to get some VIP coins.
Well it turns out this banner is actually amazing, as you are guaranteed one maxed out 7-Star medal per pull (as in it's fully Guilted, has a random skill of a set of particularly powerful skills, and may also come with a Trait), some grayed out versions of Ava's medal so you can merge them with her for Traits and such when you get the real medal, and you get 3 Magic Mirrors and 11 VIP Coins per pull. And after 10 pulls you get HD Ava EX+ guaranteed, if you didn't get her before then.
I had just a bit under 30,000 Jewels after pulling the Kairis I needed, and decided to keep going on the banner because of the 10 pull mercy rule. I managed...9 pulls, before running out of Jewels.
I was able to fully guilt and evolve Kairi to 7-Star since my Ava pulls got me some VIP coins, which I needed to buy that last Blue Fairy medal. I haven't fully upgraded my 7-Star Kairi yet as I'm low on EXP medals and Chip & Dale medals, but she's super strong and her buffs are amazing.
Not only that, but I got 9 7-Star medals that I also still have to level up with EXP medals but they are fully guilted and have some amazing skills built-in. This one in particular is probably the best one I got.
This medal also used to have an infinite loop glitch in JP when it first launched there, so that's cool. But he came with an amazing skill, and they never had stuff like that when I last played.
So basically TL;DR I only left the game for a relatively short period of time and it's basically a whole new game now. And I got lucky and came in at the exact right time.