Here is my weekly status and giveaway. As usual, I am just doing some missions at night because I am busy during the day. I was able to do some missions during the day during the week but not as often as I would like. It's been quite busy as I start getting back to work. Please make sure to read the rules to qualify for the giveaway.
Majestic Roar
Majestic Roar is the first final boss theme for Trails of Cold Steel 4. This track is just memorable to me because it's the song that I like the most to Giliath Osborne and it tells a lot about the story. The percussion and the melody is just amazing and it fits the final boss fight for the game that closes the Erebonia arc of the game. Giliath Osborne is a very interesting character as he shows up in both the Liberl and Crossbell Arcs before this. It was always hinted that he would be a very important character as his nickname is "Blood and Iron Chancellor". His backstory is very sad but I won't spoil it. He is an unfortunate person and it turns out that you don't really learn exactly who is he until that last fight or the side story in Reverie. The image above is from the wiki's Osborne page.
The other two phases of the boss battle are above if you are interested. The most memorable of them would still have to be Magestic Roar as the next two phases aren't really against Osborne anymore. The tracks are still great and as the final boss themes for the end of the saga, I think it's amazing.
Do you like any of these tracks? If so, why?
Giveaway
The giveaway item is an instrument under the Orchestral music lessons. With 50 more luck, you have a chance of getting more drunk fans and it benefits you if you run Orchestral lessons. Even if you don't run Orchestral lessons, it can help you in the rankings or you can sell it away to someone who wants it for something you need.
Rules
In order to participate:
- Leave a comment with the name of the card
- Include your username in your comment
This time if you do not leave your username, I will not include you in the draw. I want to reward the people who follow the rules. This giveaway is weekly so there is one week's worth of time for you to enter.
Results of the Last Giveaway
The winner is 
Thank you to the rest of the valid participants who did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: Other participants: 
Current Status
My earnings were quite pitiful. As usual, I still haven't showed up as much lately to the game but I'll try to show up everyday. It's been hard though because I only have a few hours at night.
I did get an epic card this week.
Current Stats
I got my stats and estimated collection value using the discord bot. I also saw a nice little bot to see my current collection value in Rising Star. Unfortunately, the bot seems to be down right now so I can't get my stats this week.
Current Ranking
My rank went down but I kind of expected it given how much I played during the past week.
If you want to join Rising star, feel free to use my referral link.
Tips (source)
I think the tips are something every new player should know about. It will help people progress in the game and it hasn't really been shared since surya1adiga stopped his giveaways.
- Take music lessons when possible to raise skill and reduce ego.
- Having lesson specific instruments helps in receiving more skill from that lesson.
- Have pizza box to store any pizza received during mission to reuse later.
- Buy cold pizza slice if possible. This gives 1 refill every 24hours. Comes very handy when you are low on energy.
- If you have enough of cold pizza slice and pizza box, you will never run out of energy.
- If you have more fans than skill and you won't reduce the ego , you can use a storage trailer to store unnecessary cards. Or you can list the card in market for an unreasonably high price.
- Ego received for a particular mission increases every time you play it. The ego is reset to base level the next day. So, try to play different missions to control the ego gained.
Keep track of your achievements to unlock in game rewards- Buy storage trailer (only if necessary) to keep the cards that might have a negative effect. Like a card with high fan count resulting in ego.
- When earning skill points through music lessons, you can earn more points per lesson if you hold more of specific instrument cards. There seems to be base skill which is rewarded irrespective of the card count and then the skill increases depending on the number of the lesson specific card one has.
- Try taking up many smaller missions to fill up pizza boxes and have extra energy to play more rewarding missions. But you need to have pizza boxes for this to work.