Your argument entirely depends on how easy(or hard) and the cost of getting the 4 frag.

If it is, for example, completely impossible to get the frags, then the 76 frags is essentially useless except for the purpose of getting him to 4 star (you only need 2 repeat as opposed to 5, a huge difference but one most would not care about, even most of the * ptw probably wont bother increasing his star level, thou that might change now that it's easier)

If it is super easy, like from some time limited event with only 1 week of ftp level of work to exchange them, then yeah, you are right, the 76 frag is VERY helpful and great.

Chances are, it's something in between.

As far as chase mission goes, it's highly RNG, unreliable and from my personal experience(never got one), very rare. It is entirely possible that you won't get the 4 frag until you get tendo from tendo treasure off free pulls (yes people, I'm aware that's 2 and half year if you never spent a scroll in tendo treasure. Thou most people have spent some scrolls that way, so it might very well happen in a year's time, but in any case, it might take an average of 3 years to get 4 frags off chased, so comparatively earlier anyway)

As what is more likely is that it will come as frags in some ptw event, like Ay frag was, then it's a matter of how much the 4 frag would cost. And the difference between a full tendo (which, btw, is NOT the same as 400 seals. It's not like you aren't getting OTHER stuff in the sealed) and the cost of the 4 frag is what the value of the 76 is. This is the unknown.

So as of right now, the value and worth of the 76 is unknown, because the cost of the 4 is unknown. You can neither praise nor accuse oasis at this point in time, that will have to wait until the 4 frags have a known cost OR say 4 month later and they still aren't available reliably, in which case we would know that the 76 is crap.

So if I were to hand you a valid check for 50,000 dollars that expires in 2 year, locked in a safe that will explode violently if you don't enter the correct password but will unlock automatically 2 years later.
And I'm willing to sell you the password to the safe for 60,000 dollars.
It's still awesome that you got a check for $50k right? None of the rest of that detail matters, all that matters is that I gave you a $50k check, right?

Logic

The fact that they gave us 76 frag, which is the "majority" is irrelevant, what is relevant is how difficult and/or how much it would cost to complete the puzzle. That's all that is relevant.

No, you didn't say tendo is EQUAL to 400 scroll, but you strongly implies that he makes up the majority of the value (and that's what you have now, I have seen a number of people who... let's say imply it in a stronger fashion. The fact that your post was edited means I can't know if you rephrased it)

It "expires" when you pull him off the free pull daily. It will happen EVENTUALLY. I've mentioned that point somewhere.

And then, it will become 80/100 which is even further away. This is why chase mission (if it wasn't removed but just a bug) isn't a good enough solution, because going by the current rate, at least half the people will end up with tendo BEFORE getting the 4 frag.

check = tendo
password : let's say it's 80 digits and I told u the first 76 digits for free and am selling you the remaining one
safe&explode: simply the equivalent of "you cannot get to the reward unless you meet the FULL conditon"

And as per my original post, i didn't say you are wrong out right, just that your the correctness of your argument cannot be determined until the difficult to attain the 4 frag is known--and it's currently unknown. And overall, the value of the 76 is dependent on the 4. After all, in the equation of A+B=C, if C is known (tendo, a super rare), to know the value of A(the 76), we need the value of B to solve the equation.
And the problem lies precisely in no other function reliably reward tendo. If it was sage naruto frag, thou worth less, there would be far less drama, it's FAR easier to complete the puzzle in that case which makes a better know value of "B" (and at that, not very high) and therefore we can solve for "A" which then have a high value.
As it were, the more rare tendo frag is, the more each frag cost, the LOWER the value of the 76 is.

If tendo is worth say $500 (let's say they put him in the lightning shop that sell 80 frag as a bundle that you can only buy it once, and thus giving him a definite value)
Each frag is sold at $100
You have and only have the 76 frags.
What is the value of the 76 frag?
Certainly NOT $7600, it certainly cant be worth more than the full tendo
No, it's 100 dollars, the difference between 500 and 4x100.

Ergo, the higher the cost of the 4, the lower the worth of the 76.
As it were, tendo does have some sort of fixed value, as you can have a 50/50 chance of pulling him at 400 scroll. Even if we consider everything else in the treasure is worthless(which I believe you agree they aren't), it is worth at most $2000 (which, btw, gets you 800 scrolls at the worst cost:scroll ratio w/ no rebate etc). As it were, tendo is probably worth $300-500 at most, if we take into consider the value of other stuff and discounts/seal rebates etc.

So what we have is, for example, A + B = 400
Where A is the 76 frag
B is the cost of 4 frag
The higher the value of B, the lower the value of A.

Edit:
I would like to note that the 76 DOES have another value, specifically that of 4 tendo re-draws, so it would be worth either the cost of buying 76 frags individually OR 3-4 redraws(which is, from sealed, ~$1200-1600 value). This is for the purpose of upgrading him to 4 star if the player already have him. Of course, if he IS released in lightning treasure @80 frags as a bundle, then the value of the 76 is more or less just slightly below whatever that is, even for the purpose of upgrading for 4 star. It's a bit complciated but you get the idea. Thou this is the fringe case of upgrading to 4 star, most people are talking about just the recruitment bit, so let's * to that to make arguments simple.
This post was last edited by PraiseLuka at 2017-4-21 17:31