Hello, first and foremost really nice and clear guide, good job! Good to finally know the point requirements for leveling up.

I've got a suggestion about recommendations (in case you dont consider getting any ninja frags) - even though refines (when you use them, they are always a good option), it may be better in a long run to invest in clothing in terms of power. When you look at the current other clothing prices (eg. kimono, 50/frag) and compare that to refines (less than 25cp - shop price) and notice, that summer clothing costs only 25% more than refine, that puts refines in this event in a really bad light (this applies to free point spending).

Let's say you ac*ulate 100 free coins during that event, neither 5 refines, nor 4 cloth frags won't give you immediate noticeable power HOWEVER in terms of item value, getting refines gives you 5*25=125cp and getting summer clothing gives you 4*50=200cp. That being said, if you want to know what might be better in a long term, I'd personally go for cloth. I assumed 50cp/frag, because sooner or later price will drop and will be equal to other clothing.

If you wanna spend your coupons on this event its not worth it. It will cost more than 6k coupons for the cloth.

Its foolish to say it costs 'x' amount for the Clothing, since you're not just getting that particular item.

50 Frags of the Summer Break Clothing requires an investment of approximately 12,000 coupons/ingots. Now, we'll put a price of it of 5,000 C/I, going by Cowboy outfit's original pricing of 100 C/I per frag.

In addition to going for this, you also get the rewards from Blessing your Tree. I'll break it down based on what I got from investing in the event.

40 Mood Scrolls = 600

28 Seal Scrolls = 3500

400 Cave Key = 4480

200± lvl 2 Magatamas = 3000

Dangos as well, but we wont factor those in.

So all that comes to a total of 11,580 C/I, add in the estimated cost of the Costume at 5000 C/I & you're looking at 16,580 C/I worth of items. So your investment gives you a potential saving of 4,580 C/I.

Now, on top of this, the Clothing itself give you a 450bp increase via 300 Life & 100 Initiative.

So this event isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be, due to the scaling rewards of the Tree, it requires you to invest beyond a handful of Blessings.

Synergy

You can't look at each event separately, you need to take into account this weeks cycle of events as a whole.
This event works well with Cave Exploration Rebate, Daily Spending Rebate, Time Limited Ninja Recruitment & the upcoming Crazy Slot Machine.

Cave Exploration Rebate

You get approximately 400± Cave Keys that will enable you to do take part in this event, in addition to the Keys that players have been stacking over the course of the past weeks. So you'll get a significant BP boost from this.

Daily Spending Rebate

To maximise one this event, you need to stagger your investment over at 4 days to get the most possible.

4 Summon Scrolls: 252

80 Coupons : 80

40 Cave Keys: 460

32 Medium Refines: 800

4 Level 5 Ninjutsu Magatama: 1620 (pricing based on 12 lvl4 Ninjutsu Magatama)

40 Advanced Refines: 1520

4 level 5 Rainbow Magatama: 2000 (conservative guess at pricing)

Total Value: 5732

Time Limited Ninja Recruitment

As we all know, for each 10 ingots spent, you get 1 Limited Point. Which will allow you to invest towards whatever redeemable items you prefer. Personally, as someone who missed Jonin Minato during his introductory event, I took the chance to finish off collecting his fragments.

Now, when you compare getting Jonin Minato via this event, you need to cast your mind back to Fateful Encounter, where his cost ranged from 8,000 to 12,000 for 80 fragments & you got no additional items in return for that investment.

Getting 80 Jonin Minato fragments costs an investment of 16,000 ingots in other events/features.

Crazy Slot Machine

So you've recharged towards getting the Summer Break outfit from Konoha's Great Tree, lets say 12,000 C/I as a conservative estimate, this will give you 120 spins & you'll get various rewards

Potential Value of Overall Items

So you've invested 12,000 C/I into the event.

In Great Tree, you've gotten approximately 16,580 C/I worth of items. See above for the break down. 5732

Taking the Events this cycle as a whole, you've gotten potentially 34,312 worth of items for a 12,000 Ingot investment. (Using Jonin Minato's top cost from Fateful Encounter)

Please note, that these are approximations & obviously doesn't include rewards gained from Crazy Slot Machine. Your mileage may vary.

Very nice guide

@Kaislee you forgot, that if you use ingots, you also get the benefit of daily spend, at least 4 times so thats another +- 6k value of items

Sorry about that, amended the post to reflect Daily Spending Rebate

Nice to see the point breakdown per level hehe.

Just one comment on the value of the items, everyone should input their own values to this. Typically taking from the basic shop is not the best benchmark, because pretty much no one buys from there.

Good benchmarks for coupon value of items would be the konoha gift shop or sage (particularly if you are a semi/low spender) - at these places, items are already generally already ~20% off (eg charms at 100 per). Evaluate your spending power and determine whether or not to go for it. This event values *l-or-nothing strat, due to the increased value of rewards as your tree levels up, you get increasing * per buck/RoI the more you spend, so unlike other events, it is inefficient to semi spend for this. Identify if there is something you want, and go all out for it, or just * with the free dailies for decent value redeems.

edit: seems like a couple of benign words got auto censored haha, but should be guessable what words they are or the context of my sentence :P