"Most players are not so obsessed with the game that the have to get it all done as quickly as possible." That is why I didn't use myself as a basis for reference. I am not the common player. You might have missed that part. Don't worry, it happens to everyone.

"I took me well over 6 months to get all of the 20 originals to rare or better" Six months? I would react more in-depth to this, but it will be better covered in a later section.

"So you approximation of two months is false and impossible for the common player that has a life and doesn't have time to reset multiple times a day." I don't remember many times I've reset multiple times per day. Even earlier on when I could only routinely get to 200 with moderate ease, I would only reset maybe twice per day, and that didn't last long at all since the idols built up pretty quickly and I was able to reach 300 and 400 pretty quickly (in terms of overall gameplay time, not individual resets), which took most of the day to get to, which limited me to 1 reset per day. 2 if I was lucky. That was progress within a month. Which, again, is abnormal because I am not the average gamer and would never use myself as a set standard. Doubling still might not hit the realm of normality, and tripling might get close but not quite there, so even if I quadruple it to make an enormous difference in time between myself and the common player, that should be plenty of time. If it took you "well over 6 months" of dedicated play, then you're just horribly, horribly, hooooorrribly unlucky. I'm famously unlucky among my friends, so much so that we've given my special god-endowed bad luck it's own name, and even I managed to get full-rare within a month of dedicated play. If it took you 6 months of dedicated play, then CLEARLY there is an alternate factor not being considered to cause such a massive difference.

"I said better EQUIPPED not BETTER." First off, wrong. Second off, that's the whole purpose of this thread. 1) When are ECs ever better-equipped than originals? I've gotten a fair few ECs from events and their gear never outranks my originals because I was able to get loads of original gear from silver chests and do early/easy objectives for a bunch of early jeweled chests, which got me pretty decent gear right off-the-bat once I finally began resetting. Even someone who plays at a slower rate can still knock out a bunch of the earlier objectives quickly because they are intentionally piss-easy to let the player get used to the mechanic and reward them for trying it out. A player's originals should be plenty equipped before they are taking on events. The events even make sure of this by limiting accessibility based on how many idols the player has, which means they are required to have reset a number of time before they can even accept event objectives, and after multiple resets, the player should have their originals at least halfway-decently equipped with at LEAST all-uncommon and a few rares, assuming they, for some reason, did not do any ruby-based objectives to get jeweled chests. 2) You're lumping ALL ECs together in one nebulous classification despite the topic being about how mission ECs are not equipped enough to compete with original crusaders. EVENT-obtained ECs tend to have fairly decent gear that can potentially work better than original crusaders, but MISSION-obtained ECs do not have that benefit, which is the topic of this thread. Lumping the two types of ECs together is the antithesis of this thread.

"once the two new Event Crusaders(which require no idols) are recruited then FP is unlocked. If you are going to tell someone that they are wrong please make sure your supposed 'facts' are right."

Irony. So much irony. There's an event going on right now, so you can actually check this for yourself as you read this...

Top-left. Hover over your current objective. Click "See All Objectives". Go up to the events and click the third, fourth, or fifth event objectives. You know, the three event objectives that have the biggest impact on gearing up ECs, as is the purpose of this thread. You go check those. Click any of those and then look at the right, where it says "Objectives & Restrictions". Among the list of objectives and restrictions, check to see if there is an idol requirement on any, or all three, of them. If there is not and you are correct, post your Paypal information and I will pay you for a full 3-course meal at a nice restaurant.