Hi, i Play this game (with some interruption) for half an year and i have missed out quite a lot of the Event crusaders.

Here are my consideration for ppl like me:
- most ppl want to collect every crusader
- many ppl want Access to the GOOD crusaders
- if you plan to release better crusaders (power creep) this would be a solution, but would be frustrating for everyone who invested in the old ones
- you give out a very thin possibility to get Equipment during the Weekend buffs

if someone lacks the crusaders he has to:
- get the right Mission
- success in the Mission (i have already failed a Mission with over 90%, that was frustrating)
- get the right Equipment-Mission (right now there are around 30 Event crusaders, means that in 2 years i will get 3 missions for the crusader)
- SUCCESS in the Mission (have failed every equipmission since now)
- get the right Weekend Buff (approx 3 times a year)
- pay to get a very thin Chance to get the equip (5 crusaders --> 5 boxes, means perhaps 2 pieces of equip for the crusader)

All in all this is very dishartening for my collector Soul, so i would suggest to give the possibility in the campaign to choose rewards:
- a Event crusader
- a Event chest
- rubies

or you make a Special shop page, where we can buy Event crusaders from past Events with rubies, and with rubies (steep Prices) also the common and uncommon Version of their gear, perhaps with the Bonus golden epic.

or you simply give the choice between the jeweled chest and one of the Event chests (with a list to choose from) for the rubies - so the crusader would have to be recruited from Missions, you could go for Equipment from Missions and Event chests.

or you make the common to rare Equipment from the Event crusaders avaiable via the silver chests

the majority of event crusaders, even with relatively good gear, are absolutely worthless. I see no need to 'want to collect all' unless you are a pokemon fan LOL.
I ONLY use 4 event crusaders with any regularity, 28 I never even use other then during events for perhaps a minute.
but October will tell... I envision a great disturbance in the force. dau/mau will fall

im using 5 event crusaders in my 12-slot formation. the ones im not using i didnt like or they came from a mission, meaning no gear and not even a glance at their abilities. something really needs to be done about getting event crusaders from missions with no gear to accompany them....at least make them come with 3 uncommons, that way the upgrade missions are for rare or better.

@tesc it might be unfair a tiny bit...but you had over a week to do the event stuff and get multiple chests. you can be unlucky to not get equips in all 3 slots i suppose...but you didnt have to tie multiple crusaders up for 3 days to do it, and not even at 100% chance most of the time. not only are we losing crusaders for 3 days just to possibly get a new one, we'll be losing roughly the same amount of crusaders (with about the same chances) for 2 days in hopes we get some gear....and for that to go in order of rarity, seems a bit more unfair.

a couple possible solutions/tweaks to my idea could be to make the gear rarity random with duration cut in half (down to 24 hours) with 100% chance a possible outcome, or always give rare (or higher) with duration increased to 55-60(random) hours.

edit: random rarity would mean we could get duplicates and therefor another EP point if it is duplicated.

it is very unfair ihatefishing, for us who got them through events.
We HAVE to run event objectives for hours and hours when we might rather do deep idols runs. On many objectives we have to babysit the formation for hours and hours. We get a measly 1% dps boost each for the 2 recruit achievements, and 1 more each for the filling all 3 spots (which you can get over time), and 1 for all our 'wasted time running tens of thousands of event tokens/objectives. and 1 more for a special event achievement that technically you can get if you possess 1 or both crusaders and know what to aim for (is that listed in the game blog?)

all in all, your choosing to put a few crusaders that you don't use anyway, on a mission for a few days is so much less worj then we have to do.