If you don't have enough for refine rebate's max reward, then it seems fair to do the welfare's refine mission.
In fact, the rewards there are quite more valuable than refine rebate's, except you don't get any free wish credits (which is good if you have 500+ refine runes).

How is that "messed up"? You were lucky, you should be thankful coz you would've had to use way more than 10.
It's all RNG. Are you sure you'd still succeed with only 10 refines during the rebate event? Highly doubt it.
Sometimes it's better to look at the things we have and be grateful for it than wasting time worrying about the things we don't have.

Sorry, but how can anyone say it's "gone" when it's not even guaranteed to happen even if you chose to do it during rebate?

Hi there! I wanna know this one too, I already used 50 of my Advance Refine to get the 10 to 50 refine times in 7 Days of Welfare Event .. I still have my Medium Refines and was thinking to use it too but, i'm also thinking that, the Cave Keys in the Refine Rebate is much better than the prizes in the welfare event .. -_-

Well, when it comes to weighing Seal Scrolls = Cave keys, it's little hard since both can give good outputs .. But as of now i think, having cave keys is much what i needed since my Initiative needs a little boost to atleast compete with some guys in our server, since we got merged with other servers and now i'm experiencing plunders again after long time xD ..

As long as you dont level up your refine lvl, that event gives way more value that normal "spend x refines" event.

Use advanced to get some wish points then, they start from 0/200, 0/500, 0/1000 so u have plenty of room to distribute them without fear of early upgrade. All that matters is you dont level up, because you would lose 25% wish credit from time limited refining. Also pill is worthless for f2p, small and medium spenders. On lvl10 refine piece one pill gives 6.65 of each secondary stat, which is about 10 power in total and considering it's price, who cares about that :-)

You might not have enough to refine duirng normal refine rebate this even cycle, but if you skip one rebate and wait for other you basically trade those 10(20?) adv refines you'd get for 23 myoboku gifts, 10 capsules and 6 seal scrolls from current rebate, which is worth way more.

Honestly, for f2p its better to use 200refine rebate few times instead of grinding refines for months to get 500. Doing 200rebate 5 times gives u more adv refines than doing 500 twice and both take the same time. Even at this point simply more refines should have priority over pill.

Here's where you are wrong. 1 Piece of gear requires 1700 adv refines, thats 34 000 in total for all 20 pieces. Even if you cut that number in half by using wish credit and luck, thats still 17 000 adv refines. Using cheapest refine price from treasure of the sages, thats 17000*22cp=374 000coupons. Alternatively, you get 15 adv refines for 1st place in sage- you need to win 1334 SWB (thats 3sages for 444 weeks= 8.5 years). Take into account that to this scenario less than 1% of our ftp players can relate, because others are simply not strong enough for swb.

TL;DR as ftp, you will virtually never finish upgrading advanced refines. While still on lower refine lvl (7-8) those refines can give u whole level over time for free. But honestly, at this point it takes so much time it actually doesnt matter if you pick pill or more refines, because you wont play long enough to see what would've happen if you chose otherwise.

No refine rebate tomorrow. Lol. End of discussion. If you don't wanna do the 7 days welfare, then don't. Already got my precious rewards today~

Idk why you keep failing to understand my point about you saying "you've lost your wish credits that would have been for rebate event".
Do you really think you've got the same luck to succeed refining with just 10 refines during the rebate? NO. Of course not.
Your luck today doesn't mean it's going to be the same on other days. That's a wishful thinking.
And like I said, if you don't wanna spend and stuff, don't. Scram.