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After some further discussion amongst friends, one of the contributing factors that made last year's event so great was the Rune Fragments where you could instead shoot for the B-Grade and A-Grade rune frags to purchase whatever runes you wanted in the exchange shop (3-8 frags depending on the rune). They likely included the coupons on the prize wheel in place of that, so you're likely to come out with lots of outfit parts for characters.
This was probably one of the best events last year as long as you played the waiting strategy (even more if you were one of those that exploited the bug). Assuming the wheel works the same as before.
-Clarification-
The wheel is misleading; none of the items are actually an equal 1/16 chance. You will get C-Grade items most frequently, even if they only make up 3 slots of your wheel. However, take comfort in knowing that the 16 items displayed will indeed be the only items obtainable on that spin, meaning you won't get a random Goddess Grace if it isn't present on the wheel.
-Strategy-
If there is a particular item you want from the Spin Wheel (or items you REALLY don't want), accumulate as many tickets you can before spinning. Ultimately this means gathering and gathering until the last possible day of the event. The Super Charge ability is essentially your way of re-rolling the board until you see desired prizes. 41 days, 8 tickets per day for being logged in, which should leave you with 328 tickets by the end of this event.
It is not ideal to spin if there is a Festival Trophy or soap of any kind in your C-Grade slots because you'll end up with a lot of these, and they are generally easy to obtain.
As pointed out by 2edgy4u, there are no specific super charge tickets this time, you just use regular tickets to supercharge the wheel. It may be wise to simply limit useless prizes in anticipation of not getting a good S-Grade prize wheel.
The rarest and most achievable prize is arguably the B-Grade Swirly Prize Coupon because they can be exchanged for Reilly Toy weapons and avatar outfits, and are trade-able within your account via mail and shared storage. I argue that it's not because the Daily Missions across multiple characters will already provide several outfitter pieces if not all the outfit pieces that you desire.
Every character is good. Look up videos of the different classes to get a feel of what to play, given that fun is subjective.
Does every character transition to level 90 evenly? I don't want to pick a class I feel like I'm useless as later on.
All characters are provided gear as they progress through the main story, so leveling pace is quick and about the same (except maybe scythe Evie if she still has to wait until level 22 just to learn her first scythe skill).
If you already know how to do empowered smashes on Lynn, she is arguably the 3rd fastest at leveling now, but she is still the most regretted choice at end-game because of her difficulty and low damage reward.
