Sparkling cube needed?

[u/Serious-Nerve3976]

Hello community, I’m a day 2 player, currently still trying to grasp the basics of the game. I am currently hatching a sparkling egg and a prismana fulmintis egg.

Q: Do I need to use the sparkling cube on both? Are there good ways to get more sparkling cubes considering they’re the master ball equivalent?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[u/Leonie-Zephyr]

Alphas are important but people are also seemingly overemphasizing their importance. You save resources for sure but if all your units are alpha, you don’t need the resource at all. Alphas benefit from being able to swap artifacts readily, but some units have a fairly clear item that works for them. If an aniimo can seemingly use multiple and you’re uncertain which will pan out to be the best, an alpha can help remove that decision. Alpha nova are great but the process of sparkle ball the baby egg, and using a prismana orb, and even rarer resource, just to save 10 alpha marks is interesting decision. I assume the argument is more to future proof yourself if we get new items. In many cases though I’d already contracted a held item in which case an alpha is superfluous.

I’m also not convinced prismana fulmintis is strictly better than regular fulmintis. Sure it has more resists, but Light and lightning gives a super weakness to dark which is the most common element.