Oh I actually wonder something, did you ever managed to get Perfect when you used the Attack power (without the special charm for guaranteed perfect)?
Nope, not even once. Only got Perfect with items this time (they look like a cut-up fruit or cake). I seem to recall that there was a chance to get Perfect just regularly in previous similar events, so perhaps they retuned the dispersion.
Also I always wondered, what is the reward for defending incoming battle? Do you like get lot of fans at least? Because it really seemed to me that Def is totally useless so I didn't put anything into it.
Oh, absolutely. For a minmaxing kind of player who cares about pure performance, Defence is useless, at least at higher levels. I rarely see anyone attacking at all these days. The last attack was on April 30th (and he lost). But when I started out, I always was low on money, because remember - no rewards. So I had something like 5,000 (FIVE THOUSAND) money in the bank and they were attacking all the time. Each attack was -800 or so. It was difficult balancing act of grinding all the time, using few drops to level, then selling the majority for money. You can imagine that being able to deflect some was satisfying.
Even under those circumstances I thought about a strategy of not defending at all and just focusing on attack. E.g. I wake up every day, see between 1000 and 2000 lost. Then I attack some weaklings and gain +1000 back per success. Seems like breaking even easily if I do not lose days. But it didn't seem like fun and you cannot leave things. So I chose to do it 50-50. Very likely not optimal, but whatever.