Talk:Summer 2016 Event/@comment-26035219-20160818114722/@comment-1853279-20160818133050

As others said above it's a combination of factors. Generally if you are looking at a site like Poi DB or MyFleetGirls, you can filter by both difficulty and clear rank, which will give you a good idea of what difficulty to target for the amount of effort you're putting in. Beware the percentiles given when there isn't a large data set, though. Any less than double digit drops per entry won't really narrow it down that much.

You really have to balance that knowledge with how it's going to be on your sanity and resources. A 5% drop rate on Hard that's almost double a 3% rate on Easy seems tempting, but if you're being turned back equally as often, Easy seems the better use of resources.