Talk:Guild/Titan Valley/Elemental Spirits/@comment-75.191.0.187-20200706162519/@comment-11829889-20200710205739

The above chart is not cumulative. Whoever thinks that the column with "Cost to the Next Totem(emeralds)" is correct is spreading falsehoods.

Whenever you get a totem fragment, be it through emeralds, regular openings, or other means such as winter klaus, your protection against bad luck thingy resets back to 0, and you are guaranteed to get your next totem fragment only after spending full amount mentioned for each fragment. So for example, let's say you get lucky and you get your 13th fragment with a regular summon, you then move onto the 14th fragment bad luck protection, which requires you to spend 3,683,333 more emeralds in order to guarantee getting it (so if we're going by total investments, it's 3,683,333 and everything else that you had spent on this up to this point), not the advertised 283,333 emeralds mentioned by this wikia page.

Luck is more at play here than the actual bad luck protection, but if someone's luck is so bad that he has to rely on these failsafes entirely, one would have to spend a grand total of 43,299,500 emeralds in order to guarantee getting all the totem fragments in existence, rather than the advertised 5,100,000 emeralds, which is just the last fragment once you have the other 17.