This could just be silly coincidences in my luck, but I find SoL more often in my runs after I rev somebody (or some random bodies) and my spark drops end up exceeding my rev expenses by the end of the day. Otherwise, for me, SoL are super rare.
What I'm looking for is... an answer to: is anyone else experiencing this, or is this all in my head?
I get a spark almost every time I use one on someone else, so I guess you're not the only one.
I just try to revive anyone I know who might need the sparks more than I do yet I'm still gaining more than I'm using.
I was feeling the same the other day, rev'd someone and in the next green box, tada! a SoL.
It is the most fundamental element of human nature to see patterns where none exist.
It's quite common for me to find a spark or two after using one. However, I don't think there's any mechanic for it. I guess it's just like the belief that some people have with Iron Lockboxes - they think that your chance of obtaining one from the prize wheel increases if you have recently opened one using a Silver Key.
Until someone finds some way of testing this, I'm just going to pass it off as coincidence.
I did an elite stratum 5 arena with two noobish players. Neither of them had sparks so I ended up using about 6 sparks on them. At the end of that run I got exactly zero sparks.
You 'good karma' is probably just a coincidence
My friend swears at me all the time and he gets about 1/3rd the amount of fire crystals I do and rarely gets good UV's on Punch and 1/3rd of the 5* mats that I get, and I sometimes hand money out to noobies and I get a 6-9 crystals on any level on a normal basis, and sometimes up to 18 per lvl