How to deal with enlightened items after long break

WaniKani Requesting Help
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A few weeks ago, I came back to WK, after being in vacation mode for around a year. I made a lot of mistakes first, but after some time, things settled down a bit, and I even felt comfortable doing new lessons again.

I’m a bit worried about some of the items in Enlightened (and Master?) that are have not yet come up in my reviews. Even just when I go through the list of items in the category, I do see a couple here and there that I only remember to some extent. How should I deal with those?

I think while I would sort of be able to type the right answer, I might not really want to burn some of them.

Also, I have done a little bit of custom study, but I wonder if I should be careful with that as well, after all, when I “custom study” review an enlightened item now, and it comes up in my actual reviews tomorrow, I might burn that item even though it’s not actually in my long-term memory yet.

And by the way, my item spread currently looks like this, with relatively few in Master (likely because I got some wrong already).

Apprentice: 110, Guru: 595, Master: 316, Enlightened: 797, Burned: 1268

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You fail it and it goes down in mastery, the SRS is just doing its job

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Let it burn :heart_on_fire: if you don’t want to purposefully type it wrong?

There are still many new words, including ones that have both old Kanji and new Kanji together. That would also reinforce old Kanji.

(Last resort is reset and resurrection, but I believe you don’t need to go that far.)

iirc, Guru should be less than 500. You will get more from that from failed Master (and several Enlightened).

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I’m also in the let it burn camp. Once/if you start reading outside of WK, you will be encountering most of these kanjis a lot anyways, which will reinforce them without continuing to haunt your review stack for the next few months.

And if you don’t encounter the kanji in your reading? Well, then maybe that kanji isn’t all that important for you to know and it’s fine not to keep reviewing it either.