Board 8 > Fate/Grand Order is out today.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Bleh, 10 pull gave me Mephistophiles and a new 4 essence.

Currently asked on the reddit, but for second opinions...

Emiya seems solid cause long game...but I already have Robin Hood.

Carmilla seems like the best choice...but Emiya long game.

Bathory would be cool if I didn't have both Cu Chulainns.

Rip Martha, already have Marie.

E'on for waifu pick... but I have Sieg for Saber and Jeanne for tanking

And Tamato, Herc says hi.

So either I play long game with Emiya or fill the Assassin slot with Carmilla.
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How does everyone have so much quartz
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You get a lot from daily logins and they gave out a bunch of bonus quartz.
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I haven't used any since the first summon after the tutorial.

Lopen posted...

Yeah I know it would be a fairly small buff.

But well my options are:

1. Get Marie Antoinette who seems to be a fairly weak Rider and possibly weaker than Medusa despite being of higher rarity, and who I doubt I'd be using over Medusa most of the time even ignoring how good she is or isn't in game because despite doing well with what screentime she's had she's not Yuu Asakawa or a gorgon

2. Get Hercules when I'd rather be using Lancelot or maybe even Kiyohime

3. Get Emiya for a small buff to the NP on a servant who is my best Archer, and who I'd probably be using as my "main" Archer unless I got Gilgamesh or Ishtar-- however at this point using a composition without an Archer most of the time seems likely as it seems more useful to have a triangle generally so I'd probably wanna run Saber, Berserker, Assassin Triangle generally.

So really not many of these are terribly useful. I guess it boils down to how often you'd be running comps where you double or triple down on a type, or whether Marie provides much in the way of utility (healing NP seems okay but her skills seem weak)

As much as I disparage Berserkers, Herc is a very different one from Kiyp or Lancelot. Kiyo exists to farm with AoE NP, Lancelot generates and then gathers crit stars, and Herc does massive single target damage while being hard to kill by class standards.

Do you have Martha? She's a good Rider with the relatively rare ability to cleanse debuffs. She also gets enemy buff removal later on. And she punches dragons.
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Martha seems like a not bad version of Marie

Unfortunately character attached seems less interesting, but to be fair she had considerably less screentime so who knows really. I'll take her (and Herc) into consideration-- gonna put it off till I have more of the Gilgamesh draws on the table though.
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Lopen posted...

she's not Yuu Asakawa

the problem with most characters
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I'm still debating if I should pull or hold my Quartz and tickets. I'll have 9 tickets total in like 2 hours. I don't really know what summons are next or how far off they are. I want that Assassin of Black and some of the other Saberface, but realistically I'm not expecting to get all of the ones I want since they're likely mostly 4*-5*s. Gilgamesh does seem good though since he hits like 5 times per card

I might reroll for Gilgamesh if my saved up quartz doesn't get him. Since I can just pick Hercules now, it makes rerolling easier.
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Keep in mind that a lot of the goodies from Gilgamesh (of which the ticket to pick Herc might be one?) only are given if you started playing before today, so there's a considerable Gilgamesh rerolling tax.
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I'm sure the stuff given out now is easily enough gotten through play
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Is Tamamo worth getting if I have Heracles?

I don't think so
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Only if you like the character, which is still a good enough reason
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I know literally nothing about Tamamo aside from her seeming to be a catgirl. She's cute though

Well, great. I didn't get Gilgamesh but I got Artoria and that Kaleidoscope thing. Now it's harder for me to leave this account with two 5* characters and reroll.
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I guess at least I have this


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GANON1025 posted...

I guess at least I have this

the f/sn gang is truly all here
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I just need Medea to do that. Also I Ascended my first unit! It was F/SN Lancer who is part of my reserve slots.

finally getting into this a lot more with the half AP costs.
wonder what i should use my free 4 on. i already got Archer and Berserker.

did a 10 pull.
got Jeanne. so now i've got two 5*. alright.
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Half AP is so awesome. Reading about how much rougher the JP launch was and how Orleans was actually challenging cause they were so resource starved compared to us is really crazy.
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Xiahou Shake posted...

Half AP is so awesome. Reading about how much rougher the JP launch was and how Orleans was actually challenging cause they were so resource starved compared to us is really crazy.

My team in NA is only slightly behind where my team was in about 8 months of JP. Launch FGO was a trial.

Wanglicious posted...

finally getting into this a lot more with the half AP costs.
wonder what i should use my free 4 on. i already got Archer and Berserker.

did a 10 pull.
got Jeanne. so now i've got two 5*. alright.

Who all do you have?
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this x2 AP so good

already ascended Medusa, Cu, Carmilla, and Gilgamesh, and nearly maxed all of them for their next ascension (though I don't have enough mats for any)
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Just going crazy with ADV Embers. Close to ascending Lancelot and Martha.
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I just one more lancer piece to 1st ascend my Jeanne.
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Getting mats is such a pain. Only getting skill gems from the event quests today.
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Just finished Orleans today. Like many have said, the final battle was much easier than the one before it. Didn't lose anyone in the final while it took me all the way down to my support in the preceding battle.
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In case you didn't know, here are maps of the areas with ascension items as possible rewards: http://fategrandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Ascension_Items
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You'll typically have better luck using the daily quests than those areas though, especially with 1/2 AP.
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oh people on here are playing fgo

https://gyazo.com/860e90ddce13dcad9155cbe47957d188

anyone need a waver

(i'm over halfway to getting third ascension)

552 566 708
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I thought the quests today was only giving out the skill up items
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GANON1025 posted...

I thought the quests today was only giving out the skill up items

http://fate-go.cirnopedia.org/quest_daily_us.php

Not just skill up, no.
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Ascended Medusa even though I've never really used her. Was tired of the mountain of Rider exp cards in my box so I put them to use. Also got Hans and Sansen from friend pulls.

9 tickets and the only thing close to value I got was a 4* Projection.....what the fuck

Did a 10-pull and combined with my tickets got Kiyohime's NP maxed with one extra.....her rate seems ridiculously high. Also had a 3* card turn gold and got excited, but it just turned out to be Stheno :(

Did another and only got that new 4* craft essence with like 600% star gain or something. With my tickets essentially 3 multi-pulls for basically nothing. Done summoning for probably a long time now. Really wish essences were a different banner because getting tons of 3* ones with a lot being the same 1-2 cards even is really killing any desire I have to summon. I shouldn't essentially walk away with nothing from 29 card pulls.

swordz9 posted...

Did another and only got that new 4* craft essence with like 600% star gain or something.

It's actually star weight. Crit stars aren't entirely random, each character and class had their own weight to attract them (Often Archers and characters with the Riding skill: All Riders, and many Sabers).
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I still feel robbed. I worked to buy all the summon tickets on the shop with mana prisms. The least they could've gotten me was a 4* Servant, but noooo raining Kiyohime and 3* essences I'll probably never use with 1 Projection in the mix. I've made it all this way not using any of them and only a couple of the 4-5* ones even look nice. 99% of them are just there to block you from summoning Servants :(

About how long until Shiki comes out and is she any good?
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agesboy posted...

(i'm over halfway to getting third ascension)

What've you been doing to get the materials?

Alany posted...

agesboy posted...

(i'm over halfway to getting third ascension)

What've you been doing to get the materials?

spamming the map in fuyuki with two shadow enemies for void dust

it hasn't been fun

at all

at least it's an AP dump to offset the extreme ease of levelling
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swordz9 posted...

Ascended Medusa even though I've never really used her. Was tired of the mountain of Rider exp cards in my box so I put them to use. Also got Hans and Sansen from friend pulls.

Just use those Rider cards on Saber, bro.
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*Buys some quartz*
*10 roll nets two 4* essences and a bunch of garbage*

And that concludes my spending of money on this game.
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AfroSquirrel posted...

Who all do you have?

5* - Altera (Saber), Jeanne (Ruler)
4* - Heracles (Berserker), Emiya (Archer), White Lily Saber (free)

a couple of 3* units that may hold value too. two Fate/Stay Lancer, one Prototype Lancer, Robin Hood (Archer), Medea (Rider). also among my first pulls was the Assassin Lopen struggled to pull.


still have yet to do the free 4* units because i think i already have the two best and am not sure who i should pick.
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Third 10 draw on this banner got me Jeanne d'Arc

Woulda rather got Gilgamesh but if I couldn't get him I guess she's probably the second best one to get. Kinda makes going for Martha or Marie less appealing since she's kind of a better support type than they are.
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Martha's second skill actually pairs pretty well with Jeanne, since it cures her NP stun. Up to you tho.

Shadow Dino posted...

*Buys some quartz*
*10 roll nets two 4* essences and a bunch of garbage*

And that concludes my spending of money on this game.

Well hey, in the future, there'll be some events where rolling with paid quartz guarantees a 5* Servant...
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Martha + Jeanne seems like you'd have no damage whatsoever. I think I'd rather just eat the stun. If you count your cards that stun shouldn't really be a big deal most of the time.
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I caved and did 2 more 10-pulls. Literally got a 2nd Stheno and that 5* 80% NP at the start essence. Definitely saving the rest now and any future Quartz I get for a different banner. No more caving. Can't believe I couldn't pull even 1 Medea out of 49 cards lmao what a joke

AfroSquirrel posted...

Who all do you have?

5* Jeanne
4* Siegfried, Maria, Heracles, Altria (Lily)
3* Boudica, Cu Chulainn (regular and Proto), Medea, Robin Hood, Gilles, Romulus.


Also, new topic:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75539462
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It's a shame this is easily the worst gacha mobile game I've played because the gameplay itself isn't bad and the visuals are surprisingly nice for a phone game. It's basically just the summoning that sucks and it could be so easily fixed if they just took out the essences. I'd rather get 9 3* Servants at worst for a 10-pull

we want gil.
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