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Fate/Grand Order |OT| That's Hell You're Walking Into
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Pureauthor
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Note that Emiya is a slow burn and only becomes really good after his strengthening quest (which is not available yet)
Well, I'll just focus on the story first.
Something I'd like to see more people doing, stop putting the Beginning of the Journey (+75 FP) CE on your Supports. It's actually better to put it on Mash or someone with low cost in your sub-member slot. Later on, you'll encounter NPC supports that you can use for some story quests that give 200 FP, having the CE equipped in your party means you'll be getting 275 FP from using them instead. This also applies to any of your friends' support you call in. So yeah, stop having these great servants with a largely useless CE equipped. It does not stack with itself either, so no, having it equipped on both your support and in your party is also pointless.
Get that early FP boost and do more 10x Friend Point Summons to power up your Servants/Craft Essences faster.
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I really would like to see less 5* with a useless CE attached to them.
Get that early FP boost and do more 10x Friend Point Summons to power up your Servants/Craft Essences faster.
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I really would like to see less 5* with a useless CE attached to them.
Really enjoying it when I got to Orleans, the translation seems a lot better there.
Question---I got Robin Hood, my friend who played JP said he's good, so should I build him? Liked his design, but he'll take quite some time to build.
Yeah, I'm having fun with it in bursts. It's addictive.
The Fate/Trash fan in me is happy too. SeemsGood
TatteredHat
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Now that I'm actually playing I'm having quite a bit of fun with it, just want to get out of the prologue area since it was covered by the OVA.
Nightengale
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I picked up FEH and FGO recently in the past month... The lack of any compelling story in FEH had me dropping that like a brick, but FGO's story has been interesting so far to keep me engaged. Halfway through Orleans right now.
I don't like the hand I've drawn, but I'll live. At least give me Blue Seiba or Jeannu if you're not going to give me Heracles or Archer.
Crimsonsky
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So is the general rule to re roll if you don't get a 5? I got a 4 Hercules and all my other roll were 3 stars.
TatteredHat
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Yes, mostly because 5* are quite a rarity and you get to pick a 4* soon. (including Hercules)
I'm not even going to bother rerolling anymore. That 1% 5* chance plus the number of steps just to finish the tutorial is not worth it to me. I actually rolled Vlad, Alteria, and even Jeanne on separate rolls but the the entire rest of the selection was garbage.
I really wanted Heracles and Emiya and was lucky enough to have a saved roll with them and a kaleidoscope essence so I'd say I'm good. I'll use the free 4* selection for Tamamo Cat and that'll probably carry me for awhile.
I really wanted Heracles and Emiya and was lucky enough to have a saved roll with them and a kaleidoscope essence so I'd say I'm good. I'll use the free 4* selection for Tamamo Cat and that'll probably carry me for awhile.
Pureauthor
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Robin Hood is amazing. Inflict poison on someone, use his NP, and watch the fireworks.
michaelius
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Well you on average get 1 out of 100 rolls so it makes sense to get those rolls when they don't count.
Nightengale
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Between all the 4* servants I have now, Tamacat hits the hardest (due to Berserker) and has a very good NP that not only hits all enemies, but heals herself after using. Other than the higher level support friend, she's pretty much being carrying the rest of my shit rolls.
I have maxed my main servant (4*) first (up to level 40) then I leveled few 3* and only after that I ascended my 4* and started to level her further. And yes I used all status up on my main 4* servant.
Also you will see that at some point 3* EXP cards give too little exp to high leveled servants so its better to use them on lvl 1 servants to get better stat boost.
Unknown Soldier
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Tamamo CAT is a FOX dressed up as a CAT
That's all you need to know
Actually, Tamamo CAT is a very good AoE Berserker, she hits hard like all Berserkers and her hilarious NP (Opulence of Sun and Shine and Catnap) is a great one for farming because it's AoE.
Heracles easily outclasses her in damage and his NP is single target so it's the boss-killer, but you would still take Tamamo CAT over BerserCar for farms.
The best thing to do in the early game is to have both. Heracles is pretty much the best single target Berserker you have available until ORAORAORAORAORAAAA, I mean Kintoki, becomes available later on.
firehawk12
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Where do you go to use a transfer code to import an account?
firehawk12
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Ah see it now, thanks!
Nightengale
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I'm spreading it out, but it's clearly not the most optimal approach. That being said, I'm having a lot of fun playing out story missions at the same recommended level since it can be a bit tough.
So, after grinding quite a bit on the 40 AP dailies and leveling up a few units...
People really were NOT understating how little Star rating matters. I've Ascended various ones and played around with various people's Support units. I got my Altera to 60/60, Carmilla to 40/50, Mash to 30/30, and Cu Chulaain to 37/40. I've used maxed out Jeannes, Wavers, Arturias, Heracles, etc from friend units.
Unit types, rock-paper-scissors, and unit skill sets seem to matter so much more than max levels and base ratings. Sooooooo much more. I've used units way above the level off stuff but with a bad composition it was like running into a brick wall and I've used units quite a bit below level but the right types and I just steamrolled things.
...and Cu Chulaain is fucking beast.
People really were NOT understating how little Star rating matters. I've Ascended various ones and played around with various people's Support units. I got my Altera to 60/60, Carmilla to 40/50, Mash to 30/30, and Cu Chulaain to 37/40. I've used maxed out Jeannes, Wavers, Arturias, Heracles, etc from friend units.
Unit types, rock-paper-scissors, and unit skill sets seem to matter so much more than max levels and base ratings. Sooooooo much more. I've used units way above the level off stuff but with a bad composition it was like running into a brick wall and I've used units quite a bit below level but the right types and I just steamrolled things.
...and Cu Chulaain is fucking beast.
Remembrance
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Failed to see a single 5* servant for a whole day. In the end, went with Cat, Bathory and Carmilla (a lineup only assembled by spending every pull I had).
And yet it's still a good idea to get Heracles? Just double-team him with Cat and smash everything? If so, do you want an attack buffer or a defense buffer to go with that?
Also I'm getting buried in piles of archer and caster XP. Any point in actually waiting for an archer or caster to spend this on? For casters I guess I have Cu or Mephistopheles but I'm stuck with a 1* archer.
And yet it's still a good idea to get Heracles? Just double-team him with Cat and smash everything? If so, do you want an attack buffer or a defense buffer to go with that?
Also I'm getting buried in piles of archer and caster XP. Any point in actually waiting for an archer or caster to spend this on? For casters I guess I have Cu or Mephistopheles but I'm stuck with a 1* archer.
Yeah, been rolling since launch and haven't even seen one yet >.< Surely this next one will be it o.o
You should. I have completed Orleans map on the first day, almost didnt farm EXP. You should be fine.
OK thanks, two more questions, what is servant bound? Saber Lily just got leveled up on that..Also, I can't use the NP from friends because I don't have that servant myself?
You can use support NP only if its a friend servant. If you are using stranger servant NP will be disabled.
Bond is mostly to unlock new information in profile and some strengthening quests later.. Also at bond 10 you will get special Craft Essence for this servant.
You could do that, Berserker runs are a thing and generally work, but they are as close as you can get to making a suicide squad team in this game due to the glass canon nature of them.
Speaking from experience, unless the defence buff is well levelled/actually high enough, it's better to go with attack buffs in Berserker focused teams. You will get later on down the road more defence buff servants which will be incredibly helpful in letting your Berserkers survive, but since this is early game, I'd recommend going "Heracles Smash" and "Cat Clobbering Time".
Heracles/Cat/Mash is a good team to field, as well as Heracles/Cat/Berserkers/Berserkers/Berserkers, just for full on YOLO effect
For the EXP, you get a bonus if you use them on the servant of the corespondent class, but from a pure numbers perspective, it is only useful with Gold EXP. Focus on feeding any bronze and silver EXP to one servant at a time to get them to a high enough level, then stuff them with Gold EXP from that point onwards to preserve QP and have faster and more efficient levelling.
For Casters, of the 2 I guess Cu is cooler, but neither are all that strong (Caster class is really focused on being supportive rather than damage dealers, but they are useful in dealing with hard Assassins). The 1* Archer is Arash, right? He's actually pretty strong, though since his NP is one-shot and he dies after using it, it might be hard to use him now.
I am having a good time, all things considered. The translation issues are improved post the prologue thankfully, and I am enjoying reliving all my favourite moments replaying Orleans in English:
Nothing more French than a Japanese farmer going dragon hunting in the fields of Orleans.
Sadly, given Septem is next, I fear people might be disappointed haha haaaaaaa
But it is an alright start for the game. Much better than how the Japanese launch went, and the servers are handling it without melting down like it does with the Japanese version every hour.
I'm looking forward to seeing what people say about the story once the 4th Order is out, since that is when the writing begins to change from the basic stuff we had to the more elaborate Orders later on.
Nightengale
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Second.
Sent.
michaelius
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Question - I'm keeping 1 copy of each 1-3* servant - but what about duplicates - do I use them to level up their noble phantasms and once that is maxed just feed them as fodder to other servants ?
You can replay the cutscenes in My Room, but no way to replay the story battles.
Pureauthor
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He's an Assassin with class advantage against the Rider-class Dragons there, has a skillset and cardset QQQAB that lets him do what he's good at very efficiently and a strong Noble Phantasm that can be very easily powered up due to him being a 1* Servant.
Not for nothing is he the REGEND
When in battle, push "Menu" button so you see elemental cycle.
Weaknesses in this game are determined by class. For the seven main classes, it determines both damage done and damage taken.
Saber > Lancer > Archer > Saber
Rider > Caster > Assassin > Rider
Berserker > All (except Shielder) > Berserker
Shielder is not strong or weak to anything.
Ruler is weak only to Berserker and takes reduced damage against other classes (except Shielder who does normal damage). Gives more damage to Berserker and normal damage to everyone else.
Basically take the gold enemy you get as the last boss of the 30AP quest and make it every enemy. Around 22k HP per enemy. It's doable with a good counter unit even this early (I use Cu Chulainn for the archer 40AP quest and manage because of his insane mitigation). You can fall back on Command seals 3 times individually or once if you accidentally wipe. It can be worth it just for the Master Rank experience and the number of gold EXP cards you get.
I think I've got the hang of the battle system. Figured out how to farm the 30AP ember daily pretty efficiently with Tamamo Cat, Vlad and a borrowed Jeanne. I'm still a good ways from having level 40 servants, so I haven't tackled the 40 AP one yet. I also assume at some point I may need an actual team composition instead of just berserker smash.
Hit master level 20 before I decided to actually go to sleep. It's nice that I have enough capacity to equip craft essences on everyone now, at least.
Yikes. Maybe I'll stick to the 30AP one for a while longer. I do have a Lancer Cu Chulainn and would like to level him up though.
Hit master level 20 before I decided to actually go to sleep. It's nice that I have enough capacity to equip craft essences on everyone now, at least.
Yikes. Maybe I'll stick to the 30AP one for a while longer. I do have a Lancer Cu Chulainn and would like to level him up though.
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