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Fate/Grand Order |OT| That's Hell You're Walking Into

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Azusa

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Started playing this, it's basically my first game of this kind excluding FEH, which was sorta different, so I feel a bit lost. Been a huge Fate fan for a good while though, so it's more lost in the sense that I'm unsure on what order I should tackle quests and if one needs to focus on a single servant rather than building a bunch of them early on etc. Anyone got some general tips for beginners?

Also, how does one acquire the thingies needed for Ascension? I didn't even reroll since on my 1st roll I ended up getting a 4* Tamamo Cat and a 5* Saber/Altria, so I figured I was happy enough with that for now. Been leveling Saber mainly, and using her in conjunction with Shielder and a Support, and so far it's been quite OK @ Fuyuki. But I'd like to Ascend her, so I wouldn't mind starting work on that farming now if it's possible/avaible.

If you continue to do the story you should get enough mats to ascend her once. If you want to ascend her again (2nd time) you will have to farm, farm and farm some nodes/dailies to get mats. Its very hard to ascend high rarity servants at the beginning. Its better to ascend once and focus on other servants while you are completing the story quests and waiting for events.

So do the story and occasional exp daily to level your servants. Tama cat is very good too. Don forget to level her to and replace Shielder with her.
 

Ala Alba

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How fast do you usually collect 30 quartz for free? Can I expect to pull 10 each month or so?

Yes, I think we'll get at least that much quartz, plus some tickets.

We should get about 4(?) quartz and 1 ticket per week in login bonuses, plus another 2 quartz from the weekly master missions.

I imagine we'll also get some other sources of quartz throughout a month (event quests, handouts, etc).
 

jonjonaug

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How fast do you usually collect 30 quartz for free? Can I expect to pull 10 each month or so?

You get it fairly quickly when moving through the story content (most areas plus each free quest gives you one as a final reward). Once you run out of that though your only source of free quartz will be from daily logins (enough for 2-3 summons a week) and completing the weekly challenges (which is only 2 quartz per week). If you want more summon materials a good way is to do the 30 (or 40 if you can manage it) AP quests that give EXP cards and exchange the EXP cards for mana prisms at the shop. Every 20 of those will get you one summon ticket, with a max of 5 per month (same as 15 quartz but you can't do 10x summons with them). From what I've heard some events toss out 3 star cards as rewards like candy, you can munch those into mana prisms for tickets too if you don't need them.

So if you log in every day and maximize your return on summon tickets you should be able to do about one 10x pull plus 5-10 additional pulls per month, I think.
 

Khezu

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Probably going to want to rock Emiya, Cu, and Medusa most of the time.
Maybe Caster Cu instead of Lancer, just because he looks cool.

It's maybe nostalgia, but I still think the original Fate S/N servants are the best designs.
 

RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Are there any Heroic Spirits I can't get on my first pull? I've re-rolled quite a few times but can't seem to land a Saber or Mash. :/
 

jonjonaug

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Are there any Heroic Spirits I can't get on my first pull? I've re-rolled quite a few times but can't seem to land a Saber or Mash. :/

Mash doesn't have multiple cards, you get her automatically and she ranks up her NP through the story.

Your very first pull can only get three and four star cards. It's a "fake" pull with some guarantees attached to it. All future pulls (meaning the one after the next stage for rerolling) will be real ones and can include five star cards.
 

Mupod

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I think I understand now why people consider Fire Emblem Heroes to be relatively more generous than other games of this type.

I plan to spend nothing until October but man it'd be a kick in the nuts if I don't even get what I want then. There doesn't seem to be a 'failsafe' that kicks in if you spend an absurd amount with no 5* either.

I'm certainly not averse to spending money on games I like, but it's a pretty bleak value proposition based on my experience rerolling. And I think I was pretty lucky with those too, found two 5* in 13 rerolls and the latter had the 4* I wanted too.
 

RurouniZel

Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
Mash doesn't have multiple cards, you get her automatically and she ranks up her NP through the story.

Your very first pull can only get three and four star cards. It's a "fake" pull with some guarantees attached to it. All future pulls (meaning the one after the next stage for rerolling) will be real ones and can include five star cards.

Ah okay, awesome. Thank you. :3
 

commish

Jason Kidd murdered my dog in cold blood!
Dumb question #32. Once you've selected attack, is there any way to back out of it so that you can select a skill instead?
 

Blue-kun

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If you continue to do the story you should get enough mats to ascend her once. If you want to ascend her again (2nd time) you will have to farm, farm and farm some nodes/dailies to get mats. Its very hard to ascend high rarity servants at the beginning. Its better to ascend once and focus on other servants while you are completing the story quests and waiting for events.

So do the story and occasional exp daily to level your servants. Tama cat is very good too. Don forget to level her to and replace Shielder with her.

Oho, I see! I actually just got the pieces for Saber's ascension through the story after clearing Fuyuki. Good stuff :)
 
The servers have been too stable, so I guess we can't expect lots of free quartz like the early days of JP FayGO.

I think I understand now why people consider Fire Emblem Heroes to be relatively more generous than other games of this type.

I plan to spend nothing until October but man it'd be a kick in the nuts if I don't even get what I want then. There doesn't seem to be a 'failsafe' that kicks in if you spend an absurd amount with no 5* either.

I'm certainly not averse to spending money on games I like, but it's a pretty bleak value proposition based on my experience rerolling. And I think I was pretty lucky with those too, found two 5* in 13 rerolls and the latter had the 4* I wanted too.

It has consistently been one of the highest grossing games in Japan since it's launch, so the hardcore gacha on this game is working wonders. Type-Moon and Delight Works are making a mint from this game.
 
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Slow day at work so I made this using Facebook Foxes.
 

T-Rex.

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I think I understand now why people consider Fire Emblem Heroes to be relatively more generous than other games of this type.

I plan to spend nothing until October but man it'd be a kick in the nuts if I don't even get what I want then. There doesn't seem to be a 'failsafe' that kicks in if you spend an absurd amount with no 5* either.

I'm certainly not averse to spending money on games I like, but it's a pretty bleak value proposition based on my experience rerolling. And I think I was pretty lucky with those too, found two 5* in 13 rerolls and the latter had the 4* I wanted too.
They do paid gachas at times (New Years etc) and I think they guarantee a 5* in that.
 

Sterok

Member
Did another pull and got Vlad. Lancelot is already my best character, but I'm not going to say no to a 5* Berserker anyway.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
I need friends
089,959,908

Don't see myself rolling again until the KnK event, and that was like 7~ months after launch for JP.

I will make a google doc or someone else can for a friend sheet. better this method rather than codes getting lost in pages.
 

chrono01

Member
I will make a google doc or someone else can for a friend sheet. better this method rather than codes getting lost in pages.
We really do need a Google doc, that way we can easily add people as well as know who's who (since in-game names don't always correspond to those used on this forum, although they do in some cases).

I posted my ID yesterday, but aside from recognizing a few of the names and accepting those, I couldn't tell whether the other people who requested to be my friend were people from GAF or just random players. :(
 

Pejo

Member
Did another pull and got Vlad. Lancelot is already my best character, but I'm not going to say no to a 5* Berserker anyway.

Were you able to pull Lancelot in the pull directly after the tutorial roll? I had no idea he was already available, so I ended up not re-rolling for him. Now I have a Vlad/Altera account that I don't want to get rid of.
 

Sterok

Member
Were you able to pull Lancelot in the pull directly after the tutorial roll? I had no idea he was already available, so I ended up not re-rolling for him. Now I have a Vlad/Altera account that I don't want to get rid of.

Yeah, I got Lancelot right after the tutorial pull.

I currently lack any Archers, and since I'm good on Berserkers my free 4* is probably going to be Emiya.
 
Wow yea, took most of the day but I got a 5 Altrea, a 4 cat, and a 4 French chevalier. Also got a 3 Cu. That's a pretty legit roll so I'm continuing on. Looking forward to it. Not sure how I do the friend code thing? I suspect I'm not far enough yet.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
I want to reiterate to people that are rerolling for a 5*. You can buy them cheap on Reddit if you really don't want to reroll.
 

Kenai

Member
So one kind of annoying thing about Jeanne I guess is that all of these gold exp cards I have been getting have been for the more "common" classes like Caster Archer ect. So no bonus for her as Ruler and I don't have most of these other classes either. Should I just dump em on her anyway? She is like lvl 26. right now but I am not sure how efficient this is. Since there aren't too many Ruler types even in JP I assume just dump?

My ID is 846,107,608 btw. Will probably keep using Jeanne until I get something better, but I am hoarding my quartz for that'll be awhile methinks.
 

Azusa

Member
How fast do you usually collect 30 quartz for free? Can I expect to pull 10 each month or so?

How do we know? Its very inconsistent and varies month by month. Depends how generous will be Anilpex USA with unexpected quartz. We don't know when events start and how fast new story stages will be added and etc, etc.

No we have start dash login bonuses and launch campaign quartz. Who knows what will be in the future. JP FGO give out quartz time to time.

There is also cumulative login bonus. Just login and on your 10th, 20th, etc day you will get quartz.

Code:
10 Days	Saint Quartz x4
20 Days	Saint Quartz x4
30 Days	Saint Quartz x4
40 Days	Saint Quartz x4
50 Days	Saint Quartz x4
75 Days	Saint Quartz x10
100 Days Saint Quartz x20

Every 50 Days Later	Saint Quartz x20
 
Any reason to safe Quartz or just use it on 10-pulls? Are there 10+1 events or something like the SUGO in One Piece where I can better/exclusive characters?
 

chrono01

Member
Any reason to safe Quartz or just use it on 10-pulls? Are there 10+1 events or something like the SUGO in One Piece where I can better/exclusive characters?
There are limited-time characters that have a rate-up and only available during a specific time, so it's best to save for those.

Personally, I'm hoarding everything until Saber Alter is released.
 

chrono01

Member
Is this the dumb oversight it seems like, or is there a genuine reason for why it's impossible to back out of the cards menu?
I don't understand it either.

I always look at the display in the bottom right corner before I hit the attack option, so I know how to buff before they attack. It'd be so nice if you could back out of the menu once you initiate it, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to. :/

Edit: Oh, didn't think of star distribution. So yeah, make sure to use the card preview first, I guess.
 
There are limited-time characters that have a rate-up and only available during a specific time, so it's best to save for those.

Personally, I'm hoarding everything until Saber Alter is released.
Ok, thanks. I just started the anime and have no "favorites". I am quite happy with Lily and Mash right no so I will safe some Quartz.
 

kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
It shouldn't be too hard to simply lock the star distribution values the first time you open up that menu, though :/

Oh, I don't disagree. And I thought of this a long time ago too. DW really doesn't make changes as they're more focused on content. I'm honestly surprised we ended up getting some of the things that we did. If you think this is baffling, there was shit that was just straight up intolerable back on release. Can you imagine rerolling with x1 battle speed instead of the x2 we got? lol.
 
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