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Aurora
Jan 7, 2008

the last quest will be difficult

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Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...

dogsicle posted:

it's fun to run them with dantes even though he's generally not ideal. at least for this one he got in some nasty crits and deleted jeanne, even though gilles is the dangerous one

It's either that or Angra Maniyu to deal with the Rulers for me.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

dogsicle posted:

it's fun to run them with dantes even though he's generally not ideal. at least for this one he got in some nasty crits and deleted jeanne, even though gilles is the dangerous one

I had Jalter and Chloe ready with NPs once the round began.
French Soldier blinked and next thing he knew, he was alone.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
I've got my Dragon team of Jalter and a bnch of Altrias.

Roger Explosion
Jan 26, 2006

THAT'S SPECTACULAR.
I wanted to get into this when I was living in Japan but I never got around to it and the text-heavy Japanese was a bit much more me. Nevertheless, here I am now. I've been rerolling my first summon for a while and I'm a little sick of it.

The most recent one I've gotten has given me a 3* Ushiwakamaru and a 4* Carmilla, which tier lists tell me are good servants to start with. I'm a bit wary of tier lists though, so do you folk think that's a good enough start? I don't have any prior knowledge about this franchise apart from it being a porn once or something so I'm not attached to any of these characters. This Carmilla looks pretty metal though.

Billzasilver
Nov 8, 2016

I lift my drink and sing a song

for who knows if life is short or long?


Man's life is like the morning dew

past days many, future days few

Carmilla was the second best starting choice after loving Hercules :black101: you should definitely stick with it. Don’t worry about anything 3*, you’ll get all of them multiple times for free.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
The game is easy enough that you absolutely do not need to bother with rerolling if you don't want to. That said Carmilla is very good from a gameplay standpoint, so feel free to continue using that team if you want.

If you want to keep going for maximum gameplay worthiness, Heracles is the best Servant out of the 1st roll's free 4*s.

Shiny777
Oct 29, 2011

YAMI WO KIRISAKU
OH DESIRE


Roger Explosion posted:

I wanted to get into this when I was living in Japan but I never got around to it and the text-heavy Japanese was a bit much more me. Nevertheless, here I am now. I've been rerolling my first summon for a while and I'm a little sick of it.

The most recent one I've gotten has given me a 3* Ushiwakamaru and a 4* Carmilla, which tier lists tell me are good servants to start with. I'm a bit wary of tier lists though, so do you folk think that's a good enough start? I don't have any prior knowledge about this franchise apart from it being a porn once or something so I'm not attached to any of these characters. This Carmilla looks pretty metal though.

Both of them are pretty good, and if you don't want to keep fishing for Herc and/or a multiple 4* roll you'll do just fine with that one, especially if you got some other solid 3*s in it too.

A Bystander
Oct 10, 2012

Roger Explosion posted:

I wanted to get into this when I was living in Japan but I never got around to it and the text-heavy Japanese was a bit much more me. Nevertheless, here I am now. I've been rerolling my first summon for a while and I'm a little sick of it.

The most recent one I've gotten has given me a 3* Ushiwakamaru and a 4* Carmilla, which tier lists tell me are good servants to start with. I'm a bit wary of tier lists though, so do you folk think that's a good enough start? I don't have any prior knowledge about this franchise apart from it being a porn once or something so I'm not attached to any of these characters. This Carmilla looks pretty metal though.

To my knowledge, there's going to be a free 4* selector down the line so I wouldn't worry too much about rerolling. That said, Carmilla is a good one since there's a lot of lady enemies and she can make a decent amount of crit stars. Ushiwakamaru is excellent for single-target damage with her NP and will be good for murdering demons and other Caster enemies.

Roger Explosion
Jan 26, 2006

THAT'S SPECTACULAR.
They sounds like keepers then! The other three star units are apparently pretty average (Darius III, Babbage) but if i'm going to be coming across them a lot, I won't give them too much weight. Thanks!

Bakanogami
Dec 31, 2004


Grimey Drawer

Roger Explosion posted:

I wanted to get into this when I was living in Japan but I never got around to it and the text-heavy Japanese was a bit much more me. Nevertheless, here I am now. I've been rerolling my first summon for a while and I'm a little sick of it.

The most recent one I've gotten has given me a 3* Ushiwakamaru and a 4* Carmilla, which tier lists tell me are good servants to start with. I'm a bit wary of tier lists though, so do you folk think that's a good enough start? I don't have any prior knowledge about this franchise apart from it being a porn once or something so I'm not attached to any of these characters. This Carmilla looks pretty metal though.

Don't give tier lists too much importance. There are a few characters who are very useful and a handful that are pretty bad, but for the most part everyone has a use and can have a team built around them. Use who you like first and foremost.

You'll eventually collect pretty much all of the 1-3 star characters since you can get almost all of them through the Friend Point gacha. Don't count them out, many of them are surprisingly good at what they do. Cu in particular has some of the best survivability in the game. Arash and Spartacus are good candidates for leveling and strengthening early since they can become very effective at farming XP. Euryale will destroy male sabers, of which there are several difficult bosses.

If you really wanted to min-max you could reroll until you get Hercules, but you don't have to if you're tired of resetting. Carmilla was my starter 4 star and isn't a bad pick. Her NP generation is very high, with both her Arts and Quick cards being powerful. She can spam it quite often with the right setup. She's also useful starting out since Orleans is full of dragons, who are weak to assassins. You'll eventually meet Elizabeth in the story; Carmilla is a grown up version of her and is incredibly embarrassed by that fact. She's one of the first of many villains who later turns into a gag character. She also has an animation update coming. I believe it should be around October?

The story mode is fairly easy at first. A good high-level support should be able to carry you all the way to America, and it only starts to get properly difficult around Camelot, by which point you should start to have a stable of leveled servants.

Don't forget to set your own supports. You can set one for each class and one slot for any class.

A good early goal is to try and get it so that you can clear the 40ap ember daily reliably. A steady supply of 4* XP cards will make leveling go much quicker. As mentioned before, Spartacus and Arash are good for this. They have AoE NPs and a skill that will give them 20-30% charge. You can pair this with a CE that gives starting charge and maybe a support like Merlin or Zhuge Liang/Waver that can give them an additional 20-50%. With this they should be able to quickly take out two waves of XP hands with no fuss.

Eventually you'll stop getting capped by xp and start getting capped by materials. The best way to get materials is through the frequent events. They have stores where you can buy mats using event currency and usually have better drop rates as well. Some of them are story locked, but those that aren't will usually have some easier nodes so that beginners can take part as well.

Golden Battler
Sep 6, 2010

~Perfect and Elegant~
If you go looking around, you can probably buy a starter account with a SSR or two for a few bucks.

Ruby Prism
Aug 7, 2011

With this, I'll be able to make the ultimate pie!

Golden Battler posted:

If you go looking around, you can probably buy a starter account with a SSR or two for a few bucks.

Yep. Honestly, I'd do this instead of wasting my time rerolling. Get an account with a Waver or Merlin and whatever else they might have, and you're set.

OnimaruXLR
Sep 15, 2007
Lurklurklurklurklurk

Roger Explosion posted:

I wanted to get into this when I was living in Japan but I never got around to it and the text-heavy Japanese was a bit much more me. Nevertheless, here I am now. I've been rerolling my first summon for a while and I'm a little sick of it.

The most recent one I've gotten has given me a 3* Ushiwakamaru and a 4* Carmilla, which tier lists tell me are good servants to start with. I'm a bit wary of tier lists though, so do you folk think that's a good enough start? I don't have any prior knowledge about this franchise apart from it being a porn once or something so I'm not attached to any of these characters. This Carmilla looks pretty metal though.

You'll eventually get a robust lineup of 3 (and below, even) star servants who can put in good work in every class to supplement any lack of high rarity servants you might suffer from. All of the starters are pretty good*, although some are better than others

*except stheno dont @ me snake apologists

Really though, the game isn't difficult enough to worry about wanting an "optimal" or "meta" lineup unless you're in the mood for some brutal 100% completion sadomasochism. If you are like that, though, I would maybe recommend playing a game that does not have a function designed to draw hypothetically infinite money from you...? Otherwise, raise the Servants that you have/are functional until you have the Servants that you ~want~

Other
Jul 10, 2007

Post it easy!
Yowza, that's a lotta Illya
https://twitter.com/tamamo501/status/1089259949316726786

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


Roger Explosion posted:

They sounds like keepers then! The other three star units are apparently pretty average (Darius III, Babbage) but if i'm going to be coming across them a lot, I won't give them too much weight. Thanks!

When you're set up feel free to share your friend code so goons can hook you up with some quality support units to help you make your way through the early game.


Also, if you're interested, we got a FGO focus discord you can join if you wish.

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010
For the third time I managed to forget to log in to get Sakura's heroic spirit costume. I logged in 6 days, then forgot the 7th.

It's not like they're useful, but I like Sakura. :sigh:


That's very suspect.

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this

Cuntellectual posted:

For the third time I managed to forget to log in to get Sakura's heroic spirit costume. I logged in 6 days, then forgot the 7th.

It's not like they're useful, but I like Sakura. :sigh:


That's very suspect.

https://twitter.com/KIYOHIME_KOOL/status/952423038359715840


It's a thing some people do.

Bakanogami
Dec 31, 2004


Grimey Drawer

https://twitter.com/KIYOHIME_KOOL/status/1086671325588942848

They just got Kiyohime to bond level 14. That's more than 5 million bond points in under two months since the bond cap was raised. :stare:

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

https://twitter.com/mochichan/status/1089638999415767041

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

Smashed before noon

Seems normal to me. Most cups come as part of a set.

Alien Rope Burn
Dec 5, 2004

I wanna be a saikyo HERO!
It's like the gacha equivalent of a stalker wall.

Nodosaur
Dec 23, 2014

who found Irisviel's F/GO account?

Clawtopsy
Dec 17, 2009

What a fascinatingly unusual cock. Now, allow me to show you my collection...
alert the police

Darox
Nov 10, 2012


Bakanogami posted:

https://twitter.com/KIYOHIME_KOOL/status/1086671325588942848

They just got Kiyohime to bond level 14. That's more than 5 million bond points in under two months since the bond cap was raised. :stare:

There are servants who reached bond 15 a couple days after the fifth possible bond grail was attainable.

Nakar
Sep 2, 2002

Ultima Ratio Regum
One of the streamer ultrawhales had Benienma at Bond 10 not even three days after she came out, and they weren't actually trying. If you farm Lancelot's Fake War Crimes Camp in Camelot you can max bond at a frightful rate. Don't see the point in doing that, but I guess some people do!

Rorahusky
Nov 12, 2012

Transform and waaauuuugh out!
I have finally corrected a grave oversight I have ignored for too long, and gotten Spartacus all levelled up and his two latter skills maxed out. Now I just need some Fous to feed him and he'll be ready to take over Grinding duties from my almost max Bonded Raikou.

Now I just need more Proof of Hero for Arash's NP Charge skill.

Crasical
Apr 22, 2014

GG!*
*GET GOOD
EXPLOSIVE FLEXING.

Nodosaur
Dec 23, 2014

Plugging along in the main story since I can't do the Dante event.

London is a lot better paced than Rome and Okeanos.

Billzasilver
Nov 8, 2016

I lift my drink and sing a song

for who knows if life is short or long?


Man's life is like the morning dew

past days many, future days few

Finish London within 8 days and you can do most of the event quests.

brainwrinkle
Oct 18, 2009

What's going on in here?
Buglord
I felt that Okeanos had better pacing than London for the most part. The majority of London was aimless wandering because the protagonists didn’t know what to do. Suddenly Wyverns but with robots instead.

There are cool parts near the end of London, but those events felt forced by the plot needing to wrap up.

Billzasilver
Nov 8, 2016

I lift my drink and sing a song

for who knows if life is short or long?


Man's life is like the morning dew

past days many, future days few

London would’ve been better if mordred wasn’t stuck at level 45 or whatever the entire time.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...

Billzasilver posted:

London would’ve been better if mordred wasn’t stuck at level 45 or whatever the entire time.

I mean that's around the level enemies were balanced around.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

The Gologle Posting Experience.

<3
Oh my days I just got two pages back to back in Hyde Park. I should have rolled for Dantes with that luck, even though I don't really want him.

Killed By Death
Jun 29, 2013


I seem to recall someone posting a spreadsheet/list that showed all the events sorted by the materials they rewarded/had in their shop. Assuming I didn't imagine it, could someone repost it?

LibrarianCroaker
Mar 30, 2010

Killed By Death posted:

I seem to recall someone posting a spreadsheet/list that showed all the events sorted by the materials they rewarded/had in their shop. Assuming I didn't imagine it, could someone repost it?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m-h4CIUOKaJRAmfTAhoDdmwVAzAzyM70cITRb36Y96M/edit#gid=0

Babysitter Super Sleuth
Apr 26, 2012

my posts are as bad the Current Releases review of Gone Girl


Gotta wait till June for tearstones of blood, huh? Guess Jalters gonna be stuck at level 80 for a while.

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

Gotta wait till June for tearstones of blood, huh? Guess Jalters gonna be stuck at level 80 for a while.

There is a node in America that drops it at about 130 AP/drop, so if you spend maybe a week you might be able to finish her final ascension off.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

The Gologle Posting Experience.

<3
Apparently there is a manga out that adapts Epic of Remnant 3, which is Shimosa, and the way Gudako uses Servants in that is basically like Stands. So I guess that's the closest we'll get to a canon explanation for how the Servants fight, they're Stands.

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dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

all of the eor chapters started manga adaptations this month, so i look forward to them all contradicting each other on that front

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