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Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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OnimaruXLR posted:

Gramps has Protection of the Faith A+++, which turns Vlad from Extra into a genocidal, holy warrior maniac who falls in love with a cannibalistic juggalo, and all it does

is make him kind of strict

He dresses like a Dark Souls boss.

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Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Cuntellectual posted:

All hail the greatest kouhai of all, Back Button.



It all makes sense now.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Urobuchi is just not fit for Type Moon stuff because at its core Type Moon is very optimistic while Urobuchi wouldn't know a positive character arc if it slapped him in the face.

Also because Nasu writes female characters with agency which, again, Urobuchi can't do.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Oh Snapple! posted:

That Agravain screencap, but with Gen's face plastered onto it.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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I remember my brother watching the KnK movies with me and seeing what Araya Souren was doing just said "Wizards are terrible."

TL:DR

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Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Not nearly enough to get her to 90 though. :colbert:

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Cuntellectual posted:

She's 4*, and if you're going to grail her, why aren't you goin' all the way? :colbert:

Because 5 grails for 10 levels is resources that would be better spent grailing more Servants to 90. :colbert:

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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a kitten posted:

What ce for summer Martha? One of the event ones or something else?


Personally I'd put a damage or NP charge CE on her because people are going to be using her just to get past story fights rather than event grinding.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Cuntellectual posted:

I think you're kind of overstating how good BB is. She's not bad or anything, but she's not exactly a DPS powerhouse even with maxed Self-Modification (taking modifiers into account, she loses in damage to 3*s Salieri and Lu Bu) and NP spamming, she's pretty fragile despite having high hp, and two of her skills are extremely situational.

The reason BB's offensive prowess is rated highly is that with Self Modification it becomes quite decent despite her being having two support skills (Also, in no way are any of her skills "extremely situational").

This "decent" offense then becomes powerful once Avengers come into play, as she's effectively the only Moon Cancer most players are going to get. Class Advantage counts for a lot, not only for 2x damage doing more than Berserkers, but she also won't die to a stray hit thanks to her class resistances.

Dr Pepper fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Apr 24, 2019

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Cuntellectual posted:

"remove evade and invulnerable" is the very definition of situational. So is debuff clearing, really, even if that situation comes up more

"Stun the enemy Servant" is not situational, nor is Healing. There is not a fight in the game where those two effects are not useful. The fact that BB has other, more situational effects tied to her stun and heal just makes them better.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:

This event is kinda cool, except for the fact that BB and Meltryllis both suck.

Mods!?!?!??!

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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dogsicle posted:

*bb, threatening to kill me for the fortieth time* lmao i fuckin love this character

:emptyquote:

Honestly most of the cast members have tried to kill Guda so she doesn't hold it against them.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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RevolverDivider posted:

bb is a loving monster but she's fairly entertaining.

Melt rules.

Passionlip is horrible and in bottom 3 Fate designs of all time.

Passionlip's design is actually extremely good and fits perfectly in the context of her character and CCC.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Main Paineframe posted:

"everyone is untrustworthy and potentially evil, especially the ones claiming to be your friend, so trust no one" was Shinjuku's whole schtick too, so it doesn't really have quite as much narrative oomph as it's probably intended to

I mean, then it's Gudako becoming real friends with the evil people that saves the day in the end.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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OnimaruXLR posted:

This is the game where King Arthur is a lady who had a an incest baby with her wizard sister, and she looks like a bodacious swimsuit model instead of a permanent early teens girl because she has a magical spear that is actually a pillar that fastens together multiple layers of existence that she was going to store a handful humans inside of like an insect collection while she commits genocide against the rest

I mean Nasu didn't invent that bit.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Cuntellectual posted:

I don't think he came up with the "king arthur is a lady" bit first either!

Hah, really? What other story used it Pre-FSN?

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Billzasilver posted:

I always forget that japan is much more casual about so many of their artists being former or current h artists. I follow the twitter of a famous mangaka who has already drawn three super popular series. He said that he actually misses drawing h and wants to get back to it as soon as possible.

I mean here's the list of cartoonists and comic artists who have not drawn porn:

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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HGH posted:


DING DING DING *Buster -20% Down*
Or at least that's what's happened every time I've tried bringing out my Buster characters on the Wanted quests.

Story Fights have fixed BBslots, that fight always gives you a HP Regen.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Hans is Good.

Seriously he's one of the best Supports in the game.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Gologle posted:

I still don't actually understand how having sex with Kiara kills you, is her body just one big poison like Serenity? Or because she's a Beast, that's her Beast power?

Because she's basically Buddhist Anti-Christ and you end up in some kind of Reverse-enlightenment where you forsake all things but endless base pleasure.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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W.T. Fits posted:

Orion and Artemis are actually good, because they're basically Ataru and Lum from Urusei Yatsura.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who noticed that. It's hilarious.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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taser rates posted:

Yea, it's very rare outside of support servants that bond ces are worth using just because of the loss of stats alone.

Lol if you ever waste your time actually leveling CEs enough to make the difference between a standard CE and a Bond CE noticeable.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Darox posted:

No they don’t. This is a really stupid apocryphal story that gets said too often. Merlin is not the reason for break bars and anyone who spends half a second thinking should understand that.

It's very obvious even back in America that they wanted to try making bosses with multiple phases and more unique mechanics. Break Bars are fairly elegant solution to a lot of problems previous fgo boss fights wanted solved

- A way to give fights multiple phases
- A way to trigger unique mechanics
- And yes, a way to keep 1 turn burst from being too op.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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I didn't even notice that because I just used Gilgamesh to clear them. :v:

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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I have spent hundreds Quartz over the life time of this game trying to get Tamamo whenever she's on rate up. I then get her as an off banner with a ticket.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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The hair is part of the traditional depiction of him, usually as Kintaro.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Worldwalker_Pure posted:

I finished the challenge quest and threw the ticket at the banner, and as soon as the ring of light appeared the app crashed. When I fired it back up and checked the Spirit Origin List to see what I actually got, Raikou was in there.

It sounds like some kind of loving ghost story, the lights go out and when they come back on Raikou is right behind you. How the gently caress is this my luck. Why does my app crash whenever I pull a gold Servant now.

This happened to me last Nerofest.

Got Nero Bride.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Tbh I rarely use Golden Sumo because I'd rather use card, NP, or crit buff CEs. Attack buffs are so common I go for multiplicative stacking

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Tamamo + Jeanne can survive most things.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Vengarr posted:

They very clearly ran outta time for that one.

Yeah what we got was probably just an outline for their plans.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Furnaceface posted:

Do I need to have finished the final singularity to enjoy these because missing events sucks and Im only in London. :(

Summer 2 just requires Fuyuki cleared and Shimosa is a story chapter that will always be there for when you beat the Final Singularity.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Man I have nearly a 50% chance of a dupe.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

Fate reinterpreting Arjuna as a guy who basically snapped and hallucinated that his god was telling him to be an rear end in a top hat is an interesting twist, but I still want to see Rider Karna who is just pissed off, all the time, at everything, because of the gods aligning reality to just absolutely gently caress him over for no reason.

E: seriously, if you've never read the Mahabarata it actually kinda makes sense that Karna is so chill about his afterlife, considering that literally nothing the grail war can throw at him could be more horseshit than the myriad ways that Arjuna's Main Character Distortion Field just ruined his life, but by the same token he of all characters has all the justification in the world to just be 200% Mad all the time

Being beaten by Seig and Astolfo in a fair fight must have been downright refreshing.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Factor_VIII posted:

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FGO has a tendency to do that pretty often, which robs the story of emotional impact. Off the top of my head, Babylonia had Gorgon returning, Solomon had Mash, Shinjiku had Jeanne Alter and of course Agartha had Wu and Helena. The MC can summon Servants after they die anyway, so it's not as if there's a reason for them to come back within the story. It feels really cheap

I wouldnt call that "pretty often" over the course of a large story.

Also for that first example That wasn't the Gorgon you had fought earlier. That was Ana, unleashing her full monstrous power to save you. And the she does die.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Ytlaya posted:

Only decision that confuses me is having Lancer Arturia as W and Karna as O, since Karna seems cooler as a person who fills roughly the same gameplay niche (and I think he's overall supposed to be considered a bit better).

Lancer Arutria is the better AOE Lancer due to her having a 50% NP Charge skill. Karna's batter is a weird and hard to use 25%, and despite having a crit damage up he doesn't have a star gather skill.

Karna is probably better if you need a crit Lancer and have a way to get him stars but for general AOE situations Arturia will win out.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Factor_VIII posted:

I find a story pulling a 'Looks like this character is dead, feel sad. Oh look, now they're back!" annoying no matter how often it happens. It just feels like a really cheap way to generate pathos. A lot of the times in FGO that sort of thing isn't even necessary to the story; e.g. Jeanne Alter coming back after having her heart bitten through by doggo so that she can dance with Guda and act tsundere.

I mean that's on you but a fake out death is a legitimate storytelling technique and it's not like FGO hasn't had enough actual deaths to make the fake out ones obvious

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Honestly when comparing Casters it's best to ignore the big four meta defining ones because they're like a completely different category than any other Servant in the game.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Vengarr posted:

Paul Bunyan...Canadian?

What?

In several folk tales Paul Bunyan was born in Canada to French Canadian parents. His name is even French.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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Clawtopsy posted:

why do the yakuza keep coming up are we getting a yakuza servant???

Jaguar Warrior is already in the game.

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Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

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We must kill Fate/Grand Order to save Fate/Grand Order

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