Event done! Too bad the story was basically just visit area, short film, short trouble with solution being more funding. And closed with building statue of Bunyan. K.
Challenge quest isn’t all that difficult, just takes some time. I went easy mode with the team above. Habenyan deals all the NP as often as possible with the two supports doing their… supports. The lack of NP until first break bar means Castoria didn’t have much to do either. Oh and the CE for Habenyan was the invulnerability piercing + 50% NP CE. Now I think about it I should’ve used one that’s got bonus against caster instead. The piercing effect was needed so I don’t waste turn when one of those maids casts party wide evasion.
With event done all that’s left is farming all the mats. Those are pretty good so I’m using up all my gold apples and probably most of my silver apples. And maybe redo the challenge quest with lower rarity servants.
NA
Fate/Requiem! Too bad I’m not rolling for Voyager. He is quite useful actually although his damage is a bit too low at NP1.
As for the event itself, I’m slowly grinding through. I used some apples for previous one and I probably will need to use some as well here. That said, my main concern is clearing up the board without wasting too many dice. Last time I did it in JP I used quite a few more dice that I should have.
On unrelated note, I still have Jalter, Gilgamesh, Nobbu Summer, and Nagayoshi to ascend. Ascending them is one thing and then I still need to level their skills up. The first three in particular are pretty useful in general.
Bunyan event or something. I find her rather annoying so far.
I haven’t looked too much into it but the event looks like some kind of box gacha? The prize is pretty nice.
Also friend points summon. Exp CE drop! Yay. I rolled a lot and will roll a bit more until I have no FP left.
For luls I did one roll on Da Vinci Rider banner and got that random CE above.
NA
Event done. Yay. That was a lot of nodes. Challenge quest wasn’t much problem as long high damage servant is involved. With some luck it’s probably possible to have Okita clear it in fewer turns. At least I didn’t stuck with Euryale like last time.
Fate/Requiem coming up next. That will be fun. Fun as in mildly annoying.
Event is done. Kind of. Still need to check the alternative choices. I think I do have enough materials to clear them at once at least.
As for the challenge quest, I did it with Morgan-Castoria-Merlin for initial attempt… and then that’s it. There’s still a few more days and I may or may not attempt with lower rarity servant.
I have quite a few other things on higher priority at the moment so that’ll probably not happen.
NA
There’s that Gudaguda event. And I’m done with the story. All that’s left is clearing the store and epilogue (and related quests).
I did some more roll on the 17M banner but nothing useful came out. And three rolls on Okita Alter but nothing there either I ended up doing 99 rolls on Okita Alter banner and got one (now NP3). I also got Nagayoshi (NP4) and Nobbu Summer (NP2). That’s quite a lot more rolls than I initially planned. I sure hope I still have enough for upcoming banners. I also forgot Okita still isn’t NP5 here either. Whoops.
This event will be for another week. I hope it’ll be enough to clear everything without using too many apples. Or at all. I’ve got some event CE from those rolls at least.
It’ll be Erice’s event once this one is done. Voyager would be pretty useful but I have no such luxury anymore. I don’t think I’ll be able to roll for summer Illya either.
There’s Morgan banner as not quite kind of expected. Her previous banner was only few months ago and she’s already getting another banner.
That said, I used up all my resources of 138 rolls and got nothing 🥲
I did get Sanzou (now NP2) and some SR servants but that’s about it.
The event story has been completed and unfortunately there’s no extra maps or anything. There’s the expected rebuilding quest but that’s it. And I’m still farming for those event currencies and stuff.
NA
Did a few rolls on Gilgamesh, Kintoki, Scathach, and Jeanne Alter and got Gilgamesh and Jeanne Alter. Total tickets spent was 6 which was unbelievably lucky o_O That’s probably why I got jack shit on JP.
I attempted to get one more Sitonai but got Valkyrie instead 🥲 Oh well they’re NP5 now at least.
And then the current event – Sea Monster Crisis – it seems to be going to be pretty long. Heck, the welfare servant haven’t even been revealed. There will be probably another map.
Also did 20 rolls on the banner… and got jack shit.
As usual, I’m still slowly going through the story.
NA
More dead week yay…
Download Campaign coming up next week with the free SSR ticket. I’ll probably get Enkidu there. An NP2 Saber would be nice as well. Or Jack. Or Vlad. But in the end Enkidu fulfills a rather unique function whereas there are alternatives for others (kind of).
That said, it means it’ll be even more dead weeks coming up unless they move up rerun of Gudaguda Final Honnouji by almost a whole month.
More challenge quests! I’m going full power because I don’t want to think too much (and then I still ended up taking too long clearing them all).
New York 2019 3 (Gorgon Sisters)
Plain brute force unfortunately doesn’t work here so it took me a few attempts to actually remember all the cautions I need to take care of. First turn is clearing first break bar for both Euryale and Stheno. Second and third turn is getting rid of Medusa (closed off with NP after first two hit got rid of her), and fourth turn clearing up whatever left.
Card luck is quite important here because otherwise the buff runs out…
New York 2019 4 (Mephisto)
Last few times I did this was using Qin Shi Huang solo. And then I looked around and apparently the team above can clear the thing in 6 turns with enough luck (and it did).
That ended up pretty annoying though with a lot of dependence on card luck.
I did another run with usual Morgan Castoria Merlin and cleared it in 24 turns. Anniversary mystic code with its guts buff was required to get past Mephisto’s instant death. The following 10k max HP reduction was annoying but it’s enough to take one hit for those times the team going without invulnerability.
New York 2019 5 (Brave Eli)
As if it’s not painfully clear already, Castoria and Merlin combination is pretty stupid. It can’t be clearer here with them staying alive until the end of this long quest with the last wave being a giant dragon of class Rider and area attack.
No particular strategy apart of letting Eli kill all the monsters and have the two support keep the whole team alive. This also cleared up the problem with wave 5 with the piercing buff.
New York 2019 6 (Achilles)
On usual run, this starts with card luck and then followed by… having enough buff to clear it in one duel session.
But with those two support, it’s actually possible taking all those NP spam while slowly chipping away enemy HP. Initially attempted with Himiko instead of Morgan but it ended up taking a bit too long.
New York 2019 7, 8 (Romulus)
I did both quests while watching something else so I didn’t quite remember exactly how but this was the usual Morgan Castoria Merlin except Merlin went dead at some point while I was looking away but thankfully Reines is good enough to keep the team running.
The main change for this quest is Morgan NP comes after Castoria’s. I think having her hitting someone other than Romulus the turn before could also work but straight out debuff clear is just easier.
Tesla Cup Gigacoil 1 (Fuuma)
I didn’t do the quests here in order so it may look weird but anyway, for this one, it’s my usual Merlin solo. Looking again I should probably do something else because not being able to use him somewhere else hurt a lot.
Tesla Cup Gigacoil 2 (Akiba Tower)
It’s my previous clear team but with Tamamo instead of Merlin. Slightly easier thanks to event CE bonus damage (but more difficult because of team composition).
Tesla Cup Gigacoil 3 (MHXX)
This one would’ve been easier if I have access to usual support team but I’m limited to Skadi here so it took quite a lot of card luck and taunts.
Front row was Skadi Hans Okita with the back being Mephisto and Leonidas. Mephisto got taunt CE and deals buff block while Leonidas provided final taunt service (?) with three turns invulnerable CE.
Tesla Cup Gigacoil 4 (Orion)
With no usual support available I had to be slightly… creative. Percival with his NP regen and all cleared as many front rows as possible and then Cu finished whatever remained.
Tesla Cup Gigacoil 5 (Erice)
After a lot of painful trial and errors, I figured it’s just easier to have Morgan clear all the ghosts with her NP and then deal the final blow with buster chain. Way less card luck dependent with solo.
Tesla Cup Gigacoil 6 (Kakarei)
Support? What support? Oh yeah, Miyu is a support, kind of.
With no real support left at hand it’s taunt wall time and somehow I managed to clear it with this team.
…I don’t want to do this again. I should’ve saved Okita for this.
Tesla Cup Gigacoil 7 (Male Idols)
Hey look I managed to save Waver and Asclep for this. I don’t remember how but I cleared this somehow. Yay.
Oberon didn’t end up doing anything either.
Main Challenge Quest
After many hours with Gigacoil I didn’t want to think at all anymore and without servant restriction I went and copied off the template from Appmedia (the version on the page has been further tweaked but the original one I used worked first time).
And so I’ve finished all the challenge quests.
All that’s left is more box farming. I only have 51 silver apples left though so it won’t take too long. I hope I can at least get Okita to bond 12 for her final grail to level 120.
On other note, I got my master level up to 160. Total cost allowance 114 means I can put three SSR, two Commons, and five SSR CEs.
Arash first wave, Okita second wave, and closed off with Morgan. If I use mystic code with 10% NP charge I can have Morgan deal first and last wave but all of my other mystic codes are already level 10 so Arash it is. It’s also nice there’s only one targeted skill needed here (Oberon’s last skill). The rest are party/self skills (Morgan 1, Okita 2, Arash 3, Oberon 1).
Upcoming events are already announced. Kind of. Nothing concrete yet so there isn’t much to be excited about although the welfare servant is welcome.
NA
Lostbelt 5.2 is here!
Well, I’m not doing it just yet. I will go through it slowly as usual. Now I think about it, I can definitely wait until I get the free Enkidu on upcoming SSR ticket so I can use him to clear that one annoying fight.
Looking at event history, I noticed there’s nothing on April…
Up next would be Gudaguda Final Honnoji Rerun. I’m still not rolling for anyone though.
Space Odyssey thing! Challenge quests! I’ve been feeling lazy lately so full power team it is =]
A good chunk of it was referencing Hakugin no Hato‘s videos.
Tesla Cup Megacoil 1
Thick enemies and only DoT can sanely break through it. Jeanne Summer, Tomoe, and Kiyohime all inflict burn damage. I attached as many DoT command codes as I can (I only attached burn command codes but it’s better to just attach everything possible).
Once the team is set up, just burn everyone to death. Tomoe with her event CE and class advantage can do a bit of damage as well.
Tesla Cup Megacoil 2
Two Penths. As many NP as possible. Just that. Oh and some crit stars are useful. Also, attaching def buff removal command codes to her helps.
Tesla Cup Megacoil 3
All that’s needed here is getting rid of Moriarty. Melusine isn’t the best lancer but it worked, I guess. The two supports are Mozart (for his star gen and arts buff and arts def debuff) and Helena (for her NP charge and star gen and color buff). There are better support but I want the usual supports for other nodes. Nothing much else here.
Tesla Cup Megacoil 4
Reindeers and santa. Kill reindeers first and then solo with Morgan. I suppose you can also clear santa’s card color def buff with some skills or NP or whatever but by making Morgan solo, she can just use the no-def extra attack to clear up those 150k-ish HP bars quickly.
As with other quests, saving up supports for more difficult quests.
Tesla Cup Megacoil 5
Shikibu and her books. Odysseus unexpectedly being useful here. No particular strategy here apart of removing the books and then hit Shikibu with everything available. The two supports are Bunyan and Asterios. With Odysseus skill 1 they both go down pretty quickly although it’s more helpful to have one of them stay alive for one turn so it’s less reliant on card draw.
Tesla Cup Megacoil 6
Holmes and his… nonexistent buff. Jeanne with her buff blocking NP made good work on dealing with Holmes NP. No particular strategy here but I had Benkei doing the taunting for first turn.
Tesla Cup Megacoil 7
And last one the summer 2017 challenge quest. A lot of various servants and I didn’t want to think too much on this one. Except it ended up quite a lot longer than I expected but Castoria and Merlin easily kept Musashi alive while she dishes out all the damages. Morgan would’ve been easier here but I used here for other quest already.
New York 2018 1 (Touta)
I can’t quite remember it but I think I used Melusine here this time. No particular reason really (apart of copypasting this) but it wasn’t quite as mindless as Cu or Enkidu since she doesn’t have evasion or guts at all. And her third skill is pretty much dead baggage. But hey it worked in the end anyway.
New York 2018 2 (Leonidas)
I copypasted this team here and it worked just like that. Nitocris cleaning up mobs together with Castoria and Merlin and then Muramasa swapped in to finish Leonidas off.
New York 2018 3 (Izo)
Another copypasta from this. Good thing I maxed up Morgan, I guess.
New York 2018 4 (Jaguarman)
Kind of copying from this but with Morgan instead of Godjuna. Usual pattern of Merlin and Castoria endurance party with Morgan shooting her NP as frequent as possible. There are some card color def buff thing and all but Morgan’s (buffed) firepower is powerful enough and there’s nothing much to worry about.
New York 2018 5 (Sheba)
Not sure why I went full endurance party instead of just using a more useful rider. But it’s overall not too difficult with the usual support. It just took way too long.
One of the easier (or precisely more luck based) challenge quest.
New York 2018 6 (MHXA)
I usually use Cu Alter here and close thing up with all the Cus but seeing this I figured this can work as well and quite a bit faster. Now I think about it this ended up with MHXA vs MHXX. Castoria is also as usual very useful. It took 24 turns in total.
If last time it was Godjuna/Cu Alter everything, it’s now Caster and Merlin everything. Castoria NP is just too useful.
New York 2018 7 (Caster Gilgamesh)
Georgios and Leonidas protects Morgan first few turns at least until Bunyan is removed and then the back supports did their usual job. I did Nero second to last (I think?) since enemy HPs are only around 100k.
New York 2018 8 (Caster Gilgamesh but more HP)
Just like above but I got rid of Nero Bride second here. It’s still possible to use same strategy as above with getting rid of Nero Bride later but I find using Morgan NP more… comforting. Especially with her NP overcharge boost buff.
New York 2019 1 (Nero Bride)
I never liked this quest and still don’t. I probably should’ve used Castoria and Merlin as usual but I didn’t think too much at the time and copied this instead which turned out to be quite difficult to pull off correctly.
So I tried this again with simpler Castoria support setup and it ended up way easier with more leeway on overall strategy. There’s Merlin support in the back but he ended up not coming up with Georgios somehow stayed alive all these turns.
New York 2019 2 (Eric)
Copied off from my previous attempt except with Oberon instead of Nero Bride and Okita instead of Kintoki Rider. Ended in three turns with last turn Okita dealing 1.7M damage thanks to Oberon.
And that’s it for challenge quests up to today.
NA
Apocrypha raids ended! Except I barely cleared up the shop. So now I’m painfully farming up for event currency with some apples involved.
As for challenge quest, I copied off my previous attempt but with Godjuna and Merlin instead of Spartacus and one more Waver. With some card luck it ended up pretty quickly.
I didn’t want to think too much for the challenge quest and I still needed to think quite a bit (talk about fail). So there’s this support Godjuna with NP5. But his first and third skill are still at level 9. That ended up being a weird handicap. I don’t know why I put 50% NP CE for Koyanskaya either. There isn’t much strategy here beyond letting the main attacker (Godjuna and later Morgan) do a crit normal attack before launching their NP. Koyanskaya and Oberon provide the much needed crit stars. Also buster/NP buffs. It ended up taking 15 turns with solo Okita finishing up whoever the last one remained.
And then there’s the surprise challenge quests. First one is Salieri with 1M+ HP. And a bunch of semi permanent buffs. There’s no need to bother saving Castoria/Merlin buffs and I buffed Sieg straight away for the first two waves and third wave until Salieri absorbed all the ghosts. And then Medea swapped in to clear those buffs.
With Gudaguda CE equipped, she went down pretty quickly afterwards, bringing BB in. As there’s no other gimmicks, it’s pretty much just endurance fight.
As for Asterios fight, it’s another endurance fight but simpler because the enemy is berserker. Himiko, Castoria, and Merlin did the trick very well. A bit too well actually. Thank god I have them all. I was also reminded again that my Himiko is for some reason NP2.
I should’ve equipped Himiko something else. Prisma Cosmos or Limited/Zero Over would’ve been more useful. Or Child of Atlas. Well, it still worked out fine anyway.
Same team, same strategy for the last one. I really should’ve used Origin Bullet here. At 55 turns it was… long. Ozymandias would’ve been better option here but I don’t have him.
I would retry with different team but I don’t quite have time nowadays so those will have to make do for now. Or ever.
On unrelated note, box gacha event is coming up this Wednesday. I don’t have my apples yet though. And honestly I’d rather have half AP training ground with my current mats situation. I need a lot more skill stones. I hope the other mats are something I need. Proof of Heroes would especially be nice. I still need loads of them.
NA
Apocrypha! Raid! Except I’m not doing much of it. Just like in JP, I’m short of skill stones here as well. I’m also hoping for skill animation speed up to arrive before the next box gacha event. It gets irritating fast after getting used to the JP speed.
White day event! That’s one interesting Grail War they have there. Seems pretty easy so far and I’ve been just grinding the event currencies as usual along with the daily unlocked story.
Not rolling for this one. Not even Arjuna Alter. I’ve got my Morgan and others. I also just want to save for possible upcoming servants. If anything, this year may be the return of quick.
NA
White day event! As well! Or more like it’s almost ending and I haven’t quite there in term of clearing up the shop. I’ll probably have to use some apples here as I doubt it’ll be enough with just natural AP regen.
Oh and the challenge quest, it was mildly amusing clearing it with Kama. She has no problem clearing first two bars with double Skadi but the last one as expected is pretty tough. With def buff removal NP by Odysseus, I had to use guts to keep Kama alive through his NP and pray she’s not killed afterwards after the guts trigger. Atlas Mystic Code allowed her to use the guts twice although it ended up not needed. The first attempt was failed because her guts didn’t cool down in time. The second attempt worked better thanks to Emiya NP reducing Odysseus’ NP charge. Half damage def buff sucks.
As for the rolls, well, nope. Still saving for upcoming Castoria. And everyone else that come afterwards.
Valentine ended! Or not! I still need to open all those choco events. I’ll get around doing it after writing this post…
Unexpectedly there’s this Best Valentine Buddy thing. I didn’t really plan for it but thankfully Okita is mine due to me always putter on sub while I used two different farming teams so neither team members got the most point despite Okita being on the fourth slot.
Meanwhile White Day event is starting this Wednesday. From the look of it Arjuna Alter will most likely be available on banner pick up. I don’t know I’ll pull that. He’s pretty useful but Morgan will do in a pinch I think. And I want to save some sq as well.
NA
Dead week is dead. There’s hunting quest but as I mentioned last week I don’t want to use any apples so I only did the bare minimum. That said, even with bare minimum the ice cube node drop was really shit I ended up using bronze apples just to get two ice cubes.
And thus I’m done leveling up this Napoleon guy.
Aeaean event is coming up. The banner’s Enkidu and Cu Alter are pretty useful but I’m also saving my sq here. Castoria is coming up after all. Not to mention 2023 will be full of useful farming servants.
Event done! …kind of. I cleared challenge quest using the team above and practically no strategy. I probably should at least attempt something like this or this but I have no apple and raising buddy rank requires a lot of farming.
That said, with no debuff from enemy party and the NP being single target, everyone is having their field day trying various ways to clear this. If only the event is slightly longer (or the CQ is unlocked earlier).
As for farming, I still need 800k points and 600 bronze event currency. I tried not using apple but I ended up using some and will probably need a bit more.
I managed to not roll more and only did some paid rolls. Still no Bazett though. I don’t think I’ll do any more paid roll until at least next year (assuming I still play this by then).
NA
As I guessed yesterday, they shuffled events around with hunting quest starting tomorrow. I’ll just farm with natural AP as I’m still saving apples and don’t exactly need any of them at the moment. Except for ice crystals but I only need two of them so it should be easy.
Valentine! Bazett! Well, I tried 10 rolls for her and got nothing. I’ll do paid rolls for a bit more or maybe till the end but I don’t think I’ll do normal roll for her anymore.
As for the event itself, as usual I’m slowly going through it. This account is very low on apple anyway so I don’t have that much choices in the first place.
The battles are relatively easy which is not surprising considering the requirement is just Fuyuki as usual with Valentine (I think?). And unlike last year, there’s no choco shadow quest this time around.
I’m planning to actually check the chocolate giving/getting events this time around although I don’t know if I’ll have enough time to actually do it.
NA
So I saw Sitonai/Shounagon banner a few days ago and tried rolling on that and still got nothing.
The challenge quest was pretty… interesting. Nothing too difficult with two Merlins lol. And especially Ereshkigal’s third skill came in handy as Merlin doesn’t have defensive skill beyond HP regen and one turn invulnerability. As usual I didn’t actually plan anything much after defeating Shounagon so it took a while to finish the quest.
Apple situation is better here but I’m still trying to save as well. I think I need about 10-15 more run on highest difficulty node to clear everything. With a bit over done day still remain, I can finish it without using apples. Or maybe use one just to be safe.
No news on next event yet. It should be White Day on JP but March 14th is still one month away so I don’t know what they’ll do in the mean time. They do have to speed things up a bit due to anniversary being two months earlier so maybe they’ll shuffle events around? Which means Apocrypha Collab rerun? Although strictly speaking the Odysseus event isn’t really a white day event so maybe they can just do that ahead separately from Chaldea Boys Collection thing.
Finished the second CQ (again) now with Castoria (friend support) being only higher rarity servant.
I initially tried with Caster Shuten Douji but Reines NP is quite very annoying so Medea is in her place. The strategy is of course get rid of Gray first and then Reines. Medea ended up still being pretty useful for Reines to remove the NP effect. Raising that Hundred Faces was expensive though :’)
I also noticed that while not quite Merlin useful, Andersen works quite well with Castoria in term of providing healing. And with his def buff (when it comes through), it’s slightly more useful than Merlin even (albeit without per turn NP charge).
I haven’t tried the other CQ with lower rarity servants. I don’t know if I’ll be able to spare time for that. I also don’t remember how I did it first time although considering the enemy side attacker is Alexander it’s probably just Gray with assistance from Koyanskaya.
Meanwhile on gacha news, there’s still no Faker but instead:
…yeah. I don’t know how but I ended up rolling five of her in 155 rolls total. Yay?
Also I guess I’ll just need to wait until Faker spooks me on some random rolls later.
With this event coming to a close, up next will be Valentine. There will be a stream next weekend although I’m not sure if it’ll be right after the stream or yet another Wednesday start. I hope it’s right after the stream just so I can start the event early.
NA
Cleared tower event challenge quest with that team above. It was two berserkers so I figured this should work just fine (and it did). As usual it’s just Hokusai spamming her NP with a lot of taunts.
As for the tower itself, I’m currently at floor 82. Only 18 floors left with two remaining days. Should be just enough.
Right after this tower event will be valentine. I don’t think I’ll roll there either…
Finished main story and the new challenge quest (in easy mode).
The idea is just as usual – let Morgan spam her NP every turn, backed by all the latest buster supports. Oh and taunt CEs because otherwise Morgan will die pretty quickly especially with that NP on bar break. Although now I think about it again, I could’ve used that opportunity to put Waver instead of Mash so there’s even less worry on getting enough NP and damage for Morgan.
The buff from both Morgan NP and Koyanskaya helped getting her damage break 1M. Her being NP3 probably also helped a bit.
All that’s left is finishing the missions and the event shop items and the original challenge quest.
And maybe retry the new CQ with lower rarity servants. There’s quite a lot of time this time around.
I’ve been slowly rolling daily paid SQ for Reines although nothing useful so far.
NA
Tower event has started. I’m currently at floor 84 which is just about right considering there’s still a week left.
Nothing particularly interesting so far apart of the fact I’m filling up the team with 5 servants instead of 3 for that sweet bond points.
No roll plan here and probably none until Castoria.
So I did 21 roll and got one Reines. That was nice I thought so I rolled more hoping for Faker. Her 100% NP charge skill with single target arts NP with class advantage against knight classes and caster should come in handy. Except I ended up spending all my SQ with 132 rolls total and didn’t get her at all. But instead I got 4 Reines. That was weird. And annoying. And RIP my SQ stock.
Along the way I didn’t get any useful CE but at least got Percival (NP2), Heracles (NP4), and Chiron (NP2). More Percival is useful.
Raid is coming up in a few days and it would be useful. If only I have more apples.
NA
Done with the event including challenge quests.
I forgot to take screenshot for the first one but it’s the above except replace Eli with Godjuna and relocate him at 1, Orion at 4, and Merlin at 5. Godjuna first defeats all the monkeys in single turn and then after he’s defeated Orion comes in and finish Beni Enma.
As for the second challenge quest, it’s just Orion hitting Youkihi.
Tower event is coming up next week. That would be fun… if it’s longer than two weeks. I’ll need to be careful to not end up rushing on last minute.
I rolled for Scathach! She’s not exactly useful though!
That took 15 rolls which wasn’t too bad. Rolling for Dark Koyanskaya on the other hand, I spent 58 rolls and didn’t get her. I did get the 5 copies of SSR CE which is mildly useful at least.
Now I’m saving for the upcoming Reines. Another upgrade for her would be nice but she got one a while back so I doubt there will be one.
NA
I spent too much for NA. 11 for Youhiki, 33 for Scathach, and 66 for Tamamo. At least I did get Tamamo but that costed me 110 rolls. Not to mention I will have chance of choosing her for the upcoming SSR ticket.
I’ll either take Saber (for NP2) or Osakabehime or Jack. Bradamante may be fun as well but she’s area and Ereshkigal should be enough for now (and upcoming Gubijin summer).
…I’ll probably just go with Saber. She’s plenty useful and more damage is more useful.
At currently 140 SQ, I sure hope I can collect enough for upcoming Castoria this summer. And Himiko and Okita in October.
Voyager and NP2 Kama would be nice but I think they can come later.
As for the new year event itself, I’m almost done with it. Just need a bit more farming to clear out the store and then challenge quest which is still locked.
Looking at event list, the next one will be tower event. That will be fun. And tiring.
Freed from Skadi curse, I can finally choose whatever I want this time around. After plenty considerations, it was down to either Arts Knights or Support 1.
Arts Knights contains plenty of both useful servants (Nero Bride, Beni Enma, Muramasa, Summer Saber, Summer Jeanne, Fairy Lancelot) and eyecandy servants (Ryohgi Shiki, Summer Saber, Summer Jeanne). Whereas the only miss would be Lancer Ryoma.
Support 1 has pretty much all relatively useful sevants and two eyecandies (Reines and Castoria). I already have Castoria more is always better (until 5).
As per screenshot above I went with Arts Knights in the end and thankfully got Summer Jeanne. At NP1 her usefulness is slightly limited but still useful nonetheless. Also I think I completed my Jeanne collection with this one. Except Jailter of course because there’s no way to get her at the moment.
Meanwhile for other updates, Dark Koyanskaya doesn’t seem all that useful so I did 11 rolls and got jack shit as usual. I don’t think I’ll be rolling for other dailies either.
Pity system is, well, finally? At 330 rolls it’s pretty much business as usual though. I’ve always consider that number to be the normal worst case scenario so there isn’t much difference apart of that it’s now guaranteed instead of still having possibility of worst worst case.
Holy Grail creation is pretty interesting…? I don’t think I will get that many coins at the moment but for now I’ve exchanged all extra coins I have. I doubt I have enough for next month. That said, combined with other extra grails recently distributed, my problem of lack of grails has been solved in one go.
And lastly, the new training ground difficulty is definitely welcome. I don’t know the exact rate but the drops are pretty good from what I can tell. As usual it’s useless if wanting one specific item (apart of skill gems) but it works great for simply stockpiling mats.
Oh right, there’s Reines rerun sometime this month. Barbatos raid should also come along which would be very useful for all those bones and dusts and QP.
NA
As for NA GSSR, it’s Archers banner as it’s got the least number of misses (Moriarty). Summer Saber would be best but as per screenshot above, Orion is still quite useful in some scenarios.
Nothing else particularly interesting here so, yeah.
Beni Enma event will also start next week. I need a lot more mana prism…
The final fight for third raid battle (one with 6 raid targets) is especially annoying if not using Castoria which I didn’t. The key is to not kill everyone at once for the first five. The fourth enemy which brings full charge is very dangerous when combined with the fifth one which brings invulnerability piercing. All the enemies hit hard and with the last one’s area attack, it’s very dangerous to be left alone so for the last three I try getting rid of them all at once instead.
Nikitich NP charge on last hit is pretty important as well. And as I mentioned above, it’s bad to kill first three at once so I actually skip buff for first few NP and only do it once fourth and fifth enemy appear.
As for the raid itself, well, that was a lot of Oberon. And also surprisingly Skadi.
The Koyanska raid one is quite hard and involve some luck to prevent stun (or extra skill slots). I tried a few combinations and then went to one hit kill Koyanska instead of trying to clear the whole mobs. Lobo with two Skadi and one oberon work well in this case.
NA
Finally cleared the shop so I can focus on the lottery item. The team is as per screenshot above.
The lack of fast skill animation annoyed me a lot now so I don’t really farm here and probably won’t until they bring in that update. Currently at almost 25 boxes. With some luck maybe I can have 30 boxes.
Box event has ended and raid event is coming up soon. I ended up with 51 boxes total. Not too bad but I certainly can use more. I still need a lot more skill gems.
As for challenge quest, the easy one is, well, easy. Spartacus having damage bonus for this event also helped. It’s the usual taunt and NP (and face cards). Mech Eli at the back for cleaning up second wave and lastly Castoria and Robin Hood for finishing Beni Enma.
Getting buster buff from the first wave was pretty difficult but at least it’s not essential.
The hard challenge quest on the other hand, is hard. I saw the comp above on Appmedia message board and thankfully it worked wonder. A few places suggested defeating Oni first but I think Habetrot is way more dangerous because of her NP charges. It also helps she’s only got single HP bar. No I look at Appmedia page again, they do suggest Habetrot as well so I guess either I read it wrong few days ago or they updated their recommendation.
Anyway, with lack of time to experiments I didn’t try with lower rarity servants this time.
Oh and I cleared the story and challenge quest as well.
Taking hint from myself last time, it’s time for another double Merlin. I just didn’t want to think too much. Still not easy though. I should’ve used Atlas Academy Uniform instead.
Only 8 boxes so far so I definitely need to pick up pace. After a while with JP skill speedup update, the lack of it in NA is quite annoying.
So, yeah, I’ve been mostly farming here. I finally finished the Cu Caster farming team and have been using them whenever Castoria/Paracelsus can’t work easily. I still prefer Castoria setup because it involves fewer skill taps but there are also more nodes which such setup couldn’t easily work.
The event is pretty short and the most efficient node still isn’t up so I’m not sure how many boxes I’ll end up with. I’m trying to get at least 50.
NA
Astraea banner was up so I did some rolls hoping for her and thankfully she came up in 3rd roll.
I think that should sum up my rolls for now. Next one would Voyager in May? Or maybe I’ll skip it and save everything for Castoria. At least I don’t plan getting more than one of her.
In the meantime, I’m slowly going through LB5 with mana prism farming in between. I forgot that the second half of LB5 is completely separate arc and will be released separately.
I ended up skipping challenge quest using slightly saner team this time. I’ll retry next year. Maybe.
On other news, I rolled Ryoma (Lancer) from the paid gacha. I also did a few tickets afterwards and got one extra Okita Summer. A bit more of her would be nice but it’ll require at least 4 more to be able to fully max here so I decided to stop instead.
Also stopped is my paid roll. Looking back at the total, I did 271 paid rolls so far which sum up to 31k yen (excluding the bonus SQ). That’s over 10k per month which is pretty bad. Well, I did know it gets expensive over time but looking at the number it sure is expensive. I didn’t quite expect a full 10k per month either.
So for now I’m stopping it and will only be doing it for something I do actually care about.
On side note, I tried rolling Galatea with tickets and got jack shit.
As for activity, there’s nothing to do after the event so I’ve been farming the fantasy scales and QP. The former for maxing Oberon and the latter for also maxing Oberon and many other things. A 4/4/4 append skills for everyone would be nice.
NA
There’s! Nothing! Here!
Well, there’s the new Lostbelt chapter but it’s not a time limited event so I’m doing it slowly. Christmas lotto is coming up soon after all. Gotta save all those apples.
I tried rolling for Orion with like 10 tickets and didn’t get him as expected. I got a gold archer though. An Atalante. I only need two more copies of her for NP5.
That said, I took easy path for the challenge quest. I’ll try that with something smarter if I can find time to.
It’s nothing 3T or NP spam or anything advanced like that. Letting Ozy spam his NP ad infinitum while protected by Castoria and Merlin cleared it just fine.
The quest is relatively easy so I shouldn’t need all that much power in the first place.
Anyway, apart of that, all that’s left for me is farming some event items. I’m rather behind at the moment and I’m not sure if I can clear it without using gold or silver apples. I’ll hold back until two or one day before end of the event which then I’ll use the apples accordingly.
NA
Apparently LB5 is coming up before Christmas here? It kinda makes sense although it also means another thing NA doing in different order compared to JP.
Apart of that, I’m still farming for mana prism. With a bit of other quests to clear the Thanksgiving missions.
Oh and I did 10 rolls for Okita (and got nothing) and then another 36 rolls for Reines. Thankfully for Reines roll I did get her and an extra Kaleidoscope along the way.
That’s a lot of rolls lost regardless so I don’t know if I’ll roll for Orion and others in the coming months until Castoria.
Gudaguda after Gudaguda! Yay. The best new servant is thankfully a welfare. Her lines are rather questionable when taken out of context.
The story is still slowly unlocked every day. I think it should be ending soon? Although the talk from yesterday kinda indicates there may be some raid event involved. I have some apples but I want to save them for Christmas box gacha. Maybe if it’s got some mats I desperately need at the moment I’ll do some farm until I gathered just enough. I’m still heavily lacking skill stones and raids don’t give them out.
As for that Angra Mainyu up there, I ended up with a total of five of him when rolling for exp CE cards in friend gacha. I wish I got some SSR from paid gacha instead. One more Okita would’ve been nice so I don’t need to farm her bonds.
NA
Dead month is dead. Some login bonus stuff and that’s it. gems and tickets are nice and according to my list there is nothing for me to roll until castoria next year so that’s what I’ll do. Or maybe 11 rolls for Voyager and Kama each during their respective event.
Oh and Okita is coming up soon as well. Maybe another 11 there although I don’t think I’ll get her to 120 in NA but instead try for Morgan.
In the meantime, I’m farming for mana prisms. I still need a lot of them. At least 5000 more of them.
Gudaguda Himiko. CE exp cards from FP gacha. I’ve spent over 2M on it and got quite a few of them now. Also some Saber Lily and Habetrot and Angra Mainyu. And of course a lot of Nobukatsu. I’ve got almost 2000 servant coin of him now.
Meanwhile on the event itself, there isn’t much interesting. The raid started out pretty badly with the server barely responding. Half of the Nobbus being down just in few hours isn’t helping either. At least the one I’m farming for, Dark Nobbu, isn’t very popular. I don’t have many apples so I can’t farm much either anyway.
As for random rolls, for some reason I ended up with three Napoleon. And 0 Jeanne Summer after 59 rolls. That was mildly annoying but my current recorded SSR servant rate is 53 out of 4714 rolls so it’s kinda expected, I guess?
NA
Dead week is dead. There’s hunting quest but there’s nothing I particularly needed at the moment so I’m just farming with natural AP.
Halloween is over! Kind of! I still have to farm a bit more to get all those CEs!
The farming nodes are rather interesting but thankfully I’ve got enough to replicate the teams listed here.
As for challenge quest, it’s relatively easy. I didn’t bother to do much experiment but this one worked.
Nothing fancy, just letting Kagetora hit Zenobia until she’s down. With occasional Castoria and Hans NP as needed.
Meanwhile I didn’t notice the Apocrypha BD banner includes Jeanne Summer and Mordred Summer. Threw quite a bit for Jeanne Summer but got Fran Summer instead welp. I have some more SQ but I don’t think I’ll roll more. Or will I.
NA
Also done with Saber Wars 2 here.
Challenge quest isn’t much really. It’s just having Mech Eli hit MHXX as much as possible. Now I think about it, it’s quite similar to the JP Halloween above.
As for Round Table quest, it’s a little bit lot more annoying with Tristan’s buff removal and Gareth’s piercing NP. The formation gimmick was also annoying especially quite a few of it requires command card and crit luck.
Somehow cleared it anyway thankfully. Sure is nice having Godjuna.
The event ends tomorrow and there next one for JP is hunting quest and… Christmas. Not sure how they’ll handle the long blank space until Christmas unless they do weird thing and start it mid November.
Halloween! Thankfully all the extra copies of previous Elis can be obtained from event shop using event currency instead of rare prism. Not only that they also thrown in relevant servant coins and event CEs. One extra copy of MLB Aerial Drive is always welcome.
Story is still ongoing and I’ve been slowly reading through it. At least the farming is relatively easy with up to 6 enemies at once, making it very easy to loop.
Did some paid roll everyday and so far got one Zenobia. Yay?
NA
I’m still going through the Saber Wars 2 story. I think I need to complete some bounty quests but I’m not sure which so I’m trying complete them all instead for now.
There are two notably rather difficult quests this time, one is the Elis quest.
That said, my strategy is simple; break first bar on first turn using Godjuna and then send him back and wait until all the support finish recharging and stuff. And then back to finishing them once all the taunts are dead and no more stupid buffs for the enemies.
The other one is Round Table but I haven’t reached it yet.
I also did more rolls which I probably shouldn’t. And all I got was one Munenori and one Black Grail. And there went my 44 rolls.
Halloween main interlude! I barely progressed through. I finished the first part. Two other parts remaining. That said I’ve read most of the rest’s original event so it shouldn’t take too long.
Eli’s strengthening are… mixed bags. OG and Mech Eli got pretty nice upgrade with former making more sense between the skill and her NP and the latter potentially boosting her damage further by making it easier to crit.
Brave Eli’s 50% NP reduction for skill 3 is still pretty questionable. Being less costly to cast is nice but the effect is just too random.
Meanwhile Halloween Eli’s NP charge is, well, NP charge. At just 30% it’s nothing much to write home about. There’s no shortage of Caster with NP charge skill after all. Her NP hasn’t gotten any strengthening either. Still better than Brave Eli at least, I guess.
I don’t think the date for new Halloween event has been announced. It could be as early as next week. It should be sometime this month though.
On unrelated news, I did one random roll on story gacha and nicely got Jaguarman. Finally she’s NP2. Still need 3 more. No other interesting roll so far either.
NA
Nothing week! Like, nothing. Saber Wars 2 should be coming soon. Maybe next week. It felt like I’ve done it so many times now. I don’t think it’s too difficult apart of one or two quests so it should be just some light event overall for me. I just hope I can finish it without apples although I doubt it.
In the mean time I’ve been just farming for QP. I considered farming other things as well but they’re just not very efficient and takes more time. Mana prism farming could be useful as well but more box event is coming up in November and farming QP is easier (as in it uses 40 AP compared to mana prism 30 AP).
Melty Blood release campaign! …which is Saber pick up banner.
I did paid roll just for fun and got her somehow. Yay.
Still on paid roll, I also got Achilles on his banner. Too bad I didn’t get anyone else useful on that paid roll thing.
As I mentioned last week, I redid the challenge quest with more restriction and managed to do it. I stole it from this guy here almost as is.
So, summer has ended and Halloween is coming up. The nice part is they’ll start it by having a main interlude type of rerun which is just the main story including the welfare. I don’t have Halloween Eli and Brave Eli so that’ll be some welcome addition. Oh and another copy of Mech Eli so I can have complete set of them. NP upgrade will be coming on the new Halloween event but there’s no info whether it’s free(-ish) or require rare prism like other main interludes.
Oh, I did some more rolls for Okita Alter summer and still got nothing. And I also did 10 rolls for Okita Alter and equally got nothing. Hopefully the paid roll will give me something nice this time. Or most likely not.
NA
Halloween rerun! Raid! And I’m done with everything there, including the challenge quest.
I barely paid attention to it and it just somehow cleared. It’s basically just letting Godjuna spam his NP and face card. Gudaguda Kanban is used to provide free taunt. I put Kintoki there so I can have Godjuna focus on Sitonai first and then finished by Kintoki but he ended up clearing the whole thing anyway.
Coming next is Saber Wars 2 which has no welfare but at least it’s got a Mystic Code.
I don’t think I’ll roll on this one. Or maybe just one for fun. I need all the SQ and tickets I can get for next (and following) year.
Next year top priority for me will be Castoria and Himiko. And maybe Okita if I’ve got enough spares. That’s not too bad but then the following year will be Fujino, Morgan, Koyanskaya, Oberon, and Okita Alter Summer.
