Board 8 > Fate/Grand Order Topic 9: Mystic Eyes and Knives

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Yeesh, the farming to clear the shop was pretty brutal to start with but today it became unbearable. Like, the general lack of high damage Casters makes the Assassin node take 13-16 turns to clear and you have to do it literally 70-90 times if you don't have any gacha CEs to speed it up. That's probably the most unreasonable thing this game has ever thrown at us in both terms of time taken and resources needed.

Thankfully farming the shit out of the lottery is basically effortless so you can get a ludicrous amount of experience, QP and other goodies for basically no effort! I'm probably just going to pick a few things to clear from the shop and focus all my farming efforts on that, the gains are ridiculous.
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My Cu just hit max bond

Xiahou Shake posted...

Yeesh, the farming to clear the shop was pretty brutal to start with but today it became unbearable. Like, the general lack of high damage Casters makes the Assassin node take 13-16 turns to clear and you have to do it literally 70-90 times if you don't have any gacha CEs to speed it up. That's probably the most unreasonable thing this game has ever thrown at us in both terms of time taken and resources needed.

Thankfully farming the shit out of the lottery is basically effortless so you can get a ludicrous amount of experience, QP and other goodies for basically no effort! I'm probably just going to pick a few things to clear from the shop and focus all my farming efforts on that, the gains are ridiculous.

Not too bad to do 6 to 9 turns with Jalter Waver CasLiz setup.
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Assassin stage is exhausting, but surprisingly not hard for me. Also had 2 SoC CE drops within like 8 runs. Im running Herc, Halloween Liz, Friend Waver, Tamamo, Helena and Medea. I maxed out Hercs Attack skill and Artorias too. Did the final ascension for Anne/Mary and Kiyohime.
Im pretty low on QP now >_>

Done with 2 items of farming aside from the blue and red gems. I dunno if I will bother getting them. Definitely skipping the prisms. Guess I just gotta grind Mona Lisa now. I think a better stage for it is out soon, but I dont have the greatest Archers so I dunno how easy/hard it might be

Caster node is the best to farm since you get Hearts from it too.

I have the shop mats mostly done. I skipped 5 of the red gems (two of the classes I was running relatively low, so I figured I should do those), and the last 6 Greases because eh. Farming that node wasn't as fun as the others. Rather just Heart it up.
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Assassin one always took me at least 14 turns to finish. Are these lottery CEs even used for anything? Seems like Im better off just using all SoC when I finish farming the 3 main drops

Just use all SoCs yeah. Maiden and Merciless kinda suck (Maiden is okay as an actual CE when LB'd, but it's no good for farming).
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Probably going to MLB the fake increase one once I get through 6 boxes on both sides just because I want the fake box loadout a lot more and it's probably worth sacrificing +2 scrolls per drop for.
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Oh boy, Sabers tonight and then boss rush - two great chances to field my favorite servant, Tesla.~

Setting up a quick strategy for the boss rush looks like it might be a challenge, but it sounds like it's definitely the best spot to clear lotto boxes if you can handle it. Time for team building, woo.
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Lopen posted...

Probably going to MLB the fake increase one once I get through 6 boxes on both sides just because I want the fake box loadout a lot more and it's probably worth sacrificing +2 scrolls per drop for.

note that the fake side of the boss rush is quite a bit harder, depending on your setup
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Just some dragon fangs away from Final ascension for Lancelot. I benched Cu since hes max bond. Still got a lot of other Servants to ascend, but I just dont use many of them. Probably gonna prioritize the 4*s (aside from lol Stheno) and then the 3*s and I guess eventually Ill have to max the 1-2* guys

should start using all male teams swordz
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The only guys I ever really use are Herc, Emiya and Cu. I use other sometimes during specific events, but otherwise just leave tons of characters benched. If it didnt take 2 million years to max bond Id consider swapping out Servants more often >_>

No point getting bond after 9 imo
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Hercs CE sounds really good though! Some of the others look good, but hell even lv8-9 can be 200-350k+ bond and its rare to get 1,000 or more bond per stage. These 4-5* Servants take several hundred runs per level up :(

If you want to know what Jalter has been doing to this game...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topgrossing

(Only works if you're in the US or Canada)

Jesus, it actually went UP. It was #4 yesterday in the US, now it's #3.

It's been several days since the event started too, which makes this even more impressive considering that new banners are generally very front-loaded for gacha games.
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Some guy literally sold a car to get money to pull for Jeanne Alter (and probably NP5 her) so Im not too surprised. Too bad I couldnt get her. When does she come back?

That was Scathach, and I'm pretty sure it's an urban legend.

Should be back late September.
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https://i.redd.it/n9gr9ne6fiq01.jpg

Unless somebody edited Scat to Jeanne I think this is a different one

Ah. That one's obviously a joke. :p
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Mac Arrowny posted...

No point getting bond after 9 imo

Herc is one of the big exceptions to this. Most bond CEs are pretty awful but Herc's elevates him from great servant to legit godlike anchor.
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Yeah, I know. Call him the exception that proves the rule. I have him sitting pretty at 9 with 5000 BP to 10 though <_<. Haven't used him in a while.
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yeahhhhhh


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Look at all those underleveled servants.
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What am I, made of EXP
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you should be with events like this

I'm up to 35 max level Servants now (36 if you count Mash)
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I have tons of max level servants

just not those ones
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interesting grail choice
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More importantly where's the Shinji CE
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He'll use that once Ishtar's released.
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where's the Bazett CE
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I do intend to get Herc to 100, eventually
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Max ascended Darius. It is just raining mats this event which is great. I get a heart almost every Caster run I do too

Only 13 max level servants, I'm doing this all wrong huh.
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I barely have any at max level. I think at least 3 off the top of my head

I've got Stheno at max!

and some grails sitting around for Nero or Marie or Mozart because screw that
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http://fate-go.us/event_fatezero/
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Is that Hassan more than a shadow? Assassin Emiya might be nice to have some day and Iskander looks cool. Got no quartz though so... maybe one day down the line

I'd draw for Iskandar if there weren't so many Riders I already liked in the game.
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Yeahhh more hassans!!!
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Too bad it isnt Hassan of Serenity. Thats the only Hassan I want. When is that one coming out?

I skipped the Jalter banner entirely so I'd have a nice stock for Iskandar... here's hoping! I'll be so happy for the weeklong break we're getting... the hardest grind of all starts tonight and I still have like 80 apples. X_X
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Ive almost cleared out the shop now so I dont really need to farm the boss rush. Sadly the lotto boxes quit giving horse shoes, dragon fangs and other great stuff the box after the lore. I still need 6 more fangs to ascend Lancelot.

Current Apple count: 50/14/46. Was trying to burn enough so that I'd have 50 gold for the last quest. Feel like I've gotten close enough, pretty much.
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swordz9 posted...

Sadly the lotto boxes quit giving horse shoes, dragon fangs and other great stuff the box after the lore.

No they don't.
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Gold - 127
Silver - 35
Bronze - 12

Felt like I was using a lot of apples too....

My apple count is currently

Gold - 48 (+4 to come still from boxes)
Silver - 8 (+8 to come still from boxes)
Bronze - Well over 100

I make no priority to burn Bronze though-- to me those are the most practical apple and something I don't mind carrying along for non-event times for times when I just feel like playing a bit more.

Have my doubts I'll be able to get rid of all my apples like I did for Christmas but we'll see.
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Mac Arrowny posted...

swordz9 posted...

Sadly the lotto boxes quit giving horse shoes, dragon fangs and other great stuff the box after the lore.

No they don't.

Uh yes they do? Im looking at my new box 7 right now and it only has pages, serpent jewel, void dust, evil bone, monuments/pieces, silver/gold exp, QP and friend points. There are no fangs or horse shoes after you clear the Lore box

I've been using Bronzes since there are three per box and I'm sure I'll get close to 50 over the next three days, putting me back over 100.
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