Board 8 > Fate Grand Order Topic 1 - The Many Deaths of Yu Mei-Rin

(+) Yeah! (+)

Aight how is this story even better than it was hyped to be?

It's very good, though I dunno if it's better than 5.1/5.2. It does suffer a bit from feeling pretty incomplete.

I'm only halfway done, and I'm already hooked.

Then again I found a lot of 5.2 to be mid. 5.1 is a tough bar to beat, and right now LB6 is on pace to tie at least.

Yeah I gotta agree, 6.1 was great. Parts of 5.2 were really, really great but a lot of it was repetitive.
Need to see the rest of the story before I rank it, though, because it's definitely meant to be a complete narrative and not 'basically two actual story chapters that took one Lostbelt' like 5 was.

Also agreed that 6.1 was great.

Looking at pics of Artoria Pendragon has recently become a favorite thing of mine to the point I got a figure of her lawl - stuff like this
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/1/1/AAR0ZFAAEjxn.jpg

(and no, none of the "boobies" pics, since some of those are way too over the top, but it is her Mysterious Heroine X attire... me and my hat fetish, lol)

I have no idea what the game even is but I thought I'd share it in a place where people might care.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

it is her Mysterious Heroine X attire

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/4/AANxMBAAEjyS.jpg

I legit thought the Servantverse stuff was non-canon until Imaginary Scramble features MHXX

It's the Nasuverse everything is canon

forgot the first rule of nasuverse lore

jokes are the deepest lore

A novice blunder indeed

Did not realise we had a regular FGO thread going.

Castoria banner up...but who doesn't have one yet?

It's so hard to save for fakefox and Oberon right now. I've fallen in love with these damn characters.

I really wish I'd gotten Barghest.

trdl23 posted...

I really wish I'd gotten Barghest.

She's rate-up twice more in the next month, so...

Looks like we've got the next month more or less scheduled out.

July 3 (probably): Anniversary/Koyanskaya
July 10: LB6.3
July 17 (unless they move up the Conclusion Campaign? But it was a week after 6.3 for Japan): Oberon
July 24: Morgan Rerun

Maybe Nerofest with Morgan? Guess they could drop it around Oberon if they're worried people not current with the story are suffering from what would be over a month with nothing but story (and an Interlude Campaign)

rip the dream of replicating the overlap of koyanskaya and oberon's banners here though. seems extremely unlikely now. please let 1200-1300 sq be enough for both for me it really should be =(

Please let ~1k rolls get me a Koyanskaya and 5 Oberons.

Statistically the odds are pretty good... Over 80%. The rest is up to luck.

1000 rolls? Damn, your willpower is incredible.

They're already fucking us over on the rates for Barg/Bob with Oberon, they had better keep the overlap with Koyanskaya at least. If not they're just spitting in our faces.

Xuxon posted...

They're already fucking us over on the rates for Barg/Bob with Oberon, they had better keep the overlap with Koyanskaya at least. If not they're just spitting in our faces.

Think they'd have to move Oberon's banner up (or have Anniversary later than anticipated) because as it stands it looks like Oberon will be 2 weeks after Koyanskaya aka literally the day after her banner ends. I was hoping they'd overlap here too so I could guarantee Oberon with the one pity I'll have by rolling him first but I'm resigned now.

Additionally, I wonder if they don't alter Oberon's banner to take off the Fairy Knights. That was a rotating SR banner with 4 SRs in Japan. Gawain, Tristan, FK Gawain, and FK Tristan. And the Morgan banner that's the part two of the campaign is her and just the FKs. Given that we seem to have gotten rid of rotating 4-stars already in line with how they eventually did I wonder if 4 of them is just too much.

We did see them run a 3 SR banner just before with the summer rerun (where the chances of getting a specific SR was worse than the SSR) but I dunno if they'll push it to 4. I could see them making it just regular Gawain/Tristan since the Fairy Knight versions are with Morgan's banner already. Would absolutely screw anyone hoping to get them with Oberon though so I dunno.

KR version had all four, it will be the same for us. They're just a bit ahead of us and also got early pity.

Ah, I stand corrected then.

Finished LB6.2.

Chaldea needs to nuke this place from orbit. Also probably my favorite story chapter now. But still, from orbit.

Im going slow and steady. I only just beat Woodwose last night.

Im embarrassed I used a cube on the damn Doggo fight in Wales. Absolutely botched it and I have no idea why.

I used a cube in part 1 on one of the story NPC only fights because I screwed up skill order haha.

No cubes used

Did have to retry a few of the fights once though to adjust my team. I (end of part 2 boss spoilers) decided to take Yang for my first attempt at Morgan, for instance, and imagine my surprise when its a boss that cleanses debuffs every turn :|

I used a single command seal on 16-4 (Solo Castoria v Tristan) because I could tell I needed two more turns to win but wasn't going to survive the next enemy phase so I used it for the heal. Could have done it with better timed skill/mystic code use but it was like 30 minutes from the seal refresh anyway.

Oh yeah I also used one heal CS on that fight, forgot about that.

Yep, I used a heal CS on that too. Honestly, it felt "canon" to do in that fight given the circumstances.

I did not use any CS on that fight. Atlas Mystic Code was a pretty good choice.

Thorn posted...

Finished LB6.2.

Chaldea needs to nuke this place from orbit. Also probably my favorite story chapter now. But still, from orbit.

Just finished it too. Same thing in all regards.

I can't believe Pepe's gone. I loved that guy so much, he was my favorite character in the entire game... I can't wait to brutalize Beryl.

I've said this before, but Morgan is undoubtedly the most evil character in 6.2 and a lot of its problems are due to her decisions.

Eh, I'm not sure. She needed to go, but the awful regime she instituted was, demonstrably, the only reason the faeries survived for that long. Faeries never learn. Look at how the Fangs acted the moment Woodwose wasn't there to hold them back from their savagery - that was always going to happen.

She made a lot of errors, was a ruthless tyrant, and was an unabashed enemy. She had completely lost herself to cynicism and disgust after being betrayed, hated, and despised for millennia. She wasn't wrong.

To be fair, they didn't survive. She just resurrected them after they died.

Slaughtering the fairies of Oberon's forest was probably the worst thing she did on screen.

Also, some of the most evil acts in the lostbelt are performed by humans.

Fakefox TONIGHT. Well tomorrow, really.

No mighty chains or blue apples yet, unfortunately. I didn't expect the latter, but I hoped we'd get the former as well as the Quick update so pressing green cards doesn't feel as bad.

We're getting 66 more SQ than JP got for their social media campaign (126 total).

Other than that, nothing of note besides what JP got. Still, pretty hype! Which GSSR are you guys rolling?

before melusine came out it was gonna be her banner, now it'll probably be whatever banner morgan is on

Morgan's banner is good, it has Kagekiyo, Castoria, and Crane on it.

Caren's the whiff of the group, but at least I like her aesthetic.

Melusine's GSSR because Melusine and Van Gogh would be top gets for me. Only dupes would be Summer Kiara (but NP2 wouldn't be terrible for her at least) and Himiko (okay please no. also what i will get)

I was considering Melusine's, but I already have Van Gogh, and my Douman is NP2. SIbuki and Muramasa are both meh at NP1 when I have NP3 Spacebar for my farming needs, and Himiko/Abby are really bad whiffs. S Kiara would be "fine" I guess but my IQ is too low to use her properly

For me it's like:

S: Melusine, Van Gogh
A: Muramasa
B: Summer Abby
C: Douman, Ibuki
D: Summer Kiara NP2
F: Himiko NP2

but last anniversary already punished me for my sins with skadi np2 so perhaps it will be merciful this time (hahahahahaha)

trdl23 posted...

We're getting 66 more SQ than JP got for their social media campaign (126 total).

I'm not sure this is true. Fandom site says they got 156. And assuming our 126 isn't counting the 30 from the "real" anniversary date we got a few days ago we're even?

Thorn posted...

I'm not sure this is true. Fandom site says they got 156. And assuming our 126 isn't counting the 30 from the "real" anniversary date we got a few days ago we're even?

Yes, that's basically right. Technically JP got 72 from their social media thing and 84 for something else, not entirely sure what. Whatever it was, they added the 66 so we would match them.

I was originally intending to go for Melusine GSSR but I got super lucky with Gogh and Ibuki so it's really just Himiko and Melusine I want with a lot of duds. Also was expecting to roll a lot on Morgan banners and not need her from GSSR but I've cut way back on my spending so that one becomes a lot more tempting (I still don't have her and might not roll the other banner, depending on how Koyan/Oberon rolls go). KP/Beni/Maou/QSH is also really tempting but 1/3 chance of useless dupe is pretty scary.

Going with the Space Ishtar pool. I don't have any of them and the only one I wouldn't be extremely pleased with is the bunny.

Thorn posted...

Melusine's GSSR because Melusine and Van Gogh would be top gets for me. Only dupes would be Summer Abby (but NP2 wouldn't be terrible for her at least) and Himiko (okay please no. also what i will get)

literally this

Also, I feel like I'd rather risk it for the ones I really want than go for a banner where everything is okay. I remember a while ago there was a GSSR where I could roll and get all new Servants, with Scathach being my most wanted one, and another banner with a few dupes but also a Servant I wanted more. I went for the Scathach one and got her, but still wasn't that excited, so... Might as well risk it. Mel and Van Gogh are literally two of the top 3 on all the banners for me, so yeah.

Thorn posted...

For me it's like:

S: Melusine, Van Gogh
A: Muramasa
B: Summer Abby
C: Douman, Ibuki
D: Summer Kiara NP2
F: Himiko NP2

no surprises for guessing what the very first thing i saw after hitting the gssr was

At least Koyanskaya came without too much trouble so I now have re-secured pity for Oberon.

Game's back up. 540SQ for Koyan, could've been worse. Got Achilles with her too, so yay? Now I've got AoE 5* Riders of all colors.

Pity Koyanskaya, should be able to collect enough SQ to secure pity for Oberon.

Gonna be a long endurance test to save up for the 2024 banners once Summer tix have been spent.

See gold berserker from GSSR and it's Bryn of course followed by the Castoria dupe. My GSSR luck has always been really bad. Koyan came really easily at least, limiting the amount I might have to spend for Oberon. If he comes on the 17th and Nerofest is the 24th or earlier I might even get enough from bond grails and tickets to hit pity without buying another pack right now.

I noticed the triple exp thing and didn't take advantage of it except for Koyanskaya and Caenis but that doesn't really matter to me. I have 6 grails and even if I spent them all on a new 120 project with no doubles or triples I couldn't spend all the embers I have saved up. I just wish it worked for CEs because I had all of those Valentine CEs and a second archive full of 4* Himiko CEs from spending all that FP on Nobukatsu.

Finally got my target on a GSSR with the Queen herself (though I wouldn't have minded Crane or Kagekiyo either). Would've loved to snag Barghest as my 4-star since Summer Illya is very "meh," but I'll take it.

I didn't pay attention to how many rolls it took for me to get fakefox since I used a bunch of tickets, I want to say I got her in 8 multis between the tix and SQ? I've got enough for Oberon pity too, should it come to it.

Only early-2024 Servant I really want is Bazett, so I have a bit more leeway to spend on people I like throughout the rest of the year. Now I just need to figure out who to use my 5-star ticket on.

So who managed to exploit the SQ glitch?
In any case that's some maintenance, login streaks are at stake now!

I did not (and had to briefly sweat the login streak idea) but in a move that genuinely shocked me they took the accidental SQ back. (If you rolled it and now had less total SQ than they mistakenly gave you they took whatever you had and put you at 0.)

Someone on the FGO board is in that case (failed to get KotL and rolled it to keep chasing) and says they still have the SR they got so they didn't roll back summon results.

What was the glitch?