Board 8 > So I started Fate/Grand Order... Pt. 2 - Babylonia and beyond

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Holy shit this last level is much harder than I anticipated. Thanks for the advice Thorn. I tried to throw Castoria over alongside Jinako and it didn't help.

Okay I have no idea how to beat this. She has too many servants. They need to give you at least 100 cost for servants of your own, that 68 or whatever is way way way way too low.

Hmm, I forget your entire roster (mostly because you keep getting lucky on these banners lol so I'm probably forgetting some of them) but Grail Front is a bit different from most modes in that Servants that do well fighting solo shine brighter here rather than working as a team.

To wit, I'd actually anticipate Castoria backing up Jinako to backfire a bit. That Jinako strategy I talked about will work best when Jinako is alone because it guarantees you'll only get Jinako cards - and it provides another target for the enemy in Castoria. As great as Castoria is, the much higher risk of not being able to guarantee Jinako's Arts Cards will be in your hand every turn probably makes her hurt more than she helps. There's definitely cases where it 100% would help but Castoria is a hefty deploy cost in this mode like any 5*.

Some Servants that you have that I think would work well are:

Barghest - she is an absolute champion in this mode. I actually used her most days because she is a monster. With her... S2, I think it is, she's recovering HP with every attack and if she's fighting solo... well you're obviously only using her cards so you can just fire out a guaranteed BBB Brave Chain for 4000 HP recovered - while removing any enemy buffs with each one.

Baobhan Sith - I personally didn't use her here because I have another great solo Archer (Fujino) but I hear she's also good at playing solo here and staying alive.

Herc - He'd be at his best if he had his Bond CE, but I doubt you have that yet since Bond 10 is a bit of a project, but he still has a Guts skill and fighting solo lets you spam that coveted BBB chain.

Astraea - I forget if you got her or not, but if so, she's a good ST Ruler option given how many Moon Cancers are around in this fight since Rulers have Class Advantage on them. If you don't, any Ruler would also have class advantage and failing that Berserkers like the above Herc have advantage.

Mash - ...might be a free deploy, actually? Uses an Extra slot but I think she retains her 0 cost? So it wouldn't hurt.

Now, CEs can be another thing to play with here. Because Cost is pretty tight you don't always want to go for the 5* ones at 12 Cost. You might want to deploy some/most with no CE at all even. Since there's like a billion CEs and again I don't know what you have (hell I've been playing over 5 years and there's still at least one Ce that's in the pool for every banner that has still managed to evade me) but one that works pretty well here is a 4* CE called "Art of Death" - it's a pretty straight-forward effect "25 (30 if MLB)& Special ATK Damage against [Humanoid] targets" but that tends to basically mean "nearly all Servants" so it's just a nice damage mod.

Guts in general is a very powerful skill in Grail Front - especially so because of how skill cooldowns work in it. Say you have Herc on one side of the map and Barghest on the other. Barghest attacks her opponent first and pops all her skills. After the battle you move to Herc and do the same for his opponent. Despite the fact that Barghest wasn't in that battle at all her skilldowns will all tick down as if she had been - while the buffs she got from the skills themselves didn't lose any duration. Mystic Code/Master Skill also tick down in both fights but that at least makes more sense. But generally speaking, provided you aren't just using a single Servant (or the same group of Servants if they're bunched up together so they always partake in the same fight) skills should appear to cooldown faster than they otherwise would and you can take advantage of this. With skills like Guts that means they come up way more often and can be used several times over the course of the Grail Front.

Also, while I've been suggesting that your heavy hitters in Grail Front usually want to fight solo - there are times when you might want another Servant nearby them to join the fight - usually when you expect to be attacked on Enemy Turn since going first is a huge advantage. In this case though it's more so they provide a second target for the enemy and might helpfully draw some attacks their way and away from your more important Servant - like if their defensive cooldowns aren't quite back up yet.

Finally, it's a bit riskier but you also do have your Command Seals. A full party revive isn't on the table but you can still use them for their 1 Seal = 100% Heal or 100% NP Charge. Just it's still tied to the "you need a day of real time for the Seal to recharge" so it's not something you can keep doing. Still, if you feel it might make the difference between a sure loss and a chance at winning, go for it! That's what they're there for.

I can't really give you my strat because I deployed 3 "main" Servants (and 2 1*s to just run around grabbing treasures and not meant for fighting) but I think you only have 1 of them (Barghest) the others were Kama and Qin Shi Huang. Still, I think the suggestions I made above could do a solid job subbing in for them (though Kama in particular is totally cracked in Grail Front lol.) There are likely others too that's not an exhaustive list or anything - just the first that came to my mind.

I did it finally last night on like my 6th try.

I didn't bring as many servants this time. I brought Castoria, Astraea, Herc, and Baobahn Sith.

I was able to lure in Kiara and Andersen and get them both killed in basically one turn using Jinako and Astraea, and then I just played defensively until I could pick off most of the servants. Then I sent Castoria and Jinako over to deal with Summer Kama. That was a war of attrition.

I got the Lore, and then basically I baited the last BB servant out with Herc, and sent Castoria and Jinako in the other way. Castoria died after JUST not being able to finish off Taiga, I thought I was cooked because the last BB had killed Herc and was coming back over, so I thought I'd be surrounded.

Thankfully the AI Li Shuwen panicked when I took off his first bar and ran back to Master BB and she moved to a spot I could get to and I just wailed on her three times before they could kill Jinako. I was so relieved.

Made a bunch of mistakes, I ended up finishing it with only an ~800 HP Caesar left. Fun mode. Wish they'd do more with it.

(Now to figure out how to do Super Xiang Yu)

Holy fuck, there's a spoiler that I DID actually care about. I thought it would've been gone over in one of the videos I've watched.

I learned the identity of the Chaldean with the thin sword. What the helllllll

These ppl get too proud. Kadoc had the perfect chance, he could've just been humble and accepted Caenis's help dealing with Chaldea. Why do they not realize that the longer you allow us to hang around and gather power, the worse it will be for you... oh well.

Just got hit by another wave of sadness going through Meltryllis's voice lines.

She really never remembers anything about our trials in SERAPH. Just completely gone. That's so fuckin soul crushing.

lmaooo Anastasia acting all tough for the entirety of this arc, only to scream "Kyaaaa~" like a bitch while I'm wailing on her is the most hilarious thing ever

take that you frost bitch, 8 boat leap upside ya dome.

Musashi showing up and immediately being a creep to Billy lmaoo

"I know you won't mind filling ME in" - Musashi

smh these horny goddamn writers

not wrong tho

Fighting Ivan right now. God this is so good. I put off doing story content for so long that I forgot how great this game could be.

They just be letting Kirei Kotomine with servant powers walk away with no repercussions. DID THESE PEOPLE NOT WATCH FATE ZERO

Lostbelt 1 beated. What a sad ending. Are they all gonna hit me in the feels like that

maaaaaaaaybe

...maybe

fantastic.

Definitely felt super emotional for Ivan and the Yaga and especially Patxi.

Hell even Kadoc and Anastasia. It almost felt like there were no bad guys... except Kirei. Fuckin Kirei.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

We've murdered one world so far

Yeah I'm still demanding we get a Patxi pseudo-servant from LB1

the Throne is able to pull from Lostbelts so I don't see why he couldn't be one.

Outside the Lostbelt Kings and a few other exceptions I don't actually think that's true.

Like the summonable Anastasia is explicitly not Lostbelt Anastasia - and her Interlude actually dives into this quite a bit.

IIRC, Barghest and Baobhan Sith are only summonable because Morgan is a goddamn cheater and chain summoned them from herself. Melusine was an exception because she counted as close enough to PHH as Albion, who *is* in PHH just with a slightly different fate so she didn't need any help in that regard. Yu Mei-ren is a True Ancestor, etc.

love that for Morgan that she basically carried her daughters with her all the way from the lostbelt lol

This summer schedule is ridiculous. How do they justify throwing all of that shit at you in the same month or two?

I want to roll for Arcuid, Lady Avalon, and Summer Skadi. My Luck EX is bound to run out eventually though. I need to play through as many interludes as I can to farm SQ.

I have devised a strategy where my last three servants are Summer BB, Herc, and Arash. I have Arash STELLAAAAA and then lock Herc into buster brave chain and just win. BB survives against almost everything coz of her second skill and she doesn't take damage.

I started Lostbelt 2. I saw how long this next event goes for and I figured I can definitely finish LB3 in time to at least get SOME rewards done.

Jesus, the Sigurd glazing. Why is he so much more powerful than Siegfried if they're the same bloody legend

ExThaNemesis posted...

Jesus, the Sigurd glazing. Why is he so much more powerful than Siegfried if they're the same bloody legend

This is addressed as the story goes, I promise

Because he's from a later singularity. Seriously, Siegfried is supposed to be ultra powerful. In both Apocrypha and one of the later FGO appearances he's one of the greatest heroes.

Alright good, coz I think Siegfried is awesome (and I have him at np2) and him being so much weaker than his scandinavian counterpart didn't sit right w me.

I absolutely mixed Sigurd's shit. Gil, Baobahn Sith, and someone's lv. 118 Ishtar put the hurt on him quick.

oh hey, that's me ^_^

I don't think I've properly expressed how helpful it's been being able to call on y'alls servants. So I really do appreciate it!

I really needed to get Summer BB to NP2. She hits JUUUUUST slightly too weak with it to farm/clear nodes the way I'd want her to. That third skill is straight shenanigans though and all of her attack animations are great.

Oh also her NP is... fun to watch. Every single time. lol

Yo how is it that Goredolf is the most well-written character?

All of his interactions are totally believable and nuanced, and him wrapping up the Paper Moon to give to Sigurd so that no one got hurt was extremely smart.

I don't know how well-liked this guy is, but if this were Olga Marie in his spot she'd be like top tier waifu for everyone.

Goredolf is fantastic.

No doubt. An extremely well needed character to round out the cast.

Dude I've been using Koala's berzerker Cu in the last few nodes. This man hits like a goddamn truck.

Having sweet bubbly and earnest Castoria paired up with Herc and Cuzerker is honestly the most ridiculous thing.

Castoria: "I won't lose!"
Cu: "Yeah."
Herc: "GWAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR"

ExThaNemesis posted...

Yo how is it that Goredolf is the most well-written character?

He just keeps getting better with each chapter. One of the best-realized characters in the franchise.

Aw hell yeah.

I keep being surprised at the writing quality of this series, even though it was the main selling point.

LMAO The first Valkyrie fight I used someone's Gramps and he got a death proc on his first attack. 470k hp gone in an instant. Gramps is so elite.

why does Napoleon know absolutely everything about the situation right away. That's weird.

Napoleon's been in the Lostbelt for quite a while.

Really? It seemed like he said he got here just before we did. He knew all the terms and everything like that.

He got there shortly after Ophelia, I think.

Ah, I was very confused about that then. Maybe I just looked away from the screen when that was talked about.

But yeah if he was there that long then it makes sense that a general like himself would be knowledgeable about everything going on around him.

gotta get this to 500

Still gotta