shoutbox

If only my Melu was as good I also lack Oberon.

Thanks! Leisure trip so seeing and eating everything!


Other than event currency and therefore lotto box farming being the same, I assume the only main difference are the random material drops between each round? I see eggs and fantasy scales in round 1.

I would offer mine but the event damage CE has no starting gauge so looping 3 waves can't be done without Oberon.

What is your strongest single-target damage dealer? A multi-core setup with two damage dealers, your own support, and a friend's Oberon is probably the best way to go there - have Melusine take care of the first two waves, then nuke Kintoki with a ST NP on turn 3. With him being a Berserker, there is no restriction on whom you can bring here.

...Or you can opt for forgoing Oberon and grabbing a friend's Taira no Kagekiyo instead. With an MLB event damage CE, a sufficiently strong (NP3+ lv 100 or NP2+ lv 120 by my estimates) Taira can one-shot Kintoki with just their own buffs. (Kintoki is a Genji, and Genji Must Die Taira has +200% damage bonus against Genji enemies.)

That said, killing the first two waves will be problematic without Koyanskaya, at least if you are using Melusine. She will have no trouble if you slap a MLB event damage CE on her but that raises the difficulty bar greatly for the final wave if you want to stay at a 5CE setup; I am not sure if it's doable unless you have a Taira of your own... An Arts Lancer may be a better option since you have Castoria; however, I am not sure who can refund well enough to reliably loop here. The event shop CE gives 20% NP gain when MLB'd; that will certainly help. Still, I would have to do some testing before making specific suggestions.


Good to hear! Hope you are having a good time.


Aside from that, the round 3 node also drops slightly amounts of each event currency.

I am mostly here for Proofs, Stakes, and skill gems so I have not paid proper attention to what materials drop in the stages themselves. In hindsight, the First Obstacle nodes did have a better selection of those overall. That said, I think Bells of Amnesty are the best option of the lot due to the sheer amount of them some characters require. Notably, both Aesc and Berserker Artoria Caster need 228 of the things. There are also quite a few Servants who want 76 of them per Append skill; I have recently run out of them again on JP because of that.

I agree with the sentiment on bells. I currently have about 800 of them, with 100 farmed so far on this event. I'm at 100 boxes worth of lotto currency right now and haven't done any of the challenge quests yet.

I am at 137 boxes or so. I would like to keep farming as I am perpetually short on skill gems but I am also down to 10 gold and 20 silver apples so it's a bit of a tough ask.

Alternatively, I can use some of those apples to finally finish LB6... I have been hoping to do that before the event is over to read the story but at the same time I am not really feeling up to it. (Some of the battles in part 3 are a right pain in the butt.)

In other news, I had been using up some of the lotto embers yesterday and had gotten a good feeling due to frequent Super/Great Successes. That good feeling materialized in a Britomart, which was an even better feeling (MatsuRyu is one of my favorite F/GO artists). On the other hand, though... I feel I won't be using her much in the foreseeable future as I have no Skadis on NA and Quick teams simply do not exist* without her. I almost feel like I should have swapped to JP before rolling (JP has a Britomart banner up at the moment as well) because, surely, that is how gacha probabilities work .

*On NA, that is. JP now has at least one notable exception to this:


Kazuradrop's kit is kinda bonkers, and I am all here for it. The best part is that if you have her 5th append maxed this works with any Servant that has a targeted skill CD reduction. Summer Suzuka works best with this setup, I believe, as she can give the party 3 turns of 20% Atk, 20% Quick Up, and 20% NP damage (Kazuradrop's 2nd ascension is a Summer Mode Servant). Edison, Takeda, Takasugi, Summer Ibuki, and Summer SAlter also give a 3 turn 20% teamwide buff of a relevant variety. And then there is Geronimo, who may honestly be the second best option after Suzuka here. (Lasengle have buffed his Quick skill to be targettable and have that 1 turn of CD reduction, probably for this purpose specifically given the timing.)

...But I digress. Anyway, Kazuradrop is a lot of fun, and I want to feed her more Grails than I have.

Congrats on the Britomart!


Never would I ever have thought that Geronimo would be a good option for anything. Perhaps this bodes well for future strengthening of his remaining 2 skills.

Sides: lost
Laughs: many
Hotel: Trivago

These last few days have been wild. On NA side, the morning of December 18th was one filled with disappointments. Being preoccupied with other Christmas stuff, I had forgotten to finish the Christmas rerun on NA. Logging in to a message of Santa Karna departing was actually depressing. I have him from the event's original run but, still, big oof.

Then I got to rolling for Koyan again...

...I had expected nothing, and I still found myself disappointed. 😔

That day was a bummer in other ways as well, and so I all but resigned myself to never getting a Koyanskaya on NA (I do not have the restraint to save up 900 SQ, and I would not want to get her at such a cost). Still, as I was finishing up late in the evening, half-asleep, I noticed I had 3 SQ, rolled on impulse, and...

...bam - gold sparks, Assassin card, and one beautiful secretary bunny from the future who can do it all has finally found employment at my Chaldea; all it took was bits and pieces of my sanity and a 1272+ SQ sign up bonus. All in all, that day may have started out poorly but it sure ended on a high note.

Moving on to today and to JP, Waver has hit bond 14 after seeing some action in the Christmas event (he has a bond gain boost) and backlining in the 90** Bleached Earth dailies for a week or so. The SQ gained from that has been immediately put to good use in an attempt to get Louhi, or at least a 5th copy of the 5* event CE. As for how that has gone, all I can say is...

...This is the best multi I have had all year, or even in several years.

...And may Luck have mercy on me if the New Year's Servant turns out to be Saber Väinämöinen.


...This gives strong OG Orlando Furioso Astolfo vibes. I approve.

That's quite the war story there, ferian, and no surprise to hear Koyan's business dealings sucked every last SQ out of you... right to the final 3 pieces

---

---

YOROKOBE, SHOUNEN -- picked up Kirei after only ~20 single tickets! Also picked up an NP3 on Arcueid with the guaranteed SSR roll. Quite happy so far with the result!

I'm rolling the Kirei banner a few more times, to see if I can MLB the 5 star CE. After a total of 80 tickets + 150 SQ, I've pulled NP2 Kirei, an extra copy of BG, and MLB'd the new year's CE. Also got Zenobia to NP4. An excellent result!

---

---

Richard I -- saw this video for him, and I find it quite amusing that he can work this way (against class advantage Lancers or Berserkers), with a very expensive team. Your thoughts on him, ferian?

---

---

This post was edited by CDB-Man (560966) on 12.01.2025 22:52.

First of all, apologies for the delayed response - I have been in a pretty bad headspace lately, and some complications from removing a wisdom tooth last month have not helped the matter. Some good things have happened in these last few days, and so my mood has improved a bit. ...And being able to chew properly has also been helpful, I guess.

Anyway, probable TMI aside, I'll get back to one of the aforementioned good things later on; for now, Richard...

...You may recall that I have sung praises to Roland previously. Well, Richard is a Roland who trades all of his defensive options and utility for more offense and outstanding star gain. He is very good, if a glass canon, as long as all you need is damage and more damage. Outside of his fragility the one criticism I can levy at him (and, really, it's a personal gripe more than anything) is that he, Richard I Lionhead Lionheart, who has a skill named Godspeed and whose NP animation has him accelerating madly and charging ahead of his troops, is not a Quick Servant. Lasengle really, really do not want to make a Quick New Year's Servant.

His farming potential is excellent, and I approve that he has more options for it than just the standard 2xKoyan + Oberon. Buster really needs the variety. His challenge quest performance suffers from the combo of him lacking defensive options and not meshing well with Castoria (or even Skadi, for that matter). I would probably bring Roland over him most of the time for better utility (self debuff removal, enemy buff removal, ignore invincibility), though that depends a lot on what kind of challenge quests Lasengle throw at us this year.

In terms of aesthetics I am not a great fan of his first ascension but his casual look is quite appealing, and his third ascension is rad as heck. In the Abridged words of one Emiya Shirou, I WANT THAT.

All in all, he seems fun, especially if you like seeing big numbers on the screen. Alas, I have not managed to get him in the 20+ rolls I have allowed myself to commit to his banner. Being stuck between Phantasmoon's surprise debut and Alice Kuonji's rerun as one of the New Year's banners is quite an unfortunate position to be in, at least in terms of me rolling for him more.

Speaking of Alice, that is one of the good things I have brought up at the start... though, thinking about it, the only good part of it is in the "all is well that ends well" sense - after throwing what I could at her banner with no success beyond my first ever copy of Danzo I have bitten the bullet yesterday and rolled GSSR on JP.


And it is such a good feeling when you get exactly what you want from it.

Also, now that she is NP2, Alice is a definite target for 120. She needs a few more bond levels before that, though, and I need a lot more apples before I can get the EXP for it, especially since I have just gotten Saber Okita Alter about halfway to that goal. In any case, they will both get there eventually.

Congrats on Phantasmoon and NP2 Alice! Well noted and concurred on the Richard glass-cannon comments.

NP2 Tez and NP5 Tlaloc in 13 multi rolls. An excellent outcome!

---

---

NP2 Kukulcan in 17 multi rolls. Again a great result!

---

---

This post was edited by CDB-Man (560966) on 29.01.2025 04:40.

Paid daily 1 paid SQ, I picked up an NP3 Tez! This is the first time getting an SSR on the paid daily SQ.

Johanna cost around 27 multis, just for NP1, so quite steep. I guess too much luck was spent on Tez.

---

---

https://x.com/HeyItsGat0w/status/1898602218799919254
XD

1100 SQ later, and I've rolled both NP2 Tiamat and NP2 Draco. Also got NP1 Anastasia at the same time. A fairly good haul!

---

---

I got Tiamat, Hephaistion and Lucosta.
(I wanted Raikou though too >_> )