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Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
He has an incredibly powerful single-target NP that ignores defense which is a pretty big deal. He's good.

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ACES CURE PLANES
Oct 21, 2010



In NA, right now? The meta is just use whatever because we've got a lot of nice stuff available that leaves us way ahead of the difficulty curve.

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


As far as current Gold Zerkers go, he is probably the best bosskiller because of his powerful single-target NP, throw a Kscope or Imaginary Element on him and smash.

Tired Moritz posted:

why do you put master george at the back? who is he going to defend when he comes in at the last minute

He's there to soak fire for a few turns so Cu can regen his Protection from Arrows and maybe throw out a leading arts card for Cu to build NP off.

LornMarkus
Nov 8, 2011

Neat, guess I'll be spending all those saved up Mana Prisms on XP cards for him.

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

Haha, jeez i guess i better remember to actually plan for the 40ap daily now so i don't end up worried i'll be vive la France'd to death because i have a couple low level dinguses in my back row for bond points.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Well I lost the Rider 40 ap because half my best units are male :sigh:

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
Drake's 3rd skill gives pierce Invuln.
The Lunat Sea Mystic Code can nullify Maie's buff.
In a pinch Medea can come out and stab Marie.

Just some ideas.

I went with a Herc/Carmilla combo of erasing her turn 1, myself.

Tsurupettan
Mar 26, 2011

My many CoX, always poised, always ready, always willing to thrust.

LornMarkus posted:

Neat, guess I'll be spending all those saved up Mana Prisms on XP cards for him.

don't use MP on xp cards

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Tsurupettan posted:

don't use MP on xp cards
use mp on xp cards if you have the mp to burn

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
Empty the shop each month.

Marogareh
Feb 23, 2011
I try to empty the shop because I need all the XP I can get for Waver and Fou's for my favorites.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Wasn't there some crazy MP item in the future that requires a million of them? Or is that just a super easy-to-ignore thing?

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

Tae posted:

Wasn't there some crazy MP item in the future that requires a million of them? Or is that just a super easy-to-ignore thing?

There are a bunch of CEs that help improve farming. The two that people pay attention to is the Mona Lisa (increases QP) and Chaldea Lunchtime (increases Bond points). The others are usually considered not worth it at all.

Catch is, the effect is negligible unless you limit break them, so you need to buy 5 copies for 5K prisms total.

That said. Many of the upcoming events will give you thousands of Prisms so getting like 1.5K by farming should be more than enough.

Marogareh
Feb 23, 2011
My boy Hassan is finally getting some FP work with these dailies.

Tsurupettan
Mar 26, 2011

My many CoX, always poised, always ready, always willing to thrust.

Endorph posted:

use mp on xp cards if you have the mp to burn

to be clear, are you suggesting just burning excess once you have everything else you could want from MP?

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
dont waste mana prism on xp. how are you not having piles of piles of xp? I have to keep selling them off. just save your mana prisms.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Tsurupettan posted:

to be clear, are you suggesting just burning excess once you have everything else you could want from MP?
uhhh sure? you get a ridiculous amount of mana prisms in this game once events start becoming regular. which will be in like, 2-3 weeks.

Tsurupettan
Mar 26, 2011

My many CoX, always poised, always ready, always willing to thrust.

Endorph posted:

uhhh sure? you get a ridiculous amount of mana prisms in this game once events start becoming regular. which will be in like, 2-3 weeks.

i just wanted to be sure, because i've seen people elsewhere suggesting actually farming 30 AP hands for MP to turn into exp cards and that's goofy. obviously if you have literally NOTHING ELSE to spend them on, sure why not.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

you usually get 1 or 2 silver exp cards from 40 ap hands and those are probably better as mana prisms than bothering with feeding them to servants (minus maybe having a few around in case a servant needs like 10 exp to hit level cap or something) but yeah, grinding specifically for silver exp to burn for mana is stupid.

Fish Cake
Jun 13, 2008

woof


:cool:

KoldPT
Oct 9, 2012


I've finally ascended my dude!

Add me: 586, 583, 721

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry

Tsurupettan posted:

i just wanted to be sure, because i've seen people elsewhere suggesting actually farming 30 AP hands for MP to turn into exp cards and that's goofy. obviously if you have literally NOTHING ELSE to spend them on, sure why not.
That's what I had been doing for a pretty long while (up to 3,300 prisms) for when I had no new servants to level up or interludes/quests to do, which outside of Nerofest and Moon Goddess was quite often.

E: Oh duh I should have coffee before posting. Yeah I was farming the 30AP for prisms alone, basically, without turning them into XP cards. I saved any excess gold XP cards I got from that which still ran me into having a surplus for most classes.

Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Oct 5, 2017

NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

Nate RFB posted:

That's what I had been doing for a pretty long while (up to 3,300 prisms) for when I had no new servants to level up or interludes/quests to do, which outside of Nerofest and Moon Goddess was quite often.

Except for the "turning MP back into exp cards" part, presumably?

Personally I've just been buying what I immediately need from the MP store and saving the rest, on the grounds that my income is nowhere near enough that I'll ever have more coming in than I can spend. Having a buffer ready for the occasional limited time items like extra tickets or half-price exp cards seems sensible, even ignoring the CEs.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST
From the producers that brought you 'spending USD 1200 for Gil and getting drowned in Atlantes' and the smash hit 'blowing 4000 Quartz in an attempt to NP5 Nightingale and then just buying her via Special Summon', the Gacha Hell brings you an exciting new episode called 'throwing away 260K yen in a failed attempt to get Merlin'

https://twitter.com/Sanyan_nu/status/915432927718031360

Pureauthor fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Oct 5, 2017

Compendium
Jun 18, 2013

M-E-J-E-D
I got Merlin with a ticket, that amount of money is giving me a stroke

EPIC fat guy vids
Feb 3, 2011

squeak... squeak... SQUEAK!
Lipstick Apathy
Holy poops! O_O that's a lot of money for a gacha game.

That guy would probably :smithicide: if he saw the 1-3 Merlin rolls some of you have gotten.

EPIC fat guy vids fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Oct 5, 2017

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




Haha nice

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

EPIC fat guy vids posted:


That guy would probably :smithicide: if he saw the 1-3 Merlin rolls some of you have gotten.

Well given that he actually states he's feeling suicidal right there in that tweet...

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




Ah, so that's the season finale of Gacha Hell

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
Things like these are what keeps me from whaling.

Gologle
Apr 15, 2013

The Gologle Posting Experience.

<3
Things like that are what inspires me to whale.

EPIC fat guy vids
Feb 3, 2011

squeak... squeak... SQUEAK!
Lipstick Apathy

Pureauthor posted:

Well given that he actually states he's feeling suicidal right there in that tweet...

Oh drat, I hadn't read the translation O_O

Miles Vorkosigan
Mar 21, 2007

The stuff that dreams are made of.
Rolled today hoping to get Orion and got my first 5*, Altria! I hear she's bad, but hell I'm not complaining, she'll be replacing D'Eon on my team.

Raenir Salazar
Nov 5, 2010

College Slice

EPIC fat guy vids posted:

Oh drat, I hadn't read the translation O_O

This kind of stuff bums me out and I wish those people didn't do that (Unless they're reasonably wealthy professionals); and makes me nervous whenever I throw 100$ or so at it (not for a long time thankfully, last time I spent was on the paid summon gacha).

I mean, I'll probably throw 100$ at NA soon whenever one of the SSRs I'm waiting for happen, but not until then, and I'm making more money now than then.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Miles Vorkosigan posted:

Rolled today hoping to get Orion and got my first 5*, Altria! I hear she's bad, but hell I'm not complaining, she'll be replacing D'Eon on my team.

Altera has better self-buffs, but as far as a saber with an AoE and a big ATK number goes she's fine for now. My whole Nerofest gold medal grinding plan was spamming Excalibur for a week.

Nyeehg
Jul 14, 2013

Grimey Drawer

LornMarkus posted:

Oh yeah, I randomly wound up getting Sakata Kintoki when I pulled on the stage of his Banner that also featured Jeanne so is he at all decent. I assume he's useful enough just for being a 5* Berserker but I'm still wrapping my head around the actual meta right now.

Kintoki is awesome. He's fragile even for a berserker (relatively low max HP, no evade skill) but can do insane burst damage. His second skill gives him 30% NP at level 1 so if you give him a Kaleidoscope or maxed imaginary element he can have a full NP when you need it.

Basically his role is to come out and do a craptone of damage to a single enemy. When he's maxed out this can get pretty ridiculous.

Edit:

Miles Vorkosigan posted:

Rolled today hoping to get Orion and got my first 5*, Altria! I hear she's bad, but hell I'm not complaining, she'll be replacing D'Eon on my team.

Altria has worked very well for me. She can fit into most teams due to her deck, has good attack, hp and decent np gain.Charisma and Mana Burst are excellent skills. Only team she doesn't work in is a crit team due to only having 1 crit card

Her biggest problem is that while she can do a bit of everything she will never be as good as a 5* who specialises in one area (Waver is a better support, Vlad and Kintoki are better attackers, Altera is better at waveclear, Jeanne is a better Tank/defensive support).

All that said, She's still a good servant (especially in NA). If you like her she can get you through the game.

Nyeehg fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Oct 5, 2017

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

What the hell? I don't even remember getting Carmilla, who the hell has been eating my assassin embers?

drat it Stheno :argh:

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

What a childish tactic!
Don't you think you should put more thought into your battleplan?!


If you're really curious when you got her, there is an option that sorts by acquisition date.

Freak Futanari
Apr 11, 2008
Welp, i tried to roll for Ozy, got a gold Rider card, and got spooked by my third Astolfo. As much as i like him, he's gonna become a very useful rare prism for when they add Chaldea Lunchtime to the rare prism shop

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a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

Galaga Galaxian posted:

If you're really curious when you got her, there is an option that sorts by acquisition date.

Oh huh. Guess it must have been my last ten pull and I was too annoyed by not getting any pirate ladies. Mainly I'm kind of miffed because I used all the cards on Stheno and she seems not that great and a friend's Carmilla has been helping me chew through these Riders for the daily. (and now I'm out of AP)


Ah well.

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