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NRVNQSR
Mar 1, 2009

Transient People posted:

The real challenge is finding a way to kill her tbqh. A lowkey important fact about this event is that since it's a damage check that demands you use the event CEs, it means running crit teams isn't very easy at all because you don't have 2030s, Maidens or anything of the sort so you have two run two people with IMs or whatever to feed most critters the stars they need (or use plugsuit to bring in a golden carp carrier if you're using Lalter). I think Arts teams are the best ones for this event for this reason? They care way less about critting due to how consistent Tamamo/Waver teams are and can defend themselves better from Ibaraki's NPs so they're less on a clock compared to most other teams.

EDIT: Though that said, a Hans/Jeanne team is a really really good backbone for a buster crit team here - 18 stars a turn for 3 out of 5 turns, two sources of healing and an invuln gives you access to multiple cycles of burst. It's just a pity that Jeanne still stuns herself but that's just something you gotta work around with her enemy stun for now.

Crit teams also have the problem we were discussing a page or so ago, that crit damage up skills are weak in this event because of the way they stack with the event CEs. I think the ideal damage strategy would be a Quick NP spam team, but those can be a bit tricky to put together.

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Transient People
Dec 22, 2011

"When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
honestly there's no easily-assembled team that can smoke Ibaraki. They all require some level of whaling or luck snagging good SSRs because not being able to pick your CEs is a huge blow to any kind of teamcomp, and a twentyfold increase in HP from your average berserker (6m vs 300k) is just not compensated by a 450% (or 550% with MLB Mahavairocana) damage boost.

ChronoReverse
Oct 1, 2009
Many thanks to all the folks who gave advice and friended this newbie. Finally finished all the missions and only have the Darius quest left to complete.

I must say that this event seems extremely newbie friendly. Was enjoyable with some challenge and got lots of loot for it.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

It's a crossover event with probably the most 'mainstream' popular thing the franchise ever did before F/GO itself, so it being newbie friendly is pretty intentional.

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010

RanKizama posted:

That's where I'm going. My only viable Lancers are Cu and Liz. While that's still a solid pair to choose from, I wouldn't mind another options or two.

My only Lancer is Leonidas and I feel a great deal of shame for almost typing Pantheon. :frog:

I'd be happy with either kind of Lancer!Saber, so at least that's two shots, right? :v:

BlazeEmblem
Jun 8, 2013

Uh oh. Do I use Ariadne thread or Goho-M?

Nate RFB posted:

since /r/grandorder is too preoccupied currently with people complaining about not being able to post porn

This is why I avoid Reddit.

Transient People
Dec 22, 2011

"When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently."
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

BlazeEmblem posted:

This is why I avoid Reddit.

It's wrong tho

I just checked the frontpage and it's just your usual smattering of translated comics and a bunch of memes. I'm not sure where he was looking to see that. Maybe the subreddit discord?

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry

Transient People posted:

It's wrong tho

I just checked the frontpage and it's just your usual smattering of translated comics and a bunch of memes. I'm not sure where he was looking to see that. Maybe the subreddit discord?
As I understand it the mods started enforcing the no-NSFW rules which restarted the drama from when the rules were getting reworked, and thus during the weekend most of the upvoted discussion threads were entirely rehashing that whole mess.

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010

Transient People posted:

It's wrong tho

I just checked the frontpage and it's just your usual smattering of translated comics and a bunch of memes. I'm not sure where he was looking to see that. Maybe the subreddit discord?

Yeah, I think so. The FGO subreddit's discord's nasuverse general channel almost ran in an inevitable cycle of people getting weird about things.

There's a NSFW channel and everything but goons gonna goon redditors gonna reddit.

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Nate RFB posted:

As I understand it the mods started enforcing the no-NSFW rules which restarted the drama from when the rules were getting reworked, and thus during the weekend most of the upvoted discussion threads were entirely rehashing that whole mess.

Honestly I spend far more time there than I should and I didn't see any drama of it tbh

Just fanart and jp event stuff. Haven't seen anyone aggressively attack Gil mod in a while either

boredsatellite fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 7, 2018

kirtar
Sep 11, 2011

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

Nate RFB posted:

As I understand it the mods started enforcing the no-NSFW rules which restarted the drama from when the rules were getting reworked, and thus during the weekend most of the upvoted discussion threads were entirely rehashing that whole mess.

The Prisma Illya alarm app releasing probably didn't help either.

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

lol

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

i stopped going to the fgo subreddit after sakura!parvati was released and the guy who does reviews there made nothing but whore and slut jokes about her, like paragraphs on paragraphs.

please keep in mind that sakura is a rape victim

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Are any of the stages in the Zero event good for serpent gems? Or do I need to slum around in Okeanos until the Caster class daily comes up?

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry

boredsatellite posted:

Honestly I spend far more time there than I should and I didn't see any drama of it tbh

Just fanart and jp event stuff. Haven't seen anyone aggressively attack Gil mod in a while either
Yeah I filter out anything JP/Fluff/Comic related so I get a distillation of the "best" the Discussion-tagged content that sub has to offer.

Probably should reduce that further down to just News/Guides at this point.

Shiny777
Oct 29, 2011

YAMI WO KIRISAKU
OH DESIRE


the_steve posted:

Are any of the stages in the Zero event good for serpent gems? Or do I need to slum around in Okeanos until the Caster class daily comes up?

Reservoir EX has been giving me a pretty steady trickle of serpent gems in the course of hunting for hearts.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

the_steve posted:

Are any of the stages in the Zero event good for serpent gems? Or do I need to slum around in Okeanos until the Caster class daily comes up?

yeah, reservoir ex. iunno the rates but it feels higher than the hell that is the okeanos node

Yeah Man
Oct 9, 2011

And if you had, you know, a huge killer robot at your command, yeah, that would just clutter things up; and a lesser person might want that kind of overwhelming force on their side, but you know - where's the challenge in that?

Endorph posted:

i stopped going to the fgo subreddit after sakura!parvati was released and the guy who does reviews there made nothing but whore and slut jokes about her, like paragraphs on paragraphs.

please keep in mind that sakura is a rape victim

wait what they still do reviews?

No seriously, that's just gross. I saw a lot of people expressing disappointment when the artist got run off of twitter with death threats, and thought, hey, maybe the subreddit wasn't so bad.

Oh.

EPIC fat guy vids
Feb 3, 2011

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

Endorph posted:

i stopped going to the fgo subreddit after sakura!parvati was released and the guy who does reviews there made nothing but whore and slut jokes about her, like paragraphs on paragraphs.

please keep in mind that sakura is a rape victim

Well that's pretty freaking gross.

kirtar
Sep 11, 2011

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

Endorph posted:

yeah, reservoir ex. iunno the rates but it feels higher than the hell that is the okeanos node

The chance to drop might be higher, but I believe the AP/drop is slightly worse.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

you can read it here but i wasnt kidding when i said it was seriously grody

bonus points for the guy in the replies who calls him out on it still having to go 'not to be full retard sjw,' also

kirtar posted:

The chance to drop might be higher, but I believe the AP/drop is slightly worse.
yeah but i have enough apples and dont grind enough for ap/drop to really be that big a deal to me

kirtar
Sep 11, 2011

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

Endorph posted:

yeah but i have enough apples and dont grind enough for ap/drop to really be that big a deal to me

:shrug: I'm grinding that node for the hearts anyways. The serpent gems are just a bonus.

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

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


Someone say something about stall teams? :v:

Wuxi
Apr 3, 2012

Finally finished the event. Never thought that my MVP for this would be Iri, but she was cool and good

EPIC fat guy vids
Feb 3, 2011

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

Endorph posted:

you can read it here but i wasnt kidding when i said it was seriously grody

bonus points for the guy in the replies who calls him out on it still having to go 'not to be full retard sjw,' also


At least some people definitely spoke against it but the OP was defended as "a joke" or "not the first time it was done , chill" or "she's not real".

I haven't been on grandorder /r since some people posted a ton of nsfw content and I was mostly looking for guides/tips/event stuff which this forum and the discord post better. Not surprised some gross people hang out on reddit though.

Cuntellectual
Aug 6, 2010
I appreciate the guy who said "The point of Heaven's Feel was making was that Sakura is not good waifu material."

...Yeah. That's totally what it was going for. Uh huh.

EPIC fat guy vids posted:

At least some people definitely spoke against it but the OP was defended as "a joke" or "not the first time it was done , chill" or "she's not real".

I haven't been on grandorder /r since some people posted a ton of nsfw content and I was mostly looking for guides/tips/event stuff which this forum and the discord post better. Not surprised some gross people hang out on reddit though.


Like pretty much any large community, there's some terrible people in it.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

Smashed before noon
Yeah, what a loving idiot.

The point of Heaven's Feel was to show that Kotomine is good waifu material.

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Nate RFB posted:

Yeah I filter out anything JP/Fluff/Comic related so I get a distillation of the "best" the Discussion-tagged content that sub has to offer.

Probably should reduce that further down to just News/Guides at this point.

Yikes yeah I have no idea what the subreddit looks like at that point. Probably not great

Vengarr posted:

Yeah, what a loving idiot.

The point of Heaven's Feel was to show that Kotomine is good waifu material.

Also I thought HF was all about making Shirou the good waifu material

A man that can cook is very good

Bakanogami
Dec 31, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Fools, the point of Heaven's Feel is that Medusa is the best and the true winner of the Holy Grail War.

Space Flower
Sep 10, 2014

by Games Forum
the real Third Magic was the friends we made along the way

[now playing - changing seasons 2]

RanKizama
Apr 22, 2015

Shinobi Heart
I find it incredible that I've been running Reservoir EX almost exclusively for over a week and have managed to get all of two Snake Gems while snagging a Demon Heart pretty much every other run. I DON'T NEED HEARTS! I NEED GEMS! :argh:

HGH
Dec 20, 2011
Not having to worry about hearts seems like it's nicer than not having to worry about snake gems at least.

Bakanogami posted:

Fools, the point of Heaven's Feel is that Medusa is the best and the true winner of the Holy Grail War.
I just did Stheno's second interlude and the Medusa bullying needs to stop.

W.T. Fits
Apr 21, 2010

Ready to Poyozo Dance all over your face.

HGH posted:

the Medusa bullying needs to stop.

:hai:

RanKizama
Apr 22, 2015

Shinobi Heart

HGH posted:

Not having to worry about hearts seems like it's nicer than not having to worry about snake gems at least.
I've never suffered through a shortage of hearts as the only servant to really eat a lot of them was Jalter. Holy poo poo do I seem to need 5,000 Snake Gems though.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k

RanKizama posted:

I find it incredible that I've been running Reservoir EX almost exclusively for over a week and have managed to get all of two Snake Gems while snagging a Demon Heart pretty much every other run. I DON'T NEED HEARTS! I NEED GEMS! :argh:

We meet again, me.

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Vengarr posted:

Yeah, what a loving idiot.

The point of Heaven's Feel was to show that Kotomine is good waifu material.

No, that was Hollow Ataraxia

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
all of them are good waifus and husbandos

Galaga Galaxian
Apr 23, 2009

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


Main Paineframe posted:

No, that was Hollow Ataraxia

But FHA makes it a point of having everybody alive BUT Kotomine and outright says that in the vast kaleidoscopic multiverse not a single reality exists where Kirei survives the 5HGW.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
thats bullshit

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Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

RanKizama posted:

I find it incredible that I've been running Reservoir EX almost exclusively for over a week and have managed to get all of two Snake Gems while snagging a Demon Heart pretty much every other run. I DON'T NEED HEARTS! I NEED GEMS! :argh:

I am sorry. (I am not sorry.)

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