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Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Clawtopsy posted:

https://fate-go.us/news/?category=NEWS&article=%2Fiframe%2F2018%2F1015_400dlcp%2F

"The material distributed daily will be changed from "Dragon Fang" to "Evil Bone.""

what the fuuuuuuuck?!?!

Hell loving yes

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Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)


Give me some seeds too

Asimo
Sep 23, 2007


Void dust. I need all the void dust. :negative:

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry

Clawtopsy posted:

https://fate-go.us/news/?category=NEWS&article=%2Fiframe%2F2018%2F1015_400dlcp%2F

"The material distributed daily will be changed from "Dragon Fang" to "Evil Bone.""

what the fuuuuuuuck?!?!
This is a reason why I am happier it's coming now rather than after Brave Liz. Of course even better would've been before the rerun, or during this dead week, but sooner is still more days with more bones.

Math-wise while this now means that Halloween 2 is happening almost a week late, everything should still slot in almost 1:1 with JP afterwards because we should skip the Extella banner. So something like:

10/25 - 11/8 - Halloween 2
11/9 - 11/16 - Knights of the Round & Hunting Quests
11/17 - 11/26 - Xmas Rerun
11/27 - 12/6 - Xmas 2

And then Babylon and the rest of the hell gauntlet.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Jp got a qol update, you can individually set np speed per servant.

Probably a solution to the complaints on summer ibaraki.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Pureauthor posted:

4 apples.

Equivalent camaign in JPN gave 7 apples.

Grrrrr.

save it for reddit

Rorahusky
Nov 12, 2012

Transform and waaauuuugh out!
Yay, Emiya's getting his second Strengthening!

Lt. Lizard
Apr 28, 2013
And Siegfried upgrades from "meh" to "woah".

Rorahusky
Nov 12, 2012

Transform and waaauuuugh out!

Lt. Lizard posted:

And Siegfried upgrades from "meh" to "woah".

Indeed, he desperately needed the Buster Up on his third skill, just to give it utility outside of fighting Dragons.

Now we just need his NP upgrade.

doomfunk
Feb 29, 2008

oh come on was that really necessary
all over my fine carpet!!
Endorph, just want to say thanks for your challenge account on NA. Without you, I wouldn't know how almost cool Geronimo is. He looks great, his art is great, he just desperately need some strengthening to make his skills good.

Pureauthor
Jul 8, 2010

ASK ME ABOUT KISSING A GHOST

dogsicle posted:

save it for reddit

I will continue to grouse about lack of Apples whenever and wherever, so there. :colbert:

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
I think more so than quartz at least, there is a legitimate gripe to be had about the overall lack of apples in NA (due to the servers not being on fire usually).

In this case IMO it's just more funny than anything else because it's them pretty clearly sticking to "one apple per million".

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:
I still have 237 gold apple. Don’t waste them on non-half ap or non-event? :lolplant:

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
Besides the silver/bronze apples you get from events I haven't used any gold apples outside of Nerofest and maybe Prisma (because of the feather node) and I'm only in the 70s. Da Vinci and Hunting Grounds were especially devastating on whatever supply I might have had at the time. E: Also I am almost certain I will get to 0 apples during Xmas, which is exactly what happened last year as well.

Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Oct 16, 2018

UchihaHirou
Mar 8, 2007

Active Skill:
Solves all problems.

doomfunk posted:

Endorph, just want to say thanks for your challenge account on NA. Without you, I wouldn't know how almost cool Geronimo is. He looks great, his art is great, he just desperately need some strengthening to make his skills good.

He is so close to being decent. If strengthening just made all his skills targetable to other allies, he would be a great support caster.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Pureauthor posted:

I will continue to grouse about lack of Apples whenever and wherever, so there. :colbert:

weird gimmick

from halloween to christmas there are like 60 gold apples, more than you could want for farming

Dryzen
Jul 23, 2011

Nate RFB posted:

I think more so than quartz at least, there is a legitimate gripe to be had about the overall lack of apples in NA (due to the servers not being on fire usually).

In this case IMO it's just more funny than anything else because it's them pretty clearly sticking to "one apple per million".

There isn't a legitimate gripe because of the reason you gave actually

Rorahusky
Nov 12, 2012

Transform and waaauuuugh out!

dogsicle posted:

weird gimmick

from halloween to christmas there are like 60 gold apples, more than you could want for farming

To be fair, this series of Singularities and Events in Japan was a HUUUUUUUGE crunchtime in terms of content. In the span of three months, we have two Halloween events, two Christmas events, and two Singularities (Babylon and Salomon) that are pretty much back to back that lead up to the conclusion of FGO Part 1's story line. There's a reason why in following years they gave themselves a lot more breathing room when it game to content. You needed all those apples just to keep up, what with two Singularities compressed into a single month right after back to back Christmas events.

In short, relish this brief reprieve we have, because starting November, it's going to be a breakneck pace to the finish.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
The people complaining (most of the vocal reddit) don't want breaks, they want to no-life FGO like granblue or Korea.

Elephant Parade
Jan 20, 2018

Pureauthor posted:

4 apples.

Equivalent camaign in JPN gave 7 apples.

Grrrrr.

We just got 19 apples less than a month ago, so

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

Smashed before noon
The casino can always give more freebies, and pressuring them to do so is never a waste imo.

Apples aren’t rare unless you just started playing though.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

Rorahusky posted:

To be fair, this series of Singularities and Events in Japan was a HUUUUUUUGE crunchtime in terms of content. In the span of three months, we have two Halloween events, two Christmas events, and two Singularities (Babylon and Salomon) that are pretty much back to back that lead up to the conclusion of FGO Part 1's story line. There's a reason why in following years they gave themselves a lot more breathing room when it game to content. You needed all those apples just to keep up, what with two Singularities compressed into a single month right after back to back Christmas events.

In short, relish this brief reprieve we have, because starting November, it's going to be a breakneck pace to the finish.

you're giving a lot of benefit of the doubt to a dude who is whining about 3 apples. three. apples.

this game seems to build content in a way that allows you significant benefit from just natural ap regen where apples are a bonus either to blast through content when you're impatient or go above and beyond to stockpile resources you may or may not currently need. just because there are fewer dead weeks (which are just as prime apple targets as events) doesn't really change this.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Tae posted:

The people complaining (most of the vocal reddit) don't want breaks, they want to no-life FGO like granblue or Korea.

Granblue isn't even as no-life as people make it out to be, I play both FGO (NA + JP) and GBF and GBF has back-to-back events but I find it far easier to just auto through basic events or queue up a bunch of skills at once while doing something else than to farm events in FGO.

Guild Wars is like the one exception and even there I don't really go in that hard.

Vengarr
Jun 17, 2010

Smashed before noon
Chaldea Lunchtime is the last Mana Prism sink in the game, correct? We can just dump all of our excess prisms into the monthly XP cards and Fous from now on?

Motto
Aug 3, 2013

Vengarr posted:

Chaldea Lunchtime is the last Mana Prism sink in the game, correct? We can just dump all of our excess prisms into the monthly XP cards and Fous from now on?

There's another at 3rd anniversary but it mainly benefits your friends. Also a few costumes get put in the prism shop.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

quote:

Assassin of Shinjuku
Requires: Epic of Remnant: Shinjuku clear and Third Ascension
Bond needed: 5
Rewards: Skill Upgrade - His "Espionage" skill will now add Quick Up (3 turns) + Crit Up (3 turns) + Improved Star Gen

Cleopatra
Requires: Salomon clear and Final Ascension
Bond needed: 5
First Interlude completed
Rewards: NP Upgrade - NP damage increase + now applies a one time buff block that lasts 3 turns

Medb
Requires: America chapter clear and Final Ascension
Bond needed: 5
First Interlude completed
Rewards: Skill upgrade - Her charm skill will now have an additional defense down applied to enemies.

Medb's charm is slightly better, Cleo gets an NP upgrade, Yan gets a whole bunch of buffs on a 7/5 turn CD. I'd say Yan is the big winner here, though Cleo's NP damage being slightly better does make her a bit more viable against bosses. Who knows what the numbers are on these, though.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Of course cu alter gets his first solo rate up in forever right before lostbelt 2 character. Ugh.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

aoe buff block on cleo, drat

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
I feel like Cleo's upgraded NP is gonna factor in future challenge quest compositions.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

dogsicle posted:

aoe buff block on cleo, drat

Once or for a number of turns?

bladeworksmaster
Sep 6, 2010

Ok.

genericnick posted:

Once or for a number of turns?

3 turn debuff, yeah.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

bladeworksmaster posted:

3 turn debuff, yeah.

Buff Jalter you cowards :cry:

I think she was the only one who had that previously?

Little Abigail
Jul 21, 2011



College Slice

genericnick posted:

Buff Jalter you cowards :cry:

I think she was the only one who had that previously?

Cleo's buff block is 1 time over 3 turns.

Bakanogami
Dec 31, 2004


Grimey Drawer

genericnick posted:

Buff Jalter you cowards :cry:

I think she was the only one who had that previously?

Mephistopheles has it on a skill, but you’re forgiven for not remembering because nobody uses him.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

jalter could still use her np buff i guess, but she seems fine in her niche

Omobono
Feb 19, 2013

That's it! No more hiding in tomato crates! It's time to show that idiota Germany how a real nation fights!

For pasta~! CHARGE!

Jalter's niche is being an ST berserker without the 200% damage taken drawback.
(As long as her raw attack stat is ~50% more than an equivalent berserker she effectively deals berserker damage).


There's value in being the hardest hitting bastard in the game, even if she's not specialized (eating rulers is a nice bonus but those are fairly rare)

Nate RFB
Jan 17, 2005

Clapping Larry
Super Ghouls'n Pumpkins is a pretty good localization IMO.

Starts October 25th.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
It's raining Vlads in this game. Cu vs Vlad vs Elizabeth vs Arturia, the battle royale of infinity!

It is cool to see Extra Vlad again, though. I liked him when I dragged myself through the PSP game.

Rorahusky
Nov 12, 2012

Transform and waaauuuugh out!

Omobono posted:

Jalter's niche is being an ST berserker without the 200% damage taken drawback.
(As long as her raw attack stat is ~50% more than an equivalent berserker she effectively deals berserker damage).


There's value in being the hardest hitting bastard in the game, even if she's not specialized (eating rulers is a nice bonus but those are fairly rare)

Indeed. Jalter's niche is 'I poo poo damage out like a BAWSS', she doesn't need a gimmick besides TONS OF DAMAGE.

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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

Omobono posted:

Jalter's niche is being an ST berserker without the 200% damage taken drawback.
(As long as her raw attack stat is ~50% more than an equivalent berserker she effectively deals berserker damage).


There's value in being the hardest hitting bastard in the game, even if she's not specialized (eating rulers is a nice bonus but those are fairly rare)

The problem is she kinda sorta doesn't. Her main competition is Raikou and Nobu, and neither has the like 8k ATK they would need for Jalter to hit harder than them. Mostly the issue is her buster buff has been heavily obsoleted since her release since it only lasts 1 turn, and it's what pushes her over the line of a zerk due to how berserkers intentionally have very lovely damage boosts (Mystic Slayer excluded since it's conditional). If it lasted 3 turns she'd do just fine I think.

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