Fate/Grand Order (Smartphone)

[Icarian]

Aniplex USA or whoever manages FGO US is obviously messing with the kill numbers, how the hell is Sabnock already dead? Yesterday he wasn't even at 500k kills and people were mostly farming Flauros/Forneus

https://imgur.com/a/OKG9U3G This doesn't make sense, why fake the numbers when there's so many days left?...

[Katlan]

Sabnock has been dieing faster faster than Flauros/Forneus for a while now. Flauros/Forneas started out strong but they slowed down as everyone started to burn Sabnock. I did 100+ kills on Sabnock for the gallstones items. ended up farming him for 20 of them.

Ive been farming the shit out of this even though, for the materials and QP. Im already 70+ golden apples deep

[IceSylph]

Yeah, I kind of regret not doing Sabnock a little bit for gallstones. I don't have any plans on pulling for anyone that needs them soon, but I think 2019 only has ~40 from shops. They're about as rare as hearts. This year in JP has had a decent amount though, in the 7 months I've been playing.

I ended up killing Barbatos 143 times. I haven't refreshed on the others, since their drops aren't too needed for me.

Still no Merlin from tickets, it's looking grimmer D:

[Katlan]

I got around 120 kills on Barbatos. I need 24 gallstones for Nobu Summer (ouch), who, along with caster Nero, are my two most desired servants of 2019.

I think there are something like 20-30 gallstones in shops.

I also need a crap ton of Lanugo so I am farming the shot out of the saber node right now lol. I guess I have some stupid luck as I have gotten one kill with 2 drops and another kill with 3 drops. Also it looks like the saber node is going to die super fast based on how fast its death count is already rising.

I got Merlin but I haven't leveled him yet.

My goal is 800+QP by the end of this event lol

[Katlan]

Well I burned 100+ golden apples alone and went from 350m QP to 950m QP.

This raid is fantastic for materials and QP. Even if the 60+ pages I farmed I still need more but at least the next few events will have some. Seems pages are always in demand. Also farmed 50 langos thanks to crazy lucky drops over 100 kills. I just wish roots had a better drop rate as it seemed oddly low compared to everything else.

Now just to wait to see if the New Years event has an xp boost before leveling merlin past 50

[arus2001]

Really wish I was more autistic since I've probably only done about 200 fights total spread across the pillars. Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for loading times and intro pan/death gurgle, but at about 3m per run, the time just adds up.

[IceSylph]

Final pillar down. Go save humanity.

[Insanecyclone]

At least until the end of lostbelt

https://www.4gamer.net/games/266/G026651/20181228023/

Nasu: fgo is done after chp2 is finished
everyone else: IN A FUCKING PANIC

[Icarian]

Yeah, no. They're not gonna let a cash cow like FGO end just because.

[IceSylph]

At least until the end of lostbelt

https://www.4gamer.net/games/266/G026651/20181228023/

Nasu: fgo is done after chp2 is finished
everyone else: IN A FUCKING PANIC

https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/...rview/ecr637z/

Translation.

Even if the main story or plot ends, it's too much of a cashcow to let it die. Even if they made a "FGO 2," I doubt many would be happy unless you could transfer all your servants over.
I doubt it takes much money to keep servers running, and pay a few people to write events a few times a year.

[arus2001]

Yeah, mobile games are entirely too cheap to produce for them to just abandon ship on a high note. Story quality may suffer, but I also wouldn't say smaller arcs is a bad thing, either.

[Katlan]

If FGO story ends in JP then its basically the death knell for every other localized version. That, and the game prints money so I highly doubt it ends. They will likely just do a 2.5 story before establishing a new main arc.

[IceSylph]

We need the pillars back. I literally have nothing to farm right now in NA.

Don't need EXP.
Have ~980M QP.
Don't need gems/monuments/etc.
The only materials I need are the bitchier ones to farm, like hearts.

Da fuk do I do now?

[arus2001]

Got all SQ from free missions? a

[Icarian]

Oh man, I almost messed up on the last two fights, I had brain farts twice and buffed before having 100% NP lol, made the fights all that more interesting instead of an anti climatic 1 turns like the first two.

After this I guess I'm gonna farm some exp cards for the GSSR and Hassan.

This video is a pretty good summary of what has happened so far, watch after beating salomon!

[Katlan]

That form caused me to use a lv 3 command seal. the other forms were not bad though.

[arus2001]

Yeah, I tried to zerg the one with the "reduces NP damage" buff only for shit to do like 14 damage. Honestly would've been nice if the tooltip was a bit more distinct since you may as well just fucking call it nullifying NPs for 3 turns.

[Insanecyclone]

Need a real break from this game. Going full casual/semi-F2P for a while after this. Went in too hard at the start of this year and it burned me out by sanzo's event ended.

Hell I haven't even attempted to do bab's first node. Gotta find that spark again for me.

[Icarian]

I've been playing everyday since last year but I don't go balls deep into farming spending all apples or even quartz on events, I still have 140 golden apples and 14 silvers left. I usually farm while doing other things so it help a lot for preventing burn out, although it makes me not the most efficient farmer, but good enough anyway.

I tried playing other gachas, I've seen some of you on other threads and I really don't know how you can stomach playing more than one gacha game at once, you either have tons of free/down time or you really love your gacha games. I've tried Grandblue back when it released in English but it didn't grab me, then tried Azur Lane this summer, too much of a waifu game for me, then tried Epic Seven a couple days ago but that game was obviously made to play on a tablet or a bigger screen than a phone's, UI text is way too small and I have to squint to read the UI, plus whoever put gray text on black background for skill tooltips needs to be fired, also, the characters feel too bland coming from FGO.

[arus2001]

I think my typical goal is to strive for a point where I can play a game for 15-20 minutes and then not have to worry about it again for 8+ hours. Some games fail pretty hard at this, either in limiting max stamina/fast refresh rate or pushing events where if you waste cooldowns you may not get the full reward spread. Then occasionally you get beasts like FGO where you have periods where it feels like you need to play hours a day just to get the most out of an event or push multiplayer way too hard like SO or SAO. Granblue was a nice spot for me for a while because everything was pretty much solo friendly up to a point, but once you started having to wrestle with JPs just to get PUG raids done, my interest tanked. Doesn't help I was otherwise disappointed with the next tiers of summon weapons.

Personally, I still think this game has a fair bit of issues it really should address, but I guess you could say I stick around because it's one of the rarer mobile games that doesn't treat its storytelling as an afterthought. Still, material farming outside of events is ass. The lack of pity pull leads to things like Ice blowing 780 SQ for no Merlin. I feel like there should be a generic consumable you can get in event shops used solely to increase a servant's NP level so we're not so reliant on dupes for some skills that really need them. All of the daily stages are grossly inadequate, especially QP. Event CE drops are cancer. Hell, needing event CEs is cancer+1. Grail availability is still garbage. Improving garbage servants is also still something sorely needed (RIP Titoria). They're not exactly generous with events/holidays, either.

Was frankly considering dropping it when they announced the Babylonia SQ objective, as I hate being rushed like that and there was a lot of story to churn through. The lack of willingness to do that was further exacerbated by having slogged through the Lily event, the other Xmas rerun, and the 2 Halloweens not long before that. It's like this game forgot it was mobile and practically turned into oldschool FFXI with its time demands. Overall, there's probably a point where I'll be considering dropping it again if things repeat.

And as I'm more generally concerned, the much needed gacha/lootbox regulation the gaming industry needs can't fucking come soon enough even if all the stupid greedaloxes will fight it tooth and nail.