#fgoventures

So... I've saved up my SQs for Muramasa and Douman, both of which sucked me dry. -Actually, neither of them came home from SQs I DID SAVE UP but from SQs I had to forcefully farm from interludes and rank up quests. For that? I had to feed my servants with my exp savings just so they meet the conditions for interludes+rank ups, not to mention, I had to farm bond levels for even more SQs. That said, they did come home... at a huge (F2P) price. Now, I'm saving for Oberon but he's on a lower priority- So, with Chaldea Boys here, I was just thinking- "Man, the CEs are pretty, I'll just pull for them". Anyway, I said I'll only use my tickets, but decided to use up 10, plus one ten-pull hoping to get the 5-star CEs...

AND THIS GUY DECIDED TO COME HOME-

I MEAN SURE! Amakusa isn't on my high priority list, but given that he just got a new skin? He's definitely a welcome addition to the team! Anyway, since I got him and I was still lacking some CEs, I figured I'd wait for Odysseus' banner since I've gotten pretty attached to the guy after the Aeaea event. Heck, he's my favorite Servant right now- favorite mythological hero, even. I did end up getting all the CEs I wanted, but... while I did tell myself that I'll only use my tickets... I ended up using my SQ stash. -Not that I had a lot to begin with; I think I only had like... 160+ SQs anyway?

And now, I only have 60 SQs left ahaha... But with this 5-star CE, I managed to grab the final one from the event shop, which means I've collected them all! The real kicker? Well, let's go back to last year when Odysseus released... it took me more than 300+ of my SQs to force him home. For this banner, copies of him actually did come home.

...Not once, not twice... BUT THRICE.

So, yeah. Now I have an NP4 Odysseus. From less than 200 SQs worth of pulls??? SOMEHOW??? Maybe all my nerding about The Odyssey these past few months served as his catalyst ahahahaha...

Been a while since I posted my FGO-ventures here... ANYWAY- BATTLE OF NYC Y’ALL. Is everyone dyin- I mean- having fun? Just to note, I’m going here quite blind, but I do have some idea about what I’ll be facing cause of memes and fan comics... but other than that, pretty much blind. 

I’ve finally cleared the second challenge quest. Without using any command spells this time.

For the first match, I had 2 tries; first time, I was just testing the waters, second time... well, honestly, it was a fluke. Idk how Enkidu ended up soloing and ended up surviving pretty much the whole second half of the battle. I had to use a command spell to release their NP, but hey- we beat Touta. It didn’t really take much strategizing here, just figuring out which lancer servants should be able to last long enough and how long I could make them last (also, screw those card seals... they somehow sealed my buster cards for the entire battle at some point!) Today’s challenge was Leonidas, and the only thing I knew about it was seeing a comic about Gilgamesh(?) calling Leonidas a madman for bringing over 300 soldiers, and that I knew that killing them would slowly weaken him. What I didn’t know though was that he’d be using a focus target gimmick, so I had to rework my strategy of using Saberlot to take them down bit by bit. I also didn’t realize until my second try that his soldiers weren’t lancers (whoops). With that, I figured that I should use an AOE Servant. I first went with Nero since she had multi-guts, an arts NP and 2 arts cards, which isn’t so bad. Unfortunately, I still had trouble charging her NP... so I switched up my strategy and made use of EMIYA instead and placed Nero on sub. I also placed Mash on sub (cause honestly, I forgot about her) and Saberlot on backline. 

So now, my frontline team is: EMIYA, Merlin and a friend support Waver. I went with them cause I figured that they should be able to keep up a consistent arts chain. Merlin can handle the healing and defense while Waver can stall with his NP, help charge our NP and also boost our defenses. Still, even with that, I had to do several re-tries before finally figuring out a nice rhythm. I figured that Merlin and EMIYA cannot go down first, but Waver can be replaced by Mash. Mash quite helped with keeping everyone alive. EMIYA then went down, replaced by Nero; at that time, I’ve already taken down a good number of soldiers, so even though Nero had trouble charging her NP, it was much more manageable than my first try. I just kept up my rhythm, Nero fell, but by then Leonidas didn’t have much HP left, so Saberlot did his thing and spammed his crits. Win.

I swear, for each challenge quest it takes me more and more tries ^^” SO- JAGUAR MAN TEAM *WHEEZES* I’m going blind here and thought Jaguarman was gonna be on her own cause of that one comic... but hooboy, I was wrong- so first time, I was totally unprepared.

I slowly understood the mechanic as I repeatedly battled her team. And then at some point, I took a tiiiiny peek at Gamepress and realized- “OH RIGHT, AOE EXISTS” cause I’ve been using single target servants this whole time... So, from my experimental team, I added in Achilles. It’s not like I was doing badly before- I did manage to break through their break bars even without an AOE servant. It just kinda ended up with Cu as last man standing and I really don’t have extra event CEs so... he was sitting duck back there. ANYWAY- Achilles seriously upped my team performance. I’ve been able to beat Nobunaga but the other two became a problem. Later, I beat Jeanne but Jaguarman became the REAL problem- by the time she’s on her own, I’d be sitting duck.

So, I decided to give the event CE to Saberlot and placed him at the back of the team; and then I dropped using support Skadi and went for support Merlin (though I do have my own Merlin... which also kinda bit me back, forgetting that support Merlin wouldn’t have the burn healing code I embedded on mine, whoops-). Anyway, I went for support Merlin so that I can place my max bond Heracles again (see last CQ). He may not have been my MVP for the match, but he did stall for some turns and managed to bring down Jeanne.

Honestly, I kept wondering how in the world my team is still alive after all those turns. In the end, Jaguarman was once again the last one standing, but this time I have practically everyone in my frontline- except Merlin who ended up going down from her NP.  With Merlin down, Herc comes in to support... and then Achilles went down but not before taking out Jeanne with the help of Herc. And then Mash goes down and in comes Papalot (I could see some plot here =w=). With that, Saberlot brings down the crits, along with Cu Alter and Herc’s busters.  And thus, after 33 turns and who knows how many re-matches, we finally attained victory. Hooray Saberlot ^o^

After the hell that was Muramasa and Caster of Limbo, I had only one other must-have target, even more sought after than those two: Taigong Wang. ...He's cute ok. And I've developed a weak spot for fox-eyed characters over the past few years, so I just must have him! ..........................But GudaGuda came along and I just had to get Ryoma and Oryou. Not only did I like them as characters, but they're an AOE lancer arts farmer!

While they may not have taken ALL of my SQs... I went from 300+ to 100+, and all my tickets so... I was running low on reserves for Taigong Wang. And then there came that Skadi banner from Christmas. I've been trying to get her since her release, but she had continued to evade me, and... this time wasn't any different. Even worse, she ended up eating up some of my Taigong Wang funds ORZ. Then Tunguska came along. No Taigong. I farmed all of my remaining interludes and rank up quests. No Taigong. I used my resources to level Servants to do EVEN MORE interludes and rank up quests. STILL NO TAIGONG. And then, the raids came along... and I decided to farm bond points for EVEN MORE SQs. I must have had 300+ battles which lasted until the final moments of the raid. I was ready to give up once the raid ends... So, I thought, hey, I'll try to get 15 more SQs- that's literally the last I can afford. The other Servants' bond exps are too high for what remaining HP the Beast had. Part of me wanted to settle for 13 SQs- I wasn't sure if the last Servant would make it anyway... but I decided to persevere. So, I ended up with 15 SQs. First pull. Nada. Kept going until I had 3 SQs remaining... And then, no lag- but GOLDEN RIDER?! I was skeptical because I've gotten 3 baits before this: Marie Antoinette, and 2 times for Nikitich. BUT THEN. FINALLY. HE CAME. HE FINALLY CAME.

...And I proceeded to throw all my resources at him.

Whew... the most difficult part of this one probably was the mob battle with the strategist buffs XD Do take note- I’m going in this blind, so yeah.  ANYWAY. The difficulty from that battle was due to some of the mobs having evade in addition to guts, and they’re composed of riders and assassins, so bringing a caster endangers them from the riders and bringing an assassin... well, I don’t really have very good AOE assassins? I had to repeat this stage so many times. What I ended up doing was to abuse the power of CEs with negate invul and equipped them to most of my team. I’d say my MVP ended up being Nitocris... so glad my brother pulled her ages ago XD I also put in Tristan who can give me evades and remove enemy buffs. I don’t really remember how my full playthrough went, but basically, Nitocris+negate invul CE= MVP.

Next battle was against old man Li. I’ve been worrying about him since I heard that he had insta-death? So to counter him.... I abused CEs once more and equipped most of my team with guts. Well... insta-death didn’t end up being my main problem, but eh.. who else would be the best counter other than the undying max bond Herc.

Now, we goin’ into some drama.

Fighting Yu and Xiang Yu. Killing off Yu wasn’t too hard, and thankfully, her attacks can easily be tanked by Merlin who was a caster. Now... the problem was after taking her down- Xiang Yu was ready to attack deadlier than ever. I’d say Abby did a great job with her NP that removes buffs. Same with Tristan, plus his evades.  In the end, Sitonai and Herc remained (geddit?). Look how cute this is~

I mentioned drama, right? This is where is comes in... Xiang Yu killed Illya.

Herc got mad.

And avenged his former Master...

I’d say the final battle was much easier than the previous Lostbelts’.  Lancer Cu once again tanks for me... with the assistance of Mr.Mothman, of course. Didn’t really know that the enemy was gonna be an assassin class, and if I did, I woulda placed more casters on my team. The battle would’ve been easier then, HA.

Moolah was much easier than Jaguar Team, but then again, I took a peek at some plays and walkthrough on how to go about this.

I mean... I wanted to know if she’s gonna have some goons who’d leave troublesome debuffs (like insta-death *sweats*). So then, after watching a video, I figured that the trick with her goons’ debuffs wasn’t so hard- I just needed to sacrifice some poor AOE casters (gomen CasGil, Nito-chan...) who will have to take em’ down.

So our star today is Ozy! Bless my Chaldea Boys roll for getting him back then T_T He really packed a punch, even against them assassins. Though to be fair- he did have an event CE- but yes, he hits like a truck. Or chariot. Or pyramid, I guess.

Final backline was Cu Alter who helped a lot in chipping off that milliion HP.

.... 

I actually don’t got much to say. I mostly just threw Ozy at Moolah for this quest, made sure Merlin survived... and made a couple of poor sacrifices......... yeah.

Wheeeeeee I ded.

Took a while to win this one, and I fear the next *wheezes*

I had to work around my team a bunch of times, but I was certain that I needed the Cu bros in it (hooray Cu-choo train!). It’s these instances that I’m really thankful to have a Cuzerker of my own.

After a bunch of trial and errors, I came up with a bunch of conclusion:

-Cuzerker should be my backline/last man standing (lol, obvious for all right?)

-I have to make sure no one dies until I break the first bar

-... I need to max limit break my CEs to put all my firepower on Cuzerker

-I must chip off a good chunk of his million HP before Cuzerker comes in

So I had to workaround my first lineup, but now it got extra difficult since I’d have to work without an event CE. After a bit of experimenting, I decided to try out my max bond Herc+support Skadi+Merlin. Skadi and Merlin helped keep everyone alive, while Herc just gotta kill.

After getting through the first bar, I made sure to survive a bit longer to make work for Cu later. After Herc fell, in came Saberlot who only managed to do a one turn damage- but it was a big one. After he fell, best bro Cu lancer came in and slowly chipped off Izou’s hp until Skadi finally fell. Lastly, Cuzerker made his entrance... but of course, things weren’t easy and I had to rely on RNG to survive. Merlin fell first, which left the two Cu bros to fend for themselves. It was tough, and I had to reset the game a bunch of times to mess with RNG and make sure Izou targets the Cus in a way that zerker would survive. And yeah, I finally won after using a command spell to heal zerker and make sure he survives one more round.

But maaaan.... I feel like I cheated what with all the resets I did just to manipulate Izou’s targets...