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Fate/Grand Order Arctic Summer World Ruler Scáthach-Skadi Pickup Summon Banner Part 3

The Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game. The Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner came alongside this event.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Ruler Scáthach-Skaði (#ad) or Scathach-Skadi

★4-star SR Caster Wu Zetian

★5-star SSR CE Infinity Blue

★5-star SSR CE Twin Tails

★4-star SR CE Budding Angler

★4-star SR CE Cruising Date

★3-star R CE Hello, Arctic!

★3-star R CE Jiāngshī Attack

This banner goes from 2024-07-24 21:00 - 08-07 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

This post is a continuation of another post. Had to split the posts apart since the first 2 were getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Fate/Grand Order Guaranteed Summon Function

Fate/Grand Order now has a “pity system” but it costs 900 Saint Quartz or SQ for 1 rate-up SSR. If you happen to get the rate-up SSR before spending 900 SQ, you’re not guaranteed to get another copy even if you keep pulling until you spend 900 SQ. And the pity doesn’t carry over between banners. In short, this so-called pity system sucks.

Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in other posts are the following:

multiple copies of the 3-star Hello, Arctic! CE

multiple copies of the 3-star Jiāngshī Attack CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Budding Angler CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Cruising Date CE

a few dupes of some 4-star Craft Essences that aren’t on rate-up like Trigger Off and The Illusory Confessional

first 2 copies of the Twin Tails 5-star CE

first 4 copies of 4-star SR Caster Wu Zetian

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Another Ending; my first copy of this hasn't been fully MLB'd yet

1 dupe of 4-star SR Rider Astolfo

1 dupe of 5-star SSR Lancer Enkidu

first copy of 4-star SR Pretender Hephaestion or Hephaistion

Sadly, I have yet to get even a single copy of Ruler Skadi. Just need 1 copy of her then I can be done with this banner, but at this point, it feels like I'm never gonna get her. Sigh.

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

I talk more about this in another post, but ended up spending a lot of my SQ and tickets pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. This banner features 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud or Arc.

Thankfully, I was able to get Arc. But unfortunately, she cost way too much, and couldn’t even get her to NP5 or Noble Phantasm level 5. Maybe I should have stopped after getting my first copy so I could have had more pulls left for Ruler Skadi.

But I do like Arc. Even leveled her up to 120 so I don't really regret getting her to NP3. Heck, I wish I'd been able to get her to NP5. It just sucks that I had to spend so much and couldn't even manage to get 5 copies of her.

At least I still have some pulling resources left. Also still have some content I haven’t done that could give some more SQ and/or Summon Tickets.

But sadly, I doubt I even have enough to be able to pity even one SSR so I can only hope for a bit of luck and/or a miracle because, aside from Ruler Skadi, there are a few more upcoming Servants who I’m hoping to get.

I talk more about this in another post, but it doesn’t help that I actually ended up doing 2 sets of 10+1 draws on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner. This banner features 5-star SSR Alter Ego Ashiya Douman. Unfortunately, failed to get even a single copy of Douman.

Was hoping to be able to get Ruler Skadi in a few pulls. Then maybe I could do a few more pulls on the Ashiya Douman banner before going back to saving.

Unfortunately, couldn’t get even a single copy of Ruler Skadi even after using all of the SQ and tickets that I currently had on-hand.

After running out of all the Saint Quartz and Summon Tickets that I had on-hand, went to my present box to get the rest of the pulling resources that I had left there.

I was hoping that Skadi would show up before I ran out of pulling resources from my present box but sadly, that didn't happen at all.

Also exchanged all my Saint Quartz fragments into actual SQ, but that still wasn't enough to give me Skadi.

So I started looking at the content I haven't cleared yet. That was when I was reminded that I haven't cleared all of the free quests in Lostbelt No. 6.5: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Traum - Life and Death of an Illusion yet.

Clearing all of the Traum free quests also allowed me to complete one of the extra missions that gives like 10 SQ depending on how many free quests you've cleared.

Also cleared the few Rank-Up Quests that I haven't finished yet. Then I started doing some Interludes as well.

Completed the remaining quests that I haven't done in the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event, which gave me a few more SQ. Haven't done the Challenge Quest yet though, but that doesn't give any SQ anyway so just plan to do that later.

Also started Bond farming by clearing the level 90++ quest of the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event over and over again.

At first, I had my Servants equipped with the event CE that increases Natural North Pole Ice drops since I needed this to upgrade the facilities in the event. Also needed this to exchange for the Ascension Materials of the free 4-star SR Servant that we can get from this event.

Once I no longer needed Natural North Pole Ice drops, switched to Bond up Craft Essences. Well, except for my main DPS who is equipped with the event CE that gives +50% NP gauge charge and increases their ATK strength within the event.

Also made sure to borrow supports who were equipped with a fully MLB'd Chaldea Teatime Craft Essence. This CE increases Bond gained when completing quests by 15% if equipped by a support.

Spammed Apples (also known as Fruits) to replenish my AP so I could keep farming the 90++ quest over and over again. If I wasn't trying to Bond farm, wouldn't bother doing that at all because this is totally not an efficient use of Apples.

For one thing, there was still plenty of time left before the event was set to end. So even though I wasn't done with the event shop and the point ladder yet, I most likely would have been able to complete the entire event just by using natural AP.

At most, might have needed to use a few Apples or so to completely clear out the shop and the point ladder, but there was no reason to use any Apples right now, not when there was still plenty of time left. Really needed more SQ though because Skadi refuses to show up, so here we are. LOL.

Anyway, the base Bond that can be obtained after clearing the 90++ quest is 1318, and you can get a few hundred more depending on the Bond CEs you have equipped.

I talk more about this elsewhere, but so far, managed to Bond level up the following Servants:

4-star SR Berserker Jeanne d'Arc Alter or JAlter from Bond level 7 to 8 = 2 SQ

5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH from Bond level 6 to 7 = 3 SQ

4-star SR Archer Chloe von Einzbern from Bond level 6 to 7 = 2 SQ

5-star SSR Saber Nero Claudius (Bride) from Bond level 8 to 9 = 3 SQ

5-star SSR Pretender Oberon from Bond level 8 to 9 = 3 SQ

4-star SR Saber Lancelot or SaberLot from Bond level 8 to 9 = 2 SQ

1-star Caster Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from Bond level 5 to 6 = 1 Golden Fruit

4-star SR Saber Prince of Lan Ling from Bond level 5 to 6 = 2 SQ

As for my setup for the 90++ quest - this quest has 3 waves with all waves having only 1 enemy. All the enemies are Lancers. Wave 1's Lancer has 162,705 HP while wave 2's has 250,422 HP. Wave 3's Lancer enemy is Enkidu, and they have 1,002,150 HP. So having the damage up event CE definitely helps with this quest.

At first, my DPS was SaberLot since mine was actually NP5 with all of his skills and his Mana Loading Append skill fully leveled to the max. Also have his Extra Attack Append skill at level 9.

Lancelot does really well here, especially when equipped with the damage up event CE. The only issue was that he barely refunds his NP gauge after firing his Noble Phantasm so I can't clear all the waves in the 90++ quest just by spamming his NP. Also, at the moment, I really don't want to use my 5-star SSR Caster Altria or Castoria.

She's the premier support for Arts-type Servants like Lancelot, and it's even better if you use 2 of her to support your chosen Arts DPS. But I don't want to Bond up my Castoria too much so I refrain from using her unless I absolutely have to.

Anyway, so at first my team was Saber Lancelot, Nero Bride, support Castoria, and 3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu with the Chaldea Uniform - Decisive Battle Mystic Code. Have to use face cards for wave 1 so this could take more than 1 turn depending on how bad my starting hand is.

For waves 2 and 3, just have SaberLot fire his NP. Lancelot can clear wave 2 with no problems.

For wave 3 - can't remember for sure anymore because I've tried so many different team comps by now, but IIRC, Lancelot's NP can finish off Enkidu depending on the Servants currently supporting him. Otherwise, Enkidu could be left with some HP so just need some face cards to finish the fight.

I've also tried Lancelot with Oberon and even Prince of Lan Ling as his supports. Like once Nero Bride went up a Bond level, I switched her with Oberon. Then, once Oberon went up a Bond level, switched him with Prince of Lan Ling.

Once SaberLot went up a Bond level, I tried other Sabers as my DPS, but that was easier said than done since Lancelot was my most built single-target Saber DPS.

Still, with the help of the damage up event CE, decided to try my other Sabers just to see how it would go. I'd taken to just carding the first wave then the DPS would use their NP on wave 2. Wave 2 was usually not a problem, but wave 3 could take 2 turns or even more depending on my current DPS and supports.

Sometimes, I would also try to increase Castoria's NP gauge on wave 1 so I can hopefully get her to fire off her NP on wave 3 for more buffs.

The other DPS I've tried were the following:

Single-target, as in those with single-target Noble Phantasms:

NP1 5-star SSR Berserker Galatea - skills are leveled to 10/7/10

NP1 4-star SR Saber Roland - skills are all at 1

NP1 4-star SR Saber Saito Hajime - skills are all at 1

NP5 4-star SR Saber Elisabeth Bathory (Brave) - skills are leveled to 6/6/1

NP5 4-star SR Berserker Jeanne d'Arc Alter - skills are leveled to 1 /4/4

AoE, as in those with AoE Noble Phantasms:

NP3 4-star Saber Tam Lin Gawain or Barghest - skills are all leveled to 10

NP4 4-star Saber Gawain - skills are all leveled to 9

For supports, I've been going with Xu Fu and Prince of Lan Ling, especially after getting Oberon and Nero Claudius to Bond level 9. Getting Servants to Bond level 10 won't give any SQ so for now, don't want to use those 2 anymore. I've also tried to use 4-star SR Ruler Leonardo da Vinci as a support although all of her skills are currently at level 1.

I've seen some comps with 3-star R Saber Bedivere, but haven't bothered to try this since not only is my Bedivere sadly stuck at NP1, all his skills are also not leveled at all.

There's also a team comp that uses 3-star R Saber Gaius Julius Caesar as a DPS, but can't try this even if my Caesar's at NP5 (his skills are all at 1, but that can easily be remedied) because he wants either Ruler Skadi or 5-star SSR Caster Scáthach-Skaði to support him, and I unfortunately have neither.

Caesar is a Quick-based Servant. Caster Skadi is the premier support for Quick-based Servants. Ruler Skadi also supports Quick-based Servants. IIRC, she’s said to be on par or even better than Caster Skadi as a Quick support.

One of the reasons why I want to get Ruler Skadi is because I don’t have her Caster counterpart, but I have some Quick-based Servants. I barely or hardly ever get to use these Servants due to not having my own Skadi. So would love to be able to use these Servants more often.

Anyway, of the DPS listed above, aside from Lancelot, I've had the most success with Saito Hajime. Unlike SaberLot, he can refund quite a bit of his NP gauge after firing his Arts-type Noble Phantasm.

The issue is his damage though since I only have him at NP1 so he needs like 2 NPs and/or face cards to fnish off Enkidu, especially since I'm not supporting him with double Castoria.

Still, I thought he's been helpful enough, and he is pretty good, so I started leveling up his skills. At first, only got his first and third skill to like level 4. Then I got them to level 6. Soon, I decided to go all the way and get his first skill to level 9. For now, I've held off on maxing said skill to 10. Left his second skill at level 1 and his third skill at level 6.

My 5-star SSR Avenger Space Ishtar or Ashtart or Ishtar Ashtart and my 5-star SSR Archer Gilgamesh are both currently at Bond level 10. I've given them a Lantern of Chaldea so was slowly, but surely trying to get them to Bond level 11. This would give me 30 SQ as well as more of their Servant Coins.

While farming the 90++ quest, had those 2 in the backline for the Bond, even if this was really not efficient at all. Those 2 are DPS so whenever I use them, they're in the front line as the damage dealers that my supports are all buffing.

So it feels wrong to have them in the backline now, but I really need more SQ for Skadi. Don't even know if I'll be able to get them to Bond level 11, but I guess all I can do now is try.

While looking at my other Servants to see who else might be close to going up a Bond level, I noted that my 5-star SSR Assassin Koyanskaya of Light was also on her way to Bond level 11 so I wanted to try slotting her in my 90++ team.

Koyanskaya of Light is one of the premier supports for Buster-based Servants. So she's not the ideal support for Saito whose NP is Arts, but at least she also gives +50% NP gauge charge and other buffs so with Xu Fu and support Castoria, can still clear the 90++ quest even if it isn't in 3 turns.

As aforementioned, I've also tried Berserker Jeanne d'Arc Alter as my DPS for the 90++ quest. As a summer Servant, she also gets an additional 30% ATK in the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event.

IIRC, I tried with double Koyanskaya and Ruler Da Vinci as her supports, but that didn't work very well. I suppose it might work better if I actually leveled up Da Vinci's and even Jeanne's skills but eh. Don't really feel like doing so, and it feels like a waste to do that just for one fight.

Went back to farming with Saito until I remembered that I have 5-star SSR Caster Merlin's skills all leveled to the max, and he's a Buster support like Koyanskaya of Light and Oberon.

So I tried Berserker Jeanne as my DPS again, but this time she's being supported by double Koyanskaya and Merlin. Still need to card wave 1, but waves 2 and 3 can be cleared with Jeanne's NP. Well, wave 3 might need a bit of carding depending on RNG, but this is still way better than before.

This run also feels smoother than the Saito run since Jeanne's NP is Buster so I can borrow a Koyanskaya of Light friend support to go with my own.

The only downside is that since I'm bringing so many SSRs, I have to drop 2 Bond CEs due to party cost limitations. In contrast to that, I can bring 4 Bond CEs in the Saito team.

Since my Jeanne runs were going pretty well, decided to level up her first and third skills to 6.

Also, I've farmed so much that by now I actually managed to level the Chaldea Uniform - Decisive Battle Mystic Code to 3.

And unsurprisingly, I'm so done with the point ladder and even the event shop by now. For the point ladder, we only needed to get to 6,000,000 points, but by now, I'm at 11, 159,250 points. There's still time before the event ends so I guess that number's just gonna keep going up. LOL.

Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

Here are the results of the rest of my pulls on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Single draws: can't remember for sure now, but I think this was around the time I finished all the Traum free quests. Also got some or the rest of the available rewards from the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event.

Well, long story short, I managed to scrounge up 39 SQ and 1 Summon Ticket. So I started doing single draws.

The first single gave me a 3-star CE. The second gave me a 3-star Servant. The third gave me yet another dupe of Budding Angler while the fourth gave me yet another dupe of Hello, Arctic!. I'm now down to exactly 30 SQ on-hand.

Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results

By now, been feeling so frustrated and annoyed. It feels like I'm never gonna get Skadi. Was just so, so - argh! Was so mad that I found myself going to the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner.

Ended up doing a multi-draw on said banner. Regret that now since didn't get Douman at all. Didn't even get a 4-star Servant. Just got 2 more dupes of Budding Angler and Hello, Arctic! as well as my second copy of 3-star R Caster Asclepius.

Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 3

After getting some more SQ, went back to the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner. Here are the results of the rest of my pulls on this banner:

Single draws: so far, got 3 more copies of Jiāngshī Attack, 1 3-star CE, and 1 3-star Servant.

For the 10th and 11th singles, got 2 3-star R Servants. Sigh. Eff this game and this banner.

After that last set of singles, assuming I counted correctly (ugh, wish the Summon History tab has some sort of counter or something since it's difficult to tell how far you are to the pity), I've now done 209 pulls on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner.

Need 330 pulls to get to the pity so 330 - 209 is 121. Unless I counted wrong, need to pull 121 more times in order to pity Skadi.

Ugh, now I really regret pulling on the Ashiya Douman banner, especially since I didn't even get him. If I'd just saved all my remaining resources for Skadi, maybe I would have been able to get her using those, or at least be closer to being able to pity her.

Can still Bond farm and still have some content to clear but - I don't know. It feels hopeless, like I'm just struggling for nothing. Also starting to get burnt out from repeating the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event's 90++ quest over and over again.

Don't even know if I'll be able to make it to the pity before the Skadi banner ends. Maybe I should just give up now. But then again, it also feels really bad to just walk away from this banner after already spending so much on it. Ugh, I really wish that, at the very least, pity would carry over between banners like how it is in other games like Reverse: 1999 and Honkai: Star Rail.

For a moment, I actually thought that I only need 121 SQ to pity Skadi, but that seemed too good to be true. It didn't take long to remember that a single pull costs 3 SQ so if I need 121 more pulls to pity Ruler Skadi, that actually means that I need 363 SQ.

Even if I manage to Bond level up more Servants and complete all the content I haven't finished, I doubt that would give me 363 SQ. But even if I can somehow get 363 SQ, that would obviously require a lot of grinding.

I don't know. I'm feeling kinda burnt out already, not to mention feeling completely and utterly disappointed and upset. Eff this game and this cursed banner. Sigh.

Anyway, I did try to Bond farm some more, but really getting sick and tired of doing the same quest over and over again.

I finished all the weekly Master Missions, which gave me enough Saint Quartz fragments to exchange for 3 SQ. Also got some more SQ + a Summon Ticket from not missing a login day.

And, since it's the start of a new month (August), the 5 Summon Tickets from the Mana Prism shop just reset.

So I thought maybe I should at least try for one last 10+1 draw. That's probably the most I can manage now without lots of grinding since the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event was gonna end soon.

Did a few more Interludes. Also unlocked the Brynhild Trial Quest from the Rare Prism shop. This used to cost 1 Rare Prism or RP, but later, it became free after completing Lostbelt No. 2. The Brynhild Trial Quest gave me 1 Summon Ticket after completing it.

Once I finally had enough SQ and tickets, started doing singles on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner again.

The first 5 singles gave me 5 3-star Servants. The 6th gave me yet another dupe of Hello, Arctic! while the 7th was a dupe of a 3-star CE.

The 8th was another 3-star Servant. The 9th was my second copy of the Infinity Blue Craft Essence.

The 10th was another 3-star Servant. And the 11th was another Hello, Arctic! dupe.

In short, once again, ended up wasting the equivalent of 30 SQ on this cursed banner. Eff this game. Sigh.

Still so freaking disappointed and upset about this, but looks like it's over. It's hopeless. Guess it's just not gonna be possible for me to get Skadi right now.

And to think I was even hoping to be able to have some pulling resources left to try and get 4-star SR Archer Anastasia & Viy as well as other upcoming Servants. Clearly, that's impossible now. Sigh. Need to go back to saving again.

Inventory Management

In another post, mentioned that I haven't gotten my Caster Wu Zetian to NP4 yet since wasn't sure if I even wanted to do that. Was never interested in her so haven't bothered to look up anything about her.

Now that I have her - well, still not interested in her and honestly, still mad that she showed up instead of Skadi. Like I know she's on rate-up too, but still. Really wish I'd gotten Skadi instead of her.

On top of that, it was annoying that I couldn't even manage to get her to NP5. Not that I wanted to or was even interested in doing so.

But after pulling so many times, you'd think she would've shown up more often. Then again, after pulling so many times, you'd think Skadi would have shown up at least once too, but here we are. Seriously, eff this banner.

Anyway, I did level up my first copy of Wu but left all her skills at 1 and haven't bothered to use her yet. Maybe later, I'll take another look at her and try to learn more about her, but for now, really don't want anything to do with her.

Still not sure about bothering to increase her NP levels, especially since I'm not using her right now anyway. And currently have no plans to use her. So decided to just store all of her dupes in the Second Archive so wouldn't be tempted to burn or sell her.

In another post, also mentioned that I haven't fused the Enkidu dupe I got to my first copy yet. Was still really mad that the one time I actually got a SSR Servant from the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner, it turned into a dupe instead of my first copy of Skadi.

Even now, still upset about that, but decided might as well just get it over with and get my Enkidu to NP2 already.

Got so many copies of the rate-up Craft Essences that I started fusing the dupes already. I talk more about that in another post.

After continuing to pull on the Skadi banner, got more copies of the rate-up CEs so was now back to managing my inventory, including selling all the 3-star Servants I got.

Was able to get the following:

2 MLB copies of Jiāngshī Attack with 3 leftover copies

3 MLB copies of Budding Angler with 1 leftover copy

4 MLB copies of Hello, Arctic!

2 MLB copies of Cruising Date with 1 leftover copy

2 copies of Infinity Blue

2 copies of Twin Tails

While farming the 90++ quest of the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event over and over again, managed to get 1 drop each of the Natural North Pole Ice CE and the ATK up event CE.

Don't remember the starting amounts anymore, but here's how close the following Servants are to the next Bond level:

Merlin - need 131,296 to go from Bond level 8 to 9

Koyanskaya of Light - need 712,659 to go from Bond level 10 to 11

Jeanne d'Arc Alter (Berserker) - need 252,633 to go from Bond level 8 to 9

Space Ishtar - need 349,765 to go from Bond level 10 to 11

Gilgamesh - need 469,123 to go from Bond level 10 to 11

As for the event itself, by now managed to get 13,785,250 Visitor Points. Already cleared out the event shop so all that's left now is to exchange all my leftover currency for QP.

Update: the event is over now. In the end, managed to get 14,876,050 Visitor Points.

Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park Event Challenge Quest

Cleared the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event's Challenge Quest with Merlin, friend support Castoria, and 5-star SSR Berserker Morgan. Immortal team FTW! LOL.

Here are some pics from said quest:

And that's it. At the time I'm writing this part of this post, there's only like a day left before the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event ends so it's over. It's all over. Looks like there's really no way I'll be able to get Ruler Skadi now. Sadly and unfortunately :-(.

Conclusion

So, what about you? Did you pull on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner? What do you think about Skadi? Were you able to get her? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

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Fate/Grand Order Arctic Summer World Ruler Scáthach-Skadi Pickup Summon Banner Part 2

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Ruler Scáthach-Skaði (#ad) or Scathach-Skadi

★4-star SR Caster Wu Zetian

★5-star SSR CE Infinity Blue

★5-star SSR CE Twin Tails

★4-star SR CE Budding Angler

★4-star SR CE Cruising Date

★3-star R CE Hello, Arctic!

★3-star R CE Jiāngshī Attack

This banner goes from 2024-07-24 21:00 - 08-07 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

This post is a continuation of another post. Had to split the posts apart since the first was getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Fate/Grand Order Guaranteed Summon Function

Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in another post are the following:

multiple copies of the 3-star Hello, Arctic! CE

multiple copies of the 3-star Jiāngshī Attack CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Budding Angler CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Cruising Date CE

a few dupes of some 4-star Craft Essences that aren't on rate-up like Trigger Off and The Illusory Confessional

first 2 copies of the Twin Tails 5-star CE

first 2 copies of 4-star SR Caster Wu Zetian

Sadly, I have yet to get even a single copy of Ruler Skadi. Just need 1 copy of her then I can be done with this banner.

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Thankfully, I was able to get Arc. But unfortunately, she cost way too much, and couldn’t even get her to NP5 or Noble Phantasm level 5.

At least I still have some pulling resources left. Also still have some content I haven’t done that could give some more SQ and/or Summon Tickets.

Was hoping to be able to get Ruler Skadi in a few pulls. Then maybe I could do a few more pulls on the Ashiya Douman banner before going back to saving.

Unfortunately, couldn't get even a single copy of Ruler Skadi even after using all of the SQ and tickets that I currently had on-hand.

After running out of all the Saint Quartz and Summon Tickets that I had on-hand, went to my present box to get the rest of the pulling resources that I had left there.

Now I can only hope that I'll be able to get Ruler Skadi before all the pulling resources in my present box runs out.

Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

Here are the results of the rest of my pulls on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Single draws: one of my single draws gave me a gold Caster card.

This soon turned into my third copy of 4-star SR Caster Wu Zetian.

I know she's on rate-up, but argh! Why do I keep getting her? Not interested in her at all. Where's Ruler Skadi? Wish she would just show up already. Sigh.

Another single draw gave me a dupe of this 5-star Craft Essence called Another Ending.

My first copy of this hasn't been fully MLB'd yet. I think it's been limit broken once or twice so far.

This set of single draws also gave me 2 more dupes of Jiāngshī Attack.

Single draws: got 1 dupe of Hello, Arctic! and 2 dupes of Budding Angler. Other than those, just got the usual 3-star trash from this set of singles.

Multi-draw: got 2 dupes of Hello, Arctic!, 1 dupe of Budding Angler, 1 dupe of Cruising Date, and 1 dupe of Jiāngshī Attack.

Single draws: got another gold Caster card, which soon turned into my fourth copy of Wu Zetian. Ugh. Why couldn't this have been Ruler Skadi instead? Sigh.

Anyway, another single draw gave me a gold Rider card.

This soon turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Rider Astolfo.

Argh! This is so frustrating. At the very least, wish I could have gotten someone new instead of yet another dupe.

Don't even use Astolfo anymore (actually can't remember the last time I used him; it felt like forever ago) since I have other Riders and I don't have 5-star SSR Caster Scáthach-Skaði to support him.

Astolfo is a Quick-based char. Caster Skadi is the premier support for Quick-based Servants. Ruler Skadi also supports Quick-based Servants. IIRC, she's said to be on par or even better than Caster Skadi as a Quick support.

One of the reasons why I want to get Ruler Skadi is because I don't have her Caster counterpart, but I have some Quick-based Servants. I barely or hardly ever get to use these Servants due to not having my own Skadi. So would love to be able to use these Servants more often.

Anyway, aside from the Astolfo and Wu dupes, also got 1 dupe of Hello, Arctic! and 1 dupe of Jiāngshī Attack from this set of singles.

Single draws: a gold Lancer card showed up.

This soon turned into a dupe of 5-star SSR Lancer Enkidu.

Argh! Why'd this have to happen? Damn it. After all this time - to finally get a SSR from this banner - why couldn't this have been Skadi instead? Ugh.

Like, I like Enkidu. My first copy of him is fully leveled to 90 with all of his skills maxed, but argh! Why'd you have to show up on this banner when you're not even on rate-up? Ruler Skadi, doko da? Sigh. This is so frustrating and depressing.

Anyway, this set of singles also gave me dupes of Hello, Arctic! and Budding Angler.

Single draws: one of my single draws gave me a gold Pretender card.

But I didn't know that at first. Initially, when I saw the gold card, I was like, wait, isn't this a Ruler card? But before I could get too excited at finally - hopefully - getting Skadi, I realized that this was sadly not the Ruler card.

Sure enough, the gold card soon revealed itself to be my first copy of 4-star SR Pretender Hephaestion or Hephaistion.

Well, at least she's new but still. Ahh, I wish that Pretender card had been a Ruler card instead. I wish I could have gotten Skadi already.

Anyway, here are some pics of Hephaistion's summon lines:

Anyway, aside from the usual 3-star trash, this set of singles also gave me yet another dupe of Cruising Date and Budding Angler.

Inventory Management

Can't remember exactly when anymore, but sometime after doing one of the above pulls, took a short break to manage my inventory.

Sold all the 3-star Servants I got then started fusing some of the Craft Essences that I got.

Got so many copies of Cruising Date, Jiāngshī Attack, Hello, Arctic!, and Budding Angler, but only got like 2 copies of Twin Tails and 1 copy of Infinity Blue.

For now, I put Astolfo and any other 4-star SR dupes I still had in my inventory in my Second Archive. If I'm not currently using my first copies of these Servants anyway, then I don't want to bother upgrading their NPs or Noble Phantasm levels for now.

So I just dumped these dupes in my Second Archive to avoid selling them. If I end up needing them or something, then I can just get them from my Second Archive. Otherwise they can remain there so I don't have to see them and be reminded how they spooked me.

Took the time to level up Caster Wu Zetian and Pretender Hephaistion too even if I currently don't have any plans of using them.

Didn't bother leveling up their skills but I got them to their Final Ascension since doing so gives some SQ (IIRC, it's 3), and right now, really need all the Saint Quartz I can get.

Left the Wu dupes in my inventory for now since I wasn't sure yet if I should get my 1st copy to NP4 or not. Haven't bothered to look up anything about Caster Wu since wasn't interested in her.

So don't know if she's even any good. Guess I should take the time to find out more about her kit now that I have her.

Haven't fused the Enkidu dupe to my first copy yet although I do plan on getting them to NP2. Just don't feel like doing so right now.

Still really upset about him showing up instead of Skadi. At least the dupe is automatically locked so don't have to worry about accidentally selling him.

And that’s it. For this post, at least. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

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freyayuki · 11 days ago

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Fate/Grand Order Arctic Summer World Ruler Scáthach-Skadi Pickup Summon Banner Part 1

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Ruler Scáthach-Skaði (#ad) or Scathach-Skadi

★4-star SR Caster Wu Zetian

★5-star SSR CE Infinity Blue

★5-star SSR CE Twin Tails

★4-star SR CE Budding Angler

★4-star SR CE Cruising Date

★3-star R CE Hello, Arctic!

★3-star R CE Jiāngshī Attack

This banner goes from 2024-07-24 21:00 - 08-07 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

Fate/Grand Order Guaranteed Summon Function

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Thankfully, I was able to get Arc. But unfortunately, she cost way too much, and couldn’t even get her to NP5 or Noble Phantasm level 5.

At least I still have some pulling resources left. Also still have some content I haven’t done that could give some more SQ and/or Summon Tickets.

But sadly, I doubt I even have enough to be able to pity even one SSR so I can only hope for a bit of luck and/or a miracle because there are a few more upcoming Servants who I’m hoping to get.

I talk more about this in another post, but it doesn't help that I actually ended up doing 2 sets of 10+1 draws on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner. This banner features 5-star SSR Alter Ego Ashiya Douman.

Unfortunately, failed to get even a single copy of Douman. Now I can only hope that I'll be able to get Ruler Skadi with my remaining pulling resources.

Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results

Currently have 279 SQ and 1 Summon Ticket on-hand. Here are the results of my pulls on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Multi-draw: my first multi gave me my first copies of the Budding Angler and Cruising Date 4-star Craft Essences.

Also got dupes of the Hello, Arctic! and Jiāngshī Attack 3-star Craft Essences as well as a dupe of a 4-star Craft Essence that isn't on rate-up.

Multi-draw: got a dupe of Cruising Date and another 4-star Craft Essence that isn't on rate-up.

Multi-draw: got 2 dupes of Budding Angler, 2 dupes of Cruising Date, and 1 dupe of Hello, Arctic!.

Single draws: one of my single draws gave me my first copy of the Twin Tails 5-star Craft Essence.

Also got yet another dupe of Hello, Arctic!. Other than those, this set of singles just gave me the usual 3-star trash.

Multi-draw: got more dupes of Hello, Arctic!, Budding Angler, and Cruising Date.

Single draws: got 2 dupes of Cruising Date, 1 dupe of Jiāngshī Attack, and 1 dupe of Twin Tails.

Single draws: got a gold Caster card from one of my single draws.

This soon turned into my first copy of 4-star SR Caster Wu Zetian.

Here are some of Caster Wu Zetian's summon lines:

One of my other single draws gave me yet another Budding Angler dupe.

Other than that and Caster Wu, the rest of my pulls from this set of singles were all the usual 3-star trash.

Multi-draw: a silver Caster card showed up.

It then started turning gold.

Soon, it turned into my second copy of Caster Wu Zetian.

Aside from the Wu dupe, this multi also gave me 1 dupe of Cruising Date and 2 dupes of Hello, Arctic! plus the usual 3-star trash.

Multi-draw: got yet another dupe of Cruising Date.

Also got a dupe of this 4-star Craft Essence called The Illusory Confessional. Haven't fully MLB'd this CE yet. IIRC, currently have like 2 or 3 copies of this CE.

Single draws: got 2 dupes of Budding Angler, 1 dupe of Jiāngshī Attack, 1 dupe of Hello, Arctic!, and 1 dupe of a 4-star CE that isn't on rate-up.

Multi-draw: got 1 dupe of Jiāngshī Attack and 1 dupe of Hello, Arctic as well as 1 dupe of this 4-star Craft Essence called Trigger Off.

Haven't fully MLB'd my first copy of Trigger Off yet.

Single draws: the only notable things I got from this set of singles was 1 dupe of Hello, Arctic! and one dupe of Budding Angler.

And that’s it. For this post, at least. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

#fate/grand order #fgo #fate grand order #scathach-skadi #fgo skadi #fgo wu zetian #ruler skadi #scáthach-skaði #wu zetian #caster wu zetian #skadi #fgo ruler skadi #fate go #grand order #games #gacha games #mobile games

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Fate/Grand Order Arctic Summer World Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Part 2

The Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game. The Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner came alongside this event.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Alter Ego Ashiya Douman (#ad)

★4-star SR Assassin Yan Qing or Assassin of Shinjuku

★3-star R Caster Asclepius

★5-star SSR CE Infinity Blue

★4-star SR CE Budding Angler

★3-star R CE Hello, Arctic!

This banner goes from 2024-07-18 01:30 - 08-07 20:59 PDT (GMT-7).

This post is a continuation of another post. Had to split the posts apart since the first was getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Fate/Grand Order Guaranteed Summon Function

Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in another post are the following:

first copy of Hello, Arctic! 3-star CE

first copy of 4-star SR Saber Diarmuid Ua Duibhne

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Yan Qing or the Assassin of Shinjuku

1 dupe of 4-star SR Saber Rama

first 2 copies of 3-star R Caster Asclepius

first copy of Infinity Blue 5-star CE

2 dupes of 4-star Budding Angler CE

2 more dupes of Hello, Arctic! CE

So far, I've done 3 sets of 10+1 draws on the Douman banner.

Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

I talk more about this in other posts, but I'm basically all out of pulling resources now. Ended up spending a lot of my SQ and tickets pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. This banner features 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud or Arc.

Thankfully, I was able to get Arc. But unfortunately, she cost way too much, and couldn’t even get her to NP5 or Noble Phantasm level 5.

After doing 2 sets of 10+1 draws on the Ashiya Douman banner, spent the rest of the resources I had left on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner. Even tried to farm for more SQ and tickets so I could pull some more when I ran out of resources.

Sadly, all that still wasn't enough to bring home Ruler Skadi. And unfortunately, don't have enough resources to guarantee her, not even if I hadn't pulled on the Douman banner.

Still feeling really upset and frustrated about this. Was getting burnt out from all the grinding, and was just getting more and more sad and mad, and it feels hopeless anyway so I've basically given up on ever being able to get Skadi and even Douman right now.

But, thanks to the weekly Master Missions, clearing a few more Interludes, the login rewards (for not missing a day or breaking my login streak), not to mention the 2600 Days Anniversary Celebration Campaign, was able to scrounge up some more SQ and tickets, enough to do at least another 10+1 draw.

Could have used this to pull one last time on the Arctic Summer World! Scáthach-Skadi (Ruler) Pickup Summon banner, but at this point, I've already pulled so many times on said banner that I don't really feel like doing so again. I mean of course I want at least one copy of Skadi, which was why I pulled on that banner in the first place.

But considering how many resources I've already thrown on that banner, it feels hopeless, like I'm just throwing away my SQ and tickets for nothing. It's really frustrating and depressing that Skadi refuses to show up.

The Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event is ending really soon, as in there's less than 24 hours left before the entire event and the banners that came with it disappears. So this is the last 10+1 I'll be able to do.

I'm still pretty far away from being able to pity Ruler Skadi so even if I pull one more time on her banner, there's still no guarantee that I'll be able to get her. Of course, the same could be said for the Ashiya Douman banner. Still, I guess I want to try anyway. One last time.

Probably about to get horribly disappointed again, but here's hoping for the best, I guess. I mean, what else is there to do? Sigh. Ahh, if only the rates were better in this game. Heck, at the very least, I wish that the pity would carry over between banners.

Wanted to do a multi-draw but only got 29 Saint Quartz, and there's sadly no way to get 1 more SQ before the Douman banner ends. But I do have 1 Summon Ticket so single draws it is.

Said Summon Ticket gave me my third copy of Asclepius.

My 2nd single gave me a dupe of a 3-star Servant. The 3rd gave me my fourth copy of Asclepius.

The 4th single gave me another dupe of a 3-star Servant while the 5th was a dupe of a 3-star CE.

The 6th single gave me a dupe of this 4-star Craft Essence called Cleaner.

The 7th single gave me my fifth copy of Asclepius. He's now NP5.

The 8th gave me yet another dupe of Hello, Arctic! Already got lots of this from pulling on the Skadi banner.

The 9th to 11th singles gave me more dupes of 3-star Servants.

Well, that was completely and utterly disappointing. Didn't even get a single 4-star SR Servant. If I'd pulled on the Ruler Skadi banner instead, would I have gotten better results?

Who knows? It's too late to change my mind though. What's done is done. Still, I hate this. Why am I so unlucky with these banners? Sigh.

3-star R Caster Asclepius

In another post, I mentioned leveling up Asclepius and getting him to NP2.

Now that I got 3 more dupes of him, fused those dupes with my first copy to get him to NP5.

Conclusion

So, what about you? Did you pull on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner? What do you think about Ashiya Douman? Were you able to get him? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

#fate/grand order #fate grand order #fgo #ashiya douman #fgo asclepius #asclepius #fgo ashiya douman #games #gacha games #mobile games #fate go #grand order

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freyayuki · 21 days ago

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Fate/Grand Order Arctic Summer World Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Part 1

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Alter Ego Ashiya Douman (#ad)

★4-star SR Assassin Yan Qing or Assassin of Shinjuku

★3-star R Caster Asclepius

★5-star SSR CE Infinity Blue

★4-star SR CE Budding Angler

★3-star R CE Hello, Arctic!

This banner goes from 2024-07-18 01:30 - 08-07 20:59 PDT (GMT-7).

Fate/Grand Order Guaranteed Summon Function

Fate/Grand Order now has a “pity system” but it costs 900 Saint Quartz or SQ for 1 rate-up SSR. If you happen to get the rate-up SSR before spending 900 SQ, you’re not guaranteed to get another copy even if you keep pulling until you spend 900 SQ. And the pity doesn't carry over between banners. In short, this so-called pity system sucks.

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Thankfully, I was able to get Arc. But unfortunately, she cost way too much, and couldn't even get her to NP5 or Noble Phantasm level 5.

At least I still have some pulling resources left. Also still have some content I haven't done that could give some more SQ and/or Summon Tickets.

But sadly, I doubt I even have enough to be able to pity even one SSR so I can only hope for a bit of luck and/or a miracle because there are a few more upcoming Servants who I'm hoping to get.

5-star SSR Alter Ego Ashiya Douman

Actually, absolutely didn't have any plans to pull for Ashiya Douman. After Archetype: EARTH, the next Servants I wanted to pull for were 4-star SR Archer Anastasia & Viy and 5-star SSR Ruler Scáthach-Skaði or Scathach-Skadi.

The banners for these 2 were set to show up sometime during the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event so it was just a matter of being patient and waiting and then hoping that I'll be able to get at least one copy of Skadi and Anastasia.

So Douman wasn't in the picture at all since after Anastasia and Skadi, the next Servants I wanted to pull for were 5-star SSR Avenger Space Ishtar (or Ishtar Ashtart or Ashtart or SpIshtar), 5-star SSR Archer Takasugi Shinsaku, 5-star SSR Lancer Mélusine (or Melusine or Tam Lin Lancelot), etc.

But then I started playing through the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event. Been enjoying the story so far. Some scenes even had me laughing. Well, long story short, playing through these scenes also had me feeling like pulling for Ashiya Douman.

Didn't really like him due to story reasons, but I guess I wouldn't say that I absolutely hated him or something. I guess it was more that I just didn't really care about him, or that I didn't really bother to think much about him at all.

I wouldn't say that the Arctic Summer World! Chaldea’s Magical Summer Theme Park event turned him into a fave or something, but now I guess it's more that I don't mind pulling for him, and that I don't really dislike him all that much anymore.

Plus, he is pretty good gameplay-wise. IIRC, he even has a skill that can charge his NP gauge by 80%.

Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

Anyway, so after thinking about it, decided to pull on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon. But my plan was to only do 1 set of single draws. After that, was going right back to saving and waiting for Anastasia and Skadi.

Currently have 292 SQ and 10 Summon Tickets on-hand. Here are the results of my pulls on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Right after tapping on the 1x Summon button, a textbox suddenly showed up.

It had the following text:

About Saint Graph Seals The Saint Graphs for "Ashiya Douman" at Stage 3 and further Ascension are sealed. Enhance the Servant to Spirit Origin Ascension Stage 3 and clear the "Saint Graph Unlocking Quest" available within Interludes to unlock them.

After tapping the Close button on that textbox, was finally able to pull on this banner.

Aside from the usual 3-star trash, one of my single draws gave me my first copy of the Hello, Arctic! 3-star Craft Essence.

Then, to my surprise, a gold Saber card actually showed up.

Soon, this turned into my first copy of 4-star SR Saber Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

Well, at least he's new but I still wish this had been Ashiya Douman instead. Sigh.

Anyway, here are some of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne's summon lines:

Soon after that, a gold Assassin card showed up.

Sadly, this turned into a dupe of Yan Qing.

I know he's on rate-up, but still. I wish I could have at least gotten someone new, especially since I don't use Yan Qing. Unfortunately, he's not that good gameplay-wise.

Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

After that first set of single draws, was able to walk away from the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner. But unfortunately, a few days or so later, I found myself thinking about the aforementioned banner again.

Was still waiting for Ruler Skadi's banner to show up. Honestly, it couldn't come fast enough. It's supposed to be here in a few days, but it feels like it's taking forever for it to show up.

I guess I still felt like pulling on the Douman banner. And I thought the results of my first set of singles was actually not that bad since I did get 2 4-star Servants, and one of them was even new. So I guess I was hoping that my second set of single draws would give me Ashiya Douman this time.

Unfortunately, wasn't able to talk myself out of pulling so ended up throwing 30 SQ on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner. If I actually managed to get Douman or even just a SSR Servant, that wouldn't have been so bad nor would it have felt like such a waste but sadly, it wasn't meant to be.

At first, I thought things were actually going pretty well though since a gold Saber card showed up.

Unfortunately, that soon turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Saber Rama.

Rama's another Servant who I don't use since he's not that good, and I already have other fully built and maxed out Sabers.

Then a silver Caster card showed up.

It didn't turn gold, but it did turn into my first copy of 3-star R Caster Asclepius.

Here are some of Asclepius's summon lines:

Also got my first copy of the 5-star SSR CE called Infinity Blue.

And that's it. Other than the Servants and CEs mentioned above, just got the usual silver trash from the rest of this set of single draws.

Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 3

Good news: managed to stop myself from pulling some more on the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner.

Bad news: the Ruler Skadi banner is finally here, but she refuses to come home, and I'm now all out of SQ on-hand. I talk more about that in another post.

After managing to scrounge up some more SQ, continued pulling on the Skadi banner. Soon, was down to 39 SQ and 1 Summon Ticket. So I started doing single draws.

By now, been feeling so frustrated and annoyed. It feels like I’m never gonna get Skadi. Was just so, so - argh! Was so mad that I found myself going to the Arctic Summer World! Ashiya Douman Pickup Summon banner.

Ended up doing a multi-draw on said banner. Regret that now since didn’t get Douman at all. Didn’t even get a 4-star Servant. Just got 2 more dupes of Budding Angler and Hello, Arctic! as well as my second copy of Asclepius.

Now I'm once again all out of SQ. Maybe I shouldn't have pulled on the Ashiya Douman banner.

Ahh, if only pity carries over between banners. And/or if only the pity cost wasn't so high. Sigh.

3-star R Caster Asclepius

Leveled up Asclepius to the max although haven't bothered to level up his skills yet.

Fused the dupe I got to my first Asclepius to get him to NP2 or Noble Phantasm level 2.

And that’s it. For this post, at least. There’s a bit more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

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freyayuki · 26 days ago

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Fate/Grand Order 5-Star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH Road To Level 120 Part 2

The 7th Anniversary just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game. As part of the celebration, the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started as well.

One of the featured Servants on this banner is ★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc.

I talk more about this in other posts, but I pulled on the aforementioned banner and was thankfully eventually able to get Arc.

Managed to get 3 copies of her so was able to increase her NP or Noble Phantasm level to 3.

Sadly, wasn’t able to get her to NP5. Maybe someday. Assuming she ever gets a rerun anyway.

AFAIK, she’s never gotten one, not even in the Japanese version of Fate/Grand Order which is like 2 years ahead of the English or Global version.

Archetype: EARTH Level, Skills, and Silver Fous

I talk more about this in another post, but I leveled up Arc to 90. Also gave her silver Fous to add +1k to both her ATK and HP stats.

Don’t have any more gold Fous though so I can’t increase her stats some more. I do want to add +2k to both her ATK and HP stats so once I have more gold Fous, plan to give them to her.

Also leveled all 3 of Arc’s skills to the max of 10. Her skills are named Rainbow Mystic Eyes A, Breath of the Planet C, and Funny Vamp EX.

After thinking about it, also eventually decided to Grail her to 100.

Archetype: EARTH Road to Level 120

I talk more about this in another post, but ended up deciding to Grail Archetype: EARTH to the max of level 120.

To further increase Arc’s level by 2 beyond 100, I need 1 Holy Grail and 30 of her Servant Coins as well as lots of QP. So every 2 levels, need to spend 1 Holy Grail + 30 Arc Servant Coins + QP.

Thankfully, I have more than enough Holy Grails and QP for this. Have a stock of exp cards or embers, but it’s definitely not enough to level up Archetype: EARTH to 120 so gonna need to farm for more. A whole lot more.

Thankfully, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, the exp quests all cost half AP (20 instead of the usual 40 for the hardest quest), and the chance to get “Super Success (double EXP acquired) and Great Success (triple EXP acquired) when performing Servant and Craft Essence enhancement will be tripled”.

So just kept on farming the ember quests every time I ran out of exp cards for Arc.

I talk more about this elsewhere, but farmed so much that I managed to increase the bond levels of some Servants, including getting Archetype: EARTH to Bond level 6. This gave me more of her Servant Coins.

Anyway, I talk more about this in another post, but so far, managed to get Arc to level 116.

Here are the rest of the screenshots I took while Grailing and leveling up Archetype: EARTH:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 116 to 118:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 117 to 118:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 118 to 120:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 119 to 120:

Right after the above screenshot of Arc reaching level 120 showed up, there was this light and then I got the Saint Graph Evolved pic with the words "Lv. 120 Reached" as can be seen below.

First Level 120 Servant

Archetype: EARTH is actually the first Servant who I managed to level up to 120.

But she's not the first Servant who I tried to level up to 120. The first Servant who I tried to level up to 120 was 5-star SSR Avenger Space Ishtar or Ashtart or Ishtar Ashtart or SpIshtar.

Managed to get her to level 112 before running out of her Servant Coins. Will get back to leveling her up once I get more of her Coins.

The second Servant who I tried to level up to 120 was 5-star SSR Archer Gilgamesh or Gil.

Managed to get him to level 118 before running out of his Servant Coins. In Gilgamesh's case, was really close to getting him to 120 already.

As can be seen in the screenshot above, need 30 of his Servant Coins to further increase his level cap, but currently only have 20 so had no choice but to wait until I can get more.

Ahh, really wish the game added more ways to get Servant Coins other than by pulling dupes and increasing bond levels.

Anyway, Arc was the third Servant who I tried to get to level 120. So far, there's no fourth Servant yet.

Archetype: EARTH Append Skills

Wanted to unlock and max out at least one of Archetype: EARTH's Append Skills. But sadly, can't do that right now.

Because I'm all out of Arc Servant Coins. Yeah, that's right. Unfortunately, to unlock Append Skills, you need Servant Coins. Each Append Skill requires 120 Servant Coins to unlock.

Currently have 0 Arc Coins since I used all of her Coins to level her to 120.

In contrast to that, ended up using Servant Coins to unlock Gilgamesh's and Space Ishtar's Append Skills, which is part of the reason why I didn't have enough of their Coins to further increase their level caps.

For Space Ishtar, unlocked her Load Magical Energy and Anti-Archer (ATK Up) Append Skills.

For Gilgamesh, unlocked his Load Magical Energy and Extra Attack Boost Append Skills.

This happened back when I didn't really have any plans, or I wasn't sure yet if I wanted to level them to 120. But since I had lots of their Servant Coins, I thought I might as well use those to unlock their Append Skills.

If I'd stuck to just unlocking their Load Magical Energy Append Skill, would have had some more Coins to be able to level them up some more.

But, ah well. What's done is done. Don't really regret it. Just wish I had more of their Coins now so I can level them up some more. Did I mention that I wish FGO would improve the Servant Coins feature some more?

Conclusion

So, what about you? Did you pull on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner? What do you think about Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud? Did you decide to Grail her? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

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Fate/Grand Order 5-Star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH Road To Level 120 Part 1

The 7th Anniversary just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game. As part of the celebration, the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started as well.

One of the featured Servants on this banner is ★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc.

I talk more about this in other posts, but I pulled on the aforementioned banner and was thankfully eventually able to get Arc.

Managed to get 3 copies of her so was able to increase her NP or Noble Phantasm level to 3.

Sadly, wasn’t able to get her to NP5. Maybe someday. Assuming she ever gets a rerun anyway.

AFAIK, she’s never gotten one, not even in the Japanese version of Fate/Grand Order which is like 2 years ahead of the English or Global version.

Archetype: EARTH Level, Skills, and Silver Fous

I talk more about this in another post, but I leveled up Arc to 90 then Grailed her to 100.

Also gave her silver Fous to add +1k to both her ATK and HP stats.

Don’t have any more gold Fous though so I can’t increase her stats some more. I do want to add +2k to both her ATK and HP stats so once I have more gold Fous, plan to give them to her.

Also leveled all 3 of Arc’s skills to the max of 10. Her skills are named Rainbow Mystic Eyes A, Breath of the Planet C, and Funny Vamp EX.

Archetype: EARTH Road to Level 120

I talk more about this in another post, but ended up deciding to Grail Archetype: EARTH to the max of level 120.

To further increase Arc’s level by 2 beyond 100, I need 1 Holy Grail and 30 of her Servant Coins as well as lots of QP. So every 2 levels, need to spend 1 Holy Grail + 30 Arc Servant Coins + QP.

So just kept on farming the ember quests every time I ran out of exp cards for Arc.

Anyway, I talk more about this in another post, but so far, managed to get Arc to level 106.

Here are the rest of the screenshots I took while Grailing and leveling up Archetype: EARTH:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 106 to 108:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 107 to 108:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 108 to 110:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 109 to 110:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 110 to 112:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 111 to 112:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 112 to 114:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 113 to 114:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 114 to 116:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 115 to 116:

And that’s it for now. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

#fate/grand order #fgo #fate grand order #archetype: earth #arcueid brunestud #fgo arc #games #gacha games #mobile games #fate go #grand order

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freyayuki · 1 month ago

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Fate/Grand Order 5-Star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH

The 7th Anniversary just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game. As part of the celebration, the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started as well.

One of the featured Servants on this banner is ★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc.

I talk more about this in other posts, but I pulled on the aforementioned banner and was thankfully eventually able to get Arc. Managed to get 3 copies of her so was able to increase her NP or Noble Phantasm level to 3.

Sadly, wasn't able to get her to NP5. Maybe someday. Assuming she ever gets a rerun anyway.

AFAIK, she's never gotten one, not even in the Japanese version of Fate/Grand Order which is like 2 years ahead of the English or Global version.

Archetype: EARTH Level, Skills, and Silver Fous

I talk more about this in another post, but I leveled up Arc to 90. Also gave her silver Fous to add +1k to both her ATK and HP stats.

Don't have any more gold Fous though so I can't increase her stats some more. I do want to add +2k to both her ATK and HP stats so once I have more gold Fous, plan to give them to her.

Also leveled all 3 of Arc's skills to the max of 10. Her skills are named Rainbow Mystic Eyes A, Breath of the Planet C, and Funny Vamp EX.

Archetype: EARTH in Battle

I talk more about this in another post, but after leveling up Arc and her skills, tried her out in battle. She's pretty good.

But, sadly, as others have pointed out, her damage seems to be on the low side. Her being Moon Cancer doesn’t help at all.

Ah, well. I still like her anyway. Which was why I tried to roll for more copies of her to help further improve her damage. Unfortunately, only managed to get her to NP3. Well, that did help, but still. Would have loved to have been able to NP5 her. Sigh.

Anyway, Archetype: EARTH's Breath of the Planet C actually gives her 100% NP charge, which is great. And she can loop with only 2 5-star SSR Assassin Koyanskaya of Light and the Atlas Institute Uniform Mystic Code.

Thankfully, I have a level 100 5-star SSR Craft Essence called The Black Grail so that should help boost her damage. Also have other supports like 5-star SSR Pretender Oberon that I can use with her.

I like Arc’s Millenium Castle field animation and the music that goes with it. The effect is pretty good too. But I wish that the animation and music for this would persist between waves.

I know the effect itself will be active for 3 turns even if the wave changes. But it’s too bad that the changes in the field and even the music don’t stay when you go to the next wave.

I like all of Archetype: EARTH’s Ascensions although her second one is the one I like the least. Couldn’t decide which Ascension to go for so just set it to random.

Holy Grails for Archetype: EARTH

After thinking about it for a while, decided to Grail Archetype: EARTH to level 100.

I do currently have lots of Holy Grails on-hand so have more than enough to spare for her.

Here are some more screenshots I took while Grailing Arc:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 92 to 94:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 94 to 96:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 96 to 98:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 98 to 100:

Archetype: EARTH Road to Level 120

After thinking about it some more, decided that I would try to get Archetype: EARTH to the max of level 120.

This will require lots of resources like multiple Holy Grails and Servant Coins to further increase her level cap as well as hundreds of exp and QP to level her up. So it's a pretty big investment or commitment.

If I'd been able to get Arc to NP5, probably wouldn't have hesitated to get her to level 120. But since I sadly only have her at NP3, wasn't sure if I should bother to get her to level 120. Maybe it was better to just leave her at level 100.

But then again, I did end up spending lots of Saint Quartz or SQ and Summon Tickets just to get 3 copies of her, and I do like her and want to be able to use her as much as possible.

Anyway, to further increase Arc's level by 2 beyond 100, I need 1 Holy Grail and 30 of her Servant Coins as well as lots of QP. So every 2 levels, need to spend 1 Holy Grail + 30 Arc Servant Coins + QP.

Thankfully, I have more than enough Holy Grails and QP for this. Currently, have 295 of Arc's Servant Coins. She's currently at Bond level 5. Every time a Servant's Bond level goes up, you get some of their Coins. The amount you get varies depending on the level.

Have a stock of exp cards or embers, but it's definitely not enough to level up Archetype: EARTH to 120 so gonna need to farm for more. A whole lot more.

Thankfully, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, the exp quests all cost half AP (20 instead of the usual 40 for the highest difficulty), and the chance to get "Super Success (double EXP acquired) and Great Success (triple EXP acquired) when performing Servant and Craft Essence enhancement will be tripled".

So I Grailed Arc past level 100 then just kept on Grailing her and leveling her up until I ran out of exp cards.

After running out of exp cards, went to farm the ember quests. Picked the one that has the highest difficulty (called Extreme). This one has 3 waves. Wave 1 has 3 enemies, wave 2 has 3 enemies, and wave 3 has 1 enemy.

Initially, my team for this was Arc equipped with my level 100 Great Detective Foumes Craft Essence. This CE gives +2k ATK. It increases the amount of QP you get from drops and the bond gained when completing quests by 5%.

Equipped the Atlas Institute Uniform Mystic Code, brought my own Koyanskaya of Light and borrowed a friend support Koyanskaya of Light.

The backline is made up of Servants whose Bond levels I'm trying to increase so also made sure that everyone was equipped with bond up CEs for even more bond.

Anyway, here's how the fight goes:

Wave 1: use Arc's skills 1 and 2. Use skill 3 of both Koyanskayas. Fire Arc's NP.

Wave 2: use skill 1 of both Koyanskayas. Fire Arc's NP.

Wave 3: use Mystic Code's cooldown reduction skill. Use Arc's skills 1 and 2. Fire Arc's NP.

Before, I also used to use the skill 2 of both Koyanskayas for the stars, but I've since found that wasn't really necessary so I don't bother anymore.

This setup works really well, but I soon started thinking about changing it up a bit. Still want to use Arc, of course, but I also wanted to slot in 5-star SSR Archer Gilgamesh since I need to increase his Bond level to get more of his Servant Coins.

That's because Gilgamesh is another Servant who I'm trying to get to level 120. Also, would prefer to use a different Mystic Code since I've already maxed out the Atlas Institute Uniform.

So now my new team for this fight was Arc, Gilgamesh, and friend support 5-star SSR Caster Altria or Artoria or Castoria with the Souya High School Uniform Mystic Code. This Mystic Code came as part of the 7th Anniversary celebration so haven't maxed it out yet.

Arc is still equipped with the Foumes CE while Gilgamesh is equipped with my level 20 Kaleidoscope Craft Essence. This lets him start the battle with his NP gauge already charged to 80%. Combined with his maxed out Mana Loading Append Skill, which gives him 20% NP gauge, Gil gets to start the fight with his Noble Phantasm fully charged and ready to be fired.

Anyway, now the fight goes like this:

Wave 1: use Arc's skills 1 and 2. Use Gilgamesh's skill 1. Fire Arc's NP.

Wave 2: Fire Gilgamesh's NP.

Wave 3: Use Arc's skill 3. Use Castoria's skill 1. Use her skill 2 and target Gilgamesh. Use Gilgamesh's skill 3. Fire Gilgamesh's NP.

So I just kept farming over and over again as much as I possibly could. I talk more about this elsewhere but managed to increase the Bond levels of some Servants including getting Archetype: Earth from Bond level 5 to 6.

Anyway, here are screenshots of Grailing Arc and leveling her up:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 100 to 102:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 101 to 102:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 102 to 104:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 103 to 104:

Increased level cap of Archetype: EARTH from 104 to 106:

Leveled up Archetype: EARTH from 105 to 106:

And that’s it for now. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

#fate/grand order #fgo fate grand order #archetype: earth #arcueid brunestud #fgo arc #games #gacha games #mobile games #fate go #grand order

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freyayuki · 1 month ago

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Fate/Grand Order 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Part 6

The 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc

★3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

★5-star SSR CE A’

★4-star SR CE Inspire

★3-star R CE Retravel

The following CEs will also be summonable, but they won’t be on rate-up:

★5-star SSR CE King of the Seraph

★4-star SR CE Hunter’s Dream

This banner goes from 2024-07-06 12:00 - 07-16 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

This post is a continuation of other posts. Had to split the posts apart since the first 5 were getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in other posts are the following:

multiple copies of the 3-star Retravel CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Inspire CE

multiple copies of the 5-star A’ CE

multiple copies of 3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

2 dupes of 4-star SR CE Winter Crystal; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Witchcraft; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 4-star SR Lancer Medusa

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Emiya

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Devilish Bodhisattva; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Guardians of the Garden

1 dupe of 4-star SR Rider Anne Bonny & Mary Read

first copy of 4-star SR Saber Roland

first few copies of 3-star R Caster Zhang Jue

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Transmutation Magecraft

first copy of 4-star SR Rider Dobrynya Nikitich

first copy of 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH

first copy of 4-star SR CE The Illusory Confessional

1 dupe of 4-star SR Berserker Ibaraki-Douji

second copy of 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH

first 2 copies of 4-star SR Archer Zenobia

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Wu Zetian or Assassin of the Nightless City

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Kaleidoscope

2 dupes of 4-star SR CE The Illusory Confessional

dupes of 4-star SR CE Innocent Maiden

dupes of 4-star SR CE Gem Magecraft: Antumbra

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Hunter's Dream

first copy of 4-star SR Saber Prince of Lan Ling

dupes of 4-star SR CE Golden Millenium Tree

dupes of 4-star SR CE Awakened Will

dupes of 4-star SR CE Gentle Affection

dupes of 4-star SR CE Gemstone Shots

dupes of 4-star SR CE Record Holder

dupes of 4-star SR CE Imaginary Number Attribute

first copy of 4-star SR CE Trigger Off

1 more dupe of 4-star SR Rider Anne Bonny & Mary Read

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Heaven's Feel

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Used the Saint Quartz or SQ and Summon Tickets I had on-hand to pull on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Once I ran out, went to get more SQ and tickets from my present box and other such sources.

Still have some content that I haven’t cleared yet so should be able to get some more pulling resources from those.

Plus, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, we got more Saint Quartz and tickets from ongoing campaigns and gifts and such.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

Really glad that I finally have Arc. Should be done with this banner now but - I heard that sadly, Archetype: EARTH’s damage isn’t that good at low NP or Noble Phantasm levels.

And so, since I still have some resources left, decided to try rolling for more copies of her. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get more dupes of her soon because I’d really rather not throw all my SQ and tickets on this banner.

Aside from Arc, there are other upcoming Servants that I want to get so hopefully, I’ll still have some pulling resources left for them.

Anyway, so I continued pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Here are the results of the rest of those pulls. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Multi-draw: a gold Archer card showed up.

This then turned into my first copy of 4-star SR Archer Chiron.

Here are some of Chiron's summon lines:

Aside from Chiron, this multi also gave me 2 dupes of Retravel and 1 dupe of Inspire.

Multi-draw: got a dupe of Retravel as well as a dupe of 4-star SR CE Golden Millenium Tree and a dupe of 4-star SR CE Rhythmed Birth.

Single draws: the only notable things I got from this set of draws were dpes of A', Retravel, and Inspire.

Multi-draw: got 3 dupes of Retravel and 1 dupe of Inspire as well as another dupe of Xu Fu.

Multi-draw: a gold Rider card showed up.

Sadly, this soon turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Rider Dobrynya Nikitich.

Aside from that, the only notable things I got from this multi were dupes of Inspire and Xu Fu.

Single draws: got 2 dupes of 3-star R Caster Zhang Jue.

IIRC, already got 4 copies of him so far so just needed 1 more to be able to get him to NP5.

Also got more dupes of Xu Fu as well as dupes of 4-star SR CE Trigger off and 4-star SR CE Transmutation Magecraft.

Multi-draw: finally, after what felt like forever, a gold Moon Cancer card showed up.

Thankfully, this gold Moon Cancer card was suddenly surrounded by a swirl of beautiful colors.

When the light cleared, the Moon Cancer card art was now different.

Which meant, hello, my third copy of Arc. Hell, yes! And finally! Was really pleased to see this.

Here’s a vid showing Arc’s summon animation and lines. It’s too bad I can only see this in-game once. Wish Servants would say their lines every time you summon them even if it’s not your first copy.

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Anyway, aside from my third copy of Archetype: EARTH, this multi also gave me dupes of Zhang Jue, Inspire, and A'.

Would love to get more copies of Archetype: EARTH but - I think it's time to stop pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner.

Still have some pulling resources left, but, as aforementioned, there are other Servants who are coming soon and who I also want to pull for.

Besides, considering how much I'd already spent just to get 3 copies of Arc, and considering how crappy the rates are in this game, not to mention the fact that there's no way to guarantee her anymore since I already got her (yeah, FGO's so-called pity system sucks too), I could end up spending the rest of my resources with nothing to show for it.

So I think it's better to stop now. At least I get to end on a somewhat high note with my third copy of Arc. It's only somewhat since I ended up spending way too much just to get 3 copies of her. Ahh, it's really too bad I wasn't able to NP5 her. Sigh.

3-star R Caster Zhang Jue

Got multiple copies of Zhang Jue so was able to NP5 my first copy and still have like 1 or 2 extras.

4-star SR Craft Essence Inspire

This CE's on rate-up so it's not really surprising, but ended up with way too many copies of Inspire. Too bad it's not that good even when fully MLB'd.

Its effect when fully MLB'd is:

Increase Arts Card effectiveness by 10% & Buster Card effectiveness by 10% & NP Strength by 5% & NP Gain by 5% for yourself

So the effect isn't that bad even if the values aren't that high. The problem is that this CE has mixed stats as in it focuses on both ATK and HP instead of simply ATK so it's not as good as it could have been.

Ah, well. Still made sure to fully MLB one copy just in case I might need it or something. Then just used the rest as fodder to level up other CEs because there's no way I can keep all of the copies I got in my inventory.

3-star R Craft Essence Retravel

Also got lots of copies of Retravel. Retravel is only a 3-star Craft Essence, so it's not surprising that it's not really good.

Its effect when fully MLB'd is:

Increase C. Star Gather Rate by 200% & Arts Card effectiveness by 3% for yourself

It also has mixed stats like Inspire. Still, decided to keep one copy anyway then just use the rest as fodder for leveling up other CEs.

5-star SSR Craft Essence A'

Was able to get multiple copies of A'. A' is a pretty good CE.

Its effect when fully MLB'd is:

Increase Arts Card effectiveness by 10% & Arts Card Critical Strength by 20% & begin battle with NP charged at 60% for yourself

Its stats also focus on ATK so when fully MLB'd and leveled to 100, you get 2k ATK (and 0 HP) as opposed to Inspire which only gives a max of 750 ATK (and 1200 HP).

Managed to get 3 fully MLB'd copies of A' with 2 extras. For now, decided to keep all of these.

3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

I talk more about this in another post, but already got my Xu Fu to NP5. As I kept pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner, was able to get more copies of her.

Since she's already NP5, just sold or burned the extra copies I got.

5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH

Fused my third copy of Archetype: EARTH to my NP2 copy to get it to NP3.

And that’s it for now. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

So, what about you? Did you pull on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner? What do you think about Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

#fate/grand order #fgo #archetype: earth #arcueid brunestud #dobrynya nikitich #chiron #zhang jue #xu fu #fgo arc #fgo xu fu #fgo dobrynya nikitich #fate go #fate grand order #games #gacha games #mobile games #grand order #fgo chiron #fgo zhang jue

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Fate/Grand Order 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Part 5

The 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc

★3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

★5-star SSR CE A’

★4-star SR CE Inspire

★3-star R CE Retravel

The following CEs will also be summonable, but they won’t be on rate-up:

★5-star SSR CE King of the Seraph

★4-star SR CE Hunter’s Dream

This banner goes from 2024-07-06 12:00 - 07-16 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

This post is a continuation of other posts. Had to split the posts apart since the first 4 were getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in other posts are the following:

multiple copies of the 3-star Retravel CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Inspire CE

multiple copies of the 5-star A’ CE

multiple copies of 3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

2 dupes of 4-star SR CE Winter Crystal; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Witchcraft; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 4-star SR Lancer Medusa

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Emiya

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Devilish Bodhisattva; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Guardians of the Garden

1 dupe of 4-star SR Rider Anne Bonny & Mary Read

first copy of 4-star SR Saber Roland

first few copies of 3-star R Caster Zhang Jue

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Transmutation Magecraft

first copy of 4-star SR Rider Dobrynya Nikitich

first copy of 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH

first copy of 4-star SR CE The Illusory Confessional

1 dupe of 4-star SR Berserker Ibaraki-Douji

second copy of 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH

first 2 copies of 4-star SR Archer Zenobia

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Wu Zetian or Assassin of the Nightless City

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Still have some content that I haven’t cleared yet so should be able to get some more pulling resources from those.

Plus, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, we got more Saint Quartz and tickets from ongoing campaigns and gifts and such.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

Really glad that I finally have Arc. Should be done with this banner now but - I heard that sadly, Archetype: EARTH’s damage isn’t that good at low NP or Noble Phantasm levels.

Aside from Arc, there are other upcoming Servants that I want to get so hopefully, I’ll still have some pulling resources left for them.

Anyway, so I continued pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Here are the results of the rest of those pulls. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Single draws: the most notable thing I got from this set of draws was a dupe of this 5-star Craft Essence called Kaleidoscope.

This give 80% NP charge. When fully MLB'd, it gives 100% NP charge.

Was really surprised when I saw this CE because totally wasn't expecting to see this at all. I only ever got 1 copy of Kaleidoscope, and that happened a long, long time ago. Since then, never got any more copies, so I thought being able to MLB this CE was nothing but a distant dream.

Well, even now, I'm still a long ways away from ever being able to fully MLB this CE, but hey, at least I have 2 copies now. LOL.

Anyway, aside from Kaleidoscope, also got dupes of The Illusory Confessional, A', and a 4-star CE called Innocent Maiden.

Multi-draw: this multi gave me dupes of Retravel, A', and a 4-star CE called Gem Magecraft: Antumbra. Also got 2 more copies of Xu Fu.

And got my first copy of this 4-star Craft Essence called Hunter's Dream.

Multi-draw: a silver Saber card showed up. It then started turning gold.

The gold Saber card then turned into my first copy of 4-star SR Saber Prince of Lan Ling.

Well, at least he's new. Still, I do wish that I'd gotten a Moon Cancer card instead.

Anyway, here are some of Prince of Lan Ling's summon lines:

Aside from Prince of Lan Ling, this multi also gave me dupes of Inspire, Hunter's Dream, Retravel, and a 4-star CE called Golden Millenium Tree.

Single draws: got 2 dupes of this 4-star CE called Awakened Will as well as dupes of Retravel and The Illusory Confessional.

Other than that, just got the usual 3-star trash from this set of draws.

Multi-draw: this multi gave me dupes of Inspire, Retravel, this 4-star CE called Gentle Affection, and this 4-star CE called Gemstone Shots.

Multi-draw: this multi gave me dupes of Inspire and A'.

Multi-draw: this multi gave me 3 dupes of Retravel and 2 dupes of Inspire. Also got a dupe of this 4-star CE called Record Holder.

Single draws: the only notable things I got from this set of singles was yet another dupe of A' as well as a 4-star CE called Imaginary Number Attribute.

Multi-draw: this multi gave me my first copy of this 4-star Craft Essence called Trigger Off.

A silver Rider card also showed up.

It then started turning gold.

Sadly and unfortunately, this gold Rider card soon turned into yet another dupe of 4-star SR Rider Anne Bonny & Mary Read. Ugh. Really disappointed, especially since I don't even use this Servant. Sigh.

Anyway, this multi-draw also gave me dupes of Retravel and this 4-star CE called Innocent Maiden.

Multi-draw: got yet another Retravel dupe. Sadly, the only gold I got from this multi was a 4-star CE dupe.

Single draws: got a dupe of this 5-star Craft Essence called Heaven's Feel.

My first copy of this is already fully MLB.

Aside from that, also got dupes of Retravel, Xu Fu, Gemstone Shots, and A'.

Multi-draw: this multi gave me 3 dupes of Inspire.

Multi-draw: this multi gave me dupes of Xu Fu, Inspire, and Imaginary Number Attribute.

And that’s it for now. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

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Fate/Grand Order 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Part 4

The 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc

★3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

★5-star SSR CE A’

★4-star SR CE Inspire

★3-star R CE Retravel

The following CEs will also be summonable, but they won’t be on rate-up:

★5-star SSR CE King of the Seraph

★4-star SR CE Hunter’s Dream

This banner goes from 2024-07-06 12:00 - 07-16 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

This post is a continuation of other posts. Had to split the posts apart since the first 3 were getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in other posts are the following:

multiple copies of the 3-star Retravel CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Inspire CE

multiple copies of the 5-star A’ CE

multiple copies of 3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

2 dupes of 4-star SR CE Winter Crystal; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Witchcraft; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 4-star SR Lancer Medusa

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Emiya

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Devilish Bodhisattva; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Guardians of the Garden

1 dupe of 4-star SR Rider Anne Bonny & Mary Read

first copy of 4-star SR Saber Roland

first few copies of 3-star R Caster Zhang Jue

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Transmutation Magecraft

first copy of 4-star SR Rider Dobrynya Nikitich

first copy of 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH

first copy of 4-star SR CE The Illusory Confessional

1 dupe of 4-star SR Berserker Ibaraki-Douji

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Still have some content that I haven’t cleared yet so should be able to get some more pulling resources from those.

Plus, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, we got more Saint Quartz and tickets from ongoing campaigns and gifts and such.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

Really glad that I finally have Arc. Should be done with this banner now but - I heard that sadly, Archetype: EARTH’s damage isn’t that good at NP1 or Noble Phantasm level 1.

Aside from Arc, there are other upcoming Servants that I want to get so hopefully, I’ll still have some pulling resources left for them.

Anyway, so I continued pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Here are the results of the rest of those pulls. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Multi-draw: Saw rainbow colors during one of the summons then a gold Moon Cancer card showed up.

Thankfully, this gold Moon Cancer card was suddenly surrounded by a swirl of beautiful colors.

When the light cleared, the Moon Cancer card art was now different.

Which meant, hello, my second copy of Arc. Hell, yes! Was really pleased to see this.

Here's a vid showing Arc's summon animation and lines. It's too bad I can only see this in-game once. Wish Servants would say their lines every time you summon them even if it's not your first copy.

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Anyway, aside from my second copy of Archetype: EARTH, this multi also gave me dupes of 4-star SR CE Imaginary Number Attribute and 4-star SR CE Gemstone Shots.

Already have 1 copy of Imaginary Number Attribute that's fully MLB plus 2 extra non-MLB copies. My first copy of Gemstone Shots has also been fully MLB'd already.

Kept going, hoping for more copies of Arc.

Single draws: A gold Archer card showed up.

This then turned into my first copy of 4-star SR Archer Zenobia.

Here are some of her summon lines:

Aside from Zenobia, the notable dupes I got from this set of draws were Inspire, Retravel, Zhang Jue, and a 4-star CE.

Single draws: To my surprise, a silver Archer card showed up and turned gold again. Even more surprising was getting my second copy of Zenobia.

Aside from the Zenobia dupe, the other notable dupes I got were Retravel, Inspire, and a dupe of a 4-star CE.

Single draws: A gold Assassin card showed up. Wasn't paying that much attention since I thought I was gonna get crap again so I nearly missed taking a screenshot of this.

Was pleased when I saw the gold card, but that quickly turned to disappointment when the Assassin card soon turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Wu Zetian or Assassin of the Nightless City.

Aside from that, the only other notable dupes I got were A' and Retravel.

Archetype: EARTH

After that, took a break from pulling so I could fuse the Arc copies I got and get her to NP2 or Noble Phantasm level 2.

Also spent the resources needed to level her up to 90/90.

Here are some pics of Arc's different Ascension art and skills:

Also leveled up all of her skills to the max of 10 and gave her silver Fous to further increase her HP and ATK stats. Don't have any more gold Fous though so giving her even more HP and ATK will have to wait.

Then I tried out Arc in battle. She's pretty good but, yeah, as others have said, sadly, her damage seems to be on the low side. Her being Moon Cancer doesn't help at all. Ah, well. I still like her anyway.

She does have 100% NP charge, which is great and which does help. And she can loop with only 2 5-star SSR Assassin Koyanskaya of Light and the Atlas Institute Uniform Mystic Code.

Also, thankfully, I have a level 100 5-star SSR CE called The Black Grail so that should help boost Arc's damage. And have other supports like 5-star SSR Pretender Oberon that I can use with her.

I like Arc’s Millenium Castle field animation and the music that goes with it. The effect is pretty good too. But I wish that the animation and music for this would persist between waves.

I know the effect itself will be active for 3 turns even if the wave changes. But it's too bad that the changes in the field and even the music don't stay when you go to the next wave.

I like all of Archetype: EARTH's Ascensions although her second one is the one I like the least. Couldn't decide which Ascension to go for so just set it to random.

Anyway, that’s it for now. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

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Fate/Grand Order 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Part 3

The 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc

★3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

★5-star SSR CE A’

★4-star SR CE Inspire

★3-star R CE Retravel

The following CEs will also be summonable, but they won’t be on rate-up:

★5-star SSR CE King of the Seraph

★4-star SR CE Hunter’s Dream

This banner goes from 2024-07-06 12:00 - 07-16 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

This post is a continuation of other posts. Had to split the posts apart since the first 2 were getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in other posts are the following:

multiple copies of the 3-star Retravel CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Inspire CE

multiple copies of the 5-star A’ CE

multiple copies of 3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

2 dupes of 4-star SR CE Winter Crystal; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Witchcraft; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

1 dupe of 4-star SR Lancer Medusa

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Emiya

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Devilish Bodhisattva; my first copy of this hasn’t been fully MLB’d yet

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Guardians of the Garden

1 dupe of 4-star SR Rider Anne Bonny & Mary Read

first copy of 4-star SR Saber Roland

first few copies of 3-star R Caster Zhang Jue

first 2 copies of 4-star SR CE Transmutation Magecraft

first copy of 4-star SR Rider Dobrynya Nikitich

Sadly, I have yet to get even a single copy of Archetype: EARTH.

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Still have some content that I haven’t cleared so should be able to get some more pulling resources from those.

Plus, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, we got more Saint Quartz and tickets from ongoing campaigns and gifts and such.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

Anyway, here are the results of the rest of my pulls on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

At this point, it feels like I've spent hundreds of pulling resources. Managed to obtain multiple copies of the rate-up CEs as well as Xu Fu, but so far, have yet to get evven a single copy of Arc, which feels really bad, man.

To think, I was hoping to get more than 1 copy of her. But now it seems I might have to pity her. Sigh.

Anyway, so I did single pulls this time. Considering the results of my previous pulls, wasn't really expecting much from this one.

And so imagine my surprise when a gold Moon Cancer card actually showed up. Could this actually be Arc?

The answer is hell, yes because the gold Moon Cancer card was suddenly surrounded by a swirl of beautiful colors.

When the light cleared, the Moon Cancer card art was now different.

After that, Archetype: EARTH was slowly revealed.

Hell, yes! And finally, my first copy of Arc!

Here are some of 5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH's summon lines:

Am I...a Servant? I have no name, but my state of being is...

Ah, yes. You may call me the Original One, or the Ultimate One.

Some connection between us must have allowed you to summon me.

For now, I shall observe whether you all manage to survive or not.

The above lines were said by Arc in her first Ascension. Afterwards, she suddenly turns into her second Ascension and says the following lines:

Just kidding! That's enough of the high-and-mighty-me!

Hi there, person from Chaldea!

I'm a Moon Cancer, Arcueid Brunestud! It's nice to meet you!

I'll see you soon, when we hit my second Ascension!

Here's a video of Arc's summon animation:

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I like the unique summon animation for Archetype: EARTH. Wish there was a way to see this again in-game. And it would be nice if other Servants also got unique summon animations.

Anyway, aside from Arc, the other notable things I got from this set of single draws were dupes of Zhang Jue, Retravel, A', and Xu Fu.

Really glad that I finally have Arc. Should be done with this banner now but - I heard that sadly, Archetype: EARTH's damage isn't that good at NP1 or Noble Phantasm level 1.

And so, since I still have some resources left, decided to try rolling for more copies of her. Hopefully, I'll be able to get more dupes of her soon because I'd really rather not throw all my SQ and tickets on this banner.

Aside from Arc, there are other upcoming Servants that I want to get so hopefully, I'll still have some pulling resources left for them.

Anyway, so I continued pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Here are the results of the rest of those pulls:

Single draws: Got dupes of a 4-star CE, Retravel, Xu Fu, Inspire, and A'.

Single draws: Got the usual dupes, including yet another Inspire and A'.

Got my first copy of this 4-star SR CE called The Illusory Confessional.

A silver Berserker card also showed up.

Then it started turning gold.

Was disappointed when the gold Berserker card then turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Berserker Ibaraki-Douji.

Single draws: The only notable things I got from this set of pulls were more dupes of Inspire and Retravel. The rest were the usual silver trash.

Single draws: This set of pulls were even worse than the last since I didn't get even a single 4-star. It was all a mix of 3-star CEs and Servants.

Multi-draw: Got 2 more dupes of Inspire and 1 more dupe of Xu Fu. The rest were the usual crap.

And that’s it. For this post, at least. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

#fate/grand order #fgo #archetype: earth #arcueid brunestud #xu fu #zhang jue #ibaraki-douji #fgo zhang jue #fgo ibaraki-douji #fate grand order #fgo xu fu #fgo arc #mobile games #games #gacha games #fate go #grand order

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freyayuki · 2 months ago

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Fate/Grand Order 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Part 2

The 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc

★3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

★5-star SSR CE A’

★4-star SR CE Inspire

★3-star R CE Retravel

The following CEs will also be summonable, but they won’t be on rate-up:

★5-star SSR CE King of the Seraph

★4-star SR CE Hunter’s Dream

This banner goes from 2024-07-06 12:00 - 07-16 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

This post is a continuation of another post. Had to split the posts apart since the first was getting really long and already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 1

So far, the most notable things I got from pulling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner and which I talk more about in another post are the following:

multiple copies of the 3-star Retravel CE

multiple copies of the 4-star Inspire CE

multiple copies of the 5-star A' CE

multiple copies of 3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

2 dupes of 4-star SR CE Winter Crystal; my first copy of this hasn't been fully MLB'd yet

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Witchcraft; my first copy of this hasn't been fully MLB'd yet

1 dupe of 4-star SR Lancer Medusa

1 dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Emiya

1 dupe of 5-star SSR CE Devilish Bodhisattva; my first copy of this hasn't been fully MLB'd yet

first copy of 4-star SR CE Guardians of the Garden

Sadly, I have yet to get even a single copy of Archetype: EARTH.

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

After pulling several times on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner, was down to 253 Saint Quartz and 15 Summon Tickets on-hand.

Still have a lot of tickets and SQ that I can get from my present box and other such sources. Also haven’t bothered to exchange my SQ fragments into Saint Quartz.

And still have some content that I haven’t cleared so should be able to get some more pulling resources from those.

Plus, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, we got more Saint Quartz and tickets from ongoing campaigns and gifts and such.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 2

Anyway, here are the results of the rest of my pulls on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Multi-draw: Got dupes of Guardians of the Garden, Retravel, Inspire, and A' as well as the usual 3-star Servants and CEs.

Multi-draw: Was surprised but pleased when a gold Rider card showed up.

That is, until it turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Rider Anne Bonny & Mary Read. My first copy of this Servant has been fully leveled to the max already, but I don’t use them so haven’t bothered to level any of their skills.

This multi also gave me 2 dupes of 4-star CEs as well as another dupe of Xu Fu.

Multi-draw: A silver Saber card showed up.

It suddenly started turning gold.

This then turned into my first copy of 4-star SR Saber Roland.

Well, at least he's new and not yet another dupe. Not sure if I have any use for him though. His NP or Noble Phantasm deals single-target damage, but I already have a NP5 4-star SR Saber Lancelot or SaberLot if I need a ST Saber. To be fair, Roland's NP is Buster-type while Lancelot's is Arts-type, so they're not exactly the same.

Anyway, here are some of 4-star SR Saber Roland’s summon lines:

Anyway, this multi also gave me 3 dupes of Inspire as well as another 4-star CE dupe and 1 more dupe of Xu Fu.

Xu Fu

After that last multi, decided to take a short break from pulling to manage my inventory like selling all the 3-star Servants I got and fusing some of the CEs I got.

Since I finally have enough copies, also took the time to get my first copy of Xu Fu to NP5. Will level her up later.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results Part 3

Afterwards, went back to rolling on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Here are the results of the rest of those pulls:

Multi-draw: Got 2 4-star CE dupes, including another Inspire, and a dupe of A'.

Multi-draw: A Caster card showed up, but wasn't really paying attention since it was silver, and didn't turn gold. But then it turned into a new Servant that I don't have yet.

That's right. Just got 3-star R Caster Zhang Jue. Here are some of his summon lines:

This multi also gave me more dupes of Inspire and Retravel as well as 1 4-star CE dupe. And I got a new 4-star CE called Transmutation Magecraft.

Multi-draw: Got dupes of 4 4-star CEs, including 3 more copies of Inspire. I know Inspire's on rate-up but, argh! Why does it keep showing up? At least give me A'. More importantly, Arc, doko da?

Multi-draw: Got 3 more Xu Fu dupes. She's already NP5 but the Servant Coins will still be of use. Sadly, this pull only gave me 1 4-star CE, and it was nothing more than a dupe. Sigh.

Multi-draw: A silver Rider card showed up.

It suddenly started turning gold.

This then turned into my first copy of 4-star SR Rider Dobrynya Nikitich. Well, at least she's new. But still. Seriously, where's Archetype: EARTH? Please come home already, please.

Anyway, here are some of 4-star SR Rider Dobrynya Nikitich's summon lines:

This multi also gave me dupes of A' and Zhang Jue and a dupe of a 4-star CE.

And that’s it. For this post, at least. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

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freyayuki · 2 months ago

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Fate/Grand Order 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Part 1

The 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner just started in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game.

This banner features the following Servants and Craft Essences or CEs:

★5-star SSR Moon Cancer Archetype: EARTH or Arcueid Brunestud (#ad) or Arc

★3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu

★5-star SSR CE A'

★4-star SR CE Inspire

★3-star R CE Retravel

The following CEs will also be summonable, but they won't be on rate-up:

★5-star SSR CE King of the Seraph

★4-star SR CE Hunter's Dream

This banner goes from 2024-07-06 12:00 - 07-16 20:59 PDT (GMT -7).

Fate/Grand Order Guaranteed Summon Function

Fate/Grand Order Pulling Resources

Been saving pulling resources for what feels like forever now since, aside from Archetype: EARTH, also wanted to pull for 4-star SR Archer Anastasia & Viy, 5-star SSR Ruler Scáthach-Skaði (or Scathach-Skadi), 5-star SSR Avenger Space Ishtar (or Ishtar Ashtart or Ashtart or SpIshtar), and 5-star SSR Lancer Mélusine (or Melusine or Tam Lin Lancelot).

I did end up doing like 1 or 2 10-pulls on 1 or 2 banners. IIRC, did a 10-pull on the 5-star SSR Berserker Arjuna Alter banner and another 10-pull on the 5-star SSR Assassin Kama banner.

No, wait, I think I actually did a few more pulls on the Arjuna Alter banner. Can't remember for sure now though. But pretty sure only rolled on the aforementioned banners since the year started.

IIRC, the last time I really went all-out or all-in when it came to pulling was during Melusine's banner way back in December 2023. I talk more about that here and here.

Anyway, I think I should have enough to pity Arc considering how long I've been saving, but don't actually know the exact amount of SQ and tickets I have. That's because if I got them in my present box, then I just leave them there to help avoid the temptation of pulling.

Also haven't bothered to exchange my SQ fragments into SQ. And if there are SQ or ticket rewards that don't have an expiration date, then I just leave them all unclaimed for now.

Still have some content that I haven't cleared so should be able to get some more pulling resources from those.

Plus, since Fate/Grand Order is currently celebrating its 7th Anniversary, we got more Saint Quartz and tickets from ongoing campaigns and gifts and such.

Hopes for the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner

Since there are a lot of other Servants who I want to get aside from Arc, I'm hoping that I won't have to pity her.

I've heard that her damage is sadly not that good, so I'm also hoping that I can get more than 1 copy of her to increase her Noble Phantasm or NP levels. Being able to get her to NP5 would be really great, of course, but that might be too much to hope for unless a miracle happens or something. LOL.

7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon Banner Pulls Results

Currently have 403 SQ and 65 Summon Tickets on-hand. Here are the results of my pulls on the 7th Anniversary Archetype: EARTH Pickup Summon banner. Only gonna list the notable stuff I get though.

Started with the tickets I have on-hand.

First 10 tickets: The first one gave me my first copy of the 4-star SR Inspire Craft Essence.

The third one gave me a dupe of the 4-star SR CE called Necromancy. Already have a copy of this that's fully MLB with like 1 or 2 extra copies. The rest of the pulls were all the usual silver trash.

10 tickets: Got 2 dupes of Inspire. Also got a new 3-star CE called Unwithering Flower.

The rest were all the usual dupes.

10 tickets: Got a Inspire dupe again. Also got a dupe of this 4-star CE called Winter Crystal. Haven't fully MLB'd this CE yet, and it's actually pretty good, so I welcome this dupe.

A Alter Ego card also showed up.

It's silver so I knew right away that I was about to get my first copy of Xu Fu.

Here are some of 3-star R Alter Ego Xu Fu's summon lines:

10 tickets: Got my first 2 copies of the Retravel 3-star CE plus yet another Inspire dupe and my second copy of Xu Fu.

One of the tickets from this set also gave me my first copy of the 5-star SSR CE A'.

10 tickets: Sadly, got nothing noteworthy from this set of tickets. Just the usual 3-star dupes of Servants and Craft Essences.

By now, was down to 15 tickets. Decided to try a multi-draw next using Saint Quartz.

This pull gave me 2 dupes of A' and Retravel. Also got a dupe of this 4-star CE called With One Strike. Already have a copy of this that's fully MLB.

Multi-draw: Got another Inspire dupe. I think I should be able to fully MLB this by now. Got a dupe of this 4-star CE called Code Cast which isn't really good so meh. Also got a dupe of this 5-star CE called Witchcraft.

Multi-draw: Was pleased when I saw a gold Lancer card show up.

That is, until it turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Lancer Medusa. My first copy of her has been fully leveled to the max already, but I don't use her so haven't bothered to level any of her skills.

A gold Assassin card also showed up from this multi.

It soon turned into a dupe of 4-star SR Assassin Emiya. I don't use Emiya either so was also disappointed when I saw him.

Ahh, if I was gonna get dupes anyway, I wish I could get dupes of Servants who I actually use. Better yet, wish I could just get Arc already.

It was nice to see a lot of golds in a multi. It's just too bad that none of these Servants and CEs were all that particularly useful to me. Sigh.

Anyway, this pull also gave me 2 dupes of 4-star CEs, including yet another Inspire. Also got a new 3-star CE as well as another dupe of Xu Fu.

Multi-draw: Got 2 dupes of 4-star CEs, including another Winter Crystal. Also got a dupe of this 5-star CE called Devilish Bodhisattva and another Retravel dupe.

Multi-draw: Got my first copy of a 4-star SR CE called Guardians of the Garden.

Also got a dupe of another 4-star CE plus the usual dupes of 3-star Servants and Craft Essences.

And that’s it. For this post, at least. There’s more but gonna have to talk about the rest in another post since this one already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post.

Conclusion

Notes:

screenshots are from my Fate/Grand Order game account

#fate/grand order #fgo #fate grand order #archetype: earth #arcueid brunestud #fgo xu fu #xu fu #fgo arc #fgo emiya #fgo medusa #assassin emiya #mobile games #lancer medusa #emiya kiritsugu #gacha games #games #fate go #grand order

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War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Mini Review

Started playing the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (WotV: FFBE) mobile game sometime during its collaboration event with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (#ad). To be more precise, started a few days or so after the start of the Sephiroth (from Final Fantasy VII) banner.

I talk more about this in another post, but I pulled for Sephiroth as well as Kadaj from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. This is a continuation of that post since already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post there.

To the Lifestream Vision Card

There are a few Vision Cards that came with the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab. One of these Vision Cards is called To the Lifestream.

This Vision Card features Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII and Kadaj, but it's intended to be used by Sephiroth and Kadaj.

I wish this Vision Card featured Sephiroth and Kadaj instead, especially since this isn't even good for Cloud. Plus, he's already featured in the other Vision Cards that came with this collab.

Sephiroth is featured in another one of the Advent Children Vision Cards, but sadly, that one isn't really good for him.

Since the To the Lifestream Vision Card is good for Kadaj and Sephiroth, decided to pull for it.

There is a 1-time only Step Up 10x Summon banner for the To the Lifestream Vision Card.

This banner has 3 steps. Step 3 is guaranteed to give you 25 To the Lifestream Vision Card shards.

Unfortunately, this banner doesn't guarantee that you will get a copy of the Vision Card in question so just had to hope that I'll get lucky, otherwise will need to pull on another one of the To the Lifestream banners.

To my relief, was actually lucky this time since I was able to get my first copy of the To the Lifestream Vision Card on step 2.

Continued on to step 3 so I could get the 25 To the Lifestream Vision Card shards.

New Player Resources and Free Pulls

As a new player, got lots of resources, login bonuses and rewards, free pulls and such.

The game seems pretty generous, and it is, but honestly, without all these rewards and bonuses and such, the new player experience here will be really bad.

For example, one of the things I got when I first started playing War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius was millions of gil. So I thought it would take a long time before I ever needed to worry about gil, but I soon realized that nearly everything in this game either requires gil or vis or visiore and/or both.

Like even upgrading the abilities of chars costs gil. And each char has multiple abilities. Naturally, the higher the level, the higher the cost.

Anyway, as a new player, also got access to banners that give you fully leveled chars and Vision Cards. IIRC, it costs like 2k vis to pull on these banners and there's a limit as to how many times you can pull before these banners will disappear.

Before pulling on these banners, you get to pick which char or Vision Card you want to get. You'll then get said char or Vision Card in the guaranteed slot. Of course, the selection doesn't include limited and collab units.

Still, these were pretty good deals. Having 1 or 2 or 3 fully built chars and Vision Cards helps a lot. This is especially so since it can actually take a really long time to finish maxing out chars and Vision Cards, especially if they're not currently on rate-up.

As for the free pulls - it's great to have lots of free pulls, but the pool in this game is really bloated already, and there are lots of chars and Vision Cards that are already outdated and powercrept. The rates also seem pretty bad. At least WotV has a pity system, but still.

We may get lots of free pulls, but they're not all that helpful if most of the stuff you get from said pulls are all old and useless. After all, there's no point in trying to max out chars and Vision Cards that aren't usable anymore.

But, to be fair, I did get lucky in some of my free pulls.

I remember getting like 2 or so dupes of Sephiroth thanks to the free pulls from his banner.

This really helped a lot because a dupe will turn into 40 shards of that char.

Sephiroth and Kadaj Shards

As mentioned, I pulled for both UR or Ultra Rare One-Winged Nightmare Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) and Ultra Rare Avenger against the Planet Kadaj.

Needed their shards in order to Limit Break them. Each char can be Limit Broken 5 times. You need a char's shards as well as Rainbow Vision Spheres in order to Limit Break them. Below is a list of the exact amount of materials needed to Limit Break a char:

Limit Break 1: 40 shards + 1 Rainbow Vision Sphere

Limit Break 2: 80 shards + 1 Rainbow Vision Sphere

Limit Break 3: 120 shards + 2 Rainbow Vision Spheres

Limit Break 4: 160 shards + 2 Rainbow Vision Spheres

Limit Break 5: 200 shards + 3 Rainbow Vision Spheres

Don't know where and how I got Rainbow Vision Spheres, but apparently, I currently have more than enough for both Kadaj and Sephiroth. I think maybe I got these as part of the new player rewards and such.

Either way, the problem was not having enough Sephiroth and Kadaj shards.

Since those 2 are currently on rate-up, their shards are available in multiple shops. You can use either paid vis or regular vis to acquire these shards.

There are also around 80 shards or so that can be bought using gil. You can also get a few shards (1 or 2?) a day from chars that are in the Barracks.

Had to grind for more vis so I can buy the aforementioned shards in the shop.

But wait, there's more. A whole lot more. There's also Awakening chars and leveling up their Jobs and such, but will talk more about that later.

Anyway, aside from shards, chars also need Mindspheres. Once you get a char to level 99, you will need even more resources, including Mindspheres, to get them to level 120 and then after that to level 140.

Thankfully, Kadaj and Sephiroth share the same Mindspheres. Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII and Cloud, the other playable chars that came with the Advent Children collab event, also use the same Mindspheres.

Once you finish fully Limit Breaking a char, if you get more of their shards, they will automatically be turned into their Mindspheres.

Since the Advent Children chars share the same Mindspheres, their shards will all turn into [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Sephiroth Shard Banner

Since I needed more [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres, I decided to pull on the 2-times only 4-Step 10x Summon Ultra Rare One-Winged Nightmare Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) banner.

I talk more about this in another post, but I already pulled once on this banner. So I can only do one more lap before this banner disappears.

Anyway, step 3 of this banner is guaranteed to give you 40 [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres while step 4 is guaranteed to give you 40 Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) unit shards.

Every time you pull on this banner, you’re guaranteed to get 100 FFVIIAC Unit Summon Medal C for each step. You can exchange these mdeals for various items in the shop, including more Sephiroth shards.

So I pulled on this banner again and, luckily, got a dupe of Sephiroth on step 1.

By now, I've already finished Limit Breaking Sephiroth, so every time I get more of his shards, they automatically turned into [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Also got another Sephiroth dupe on step 4. Yay for more [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Thoughts About the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Gameplay

I thought the gameplay in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius wasn't that good. I don't know. Maybe it's because, at the moment, I prefer something more casual and easy. But in WotV, it feels like there's way too much going on.

Like you form a team of up to 4 chars, and you can even choose to bring in a friend support. These chars all have multiple abilities, some of which require TP while others require AP. Each char gets their own turn where you can move them on the field then decide which one of their abilities to cast.

You can see the names of these abilities as well as how much AP or TP is required to use them, but there's no way to know what these skills do until you tap on the magnifying glass that's next to them for more info.

Maybe it's just because I'm new and still not used to how things work in this game, but it does feel kinda overwhelming having so many abilities to choose from and having to like check each one just to figure out which one does what and then try to decide which one to use.

Thankfully, the game has this Recommended Abilities feature thing. As the name suggests, it highlights a recommended ability that a char can use each turn. There's also auto-play, which really helps.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Art

I like the 2D art in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. They're very nice to look at.

But the 3D art, not so much. I don't know. It feels like the 3D art could have been done better.

The sprites of the chars during battle look well enough, I suppose. But I don't like it when they use their buffs and suddenly, their entire body gets a different color so it makes it harder to see them clearly.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Animation

I've seen some of the animations in this game like the Limit Burst of some chars. Limit Bursts are like the Noble Phantasms in the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game except they can only be used once.

I thought these animations look pretty nice. The only problem was that they aren't voiced at all. They don't even have any music to go with them.

Wish that wasn't the case at all. At the very least, they could have made the chars say something generic or something.

For instance, Sephiroth actually has a couple of lines that he cycles through in battle like when you use his abilities and such, so why couldn't they have had him say one of these lines whenever he uses his Limit Burst?

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And it's sad that they couldn't even be bothered to add like Sephiroth's One-Winged Angel theme either so watching his Limit Burst animation isn't nearly as good as it could have been.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Summon Animation

When you summon a Ultra Rare char in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, the animation includes them walking a bit and then posing in front of the screen.

This is pretty nice, but I'm disappointed that, once again, there's no audio to go with this animation. It's just the char walking and posing, and that's it. Wish there was at least some dialogue and music to go with it.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Audio and Voice Lines

The story in this game is voiced, which is nice. But it looks like Japanese audio is the only option.

I prefer Japanese audio with English subtitles, so this isn't really a problem for me, but after seeing how mobile games like Honkai: Star Rail (HSR) and Reverse: 1999 (R1999) give you multiple language options, I thought it would have been nice if WotV offerred the same thing.

When I got Sephiroth and Kadaj and even Ultra Rare Witness to the Way Forward Tifa (FFVIIAC), looked forward to being able to hear their lines and listen to their voices.

So was kinda disappointed when I soon discovered that they didn't have a lot of lines. And it seemed like they basically just cycled through a couple of lines over and over again.

There isn't even a way in-game to look at a list of all of their voice lines. There's no translation or subtitles either. They just say their lines in Japanese and that's it.

Their "profile" also basically just consists of a few sentences of information along with the name of their voice actor or actress.

Then there's how you can select a char to display on the Home Screen, which is nice. But once again, they cycle through the same lines over and over again, which gets boring fast. And sadly, you can't really interact with them.

Overall, this was pretty disappointing, especially when compared to other games like FGO where each Servant has multiple lines, different art for each Ascension, and more.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Story

The good news is that the cutscenes in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius are pretty short. The bad news is that the story in this game turned out to be really bad.

It didn't seem that way at first though. At first, I thought the story here seemed pretty interesting and okay enough. Too bad that didn't last long at all since the story quickly went downhill.

Warning for spoilers for the WotV storyline below.

After a bit of introduction to the world in this game, players soon got to meet 2 brothers named Mont Leonis and Sterne Leonis. Both are also princes and apparently twins as well.

There was also a princess (named Machérie) from another kingdom (Hourne) who was traveling via carriage. She and her guards are then attacked by lots of bandits, but we soon find out that she's capable of fighting and defending herself.

Back in the kingdom of Leonis, the king, Oelde, receives a report about a bandit attack.

Here's where things start falling apart. Because Oelde decides that he and Mont plus a few other men are going off to take care of these bandits. But that doesn't make sense at all.

He's the king. Why should he be the one to personally go and deal with these bandits? Why couldn't he just send someone else to deal with this?

Even if he knew that Machérie Hourne was the one who was being attacked, it still doesn't make sense why he'd want to go fight the bandits.

On top of that, he even refuses to let his other son, Sterne, go with him to help. And he refuses to give a satisfactory and believable reason as to why.

Later, we'd keep hearing about how good Sterne is, and how he's apparently the better fighter or warrior between him and Mont, so based on that, it's all the more confusing why Oelde refuses to send him to battle.

As for Mont - he's clearly the protagonist, which shouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that it seems like basically everyone loves praising him and going on and on about how good and kind he is, how much potential he has, how he's improving and getting better, how great he is, and blah, blah, blah. All that got old and annoying really quickly.

It didn't help that, at the moment, Mont doesn't come across as all that interesting. He's kinda bland and boring, actually. Sure, he's nice and kind, and he apparently has all the traits that a typical protag has, but that doesn't really make him interesting nor does it differentiate him from the usual hero.

And the story really needs to stop telling me how much potential he has and how much better he'll become in the future. Show, don't tell. And stop repeating it all the time.

I also didn't like how it seemed like most of the women were in love with him. Like he and Machérie just met, and yet it seems that she likes him already for seemingly no reason. It's also already clear from the get-go that these 2 will end up together, or at least it seems that way.

But I wish the game wasn't so blatant about that. I guess they're going for the love-at-first-sight trope, but I wish there was more about the 2 getting to know each other better first.

Machérie is one thing, but then we soon find out that apparently, even the ninjas (Kitone and/or Lynx) also like Mont. So I thought it was getting ridiculous how it seems like everyone's in love with Mont.

As for Sterne - for now, I kinda like him more than Mont simply because he seems so under-appreciated, like he's clearly the underdog with how most people seem to favor his brother. Even his own father seems to favor Mont.

We don't know much about Sterne yet other than how good he apparently is in battle, but from the way he's being treated and neglected, I'm already thinking, I know where this is going. He's gonna turn evil, isn't he?

As I continued playing through the story, I started seeing how some parts of it seem kinda similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's (MCU) Thor movie.

Warning for possible spoilers for the Thor movies below.

Mont is Thor, the favored son, the clear hero of the story. Sterne is Loki, the forgotten and neglected second son. Oelde is Odin, the king and father who appears to favor one son over the other. Helena is Frigga, the queen and loving mother.

We're even shown how Sterne really cares about his mother, Helena, just like how Loki cares about his mother, Frigga.

Also, I noticed that Oelde, Mont, and Helena all have basically the same hair color - what appears to be this light shade of brown - while Sterne is the only one who has dark hair. This is just like how Thor, Frigga, and Odin are all blond while Loki is the only one with dark hair. Well, Odin is old so his hair is all white now.

Anyway, considering what happened in the Thor movies, it made me wonder if Sterne would also turn out to be adopted just like Loki.

Another thing I noticed was the fact that the Leonis throne room only has 1 throne, and it's Oelde who gets to sit in it. Helena stands next to him so at first, didn't think she was actually the queen. Like, why couldn't there be another throne for the queen?

Overall, as I continued playing through the story, the urge to just hit the skip button kept rising and rising. The story was really starting to piss me off. The actions of the chars weren't making sense like how Oelde refuses to let Sterne help, and was getting so annoyed with how everyone keeps going on and on about how great Mont is.

So far, managed to stop myself from skipping, mostly thanks to the fact that the cutscenes were all pretty short. In fact, the battles seem to last longer than these cutscenes even with the fights being set to 2x speed.

Since the cutscenes are so short, it also feels like the chars and plot aren't fully fleshed out. For instance, I wish the story had elaborated more on the motives of the characters like why they're doing what they're doing.

Much, much later: argh! Continued playing through the story, and the more I keep going, the more it feels like it keeps getting worse and worse.

There was this part wherein the kingdom of Leonis is fighting against the kingdom of Fennes. After a bit of fighting, Oelde decides that the best course of action is to retreat. Even now, he still refuses to send Sterne to battle.

And even now, I still have no idea just what the eff Oelde is thinking. What's he planning? Why does he refuse to let Sterne fight?

I also wondered why he decided to retreat instead of continuing to fight. I thought he'd have some sort of plan to turn the tides or something, but apparently, he doesn't have one.

Or, well, he does, but this plan doesn't make sense at all. Because once Oelde gets back to the castle, he says what's gonna happen now is that he and Mont are running away.

Yeah, that's right. He plans to leave his wife and second son to the mercy of the invading Fennes army while he runs away with his other son. Like, seriously, what kind of plan is this?

He must be one of the worst kings ever to abandon his own people. As if that wasn't bad enough, he couldn't even be bothered to bring his entire family with him.

Seriously, what the eff kind of plan is that? How is that gonna help? Even if Oelde wants to run away, why won't he bring Helena and Sterne with him? How does he know those 2 won't immediately be killed once the invading Fennes forces show up?

None of this makes sense, and it's so infuriating. Can't blame Sterne at all for being absolutely furious with his dad for abandoning him and his mother.

Even Mont doesn't agree with his dad's actions. Except he shows just what a spineless doormat he is by going along with it anyway. He's concerend for his mother and brother, but he still does what Oelde says anyway.

There were some people who accompanied Mont and Oelde when they ran away. Every time Oelde would give orders, these people would readily follow them, which just made me wonder why. Like why would anyone want to follow someone like this? Someone who abandoned his people and his family, someone whose plans don't make any sense at all.

Kept going through the story although I was all the more tempted to just skip because this really was completely and utterly frustrating. It was all so annoying and infuriating.

A bit later on, I think I finally reached my limit. I just couldn't take it anymore. The story was really pissing me off so I decided it was for the best if I just skipped it.

IIRC, I stopped sometime after Sterne got this evil armor and was making plans to kill his father. Him wanting to kill Oelde was going too far, but it's understandable why he'd be mad at his father, why he'd feel abandoned and neglected because that was exactly what happened.

His own father left him and his mother. Even before that, it already seemed like his father favored his brother over him, what with always choosing Mont and not even letting Sterne fight even though all Sterne wanted to do was help his family.

The annoying and frustrating thing was that it seemed clear the game wanted me to side with Oelde, as if what he was doing was perfectly reasonable except it totally wasn't, and I just couldn't understand the reason for his actions at all.

So I didn't like how it seemed like Sterne being mad at his dad was wrong. I also thought I could see where this was going already with Sterne turning to evil, maybe or most likely fighting with his dad and Mont just like Loki and Thor, and then probably having a redemption arc later on.

But I couldn't say I liked where this was going, like the plot wasn't really clicking with me. Also, really wasn't liking Mont, especially with how it seems like the game keeps trying to praise him and go on and on about how good he is, and how everyone seems to like him. It was all getting too annoying so I opted to just skip. Maybe I'll get back to it later, but definitely not now.

Things to Like About War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Here are some of the things that I like about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collaboration Event

I like the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event. This was the reason why I even bothered to try out this game. I hope they do more collabs with FF7 and even with other Final Fantasy series.

Also, I hope they rerun the Final Fantasy VII collab event that happened before. It's too bad that I missed out on that event.

Auto and Background Farming Features

The auto-play and background farming features in WotV make it easier to go through quests and farm for the items and materials you need.

Skip Tickets

After clearing a quest and completing all its missions, you can use skip tickets to keep clearing said quest over and over again.

Pity System

Glad this game has a pity system so you can eventually get the char and/or Vision Card you're pulling for even if you have bad luck.

Things to Dislike About War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius

Here are some of the things that I dislike about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius:

Grindy

WotV is so, so, so grindy even when considering the fact that it has auto-play and background farming features. Honestly, without said features, the game might actually be unplayable due to how grindy it is.

Item Drop Rates

It doesn't help at all that the item or material drop rates in this game seem to be really bad.

I thought the game was being really generous when I found that I had hundreds of skip tickets for story and event quests and, I guess it is, but it's also true that with how bad the drop rates are, it's possible to quickly go through a lot of skip tickets at once and still not get the item you're looking for.

Banner Pull Rates

Speaking of awful rates, the rates for chars and Vision Cards also seem really bad. And the pool is so bloated with old and outdated chars and Vision Cards.

PVP

Not really interested in PVP. In fact, haven't bothered to try the PVP in this game yet, especially since my chars aren't fully built and maxed out yet, and don't have a lot of equipment and such yet.

Crashing

There are times when WotV suddenly crashes or hangs then crashes. Not sure what's causing this, but it's really annoying. Also, as far as I can recall, this has only ever happened in this game. Never got a crash in any other mobile game I've played, not even in Honkai: Star Rail.

Character Progression

As mentioned above, each char needs an exorbitant amount of shards in order to fully Limit Break them. But that's not all a char needs. They also need various other materials in order to fully Awaken them to the max. Then you also need to spend multiple other resources to level them up.

The max level they can get to is 140, but you need to finish Awakening and Limit Breaking them first before you can even get past certain levels.

Each char has 3 Jobs, and you also need to level up these Jobs. Each char also has multiple abilities that need to be unlocked then maxed out. Naturally, even more resources and such are rquired to max out a char's Jobs and abilities.

Then there's also this thing called Transcendence and Reincarnation, which are even more ways to further upgrade each char. Oh, and there are EX Jobs too.

In short, this is way too much that it borders on ridiculous. It's also complicated like there's way too much going on here.

Espers, Vision Cards, Equipment, and More

But wait, there's more. Chars also need equipment, espers, and Vision Cards.

Equipment can be crafted, but you need like 64 recipes to be able to craft the max version of said equipment. You also need multiple other items to craft equipment. Naturally, this means lots and lots of farming over and over again.

Espers also need to be leveled and maxed out. They go up to 3 stars, but you need materials to increase their stars and levels. You also need items to max out their boards, which gives stats and such to chars equipped with said esper.

Vision Cards require shards to be awakened. They also need to be leveled.

There are also these things called Truststones. So, yeah, it really feels like there's way too much going on in this game, like it's unnecessarily complicated.

I also didn't like how it seems like the game really wants you to spend for like every little thing because it feels like everything here requires either gil or vis and/or both.

Like simply getting a copy of a char isn't enough because you also need a lot of their shards, which means having to spend more vis.

Kadaj and Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

As a Cost: 100 char, Sephiroth was supposed to be really good. Kadaj is only a Cost: 90 char though so he's unfortunately not that good.

Didn't really care about that though. Started this game because of those 2 so was going to build them and max them out whether they were good or not.

So I readily spent all my resources for those 2 even if it may not be efficient to do so.

Also made sure to get and craft the weapons that came with the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event. For Sephiroth, that would be his Masamune while for Kadaj, it's his Souba.

Thankfully, after what feels like a lot of grinding and farming, managed to get both Kadaj and Sephiroth to level 140. Maxed out all their Jobs and EX Jobs too. Leveled up most of their abilities.

So there's still a lot of room for improvement. Like I tried the Reincarnation thing, but apparently you can do that several times. Naturally, it requires an exorbitant amount of resources because of course it does. Man, this game. LOL.

Anyway, I suppose one can say they're sort-of maxed out already. Like for their abilities, I've already maxed out the ones they're currently using. Once I get more resources, I can max out the rest.

Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

As for Tifa, the game gave us 1 copy of her for free. So far, managed to finish fully Awakening her. Got to Limit Break her a few times, but I ran out of Tifa (FFVIIAC) unit shards so she's now stuck at level 79/79.

Focused on getting Sephiroth's and Kadaj's shards so didn't really have any vis left to spare for Tifa's shards. As such, only really bought her shards that cost gil. Also got some for free from completing her challenge mission board.

I put her in the Barracks alongside Sephiroth and Kadaj so now it's just a long, long wait until I can get enough shards to finish Limit Breaking her.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Plans

Around the time I realized just how grindy this game was, especially once the new player rewards and resources and such ended, I thought to myself that I probably wouldn't be playing this for long. It was all the more reason to just use whatever resources I had to quickly max out Kadaj and Sephiroth.

I was thinking I'd quit soon after the end of the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event then maybe just come back again for the next collab or something.

Even if I didn't quit, I'd already decided that I wasn't going to bother with the meta and such in this game. Was going to be super casual and just not care, especially since, as a new player, it feels like it's impossible to catch up, what with how grindy this game is and how building chars requires so many resources.

Conclusion

So what about you? What do you think about the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius mobile game? What do you think about its collab with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children?

Did you pull for Kadaj, Sephiroth, Tifa Lockhart, and/or Cloud Strife? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging or replying to this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius game account

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freyayuki · 3 months ago

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War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius x Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collaboration Event

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (WotV: FFBE) is a mobile game co-developed by Square Enix and Gumi Inc. and published by Square Enix.

Here’s why I decided to try out this game, or how I ended up trying out this game.

Introduction

Heard about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius before, but wasn't interested in trying it out since I was already playing other mobile games like Fate/Grand Order (FGO), Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (FFBE), and Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia (DFFOO).

Also I heard some bad things about this game like how grindy it is.

Then, much, much later, I heard it was gonna have a collab event with Final Fantasy VII. And Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7 will be one of the playable chars to be added to WotV.

That made me think about trying out WotV. But sadly, never got the chance to do so.

After that, didn't really bother to keep up with news about WotV.

So the next time I heard about War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, it was about its upcoming collaboration event with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (#ad). This collab will come with another playable version of Sephiroth. Kadaj from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children will also be added to the game.

Can't remember for sure now, but when I heard about this upcoming collab event, I think DFFOO had already ended its service.

War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius x Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collaboration Event

I talk more about this in other posts, but after DFFOO ended its service, I tried other mobile games like Punishing: Gray Raven (PGR), Reverse: 1999 (R1999), and Honkai: Star Rail (HSR).

When I heard about the upcoming Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, thought about finally giving this game a try, especially after finding out that both Kadaj and Sephiroth will be playable chars.

Those 2 were also playable chars in DFFOO, and I guess I just miss that game. Had both Sephiroth and Kadaj fully built and maxed out there, and I used both pretty often. Ahh, wish DFFOO didn't have to end. Sigh.

Anyway, so was on the lookout for more details about the aforementioned collab event such as when it would start in the Global or English version of the game.

After seeing the collab event schedule, decided I would try out WotV once the Sephiroth banner started. By then the Kadaj banner would have started already.

First War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Account

Started playing War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius maybe a few days or so after Sephiroth's banner dropped.

WotV gives new players 10k visiore or vis if you use one of those friend invite code things, so that, plus the vis I got from starting the game, including day 1 login rewards and such, let me pull a few times on the Sephiroth banner as soon as the option to do so became available.

Thankfully, was able to get my first copy of UR or Ultra Rare One-Winged Nightmare Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) before all that vis ran out.

Here are some more pics of Sephiroth's summon lines and animation:

The pic above has the following words:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

I will never be a memory.

Used the remaining vis to pull on Kadaj's banner. But wasn't left with that much vis (started with 17,900 which soon went down to 3,900) by the time I got Sephiroth so was only able to do like 1 multi on Kadaj's banner before running out of visiore.

Since I wasn't able to get Kadaj, resumed playing through the story and doing whatever other content I could to get more visiore.

At the same time, was also working on leveling up Sephiroth and trying to max him out.

It didn't take long to realize that, in this game, having 1 single copy of a char wasn't enough to be able to fully build and max them out because you also need their shards as well as plenty of other items and materials.

You can get a few shards a day from the Barracks feature. But considering each char needs hundreds of shards to fully max limit break them, this feature isn't good if I want to be able to power up Sephiroth now or as soon as possible.

It quickly became clear that I actually need to spend vis to get shards. So aside from spending vis to pull on Kadaj's banner, will also need even more visiore to be able to get Sephiroth's shards. Then, once I do get Kadaj, will also need his shards if I want to build him.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Collab Event Banners

This made me think that I should have pulled on the banners that gave shards instead of the ones with the pity gauge.

There are a lot of banners that are currently available in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. There are even banners which require paid visiore.

The Sephiroth banner I pulled on has a pity gauge which increases by 5% after each 10x summon. Once the gauge becomes full or gets to 100, your next 10x summon is guaranteed to include Sephiroth.

But there is another Sephiroth banner. This one is a 4-step 10x summon banner. Each step can only be done twice. Step 3 is guaranteed to give you 40 [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres while Step 4 is guaranteed to give you 40 Sephiroth (FFVIIAC) unit shards.

The only problem is that this banner doesn't have a pity gauge. But every time you summon here, you're guaranteed to get 100 FFVIIAC Unit Summon Medal C for each step.

You can get these medals on the other Sephiroth banner too. You can exchange these medals for various items in the shop, including more Sephiroth shards. You can also exchange for a copy of Sephiroth in this shop but you'll need 2k medals to do so.

Second War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Account

Thought about starting another WotV account. Only been playing for a day or 2, but it already felt like I ended up wasting some resources. It's not just needing more vis to get shards. It was also the fact that it soon became clear that pretty much everything in this game requires either vis or gil or both, and the cost of stuff here is astronomically high.

Also, I wouldn't realize this until I started all over again, and read through the information again, but apparently, it even costs gil to borrow a support char unless you're borrowing from a friend.

In the select a support char screen, you can see gil at the bottom of every available support. I was under the impression that I was going to get that gil for using the support char so always made sure to pick the ones that give the highest amount. Little did I know that doing that was actually causing me to lose gil. LOL.

Anyway, it also felt like my 1st account was kinda unlucky since it took me a lot of vis before I was able to get Sephiroth, and I couldn't even get Kadaj yet.

So it was all the more reason to try to start over. Logged out of my 1st account then tried to create a new account.

This time, I went to the 4-step 10x summon Sephiroth banner. If I can't get Sephiroth by the time I finish pulling twice on this banner, then the plan was to reroll and try again.

Thankfully, Step 3 gave me my 1st copy of Sephiroth.

Did the Step 4 pull too to get the 40 Sephiroth shards.

I could do the 4-step 10x summon again, but opted not to for now so I could use the rest of my vis to try pulling for Kadaj next.

Since I was able to get Sephiroth and even some of his shards soon enough while still having some vis left, decided to stick with this account.

Kadaj Banners

The shard banner for Kadaj is a 1-time only 9-step 10x summon.

Steps 3 and 6 will give 40 Kadaj shards while Steps 4 and 7 will give 40 [FFVIIAC] UR Unit Mindspheres.

Pulled on this banner until I got to Step 7. After that, switched to pulling on the Kadaj banner with the pity gauge.

Just kept going through the story to get more vis to pull. On one hand, it was too bad that I had yet to get Kadaj. But on the other hand, at least the B-type FFVIIAC Unit Summon Medals I get every time I pull on the Kadaj banners will let me get more of his shards.

The pity gauge was at 25/100 when I finally got my first copy of Ultra Rare Avenger against the Planet Kadaj.

Here are some more pics of Kadaj’s summon lines and animation:

The pic above has the following words:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

We will join as a family and strike back at the planet!

Tifa Lockhart Banners

Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII is another playable char that came with this collab event. But unlike Sephiroth and Kadaj, you can get Ultra Rare Witness to the Way Forward Tifa (FFVIIAC) for free.

There is a 1-time only Tifa (FFVIIAC) guaranteed free 10x summon banner.

Here are some more pics of Tifa’s summon lines and animation:

The pic above has the following words:

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Words aren't the only thing that tell people what you're thinking...

I thought it was nice that we got Tifa for free. But the only thing we got for free is one copy of the unit. So if you want to build Tifa, you still need to get her shards.

No wonder there are also other Tifa banners that are similar to the Kadaj and Sephiroth banners.

Tried to build Tifa too, but my priority is still Sephiroth and Kadaj. Will focus on fully building and maxing out those 2 first before anyone else since they're the reason I started playing this game in the first place.

Cloud Strife Banners

Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII is another playable char that came with the Advent Children collab. His banner was still up when I joined the game but opted not to pull for him since was still focused on trying to max out Kadaj and Sephiroth.

Even just focusing on 2 (or 3, if you count Tifa, but, like I said, will prioritize Sephiroth and Kadaj first before turning my attention to her) chars already requires an exorbitant amount of resources and grinding so didn't want to have to work on yet another character.

But, as a new player, did get some free pulls on the He Who Conquered Doubt Cloud (FFVIIAC) banner. Unfortunately, wasn't lucky enough to get him.

Or maybe that's actually a good thing since, if I did end up getting him, would have felt like trying to build him too, which would have meant needing to grind more to get more resources and shards and such.

Anyway, that's it for now. There's a lot more, but gonna need to continue in another post since already reached the max limit of 30 pics per post in this one.

Conclusion

So what about you? What do you think about the War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius x Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children collab event?

Did you pull for Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, Kadaj, and/or Sephiroth? What do you think about their chars in this game? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging or replying to this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius game account and Google Play Store account

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freyayuki · 3 months ago

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Reverse: 1999 Mini Review

Reverse: 1999 (#ad) is a mobile game developed by Bluepoch.

Here’s why I decided to try out this game, or how I ended up trying out this game.

I talk more about this in another post, but after the Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia (DFFOO) mobile game discontinued or ended its service on February 29, 2024 as well as the recent lack of content in the Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (FFBE) mobile game and wanting to avoid pulling on both FFBE and the Fate/Grand Order (FGO) mobile game, started looking for another game to play.

That led me to trying out the Punishing: Gray Raven (PGR) mobile game. But, for reasons I talk more about in another post, didn't end up sticking with PGR for long. So I was soon back to looking for another game to try.

Reverse: 1999 Information

And that's when Reverse: 1999 came into the picture. Been hearing a lot of good things about this game like how interesting its story is, and how it even has some unusual characters. So decided to give Reverse: 1999 a try.

Reverse: 1999 vs Punishing: Gray Raven

Punishing: Gray Raven and Reverse: 1999 don't have the same gameplay since one is turn-based while the other isn't.

I thought the story of Reverse: 1999 was indeed pretty interesting. It's even voiced, unlike in PGR. Not that the story needs to be voiced. FGO's story isn't, and I like it just fine.

Still, considering the stories in FFBE and DFFOO aren't voiced either, it made for a nice change to check out a game with a voiced story this time.

The new player experience in Reverse: 1999 also seems to be much better when compared to PGR. For instance, in PGR, the summon banners didn't get unlocked even after finishing the tutorial. Then, when it finally got unlocked, didn't even get enough to be able to do a multi-draw.

On the other hand, in Reverse: 1999, not only was I able to summon soon after the tutorial, the game also gave me enough to be able to do a multi-draw right away.

Overall, Reverse: 1999 just felt more generous. It also helped that it felt like I had way more luck in this game when compared to PGR.

Reverse: 1999 also seems easier, which I prefer since was looking for something more casual.

Seeker in the Cave Banner in Reverse: 1999

When I first started playing Reverse: 1999, the current banner featured this 6-star character called 6. Apparently, he's a really good support. His banner is called Seeker in the Cave.

Just based on 6's appearance, I thought he looked pretty interesting, so didn't mind rolling for him.

Continued playing through the story to get more Clear Drops. Clear Drops can be exchanged for Unilogs, the currency needed to pull on banners.

In the 6 banner, players have a 50/50 chance of getting 6 after hitting the pity. This means that if you get a 6-star from this banner, there's a 50/50 chance that it will be 6. If you don't get 6, then the next time you get a 6-star from this banner, it's guaranteed to be 6.

The pity is 70 pulls, meaning you're guaranteed to get a 6-star char after pulling 70 times on this banner. The pity on the 6 banner will carry over to other similar banners.

Punishing: Gray Raven has a banner that's similar to the 6 banner in Reverse: 1999. But the pity in this banner is 60 pulls and, unlike in Reverse: 1999, there's no 50/50. If you get a S-rank char in this banner, then it's 100% guaranteed to be the featured char.

So, objectively speaking, PGR's banner is better. But it's also true that in Punishing: Gray Raven, I ended up having to pity the S-rank char called Lucia: Crimson Weave.

I talk more about that in another post, but had to grind a lot, and was thankfully eventually able to get her before her banner ended. That really burnt me out though.

On the other hand, in Reverse: 1999, I actually lost the 50/50 on 6's banner to this 6-star char called Medicine Pocket.

Wasn't that disappointed though because I got Medicine Pocket after only a few multis. Plus, I soon found out that they're actually one of the best healers in this game.

And this multi also gave me 2 copies of the featured 5-star char called Baby Blue. Too bad she doesn't seem to be all that good.

Okay, wait, just went to double-check since the records of my pulls from the Seeker in the Cave banner are still in-game even though that banner has long since ended by now.

Apparently, it was even better than I remembered. I actually got Medicine Pocket in my first multi-draw on the 6 banner. IIRC, this was also my very first multi-draw in this game.

Anyway, was eventually able to get my first copy of 6 after a few more pulls.

Here are some more screenshots of 6:

This multi also gave me yet another copy of Baby Blue and my first copy of the 5-star char called X.

Reverse: 1999 Story

As aforementioned, the story in Reverse: 1999 is pretty interesting. I also like that it's voiced.

This game actually offers several different languages - English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. I prefer Japanese voices with English subtitles, but I did download the English audio just to check it out. Haven't had the chance to try out the Chinese and Korean audio yet though.

But, while the story in Reverse: 1999 is interesting, I noticed that some of the translation feels off and even bad. There are also some stuff that's confusing. And noticed some awkward phrasing and even purple prose too. Will talk more about this later.

6 and Sotheby Banners

After getting 6, still felt like pulling some more so decided to keep tossing any Unilogs I get on his banner. I thought this wasn't such a bad idea since the pity does carry over to future time-limited banners like this one.

Plus, right now, my only 6-stars are 6 and Medicine Pocket so it wouldn't be so bad to lose the 50/50, assuming I get a new and useful 6-star anyway.

On the other hand, if I do manage to get another copy of 6, then that's great too since that would make him much better.

At the moment, I've been using 6, Medicine Pocket, and Sonetto, the free 5-star char we got near the start of the game. Sonetto seems like the Mash Kyrielight (from FGO) of Reverse: 1999.

Sonetto's more of a support, but she can deal some damage too. Been using her and 6 as both DPS and supports with Medicine Pocket as the healer.

So far, the story quests in Reverse: 1999 are pretty easy so was able to get by just fine with the aforementioned team. This is in stark contrast to PGR wherein it seemed like the story quests got too hard way too quickly.

In Reverse: 1999, it felt like the content difficulty was just right, like it was slowly increasing, but not at such a drastic pace so was able to keep up. Plus the game was actually giving me the resources I needed to increase the levels of my chars.

But in PGR, it felt like the game wasn't giving me the resources to keep up with the spike in content difficulty. It didn't help that the levels of my chars there were capped based on my player level. Like if my player level was currently 15, then I can't level my chars past 15.

Anyway, since I want an actual DPS too, found myself eyeing the other currently available banners in Reverse: 1999. One of these banners is called One Gram of Curiosity. It features a 6-star character called Sotheby.

Just met her in the story, and I thought she's pretty nice. I like her well enough. She may be childish, but she's earnest and eager to help, and her overall personality seems fine.

Looking at her kit, she appears to be a mix between a healer and a DPS. Since her banner shares the same pity as 6's banner, thought I might as well try rolling for her.

Threw a couple of pulls on Sotheby's banner but, sadly, failed to get her. Stopped trying to roll for Sotheby when I looked up some more info about her and found that she wasn't that good as a DPS.

Reverse: 1999 Farming Event

Eventually, was able to unlock the events section in Reverse: 1999. The current patch is called The Prisoner in the Cave. The farming section in this patch is called Inspiration from the Proofs.

This includes a series of quests that you can farm over and over again in order to get event currency that you can then use to exchange for items and materials.

For this particular patch, there's a lotto box that I thought was pretty similar to the one in FGO. In Reverse: 1999, there are multiple different lotto boxes though. These are known as the Black Box of Conjectures.

So you need to farm a lot in order to clear out all the boxes and get all the limited items and materials.

Normally, I wouldn't mind this at all except that, since I'm new to this game, my chars were sadly not strong enough to even clear the first stage of this farming event.

This was really annoying, and I remember thinking, why bother unlocking this event for new players if they can't clear it? At the very least, the first stage should have been easy enough for even new players to be able to clear.

Reverse: 1999 Other Banners

Kept working on trying to level up my chars and their Resonances and Psychubes some more, but was eventually gated by the lack of resources.

Also, it feels like I really need a DPS. So once again, I found myself looking at the other available banners in Reverse: 1999. Was still continuing to pull on the 6 banner, but I thought that, rather than a 6 dupe or some random 6-star that might or might not be a DPS, I could really use an actual DPS.

This brought my attention to the banner called Abundance of the Water: The First Milestone.

This banner features 4 6-star chars on rate-up: A Knight, Melania, Voyager, and An-An Lee.

I saw this banner before, but I avoided it after finding out that the pity in it isn't carried over and isn't shared with the likes of 6's and Sotheby's banners.

And, in the Abundance of the Water: The First Milestone banner, the only 6-stars are the 4 featured ones. So if you get a 6-star from this banner, it's guaranteed to be either A Knight, An-An Lee, Melania, or Voyager.

Looked up some info about these chars and found that they range from being pretty good to not that bad. It also seemed like any one of these chars would be good for my account. And, since I don't have any of them, I thought it wasn't such a bad idea to pull on this banner.

So I started pulling. Don't remember the exact details anymore and wasn't able to take a screenshot of the pull records but, eventually, was able to get my first copy of Melania.

Melania

Melania's Afflatus is Beast, which is the same as Medicine Pocket's.

Initially, was disappointed that I ended up getting Melania. IIRC, the farming stage I was trying to clear has enemies that have class advantage against Beasts, so that plus the fact that I already have a few Beast Afflatus chars had me feeling pretty disappointed that I ended up with yet another one.

Just based on appearance alone since I have yet to meet any of these 4 chars in the story, was hoping to get Voyager. Her art looks really nice, and I like the space and stars theme she has.

But after taking a closer look, it seems like Melania was actually the best char to get from this banner. She's a DPS, and a really good one at that.

I started leveling her up and - well, long story short, I'm now really glad that I have her. I guess I'm totally biased now, but she's really great. Having her really helped a lot. So glad she was the one who showed up when I pulled on the Abundance of the Water: The First Milestone banner.

Still haven't been able to fully max her out, but I've been pouring my resources into both her and 6. Soon, I was actually able to clear the first stage of that aforementioned farming event. This unlocked the next stage of that event.

With Melania, was able to ignore the Afflatus of the enemies. Thanks to her, was able to clear some of the harder stages that I hadn't been able to do before. Even managed to get to the last quest of the Inspiration from the Proofs event and eventually clear that as well.

That was more than what I was hoping for, but that really helped since that stage gave the most currency so it was the best one to farm. Sadly, wasn't able to clear out all the lotto boxes due to lack of Cellular Activity (this is what the stamina or energy is called in this game) and the event ending already.

Anyway, since Melania's really good, decided to keep pulling on the Abundance of the Water: The First Milestone banner. After all, still don't have any of the other featured chars on said banner. And I wouldn't mind at all even if I get a dupe of Melania since that would just make her stronger.

Voyager

Kept pulling on the aforementioned banner until I got another 6-star. That 6-star ended up being Voyager.

Was surprised when I saw her since she didn't look like her image in the Abundance of the Water: The First Milestone banner. I'd soon find out that that image will only be unlocked once I get her to Insight 2.

I'd also find out that Voyager is sadly the weakest char on the aforementioned banner. She's like a mix between a DPS and a support while both A Knight and Melania are DPS and An-An Lee's a support.

Things to Like About Reverse: 1999

Here are some of the things that I like about Reverse: 1999:

Generous

This game feels pretty generous. For instance, the Abundance of the Water: The First Milestone banner actually gave a free single draw each day although IIRC, this was only for 7 days or so. The game also regularly gives materials and currency via exchange codes.

Casual

This game seems pretty easy, which I like since I've been looking for a casual game where I don't have to care about the meta that much.

Reverse: 1999 does have some content that I can't clear yet, but that's only to be expected considering how new I am to this game, and how I only really have a few chars built and those aren't even fully maxed out yet.

Actually surprised that I was able to get pretty far in some endgame content. For instance, there was that Wandering on the Shore event which consists of a series of hard fights. The first few quests let you bring a support char, but you're on your own for the later stages.

Being able to bring a support character really helped, especially if that char was a DPS. For the later quests that didn't provide a support char, was only able to clear a few with my team.

Thankfully, the quests I cleared gave me enough currency to buy everything important in the Uttu shop. The only things I didn't get to buy were the costume for this 3-star char called La Source as well as some of the Sharpodonty, the money in this game.

So it feels like this was pretty good progress for such a new account. If I had more and fully built chars, pretty sure I'd have been able to clear more of the endgame content in Reverse: 1999.

Story

As aforementioned, I think the story in Reverse: 1999 is pretty good and interesting.

Language and Voice Options

I also like that the story is voiced, and that there are several language options to choose from.

Auto and Replay Features

I really like that Reverse: 1999 has both an auto and replay feature. So I can clear a quest either manually or on auto for the first time then just replay that clear over and over again.

Pity

Don't like the 50/50, but at least there's a pity system here and the pity carries over between similar banners.

Character Designs and Art

Some of the char designs and art in this game look really good. Voyager's Insight 2 art, for instance. 6 and Melania look pretty nice too.

It's also nice that Reverse: 1999 has a number of chars with unusual designs. For instance, there's a char who is an apple, there's a radio, and there's even an alien spaceship and the shard of a mirror.

But soon after starting Reverse: 1999, I realized that these unusual chars are mostly of lower rarity. Sadly, unlike in FGO where there are some really good 3-star and below Servants, the lower rarity chars in Reverse: 1999 aren't that good, especially not for endgame content. It doesn't help that you can't level these lower rarity chars as much as the 5 and 6-star ones.

For example, the char called APPle, who is an apple with a bowtie, is a 4-star char so he can only be leveled up to Insight 2.

At least there are like 2 6-stars who have an unusual design - A Knight, a suit of armor, and Pickles, a dog. But, IIRC, it's just these 2. The rest are all of lower rarity and, AFAIK, the game has yet to add any more chars with unusual designs.

Things to Dislike About Reverse: 1999

Here are some of the things that I dislike about Reverse: 1999:

Patch Duration

It feels like patches take way too long before they end. It doesn't help that there are events in a patch that end early.

Was actually really annoyed when the Inspiration from the Proofs farming event ended already and yet the The Prisoner in the Cave patch was still up. Would have been able to farm some more if the event didn't end so soon.

Some of the events in a patch also don't take that long to finish. So there are times when it seems like there's nothing to do while waiting for a patch to end and a new one to begin.

Banners and Patch Schedule

The English version of Reverse: 1999 is a few months or so behind the original version. I wish the game would shorten this gap even more since it still feels like it takes way too long for banners and patches to get to the Global version.

No 5-star Pity

There's a pity for 6-stars, but sadly, there's none for 5-stars.

Item and Material Drop Rates

Initially, I thought raising chars in this game wasn't that bad. But that changed when I tried to get Melania and 6 to Insight 3 as well as raise their Resonance level some more.

That was when I found out that the drop rates of the high-tier items or materials in this game are really awful. Spending hundreds of Cellular Activity only to get not even a single copy of the item I'm farming for feels really bad, man. I don't mind farming, but not if it feels like it's just a waste of time.

Was instantly reminded of FGO, and not in a good way. Because Fate/Grand Order's item drop rates are also really awful. And that's why I never bother to farm there. Can't remember the last time I farmed for an item in FGO. Instead, what I do is just rely on farming events and lottos and always making sure to clear out the shops that come with these events.

So I was thinking I might not stick with Reverse: 1999 if the drop rates were going to be this bad. Will have to see if the next event's shop has a decent stock of items and materials. I heard it wasn't a lotto like the one in this current patch so hopefully, I'll be able to farm that shop and get stuff that will help me level up my chars some more.

Time-limited Picrasma Candies

Picrasma Candy is the item used to replenish Cellular Activity in Reverse: 1999. This is similar to the apples in FGO. But unlike in FGO where apples don’t expire, the candies in PGR have a time limit.

This is annoying since you’re forced to use your candies unless you want to let them go to waste. Wish Reverse: 1999 would let us save our candies and use them whenever we want.

No Clear Cache Feature

I wish Reverse: 1999 has a clear cache feature like the one in FGO and FFBE.

Puzzles

Don't like some of the puzzles in this game. Find them really annoying to deal with.

Tooth Fairy and Centurion Banner

Tooth Fairy and Centurion are both 6-star chars. The former is apparently the best healer in this game while the latter's a pretty good Beast Afflatus DPS.

The Global or English version of Reverse: 1999 just released a banner that has the 2 aforementioned chars on rate-up.

But there are several problems with this banner. For one, it doesn't share a pity with other banners. For another, both Tooth Fairy and Centurion are on shared rate-up.

If you get a 6-star char from this banner, there's a 50/50 chance that it will be an off-banner char. If you do get an on-banner 6-star char, then it can either be Tooth Fairy or Centurion, but there's no way to guarantee which one you'll get.

Would have wanted to pull for Tooth Fairy since I've been hearing how good she is. Apparently, she doesn't just heal. She provides some pretty good buffs and support as well.

Didn't want to pull on this banner though because there's no guarantee I'll get Tooth Fairy. Don't have a copy of Centurion either, but don't really want this char considering I already have Melania as my Beast Afflatus DPS.

So I really wish the game didn't go with this kind of banner.

Revival! The Uluru Games Patch

Revival! The Uluru Games, the next patch after the The Prisoner in the Cave, just started in Reverse: 1999.

Thankfully, the shop in this patch has a lot of the items I need to further upgrade my chars. After some farming both within and outside the event as well as some crafting, was able to get both 6 and Melania to Insight 3 and Resonance level 10.

Also got both of their equipped Psychubes to the max level. Now, continuing to work on building my other chars like Medicine Pocket and Voyager.

Eventually, managed to clear out the event shop. Glad that this shop offers a nice selection of different items. So it looks like I'll just need to make sure to clear out all the event shops to get the materials I need.

Might still need to do some farming outside the event if a shop doesn't have an item I need, and can't wait for it to show up in a future shop. Still wish they'd increase the item drop rates though, or, at the very least, guarantee 1 item drop per run.

Revival! The Uluru Games Main Story

Started playing through the main story of the Revival! The Uluru Games patch and ended up hating the 2 main chars featured in this story - 6-star Spathodea and 6-star Ezra Theodore. Thought the event story was awful. It did a great job making me hate Ezra and Spathodea.

Didn't get to take screenshots, but I remember being especially annoyed with Ezra. There was how the text kept praising him and how everyone just seems to do the same, but it just doesn't seem believable.

There was also how they made it clear he wasn't a doctor, and yet he still ended up being treated as one anyway. Some of the things he says also comes across as offensive and insulting. Even Spathodea came across as annoying.

The story of this event definitely could have been better. In the end, it was just disappointing. Also hated the puzzles in this patch.

It feels like the only thing I really liked in this event was the music. Now, that was really good. The song is called Go Together.

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As the Driven Snow Falls Story

As the Driven Snow Falls is part of the Revival! The Uluru Games patch. This includes a climbing game and a story that's focused on Ezra.

The climbing game was really boring. It basically just involved a lot of tapping through the screen to "climb" and reading through a lot of text.

Don't like the story in the As the Driven Snow Falls event either. This time, remembered to take screenshots so will go into a bit more detail about the story.

One of the things I noticed in Reverse: 1999 is that the story has some filler and unnecessary text. Take a look at the screenshot below as an example:

X lifted the teapot, refilling Ezra's cup with piping hot tea. X: Here, have some more tea. It'll make you feel better.

We get the description of X refilling Ezra's cup with tea, and then we get him telling Ezra to have some tea.

But is the first line really necessary? If we remove that description and just have X telling Ezra to have some tea, that doesn't change anything in the story. If X tells Ezra to have some tea, then we can easily infer that he gave him tea so there's no need for the text describing his actions.

Having both of the aforementioned lines just makes the text seem unnecessarily long. There's no need to describe everything or every little thing. Sometimes, less is more.

Here's another example of more filler and pointless text:

The arcanist said with a wave of his hand. X blinked.

And another:

Ezra closed his eyes, falling silent, then reopened them. Ezra nodded, then nodded again.

These lines are completely and utterly pointless. Remove these lines, and the story won't change at all. We don't need these descriptions. They don't add anything to the story.

Sometimes, the story will also have some purple prose. Here's an example:

The tilted teapot no longer poured fresh tea; it was light, as if there was nothing left inside.

This one isn't even that bad, but I remember there being more in the other stories in this game.

Here's another example of purple prose in the Ezra story:

The handful of pure white flowers held in the child's hands were lifted up high. He looked devout and sincere, almost like an angel. He just needed a white robe and a trumpet to complete the image.

The above lines also serve as an example of how the story likes to keep praising Ezra. Telling me how good he is instead of showing me just annoys me and makes me dislike him even more.

Also, the text describing Ezra as a "child" makes me wonder exactly how old he is supposed to be. He does look like a kid. So I thought he was a kid, but then the story mentions him doing adult things like working and such.

Anyway, also noticed some typos in the story like this one:

I saw you added Pinguicula alpina to the dilution; it'll could cause an allergic reaction.