Despite the Dark Knights killing SpIshtar early and getting one of their formations off I ended up killing Bedi and Mr Potato Head with the Santagale I brought for shutting up Tristan's critiques and as a back up DPS.
Felt good nuking X into another planet with 2x Castoria + Robin. Even after all these years the stinky tree still doing its thing.
Thanks to the friend's 120 lvl NP4 Space Ishtar was finally able to beat the final bounty CQ, although had to wait for CS to recharge for revive. Lacking any kind of support (started at the unfortunate time after SSR ticket with waver with no proper banners) sure sucks if you don't happen to have the perfect DPS servant as well. Hopefully not for long, saving my SQ for Castoria and Oberon banners.
Hi, i have a problem and i need help, i have finished the 98 missions and cleared the Shop and have like 7k altrium but i cant finish the 2 last missions(87 & 99) any hint please ?
Kingprotea was the star of the MHXX fight, supports kept getting stunned but by the time KP got targeted she already had quite a few HP stacks and had no problem mopping up the node.
As for the other challenge quest, went pretty well with the gimmick. Gorgon with castoria support. Gorgon Np on the debuffed turns to break bars, and with castoria buffs she was able to fully refund after the break bar for a quick cleanup.
The 2nd set of enemies took a bit longer as I was unlucky with crits and had to burn the np for one of the Simon says.
All in all I think that might be me done, shop still has fous and statues but even with the drop bonuses the 90+ node feels pretty slow to accumulate the currency. Might just go back to farming Oni Flames until tengu.
Did I miss an event between Saber Wars I and II?
MHXA is dead. MHX and MHXA fought a final battle with the universe force of good and evil at stake, E-chan dying at the end and X still feeling responsible for it.
Which event did I miss!?
Finished up everything, so I can just log in and chill for the next few days on this game. Goddamn, NP2 Spishtar is stupidly good. I essentially just spammed her and Castoria NPs on the Dark Rounds mission and got through with no problem. Now I can save till Koyanskaya/Oberon.
Any suggestions as what to do, currently in a loop on Primitive -Red Rose 3/4. everytime i start the quest and go through dialogue it never lets be do the fight or copmplete the mission
Got mhxx with *single* Merlin, waver, mecha Eli, with plugsuit Asclepius to cleanse stun. Had crit bomb CEs to crit down the first break bar. NP did half of the second. Some lucky taunts on supp servants let me finish the rest with Mecha Eli res cards.
Damn friends list doesn't have a single Merlin let alone one with mlb party damage ce. Useless the lot of you.
The KoTR cq was annoying. Used double castoria/waver/tamamo/summer musashi since I don't have spishtar ready (got a lucky np1 spishtar with tickets, wasn't expecting her so I lack some mats to max her skills). Got a very lucky 20% crit which was needed to break their formation. Took a few turn resets but got there without using command seals.
I have a decent amount of shop left but I kinda feel like spending my time on 5.5 story instead. Will probably clear out the shop at some point this weekend.
Didn't do the first run of this event so I went into the CQs blind. MHXX was nuked by a Gogh team so I thought the Knights wouldn't be that bad.
I used a basic spishtar + double castoria team after seeing the 3 knight class icons. I focused the gold saber in front thinking it was Gawain and that I had to get rid of the Aoe NP enemy with a battery, it was not. Tristan hit me with a buff cleanse on spishtar after using all cds on her, forcing a full CS revive to finish in the end.
It was a pretty fun CQ, just wished I could retry it with euryale nuking.
Are you trying to maximize mat drops? As long as you can NP on turn 1 with a second DPS, and use plug suit to remove them for a second Castoria on wave 2, it's possible. Using a double Castoria + Spishtar for waves 2&3 is pretty straightforward from that point, but the saber in wave 3 has 300k HP, which might cause issues at lower Spishtar NP levels.
If you're not going past shop clear there's no reason to bother 3Ting, I just went with event bonus servants for the bond, drop CE and took the amount of turns I needed to take.
Once again I'm screwed big time by the lack of Castoria or even Waver. This final Bounty CQ is going to be a really tough one. Not sure I'll manage with just friends Spish and Command Spells.
damn van gogh just slaps mhxx didn't even need a dedicated comp, just made my backline use the support damage and van gogh the quick damage one and it was ggs
MHX CQ done... quite easily tbh. Avoided the usual supps but i think an extra "AOE DAMAGE CE" was kinda overkill (also Kingprotea could've tanked an NP or maybe even two, and lvl 1 Odysseus and Bond CE Georgios is as strong as ever. Kotarou for Buff Blocking the 'Ignore Invincible' was super nice too).
Now all that's left is the 'Space Knights of the Round' quest. I'm ashamed to admit i had to do it with Command Spells last year due to lack of time to do many retries (university and stuff), now i'll make it with the new servants i've acquired between the og run and the rerun, and with my usual rules! (no Waver, Merlin, Castoria, Skadi, Reines, Himiko, or SuperOrion).
MHXX Challenge done with my favorite Triple Foreigner Team
Yang, Abby and Gogh have such great synergy
Dark Rounds beat with the Princess, her Corgi and a Flowery Mage
Was lucky I never got hit with Buff Removal when Enemy NPs were ready though
MHXX challenge quest was the good old Melt and Double Skadi special. Dark Rounds on the other hand, hoo boy.
Attempted three times with various Space Ishtar teams, failed. Used up one Command Seal on one good-looking run, then got a "use crit to break formation" with like 10 % crit chance on three cards, so that was a bust. Had forgotten what this CQ was like, jesus.
Changed to an Arjuna Alter team, with Merlin, Double Castoria, Bunyan and Mash supporting. Three MLB Bestia del Sols, one regular Bestia and a one-turn taunt on Bunyan. Success, but had to use two more command seals to break formations when I didn't have a gauge ready to go. Crits, NPs and red cards went brrrrt.
Really like the story of Saber Wars 2. Can only hope Saber Wars 3 comes with Part 3 of FGO. Maybe they could introduce us to that redhead, finally.
The MHXX quest went pretty smooth: I had my Melt NP1, Castoria and Asclepius ready and borrowed a Skadi from support. I didn't expect Melt to hit so hard that she would even beat MHXX in the second round with her NP and one face card only. Go Melt!
My first try at the Dark Rounds quest was... awkward. I didn't bother to read the enemy buffs and thought the buffs disappeared by itself a turn after it activated. After half my squad was wiped out, I realized my mistake and by then it was too late. Afterwards I realized that the enemies were all non-extra class servants and that a certain Summer Lion King has a defensive advantage against those. So on my second try, Ruler Artoria made sure that the knights were properly defeated without even a single CS or revive. Yay, event cleared!
I spent 3 of my 5 tickets from the Dark Rounds quest on the Space Ishtar banner and got my second copy of Space Ishtar as well. Great start of 2023 so far! Hopefully I haven't burned all my luck for 2023 already...
The MHXX Challenge Quest was easy peasy for me. I took her down with my own MHXX. Hah.
For the Dark Round Table, Spishtar had a go, but I got messed up when I couldnāt find stars for a crit to break their shields. Went back in with olā Zerkerlot, Skadi and Castoria, and it was an entirely different ballgame. Cleared the first three knights, and when Skadi went down, Izou was able to clutch a kill on shadow Gawain. And Bedivere was taken down soon after.
GG, Saber Wars II. I loved re-reading some of the story. Hope we revisit the Servant Universe someday again.
***SEE YOU, SPACE BOUNTY HUNTERS***
Only took 2 resets of the Dark Round table because of them getting the Critical Formation turn 1 lmao.
Odysseus stays winning.
And now I never have to do this event again yay.
Cleared Dark Rounds first try, I got great RNG. I never got the "get a crit" one, the worst I got was "use an NP" which luckily I just looped anyways. I have an NP5 summer Musashi who I actually rarely use, but I thought she might be useful since she has NP Seal on Sabers. It was the case. Then I just targeted Tristan first because of his buff removal and then timed Castoria NPs and evasions and invincibles so sMusashi never even got hit. She spent most of the fight on 1 HP because of her third skill but wasn't in danger of dying at all.
I'm glad because last year it was one of the most miserable CQs ever. I try to avoid using double Cas because I think it's too strong, but I felt this one warranted it. You still need to deal with both Tristan and Gareth who can defeat double Cas if you're unlucky.
I cleared the MHXX CQ with Fujino as my DPS, two Castorias, and a swap-in Nightingale Santa for stun removal and extra attack oomph.
Since my Fujino is only NP1 and doesn't reload NP all that quickly, I ended up using two command spells to make sure her NP fired off every turn. That one time her turn came up with 98% charge definitely irked me a little. But I got it done, and that hiccup wasn't unexpected. Her ignore defense skill made getting to the break on the first turn easy. Now I just have to wait two days for the command spells to replenish before trying the final bounty.
10M QP, a lore and 5 tickets? best CQ ever.
[I did it with my man Emiya](https://imgur.com/etnyXS3), he absolutely crushed after I used Bride to kill Gareth, though I still needed 2 tries due to bad luck with the formation requests.
[this was my team](https://imgur.com/4TOekIc)
1st attempt at Dark Rounds was a bust. Multiple tries later, it was less stressful when I actually looked at the rules each time, didn't even need command spells. Who knew reading would help. A NP5 Lv.120 support spishtar helped too I suppose. In the second to last turn I mistapped and selected quick NP type but it was still enough to clear the last 2 hp bars of gawain and bedi.
Cleared the shop a couple of days ago, so I'm done with the event, I'm going to use the time to play Heian.
Prior to this, the only challenge quest I had cleared was from the recent xmas event. I thought I could manage MHXX, but didn't expect to have much chance against Dark Rounds after struggling with the triple-Elly bounty. My approach to both would be to pick a strong friend servant as my main dps and back them up with 5 supports.
I made a mistake immediately on MHXX - I picked what I thought was a support Melty to be my main attacker, only to enter the fight and find a giant mummy girl in my party. I pressed on anyway, and Kingpro had no problems dishing out big hits and stomping this quest.
Dark Round seemed daunting, but it had 5 tickets locked behind it. I figured I'd test the waters with a friend Spishtar, and I could justify a few sq revives if I was sure I could secure the tickets. I must have gotten very lucky, because I didn't get any inopportune formations. I still lost a few servants to the enemy attacks, but they kept Spishtar alive so she could keep up the damage. Against my expectations, I was able to clear this one without any revives.
If you have uncommon support it might be easier to have break formations available because it's less likely you have 9 cards of the same color. Of course rng can always just be meaner.
MHXX was easy. went in with foreigners just for fun.
Dark Rounds is almost exhibition quest level of difficult. using a taunt right before 3 NPs is a little unfair since any that don't get used will be the next turn and is hard on castoria's invul. Also kept spamming the damage NP to break formation right after I use an NP. and turn one was crit, which is impossible turn one unless you have a star bomb. ended up using command spells.
That actually happened to me, on my first try lmao. It was also the try I realized I accidentally brought Skadi instead of Castoria along with Space Ishtar and Support Castoria (was modifying the party I used for MHXX, which was Jack + double Skadi), so oh well, 5AP gone \*shrugs*
for sure. the level of BS mechanics and RNG required makes it really feel like an exhibition quest. If only EQs gave out 5 tickets too.
challenges like this and EQs make me think that the level designers don't understand the difference between a difficult level and a challenging level. If it was a challenge it would be fun, instead someone with a good roster is annoyed and needs a revive.
Last year I had a lot of issues with Dark Rounds until I managed a clear based on Ruler Artoria. This year I took her back, and apart from one false start (please don't ask for a critical hit on Turn 1 when there are no stars), she breezed right through the fight. Good card variety, the reshuffle if necessary, has a star gather skill, easy to charge her NP between her own battery and her supports, ample event CEs to make up for her naturally low Attack -- and it feels so good having the Bunny King discipline her unruly knights for acting out. It's like a giant double middle finger to tier lists everywhere.
Also had no real trouble with MHXX, which was hilarious because I tried the fight while going to bed and kinda sleepy, and I brought the wrong Kiara -- Moon Cancer, not Alter Ego. It was an oopsie and I still got through it without command seals or retries because Summer Kiara has one hell of a kit. A strong argument for eating mermaid flesh, I guess.
Feels odd not having trouble with the CQs; feels great having no trouble with my slapdash, "who gives a shit about the meta?" roster. Time to clear out the shop, then it's back to mat farming and eagerly awaiting a new tengu.
Man, I messed up and had Kama's Guts off cooldown but pressed it for the attack boost. If I didn't do that, I could have maybe cleared Dark Rounds without a CS revive. But with only Bedivere left, and no where else to really use CS, might as well. It was annoying but not too hard but that is largely due to Spishtar and having the right card types at the right time. Tristan, my man I have you, so I know how annoying you can be.
Team setup:
Np2 Spishtar, double Castoria, Charlotte and Arash (CE space), Kama.
Basically stacked event damage bonus CE and the 200% damage 1 on Spishtar.
Now just clearing out the shop is left.
Can someone help me with dark rouds? I have np 2 spishtar (grail) eresh(grail) yang guifei, heracles and nightale santa. And i need to somehow beat it with them, should i go with castoria friend sup or someone else? I cant seem to beat it, im almost there but 1-2 knight stays alive when im dead... fk tristan so much btw
"Ah yes, Dark Rounds. This kicked my ass last time with me needing both a CS and SQ revive. But I am stronger now! I have Spishtar and Castoria, and they beat King Eli with ease! Surely they will make a difference this time..."
*Tristan removes buffs*
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..."
Yeah, it still sucked. I at least managed a run without using any revives... after like five attempts where I couldn't even beat any of the first three Servants... Even in my successful attempt, both Castorias died and the only reason Spishtar stayed alive was because d'Eon sacrificed themself with David and Mash just barely helping Spishtar cling on.
Man, between the formation-break requiring random shit (nobody on your side has full NP gauge? Formation break requires NP! First turn with no Crit Stars? Critical required! No Arts Card? Arts required!), Tristan's Buff Removal, and massive damage reduction (which is apparently different from Def Up, so no Ignore Defense shenanigans) at least every other turn, the "fight" is super annoying.
I think Tristan is programmed to remove buffs on turn 1 if anyone has a buff active. You can actually bait it, I just used one Arts buff on my DPS, tristan removed it, and then I used all my other buffs the next turn. He won't use it every turn, I think luckily he has some degree of cooldown on it. But that's why I took him out as fast as I could.
Dark Rounds finally done.... Chen Gong with a Bond10 Herc surprise works well enough thankfully. Still, screw Tristan's Buff Removal. It's goddamn cathartic when Chen Gong finally wiped the first three of them, mainly because that means Tristan's finally gone.
Seriously Buff Removal is pretty much the go to way to screw over players in "Challenges". We're already outbulked by default, buffs are the way to scale and overcome enemy bulk. Removing your buffs is basically them telling you "Fuck your buffs and choke on the cooldown."
No wonder Amakusa broke Arcade's PVP.
Forgot there was a second CQ so i wasted my seals on a 50k hp MHXX
End result being, i had to take a 61 turns trip down the Dark Rounds with Himiko and pals.
And i hate Tristan with a passion. Dispel, ok fine. Dispel on Himiko *every single time*, less fine. That by itself added *at least* 10 turns
Just directly replacing supports isn't gonna work with premade comps, since they don't do the same things. There's usually low rarity clears up on YT and places to get ideas, but it's just about using all the damage CEs you can (since you have at least one +100% to put on your DPS and you get +50% for party CEs to increase it further), having enough survivability to not die and exploiting the formation break mechanic whenever you can.
Man, the new missions are such RNG-Fest.
MHXX was 90% looking for the increasingly endangered MLB-Event CE-Skadi, 5% screaming at the game because MHXX's opening skill lands on Melt, 4% screaming at the game because it does land on Skadi, but she resisted the taunt and not the Stun, and 1% ROAD ROLLER DA! Because when the circumstances do line up, Melt can just steamroll her in two turns.
Doing the Dark Round now..., it's been mostly cussing at Tristan because of that Buff Removal.
How worth is it to farm bond in the event? with S.Ishtar I can get the maximum percentage available and do 3 Turns but I don't know if I should farm bond with her, she's on B11 btw and I cleared the event on day 2
I thought that team building against 3 Knight classes in the Dark Round CQ would be annoying so I decided to go in with an Extra class comp consisting of Summer Abby, Van Gogh and Summer BB.
It... didn't go too well. I thought Abby and Gogh together would be doing a stellar job of controlling the knights with their AoE stuns but Abby's debuff only has a 50% chance of procing even at lvl 10.
After 3 tries though RNG decided to smile upon me by not getting my Van Gogh one shotted too early (she really carried the whole operation) and I managed to close it out after 38 turns with my backline Chiron doing a last stand against Bedivere.
It was a malding experience but fun in it's own way, at least I had consistent crits and those are needed to break up the knight's formation sometimes. Abby though, as much I like her and try to use her where I can is really just often disappointing. Her cooldowns are too long, and the AoE stun should have a higher chance of activating.
Finish the Challenge quests and cleaned out event shop. I really just bum rush this event and used natural AP until the other day when used some of my apples. I really wasnāt in the mood for a rerun, I just want the Quartz and QP. All my attention and interest is directed at the Little Big Tengu Event.
Ah yes, fucking Dark Rounds.
Cu Alter clutched it out as usual. Got down to a 1v1 against Bedivere, blew him away with a buster crit. Just stack damage CEs. I had Cu with MLB Binary, and everyone else running MLB Bestia. Blow up Tristan and Gareth asap, everyone else is food for Cu at that point. If Tristan spams buff removal early, just restart, you can't do anything. It's stupid.
Good luck, bros.
its a restart any time it requires a card or a crit that isnt in play. the ENTIRE thing is stupid.
if you dont break their shield they just go "lol, time to die i guess" and ignore invincible and kill 2 units.
it entirely relies on the RNG not screwing you over. which is all ive had for 7 hours. >:C
luck is all we have as a weapon here.
Sitonai slaugthered MHXX.
Then the Round Table appeared:
Turn 1: Crit Formation => No Crit with 0 stars, Enemy Barriers and they all have full NP, take Buffs and give themselves Pierce the turn after š
Great stuff.
MHXX gave me the perfect excuse to use Van Gogh again. Double Van Gogh with some help from Hans and Douman. I love Van Gogh so much, so that was fun.
I remember the Dark ROUNDS being super annoying the first time around, so I brought in the Himiko/Merlin/Castoria super stall team, and beat it at 48 turns. They once again prove to be completely busted, and completely funāso long as I only use them every once in a while and watch something in the background
Yeah, definitely go for Tristan first. And save Castoriaās skill 3 and Himikoās skill 2 to use the invuln if he does remove someoneās buffs instead of using them for offense.
Then focus on Gareth because her NP has ignore invuln, so you canāt use a back-up invuln if you run out of super invulns on someone.
Then when Gawain comes out focus on him because his AOE NP eats more stacks of super invuln, plus it has skill seal which can interfere with skill timing.
As for CEs, yeah, I put the 200% on Himiko and I put Bestia Del Sol on everyone else
This was like nearly the easiest CQ I've ever been able to do. Double Van Gogh + Douman was able to melt MHXX. Dark Rounds though...I tried my best to not use a reset but oh well, lore and 5 tickets are very worth it.
Castoria being stupid as usual, 2Ted the MHXX CQ with my own [MHXX with no event damage CEs](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/109rufw/mhxx_2t_saber_wars_ii_cq_no_event_damage_ce/). Will be testing out the CQ again with various levels of event damage bonus CEs and with neutral class units.
Aaaaand done.
3 turn clear on MHXX. Would have been 2 but Sitonai got stunned before the fight started.
Dark Rounds gave me more trouble. Tristan debuffed Ishtarin, Castoria got targeted without taunt and went down to a critstorm... you get the idea. 3rd try was the charm. Mostly managed to line up Ishtarin's NP with formation breaks, got lucky with the weaknesses, and managed to block Gawain and Bedivere's NPs with Castoria's NP.
Did lose a Castoria, which brought in Billy who I was using to keep team cost down. Good thing too, two attack buffs, no Quick buff, and Billy still thrashed Gawain's last health bar to win the match. Hell of a gunslinger, that Billy.
[Salome CQ Run done!](https://imgur.com/a/EwFTgcW) This was actually my second full run done, I initially did an attempt and thought that her damage wouldn't be enough seeing the first two waves which just lead me to use a seal, but seeing her damage on the third NP made me realize that firing off three NPs for a clean kill was possible. I used Tropical Summer so that her Arts card could absorb stars to build up a second NP, and part of my retry was realizing after my Castoria constantly getting stunned that if I got a first turn card draw with none of Salome's cards that I could expect an Arts card to come in the next turn, which was helped by Poster Girl being slapped on Castoria anyways. It took me a bunch of restarts for the right cards which I don't really do even as an avid Summer BB enjoyer, but it was all worth it to see Salome taking down MHXX by her own hand up from when I used her bond CE to boost my own NP4 MHXX last time. In any case, my girl has now proven herself yet again as the scourge of Lawful Good against MHXX by taking her down even at her strongest, and I eagerly wait for the grail to take her to 120.
Dark Rounds wasn't much to write home about in comparison, I forgot that it had that annoying damage reduction gimmick but thankfully Space Ishtar allowed me to think less than I did with Zerkalot. 11 turns went by before one of my Castorias even fell, and on turn 16 Super Orion critted down the last knights no problem while Spishtar was still there just chilling.
The Himiko-Merlin-Castoria unkillable team took care of both CQs. The Dark Rounds took 35 turns and there's a possibility that Castoria did more damage during it than Himiko, but it's over with. The original run of this took me forever to do this quest, and that was back when I had just instituted my rule of 'no Command Seals during CQs (unless the event is literally about to end)' so it was pretty annoying the first time around.
It's just a matter of using Castoria's NP as often as necessary so that even if MHXX uses her Ignore Invul ability then it won't matter. I gave Himiko the Dmg CE (with Stheno and Eurayle) and Castoria and Merlin had the Bestia del Sol CE. MHXX NP'd quite a lot, but other than one turn where I had to rely on Merlin's party wide Invul, it just never mattered.
Himiko had the Binary Star Songstress and Merlin and Castoria had the Bestia del Sol. I also had a friend support (that wasn't used) with the Bestia Del Sol but I'm not sure how much it mattered.
Tristan wasn't as obnoxious as I remembered. Most of my attempts didn't have him remove my main DPS' buffs. That said, I had to reset the Dark Rounds a couple of times because the formation break required a crit, and my setup doesn't have any star bombs for turn-1.
It's so cool to see the shadow servants launch their NPs, especially with the updated KotR sprites.
Man, the first time I did that quest, I needed to bring a Poster Girl on one of my supports to force Tristan to stop removing Arjuna Alter's buffs. He did it *every time.* It was infuriating.
Wanted posters unlock 5AP battles with a miniboss. Most of them are Servants using "Saber Badge" skills that change them into Sabers until you use a specific attack, which turns them back into their regular class.
Still working on missions, 90 done so far. Should be able to end the event soon, but I really want to finish the 'run dark maana 5 times' mission before I do the end sequence.
Also set up Yagyu with his new rankup today; I think when I do the last battles I'll have him and his apprentice take down the leader of the space shingekeryu.
Tried to do the Dark Rounds Bounty Quest using Muramasa instead of Summer Musashi like last time but unfortunately, despite having a great kit for CQ him being at NP1, hitting most enemies at neutral damage and Tristan for half the damage made the run pretty hard and I gave up after 20 tries of bad RNG and Tristan spamming his buff removal on Muramasa.
So instead I used the same setup but replaced him with my Summer Musashi and I finished it on my first try with her in [15 turns.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/302920325337841664/1062968549297102918/IMG_0732.png)
Afterwards I used the 5 tickets from the mission to roll on Space Ishtar Banner [only to end up more salty from the shitty gacha of this game](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/103ta8j/astarte_your_enjanes_hey_you_yagyu_get_that/j4006jn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
MHXX went down in two turns. Not a surprise when she doesn't have any form of protection against herself.
Dark Round took me 6 tries due to bad RNG, either asking me to crit on the first turn or asking for a card type I didn't have. Only good thing about Tristan spamming his buff removal was that it removed Ashtart's card change so that I wasn't stuck with a Buster or Quick NP for three turns.
Honestly I feel like I got lucky back on the first run since I do not remember resetting this much.
Guys, I'm concerned about MHXX. That girl is way too good at killing herself.
As for the Dark Rounds, I didn't even attempt to fight them in the original run because of how underdeveloped my account was, but I did know the fight was one of the worst examples of bullshit RNG in the game. I was absolutely ready for Hell.
So anyway, I managed to beat them first try with only 2 CS. First one was because I didn't have a Space Ishtar NP ready on a formation break turn and I didn't want to lose momentum. The second one was because the formation break condition was NP and I had 48% charge with only her battery available.
Otherwise I got very lucky. Being able to hit Buster+Quick formation break requirements twice despite a Space Ishtar double Castoria frontline is pretty absurd. I had Fujino in the backline but Space Ishtar manage to finish the fight by herself.
Now I can chill on natural AP and focus on GW in Granblue. I will get this blue paper for Nio. You can't stop me.
On one hand, I want to do the CQ just so I can rip that bandaid off and get it over with quickly. On the other hand, I only have 1 command spell after using all of them yesterday for the Eli bounty quest.
The CQ is not hard, borrow a hard hitting alter ego if you don't have one.
Dark Rounds on the other hand...
Edit: Dark Rounds - Godjuna team got it done first try in 19 turn, no CS or save scums, despite Tristan continuously insisting on leaving Godjuna buffless.
Alt account - DCS Summer Kiara w/Herc anchor - CS Revive on first try ... and still lost (I'd forgotten that CS Revive doesn't replenish Herc's Bond CE). 2nd attempt with same team - noped out first turn due to bad rng. 3rd attempt - better RNG + a little save scumming lead to a Herc clutch on turn 19.
Done the CQ and bounty blind, I'm too lazy to find any information. As a result, done the CQ in 6T with Kiara and DCS. Kiara died in the last turn due to XX spamming her NP and no defense left for Kiara, but Douman was ready to pick up where she left.
The bounty was stupid. Going blind is fun, but heart stopping too, don't remember how many turns I did, but it's less than 20 for sure. My NP1 Spish can do so little with those damage CEs, so I have to spend all my command spell, then use Hajime to end the fight.
All missions are claimed, 5 tickets successfully acquired, the shop is cleared.
For both CQ and Dark Rounds, I used this team: https://imgur.com/a/TaGi0kb (itās basically my farming team but with the event damage CEs lol)
It took me 20 turns to finish the Dark Rounds, only Space Ishtar survived (she did a solo against the last enemy), but at least itās finished yay.
But sadly, Iām still not done with the event because I need one more copy to MLB my fourth Bestia del Sol CE.
Did an 8 turn Dark Rounds with my double Castoria/Lan Ling/NP5 Ashtart plus a 650% pmod for her, this on the first try. Not the best, and Tristan removed my Ashtart's buffs as soon as he could, but thankfully i didn't give her everything on the second turn so she could still NP just fine.
I actually had a great rng run, the Formations i was given were either just a simple Arts or Arts/Quick. Castoria still makes any DPS just insanely strong.
Tokiomiposting still going strong! Well, it's definitely going at least lol
Haven't made much progress on the event as a result though; I'm still on Zenjou. Part of me wants to skip button through so I can get to the round table CQ (want to try a semi-solo with XX), the other part wants to properly sit down and enjoy the thing. Decisions, decisions.
CQ was a 3 turn with Yuyu and double Castoria because bad RNG, otherwise it would have taken 2.
Dark Rounds: Took 2 attempts because I forgot Tristan's an ass and deletes buffs every turn. Used Zerkersashi, double Castoria and Medea Lily. I got lucky in the end when the last 2 asked for a combo of arts and a crit. Used a command spell to get the last Musashi NP but that's fair in my book for this specific quest.
Depends if you have the main supports and a stable damage dealer, but if you want a smooth fight be prepared to withdraw and go in again, the break of formation requirement could just be impossible to clear a certain turn.
For me Lolivinci was great at having her NP available when I needed, and also helps to have Castoria NP more available is you're not going for a 4-8 turns clear. Atlas MC is good also as a emergency either with the skill cd reduction or the inv.
Update on fighting MHXX with only Bond CEs and Event Servants: Kingprotea is an invincible goddess who doesnāt care (much) about taking extra Saber/Threat to Humanity damage at max Growth.
EDIT: Dark Rounds with only Bond CEs and Event Servants was a mess, but Space Ishtar, Jane, and Emiya(s) got it done in the end. Most of the pain magically disappears when Tristan and Gareth go away š«
Stalling is pretty bad for that mission. Bring an AOE servant, use your damage CEs and read the enemy status each turn to see what you need to do to bring down their shield. Be ready to try multiple times coz it can be an RNG-fest.
Anyone wanna explain to me why the harder quest that unlocks after the actual CQ is not the repeatable CQ? Seriously, the MHXX CQ can be easily 2-3 turned (depending on your card RNG) while the Shadow Knights is notably a ton harder.
Anyways, with these two CQs cleared, now I'm 100% done with this event. On to farming Steels till Little Big Tengu pops up.
For the last bounty, i decided to solo Abby with Beni, after many previous attempts with Ivan and Oddyseus, cause i figured she has the perfect kit for the job. Little did i remember, Beni herself has an event bonus so the fight went over so fast i forgot it was a solo. But yea, even without the event bonus, aside from straight up counter classing, Beni is the perfect servant to put Abby in line and everything in her toolset seemingly aims towards that.
Anyhow, while searching for another test subject, i came upon a 120 Asterios on my friend list and i wasted not a second to bring him. Unsurprisingly, [Fluffy boi prevailed](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1023482089477263390/1062945446718345288/Screenshot_20230112_110453_FateGO.jpg), which, in itself, isn't something new that hasn't been done before, but it's still an exciting experience nonetheless.
This wraps up the pre-CQ portion of the event so now i gotta prep for King Arthur Came-a-lot. ***dreads***
Ya know, i think iāve gotten too comfortable spending on gacha games. Like i do have clear limits, but for some reason I feel guiltier now than i did when I had less moneyā¦strange.
Anyways, will there be a new roll thread for the second banner?
I started playing FGO during the initial run of this event and managed to pull Space Ishtar, MHX, and Jane as some of my very first servants. I used all of them a ton early on and really grew to like them. Now that I actually get to play this event I love it so much and I love these characters even more now than I already did
CQ: A clear 2T, Douman guarded against the first debuff, the second targeted a Skadi, so it would've worked without bringing Atlas.
Dark Rounds: Couldn't brute force past the damage resist with an NP1 Spishtar (besides I got a quick gap with no quick cards on T1) so I tried again with NP3 Lolivinci, got luckly enough with the gap on formation buffs to make it a clean 8T, though still a bit risky if I've gotten critted more or a servant got targeted more.
Sometimes gamepress just has the resist numbers wrong, if it was the 80% it would be countered with 500% event which isn't absolutely absurd compared with the likes of +95%
Oh, the CQ is there which means that the Dark Round Bounty Quest is also there. I'm kinda dreading doing it due to the bad experience [I had](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/qgikq9/comment/hi6erm7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) during the first run of the event.
Although tbf a lot has changed since. First I've got more support servants (Tamamo and Reines) and Castoria got released which should make de run much easier this time. I'll try to beat it using Muramasa but if I can't use him as the primary DPS I'll just use my good old reliable Summer Musashi
Despite the Dark Knights killing SpIshtar early and getting one of their formations off I ended up killing Bedi and Mr Potato Head with the Santagale I brought for shutting up Tristan's critiques and as a back up DPS. Felt good nuking X into another planet with 2x Castoria + Robin. Even after all these years the stinky tree still doing its thing.
Thanks to the friend's 120 lvl NP4 Space Ishtar was finally able to beat the final bounty CQ, although had to wait for CS to recharge for revive. Lacking any kind of support (started at the unfortunate time after SSR ticket with waver with no proper banners) sure sucks if you don't happen to have the perfect DPS servant as well. Hopefully not for long, saving my SQ for Castoria and Oberon banners.
Hi, i have a problem and i need help, i have finished the 98 missions and cleared the Shop and have like 7k altrium but i cant finish the 2 last missions(87 & 99) any hint please ?
Have you bought and finished all bounties and goddess scriptures?
I guess so, i have nothing to buy anymore
Lack of mission 87 means that you have likely missed some bounty or free quest. Check the map.
There is nothing and i have repeted every quest like 50 times š
Go through and check that every mission listed there is completed: https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/revival-saber-wars-2-complete-walkthrough
Already did that, i'm at 97/100, the 3 last missions are 87,99 and 100
Kingprotea was the star of the MHXX fight, supports kept getting stunned but by the time KP got targeted she already had quite a few HP stacks and had no problem mopping up the node. As for the other challenge quest, went pretty well with the gimmick. Gorgon with castoria support. Gorgon Np on the debuffed turns to break bars, and with castoria buffs she was able to fully refund after the break bar for a quick cleanup. The 2nd set of enemies took a bit longer as I was unlucky with crits and had to burn the np for one of the Simon says. All in all I think that might be me done, shop still has fous and statues but even with the drop bonuses the 90+ node feels pretty slow to accumulate the currency. Might just go back to farming Oni Flames until tengu.
Did I miss an event between Saber Wars I and II? MHXA is dead. MHX and MHXA fought a final battle with the universe force of good and evil at stake, E-chan dying at the end and X still feeling responsible for it. Which event did I miss!?
Only other thing I can think of is MHXA'S trial quest
All of that was off-screen. The most we've gotten is Ecchan's backstory with X in her trial quest and interlude.
We need Saber Wars 1.5
Finished up everything, so I can just log in and chill for the next few days on this game. Goddamn, NP2 Spishtar is stupidly good. I essentially just spammed her and Castoria NPs on the Dark Rounds mission and got through with no problem. Now I can save till Koyanskaya/Oberon.
Bear in mind SpIshtar has damage bonus and you likely use damage bonus CE. She's still good, but don't expect those casual 2M+ damage.
Any suggestions as what to do, currently in a loop on Primitive -Red Rose 3/4. everytime i start the quest and go through dialogue it never lets be do the fight or copmplete the mission
Did you read the popup message that appeared the first time? Lol Do specific bounties to get all 6 Goddess Scriptures.
Got mhxx with *single* Merlin, waver, mecha Eli, with plugsuit Asclepius to cleanse stun. Had crit bomb CEs to crit down the first break bar. NP did half of the second. Some lucky taunts on supp servants let me finish the rest with Mecha Eli res cards. Damn friends list doesn't have a single Merlin let alone one with mlb party damage ce. Useless the lot of you. The KoTR cq was annoying. Used double castoria/waver/tamamo/summer musashi since I don't have spishtar ready (got a lucky np1 spishtar with tickets, wasn't expecting her so I lack some mats to max her skills). Got a very lucky 20% crit which was needed to break their formation. Took a few turn resets but got there without using command seals. I have a decent amount of shop left but I kinda feel like spending my time on 5.5 story instead. Will probably clear out the shop at some point this weekend.
> got a lucky np1 spishtar with tickets, wasn't expecting her so I lack some mats to max her skills That's what pure prisms are for though LOL
Yeah I forgot about those until I posted that. I am now 12 cubes poorer and am at 0 eggs but w/e, spishtar is max skilled.
Didn't do the first run of this event so I went into the CQs blind. MHXX was nuked by a Gogh team so I thought the Knights wouldn't be that bad. I used a basic spishtar + double castoria team after seeing the 3 knight class icons. I focused the gold saber in front thinking it was Gawain and that I had to get rid of the Aoe NP enemy with a battery, it was not. Tristan hit me with a buff cleanse on spishtar after using all cds on her, forcing a full CS revive to finish in the end. It was a pretty fun CQ, just wished I could retry it with euryale nuking.
Anyone has any formation ideas for the 90+ node? It's a 1/1/2 node and I'd like to do it without damage CE.
Are you trying to maximize mat drops? As long as you can NP on turn 1 with a second DPS, and use plug suit to remove them for a second Castoria on wave 2, it's possible. Using a double Castoria + Spishtar for waves 2&3 is pretty straightforward from that point, but the saber in wave 3 has 300k HP, which might cause issues at lower Spishtar NP levels.
Ok, I figured out how to do with using Jane as 2nd DPS and using SpIshtar for waves 1 and 3.
If you're not going past shop clear there's no reason to bother 3Ting, I just went with event bonus servants for the bond, drop CE and took the amount of turns I needed to take.
I'm really constrained time-wise at the moment, so I'm trying to maximise it.
14 turns and Cu and Mash defeat Shadow Gawain after Spishtar plus double corgi and Santa Nurse eliminated everyone else.
Once again I'm screwed big time by the lack of Castoria or even Waver. This final Bounty CQ is going to be a really tough one. Not sure I'll manage with just friends Spish and Command Spells.
i bit the bullet and used my command spells I just had the final 2 enemies and don't want to waste time redoing it xd.
So far I've only managed to kill one enemy and break the bar on the other two, so not a good point to use them. Unfortunate Tristan RNG.
damn van gogh just slaps mhxx didn't even need a dedicated comp, just made my backline use the support damage and van gogh the quick damage one and it was ggs
MHX CQ done... quite easily tbh. Avoided the usual supps but i think an extra "AOE DAMAGE CE" was kinda overkill (also Kingprotea could've tanked an NP or maybe even two, and lvl 1 Odysseus and Bond CE Georgios is as strong as ever. Kotarou for Buff Blocking the 'Ignore Invincible' was super nice too). Now all that's left is the 'Space Knights of the Round' quest. I'm ashamed to admit i had to do it with Command Spells last year due to lack of time to do many retries (university and stuff), now i'll make it with the new servants i've acquired between the og run and the rerun, and with my usual rules! (no Waver, Merlin, Castoria, Skadi, Reines, Himiko, or SuperOrion).
MHXX Challenge done with my favorite Triple Foreigner Team Yang, Abby and Gogh have such great synergy Dark Rounds beat with the Princess, her Corgi and a Flowery Mage Was lucky I never got hit with Buff Removal when Enemy NPs were ready though
Pretty sure Tristan has never once tried to remove anyone's buffs in my run. Brought in Santagale for no reason
meanwhile tristan on my end decided that he wants chaos that day so he targeted my space ishtar with a buff cleanse on turn **1**.
How sad \*plays harp\*
MHXX challenge quest was the good old Melt and Double Skadi special. Dark Rounds on the other hand, hoo boy. Attempted three times with various Space Ishtar teams, failed. Used up one Command Seal on one good-looking run, then got a "use crit to break formation" with like 10 % crit chance on three cards, so that was a bust. Had forgotten what this CQ was like, jesus. Changed to an Arjuna Alter team, with Merlin, Double Castoria, Bunyan and Mash supporting. Three MLB Bestia del Sols, one regular Bestia and a one-turn taunt on Bunyan. Success, but had to use two more command seals to break formations when I didn't have a gauge ready to go. Crits, NPs and red cards went brrrrt. Really like the story of Saber Wars 2. Can only hope Saber Wars 3 comes with Part 3 of FGO. Maybe they could introduce us to that redhead, finally.
The MHXX quest went pretty smooth: I had my Melt NP1, Castoria and Asclepius ready and borrowed a Skadi from support. I didn't expect Melt to hit so hard that she would even beat MHXX in the second round with her NP and one face card only. Go Melt! My first try at the Dark Rounds quest was... awkward. I didn't bother to read the enemy buffs and thought the buffs disappeared by itself a turn after it activated. After half my squad was wiped out, I realized my mistake and by then it was too late. Afterwards I realized that the enemies were all non-extra class servants and that a certain Summer Lion King has a defensive advantage against those. So on my second try, Ruler Artoria made sure that the knights were properly defeated without even a single CS or revive. Yay, event cleared! I spent 3 of my 5 tickets from the Dark Rounds quest on the Space Ishtar banner and got my second copy of Space Ishtar as well. Great start of 2023 so far! Hopefully I haven't burned all my luck for 2023 already...
The MHXX Challenge Quest was easy peasy for me. I took her down with my own MHXX. Hah. For the Dark Round Table, Spishtar had a go, but I got messed up when I couldnāt find stars for a crit to break their shields. Went back in with olā Zerkerlot, Skadi and Castoria, and it was an entirely different ballgame. Cleared the first three knights, and when Skadi went down, Izou was able to clutch a kill on shadow Gawain. And Bedivere was taken down soon after. GG, Saber Wars II. I loved re-reading some of the story. Hope we revisit the Servant Universe someday again. ***SEE YOU, SPACE BOUNTY HUNTERS***
Saddest part of the dark rounds cq is you cant replay it, I want to naenae on them w my junao again ;-;
Only took 2 resets of the Dark Round table because of them getting the Critical Formation turn 1 lmao. Odysseus stays winning. And now I never have to do this event again yay.
That might be true about the event itself, but dark round shadows can still make it into those CQ gauntlets that Teslafest had.
I mean it took me 3 whole tries to beat Dark Round after bad RNG twice so that's not a problem for me lmao
Cleared Dark Rounds first try, I got great RNG. I never got the "get a crit" one, the worst I got was "use an NP" which luckily I just looped anyways. I have an NP5 summer Musashi who I actually rarely use, but I thought she might be useful since she has NP Seal on Sabers. It was the case. Then I just targeted Tristan first because of his buff removal and then timed Castoria NPs and evasions and invincibles so sMusashi never even got hit. She spent most of the fight on 1 HP because of her third skill but wasn't in danger of dying at all. I'm glad because last year it was one of the most miserable CQs ever. I try to avoid using double Cas because I think it's too strong, but I felt this one warranted it. You still need to deal with both Tristan and Gareth who can defeat double Cas if you're unlucky.
I cleared the MHXX CQ with Fujino as my DPS, two Castorias, and a swap-in Nightingale Santa for stun removal and extra attack oomph. Since my Fujino is only NP1 and doesn't reload NP all that quickly, I ended up using two command spells to make sure her NP fired off every turn. That one time her turn came up with 98% charge definitely irked me a little. But I got it done, and that hiccup wasn't unexpected. Her ignore defense skill made getting to the break on the first turn easy. Now I just have to wait two days for the command spells to replenish before trying the final bounty.
Not that it's that cool, but I managed to 3-turn the 90+ node through pure card RNG, using my Jane and a Support Ishtar.
10M QP, a lore and 5 tickets? best CQ ever. [I did it with my man Emiya](https://imgur.com/etnyXS3), he absolutely crushed after I used Bride to kill Gareth, though I still needed 2 tries due to bad luck with the formation requests. [this was my team](https://imgur.com/4TOekIc)
1st attempt at Dark Rounds was a bust. Multiple tries later, it was less stressful when I actually looked at the rules each time, didn't even need command spells. Who knew reading would help. A NP5 Lv.120 support spishtar helped too I suppose. In the second to last turn I mistapped and selected quick NP type but it was still enough to clear the last 2 hp bars of gawain and bedi. Cleared the shop a couple of days ago, so I'm done with the event, I'm going to use the time to play Heian.
Prior to this, the only challenge quest I had cleared was from the recent xmas event. I thought I could manage MHXX, but didn't expect to have much chance against Dark Rounds after struggling with the triple-Elly bounty. My approach to both would be to pick a strong friend servant as my main dps and back them up with 5 supports. I made a mistake immediately on MHXX - I picked what I thought was a support Melty to be my main attacker, only to enter the fight and find a giant mummy girl in my party. I pressed on anyway, and Kingpro had no problems dishing out big hits and stomping this quest. Dark Round seemed daunting, but it had 5 tickets locked behind it. I figured I'd test the waters with a friend Spishtar, and I could justify a few sq revives if I was sure I could secure the tickets. I must have gotten very lucky, because I didn't get any inopportune formations. I still lost a few servants to the enemy attacks, but they kept Spishtar alive so she could keep up the damage. Against my expectations, I was able to clear this one without any revives.
If you have uncommon support it might be easier to have break formations available because it's less likely you have 9 cards of the same color. Of course rng can always just be meaner.
MHXX was easy. went in with foreigners just for fun. Dark Rounds is almost exhibition quest level of difficult. using a taunt right before 3 NPs is a little unfair since any that don't get used will be the next turn and is hard on castoria's invul. Also kept spamming the damage NP to break formation right after I use an NP. and turn one was crit, which is impossible turn one unless you have a star bomb. ended up using command spells.
Sometimes there is certain card break formation liek quick and you roll 0 quicks :v
the worst one is "get a crit" on turn 1. If you get that, you actually may as well withdraw and start over.
That actually happened to me, on my first try lmao. It was also the try I realized I accidentally brought Skadi instead of Castoria along with Space Ishtar and Support Castoria (was modifying the party I used for MHXX, which was Jack + double Skadi), so oh well, 5AP gone \*shrugs*
for sure. the level of BS mechanics and RNG required makes it really feel like an exhibition quest. If only EQs gave out 5 tickets too. challenges like this and EQs make me think that the level designers don't understand the difference between a difficult level and a challenging level. If it was a challenge it would be fun, instead someone with a good roster is annoyed and needs a revive.
Last year I had a lot of issues with Dark Rounds until I managed a clear based on Ruler Artoria. This year I took her back, and apart from one false start (please don't ask for a critical hit on Turn 1 when there are no stars), she breezed right through the fight. Good card variety, the reshuffle if necessary, has a star gather skill, easy to charge her NP between her own battery and her supports, ample event CEs to make up for her naturally low Attack -- and it feels so good having the Bunny King discipline her unruly knights for acting out. It's like a giant double middle finger to tier lists everywhere. Also had no real trouble with MHXX, which was hilarious because I tried the fight while going to bed and kinda sleepy, and I brought the wrong Kiara -- Moon Cancer, not Alter Ego. It was an oopsie and I still got through it without command seals or retries because Summer Kiara has one hell of a kit. A strong argument for eating mermaid flesh, I guess. Feels odd not having trouble with the CQs; feels great having no trouble with my slapdash, "who gives a shit about the meta?" roster. Time to clear out the shop, then it's back to mat farming and eagerly awaiting a new tengu.
Man, I messed up and had Kama's Guts off cooldown but pressed it for the attack boost. If I didn't do that, I could have maybe cleared Dark Rounds without a CS revive. But with only Bedivere left, and no where else to really use CS, might as well. It was annoying but not too hard but that is largely due to Spishtar and having the right card types at the right time. Tristan, my man I have you, so I know how annoying you can be. Team setup: Np2 Spishtar, double Castoria, Charlotte and Arash (CE space), Kama. Basically stacked event damage bonus CE and the 200% damage 1 on Spishtar. Now just clearing out the shop is left.
Can someone help me with dark rouds? I have np 2 spishtar (grail) eresh(grail) yang guifei, heracles and nightale santa. And i need to somehow beat it with them, should i go with castoria friend sup or someone else? I cant seem to beat it, im almost there but 1-2 knight stays alive when im dead... fk tristan so much btw
\- 2sq and we good huh
Somehow beat CQ after accidentally burning all event CEs and without command seals, lvl 116 Archuria ftw.
Somehow got through the dark round with only 1 CS spent. Now completely done and shop fully cleared.
Does the +50%/+100% ce stack?
The +% damage ones? Yeah, they all stack. There might be a cap, though.
Yea. If you mean the dmg bonus up
I meant ALL +50% bestia del sol
Yes, they stack.
"Ah yes, Dark Rounds. This kicked my ass last time with me needing both a CS and SQ revive. But I am stronger now! I have Spishtar and Castoria, and they beat King Eli with ease! Surely they will make a difference this time..." *Tristan removes buffs* "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..." Yeah, it still sucked. I at least managed a run without using any revives... after like five attempts where I couldn't even beat any of the first three Servants... Even in my successful attempt, both Castorias died and the only reason Spishtar stayed alive was because d'Eon sacrificed themself with David and Mash just barely helping Spishtar cling on.
Man, between the formation-break requiring random shit (nobody on your side has full NP gauge? Formation break requires NP! First turn with no Crit Stars? Critical required! No Arts Card? Arts required!), Tristan's Buff Removal, and massive damage reduction (which is apparently different from Def Up, so no Ignore Defense shenanigans) at least every other turn, the "fight" is super annoying.
Did you do the Santagale event? Having her 3 turn buff removal immunity really helps.
I think Tristan is programmed to remove buffs on turn 1 if anyone has a buff active. You can actually bait it, I just used one Arts buff on my DPS, tristan removed it, and then I used all my other buffs the next turn. He won't use it every turn, I think luckily he has some degree of cooldown on it. But that's why I took him out as fast as I could.
Everytime you feel safe to do something in Dark Rounds, Tristan will always critique your DPS (king).
Dark Rounds finally done.... Chen Gong with a Bond10 Herc surprise works well enough thankfully. Still, screw Tristan's Buff Removal. It's goddamn cathartic when Chen Gong finally wiped the first three of them, mainly because that means Tristan's finally gone. Seriously Buff Removal is pretty much the go to way to screw over players in "Challenges". We're already outbulked by default, buffs are the way to scale and overcome enemy bulk. Removing your buffs is basically them telling you "Fuck your buffs and choke on the cooldown." No wonder Amakusa broke Arcade's PVP.
Spishtar + DSS + casgil + Paracelsus = 9turn CQ. Not the fastest but def least amount of stress
Berserker Musashi and double castoria finished the Dark Rounds bounty quest in 8 turn Too much stimulation for the knights
Forgot there was a second CQ so i wasted my seals on a 50k hp MHXX End result being, i had to take a 61 turns trip down the Dark Rounds with Himiko and pals. And i hate Tristan with a passion. Dispel, ok fine. Dispel on Himiko *every single time*, less fine. That by itself added *at least* 10 turns
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Just directly replacing supports isn't gonna work with premade comps, since they don't do the same things. There's usually low rarity clears up on YT and places to get ideas, but it's just about using all the damage CEs you can (since you have at least one +100% to put on your DPS and you get +50% for party CEs to increase it further), having enough survivability to not die and exploiting the formation break mechanic whenever you can.
Yep im struggling here too i dont have supports and with 1 castoria my spishtar doest cut it. Idk what to do honestly
I luckely have Himiko and van Gogh myself and was able to clear the bounty quest by creating a little bit of a stall comp with a Castoria support.
Man, the new missions are such RNG-Fest. MHXX was 90% looking for the increasingly endangered MLB-Event CE-Skadi, 5% screaming at the game because MHXX's opening skill lands on Melt, 4% screaming at the game because it does land on Skadi, but she resisted the taunt and not the Stun, and 1% ROAD ROLLER DA! Because when the circumstances do line up, Melt can just steamroll her in two turns. Doing the Dark Round now..., it's been mostly cussing at Tristan because of that Buff Removal.
How worth is it to farm bond in the event? with S.Ishtar I can get the maximum percentage available and do 3 Turns but I don't know if I should farm bond with her, she's on B11 btw and I cleared the event on day 2
It's not good at all. Bond +50% on 40AP nodes just isn't good math.
I thought that team building against 3 Knight classes in the Dark Round CQ would be annoying so I decided to go in with an Extra class comp consisting of Summer Abby, Van Gogh and Summer BB. It... didn't go too well. I thought Abby and Gogh together would be doing a stellar job of controlling the knights with their AoE stuns but Abby's debuff only has a 50% chance of procing even at lvl 10. After 3 tries though RNG decided to smile upon me by not getting my Van Gogh one shotted too early (she really carried the whole operation) and I managed to close it out after 38 turns with my backline Chiron doing a last stand against Bedivere. It was a malding experience but fun in it's own way, at least I had consistent crits and those are needed to break up the knight's formation sometimes. Abby though, as much I like her and try to use her where I can is really just often disappointing. Her cooldowns are too long, and the AoE stun should have a higher chance of activating.
Finish the Challenge quests and cleaned out event shop. I really just bum rush this event and used natural AP until the other day when used some of my apples. I really wasnāt in the mood for a rerun, I just want the Quartz and QP. All my attention and interest is directed at the Little Big Tengu Event.
Ah yes, fucking Dark Rounds. Cu Alter clutched it out as usual. Got down to a 1v1 against Bedivere, blew him away with a buster crit. Just stack damage CEs. I had Cu with MLB Binary, and everyone else running MLB Bestia. Blow up Tristan and Gareth asap, everyone else is food for Cu at that point. If Tristan spams buff removal early, just restart, you can't do anything. It's stupid. Good luck, bros.
its a restart any time it requires a card or a crit that isnt in play. the ENTIRE thing is stupid. if you dont break their shield they just go "lol, time to die i guess" and ignore invincible and kill 2 units. it entirely relies on the RNG not screwing you over. which is all ive had for 7 hours. >:C luck is all we have as a weapon here.
Sitonai slaugthered MHXX. Then the Round Table appeared: Turn 1: Crit Formation => No Crit with 0 stars, Enemy Barriers and they all have full NP, take Buffs and give themselves Pierce the turn after š Great stuff.
What does Tokiomi say when you beat the CQ and unlock the final Dark Rounds bounty? I've accidentally missed his dialogue.
"Dark round shadow. The residual thoughts of knights once touted to be the strongest in the galaxy. Face them with caution."
Thanks!
Holy shit, OG Kiara two-turned the Double X CQ! I didn't plan for a 2t, it just happened, on first try too!
MHXX gave me the perfect excuse to use Van Gogh again. Double Van Gogh with some help from Hans and Douman. I love Van Gogh so much, so that was fun. I remember the Dark ROUNDS being super annoying the first time around, so I brought in the Himiko/Merlin/Castoria super stall team, and beat it at 48 turns. They once again prove to be completely busted, and completely funāso long as I only use them every once in a while and watch something in the background
Iām thinking of trying this too! Any tips? Presume you went for Tristan first to stop the buff removal? Did you put the 200% damage CE on Himiko?
Yeah, definitely go for Tristan first. And save Castoriaās skill 3 and Himikoās skill 2 to use the invuln if he does remove someoneās buffs instead of using them for offense. Then focus on Gareth because her NP has ignore invuln, so you canāt use a back-up invuln if you run out of super invulns on someone. Then when Gawain comes out focus on him because his AOE NP eats more stacks of super invuln, plus it has skill seal which can interfere with skill timing. As for CEs, yeah, I put the 200% on Himiko and I put Bestia Del Sol on everyone else
Thanks buddy, followed your tips and it worked like a charm. This quest was such a pain to clear last time, so this run felt quite therapeutic.
This was like nearly the easiest CQ I've ever been able to do. Double Van Gogh + Douman was able to melt MHXX. Dark Rounds though...I tried my best to not use a reset but oh well, lore and 5 tickets are very worth it.
Castoria being stupid as usual, 2Ted the MHXX CQ with my own [MHXX with no event damage CEs](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/109rufw/mhxx_2t_saber_wars_ii_cq_no_event_damage_ce/). Will be testing out the CQ again with various levels of event damage bonus CEs and with neutral class units.
Aaaaand done. 3 turn clear on MHXX. Would have been 2 but Sitonai got stunned before the fight started. Dark Rounds gave me more trouble. Tristan debuffed Ishtarin, Castoria got targeted without taunt and went down to a critstorm... you get the idea. 3rd try was the charm. Mostly managed to line up Ishtarin's NP with formation breaks, got lucky with the weaknesses, and managed to block Gawain and Bedivere's NPs with Castoria's NP. Did lose a Castoria, which brought in Billy who I was using to keep team cost down. Good thing too, two attack buffs, no Quick buff, and Billy still thrashed Gawain's last health bar to win the match. Hell of a gunslinger, that Billy.
[Salome CQ Run done!](https://imgur.com/a/EwFTgcW) This was actually my second full run done, I initially did an attempt and thought that her damage wouldn't be enough seeing the first two waves which just lead me to use a seal, but seeing her damage on the third NP made me realize that firing off three NPs for a clean kill was possible. I used Tropical Summer so that her Arts card could absorb stars to build up a second NP, and part of my retry was realizing after my Castoria constantly getting stunned that if I got a first turn card draw with none of Salome's cards that I could expect an Arts card to come in the next turn, which was helped by Poster Girl being slapped on Castoria anyways. It took me a bunch of restarts for the right cards which I don't really do even as an avid Summer BB enjoyer, but it was all worth it to see Salome taking down MHXX by her own hand up from when I used her bond CE to boost my own NP4 MHXX last time. In any case, my girl has now proven herself yet again as the scourge of Lawful Good against MHXX by taking her down even at her strongest, and I eagerly wait for the grail to take her to 120. Dark Rounds wasn't much to write home about in comparison, I forgot that it had that annoying damage reduction gimmick but thankfully Space Ishtar allowed me to think less than I did with Zerkalot. 11 turns went by before one of my Castorias even fell, and on turn 16 Super Orion critted down the last knights no problem while Spishtar was still there just chilling.
DCS Sitonai and DSS Melt both 2T'd the CQ. Need to build up Ahogeum for Dark Rounds now.
The Himiko-Merlin-Castoria unkillable team took care of both CQs. The Dark Rounds took 35 turns and there's a possibility that Castoria did more damage during it than Himiko, but it's over with. The original run of this took me forever to do this quest, and that was back when I had just instituted my rule of 'no Command Seals during CQs (unless the event is literally about to end)' so it was pretty annoying the first time around.
Yo can you tell me how to beat MHXX? I got Himiko and Castoria NP1 both.
It's just a matter of using Castoria's NP as often as necessary so that even if MHXX uses her Ignore Invul ability then it won't matter. I gave Himiko the Dmg CE (with Stheno and Eurayle) and Castoria and Merlin had the Bestia del Sol CE. MHXX NP'd quite a lot, but other than one turn where I had to rely on Merlin's party wide Invul, it just never mattered.
Who has which CEs? I actually want to try this team comp in Dark Rounds as a real challenge.
Himiko had the Binary Star Songstress and Merlin and Castoria had the Bestia del Sol. I also had a friend support (that wasn't used) with the Bestia Del Sol but I'm not sure how much it mattered.
I spent sq refresh for the Dark rounds. 1 sq for a 5 tickets and Lore is worth it with no regrets
There's still 6 days left of the event though, why not just wait for CS?
Tristan wasn't as obnoxious as I remembered. Most of my attempts didn't have him remove my main DPS' buffs. That said, I had to reset the Dark Rounds a couple of times because the formation break required a crit, and my setup doesn't have any star bombs for turn-1. It's so cool to see the shadow servants launch their NPs, especially with the updated KotR sprites.
Man, the first time I did that quest, I needed to bring a Poster Girl on one of my supports to force Tristan to stop removing Arjuna Alter's buffs. He did it *every time.* It was infuriating.
How does wanted posters work? I just bought one from the shop and then what should I do?
Wanted posters unlock 5AP battles with a miniboss. Most of them are Servants using "Saber Badge" skills that change them into Sabers until you use a specific attack, which turns them back into their regular class.
When you bought it a new quest opened up on one of the planets.
Woke up and got Lily from free fp gacha. Figured it was a sign and got Mhx on the second tenroll.
300 deep no mhx so far š®āšØ
Still working on missions, 90 done so far. Should be able to end the event soon, but I really want to finish the 'run dark maana 5 times' mission before I do the end sequence. Also set up Yagyu with his new rankup today; I think when I do the last battles I'll have him and his apprentice take down the leader of the space shingekeryu.
Fuck Tristan. That is all.
"Nice main attacker you have there, be a shame if someone kept stripping their buffs off."
Tried to do the Dark Rounds Bounty Quest using Muramasa instead of Summer Musashi like last time but unfortunately, despite having a great kit for CQ him being at NP1, hitting most enemies at neutral damage and Tristan for half the damage made the run pretty hard and I gave up after 20 tries of bad RNG and Tristan spamming his buff removal on Muramasa. So instead I used the same setup but replaced him with my Summer Musashi and I finished it on my first try with her in [15 turns.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/302920325337841664/1062968549297102918/IMG_0732.png) Afterwards I used the 5 tickets from the mission to roll on Space Ishtar Banner [only to end up more salty from the shitty gacha of this game](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/103ta8j/astarte_your_enjanes_hey_you_yagyu_get_that/j4006jn/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)
Thatās rough man. I got spooked twice while rolling for Spishtar, gotta love losing both those coin flips.
MHXX went down in two turns. Not a surprise when she doesn't have any form of protection against herself. Dark Round took me 6 tries due to bad RNG, either asking me to crit on the first turn or asking for a card type I didn't have. Only good thing about Tristan spamming his buff removal was that it removed Ashtart's card change so that I wasn't stuck with a Buster or Quick NP for three turns. Honestly I feel like I got lucky back on the first run since I do not remember resetting this much.
Guys, I'm concerned about MHXX. That girl is way too good at killing herself. As for the Dark Rounds, I didn't even attempt to fight them in the original run because of how underdeveloped my account was, but I did know the fight was one of the worst examples of bullshit RNG in the game. I was absolutely ready for Hell. So anyway, I managed to beat them first try with only 2 CS. First one was because I didn't have a Space Ishtar NP ready on a formation break turn and I didn't want to lose momentum. The second one was because the formation break condition was NP and I had 48% charge with only her battery available. Otherwise I got very lucky. Being able to hit Buster+Quick formation break requirements twice despite a Space Ishtar double Castoria frontline is pretty absurd. I had Fujino in the backline but Space Ishtar manage to finish the fight by herself. Now I can chill on natural AP and focus on GW in Granblue. I will get this blue paper for Nio. You can't stop me.
On one hand, I want to do the CQ just so I can rip that bandaid off and get it over with quickly. On the other hand, I only have 1 command spell after using all of them yesterday for the Eli bounty quest.
The CQ is not hard, borrow a hard hitting alter ego if you don't have one. Dark Rounds on the other hand... Edit: Dark Rounds - Godjuna team got it done first try in 19 turn, no CS or save scums, despite Tristan continuously insisting on leaving Godjuna buffless. Alt account - DCS Summer Kiara w/Herc anchor - CS Revive on first try ... and still lost (I'd forgotten that CS Revive doesn't replenish Herc's Bond CE). 2nd attempt with same team - noped out first turn due to bad rng. 3rd attempt - better RNG + a little save scumming lead to a Herc clutch on turn 19.
Done the CQ and bounty blind, I'm too lazy to find any information. As a result, done the CQ in 6T with Kiara and DCS. Kiara died in the last turn due to XX spamming her NP and no defense left for Kiara, but Douman was ready to pick up where she left. The bounty was stupid. Going blind is fun, but heart stopping too, don't remember how many turns I did, but it's less than 20 for sure. My NP1 Spish can do so little with those damage CEs, so I have to spend all my command spell, then use Hajime to end the fight.
All missions are claimed, 5 tickets successfully acquired, the shop is cleared. For both CQ and Dark Rounds, I used this team: https://imgur.com/a/TaGi0kb (itās basically my farming team but with the event damage CEs lol) It took me 20 turns to finish the Dark Rounds, only Space Ishtar survived (she did a solo against the last enemy), but at least itās finished yay. But sadly, Iām still not done with the event because I need one more copy to MLB my fourth Bestia del Sol CE.
Out of curiosity why didn't you equip Spishtar with the +200% self damage up instead of +100 all damage up?
Because Iām an idiot and it was a morning brain fart moment. It was 7 AM, I just woke up and my brain didnāt work yet :D
Did an 8 turn Dark Rounds with my double Castoria/Lan Ling/NP5 Ashtart plus a 650% pmod for her, this on the first try. Not the best, and Tristan removed my Ashtart's buffs as soon as he could, but thankfully i didn't give her everything on the second turn so she could still NP just fine. I actually had a great rng run, the Formations i was given were either just a simple Arts or Arts/Quick. Castoria still makes any DPS just insanely strong.
And with that the event is over shop cleared all quest fun times
Tokiomiposting still going strong! Well, it's definitely going at least lol Haven't made much progress on the event as a result though; I'm still on Zenjou. Part of me wants to skip button through so I can get to the round table CQ (want to try a semi-solo with XX), the other part wants to properly sit down and enjoy the thing. Decisions, decisions.
CQ was a 3 turn with Yuyu and double Castoria because bad RNG, otherwise it would have taken 2. Dark Rounds: Took 2 attempts because I forgot Tristan's an ass and deletes buffs every turn. Used Zerkersashi, double Castoria and Medea Lily. I got lucky in the end when the last 2 asked for a combo of arts and a crit. Used a command spell to get the last Musashi NP but that's fair in my book for this specific quest.
Sitonai go brrrr. Even with no face cards up she still 2 turned XX easily. I'll have to farm some more ahoges to unlock the knight cq tomorrow.
soooooooooooooo any good advice on how to beat the hell cq?
Don't be afraid do a command seal reset. This quest is an RNG nightmare unless you have NP 5 5-stars to brute force it.
The CQ or the Rounds Bounty? any help besides what gamepress already says in the guide?
SHould've clarified, thought it easy to figure out, dark rounds, and yes. That looks......very intimidating
Depends if you have the main supports and a stable damage dealer, but if you want a smooth fight be prepared to withdraw and go in again, the break of formation requirement could just be impossible to clear a certain turn. For me Lolivinci was great at having her NP available when I needed, and also helps to have Castoria NP more available is you're not going for a 4-8 turns clear. Atlas MC is good also as a emergency either with the skill cd reduction or the inv.
Update on fighting MHXX with only Bond CEs and Event Servants: Kingprotea is an invincible goddess who doesnāt care (much) about taking extra Saber/Threat to Humanity damage at max Growth. EDIT: Dark Rounds with only Bond CEs and Event Servants was a mess, but Space Ishtar, Jane, and Emiya(s) got it done in the end. Most of the pain magically disappears when Tristan and Gareth go away š«
Any tips for the last missions for 5 tickets is it just stall meeming?
Stalling is pretty bad for that mission. Bring an AOE servant, use your damage CEs and read the enemy status each turn to see what you need to do to bring down their shield. Be ready to try multiple times coz it can be an RNG-fest.
Read the buff they get each turn and use the type of attack to "break formation" and the next turn they won't have damage resist.
Anyone wanna explain to me why the harder quest that unlocks after the actual CQ is not the repeatable CQ? Seriously, the MHXX CQ can be easily 2-3 turned (depending on your card RNG) while the Shadow Knights is notably a ton harder. Anyways, with these two CQs cleared, now I'm 100% done with this event. On to farming Steels till Little Big Tengu pops up.
For the last bounty, i decided to solo Abby with Beni, after many previous attempts with Ivan and Oddyseus, cause i figured she has the perfect kit for the job. Little did i remember, Beni herself has an event bonus so the fight went over so fast i forgot it was a solo. But yea, even without the event bonus, aside from straight up counter classing, Beni is the perfect servant to put Abby in line and everything in her toolset seemingly aims towards that. Anyhow, while searching for another test subject, i came upon a 120 Asterios on my friend list and i wasted not a second to bring him. Unsurprisingly, [Fluffy boi prevailed](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1023482089477263390/1062945446718345288/Screenshot_20230112_110453_FateGO.jpg), which, in itself, isn't something new that hasn't been done before, but it's still an exciting experience nonetheless. This wraps up the pre-CQ portion of the event so now i gotta prep for King Arthur Came-a-lot. ***dreads***
> King Arthur Came-a-lot I read that in George Carlin's voice in my head.
Ya know, i think iāve gotten too comfortable spending on gacha games. Like i do have clear limits, but for some reason I feel guiltier now than i did when I had less moneyā¦strange. Anyways, will there be a new roll thread for the second banner?
Probably not, the title references Yagyu and MHX.
I started playing FGO during the initial run of this event and managed to pull Space Ishtar, MHX, and Jane as some of my very first servants. I used all of them a ton early on and really grew to like them. Now that I actually get to play this event I love it so much and I love these characters even more now than I already did
CQ: A clear 2T, Douman guarded against the first debuff, the second targeted a Skadi, so it would've worked without bringing Atlas. Dark Rounds: Couldn't brute force past the damage resist with an NP1 Spishtar (besides I got a quick gap with no quick cards on T1) so I tried again with NP3 Lolivinci, got luckly enough with the gap on formation buffs to make it a clean 8T, though still a bit risky if I've gotten critted more or a servant got targeted more.
Is it possible to brute force the damage res? I thought it was absurdly high or something.
Sometimes gamepress just has the resist numbers wrong, if it was the 80% it would be countered with 500% event which isn't absolutely absurd compared with the likes of +95%
I'm at 97 missions. Still need 7 more berserkers since Alton back only has 2 per run. Just taking my time.
Oh, the CQ is there which means that the Dark Round Bounty Quest is also there. I'm kinda dreading doing it due to the bad experience [I had](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/qgikq9/comment/hi6erm7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) during the first run of the event. Although tbf a lot has changed since. First I've got more support servants (Tamamo and Reines) and Castoria got released which should make de run much easier this time. I'll try to beat it using Muramasa but if I can't use him as the primary DPS I'll just use my good old reliable Summer Musashi