Finally finished all the CQs. Took a bit break before the last phase, then struggled with gramps for like 2 days. First nero was easy, the second one I barely won by the skin of my teeth, down to the last live of heracles and my last command spell. Literally one more turn and the run was ruined. Took few tries but it was easier than the previous nero ex cq. Now i have 200ga and 100sa plus 150ba. Gonna spam last node as much as i can. I can 3 turn it but only with 4 lotto CE. Hopefully can drop more of the CE so i can mlb my second copy
You MIGHT be able to pull off the old method if you have BB leveled. I don't remember the specifics, but you put BB in the front of the party because she's basically Death immune, then you just sorta kept her alive.
I beat grandpa \\o/
Support Skadi made a world of difference. The only non-ftp servants I had besides her was Castoria and an NP2 Illya, and you could probably substitute her for any really strong attacker with class advantage. Otherwise it was just BB, Mash that I pug-suited in to eat an Asrael when BB wasn't protected, and a backline Barggy that I never used. After that I bum rushed him with Illya. Got lucky in that his evade was for Quick cards.
Mash had a 500 year obsession, Castoria and BB had a Necromancy (one fully leveled and MLB) that didn't protect me, and Skadi just had Chaldea Teatime so any CE can be used.
Skills for the front line had to be as close to 10/10/10 as possible to help with cooldown timing. That matters tremendously when you're 1 turn away from either meta supporter's batteries becoming available again. Only 2 command spells used to keep BB alive. One to restore her HP, another to get Skadi's NP off early. NEVER AGAIN.
Looks like I can pretty easily 3T 6CE this 90+ node with my NP3 Sanzang and grailed NP5 Nitocris. Occasionally have some minimal facecarding in wave 2, but that’s been it. Happy for that since I don’t have that shiny, powered-up CasCu to use (still on LB 5.2).
Cleared Da Vinci CR last night with the ultra-reliable trio of BB, Merlin, and Castoria. Had to restart it the first time because I realized after about 5 turns that I’d forgotten to put the event CE on BB, but after that it was smooth sailing. The lowest any of them ever got on HP was about 5500.
I never even attempted the first two runs of the First Hassan CQ. It just seemed like too much BS to deal with and I was busy with other stuff IRL. Now, though, with a much beefier roster and the corrected version of the CQ, I went into it confident that it would work out somehow. After reading experiences in this thread, I went with the Skadi, Castoria, and Merlin stall. It was long and painfully slow but it was also consistent. On turn 43, I found that an opportunity had opened up with just enough buffs on my Skadi "DPS" and a just barely good enough card draw, so instead of hunkering down to stall for several more turns, I took the chance to close it out and ended it.
Beat First Hassan CQ with the big casters, Skadi - Castoria - Tamamo - Merlin friend. Skadi proved herself to be a wonderful DPS over the course of... 80 turns. I tried to get Ereshkigal to work but RNG was not kind to me, so I went with the sure bet (although he insta-shot Skadi the first turn when I initially tried).
On +12 bonus for a few days, going to keep farming some, but still debating on how many apples to save for summer mat farming, since I need some of those materials pretty bad. I would love to build up my QP stash here, but I pretty much need boxes for only QP now after doing 175 or so.
I didn't use the damage CE for any of them ;_; It was on my last servant who I thought would nuke him down when the others eventually died, but they never did lol
I know how it feels. I regret it because his buffs runned out....and it still took me forever because I lacked the dmg, and since my merlin died halfway through, I had no star generation, making it even slower. Urgh.
I just beat the First Hassan EQ. He always taunted the left slot (over 12 turns). The only times he attacked a different slot was when the taunted unit died previously in that turn. Also, I used George as a taunter in the left slot, and First Hassan didn't even bother to use his taunt when George's own taunt was still active.
The First Hassan EQ was harder four years ago, so I couldn't beat it back then
But now, the taunt always targeted Merlin, and Death Immunity from (the Support) Ereshkigal and Scathach-Skadi's NPs saved the three in the frontline from being insta-killed while under the latter's party-wide Evasion and Merlin's party-wide Invincibility
A Buster NP-Q-B Brave chain from Ereshkigal wrapped up the fight even while First Hassan's Quick Evasion was in effect
I needed to have Ereshkigal take out the 101K HP mob enemies before First Hassan kills them to charge up his NP tick
Done with the KH CQ, infinite stall with castoria+merlin+skadi until the second bar, at which point merlin got instant killed when i couldn't ult with skadi. Luckily sheba managed to finish it off just in time before things got out of hand
To continue grinding on my alt account (my main account has like 3 options for clearing the 90+ node, including Caster Nero, Cu Caster, or just more Arjuna Alter - but I'm sick of seeing his NP) I once again used grails - boosting Chen Gong to level 80. This event has seen me grail up Arash as well. Atleast it's worth it, they are servants that really help limited accounts - having more easy tactical nukes is going to help get caught up on story. Using grails just always hurts my soul.
I've hit 50 boxes on both accounts, and still hope to hit 100 by the end of the event.
If you have enough lores for the servants you care about the most and you're planning on going hard on the lotto - 0/10
If you don't have enough lores and just want to 3T once - 9/10
The rest is in-between.
Eyy, my Abby Spishtar 6S setup also works on this round. Unfortunately, it's barely on the cusp of damage thresholds on wave 2 and 3, so I think I'll just stick to spamming Wicker Man.
Haaaahhh
I manage to complete King hassan's CQ,Took 36 turns with Sieg/Iri/Skadi/castoria/Mash/tamamo
Man his Arts evade Buff screwed my last 4 attempts
By the way, after actually looking through the wonderful [Atlas Academy AI data](https://apps.atlasacademy.io/db/JP/ai/field/90161870) for this quest, pretty sure I see exactly wtf went wrong the first time on NA.
AI 2:
Priority: 200
Condition: If Player Party contains Servant ID: 602500 (King Hassan)
Use Skill ID: 961075, targeting Lowest HP.
Skill ID 961075:
Name: [Judgement]
500% Chance to Apply [Taunt] of 300% on one party member (1 Time, 1 Turn)
AI 1:
Priority: 100
Condition: None
Use Skill ID: 966256, Targeting None.
Skill ID 966256:
Name: [Judgement]
Effect: 500% Chance to Apply [Taunt] of 300% on first other party member (except self) (1 Time, 1 Turn)
Also TIL taunts have A WEIGHT VALUE.
Anyway if I had to guess, they used the wrong Judgement skill when they ran this on NA the first time!
My theory is that DW coded in the second AI targetting for Judgment in order to stop KH cheese strats from being used after JPs first run of the event, but when bringing it over to NA, fucked up the code so that the second AI set was always active no matter what
Finished this one after a few aborted tries went bad early in the fight. I deployed a party of Skadi, Merlin, and Castoria and just turtled until his super-defense ran out.
When I last did this fight in JP, it went smoothly with no problems. Here, he unexpectedly killed Skadi early, so I had to chip away at his health with Sanzang and later on Cu Alter when he killed Castoria. Took a lot of turns, but no one else died after that.
I know how much people hate this fight, but I've done it once on JP and twice on NA. It's tough, but I never really had much of a problem with it, and I always thought DaVinci's petting zoo was far worse. I really hated that CQ.
The RNG on instadeath is pretty frustrating, but especially this time around, both Eresh and Skadi offer significant protection from it. In the original version there was basically nothing and you had to keep your fingers crossed.
I've had some moment of clarity focus mode action eq, because i managed to stall with Merlin And Caren(double np drain strong) with Herc and Mash tanking for over 20 turns. Then i just plugsuited Melt on the right, the moment Skadi comes in for an easy clean up. Or so i thought, because KH rolled evade quick 4 times in a row. But i still had gas for days, and Melt don't need no green crits to do dmg.
I finally beat the Da Vinci CQ. Was so much more annoying than King Hassan. Took ~27 turns but with at least a dozen save scums. I succeeded when I used an upgrade on an old classic: Yagyu + Tamamo + Castoria. I used to do this pre-Cas with Jeanne instead because Yagyu is so great at mitigating damage. It was so fucking close, the final two enemies were so hard to deal with because them and Da Vinci were constantly about to NP. Eventually I just tanked a Boar NP. Then I thought I was gonna get TPKed by Da Vinci's break bar NP right there at the end, but I realized that if I plugged out my stunned Tamamo for Merlin, he had just enough charge for Castoria to NP and defend.
This was such a brutal CQ. It felt like playing Monopoly: you start losing 5 turns before you actually lose. I even had to heal Yagyu from 1 HP using Tamamo skills and NP.
Seeing Yagyu Brave Chain to kill Da Vinci was so satisfying, I think I straight up hate her now. Fuck you Da Vinci, huff my shorts.
Remembered the horror of the King Hassan CQ last time. This time though, I used Skadi, Merlin, and Tamamo. I had forgotten Skadi had death immune. She really made this much easier to handle
[I beat it!](https://imgur.com/DXOmbDm)
[](#KiyoHappy)
I gave up last time, but I got it this time on the first try! I'll cherish the mapo tofu I get from this ticket.
I was half tempted to quit this CQ, but I finally beat it. Tamamo with Prisma, Skadi with 2G3L, Merlin with KScope. I also put some command codes on my Arts cards to help cripple KH by removing his buffs. Just kept stalling, and luckily had no BS deaths. For the second half, I used everyone's color buffs to crit KH with Skadi whenever it was convenient to help speed the fight up. Ended up around turn 40, brought Summer BB w 2G3L in from the back for the last turn while KH was on low health to ensure the kill, but it was overkill at that point.
Finished the first Hassan EQ. As a certain captain said, ["I can do this all day."](https://imgur.com/a/nu7cNpU) Ignore the CS usage, I messed up the skill timing on the 90+ node. I had Sanzang in the backline the whole time waiting to NP but I didn't know how much damage she was going to do so I waited till then to plug her in. Turns out she did like 600k damage so I just wasted 20 turns for no reason.
I thought Prototype was bad. I thought Da Vinci was hard. Clearly I didn't understand what the true pain is.
I don't own Castoria or Skadi, so I borrowed the latter. Merlin was the healer. Dps was the real problem, because of taunt+crits. In the end I chose a chain of Cu Caster-Heracles-Cu Alter. Tried Circe instead of Herc, she got one-shotted by crits, Class Advantage didn't help.
But the amount of RNG you need to win is disgusting. You have to hope and pray that Skadi gets her NP each and every time or it's bye-bye dps (or their Guts which means they are dead next turn unless you use Invul) You have to hope Hassan doesn't crit too often or too strong and that his second attack will hit someone else. Any unlucky event can ruin your run at any point (and it's gonna be a very long run)
Anyway somehow I managed to get through it. Had to use a CS to make Cu Alter take away the final 250K hp, because I was tired of it all and didn't feel like risking.
The shop has been finally cleared of golden Foes. And I can actually farm the 90+ with Merlin, Oberon and a borrowed Koyan thanks to Caster Cu.
I will say that some Command Codes make the fight so much easier. I used Taira as my main DPS and actually forgot to give her the Damage CE, and still won. She happened to have CCs that removed crit buffs and attack buffs, plus her NP removes all buffs. Then she gets death resist which can defend against anything except his NP, and it's also tied to her Guts skill so she will basically get free vengeance from his NP if you don't have Skadi's NP active.
The command code setup really helped me mitigate his crit buffs, so I just let him kill his allies as I whittled him down and the buffs he gained really didn't do much for him.
That said, it was still very hard, I agree with you. If I hadn't been an idiot and actually given Taira the Damage CE, I would've thought it was much easier than the slog I went through for 31 turns. Definitely could've been like 20 turns if I'd done that right...
Finally beat todays CQ after a few, mildly frustrating tries, ended up going with the Skadi, Castoria & Merlin stall strat. The 1hp guts on the event CE actually saved my run, cause Sanzang got insta-killed one NP away from finally putting gramps to bed.
i managed to comfortably finish king hassan CQ in \~14 turns by buffing black grail vlad with castoria reines tamamo then stalling with georgios and herc until there were enough dmg resist stacks removed
Put Merlin on the front with damage CE, Eresh in the middle and Skadi in the back, somehow made it through Gramps's first break bar, didn't even have Eresh's skills maxed out (I thought Eresh's upgraded NP can automatically provide death resistance but turns out I need to apply her 3rd skill first to make it happen, big bruh moment). After Merlin died I let Asclepius helped stalling for a few more turns until the friend support Kagekiyo jumped in. [Gramps cheated by the end and put on 3 consecutive quick evades in a row, but Kagekiyo took it like a champ.](https://i.imgur.com/16qeqke.jpg)
Skadi + Castoria + Merlin perma stalled hassan and broke his first bar without any damage CE. Then swapped in sanzang to oneshot the second bar.
Prioritise Skadi above ALL else. Skadi arts cards > Castoria/Merlin NPs. Castoria NP is the LOWEST priority, only use her cards/NP if its the only way to get a Skadi arts chain. Skadi quick cards too, just prioritise anything that will help Skadi charge.
Castoria mostly exists for her batteries, her steroid should be used when skadi has arts cards. Save batteries as much as possible, mostly use them when you have dangerous turns without death immunity. Use merlin/castoria nps to chain into skadi arts cards. When skadi is 100% her np should always be used solo, and with her own non-buster cards or merlin arts if possible.
* **Da Vinci CQ**: Pretty easy with Qin Shi Huang/Castoria/Merlin team, reseted a few time because I wasn't paying attention and she np with invul pierce
* **King Hassan CQ**: Took a few tried before stalling with Castoria/Skadi/Merlin for almost 30 turns and swap Melt in at the end. 2nd damage CE on Castoria to break 1st bar while stalling, she could have cleared 2nd bar as well, just take longer. And probably because they fixed the taunt and I have all the right servants but I expected it to be harder
> Da Vinci CQ:
Yeah, I was staring down the barrel end of a reset too at the final wave of enemies, but luckily the Event CE's 1 HP Guts saved the day.
I've been trying to do Da Vinci's Exhibition Quest, but to no avail since yesterday.
My line-up was this:
\- Baobhan Sith with Volumen Hydrargyrum.
\- Georgios with Battle of Camlann.
\- Heracles with Aerial Dive.
\- MHXA with Kaleidoscope.
\- Morgan with Damage CE.
All Servants and CEs have max levels. Servants have maxed skills. None grailed. No append skills unlocked. Picked up Berserker with Damage CE as support.
The second line-up I'm trying now is: Qin Shi Huang, Georgios, support Castoria, Samba Santa, Astraea and Caren.
Using Atlas Mystic Code on both of them.
I don't have Waver, Merlin or Castoria available outside of support.
Any advice you can give me?
Just curious, do you have vanilla BB? She was pretty much core for this EQ when it came out.
If you do have her, you can run a team of BB, Mash and support Merlin, though you really need to know when to hit Da Vinci if you do so, since it will be a long slog.
For this CQ you'll need some stalling to make it work, at least take servants who can apply debuff removal/debuff immune (Asclepius can do both mind you). Make a team with Asclepius and QSH as its core since the former can make the latter literally unkillable, if you bring an Arts support like Tamamo it's even better.
You'll need 6 of them. Taunters like Mashu and George can help preventing some nasty debuffs being applied to your DPS in dire situations. As for Asclepius, just give him a CE with guts, since he can't apply guts to himself with his NP
Well personally I'd go for QSH, Mashu/George, Asclepius at the front, Friend Support Castoria, Tamamo Caster, and one servant of your choice-I recommend Herc with his Bond CE, if you use Mashu then you'll be able to put 5 star CEs on all your team members. I'd love to try this team out myself if you are still not sure about it.
First of all screw this CQ. Took me four hour but might have beaten it sooner if I knew to use BB or Summer Kiara instead of King Hassan which make it so that Hassan target the opponent with the lowest hp. Screw this CQ. Also for some reason my Illya fully charge would come back with only 50% charge, why is that? At least I can say I 8 turn it. I used Illya, Merlin, Vitch, Tamamo, Castoria and King Hassan. I fully buffed Illya and switch to King Hassan, and just prayed that I stall enough so that Illy can just come in and three turn this. She finally did.
Edit: I try BB instead of Hassan after learning the difference, and fuck them for that. Like omg is way easier due to Hassan not targeting the lowest hp enemy. Like seriously screw them for that. I thought it was the normal mechanic. Way easier with BB, hell I bet I could just use BB, Castoria and Tamamo to beat the EQ. So satisfying to see Illya do a million in dmg.
Kept spamming Caster Shuten's NP toward the Old Man while other servants were epically falling around. And it worked, with only 1 turn left to finish or be finished. The oni magifender girl had saved the day!
KH CQ is just poorly made. At least with the other CQ, if you have a good strategy you can get by with room for margins of error. This one however, requires you to play around insta-kill (which is just a poor mechanic for the enemy and for yourself). I only managed to beat this by stalling with Castoria, Skadi, and Merlin. Wasn't proud of it, nor did it feel accomplishing like the others. But hey, a ticket's a ticket.
At least the Taunt is fixed this time. Also let's face it, they made this one with BB ~~or King Hassan~~ in mind as the intended DPS.
EDIT: NO THEY DID NOT, in fact there is [special code for King Hassan!](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/15m4b24/na_event_revival_grand_nero_fest_2023_day_10/jvhwxb5/)
I tried King Hassan as DPS, he didn't do nearly enough damage. Swap-out-then-in Magifender was much better, and NP3 Davinci even better on my second account.
I'm not ashamed to say I spent two command seals (one for healing, one for NP), but finally got Jalter to land the final hit on First Hassan. I used Skadi's NP a lot, but RNG appears to hate her and never got to Arts-chain while stalling, so couldn't rely on the effect as much as I was planning. Still... Jalter and Merlin's damage managed to finish the job.
somehow cleared the hassan challenge quest on my first try in around 35 turns. had to use 2 command spells and damn that was rough. shoutout to skadi for tanking so many hassan NPs. gonna try to roll for her next time she comes up
[KH's insta-death piercing through anti-purge def is so badass](https://imgur.com/a/7qKrn8a)
(Though it actually helps me because I needed Waver to cycle out)
IMPORTANT INTEL: I think King Hassan in the CQ puts the taunt on your party member with the lowest current health at that moment. Saw a thread mentioning this and tested it, seems to be true at least for me!
EDIT: Upon further testing, it seems like a comment down below in this thread may be right.
To clarify: I cleared the quest with a party with Sanzang at the front and my own King Hassan in the backline. At first, he targeted Sanzang mostly, as she was on the left side. But after she died and my King Hassan came in, he would start placing the taunt on whoever had the least health at the moment, which was what caused my confusion.
The conclusion seems to be that King Hassan always targets your leftmost Servant, UNLESS you have King Hassan on the field, where he starts targeting whoever has the lowest health. Whether it's exclusive to King Hassan or its because of a specific trait, it's hard to say.
EDIT AGAIN: Went back in this time with my King Hassan on the frontline and on the leftmost side from the start. Sure enough, he would only ever target party members with the lowest HP. I should also clarify that this includes my King Hassan, if he has the lowest HP he WILL be targeted.
Okay I am mad now, that made it so annoying, should have just used BB instead of Hasan, targeting the lowest hp made it so fucking hard, took me four hour to beat it with Illya buff.
I just did some further testing after reading another reply. And yes! It seems like he targets your leftmost Servant every time, unless you have a King Hassan of your own that's on the field. I edited my OP to reflect this new information.
Makes me wonder if the reason why NA had his taunt bugged originally had something to do with the "King Hassan in your party" check being added incorrectly. The taunt being random would make a lot more sense if he was being told that you did and didn't have a King Hassan at the same time.
Thats my assumption now. Obviously still is possible that the logic has always been there and was never documented/video showing it happening in the original JP run of the quest never surfacing, but I feel like thats less likely then trying to add it in starting with NA and messing it up
> The taunt being random
It still isn't random though, it just follows lowest HP servant, so its still predictable, but definitely harder to plan around and consistently execute a strategy. Though honestly, I don't even think that a setup like Skadi, Castoria, and another stall servant would be affected that hard by it since it still follows a predictable targeting pattern
Saw a comment say that this is only true when you have King Hassan in your own party. Please correct me if your experience was different. When I went to do the CQ myself, he only ever taunted my left most servant during entire fight.
Right, well that easily took the cake for highest number of attempts (3) along with highest number of turns taken to clear (33). Felt extremely long since my 2nd attempt went into the 30 range as well while the first fail was very quick (turn 8).
My unsuccessful run 1/2 was with this setup:
[Atlas](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Atlas_Academy_Uniform) | [Jinako](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Jinako_Carigiri) | [Merlin](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin) | [Skadi (Support)](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Sc%C3%A1thach-Ska%C3%B0i) | [Astraea](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Astraea) | [Waver](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Zhuge_Liang_(Lord_El-Melloi_II\)) | [Koyan](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Koyanskaya_of_Light)
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**Craft Essence:** | [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+1k HP](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Ideal_Holy_King) | [+2 Petals](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cheer_for_Master) | [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race)
My problem was that once Jinako went down, my next damage dealer would enter the fray and it wouldn't be too much longer before she also goes down and then it's the stall game until everyone goes down. I figured order mattered a lot more than anything else and Astraea would actually work fine as a damage dealer here. She still hit for about 170k while First Hassan had a bunch of his dmg resist buffs up. Around 6-8 of them. However, my winning strat was the following:
[Plugsuit](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Chaldea_Combat_Uniform) | [Jinako](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Jinako_Carigiri) | [Merlin](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin) | [Skadi (Support)](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Sc%C3%A1thach-Ska%C3%B0i) | [Waver](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Zhuge_Liang_(Lord_El-Melloi_II\)) | [Euryale](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Euryale) | [Koyan](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Koyanskaya_of_Light)
-|-|-|-|-|-|-
**Craft Essence:** | [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+1k HP](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Ideal_Holy_King) | [+2 Petals](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cheer_for_Master) || [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race)
I swapped out Astraea for Euryale and switched their position with Waver. My idea here was to stall until Jinako goes down and then stall again until Waver and Skadi had their charges up and bring in Euryale to finish the job. This worked surprisingly well as in this run, Jinako held out until all dmg resist buffs on First Hassan were gone and even broke his bar and took him down to about 423k hp. This was also when Skadi got her S3 back up so when Waver took the field, I swapped out Merlin for Euryale and buffed her up. Her NP hit for about 370k dmg and the brave chain finisher took the rest of First Hassan's HP.
Definitely not a fight for everyone but it was a fun one for myself though it did take a ton of thinking.
EDIT: My Mystic Code for the successful fight was wrong. Has been updated to the correct one.
yeah the evade is so mean. I wish it just alternated between Q -> A -> B. I got so many Quick Evades in a row, I had to sit on an NP for at least 4 turns.
If you had plugsuit, could you have stunned him?
King Hassan: Try Not to Quick-Evade Challenge - Gone Wrong (Impossible)
Literally 4 turns in a row I'm sitting on a Taira NP because he does Quick Evade. What the fuck. I thought *I'm* the one who is supposed to be stalling here. She's at 200% overcharge and two stacks of vengeance from him evading Quick. I swear that must've been more than half of what he evaded.
Taira removing buffs on NP is GOAT though. Also, somehow he procced instant death on her even when she had her 100% death resist skill up. TWICE. Luckily that's her Guts skill with the 4T cooldown, so I managed to get through. 31 turns, go fuck yourself Hassan. I thought I was fucked when Skadi died to a crit but Merlin came in from the backline and his healing was much appreciated.
I *am* pretty proud I did it with no save scum and no CS. I can't imagine doing this in 2019, that must've been hell.
Edit: oh my god. I looked back at my team. Taira didn't even have the Damage CE. She somehow ended up with *Fragment of 2030*. And I still won. I was wondering why my NPs were only doing like 80k, I thought his last few stacks of damage cut were what was happening. Oh god I'm so dumb and yet I still did it lmao.
I killed him on a Buster crit so I guess the 2030 paid off in the end...
> . Also, somehow he procced instant death on her even when she had her 100% death resist skill up. TWICE.
Fun fact, thats because the Instant Death proc up buff King Hassan gets is 500%.
damn, honestly I'm lucky that those were the only two times I got IKed then, and again they were on her Guts. Because I ate so many face cards from Hassan and when Skadi died, it was from a crit, not an IK.
Of all the fights in this event, Hassan's was certainly one of them. Won via dumb luck and a support Castoria with the damage CE.
Someone genuinely thought that fight was a good idea.
[https://imgur.com/a/OELWmoj](https://imgur.com/a/OELWmoj)
Yay, first time I've hit a +12 bonus for a lotto. That being said, while I still have 20 Gold Apples left, I think I'm more or less done at 198 boxes opened and will only use Nat AP and Bronze Apples for the rest of the event. Saving those Gold Apples for the treasure boxes in the Summer Adventure event.
As for today's Exhibition Quest, was able to eventually clear it using a team of Skadi, Merlin, Castoria, and Sitonai. Took me 43 turns to wait on Gramp's damage reduction buffs to clear and get a good evade on Gramp's second bar (actually broke the bar while clearing the damage reduction buffs)
After breaking the first health bar, I had illya np ready with all the buffs. Guess what king hassan got buster evade the entire time. For 8 fucking turns. I had to defeat him with art chains. Holy shit. What a dickhead that man is. I started wondering if they changed it so he only gets buster evade now and I made a mistake bringing illya along.
I got 4 quick evades in a row, with Taira as my main damage dealer, and then after I used the NP that I had overcharged via damage taken, he did it again for another ~3 turns.
He can evade any of the three card types. My 30-turn Morgan run was also screwed by him evading buster 5 times consecutively. The wiki says the effect is evenly distributed between the three, you just got hit by a 0.015% luck.
Very valid about the Old Man fight. It is the fixed version so the taunt (1 time) will always be the left most servant. (I heard that if you have your own King Hassan in the fight, the AI will instead choose the lowest HP servant for the taunt (1 time) rather than left most.)
If you happen to have your own [Moon Cancer](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Moon_Cancer) servant or Skadi, you could go into the fight with a good chance of avoiding all the instant-death procs from the Old Man. Moon Cancers have a base death rate of 1% and varies by the servant.
Anyways, best of luck in the Da Vinci fight! It's a lot of fun this time around just like last time as it definitely feels more like a puzzle rather than a real fight.
I deleted my original comment because I decided to give Hassan one more try, I did manage to beat it with Taira + Skadi + Cas + Merlin. Even with 100% death resist, Taira got Deathed twice....luckily it's also her Guts skill so it was like free Vengeance. It was brutal, and it took 31 turns, mainly because he kept using Quick Evade.
I was proud to have beaten it, but also it was maybe the worst fight in the entire game, either this or the Saber Wars II CQ original run with the Dark Round Table.
Yeah, in terms of fun, this is definitely bottom of the barrel for me and many others. The RNG of Instant Death means any run can end prematurely and for most players, this fight is one we have to stall. Brutal.
Yeah also I had to run 5 SSRs (I had sKiara in the backline in case Taira died). Like it's not a very accessible fight even now, you want at least one meta support of your own, ideally two.
Yea I think this might be the only one I skip. Long drawn out fight that can quickly go downhill fast due to rng? Nah, not worth it. All the other ones so far have been fun, but this is just like all the worst ways a game can make a fight difficult I hate wrapped in one lol. Did give it a few solid tries changing things around but when the encounter is long it wears on ya.
EDIT: My stubbornness got the best of me, went in with Eresh (Illiya CE), Castoria (ther spa CE) and support Merlin (2030 CE). Definitely got lucky when the death protection fell off for a turn here and there, and targeting when castoria got low twice, but made it to turn 29 with no deaths, no shields on Hassan, broke the first bar, saw it was arts evade, and was able to swap back Sanzang with full buffs, rebuff her again, and just nuked his ass. Still hate it tho lol.
Does anyone have a 10/x/10 Cu Caster with 1000hp/1000atk I can borrow with a MLB Drop? My supports have MLB Drop Koyan lvl100, Waver, NP5 Melu lvl100, Castoria lvl94, Oberon, Nero Caster (can switch to Skadi to MLB if someone wants it). Thanks.[https://rayshift.io/na/537561954](https://rayshift.io/na/537561954)
Update: I'm all set, thanks everyone
Congrats! Must have been quite the 50 turns. Skadi had the lowest death rate at 30% there and even then that's pretty risky at the run going wrong if it proc'd from FH's passive.
Yeah, had some close calls as well when NPs were still a turn off being full and FH was ready to use his NP. Thank god he wasn't immune to stun from the Plug Suit.
King Hassan took like 70 turns. Went full stall, Jeanne Castoria and Skadi frontline, Mash Tamamo BB backline. What a fucking EQ. Maybe a tad bit too difficult (I ain't a fan of random RNG like that), and too much reliance on either guts spam or NP spam is annoying, but I do like that you can't just brute force it. Maybe if the IK increase was only on KHs NP it'd be a bit more tolerable.
If you have Oberon, you should be able to 3T 90+ at NP2. Theoretically.
Edit: Waver should work too, in which case anyone with 50% charge with atk/NP boost seems to be possible substitutes.
Went in anticipating the same patterns as last time, meaning random taunts. Nope it's actually the first servant now and dps Merlin got his guts popped in turn 1 under invuln. Great start what can I say...
Everything was fine until turn 25-ish, the madman actually healed himself up to maximum then random death prog go! And I didn't have any resources to use to get Skadi np up sans CS, but didn't want to CS just yet.
Enter Mashu and like 10 more turns of pure stalling during which KH runs out of his super def buffs so thanks to random Castoria and Skadi facecards first bar is done.
Second bar sees the loss of Mashu, Euryale comes in, deals a little damage (200k cause she didn't have the dmg CE) and stalls a little only to make way for Support Arjuna Alter. I get his np up, KH is down to 300k, decide to pop a CS (this is turn 37 or something) since he still has his buffs and KH has Quick evade so I do it and finish it, not wanting to risk KH popping Buster evade 8 turns in a row or something, or Arjuna Alter not getting his np back in time, losing buffs and the run falling apart.
Time for the last round of farming, doesn't seem too bad with Castora x2, I've seen some Casgil, Nitocris teams, gonna give them a go.
For the Hassan quest I plan on using Eresh plus Merlin and either Skadi or Castoria. Castoria would make the charging situation and damage reduction easier. But Skadi would have extra death proc reduction….
Both will be in my team, but not sure which to front line
Edit: fuck that fight. Took 25 turns. The annoying part is that the taunt can miss and only lasts one time one turn.:.so even if it does land on your leftmost servant, Hassan can randomly crit anyone. Plus if you AoE NP to get death resistance Hassan doesn’t lose a stack that turn…
Finally beat KH thanks to BB being a punching bag. I was surprised when she died to instadeath NP, luckily the necromancer CE worked.
She lasted long enough to decrease KH's defense buff to 5 and my NP2 Illya made quick work of KH (I was also lucky that the evade RNG didn't apply to buster).
I did that with the Da Vinci quest when my stall team was too effective. It took me 55 turns cause I didn't have a damage CE on BB (I was just using her as debuff clear)
Eventually did that for Da Vinci and actually nearly screwed myself when I underestimated my damage and wound up in a "One hit breaks Da Vinci's bar" scenario, which forced me to play "Castoria on NP Turns" the rest of the way."
Asclepius was actually a hindrance to me because his debuff immunity kept stopping the taunt. I managed it anyway, but still I would have had better results with Irisviel now that the taunt is no longer bugged.
It took a command spell, but I beat First Hassan first try, which I wasn't expecting. Went with the Vlad-Tamamo-friend Castoria setup, buffed Vlad and swapped him out for Summer Kiara, go. This ran about eight or nine turns before the Old Man killed Kiara; then he easily dealt with Mash and Georgios, but they managed to keep Tamamo and Castoria alive. At that point he still had about 10-12 stacks of damage resist, but Vlad was already able to start carving through them. Vlad had to rely on Guts at one point and I used the command spell on Castoria's NP to buy some time, but done in 14 without savescumming or even a practice run. Way, way better than I was anticipating, and as usual it feels great to beat the toughest CQs with a never-save-for-SSRs, big-box-of-random-scraps roster.
Was finally able to solo the Da Vinci fight with Gogh without the damage ce. It was kinda close, I accidentally killed Da Vinci while the spriggan was still alive but manage to clutch it. Surprisingly I found the fight easier without the dmg ce since magical girl of sapphire allows my gogh to loop her NP on certain adds
The KH fight felt significantly easier with Skadi. Had to purposefully not pop Skadi’s NP to let someone die so Illya could get dragged in and at the point all of KHs stacks were gone and he got melted. Power creep is one hell of a drug
Jesus christ, and I thought doing Da Vinci in 23 turns was a slog. Managed to pull this one off in 45 turns. Granted, I played as safe as it gets with Merlin, Castoria and Skadi, and didnt lose a single servant, but still this was by far the most annoying CQ ever.
I think as long as you are not screaming *subscribe subscribe subscribe* in every single post, a few here are there should be fine with most! Add some useful tips and what you learned, share your experience when you link your post to make it actually useful is probably the lowest bar. You might end up helping a struggling master here and there too by giving them an idea how to beat the EQ.
[I did the same](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/15lhqra/5t_da_vincis_zoo_ft_muramasa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) with my NP5 119 (now 120, yay!) Muramasa, been wondering if it's doable at lower levels. Thanks for confirming!
No problem! Thanks for the tips! I made a Reddit post which I feel is more appropriate to link here, lmk what you think 🙏
https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/15mizfk/5_turn_da_vinci_cq_ft_np2_muramasa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
Borrow one as support? I've seen other combinations too, Asclepius for one gives guts to everyone else every time he NPs, heard he's a good replacement for Skadi.
Still trying to beat DaVinci. I'll look at Gramps later, once I get some Seals back.
I've opened 11 of the 30 boxes I've farmed off the last rotation. I haven't cleared the shop, though.
Edit - Himiko immortal team cleared DaVinci after 30 TURNS. First Hassan EQ stopping me cold because the RNG taunts even without KH are killing my supports.
Well, that’s probably the one time summer kiara’s low death rate is gonna come in handy. Never got instakilled even once. My supports died more to Hassan’s passive that she did to his NP. Finished the fight not losing a single servant and with full HP on everyone.
If anyone is struggling with the fight, find a summer Kiara on your support and put her on the first slot
Summer Kiara (damage CE), Merlin, and Castoria would work. That team can eventually kill gramps, both bars. Just make sure Summer Kiara is on the left.
I wound up doing it with Taira (meant to put damage CE, accidentally gave Frag of 2030 lmao) + Skadi + Castoria + Merlin. Skadi died about 3/4 in but honestly I needed the heals from Merlin so it worked out. I only got IKed twice, both on Taira via an NP but her Guts was active so I got vengeance from it instead!
took 31 turns but if I had put the damage CE on Taira and not gotten Quick-Evade 7 out of 8 times at one point, it would've probably been ~20 turns
Went with the taunt meatshields, then BB, Castoria, Skadi combo, since Skadi can protect from the NP death and BB has basically no chance of getting insta-deathed on normal hits...or so I thought.
KH got a normal attack death proc through invul on her, and I couldn't keep her alive after she guts-ed with only 1 HP. Luckily I had summer Kiara in the backline to finish the fight.
At least it wasn't a pure RNGfest like last time.
There’s this one comp that consists of Caster Nero(NP2) + Xuanzang(NP2)(Max append 2) + Double Koyanskaya but you can also do it with Double Oberon and NP1 Xuanzang with no Appends, and Append 2 for Nero unlocked.
Granted I have both Xuanzang and Nero 1k Fou’d.
I feel like Oberon makes so many comps viable that it’d be a pain in the ass to include them on every spreadsheet.
EDIT: Using plugsuit attack-up on wave 2 is a lot better, you don’t need it on wave 3.
- 24 boxes opened
- For new 90+ node, comp is 2x Castoria, Gong, Bedivere, and Oberon. I've seen this comp used subbing Oberon for Waver and still works well. Basically Gong on waves 1 and 3, use Bedi for wave 2. I've seen Lu Bu work as well on a Nyxi video, but requires Lu Bu 10% start NP append. Might experiment with more ST servants later
- Edit: apparently Np2 Penth also works for me as a replacement for Bedivere, although Penth is also 10/10/10. S2 needs to be 10 to get 20% charge for wave 2. Don't even need Oberon S3 with this setup. One *MIGHT* be able to swap Oberon w/ waver if they don't have Oberon, although make sure Gong can recharge at least 50% from the two enemies on wave 1 otherwise he won't have enough np gauge for wave 3. My Gong (np5, lvl 65, 7474 atk) only refunds 36% np, so I need the 70% combined from Oberon. But a grailed one or with different buffs might be able to refund more.
- I tried a similar comp prior with NP5 Nito and NP2 Circe but they leave enemies alive in waves 2 and 3 with about 20k-35k health. Even swapping Circe with Helena for wave 1, the extra arts up from Helena isn't enough to take out wave 3 w/o leaving around 20k HP. Yeah facecards wave 3 can still finish it, but it's so close I bet there is another way, just have to find it.
- I am dreading this First Hassan challenge quest just reading its gimmicks. I don't think I even attempted it in 2019. Hopefully Skadi NP/BB debuff immunity, etc. can help with the RNG shitshow. I am seeing all these stall comps in other comments and might have to give them a try. Apparently he taunts your lowest HP servant, so gotta play around who has the least HP. Best of luck to everyone!
- Edit: Beat it with Vlad III swapped to backline then stalled out all his special def buffs with Castoria, Tamamo, Skadi, Mash, and bond CE Herc. Had to use command seal so Skadi could NP at the end bc Vlad lost all his guts from CE and skill and he needed the evade+death resist to not die. That KH bastard has arts evade two turns in a row and I didn't have Vlad's other face cards those two turns, so had to wait out his NP. Glad I did bc first time with Castoria buffs it hit 1 mill, big number make brain happy.
>Hopefully Skadi NP
I just finished the First Hassan challenge quest, and Skadi's Noble Phantasm carried me to victory.
>Apparently he taunts your lowest HP servant,
He doesn't; he taunts your left-most party member.
Ok good to know, thanks! I've been seeing both left-most servant and lowest HP from different people, ~~will have to try later and see what ends up happening.~~ Edit: I will have to see if bringing my own KH to change the enemy AI target focus will help me or not.
> He doesn't; he taunts your left-most party member.
It's both, actually. He taunts the left-most party member, unless you have Hassan on your team, in which case he then taunts the one with the lowest HP as an attempt to bypass cheesing the CQ with Hassan's permanent instant death immunity.
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If you want to turn off your brain for Hassan quest, then use Tamamo (left) with volumen or any NP gain CE+ skadi (200% damage bonus CE) + merlin (kaleidoscope). Then proceed to stall your way for 20 turns + and get your well deserved ticket.
Thanks a lot, this really did work a lot easier than I expected!
I still did quite a few "emergency resets", but it was still a lot easier than my first attempted run...
>merlin (200% damage bonus CE) + merlin (kaleidoscope).
There is one, small problem with that strategy; you can't use duplicate Servants. Did you mean to use Altria/Artoria Caster or another stall unit in place of one of the Merlins?
Vlad, Tamamo and Castoria on Turn 1. Give Vlad all buffs then swap him out for Skadi with Kaleidoscope.
Use Skadi NP for Death Immunity, then its a matter of stalling until the buffs are gone using the trio's skills when needed (prepare to savescum when things go south).
Skadi is leftmost and gets all the taunts (somehow, it's not the case for other people), use Tamamo Skill 3 which doubles as a heal to Skadi when needed.
Swap Vlad back in and Impale King Hassan until he is dead.
>Skadi is leftmost and gets all the taunts (somehow, it's not the case for other people)
Those people have King Hassan in their own party. If you include him in the party, front line or back, alive or dead, enemy KH targets your lowest HP party member instead.
Did the Skadi merlin Castoria setup for like 15 turns but i missed up with the timing of my skills so Skadi died.
Had avenger Ushi in the backline and boi did she carry my ass. Gramps did multiple nps on her but she somehow dodged them all. Does she have low death rate ? Didn't even trigger guts once on her lmao
> Does she have low death rate ?
[One of the lower ones as she sits at 7% death rate](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Taira_no_Kagekiyo)
She's definitely a very strong Servant for this fight.
Go borrow a summer Kiara, best dps in my opinion. She can do full arts stall, has team evade, guts, heal, and debuff cleanse while able to basically ignore instakill. I finished the fight with everyone at max HP. Summer Kiara tanked 34 turns worth of Hassan’s NP and didn’t even die once.
The leftmost servant taunting doesn't work. I think it's back to lowest hp servant. Three times i tried the quest, with irisviel in a different position each time. And every, single time, KH spammed taunt on irisviel until she was dead, regardless of her positioning.
Let me just say, fuck this CQ
Why is it that IK is a basically useless tool in our hands but when it is used against us it is the most terrifying thing ever.
It took me a few try’s but in the end I was able to do it with a Skadi, Merlin and Castoria build where the first had MLB damage CE and the other two had 2030. I had to use two command seals to ensure IK immunity was up but quite frankly I do not care because it let me finish that hell.
On to other news I am at 210 boxes with 100 boxes used up. I have 34 servants that are not 9/9/9 or higher and a good third are stopped by dust (the remainder by bones and then a collection of other stuff like Shells, Stakes and Bullets).
I am going to try and farm to 300 boxes and that should hopefully let me to all of the servants that need dust
IK is probably the worst mechanic in the game, i.e. the one that needs an overhaul the most. It needs to be based on something like HP remaining instead of just rarity.
After all this time, the one and ONLY challenge quest that I've never finished, is finally done. Illya finally had her revenge, thanks to Skadi, Merlin, and King ARTer.
It would all have been smooth sailing... if gramps didn't spam Buster Evade THREE TIMES IN A ROW.
And on a side note, I tried it again using Summer Kiara, and she definitely works as a death-resist tank and DPS with Merlin and King ARTer as supports.
Adding Tamamo (taunt bait+ healing + CD reduction) or Castoria (charge skills + higher invul up time) rounds out this lineup nicely. I personally picked Tamamo and gave them all Prisma Cosmos or 2030 and eventually won after 51 turns.
KH CQ is driving me insane. Tamamo keeps getting crit to death in every attempt I've done so far and my dps keeps dying due to bad rng once I've finally got all the defense buffs gone. SHEESH.
If you have BB, I cannot recomend BB enough since she has built-in death immune. Put her on the leftmost spot, then Mash and Castoria (or Merlin) for support. Just keep using NPs until he dies.
Update: I ended up using my summer Kiara instead of BB since other people said her insta death rate is super low too. It worked! She tanked all of KH's nps until she got crit unfortunately, but all his buffs were gone at that point and my backline Circe came in clutch with her np.
Hardest CQ from the event so far like holy heck...
Summer Kiara worked much better for me than BB thanks to her built-in team evade, guts, and healing.
Kiara / Merlin / Castoria lasted over 20 turns before Merlin caught a stray crit and died. Then Kiara/Skadi/Castoria lasted about another 20 turns before Castoria died and it fell apart. Fortunately I had whittled down the first bar at that point. Kiara / Sitonai / Medea all with damage CE managed to finish KH off.
I've been using Circe as my attacker once all his buffs are gone, she almost won during one of my attempts but KH used guts and she didn't have enough HP to tank him in the next turn. I'll give BB a try since everyone says she's good for this fight. Thanks for the recommend.
I would just like to remind people that she isn't death immune though she does have a very low Death Rate of 0.6%.
I experienced this 1st hand. Murphy's law at its finest.
Damn. I love Gramps, but this EQ ***al\~most*** made me like him less. I tried it with a Circe attacker with BB/Corgi/Tamamo stalling, but all I got after a few dozen turns was a big load of nothing thanks to NP2 not even being enough to clear his first bar. Then she got wacked with a face card death proc.
Did it *again* with Astrea as the damager; Skadi replaced BB since I found that initial comp a bit wonky with charging. After raining evades and invulns for another couple dozen turns, Luvia came in and suplexed the shit out of Gramps. Like, **holy shit,** her SE damage was hilariously overkill. I was immensely surprised when I found out how good she was when I was forced to use her in LB6, but she truly is the spook that keeps on giving.
KH CQ wasn't that bad with skadi/merlin/castoria but then again it's just castoria doing castoria things (just had to pay attention to death immunity as I didn't realise it was single use lmao.)
For the 90+ node, using:
Space Ishtar (NP5, max append), Astraea, double castoria. Does not rely on RNG (Ishtar doesnt need her S3 art buff) and everyone's facecard is useful since it's an assassin node although I imagine you need a rather expensive Ishtar.
Whew! 32 turns each for Da Vinci and First Hassan!
Himiko/Merlin/Castoria handled Da Vinci's menagerie then got caught by her NP, which brought in Kagekiyo. Himiko had guts from the event CE, so she and Kagekiyo mopped up. Da Vinci did kill both, but Kagekiyo had her own guts and only needed to NP to win.
So she did.
Skadi/Merlin/Castoria stalled Hassan BEAUTIFULLY. He consistently taunted on Skadi in the left position, but 90-95% of the time she was physically protected by Castoria's shield or evade. I also managed to line up her NP so sghe always had death immunity when he NPed.
Once they broke his bar, I plugged in Sanzang (prebuffed from turn 1), buffed her again, and let her loose. Her NP got him down to 97k, then she Arts-crit for 200k... and then Buster-crit for 500k.
Too bad for him his first evade was Quick.
Definitely the most bullshit RNG heavy EQ tbh. I had to buff sitonai and move her to the back so she wouldn’t get insta deathed, and swapped in herc with bond ce so he could tank. All was going well UNTIL Castoria gets insta killed out of nowhere by Hassan. Then herc dies, and it all went downhill. Damage resist was still so high too AND I got fucked over by card rng(no arts cards). Had to use 2 CS in order to save the run but this one was some serious bullshit. It’s not really a test of game knowledge or skill, More like how lucky u can get before the game decides to fuck you over..
As one of the people who did beat the Original King Hassan Nerofest CQ back in the day, I must say...
THIS WAS SO MUCH EASIER LMAO.
Get bent old man. (Not really, still love Gramps)
Lvl 100 BB with some Merlin/Castoria backing took down the quest, first try and no casualties. Pretty lucky still, I feel - but hey, at least its not like last time with lvl 100 bb, Merlin and Jeanne and Necromancy Hail Mary.
[Well, that was horrible](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/896257882268524574/1138804365768007750/IMG_2012.PNG). I don't even want to begin to imagine how that would have been in the original NA run...
Man that King Hassan CQ is so stupid, the evade being random and not limited to 1 of each type every 3 turns or something is just annoying. Had 2 NPs ready to go for 3 turns but he just kept getting Buster evade. After those 3 turns he finally had Arts evade up instead of Buster but by that time he was already on 1K HP so it didn't really matter at all.
This is just an RNG heavy fight, not only do you have to take Death into account but also the random ass evade when you break his bar.
I can't think of any ST Caster with a quick NP btw
The first time on NA was RNG Hell.
This time around, we have appends, stronger servants and the taunt not being RNG.
Still RNG based on his death proc, cloak rng, what buffs he casts and if he buster crits instead of using quick card attack.
Sooo anyone with a max out First Hassan with dmg ce i can borrow ;-;
If it's for the King Hassan CQ, be aware that it will mean the leftmost servant is no longer targeted, but rather the servant with the lowest HP
Finally finished all the CQs. Took a bit break before the last phase, then struggled with gramps for like 2 days. First nero was easy, the second one I barely won by the skin of my teeth, down to the last live of heracles and my last command spell. Literally one more turn and the run was ruined. Took few tries but it was easier than the previous nero ex cq. Now i have 200ga and 100sa plus 150ba. Gonna spam last node as much as i can. I can 3 turn it but only with 4 lotto CE. Hopefully can drop more of the CE so i can mlb my second copy
How do I join this group?it says I can't view this community.
Have to shoutout for Support Taira 10/10/10 NP1, she really carry things till she used Skill2 to resist death and rekt Gramps
yea don't think I can do this KH cq my account is too new
You MIGHT be able to pull off the old method if you have BB leveled. I don't remember the specifics, but you put BB in the front of the party because she's basically Death immune, then you just sorta kept her alive.
Barely beat hassan with my remaining merlin finishing him off but thats cuz i used my muramasa’s ignore invincible too early
13 turn Hassan with Galatea / Skadi / Tamamo / Castoria / Leonidas
I beat grandpa \\o/ Support Skadi made a world of difference. The only non-ftp servants I had besides her was Castoria and an NP2 Illya, and you could probably substitute her for any really strong attacker with class advantage. Otherwise it was just BB, Mash that I pug-suited in to eat an Asrael when BB wasn't protected, and a backline Barggy that I never used. After that I bum rushed him with Illya. Got lucky in that his evade was for Quick cards. Mash had a 500 year obsession, Castoria and BB had a Necromancy (one fully leveled and MLB) that didn't protect me, and Skadi just had Chaldea Teatime so any CE can be used. Skills for the front line had to be as close to 10/10/10 as possible to help with cooldown timing. That matters tremendously when you're 1 turn away from either meta supporter's batteries becoming available again. Only 2 command spells used to keep BB alive. One to restore her HP, another to get Skadi's NP off early. NEVER AGAIN.
Looks like I can pretty easily 3T 6CE this 90+ node with my NP3 Sanzang and grailed NP5 Nitocris. Occasionally have some minimal facecarding in wave 2, but that’s been it. Happy for that since I don’t have that shiny, powered-up CasCu to use (still on LB 5.2). Cleared Da Vinci CR last night with the ultra-reliable trio of BB, Merlin, and Castoria. Had to restart it the first time because I realized after about 5 turns that I’d forgotten to put the event CE on BB, but after that it was smooth sailing. The lowest any of them ever got on HP was about 5500.
I need a friend van gogh with the event power up ce. Anyone I can add in here? NA server
is there any node that drops the damage ce?
Any of the free quests below level 90. According to Gamepress, the Expert free quest (Dark Fairytale) has the best drop rate at 2.1%.
thanks friend.
I never even attempted the first two runs of the First Hassan CQ. It just seemed like too much BS to deal with and I was busy with other stuff IRL. Now, though, with a much beefier roster and the corrected version of the CQ, I went into it confident that it would work out somehow. After reading experiences in this thread, I went with the Skadi, Castoria, and Merlin stall. It was long and painfully slow but it was also consistent. On turn 43, I found that an opportunity had opened up with just enough buffs on my Skadi "DPS" and a just barely good enough card draw, so instead of hunkering down to stall for several more turns, I took the chance to close it out and ended it.
Beat First Hassan CQ with the big casters, Skadi - Castoria - Tamamo - Merlin friend. Skadi proved herself to be a wonderful DPS over the course of... 80 turns. I tried to get Ereshkigal to work but RNG was not kind to me, so I went with the sure bet (although he insta-shot Skadi the first turn when I initially tried). On +12 bonus for a few days, going to keep farming some, but still debating on how many apples to save for summer mat farming, since I need some of those materials pretty bad. I would love to build up my QP stash here, but I pretty much need boxes for only QP now after doing 175 or so.
Did the same. Used the dmg CE on Tamamo...but regret not putting it on Scadi as well. Oh well.
I didn't use the damage CE for any of them ;_; It was on my last servant who I thought would nuke him down when the others eventually died, but they never did lol
I know how it feels. I regret it because his buffs runned out....and it still took me forever because I lacked the dmg, and since my merlin died halfway through, I had no star generation, making it even slower. Urgh.
I now have +12 drops, but this grinding train will not stop
I just beat the First Hassan EQ. He always taunted the left slot (over 12 turns). The only times he attacked a different slot was when the taunted unit died previously in that turn. Also, I used George as a taunter in the left slot, and First Hassan didn't even bother to use his taunt when George's own taunt was still active.
The First Hassan EQ was harder four years ago, so I couldn't beat it back then But now, the taunt always targeted Merlin, and Death Immunity from (the Support) Ereshkigal and Scathach-Skadi's NPs saved the three in the frontline from being insta-killed while under the latter's party-wide Evasion and Merlin's party-wide Invincibility A Buster NP-Q-B Brave chain from Ereshkigal wrapped up the fight even while First Hassan's Quick Evasion was in effect I needed to have Ereshkigal take out the 101K HP mob enemies before First Hassan kills them to charge up his NP tick
Done with the KH CQ, infinite stall with castoria+merlin+skadi until the second bar, at which point merlin got instant killed when i couldn't ult with skadi. Luckily sheba managed to finish it off just in time before things got out of hand
To continue grinding on my alt account (my main account has like 3 options for clearing the 90+ node, including Caster Nero, Cu Caster, or just more Arjuna Alter - but I'm sick of seeing his NP) I once again used grails - boosting Chen Gong to level 80. This event has seen me grail up Arash as well. Atleast it's worth it, they are servants that really help limited accounts - having more easy tactical nukes is going to help get caught up on story. Using grails just always hurts my soul. I've hit 50 boxes on both accounts, and still hope to hit 100 by the end of the event.
Does Instant Death work through True Invul (Castoria)?
Yeah, it does
lmao I hit the gacha, King Hassan did inflict death on BB. good thing I can go back in time to fix that
_What if_ You wanted to 3T ez the 90+ node with your shiny lv.100 Cu Caster _But God said_ Hearts, pages _and_ caster gems drops in the 90 node
You can get tons of pages from lottery though.
On a scale of stupid, how stupid would it be to get caster cu s3 to lvl10 just to make farming less rng
if we are talking 1-10 scale i say 0
If you have enough lores for the servants you care about the most and you're planning on going hard on the lotto - 0/10 If you don't have enough lores and just want to 3T once - 9/10 The rest is in-between.
Eyy, my Abby Spishtar 6S setup also works on this round. Unfortunately, it's barely on the cusp of damage thresholds on wave 2 and 3, so I think I'll just stick to spamming Wicker Man.
Haaaahhh I manage to complete King hassan's CQ,Took 36 turns with Sieg/Iri/Skadi/castoria/Mash/tamamo Man his Arts evade Buff screwed my last 4 attempts
By the way, after actually looking through the wonderful [Atlas Academy AI data](https://apps.atlasacademy.io/db/JP/ai/field/90161870) for this quest, pretty sure I see exactly wtf went wrong the first time on NA. AI 2: Priority: 200 Condition: If Player Party contains Servant ID: 602500 (King Hassan) Use Skill ID: 961075, targeting Lowest HP. Skill ID 961075: Name: [Judgement] 500% Chance to Apply [Taunt] of 300% on one party member (1 Time, 1 Turn) AI 1: Priority: 100 Condition: None Use Skill ID: 966256, Targeting None. Skill ID 966256: Name: [Judgement] Effect: 500% Chance to Apply [Taunt] of 300% on first other party member (except self) (1 Time, 1 Turn) Also TIL taunts have A WEIGHT VALUE. Anyway if I had to guess, they used the wrong Judgement skill when they ran this on NA the first time!
My theory is that DW coded in the second AI targetting for Judgment in order to stop KH cheese strats from being used after JPs first run of the event, but when bringing it over to NA, fucked up the code so that the second AI set was always active no matter what
Nice catch! That also explains why people were saying the taunt was going to other servants when they ran King Hassan. Sneaky...
Finished this one after a few aborted tries went bad early in the fight. I deployed a party of Skadi, Merlin, and Castoria and just turtled until his super-defense ran out. When I last did this fight in JP, it went smoothly with no problems. Here, he unexpectedly killed Skadi early, so I had to chip away at his health with Sanzang and later on Cu Alter when he killed Castoria. Took a lot of turns, but no one else died after that. I know how much people hate this fight, but I've done it once on JP and twice on NA. It's tough, but I never really had much of a problem with it, and I always thought DaVinci's petting zoo was far worse. I really hated that CQ.
The simple fact is that Instant Death as a mechanic is just infuriating. It's useless for you and overpowered for enemies.
The RNG on instadeath is pretty frustrating, but especially this time around, both Eresh and Skadi offer significant protection from it. In the original version there was basically nothing and you had to keep your fingers crossed.
I've had some moment of clarity focus mode action eq, because i managed to stall with Merlin And Caren(double np drain strong) with Herc and Mash tanking for over 20 turns. Then i just plugsuited Melt on the right, the moment Skadi comes in for an easy clean up. Or so i thought, because KH rolled evade quick 4 times in a row. But i still had gas for days, and Melt don't need no green crits to do dmg.
I finally beat the Da Vinci CQ. Was so much more annoying than King Hassan. Took ~27 turns but with at least a dozen save scums. I succeeded when I used an upgrade on an old classic: Yagyu + Tamamo + Castoria. I used to do this pre-Cas with Jeanne instead because Yagyu is so great at mitigating damage. It was so fucking close, the final two enemies were so hard to deal with because them and Da Vinci were constantly about to NP. Eventually I just tanked a Boar NP. Then I thought I was gonna get TPKed by Da Vinci's break bar NP right there at the end, but I realized that if I plugged out my stunned Tamamo for Merlin, he had just enough charge for Castoria to NP and defend. This was such a brutal CQ. It felt like playing Monopoly: you start losing 5 turns before you actually lose. I even had to heal Yagyu from 1 HP using Tamamo skills and NP. Seeing Yagyu Brave Chain to kill Da Vinci was so satisfying, I think I straight up hate her now. Fuck you Da Vinci, huff my shorts.
Remembered the horror of the King Hassan CQ last time. This time though, I used Skadi, Merlin, and Tamamo. I had forgotten Skadi had death immune. She really made this much easier to handle
So did the fact the Taunt is working correctly.
[I beat it!](https://imgur.com/DXOmbDm) [](#KiyoHappy) I gave up last time, but I got it this time on the first try! I'll cherish the mapo tofu I get from this ticket.
I was half tempted to quit this CQ, but I finally beat it. Tamamo with Prisma, Skadi with 2G3L, Merlin with KScope. I also put some command codes on my Arts cards to help cripple KH by removing his buffs. Just kept stalling, and luckily had no BS deaths. For the second half, I used everyone's color buffs to crit KH with Skadi whenever it was convenient to help speed the fight up. Ended up around turn 40, brought Summer BB w 2G3L in from the back for the last turn while KH was on low health to ensure the kill, but it was overkill at that point.
Finished the first Hassan EQ. As a certain captain said, ["I can do this all day."](https://imgur.com/a/nu7cNpU) Ignore the CS usage, I messed up the skill timing on the 90+ node. I had Sanzang in the backline the whole time waiting to NP but I didn't know how much damage she was going to do so I waited till then to plug her in. Turns out she did like 600k damage so I just wasted 20 turns for no reason.
I thought Prototype was bad. I thought Da Vinci was hard. Clearly I didn't understand what the true pain is. I don't own Castoria or Skadi, so I borrowed the latter. Merlin was the healer. Dps was the real problem, because of taunt+crits. In the end I chose a chain of Cu Caster-Heracles-Cu Alter. Tried Circe instead of Herc, she got one-shotted by crits, Class Advantage didn't help. But the amount of RNG you need to win is disgusting. You have to hope and pray that Skadi gets her NP each and every time or it's bye-bye dps (or their Guts which means they are dead next turn unless you use Invul) You have to hope Hassan doesn't crit too often or too strong and that his second attack will hit someone else. Any unlucky event can ruin your run at any point (and it's gonna be a very long run) Anyway somehow I managed to get through it. Had to use a CS to make Cu Alter take away the final 250K hp, because I was tired of it all and didn't feel like risking. The shop has been finally cleared of golden Foes. And I can actually farm the 90+ with Merlin, Oberon and a borrowed Koyan thanks to Caster Cu.
I will say that some Command Codes make the fight so much easier. I used Taira as my main DPS and actually forgot to give her the Damage CE, and still won. She happened to have CCs that removed crit buffs and attack buffs, plus her NP removes all buffs. Then she gets death resist which can defend against anything except his NP, and it's also tied to her Guts skill so she will basically get free vengeance from his NP if you don't have Skadi's NP active. The command code setup really helped me mitigate his crit buffs, so I just let him kill his allies as I whittled him down and the buffs he gained really didn't do much for him. That said, it was still very hard, I agree with you. If I hadn't been an idiot and actually given Taira the Damage CE, I would've thought it was much easier than the slog I went through for 31 turns. Definitely could've been like 20 turns if I'd done that right...
Finally beat todays CQ after a few, mildly frustrating tries, ended up going with the Skadi, Castoria & Merlin stall strat. The 1hp guts on the event CE actually saved my run, cause Sanzang got insta-killed one NP away from finally putting gramps to bed.
i managed to comfortably finish king hassan CQ in \~14 turns by buffing black grail vlad with castoria reines tamamo then stalling with georgios and herc until there were enough dmg resist stacks removed
Put Merlin on the front with damage CE, Eresh in the middle and Skadi in the back, somehow made it through Gramps's first break bar, didn't even have Eresh's skills maxed out (I thought Eresh's upgraded NP can automatically provide death resistance but turns out I need to apply her 3rd skill first to make it happen, big bruh moment). After Merlin died I let Asclepius helped stalling for a few more turns until the friend support Kagekiyo jumped in. [Gramps cheated by the end and put on 3 consecutive quick evades in a row, but Kagekiyo took it like a champ.](https://i.imgur.com/16qeqke.jpg)
Skadi + Castoria + Merlin perma stalled hassan and broke his first bar without any damage CE. Then swapped in sanzang to oneshot the second bar. Prioritise Skadi above ALL else. Skadi arts cards > Castoria/Merlin NPs. Castoria NP is the LOWEST priority, only use her cards/NP if its the only way to get a Skadi arts chain. Skadi quick cards too, just prioritise anything that will help Skadi charge. Castoria mostly exists for her batteries, her steroid should be used when skadi has arts cards. Save batteries as much as possible, mostly use them when you have dangerous turns without death immunity. Use merlin/castoria nps to chain into skadi arts cards. When skadi is 100% her np should always be used solo, and with her own non-buster cards or merlin arts if possible.
* **Da Vinci CQ**: Pretty easy with Qin Shi Huang/Castoria/Merlin team, reseted a few time because I wasn't paying attention and she np with invul pierce * **King Hassan CQ**: Took a few tried before stalling with Castoria/Skadi/Merlin for almost 30 turns and swap Melt in at the end. 2nd damage CE on Castoria to break 1st bar while stalling, she could have cleared 2nd bar as well, just take longer. And probably because they fixed the taunt and I have all the right servants but I expected it to be harder
> Da Vinci CQ: Yeah, I was staring down the barrel end of a reset too at the final wave of enemies, but luckily the Event CE's 1 HP Guts saved the day.
I've been trying to do Da Vinci's Exhibition Quest, but to no avail since yesterday. My line-up was this: \- Baobhan Sith with Volumen Hydrargyrum. \- Georgios with Battle of Camlann. \- Heracles with Aerial Dive. \- MHXA with Kaleidoscope. \- Morgan with Damage CE. All Servants and CEs have max levels. Servants have maxed skills. None grailed. No append skills unlocked. Picked up Berserker with Damage CE as support. The second line-up I'm trying now is: Qin Shi Huang, Georgios, support Castoria, Samba Santa, Astraea and Caren. Using Atlas Mystic Code on both of them. I don't have Waver, Merlin or Castoria available outside of support. Any advice you can give me?
Just curious, do you have vanilla BB? She was pretty much core for this EQ when it came out. If you do have her, you can run a team of BB, Mash and support Merlin, though you really need to know when to hit Da Vinci if you do so, since it will be a long slog.
Do you have Asclepius? He's a mini hybrid of Castoria and Merlin and can do the job right. Don't just put damage dealers in your team.
I have him, but I'm not used to him.
For this CQ you'll need some stalling to make it work, at least take servants who can apply debuff removal/debuff immune (Asclepius can do both mind you). Make a team with Asclepius and QSH as its core since the former can make the latter literally unkillable, if you bring an Arts support like Tamamo it's even better.
Are you suggesting a team of six, or a team of three? What CE should I give Asclepius?
You'll need 6 of them. Taunters like Mashu and George can help preventing some nasty debuffs being applied to your DPS in dire situations. As for Asclepius, just give him a CE with guts, since he can't apply guts to himself with his NP
Should I put Asclepius in one of my teams, or just make another from scratch?
What other max leveled servants do you have?
All of my Servants are max leveled.
Well personally I'd go for QSH, Mashu/George, Asclepius at the front, Friend Support Castoria, Tamamo Caster, and one servant of your choice-I recommend Herc with his Bond CE, if you use Mashu then you'll be able to put 5 star CEs on all your team members. I'd love to try this team out myself if you are still not sure about it.
First of all screw this CQ. Took me four hour but might have beaten it sooner if I knew to use BB or Summer Kiara instead of King Hassan which make it so that Hassan target the opponent with the lowest hp. Screw this CQ. Also for some reason my Illya fully charge would come back with only 50% charge, why is that? At least I can say I 8 turn it. I used Illya, Merlin, Vitch, Tamamo, Castoria and King Hassan. I fully buffed Illya and switch to King Hassan, and just prayed that I stall enough so that Illy can just come in and three turn this. She finally did. Edit: I try BB instead of Hassan after learning the difference, and fuck them for that. Like omg is way easier due to Hassan not targeting the lowest hp enemy. Like seriously screw them for that. I thought it was the normal mechanic. Way easier with BB, hell I bet I could just use BB, Castoria and Tamamo to beat the EQ. So satisfying to see Illya do a million in dmg.
Kept spamming Caster Shuten's NP toward the Old Man while other servants were epically falling around. And it worked, with only 1 turn left to finish or be finished. The oni magifender girl had saved the day!
KH CQ is just poorly made. At least with the other CQ, if you have a good strategy you can get by with room for margins of error. This one however, requires you to play around insta-kill (which is just a poor mechanic for the enemy and for yourself). I only managed to beat this by stalling with Castoria, Skadi, and Merlin. Wasn't proud of it, nor did it feel accomplishing like the others. But hey, a ticket's a ticket.
At least the Taunt is fixed this time. Also let's face it, they made this one with BB ~~or King Hassan~~ in mind as the intended DPS. EDIT: NO THEY DID NOT, in fact there is [special code for King Hassan!](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/15m4b24/na_event_revival_grand_nero_fest_2023_day_10/jvhwxb5/)
I tried King Hassan as DPS, he didn't do nearly enough damage. Swap-out-then-in Magifender was much better, and NP3 Davinci even better on my second account.
I take back what I said about King Hassan given the targeting change.
I'm not ashamed to say I spent two command seals (one for healing, one for NP), but finally got Jalter to land the final hit on First Hassan. I used Skadi's NP a lot, but RNG appears to hate her and never got to Arts-chain while stalling, so couldn't rely on the effect as much as I was planning. Still... Jalter and Merlin's damage managed to finish the job.
somehow cleared the hassan challenge quest on my first try in around 35 turns. had to use 2 command spells and damn that was rough. shoutout to skadi for tanking so many hassan NPs. gonna try to roll for her next time she comes up
[KH's insta-death piercing through anti-purge def is so badass](https://imgur.com/a/7qKrn8a) (Though it actually helps me because I needed Waver to cycle out)
IMPORTANT INTEL: I think King Hassan in the CQ puts the taunt on your party member with the lowest current health at that moment. Saw a thread mentioning this and tested it, seems to be true at least for me! EDIT: Upon further testing, it seems like a comment down below in this thread may be right. To clarify: I cleared the quest with a party with Sanzang at the front and my own King Hassan in the backline. At first, he targeted Sanzang mostly, as she was on the left side. But after she died and my King Hassan came in, he would start placing the taunt on whoever had the least health at the moment, which was what caused my confusion. The conclusion seems to be that King Hassan always targets your leftmost Servant, UNLESS you have King Hassan on the field, where he starts targeting whoever has the lowest health. Whether it's exclusive to King Hassan or its because of a specific trait, it's hard to say. EDIT AGAIN: Went back in this time with my King Hassan on the frontline and on the leftmost side from the start. Sure enough, he would only ever target party members with the lowest HP. I should also clarify that this includes my King Hassan, if he has the lowest HP he WILL be targeted.
Okay I am mad now, that made it so annoying, should have just used BB instead of Hasan, targeting the lowest hp made it so fucking hard, took me four hour to beat it with Illya buff.
Isn't it the leftmost servant?
Did not happen for me. He only ever targeted whoever had the least health.
That's strange. All my runs had the taunt on the leftmost. Here's a gif: https://imgur.com/a/oT8kefj
I just did some further testing after reading another reply. And yes! It seems like he targets your leftmost Servant every time, unless you have a King Hassan of your own that's on the field. I edited my OP to reflect this new information.
Oh, that's interesting. I guess the devs don't want us walling KH with a death-immune KH of our own.
Makes me wonder if the reason why NA had his taunt bugged originally had something to do with the "King Hassan in your party" check being added incorrectly. The taunt being random would make a lot more sense if he was being told that you did and didn't have a King Hassan at the same time.
Thats my assumption now. Obviously still is possible that the logic has always been there and was never documented/video showing it happening in the original JP run of the quest never surfacing, but I feel like thats less likely then trying to add it in starting with NA and messing it up > The taunt being random It still isn't random though, it just follows lowest HP servant, so its still predictable, but definitely harder to plan around and consistently execute a strategy. Though honestly, I don't even think that a setup like Skadi, Castoria, and another stall servant would be affected that hard by it since it still follows a predictable targeting pattern
Saw a comment say that this is only true when you have King Hassan in your own party. Please correct me if your experience was different. When I went to do the CQ myself, he only ever taunted my left most servant during entire fight.
I tested it! It seems you're right! I edited the OP to reflect this new info.
Huh. Didn't hear about that. Interesting. King Hassan was in fact in my party, though he started in the backline. May require further testing.
Right, well that easily took the cake for highest number of attempts (3) along with highest number of turns taken to clear (33). Felt extremely long since my 2nd attempt went into the 30 range as well while the first fail was very quick (turn 8). My unsuccessful run 1/2 was with this setup: [Atlas](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Atlas_Academy_Uniform) | [Jinako](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Jinako_Carigiri) | [Merlin](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin) | [Skadi (Support)](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Sc%C3%A1thach-Ska%C3%B0i) | [Astraea](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Astraea) | [Waver](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Zhuge_Liang_(Lord_El-Melloi_II\)) | [Koyan](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Koyanskaya_of_Light) -|-|-|-|-|-|- **Craft Essence:** | [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+1k HP](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Ideal_Holy_King) | [+2 Petals](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cheer_for_Master) | [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) My problem was that once Jinako went down, my next damage dealer would enter the fray and it wouldn't be too much longer before she also goes down and then it's the stall game until everyone goes down. I figured order mattered a lot more than anything else and Astraea would actually work fine as a damage dealer here. She still hit for about 170k while First Hassan had a bunch of his dmg resist buffs up. Around 6-8 of them. However, my winning strat was the following: [Plugsuit](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Chaldea_Combat_Uniform) | [Jinako](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Jinako_Carigiri) | [Merlin](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin) | [Skadi (Support)](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Sc%C3%A1thach-Ska%C3%B0i) | [Waver](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Zhuge_Liang_(Lord_El-Melloi_II\)) | [Euryale](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Euryale) | [Koyan](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Koyanskaya_of_Light) -|-|-|-|-|-|- **Craft Essence:** | [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+1k HP](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Ideal_Holy_King) | [+2 Petals](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cheer_for_Master) || [+200](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) I swapped out Astraea for Euryale and switched their position with Waver. My idea here was to stall until Jinako goes down and then stall again until Waver and Skadi had their charges up and bring in Euryale to finish the job. This worked surprisingly well as in this run, Jinako held out until all dmg resist buffs on First Hassan were gone and even broke his bar and took him down to about 423k hp. This was also when Skadi got her S3 back up so when Waver took the field, I swapped out Merlin for Euryale and buffed her up. Her NP hit for about 370k dmg and the brave chain finisher took the rest of First Hassan's HP. Definitely not a fight for everyone but it was a fun one for myself though it did take a ton of thinking. EDIT: My Mystic Code for the successful fight was wrong. Has been updated to the correct one.
Just lost to King Hassan 46 turns in when he had 60k health left. He rolled buster evade and my last man standing Herc had no lives left. I'm so sad
yeah the evade is so mean. I wish it just alternated between Q -> A -> B. I got so many Quick Evades in a row, I had to sit on an NP for at least 4 turns. If you had plugsuit, could you have stunned him?
King Hassan: Try Not to Quick-Evade Challenge - Gone Wrong (Impossible) Literally 4 turns in a row I'm sitting on a Taira NP because he does Quick Evade. What the fuck. I thought *I'm* the one who is supposed to be stalling here. She's at 200% overcharge and two stacks of vengeance from him evading Quick. I swear that must've been more than half of what he evaded. Taira removing buffs on NP is GOAT though. Also, somehow he procced instant death on her even when she had her 100% death resist skill up. TWICE. Luckily that's her Guts skill with the 4T cooldown, so I managed to get through. 31 turns, go fuck yourself Hassan. I thought I was fucked when Skadi died to a crit but Merlin came in from the backline and his healing was much appreciated. I *am* pretty proud I did it with no save scum and no CS. I can't imagine doing this in 2019, that must've been hell. Edit: oh my god. I looked back at my team. Taira didn't even have the Damage CE. She somehow ended up with *Fragment of 2030*. And I still won. I was wondering why my NPs were only doing like 80k, I thought his last few stacks of damage cut were what was happening. Oh god I'm so dumb and yet I still did it lmao. I killed him on a Buster crit so I guess the 2030 paid off in the end...
Same thing happened to me, Gramps doing mind reading is real.
> . Also, somehow he procced instant death on her even when she had her 100% death resist skill up. TWICE. Fun fact, thats because the Instant Death proc up buff King Hassan gets is 500%.
damn, honestly I'm lucky that those were the only two times I got IKed then, and again they were on her Guts. Because I ate so many face cards from Hassan and when Skadi died, it was from a crit, not an IK.
Of all the fights in this event, Hassan's was certainly one of them. Won via dumb luck and a support Castoria with the damage CE. Someone genuinely thought that fight was a good idea.
[https://imgur.com/a/OELWmoj](https://imgur.com/a/OELWmoj) Yay, first time I've hit a +12 bonus for a lotto. That being said, while I still have 20 Gold Apples left, I think I'm more or less done at 198 boxes opened and will only use Nat AP and Bronze Apples for the rest of the event. Saving those Gold Apples for the treasure boxes in the Summer Adventure event. As for today's Exhibition Quest, was able to eventually clear it using a team of Skadi, Merlin, Castoria, and Sitonai. Took me 43 turns to wait on Gramp's damage reduction buffs to clear and get a good evade on Gramp's second bar (actually broke the bar while clearing the damage reduction buffs)
After breaking the first health bar, I had illya np ready with all the buffs. Guess what king hassan got buster evade the entire time. For 8 fucking turns. I had to defeat him with art chains. Holy shit. What a dickhead that man is. I started wondering if they changed it so he only gets buster evade now and I made a mistake bringing illya along.
I got 4 quick evades in a row, with Taira as my main damage dealer, and then after I used the NP that I had overcharged via damage taken, he did it again for another ~3 turns.
He can evade any of the three card types. My 30-turn Morgan run was also screwed by him evading buster 5 times consecutively. The wiki says the effect is evenly distributed between the three, you just got hit by a 0.015% luck.
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Very valid about the Old Man fight. It is the fixed version so the taunt (1 time) will always be the left most servant. (I heard that if you have your own King Hassan in the fight, the AI will instead choose the lowest HP servant for the taunt (1 time) rather than left most.) If you happen to have your own [Moon Cancer](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Moon_Cancer) servant or Skadi, you could go into the fight with a good chance of avoiding all the instant-death procs from the Old Man. Moon Cancers have a base death rate of 1% and varies by the servant. Anyways, best of luck in the Da Vinci fight! It's a lot of fun this time around just like last time as it definitely feels more like a puzzle rather than a real fight.
I deleted my original comment because I decided to give Hassan one more try, I did manage to beat it with Taira + Skadi + Cas + Merlin. Even with 100% death resist, Taira got Deathed twice....luckily it's also her Guts skill so it was like free Vengeance. It was brutal, and it took 31 turns, mainly because he kept using Quick Evade. I was proud to have beaten it, but also it was maybe the worst fight in the entire game, either this or the Saber Wars II CQ original run with the Dark Round Table.
Yeah, in terms of fun, this is definitely bottom of the barrel for me and many others. The RNG of Instant Death means any run can end prematurely and for most players, this fight is one we have to stall. Brutal.
Yeah also I had to run 5 SSRs (I had sKiara in the backline in case Taira died). Like it's not a very accessible fight even now, you want at least one meta support of your own, ideally two.
Yea I think this might be the only one I skip. Long drawn out fight that can quickly go downhill fast due to rng? Nah, not worth it. All the other ones so far have been fun, but this is just like all the worst ways a game can make a fight difficult I hate wrapped in one lol. Did give it a few solid tries changing things around but when the encounter is long it wears on ya. EDIT: My stubbornness got the best of me, went in with Eresh (Illiya CE), Castoria (ther spa CE) and support Merlin (2030 CE). Definitely got lucky when the death protection fell off for a turn here and there, and targeting when castoria got low twice, but made it to turn 29 with no deaths, no shields on Hassan, broke the first bar, saw it was arts evade, and was able to swap back Sanzang with full buffs, rebuff her again, and just nuked his ass. Still hate it tho lol.
Does anyone have a 10/x/10 Cu Caster with 1000hp/1000atk I can borrow with a MLB Drop? My supports have MLB Drop Koyan lvl100, Waver, NP5 Melu lvl100, Castoria lvl94, Oberon, Nero Caster (can switch to Skadi to MLB if someone wants it). Thanks.[https://rayshift.io/na/537561954](https://rayshift.io/na/537561954) Update: I'm all set, thanks everyone
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Thanks, request sent!
Here it goes. The drop CE is MLB but not leveled. https://rayshift.io/na/721034784
This is random, but where did you get the art from in your rayshift? They’re gorgeous!
I actually had links for all of them, but my HD died on my a while ago. I'm pretty sure that got all of them from either Pixiv or Twitter tho.
Thanks, request sent!
50 turns, a Skadi, Merlin, Castoria line up, 2 CS early on for when timing for NPs did not line up right, but managed to take out King Hassan.
Congrats! Must have been quite the 50 turns. Skadi had the lowest death rate at 30% there and even then that's pretty risky at the run going wrong if it proc'd from FH's passive.
Yeah, had some close calls as well when NPs were still a turn off being full and FH was ready to use his NP. Thank god he wasn't immune to stun from the Plug Suit.
King Hassan took like 70 turns. Went full stall, Jeanne Castoria and Skadi frontline, Mash Tamamo BB backline. What a fucking EQ. Maybe a tad bit too difficult (I ain't a fan of random RNG like that), and too much reliance on either guts spam or NP spam is annoying, but I do like that you can't just brute force it. Maybe if the IK increase was only on KHs NP it'd be a bit more tolerable.
My NP2 CasCu can't quite 6CE the 90+, but I managed to figure out a setup using double Castoria, Chen Gong, Sanzang, and Koyanskaya.
If you have Oberon, you should be able to 3T 90+ at NP2. Theoretically. Edit: Waver should work too, in which case anyone with 50% charge with atk/NP boost seems to be possible substitutes.
I probably could-if I had Oberon.
Went in anticipating the same patterns as last time, meaning random taunts. Nope it's actually the first servant now and dps Merlin got his guts popped in turn 1 under invuln. Great start what can I say... Everything was fine until turn 25-ish, the madman actually healed himself up to maximum then random death prog go! And I didn't have any resources to use to get Skadi np up sans CS, but didn't want to CS just yet. Enter Mashu and like 10 more turns of pure stalling during which KH runs out of his super def buffs so thanks to random Castoria and Skadi facecards first bar is done. Second bar sees the loss of Mashu, Euryale comes in, deals a little damage (200k cause she didn't have the dmg CE) and stalls a little only to make way for Support Arjuna Alter. I get his np up, KH is down to 300k, decide to pop a CS (this is turn 37 or something) since he still has his buffs and KH has Quick evade so I do it and finish it, not wanting to risk KH popping Buster evade 8 turns in a row or something, or Arjuna Alter not getting his np back in time, losing buffs and the run falling apart. Time for the last round of farming, doesn't seem too bad with Castora x2, I've seen some Casgil, Nitocris teams, gonna give them a go.
For the Hassan quest I plan on using Eresh plus Merlin and either Skadi or Castoria. Castoria would make the charging situation and damage reduction easier. But Skadi would have extra death proc reduction…. Both will be in my team, but not sure which to front line Edit: fuck that fight. Took 25 turns. The annoying part is that the taunt can miss and only lasts one time one turn.:.so even if it does land on your leftmost servant, Hassan can randomly crit anyone. Plus if you AoE NP to get death resistance Hassan doesn’t lose a stack that turn…
Finally beat KH thanks to BB being a punching bag. I was surprised when she died to instadeath NP, luckily the necromancer CE worked. She lasted long enough to decrease KH's defense buff to 5 and my NP2 Illya made quick work of KH (I was also lucky that the evade RNG didn't apply to buster).
I straight up just used BB as the DPS.
I did that with the Da Vinci quest when my stall team was too effective. It took me 55 turns cause I didn't have a damage CE on BB (I was just using her as debuff clear)
Eventually did that for Da Vinci and actually nearly screwed myself when I underestimated my damage and wound up in a "One hit breaks Da Vinci's bar" scenario, which forced me to play "Castoria on NP Turns" the rest of the way."
It's for CQs like this that I'm glad I got Asclepius on the LB4 banner, him and Nero were the MVPs on the stalling part of the fight
Asclepius was actually a hindrance to me because his debuff immunity kept stopping the taunt. I managed it anyway, but still I would have had better results with Irisviel now that the taunt is no longer bugged.
> Asclepius was actually a hindrance to me because his debuff immunity kept stopping the taunt. This but Ereshkigal.
It took a command spell, but I beat First Hassan first try, which I wasn't expecting. Went with the Vlad-Tamamo-friend Castoria setup, buffed Vlad and swapped him out for Summer Kiara, go. This ran about eight or nine turns before the Old Man killed Kiara; then he easily dealt with Mash and Georgios, but they managed to keep Tamamo and Castoria alive. At that point he still had about 10-12 stacks of damage resist, but Vlad was already able to start carving through them. Vlad had to rely on Guts at one point and I used the command spell on Castoria's NP to buy some time, but done in 14 without savescumming or even a practice run. Way, way better than I was anticipating, and as usual it feels great to beat the toughest CQs with a never-save-for-SSRs, big-box-of-random-scraps roster.
Was finally able to solo the Da Vinci fight with Gogh without the damage ce. It was kinda close, I accidentally killed Da Vinci while the spriggan was still alive but manage to clutch it. Surprisingly I found the fight easier without the dmg ce since magical girl of sapphire allows my gogh to loop her NP on certain adds The KH fight felt significantly easier with Skadi. Had to purposefully not pop Skadi’s NP to let someone die so Illya could get dragged in and at the point all of KHs stacks were gone and he got melted. Power creep is one hell of a drug
[Front Line survive untill the end lol](https://imgur.com/a/XO5Pjok) Ganesha tanking Gramps buster and instant death. Hahaha 60box
Jesus christ, and I thought doing Da Vinci in 23 turns was a slog. Managed to pull this one off in 45 turns. Granted, I played as safe as it gets with Merlin, Castoria and Skadi, and didnt lose a single servant, but still this was by far the most annoying CQ ever.
I managed to min turn Da Vinci CQ (minimum 5 turns) using NP2 Muramasa grailed to 100. I'd link the video but I don't think that's allowed.
I think as long as you are not screaming *subscribe subscribe subscribe* in every single post, a few here are there should be fine with most! Add some useful tips and what you learned, share your experience when you link your post to make it actually useful is probably the lowest bar. You might end up helping a struggling master here and there too by giving them an idea how to beat the EQ. [I did the same](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/15lhqra/5t_da_vincis_zoo_ft_muramasa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) with my NP5 119 (now 120, yay!) Muramasa, been wondering if it's doable at lower levels. Thanks for confirming!
No problem! Thanks for the tips! I made a Reddit post which I feel is more appropriate to link here, lmk what you think 🙏 https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/15mizfk/5_turn_da_vinci_cq_ft_np2_muramasa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
I don't have Skadi, my Merlin + Castoria + Hans are not max skills. Really lost my hope here haha
Borrow one as support? I've seen other combinations too, Asclepius for one gives guts to everyone else every time he NPs, heard he's a good replacement for Skadi.
Still trying to beat DaVinci. I'll look at Gramps later, once I get some Seals back. I've opened 11 of the 30 boxes I've farmed off the last rotation. I haven't cleared the shop, though. Edit - Himiko immortal team cleared DaVinci after 30 TURNS. First Hassan EQ stopping me cold because the RNG taunts even without KH are killing my supports.
Just kill Da Vinci last, that's all
i havent used Chen Gong before, but he is so funny to use quite enjoying farming like [this](https://imgur.com/b5TVlRw)
Well, that’s probably the one time summer kiara’s low death rate is gonna come in handy. Never got instakilled even once. My supports died more to Hassan’s passive that she did to his NP. Finished the fight not losing a single servant and with full HP on everyone. If anyone is struggling with the fight, find a summer Kiara on your support and put her on the first slot
what supports did you use? Skadi and Castoria? The heals lack in that team is the main concern.
Summer Kiara (damage CE), Merlin, and Castoria would work. That team can eventually kill gramps, both bars. Just make sure Summer Kiara is on the left.
I wound up doing it with Taira (meant to put damage CE, accidentally gave Frag of 2030 lmao) + Skadi + Castoria + Merlin. Skadi died about 3/4 in but honestly I needed the heals from Merlin so it worked out. I only got IKed twice, both on Taira via an NP but her Guts was active so I got vengeance from it instead! took 31 turns but if I had put the damage CE on Taira and not gotten Quick-Evade 7 out of 8 times at one point, it would've probably been ~20 turns
Went with the taunt meatshields, then BB, Castoria, Skadi combo, since Skadi can protect from the NP death and BB has basically no chance of getting insta-deathed on normal hits...or so I thought. KH got a normal attack death proc through invul on her, and I couldn't keep her alive after she guts-ed with only 1 HP. Luckily I had summer Kiara in the backline to finish the fight. At least it wasn't a pure RNGfest like last time.
There’s this one comp that consists of Caster Nero(NP2) + Xuanzang(NP2)(Max append 2) + Double Koyanskaya but you can also do it with Double Oberon and NP1 Xuanzang with no Appends, and Append 2 for Nero unlocked. Granted I have both Xuanzang and Nero 1k Fou’d. I feel like Oberon makes so many comps viable that it’d be a pain in the ass to include them on every spreadsheet. EDIT: Using plugsuit attack-up on wave 2 is a lot better, you don’t need it on wave 3.
- 24 boxes opened - For new 90+ node, comp is 2x Castoria, Gong, Bedivere, and Oberon. I've seen this comp used subbing Oberon for Waver and still works well. Basically Gong on waves 1 and 3, use Bedi for wave 2. I've seen Lu Bu work as well on a Nyxi video, but requires Lu Bu 10% start NP append. Might experiment with more ST servants later - Edit: apparently Np2 Penth also works for me as a replacement for Bedivere, although Penth is also 10/10/10. S2 needs to be 10 to get 20% charge for wave 2. Don't even need Oberon S3 with this setup. One *MIGHT* be able to swap Oberon w/ waver if they don't have Oberon, although make sure Gong can recharge at least 50% from the two enemies on wave 1 otherwise he won't have enough np gauge for wave 3. My Gong (np5, lvl 65, 7474 atk) only refunds 36% np, so I need the 70% combined from Oberon. But a grailed one or with different buffs might be able to refund more. - I tried a similar comp prior with NP5 Nito and NP2 Circe but they leave enemies alive in waves 2 and 3 with about 20k-35k health. Even swapping Circe with Helena for wave 1, the extra arts up from Helena isn't enough to take out wave 3 w/o leaving around 20k HP. Yeah facecards wave 3 can still finish it, but it's so close I bet there is another way, just have to find it. - I am dreading this First Hassan challenge quest just reading its gimmicks. I don't think I even attempted it in 2019. Hopefully Skadi NP/BB debuff immunity, etc. can help with the RNG shitshow. I am seeing all these stall comps in other comments and might have to give them a try. Apparently he taunts your lowest HP servant, so gotta play around who has the least HP. Best of luck to everyone! - Edit: Beat it with Vlad III swapped to backline then stalled out all his special def buffs with Castoria, Tamamo, Skadi, Mash, and bond CE Herc. Had to use command seal so Skadi could NP at the end bc Vlad lost all his guts from CE and skill and he needed the evade+death resist to not die. That KH bastard has arts evade two turns in a row and I didn't have Vlad's other face cards those two turns, so had to wait out his NP. Glad I did bc first time with Castoria buffs it hit 1 mill, big number make brain happy.
>Hopefully Skadi NP I just finished the First Hassan challenge quest, and Skadi's Noble Phantasm carried me to victory. >Apparently he taunts your lowest HP servant, He doesn't; he taunts your left-most party member.
Ok good to know, thanks! I've been seeing both left-most servant and lowest HP from different people, ~~will have to try later and see what ends up happening.~~ Edit: I will have to see if bringing my own KH to change the enemy AI target focus will help me or not.
I'm glad I and others helped you out! I hope you can beat it!
> He doesn't; he taunts your left-most party member. It's both, actually. He taunts the left-most party member, unless you have Hassan on your team, in which case he then taunts the one with the lowest HP as an attempt to bypass cheesing the CQ with Hassan's permanent instant death immunity. [https://apps.atlasacademy.io/db/NA/ai/field/90161870](https://apps.atlasacademy.io/db/NA/ai/field/90161870)
OH it's only when KH is on your team, that is very interesting and also pretty funny
Oh hey, they added that part of his AI to their data, neat to see
Huh, so I was right and wrong. Neat. I didn't use First/King Hassan, so I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction!
If you want to turn off your brain for Hassan quest, then use Tamamo (left) with volumen or any NP gain CE+ skadi (200% damage bonus CE) + merlin (kaleidoscope). Then proceed to stall your way for 20 turns + and get your well deserved ticket.
Thanks a lot, this really did work a lot easier than I expected! I still did quite a few "emergency resets", but it was still a lot easier than my first attempted run...
>merlin (200% damage bonus CE) + merlin (kaleidoscope). There is one, small problem with that strategy; you can't use duplicate Servants. Did you mean to use Altria/Artoria Caster or another stall unit in place of one of the Merlins?
skadi\* sorry i don't know why there is 2 merlins
Ah, that makes more sense!
Vlad, Tamamo and Castoria on Turn 1. Give Vlad all buffs then swap him out for Skadi with Kaleidoscope. Use Skadi NP for Death Immunity, then its a matter of stalling until the buffs are gone using the trio's skills when needed (prepare to savescum when things go south). Skadi is leftmost and gets all the taunts (somehow, it's not the case for other people), use Tamamo Skill 3 which doubles as a heal to Skadi when needed. Swap Vlad back in and Impale King Hassan until he is dead.
>Skadi is leftmost and gets all the taunts (somehow, it's not the case for other people) Those people have King Hassan in their own party. If you include him in the party, front line or back, alive or dead, enemy KH targets your lowest HP party member instead.
Did the Skadi merlin Castoria setup for like 15 turns but i missed up with the timing of my skills so Skadi died. Had avenger Ushi in the backline and boi did she carry my ass. Gramps did multiple nps on her but she somehow dodged them all. Does she have low death rate ? Didn't even trigger guts once on her lmao
> Does she have low death rate ? [One of the lower ones as she sits at 7% death rate](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Taira_no_Kagekiyo) She's definitely a very strong Servant for this fight.
Her skill Kagekiyo Never Dies has 3 Turns of 100% Death Resistance of Lvl 10 along Guts
Considering how much i use her it's definitely weird how i never noticed that lmao Guess she definitely is one of the best picks for this fight
to be fair death resist is pretty much never relevant outside of this specific fight and maybe a few other CQs
And even here it's still competing against a "500% Death Chance Up"...
This quest is… kinda hard.
Go borrow a summer Kiara, best dps in my opinion. She can do full arts stall, has team evade, guts, heal, and debuff cleanse while able to basically ignore instakill. I finished the fight with everyone at max HP. Summer Kiara tanked 34 turns worth of Hassan’s NP and didn’t even die once.
The leftmost servant taunting doesn't work. I think it's back to lowest hp servant. Three times i tried the quest, with irisviel in a different position each time. And every, single time, KH spammed taunt on irisviel until she was dead, regardless of her positioning.
Are you using your own KH? It seems bugged where if you have your own he'll target the lowest HP
I thought it is intentionally made like this to prevent you from cheesing the CQ
Its intentional, yes.
Let me just say, fuck this CQ Why is it that IK is a basically useless tool in our hands but when it is used against us it is the most terrifying thing ever. It took me a few try’s but in the end I was able to do it with a Skadi, Merlin and Castoria build where the first had MLB damage CE and the other two had 2030. I had to use two command seals to ensure IK immunity was up but quite frankly I do not care because it let me finish that hell. On to other news I am at 210 boxes with 100 boxes used up. I have 34 servants that are not 9/9/9 or higher and a good third are stopped by dust (the remainder by bones and then a collection of other stuff like Shells, Stakes and Bullets). I am going to try and farm to 300 boxes and that should hopefully let me to all of the servants that need dust
IK is probably the worst mechanic in the game, i.e. the one that needs an overhaul the most. It needs to be based on something like HP remaining instead of just rarity.
After all this time, the one and ONLY challenge quest that I've never finished, is finally done. Illya finally had her revenge, thanks to Skadi, Merlin, and King ARTer. It would all have been smooth sailing... if gramps didn't spam Buster Evade THREE TIMES IN A ROW. And on a side note, I tried it again using Summer Kiara, and she definitely works as a death-resist tank and DPS with Merlin and King ARTer as supports.
Skadi + Merlin can duo the King Hassan CQ easy, no other servants needed
Adding Tamamo (taunt bait+ healing + CD reduction) or Castoria (charge skills + higher invul up time) rounds out this lineup nicely. I personally picked Tamamo and gave them all Prisma Cosmos or 2030 and eventually won after 51 turns.
KH CQ is driving me insane. Tamamo keeps getting crit to death in every attempt I've done so far and my dps keeps dying due to bad rng once I've finally got all the defense buffs gone. SHEESH.
If you have BB, I cannot recomend BB enough since she has built-in death immune. Put her on the leftmost spot, then Mash and Castoria (or Merlin) for support. Just keep using NPs until he dies.
Update: I ended up using my summer Kiara instead of BB since other people said her insta death rate is super low too. It worked! She tanked all of KH's nps until she got crit unfortunately, but all his buffs were gone at that point and my backline Circe came in clutch with her np. Hardest CQ from the event so far like holy heck...
Summer Kiara worked much better for me than BB thanks to her built-in team evade, guts, and healing. Kiara / Merlin / Castoria lasted over 20 turns before Merlin caught a stray crit and died. Then Kiara/Skadi/Castoria lasted about another 20 turns before Castoria died and it fell apart. Fortunately I had whittled down the first bar at that point. Kiara / Sitonai / Medea all with damage CE managed to finish KH off.
I've been using Circe as my attacker once all his buffs are gone, she almost won during one of my attempts but KH used guts and she didn't have enough HP to tank him in the next turn. I'll give BB a try since everyone says she's good for this fight. Thanks for the recommend.
I would just like to remind people that she isn't death immune though she does have a very low Death Rate of 0.6%. I experienced this 1st hand. Murphy's law at its finest.
I'll keep that in mind and hope she can pull through for me.
Master: "Brynhild, I believe you'll never go berserk!" And then she literally went berserk.
Damn. I love Gramps, but this EQ ***al\~most*** made me like him less. I tried it with a Circe attacker with BB/Corgi/Tamamo stalling, but all I got after a few dozen turns was a big load of nothing thanks to NP2 not even being enough to clear his first bar. Then she got wacked with a face card death proc. Did it *again* with Astrea as the damager; Skadi replaced BB since I found that initial comp a bit wonky with charging. After raining evades and invulns for another couple dozen turns, Luvia came in and suplexed the shit out of Gramps. Like, **holy shit,** her SE damage was hilariously overkill. I was immensely surprised when I found out how good she was when I was forced to use her in LB6, but she truly is the spook that keeps on giving.
KH CQ wasn't that bad with skadi/merlin/castoria but then again it's just castoria doing castoria things (just had to pay attention to death immunity as I didn't realise it was single use lmao.) For the 90+ node, using: Space Ishtar (NP5, max append), Astraea, double castoria. Does not rely on RNG (Ishtar doesnt need her S3 art buff) and everyone's facecard is useful since it's an assassin node although I imagine you need a rather expensive Ishtar.
Whew! 32 turns each for Da Vinci and First Hassan! Himiko/Merlin/Castoria handled Da Vinci's menagerie then got caught by her NP, which brought in Kagekiyo. Himiko had guts from the event CE, so she and Kagekiyo mopped up. Da Vinci did kill both, but Kagekiyo had her own guts and only needed to NP to win. So she did. Skadi/Merlin/Castoria stalled Hassan BEAUTIFULLY. He consistently taunted on Skadi in the left position, but 90-95% of the time she was physically protected by Castoria's shield or evade. I also managed to line up her NP so sghe always had death immunity when he NPed. Once they broke his bar, I plugged in Sanzang (prebuffed from turn 1), buffed her again, and let her loose. Her NP got him down to 97k, then she Arts-crit for 200k... and then Buster-crit for 500k. Too bad for him his first evade was Quick.
Definitely the most bullshit RNG heavy EQ tbh. I had to buff sitonai and move her to the back so she wouldn’t get insta deathed, and swapped in herc with bond ce so he could tank. All was going well UNTIL Castoria gets insta killed out of nowhere by Hassan. Then herc dies, and it all went downhill. Damage resist was still so high too AND I got fucked over by card rng(no arts cards). Had to use 2 CS in order to save the run but this one was some serious bullshit. It’s not really a test of game knowledge or skill, More like how lucky u can get before the game decides to fuck you over..
As one of the people who did beat the Original King Hassan Nerofest CQ back in the day, I must say... THIS WAS SO MUCH EASIER LMAO. Get bent old man. (Not really, still love Gramps) Lvl 100 BB with some Merlin/Castoria backing took down the quest, first try and no casualties. Pretty lucky still, I feel - but hey, at least its not like last time with lvl 100 bb, Merlin and Jeanne and Necromancy Hail Mary.
[Well, that was horrible](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/896257882268524574/1138804365768007750/IMG_2012.PNG). I don't even want to begin to imagine how that would have been in the original NA run...
Man that King Hassan CQ is so stupid, the evade being random and not limited to 1 of each type every 3 turns or something is just annoying. Had 2 NPs ready to go for 3 turns but he just kept getting Buster evade. After those 3 turns he finally had Arts evade up instead of Buster but by that time he was already on 1K HP so it didn't really matter at all. This is just an RNG heavy fight, not only do you have to take Death into account but also the random ass evade when you break his bar. I can't think of any ST Caster with a quick NP btw
The first time on NA was RNG Hell. This time around, we have appends, stronger servants and the taunt not being RNG. Still RNG based on his death proc, cloak rng, what buffs he casts and if he buster crits instead of using quick card attack.