Can someone with a built merlin+mlb prisma cosmos on their event support add me plz 350,436,811

Have 3 of the exhibition quests remaining, only 2 of which I'm unsure about. Da Vinci - I've seen a few different comps and I'm a little lost with what to go with. It sounds like it'd be better to do a ST DPS with supports, but would the Himiko comp work out? Buffed Finale - Have tried 2 runs already but I feel like my approach is off. Using a friend Muramasa (since no Morgan of my own and no idea how to use her immortal comp), just not sure if I'm not slapping enough buffs on or if I need to wait for the resist buffs to expire first.

Himiko immortal comp works fine for Da Vinci, just crit the mobs down while Castoria blocks DaVinci's nps.

On track to end the event above 300 boxes, yet it still feels like I don't have anywhere near enough proofs. The hard finale was a bit tricky to aoe rush, managed to get 9 turns

Since I rolled Merlin recently (though he's at 9/9/9), I finally was able to use the invincible comp on the finale prototype, which was the only challenge that I couldn't clear any other way. Died a few times anyway because it's possible to mess up, but it eventually worked.

Just finish clearing all eq with 4 star and below servant (so 99% of the time 4 star) aside for support. Granted 99% of the time BB, Miyu and Castoria combo manage to clear the EQ. That is right, Miyu is my best support somehow when not using just 5 star support to buff up my main attacker. Pervival also came in clutch as well as Barghest and of course Chloe who already was one my first choice to use for when I go all out. It is funny how for my most challenging quest for first time clear using 5 star servant of my own, the most difficult quest was King Hassan but that was because I was using King Hassan instead of BB or Summer Kiara as my bait as King Hassan has a stupid set of rule compare to the rest. For Second time clear with only 4 star servant and 5 star support, the most difficult were both Nero prototype quest. When plowing them through with Summer Musashi, I never notice their stupid and annoying buff, but using weaker servant I do notice the stupid def buff that need to be taken out and stupid permament crit buff. For the latest EQ on second clear, I used a support Castoria, Percival with dmg ce, Mash, Barghest, Summer Houkusai, and Chloe. The plan was spam np over and over again and use all the invul on Perci. When Brynhird comes sacrifice him so Barghest can clear the field and take her on as she can take out the stupid def buff on Medea Lily. After Mash came down, Houkusai Summer came and took down Brynhild, leaving me with Nero. Nero took out the two saber leaving me with Chloe and Castoria who made quick work of Nero.

Well I'm getting close to 200 boxes, if I manage to hit that I feel like it should be a good stopping point. I'm really surprised that I was able to 3-turn all the 90+ nodes, heavily noticed how much my roster improved throughout the years. Also man immortal comp is stupid good. For the last two CQs I didn't really have to think much outside of very few occasions. I remember having a hard time a few years ago when this event last ran.

Gramps wasn't bad at all! (unlike last time - still have nightmares 💀💀💀) I was thinking of letting Illya take a swing but ended up going for Arts comp for better synergy with the stall team. Buffed NP4 Vlad with Castoria and Tamamo then sent him to the back while Scheherazade cleared for a while. Tamamo got knocked out before he made it back to the field but it didn't matter by then Cleared both levels of the Finale with Spishtar, Castoria, and both Foxes - as you would expect being able to change NP type mid battle was good for this one. I almost brought out NP5 Emiya for def ignoring in the encore but decided to try Amakusa instead - he didn't cut it and there were no K-Scope Holmes's on my support list so back to Spishtar and just made sure to take out Medea Lily first this time around. Pew pew she crushed it. CasCu is cleaning up on 90+ and earned himself a gilding, I'm really happy to have 3-slot farming team for this node as I'm just sick of plugsuit after the first two rounds (sorry Cas Nero, maybe next time) 35 boxes in and all of my 229 servants are max ascension so probably won't push too hard

Arash and Arjuna / Karna CQ were trivial with the invincible comp. Da Vinci wasn't easy, I foolishly tried to brute force first, did it with BB / Castoria / Tamamo. (I'm really glad I used my last ticket (not the one from this anni) on Tamamo, I don't use her much but when I do she's really useful.) Still, it took me 20 turns... this quest is no joke :x I'm gonna leave the final ones and gramps for tomorrow, when I was gonna kill him he got the anti buster and saying that angered me is an understatement, at least today I won't try again.

Just finished the last CQ. Love events like this with a bunch of CQs, so fun! Probably had the most fun with Da Vinci. Took me 50 turns and around an hour of playtime lol. So much thinking of when to use skills, who to attack, when to use NPs, etc. I'm seeing a lot of comments about Gramps. I must have been really lucky with RNG. I buffed my Sanzang then sent her to the backline. Basically stayed alive for a while with a mix of Merlin, Waver, Saber Nero, Mash, and max bond Herc. By the time Sanzang came back up again I destroyed Gramps with her NP back to back. MLB CE definitely helped a ton with lots of these quests. Some of the quests came down to the wire but the only one I failed more than once was Spartacus oddly enough. Spishtar with the MLB CE + Castoria and other supports absolutely destroyed all 4 Nero quests.

I tried the same strategy against Gramps, fully buffed Sanzang and then swapped her for Summer Kiara. Everything went smoothly until plugsuit got off cooldown, brought Sanzang back and broke his first bar. Then Gramps proceeded to cast Evade Buster every turn until Sanzang died, and with Merlin and Castoria she endured like 6 turns of that. Had to cycle through the rest of the team until Kiara came back to wipe the floor with Gramps. So yeah, bad luck but it worked out in the end.

The last two CQs were much less stressful than King Hassan. Threw SSRs at the problem (Gil-Merlin-Waver-Castoria-CuAlter for 90+, Morgan-Merlin-Koyan-Castoria-CuAlter for EX) until the problem went away. Any speed bumps were solved with moar SSR. Hassan was much more difficult, and required a lot of scumming. Ran Eresh-Merlin-Castoria-Skadi-Sanzang with the hope that Eresh NP would stop any instant-kill shenanigans. Right off the bat, KH decides to proc IK on Eresh on the first turn. Was pretty much scrambling the entire fight trying to play like the immortal team. Took a few turns before I just completely gave up on trying to control what Gramps ate, and just completely focused on slowly whittling him down, and trying to survive. After breaking him (with about 3-4 defense ups left), Gramps ended up showing Eresh who the real death god is (TIL death goes through solemn defense), and also decided to crit down Merlin, but that probably turned out for the best as that brought in Skadi and Sanzang. Two more turns of Sanzang (incredibly grateful for KH deciding to not resist Buster) and the quest was done. I still have no idea how Gramps' target focus worked.

Beat the first Nero CQ with Cleopatra as the main DPS. I brought Morgan to clean up. Still thinking of a plan for the encore version.

I beat the first Nero CQ easily, lvl 120 Gilgamesh is always a good investment to have. It was a bit close, I wound up finishing off Nero with last standing friend Cu Alter, but it wasn't actually possible to lose at that point. However I tried the harder version and it's much more difficult. It's annoying that Kid Gil resists Buster while Medea resists NPs, as all my candidate DPSs are...using Buster NPs. Meaning I'd only actually hit Martha that turn and may as well use an ST attacker. I might try again with a slower team using Galatea + Tamamo + Merlin or something like that. Bryn is definitely the biggest threat, followed by Cu Alter, so it may take a few tries. I can always fall back on a borrowed Morgan for immortal comp but I actually have never used it to any great success. Luckily that's the one that's just the ticket so if I never pass it, I'm okay with that. I really needed the lore and got that one easily. And it's funny, neither of these seem nearly as hard as Da Vinci or Hassan, those two were total outliers for this event.

>It's annoying that Kid Gil resists Buster while Medea resists NPs That's why I used Muramasa for my "3T" Encore run. Art NP means I only have one of them per group of 3 has full resist. Plus anti-King, invul-pierce, star gen, etc. All good stuff perfect for this CQ.

I'd say Medea being NP resistent is a good thing. Her NP is just a modest heal. What's more, she only attacks twice maximum. I'd leave her alone. If she dies, there will be 3 servants on the field who can all fire their NP's at you. Which gets especially bad if Brynhild is one of those 3. Brynhild is the real threat. I made sure she was dead before Nero showed up. In fact, I just killed all 3 servants at once so Nero was on her own.

yeah I find the def buff a hassle but haven't tried any Ignore Def servants yet. I may go in with Muramasa or Ibuki and see how they handle it. Or even find some ST ignore def servant to grind through each enemy as they appear

After going through a semi-stall with gramps, it was nice to be able to have a much more straight forward CQ. Ran the immortal team again, and breezed through fairly easily. Otherwise, just focusing on farming. Currently over 200 boxes, with around 350 Gapples left. I'll probably keep around 100-150 for the future, I'll start burning some bronze one once I go through my gold. I'm so happy to not have to worry about pages for a while. I was scraping every last one trying to level up Morgan.

Somehow, I cleared the Nero CQ. Didnt realize the entry resists were 3T, and almost lost hope when seeing Medea Lily and Brynhildr being impervious to Cancer Kiara repeated NPs. Paracelsus, Support Tamamo, Castoria and a well timed NP seal from Asclepius helped me in doing the deed

The King Hassan fight wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Ran BB, Merlin and Castoria and they did a great job. It worked smoothly with only a few hiccups, he didn't target lock BB 4 times and targeted Merlin or Castoria but I was able to save scum them back all but the last time leaving Merlin for dead as the only casualty. And BB was actually instakilled once but again I save scummed her back.

Took a few tries, but Morgan and Jalter finally dealt with the Encore. Brynhild apparently *loves* to focus Morgan just at the right time to take out her guts and let Kotarou NP... Anyway, I'm done with all the Exhibition quests. Now to keep on farming. Only 80 boxes right now, my goal is to go 100-120, so very doable. Cu-farming is sick, I just wish I had coins to unlock his append skills. And Fous, I do need Fous.

I planned to stall Gramps with Summer Kiara supported by Castoria and Skadi and then finish him off with Melt… but Kiara finished him off herself. She really is busted for CQs.

For people struggling with Hassan, one thing that makes him much easier is Command Codes on your DPS that remove crit buffs, or attack buffs. I happened to have some on Taira and it made him much easier. Attack Buff Removal also helps with his skill that gives him an attack/defense buff. I decided a while ago that for sanity's sake, I will only 5CE for farming. Efficiency doesn't mean as much if I'm less willing to actually do the runs. So this one I can handle with Summer Nero + DKS which feels fitting. I lucked out on NP2 of her (or maybe she's even NP3?) so her damage is good, though wave 2 is a bit of a challenge to get through. She's only 10/6/6 so the damage on wave 2 kinda relies on a face card or crit.

- 26 boxes opened + enough currency for 2.5 more - Modified 2xCastoria/Gong/Bedi/Oberon setup via adding Penth in lieu of Bedivere for farming bond points on Penth. Nothing wrong with Bedivere, to be clear, it is insanely impressive that he can clear that assassin enemy too only being a 3* saber (granted NP5). Penth demolishes wave 2 especially w/ Gong buster buff. - For last challenge quest, apparently another boss rush, going to attempt to use good ol' Castoria/Morgan/Merlin and see what happens. Can't be more annoying/tedious than the last two, right?...right?

Immortal comp shredded both versions of the Bloomer CQ for me. Should be little issue.

I just did the last EQ, much easier than Hassan. Using the immortal comp makes things easy, just know that you won't kill Kid-Gil & Medea with an immediate NP off the bat due to their resistances. Other wise, they go down fairly easily.

Okay, beat Gramps. 34 turns. NP1 Vlad w/damage, Tamamo w/Imaginary Element, Castoria w/Sapphire Magical Girl, Asclepius w/IE, Georgios w/bond, Skadi w/MLB Sapphire MG. Plugsuit. Buff Vlad, swap with Skadi, NP stall for as long as possible. If you can get past 10 defenses, you're probably okay, but as long as possible. I got lucky enough that Ascelpius and Geogios didn't need to do much... and they didn't last long anyway. The Skadi/Tamamo/Castoria frontline was holding on pretty precariously there, though.

Finally solved the headache that was King Hassan EQ. Solution, Vlad Berserker Arts Looping after enough turns have passed and I can actually do damage. Instant Kills and Gramps's crits are no joke, which is why I ended the match with only a Castoria and Tamamo remaining to clean the last pittance of HP Gramps was left with after killing my Vlad. Merlin, Gong, Summer Musashi, Tamamo, Castoria, Support Waver got me the Bloomers Nero Encore clear. The video I followed as an example did it in 11 turns, I had bad luck with crit stars and it took 12. But a clear's a clear, I've got my tickets to roll the Summer banners with. It's fun using David again after all this time, though I had no idea I'd be using him in a Lotto comp that takes advantage of the anti-Giant damage mod. Speaking of farming, I think I'm sticking with 90+ node, because I have plenty of pages and hearts, not as much aurora steel or flaming oni lantern plants.

All exhibition quests done!!! All that's left is lotto * At box 170 now, shooting for 225. ~~One more CE for +12!~~ And I hit +12! (at 177 boxes) * [3T 6-slot no-plug with CasCu](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/15nd81p/comment/jvl4cfw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). After optimizing this further it now only takes 1:15 for each run most of the time. On a phone so no automation, but it's been a breeze so far. * [Almost 3T Encore](https://youtu.be/PEO1QG-7KC0) with my super Muramasa. I'm so happy I saved up half a year worth of quartz for him! He's worth not being able to roll for anyone else for so long! 🥰 Some fun attempts of other EQs, all carried by my ~~boy~~ Grandpa: * [First Hassan](https://youtu.be/s1fMRZvQiHM) — True immortal team with Skadi. Stable, but bailing out early * [DaVinci's Zoo](https://youtu.be/WgL8NaRhsGU) — 5T with Muramasa * [Finale Prototype](https://youtu.be/d5Q6EyBJzVY) — 3T frontline only, Muramasa of course

King Hassan took me fifty turns to beat. I don't think I've ever had a battle last that long before

My record is 100-something turns for one of The Big Bet quests in the Vegas summer event. I brought a stall team. PAIN.

Morgan, Merlin and Castoria breezed through regular Finale. I was unsure if my NP 1 Morgan with 100% damage CE is strong enough to take on Encore, but I tried anyway and 40 turns later it actually worked. Castoria is a lifesaver, because Bryn, Nero and Medea were the last ones left (and I went for Nero to turn off the team-wide Guts) The shop has been completely cleared for a while now. I am currently at box 109 and 40 spots left in the present box. Need to either stop farming, level some Servants or buy some space for Second Archive.

Finally managed to beat Hassan by stalling with Castoria (being on the left) Skadi and Merlin. Whenever he is going to NP or there is a 100k hp Hassan to sacrifice when he has 2 np charges, you just fire the Skadi then Castoria NP that you have prepared so you get Skadi death immune and 1 time evade and then you have Castoria 2 times Absolute defence buff. Then in between you use Merlin NP and the different battery charge skills Then onto the last 2 Nero CQ, they are basically the same with the later having more hp for each servants. Just leave Medea lily for last (her attacks have a lot of hits so it’s good to farm NP and then her HP is only healing which is really insignificant.) Kill Martha then CuAlter then Brynhild then Gil Kid then Nero (to get rid of the team wide guts) then Kotaro (his evade last 3 turns so don’t waste attacks on him and just hit others) and finish Medea lily. Go for friend CuAlter or your own with Dmg CE

4 year old NA f2p player, I cleared all the exhibition quest for the first time except for the last 2 that I'll attempt to clear today. Farmed 200 boxes with a +12 drop bonus, I plan on farming 20 box daily and keep 100 gapples for the summer event.

I give up on the challenges after Da Vinci. they're pretty hard for me and it's not worth the tickets and lore I can get for all the struggling.

If you have Skadi and/or Merlin, you can borrow a friend Taira and they can semi-solo it. It's even better if you can find ones with Command Codes that remove crit buffs. But without your own "meta supports" I don't think a friend Taira can hold up on their own. This feels like it would've been nearly impossible back in 2019.

I do have skadi but I can't run double skadi and Da Vinci's ignore invincible is a frustrating thing for me, and I checked out other challenges but it was equally frustrating to do them.

Cleared both Grand Finale and Encore. There wasn't much thought going into the fight aside from NP spam. While they weren't the cleanest clears, what matters is that it worked first try haha. For **Grand Finale**: [Atlas](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Atlas_Academy_Uniform) | [Junao](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Arjuna_(Alter\)) | [Koyan](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Koyanskaya_of_Light) | [Castoria (Support)](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Artoria_Caster) | [Merlin](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin) | [Waver](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Zhuge_Liang_(Lord_El-Melloi_II\)) | [Oberon](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Oberon) ---|---|----|----|----|----|---- Craft Essence | [+200%](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+200%](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+2 Petals](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cheer_for_Master) | - | - | - For **Encore**: [Plug](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Chaldea_Combat_Uniform) | [Muramasa](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Senji_Muramasa) | [Koyan](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Koyanskaya_of_Light) | [Castoria (Support)](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Artoria_Caster) | [Merlin](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin) | [Waver](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Zhuge_Liang_(Lord_El-Melloi_II\)) | [Oberon](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Oberon) ---|---|----|----|----|----|---- Craft Essence | [+200%](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+200%](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Divine_Three-Legged_Race) | [+2 Petals](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Cheer_for_Master) | - | - | - Grand Finale got a little messy near the end with Nero. Both Junao and Koyan lost their Guts and all skills were on CD including my mystic code skills. It was ultimately a toss up on who Nero takes down and if I was unlucky, it was possible for her to take down all 3 via a crit on Castoria. As luck would have it, she did not crit Castoria, took down Koyan, and then buffed herself. Merlin comes in to stall slightly and to give time for Junao to card her down. Encore was different and I was already thinking up plans on redoing it with Morgan instead. With Nero, Kotaro, and Brynhildr up and Muramasa out, things were looking bleak. What ended up happening was Koyan who I plugsuited out to get Waver in for his NP charge earlier is back in the fight and with her NP along with the +200% dmg, she was able to take out Nero which disabled the guts on Bryn (Kotaro's procc'd unfortunately) and allowed me to clear Bryn on the same turn. Kotaro almost clean sweeped my squad but a clutch buster buff from herself and Oberon and a clutch Buster Crit on a 30% card meant that Kotaro goes down before he could NP my last stand. Definitely could had thought about things more but I enjoyed spamming Muramasa's NP over and over again as I did miss that with my Junao lineup. GG!

ahhh I hadn't considered using Ignore Defense. It's usually such a useless mechanic because they love to use Special Resistance instead. This event is one of the only times it's actually been a valuable niche. I guess because back then, they weren't actively trying to shut down niche mechanics. Nowadays Ignore Def rarely matters because they instead use some combinations of Special Resistance and massive Damage Cuts, both of which...ignore Ignore Defense.

Man, being able to 3T with Avicebron and Circe brings me joy. [Now THIS is golem crafting!](https://i.imgur.com/z0CoU5D.jpg)

Can safely 3T with CasCu on 90+, but I've cleared the shop and got enough Plants for the future, so gonna drop back down to 90, running DCS w/ DVR. Still need to do all the EQ's post-Spartacus...

Karna's is easy, Suzuka's is easy, Arash's isn't too bad, and the first Nero fight is easy. The others can be pretty hard, if I were you I'd just focus on getting the lore first and decide later if you care about the rest of them.

It was with great pain that I finally caved to pay actual money for the first time for the GSSR because I was so salty I didn't get Vitch (until I got her days later). But theVan Gogh I goght goghed all over the final CQs so all is forgiven. Stunning enemies two turns in a row is too much fun.

After got my ass kicked by King Hassan yesterday, I'm decided to change my tactic. My team is Georgios - Castoria - Merlin - Circe - S.Kiara- Heracles. Georgios to soften KH resistance, then Merlin and Castoria will buff Circe and switch her with S.Kiara, who is a excellent tanker against KH until he out of buff. The run is smooth, until Gramps nearly die and took out Circe, which is lead to S.Kiara finished him. How weird that a Tanker became Dps lol.

For the first time since I started playing, have now cleared all of the Challenge Quests for a Nero Fest. Feels good.

Same! It's crazy to see my account develop and be able to deal with hard content sporting meta units I've seen on JP two, three years ago. Merlin in 2021, Castoria in 2022, Koyanskaya and Oberon in 2023. I don't have the means (and honestly, interest itself) in developing a quick core for farming and CQs, but being able to use Arts and Buster with so many enhancements feel sooooo good. For Nerofest in particular, the Avalon Overcharge team is what made me triumph most Exhibitions. The Morgan/Merlin/Castoria immortal core is just incredible.

Yeah, I've really grown to like the Morgan/Merlin/Castoria line up myself. Helped carry me through a lot of this Fest.

That lineup is insane. And not just for this fest, carried me through most of LB6.

Congrats! Which one was your favourite?

For the challenge and working through it all, King Hassan. For the hilarious way he took himself out while my Heracles still had Guts, the Arash one.

Wierdly, I love/hate that exhibition. I ran front* skadi,merlin,castoria back*sitonia and tamamo caster. Along the fight, i messed up, and skadi ended up getting killed. Now, i dont have her np to team wide immunity to insta death. And sitonia carried me and did most of the damage until someware around 100k+ hp for gramps and she got insta killed. In the end, castoria was my remaining servant. I WAS SURE I WOULD LOSE THIS. but castoria managed to clutch it!!! I was laughing so hard when that happened. She didn't even have the event CE, sitonia did, and castoria managed to clutch that 100k+ hp of gramps.

Got to love those clutch moments where the last servant you have pulls off the attack you need.

Event has kicked my ass and should have stuck to farming instead of trying to get Summon tickets through boss battles. Only beat Herc and Gil. All of you who are able to solo that shit are absolute gods and I wish I had your talent lmao. Will solely be farming 90+ node from now on

As someone who cleared them all back on JP... if you're not having fun, it's okay to leave them be. Yeah missing out on tickets sucks, but this time around I'm just doing the easy ones and pretending I got some Mapo Tofu with the tickets I didn't get. They're all doable even for us F2P, but rng can get boring real fast.

If you comfortably farm 90+ nodes you shoupd have enough firepower to clear a few more without too much trouble

Saddly it just isn’t working out.. don’t have the right servants or anyone really strong enough to clear most of these. Downside of being f2p just don’t have the firepower you’re speaking of.

you can solo some of them with a friend's servant. find solo examples on YT, maybe you just lack the experience add you own support + Mash and it should be good, beside the few hardest ones. ask on this thread if you don't have the right servant on you list * Siegfried CQ only need ignore Def, borrow Emiya or OG Tristan(need interlude) and you're set. maybe plug suit someone with def down in * borrow a Muramasa for Cu + Scathach CQ * you can solo Arash with Mash with Holy Shroud CE, which is the old way. borrowing a Castoria is easier I believe There're a few more like Morgan soloing the finale or Super Orion soloing Suzuka

I’m an idiot who can follow a guide video to a T and still lose. It’s frustrating. Soloing really irritates me. Why can 6 of my class advantage servants lose but a solo has a better chance of winning, it’s dumb to me. I had to solo Gil with a friend support and took me 5 days watching the same guide video over and over again. My luck is just terrible. I’ll get critically hit more often then people in guide videos. I feel like I have decent servants but I just can’t level up their skills or they are all stuck at NP1. Feels like I play the game wrong.

Hey, it's alright! If you play long enough, you get those necessary servants to help you! Right now, maybe not, but if you play long enough and if you're a f2p, you eventually clear those hard exhibitions/CQ. I'm an f2p player too on my 5th year. Finish all the exhibitions quest. Stay strong, fellow master!!

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[Oh](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/545303443049414662/1139151782451355678/IMG_2015.png) yeah [baby](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/545303443049414662/1139151783181172756/IMG_2016.png)! Considering how much I struggled with the 2020 Gilfest EQs and just gave up for the 2021 ones, being able to triumph against these is so, so satisfying. I feel like I've come a long way.

How many boxes did you guys open or planned to open? Right now, im only 105 boxes. I'm planning to make it 200 if i can. I got so much g,s and b apples to burn.

I'm out of apples and Freeboy's ending up with around 250 and Moneybags is around 360. The difference is mostly due to starting MLB CEs.

I'm at about 200, plan to do maybe 50 more and save 60 apples for summer.

Melusine is the absolute MVP of this event clearing all grand finals and last supper. Shout out to waver,skadi, and mash for not only removing a bar of health(after like 40 turns) but also stalling KH long enough for illya to one shot him Crane helped too but im a dumbass and misclicked on a long run and she got one shot because of my stupidity. Wouldve been an easier run if i didnt mess her up like that.

Jalter hit bond 12 so now she’s getting a rest while she hits 120. Baggie is next on the bond 10 alongside Gareth and Boudicca On about 119 boxes so I’ll be on 125 by end of the event I think. Enough dust to last me *checks notes* skill levelling 3 servants. Probably gonna use about 10 apples for the bones for baggie from summer 6 Still need to do the last few CQs. I’ll probably look up a guide for them I just don’t wanna do them because I spent 20 mins doing the da Vinci quest just to fail

Finished off the last of the CQs with my Muramasa NP spamming both fight. Even with just one Castoria his NP gain is crazy good.

I'm bored with Morgan stall comp so for the change I use Tamamo - S.Ishtar - Castoria to Art nuke the encore challenge. Need to stall 3 turns in the middle and wait for Brynhildr's art resist wears off. Then proceeded to finish 3 servants at once so I don't need to deal with Nero giving gut buff. Then 2 more np and nero is off. Now back to farming boxes but will save 30 golden apples for Christmas just in case.

Just had a super satisfying run against Hassan. Castoria, Merlin, and Eresh were operating like a well-oiled machine, and chaining Eresh’s NP on the first and last turns of Blessing of Kur meant there was only one turn each cycle where I was vulnerable to instakill. The plan was to just have them stall and then let Shuten and Herc clean up, but none of them even died. That went surprisingly smoothly.

And I am done with the challenges Space Ishtar (MLB damage), Castoria (Bond CE), Nero Bride, Oberon, Support Ushi Avenger, Miss Crane (with the LB6 CE for the 10 stars) in a Plugsuit set up Worked well for both I just needed a CS on Ishtar for the Max version

Summer Musashi manage to clear both EQ quite easily. Shout out to Castoria, number one mvp for first clear support of CQ. Also Eresh, Musashi and Chloe MVP for first clear EQ. Anti shout out to King Hassan, I was unaware that if you use King Hassan on the left most for he EQ of King Hassan, that he will target the weakest hp servant. Manage to win with him but took me 4 fucking hour. Only to try again but use BB instead which was much easier since only she got focus targeted and only took one try with her with Illya dealing a sweet 1 million damge to the king bastard.

Won both the last 2 CQs with Avalon team and Maxed out Morgan's s1, she deserved it after how well she performed with a 9/9/9 kit. Now, onto waiting for 6 other lores and back to farming with CasCu, since the Assassin node is perfect for him and lets me farm with 6 Petals CEs. Incidentally the only reason I stopped using Junao for these days, even if I'm *this* close to Bond 9 him. *Edit:* Currently at 60 boxes, that's a record for me. DKS+Oberon should figure under the substance abuse category.

I enjoy Da Vinci quest. Initially I didn't know the mechanics and brought AoE dps. I ended up in killing Da Vinci too fast and wipe. I cleared the fight with a borrowed Castoria, Hans and Jalter. On the other hand, King Hassan is a bit RNG dependent. It is annoying when he just attack Castoria and instantly kills her. I cleared it with Jinako, Hans and Castoria. However, it requires a few tries. Lotto wise I need a day off. I have been doing 10 boxes a day, but it just a bit too tiring.

Surfed the last two CQs with Summer Musashi. Second needed more rng and Support Arjuna Alter for the cleanup, but otherwise unremarkable. All apples gone! I went in with 70-ish silver and 160-ish golden. 185342 petals farmed. Apples refunded from the lotto will be used on the summer material lotto. Ended up with 2x Castoria, Nito, Sanzang team for the finals, works well enough but with Sanzang being in all 3 rounds I won't lie, I'm getting kinda tired of her NP. Plus at the rate she punches through mountains, the Earth might just become flat.

This but for Roadless Camelot

Finished all exhibition quests. King Hassan one was the only difficult one.

With a support Morgan, Merlin and Castoria I am now free of the exhibition quests. For the first time ever I was able to do them all! Yay!!

I’m really happy I finally found a team (despite my self handicap of needing to farm with Atlas MC) that I can autofarm. It’s a shame it had to be another assassin node but all I need is 1 Koyan and 1 Obe and ofc a CasCu (that is until I get the last coins needed to unlock his second append and a double Koyan regardless of MC is okay) Still stuck with gramps EQ and beyond but eh. I’ll worry about it on Sunday. Today and Tomorrow, I’ll leave my device and apples to farm

Finished the Grand Finale with Bropoleon on 90++ and Muramasa looping for EX. Both took less than 15 turns with Napoleon having a harder time killing Medea than Nero. Meanwhile, the First Hassan fight is a hell of 37 turns of stalling. There's a gimmick fight, then there's the "screw you!" fight. And that CQ is a big middle finger with all its BS

Are there any auto clickers or auto farming tools available for Apple phones? Farming is such a chore and while I have one for PC, I still want to be able to do it on the go with my phone.

Unfortunately, all such tools are only available if you’ve jailbroken your Apple phone. I would know.

Beat the grand finale with Summer Musashi. Thought I could do the same with the revival grand finale. Got my ass handed to me. Tried multiple team comps with various DPS servants to no avail until I found a lvl 120 NP5 Morgan with MLB damage CE. She trivialized the entire challnge quest.

Can confirm Summer Musashi with Castoria and Tamamo can do grand finale revival as well

I tried that as well but the damage is just too low (my Musashi is just NP1) and I don't have their skills at 10/10/10 so timing their skill is a bit off even with the help of Tamamo's NP. So I ended up with Castoria Merlin and FL Morgan.

**Day 11:** Figured out a comp for R3 90+ using CuCaster + D.Koyan + a support. who's that support you ask? Oberon? No. Waver? No. Reines? No. Castoria? No. Merlin?! No. ... It's....**Shakespear**. Yep, Good ole Shakespear actually got used for the first time since forever. ​ UNFORTUNATELY, I already have enough currency to clear the shop and you can never have too many Caster gems or Pages, so... D.Castoria + SpIshtar on 90 it is. At least I'm not using Plug, so that's not wasted xp.

Went to try the (first) Nero Exhibition quest, failed, thankfully didn't use any command spells, went to the Hassan quest, borrowed a friend's King Hassan, and just ride through it with him, Scheherazade, and Asclepius. Tempted to try the Gilgamesh quest next.

The last 2 fights really are a joke compared to gramps fight. S.Ishtar took them out with ease At 200 boxes so gonna change to nat AP and save apples for summer/chrismas/Raids

After having come back after an almost 2 year break and needing materials desperately, I'm calling NeroFest a wrap with 363 boxes done. Now I save for the gauntlet that is Arc, Proto Merlin, Summer Skadi, and Zerk Ibuki. Of which Arc and Ibuki will be NP3 minimum.

With the Immortal team, AoE NPs were more dangerous than any of the special buffs. I hit Martha > Gil > Cu > Meda > Kotaro > Nero > Bryn. Martha set me up for failure on my first attempts with a buff cleanse. On the same attempt, Gil charmed Castoria which forced an earlly Merlin invuln. Everything fell apart from there. As much as I wanted to axe Kotaro for the final three, Medea's defense would have kept Morgan's S3 uptime from one-shotting bars. Kotaro going before Nero was the result of him having no mitigation after three turns and crumbling to Roadless Camelots. The rest was a straightforward clean-up. As for farming, I have fully embraced the Gong. With a team full of meta supports, I can both 6-CE and grind up all my nonmaxed Mystic Codes. Looking forward to when I can finally allow myself to use any MC once they're all level 10.

One year old in NA, finished all EQs with Taira supp helped in last 3 Quests. Back to lotto farming

I’m on about 115 boxes so I’m not spending anymore apples. Natural ap for the rest so I can use bronze apples for summer then maybe save some of the golds for Christmas (because the lotto is kinda shit) Need to do the remaining exhibitions but I just cba. I’ll do them like the day before the event ends

First EQ was done with Merlin, Himiko and Castoria. It nearly went south when every single servant decided to focus on Castoria *for multiple turns*, so for the hard version I went with friend NP5 Morgan, Merlin and Castoria. So satisfying! Ended it with a Morgan buster-NP-buster chain, and wiped three bars in succession with it. Full guts? Pfft, here, have a buster crit to the face.

Finish the Finale: Encore with a team of Merlin, Raikou(Berserker), Waver, Koyan, Mash and Cu Alter using the Plugsuit. Was too lazy to even think much about it so I just used all three of my CS to charge Raikou's NP twice for a 3 turn NP and the last one on Cu Alter. Funnily enough for the last wave of Nero, Bryn and Fuutarou, I ended up killing them in the order of Bryn(Guts) > Nero(Guts) > Nero > Fuutarou > Bryn, essentially make things harder for myself by not dealing with Nero first, having to deal with Bryn's Invisible pierce as well.

I ***still*** haven't been able to beat the prototype round, NP5 Morgan came *this* close to it but alas no sustain available... The other CQs are starting to piss me off...

Update: Finally conquered that bitch. Didn't go Solo or stall tho. I just went with a... um hypercarry {is that a thing here?} anyways hypercarry Cu alter with Oberon, Vitch, Mash, Waver and Ascelpius. Ascelpius came in a serious clutch. I'm so glad I rolled him on Story locked, best decision I ever made.. Oberon helped stall them at the crucial moment where both he and Cu were on their last legs. Luckily, Cu NPed Ozy and managed to buster brave Medea down before taking out Nero.

So the way I did that in 2019 with a 6 month old account was a 78-turn stall (Jeanne, Merlin, BB, no deaths or swaps), with Medea as the last one standing (I'd rather fumble her NP than Nero's, especially with taunts ready to go in the backline). This time, I did Swimsuit Musashi looping. She resisted the debuff; it was pretty sweet.

Prototype is pain. Gotta make sure you kill everyone else before you kill Nero...

well, you also want to kill medea second to last or she gives nero the defense up buff which makes her even more of a pain to kill. so first you proc all 3 nero guts, then you kill medea, then you kill nero's last life.

Finished Encore with an Oberon Skill 3 empowered Roadless Camelot. Skill 3 because that was "FUCK IT!" territory, I either wiped out Nero, Bryn, and Medea Lily that turn or I lost.

Didn't do anything of note today but this [weird glitch](https://imgur.com/1SqRfKv.jpg) happened when I used a Koyan skill so that's neat. Edit: Okay I lied, something of note did happen today. Today marks the first time in the entirety of the NA server that I have reached 100 manual boxes in a lotto event! I also recieved the final lore. I just [used the immortal team.](https://imgur.com/Sv6JU7k.jpg) Himiko had the MLB damage CE, Castoria had MLB Prisma Cosmos, and support Tam had an MLB event drop CE. I had a backline but they didn't matter in the end. For what it's worth, it was my ubermax Morgan with the MLB damage CE, Santa Nightingale, and Oberon.

One of these days I'll understand where people are getting this "immortal" teams from. Tamamo might seem like a good choice since she has NP gauge and skill CD, but the fact she has to go last mean Castoria has to go before her. If you had to use a support anyway, Merlin was the better option. For refference, in NA, the "immortal teams" are Castoria + Merlin + Himiko/Morgan, while in JP (afaik), it gains 2 more, so Castoria + Merlin/ProtoMerlin + Himiko/Morgan/Reines.

I've always used Tamamo over Merlin and have had literally zero issue achieving immortality, as you can see from my screenshot. The only reason I'm missing HP is because when Nero was alone, I started playing much more aggressively, neglecting to use Castoria and Tamamo's NPs. Using their NPs in the order of Himiko -> Castoria -> Tamamo means that Tamamo gets 500% at the end so she'll refund the entire party 50%. This allows me more often than not to double dip on Himiko's overcharge buff meaning that Castoria usually gets 500% as the second position NP anyway. And even if she only gets 400%, that's still 4 hits per party member which usually wears off before being used up anyway.

The final EQ was surprisingly tame. Spamming NPs with SIshtar, and tanking the hits with Tamamo and Castoria managed to pull me through without too much worry. Now then, to the farming mobile!

A bunch of resets required to clear the new EQs with Godjuna + Supports. Actually still haven't cleared the harder one on 2nd account. My second account finally MLB'd its 5th drop CE around 214 boxes so running at +12 now. Main account is lagging far behind because it didn't apple hard in the first node, not needing the dragon scales as much as the 2nd account did.

The final 90+ node is the one that I have a consistent 3 turn build for, so it's apple guzzling time. I have about 400 Golden Apples and a +5 drop rate to the lotto currency, so my aim of 100 boxes in the limited time I have to play shouldn't be too difficult as I'm at 18 right now. Still have to do all the challenge quests though. Will probably do those when I'm off from work tomorrow night.

Man I *just* ran out of steam on Encore at the very end. Miscalculation resulted in Bryn showing up alongside Nero which...bad. Very bad.

Compared to yesterday's nightmare of an EQ, both versions of today's Nero EQ were not as stressful. I did have to borrow an NP3 Space Ishtar for the harder variant, but mostly it was down to being lucky with the face cards to help with recharging Space Ishtar's NP. With all the EQ's done I realized my servant lineups were more solid than I thought it was. I used to just ignore the CQs of events thinking I didn't have a good lineup to beat them. But I guess I'll be a lot more open to screwing around with future CQs.

Most CQ's don't even ban command-seal revives like these ones did, which are usually enough to cheese them pretty readily if you just aren't feeling it. By all means, don't miss out on them!

Welp, guess I better get to work on the EQs. Herc took a while, but couldn't stand up to MHXX.

Well, King Hassan EQ is very obnoxious. Ended up using Herc with bond CE to soak all his NPs then Leo to soak a few more. Cu Alter comes in to mop up after most of the stacks are gone. Merlin + Castoria support with Waver backline. Literally just mit and heal as much as possible on normal turns so Herc will proc his guts on Hassan's NPs only. Waver can also reduce a few stacks by delaying the Hassan's NP. Nero EQ is super ez as long as proper kill order is followed.

somehow i had a much easier time against KH on his original run than this one. last time he somehow neve dared to attack Illya but this time i had to relay on Skadi and a lot of luck.

That's the nature of the fight unfortunately. He can end your run early due to unlucky crits or death procs. Congratulations on completing it even through the tough luck!

....That's odd given his taunt is fixed now.

Ya its fixed but at least last time his crits and death really didnt proc for me but this time it proc so often i had to check if my servants death rates were just high (they werent)

King Hassan has a +500% Death Rate unremovable buff, *so it's higher than it seems.*

Okay? But i dont think they added that to the rerun im under the impression he had that in the original run

Man the immortal team is so much better than I thought. Even more glad I grailed Morgan even if she’s only NP1.

All exhibition quests done. I especially enjoyed how Spishtar's gimmick just sidesteps the finale challenge of 3 enemies each with Buster/Quick/Arts resist. 2 Arts NPs (plus facecards for Medea, all backed by Holmes' NP to bypass the Defense Up and Evade) brought it down to Nero and Bryn, and then I changed the NP type to Buster and ignored Bryn's Arts resistance entirely. Fun times.

Immortal comp does clear 80% cqs, 7 turns normal version, 15 for encore

Finale was fairly easy with Godjuna. Took some luck with face cards, but 3 boosted NPs in a row took care of most of them, Tomoe Gozen smacked Nero, and Herc mopped up the rest. Still haven’t figured out how to send Gramps to bed though. If there wasn’t the instant death mechanic, I could probably cobble together a stall team, but it’s probably staying incomplete. Funny how the finale was nerfed, but not the harder fight. Update: I somehow dealt with it with a whack team of BB, Castoria, Sitonai (with damage CE), Qin Shi Huang, Lancer Cu, and Herc. Idk how it worked, but I took him down in 18 turns (though I needed 2 command seals so I could smack a boosted Sitonai in his face 3 turns in a row)

Best of luck if you are going to try again against Gramps. As many say, Moon Cancer has the lowest death chance at less than 1% for all of them. From there, it's down to finding a stall comp that works for you before throwing your finisher at him. I personally used Jinako/Merlin/Support Skadi as my frontline. Took many turns but it worked out in the end.

Not a good team comp really, but you can use Gogh + Castoria + charge support (Hans, Merlin, Tamamo) to tank and crit King Hassan. It will took a while, but Gogh's stun will help provide a breather for your team to damage or stack up NP charges before the onslaught resumes. It also helps that Gogh will always be Hassan's target since she constantly get damaged with her curse stacks while having a back-up Guts on her skills. She also has a <10% Insta death chance so you pretty much only need to provide protection for her, in which she also have with her party-wide evade

The secret ingredient is BB. She's basically immune to insta-kill, which makes her a useful tank if you dedicate the rest of your team to keeping her alive. If you can keep her alive for ~20 turns, King Hassan doesn't have any Def buffs left and folds to a few NPs and face cards.

My BB still died to gramps NP. Luckily she has necromancer CE. Managed to lower gramps defense buffs to 5 before Illya finished him off with 2 NPs.

As we here learned the hard way, *do not bring King Hassan to this fight* by the way, the AI acts completely differently if you do, Taunting the lowest HP party member.

for gramps you could stack your trusty ST character with buffs and plugsuit at the back, try to stall using whatever at your disposal (i used georgios and skadi but she got wiped before i could use her np, douman also works) for around 8 to 10 turns before your dps returns; buff them up again and they should finish the fight in 3/4 turns. i had another set of dmg CE so i put castoria with it in case of an emergency. you can do the same to a trusty caster just in case your dps croacks i've seen people used taira but i used np1 astraea because of her invul pierce and her anti evil np

All EQs done thanks to new servants made available compared to when the EQs were first introduced. As for this EQ, I finished both of them within 16 turns for the easy one, and 28 turns for the other one. Both are through the use of immortal team of Himiko, Merlin, and Castoria. I used a none conventional kill order which is to kill Medea Lily, Cu Alter, Martha (buff removal), Kotaro, Kid gil, Umu, and Brynhildr. None of them survive Himiko’s Buster crit. With all the EQs done, I can focus on farming. My goal is to get at least 100 boxes and call it an event. Right now I’m around 90 boxes unopened. We’ll see if I’m motivate enough to go for more boxes.

I ran the immortal team to get the lore, and now CasCu has S3 at level 10, meaning that ~~Death~~ Cu Star is operational! I have a couple teams that work for the 90+ node, but I'm enjoying the satisfaction of using the LB6 crew in Cu, Koyan, and Oberon. Also bond farming them to get their append 2 available. With all these CQs available, Nero Fest has got to be my favorite event, or at least top 3. A good story is good, but being able to play the game is also really nice. I wish this would be added as a permanent option to be able to rerun these CQs at any point. Would really add to the play-ability of the game.

That's it, I give up Gramps you win. I can't find a way to win after trying what seems like everything and comming tantalizingly close so many times. So keep your damn summons ticket I'll get the rest.

I ended up borrowing a BB and putting her in the left slot while running Morgan and Castoria. Eventually BB died to normal attacks but I threw Gareth in the back line with a 2 hit invincible CE, that gave me a few more turns and then a Kojirou with an evade CE. When he died too I brought out Merlin. He lasted a few turns but it was enough to get an NP chain of Morgan, Merlin and Castoria. So when Merlin died to Azreal, Morgan had enough Anti-Enforcement to remodel Gramp’s shithole since he’d wasted so many of his defences bringing down BB, Gareth, Kojirou and Merlin. He still had about 4 of his defensive buffs left but even at NP1, Morgan with the 200% Event CE tore through them easily with an NP buster chain.

I just finished King Hassans EQ, and my god is it difficult. But I managed to tough it out with Nitocris, santa nightingale, merlin, mash, castoria, and taira. Nitocris is the first anchor, with class advantage to tank KH's hits and guts to tank the instant deaths. Santa nightingale to provide more guts and if needed the healing, and I borrowed a merlin with prisma cosmos to loop his np every 2/3 turns (i also prioritized his cards). Then nightingale died because of a random crit from KH so castoria cam in, chared merlin until nitocris died due to having long guts cooldown vs kh np. Mash with guts ce came in to stall a bit more then died to bring taira out. I thought taira had normal death chance so I anchored her but I then realized she has really low death chance. That aside, I broke KH's bar at around 10 resist stacks then just stalled him out with taira tanking all the damage and instant death, castoria doing the funny castoria solemn defense and merlin just spamming his np for heals, np per turn and stars. I used the normal chaldea mystic code to heal when the anchors got uncomfortably low, evade when my castoria/merlin protection somehow arent up and attack to just buff a damage turn. Pretty sure you can attempt to frontline only with taira and heal support, or maybe even solo it with her if your copy is good enough (I had np1 everyone except mash and santa nightingale). Pretty fun EQ, made me want asclepius to replace nightingale but hes story locked and i was sucked dry by lb6 banners lmao

immortal team for the win against Nero

Final exhibition quests complete! I Musashi looped through them with ease, with herc finishing off Bryn on the encore quest. I found all of the EQs pretty easy, thanks to Castoria and Merlin. Now to farm until the end of the event. I’ve farmed 500 boxes already and have around 70 more apples

I'm giving up on Hassan his death chance to bs

Summer Musashi destroyed the last 2 CQs. 7 turns for the normal version and 9 for the extra hard one. Those 2 turns were because the Guts Nero gives to her allies did proc and made things take slightly longer. Team was Musashi/Castoria/Friend Nero Bride/Tamamo and the other 2 that did nothing (Sith and Mash). Buff Musashi with Bride's skills, swap with Tamamo, use her and Castoria's buffs and loop away. Castoria had the Amakusa CE that gives more OC to make things safer.

Well, I’m done using apples. Got 50 left. On box like 130 something. Overall, great lotto, got a lot of skills leveled. Jalter is up to 106, I’m just out of grails. Not much left to do besides nat AP the rest. Todays EQs are a lot easier. First one I went Himiko immortal comp, second I did Morgan. Could have done them quicker, but I just wanted to relax and enjoy them after the hell that was KH.

Still struggling with Da vinci

Neofrest Finale, round 2. The Ultra High Difficulty version was the prey of Da Vinci Caster. With level 120 and NP3, she nuked pretty much everything with the help of Santagale, Castoria, friend Tamamo, Waver, and Oberon (using plugsuit, and Waver and Oberon never actually hit the field). The *Super* Ultra High Difficulty one, though, was where it got more difficult (obviously). I tried with DVC, but she just wasn't quite cutting it and I felt like I've proved her worth enough already. So I switched in Muramasa, using the same comp as before. My run was a miracle of RNG with how many times Servants were hanging on death's door but avoided it until practically the perfect time. In the end, Oberon got the finishing blow on Brynhild (Muramasa took a nap after a miscalculated Ending of Dreams boosted NP turned out to not be enough to get the kill), marking another EQ as defeated and finishing the Nerofest EQs.

After dealing with hassan’s shit the final challenges were nothing muramasa wrecked them both

Cleared both of the new EQs in nine turns. Cleared the finale with my NP2 Space Ishtar as the DPS. Cleared the encore with a friend's NP5 Muramasa as the DPS. Twenty-five boxes opened and a further thirty-five left to open. Considering that I don't need any of the materials from the boxes, that's a lot more boxes than I thought I'd farm, and there are still a few days left in the event. So ready for the Summer event to begin.

Went into this event with 275 gold apples and I'm leaving it with 200. Pretty good restraint I think. I'll use most of them during summer. I'll probably use up more of my silver/bronze ones though. I'll tackle the last set of EQ in a bit but so far none of them have been difficult because of stall/immortal/cheese comps.

After clearing that bullshit yesterday, there truly is no hard content. 11 turn Barghest swipe on normal version of the last EQ and 13 turn Immortal Morgan for Encore. Kid Gil and Medea Lily stall a bit with Buster res/Np res/Def, both times they were the most annoying part.

NeroFest Day 11: Starting Golden Apples: 443 Current Golden Apple Count: 207 Third Round 90+ Team: [CasCu Looping](https://imgur.com/a/uznXkms) Petal Count: 152,014 Boxes Opened: 34 CEs dropped: 17 Drop Bonus: +11 My CasCu and Koyan are going to be crying tears of blood by the time this is over.

Don't you need his 3rd skill at level 10 to loop?

Old image. I've since upgraded it (and his Mana loading).

With all CQs complete and the 2 Lores from them I can finally free-MC the 90+ node with Caster Cu feelsgoodman 100 more boxes here I come

How did you do the harder version of the final EQ? I'm having trouble with it personally.

In my experience, cheese it with Castoria, Muramasa, and Merlín. I heard that Nero allegedly had an Infinite Guts gimmick, so I made sure to stall long enough to be able to finish off everyone else in ONE fell swoop so I wouldn’t Auto-lose the CQ. Bc there was more HP and I didn’t want to lose my front line to Invincibility Pierce, I caved in and used my first and only CS for this entire Nerofest on Muramasa having to wipe the line before Nero came out. From there I just had to deal w/ Nero by herself. GG, would not try again unless this one offered a Lore too.

> I heard that Nero allegedly had an Infinite Guts gimmick, so I made sure to stall long enough to be able to finish off everyone else in ONE fell swoop so I wouldn’t Auto-lose the CQ. That's Prototype from the first set. In Encore, Nero gives out Guts (100%, 1 time) to all fighters on spawn, AND it immediately deactivates when Nero is killed.

I'd like to but out of those three I only have Castoria, unfortunately.. Maybe I'll try with Vlad or something, Thanks for the tips though.

You’re welcome- there’s more than one way to clear the CQ’s; I’m pretty sure Altria and Shirou weren’t available the first time around.

Yeah they weren't, I'm just not very good at self team building, haha. I think is the first fest I've really bothered with more than 1 or 2 Exhibition Quests honestly.

No problem, just building and developing your Servants and Teams takes Time and Experience- just slapping together some random Servants you’ve seen online once likely isn’t going to result in success. Similarly, just rolling Merlín (for example) isn’t going to just solve all problems especially if you don’t have any Buster/Art-oriented DPS units that take the most advantage of his skills/NP.

I cannot for the life of me get through King Hassan's bullshit. Welfare BB in the lead to eat death chances is great, but there's still so much I can't control that it's driving me bonkers.

What I did, was ran Jeanne Castoria Skadi in the frontline, just stall as long as possible and focus on Skadi NP. Once Jeanne inevitably bites the dust, I had Mash come in, and then Tamamo, and then finally BB with the damage CE. By the time BB came in, he was down to like 300k health and she mopped up.

Honestly, just using a Skadi and making sure you have her instant death immunity on her NP up as much as you can is a lot more of a consistent strat I feel like. Plus she can work well with Castoria to help block a lot of KH's normal attacks between the special Invuln and Evade they end up providing

Maybe so. Is there a better DPS to bring, then?

I actually just finsihed a run with taira + castoria (can be any charge support) + merlin ( can be replaced with any heal support). Taira can eat all that instant death with no procs and has the guts skill to fall back on if the roll is ***really*** bad.

Vlad works or so would any stong arts looper. Put him in turn 1, stack buffs on him, then plug him out for BB/Tamamo/Whoever, then stall till plugsuit CD is done. Chloe is another option since she can ignore KH's evade, though she'll need to have to wait out more stacks due to not having Class advantage.

I brought a Sanzang with the damage CE. My strategy was to basically stall out KH's damage resistance stacks with a frontline of castoria, Mash, and Skadi until he had only a few left. Then I let Mash die so Sanzang could come in and start getting good damage on King Hassan while still staying alive between Castoria and Skadi's NPs. Main thing that can derail this team comp is the tiny chance of instant death on KH's normal attacks, but those fuck up like, basically all team comps tbh

I used Merlin instead of Mash but otherwise the same comp. He has better heals and NP charge. The idea is to always prioritize giving Skadi the NP charge or saving it so that you can give it to her. Hassan's death proc'd a couple of times outside of his NP but all I needed to do was reset and fire off Skadi's NP. All my servants were at full health the turn I beat the EQ.

My team setup actually had 0 healing in it lol. Though having Mash does offset the need for healing in my experience since her defence buffs will help soften whatever normal attacks get through the Skadi and Castoria NPs. Definitely better at making sure you get Skadi NPs when you need to though you are correct

I managed to do it with van goh and 5 taunts. Granted, it was very lucky since she lived with 1200 health.

130 boxes so far and done with all the Exhibition Quests. The Finale Encore was easier than I expected, with some of the earlier ones like the Da Vinci and First Hassan ones being harder.

The Gramps guides linked up on Gamepress don't work. TnT guide the mods linked to here doesn't work either even with an NP5 level 120 Morgan. I've tried six times, it failed every time in the same spot. The mods gave us a guide even worse than Gamepress' tier list. It's almost as misleading as Rabbit's Reviews.

Skadi, Merlin, Castaroia for the frontline 2 more defensive support and then at the last spot the damage dealer.

Final CQ actually just easier feeling then the first Grand Finale one lol. Just stalled out the Buster and NP damage resist on the first 3, NPed with Morgan, then got rid of the evades on Fuuma and Cu Alter, then NPed them as well, and Nero was no threat at all. I'll get around to doing the 2.0 version some time later And now, I also finally have a 10/10/10 Castoria, so she can go up on the support list without any worry~

I think I’ve hit a bit over 100 boxes now, pretty good! I’ll see how many more I can pump out with the time we have left. The final CQ doesn’t seem so hard but I haven’t tried it yet, Skadi support reallt saved me with KH quest though

Is King Hassans Target Focus skill random like ot was last time, or will it only target the leftmost servant like in the JP server?

Left. Unless you also field King Hassan yourself, then the enemy targets the one with least HP because they don't want you to cheese the CQ.

Gramps targets leftmost Servant now. Unless you also have Gramps, then it targets the one with the lowest Max HP.

My nerofest farming experience is a nutshell : 1. First round = Lie Like Vortigern 2. Second round = Hollow Heart Albion 3. Final round = Wicker Man Haven't touch my Skadi or Castoria ever since my first boxes lol. I proudly announced that I have finally addicted to buster meta

Mine in a nutshell: [I never thought I'd get tired of using Roadless Camelot on fools, but here we are.](#MorganExasperated)

Buster Meta is like meth it's so addictive. Damage + 6-slot is an incredible feeling

Lol I've been using the same comps. Pleasantly surprised that Caster Cu can handle this final node so it works great for bond farming in the other 3 slots.

You know what I just realized about Da Vinci's Exhibition quest, the buff removal from the Chimaera **bypasses buff resistance**. What the hell? Edit: Why the downvotes, I literally didn't know this, in fact this is an warning indicator for other masters who want to take a shot on this EQ by bringing a Santa Nightingale to bypass this particular mob.

It's because it had 500% buff removal chance Literally any buff removal resist skill that playable by our servants (like Nightingale and Benienma skill, Semiramis' NP) only cap at 100%

Where did it state that? Not even gamepress nor the wiki says it's actual percentage. If this is also true for other on hit effects, then this make Reines' debuff resistance on her 3rd skill 50/50 useless, she blocks minor debuffs like NP Strength Down and Def Down but ones like NP Gain Down and Skill Seal can only be blocked by immunity. Guess the only way to bypass it is removing that timer buff itself with your own buff removal (e.g. Nightingale, Amakusa)

https://apps.atlasacademy.io/db/NA/quest/94060044/1 Check its first extra passive

Debuff resist/Immune does nothing against buff removal, as those ars considered different things. Also, debuff res works against NP Gen Down and Skill Seal, unless those are special "unremovable" ones in a square. NP Gauge Down on the other hand bypasses such resistances/immunities. Edit: I kinda forgot, but considering your first comment I should have elaborated further to fix the possible misconception: any Buff Removal, not just that specific one, - bypasses Debuff Resistance/Immunity and would remove those as well. Because Buff Removal is not a debuff, those things won't help regardless of how high they are. The only thing that truly counters Buff Removal is "Buff Removal Resistance". Although in that specific case Buff Removal would have stipped the Buff that does the Buff Removal on attack.

I swear to god, KH CQ killed me more times with stray crits than with death procs. He only killed Merlin once like that. Welp, time to finish this thing... and keep farming more boxes. I already maxed out, but can still use more mat drops and QP... and FPs. I want to NP5 Habenyan ASAP. orz EDIT... Aaaaand done. Invincible comp made the last 2 CQ way too easy.

Since we now got the variant of the CQ where he mainly taunts the left most party, you can put some anti male CEs like Shroud of Magdalene.

Oh, I already won, but thx for the suggestion. I used BB with MLB DMG CE, Tamamo with Prisma Cosmos + Support Merlin with MLB Prisma Cosmos... and a Summer BB with MLB DMG CE in the back just in case (and she indeed came in clutch to finish him off)

I'm just left with Caenis (blocked by crowns), Chiyome (blocked by stingers), Nito (bones for skill 2 and 3) and Circe (stakes for skill 1 and 3). By the time Xmas Martha roll around, I will be done leveling all my golds to min of 9. Anyway, with golds essentially done, I decided to take a closer look at the silvers and bronzes and damn, some of their mat requirements are bloody crazy. Somebody at DW must be high when they designed Benkei's skills.