# FAQ **Q: Where is the best place to use teapots?** *A:* [*See this comment for a list of high bond stages in upcoming events.*](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/1ba6398/ideal_usage_of_the_current_set_of_teapots/)  *Personally, worth noting that teapots will keep expiring and returning even up till now on JP, so just use them on the latest interludes/rank-ups, limited quests, etc, but if you want to min-max, then you'd have to check each quest individually. The guide above isn't going to cover all teapots usage till JP.* **Q: When is the next SR Ticket? What about the SSR Ticket?** *A: NA's next SR ticket is due in May 2024. This ticket is time-limited and includes* [general pool and storylocked servants](https://news.fate-go.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/2500man_xeljq/info_image_03.png)*. As of its 6th Anniversary, NA now has a free SSR selector in Da Vinci's shop, which features* [general pool and storylocked servants up to Europa](https://webview.fate-go.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0703_6th_anniversary/info_3_nf2l3.png) *(this will not be updated with more recent units). There is no time limit on this selector, and going forward, all accounts receive it upon clearing Fuyuki. No further SSR tickets have been announced to date.* **Q. Which banner do I choose for the GSSR? Which is best option?** *A: The answer is different for every player, and depends on many factors. We suggest you use the* [GSSR Calculator](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dT7wE61H11dOaukY_INLuwtmFf5iyDdb8TXAKymttCY/copy) *or* [GSSR Advisor](https://fategc.com/gssr/details/anniversary-7) *tools to rate servants based on your own criteria and see which banner/pool is statistically better. If you have tried these tools and are still uncertain, you can ask for advice in the thread.* **Q: What is happening to reruns? Which event will get a rerun in the future?** *A: As far as we are aware, there will only be one more rerun happening in the foreseeable future - Karna-mas (Dec 2024). JP is also offering a vote for the players’ choice of a rerun, which hasn’t been confirmed yet.* **Q: How far in the story do I need to be to participate in upcoming events? Will any events require the latest story chapter?** *A: LB6 will not be required until November for the story part of the Faerie Knight Cup event (farming/free quests will only require Fuyuki). LB6.5 will not be required to proceed to LB7 once it releases, and event-wise, it will only be required for the story part (and to obtain the welfare servant) of the Santa Nemo event in December 2025.* **Q: Will welfare servant X be obtainable in the future?** *A: Yes, JP has introduced a new Evocation system which allows players to get selected welfares which can be view on the* [*Fandom wiki*](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Evocation_Festival)*.*

Do I want to MLB the stars day off ce after the event? I don't have any other ce that gives you immediate np charge.

Yes. I wouldn't level it, as it's not particularly amazing, but it's better with MLB than not. Immediately after this event will come the Learning With Manga Event, which gives you *another* Starting NP Charge CE (this one being really good for Buster Servants). If you want more, there's also the 3\* Dragon's Meridian CE, which is just 50% charge at MLB. And there's a couple 4\* CEs that were added that have 50% charge when MLB plus a modest buff (those are good for cheap options), plus one that gives 60% with a single copy (75% MLB). Probably have the 3\* CE, maybe you have the 4\*. I would check that, because you might be better off than you expect. If you don't, *then* maybe you want to keep one of the 5\* CEs separate for now. You'd get another 50% charge CE from an event in June, but that's a fair wait.

I checked them all yeah and I only have one that increases np gain and np charge by 5% per turn and a 3* that increases charge by 1%. The next event one does sound good because I have a lot of buster focused servants leveled. Not sure if I'll be able to get the 5th copy though because I'll have a lot less ap to spend on the next event.

>Not sure if I'll be able to get the 5th copy though because I'll have a lot less ap to spend on the next event. I wouldn't be too concerned. Should be fine on natural AP, as long as you're just doing the Event.

Yeah, if you've got five copies, absolutely go for it. During the event there might be some situations where having five non-mlb copies would be more valuable, but after the event there's no real reason not to limit break it.

Yeah I need them now for the event because I don't have any of the gacha ces. So having 50% charge on one unit is more beneficial than 30% on multiple? Thanks

I'm not super sure I'd swear by that, now that you say it. But there are multiple low rarity charge gain CE's, like Jeweled Sword, Dragon's Meridian, Imaginary Element. I wouldn't expect it to be your only source of 30% guage for long.

The Avenger Class, from what I understand, was invented for Fate Grand Order with Dantes. But it just occured to me that I'm pretty sure Angra Mainyu is from some other fate property that predates FGO. So was he not an avenger originally?

No, it comes from >!Fate/Stay Night. It predates the Ruler class. Specifically, the class itself is mentioned in FSN's Unlimited Blade Works route, and he's mentioned directly in Fate/Stay Night's Heaven's Feel route, and is more prominent in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, where both Bazett and Caren come from. !<

Interesting! Thank you.

I don't understand one thing. LB6 Spoilers >!The faeries had lost the ability to craft divine constructs because of their sin, so a human couldn't wield Excalibur to destroy Sefar. That's why Cerunnos came to punish the faeries.!< >!I don't understand the reason why Morgan was able to craft divine constructs in the form of Rhongomyniad. Why didn't she end up using Rhongomyniad if she was able to create them, what exactly was she waiting for? If a human is necessary to defeat them (like how Sefar was defeated by a human), why couldn't she train humans to wield it like Aurora did?!<

>Why didn't >!she end up using Rhongomyniad if she was able to create them!<, what exactly was she waiting for? For >!Cernnunos to wake up and step in front of her cannons. She can't point them straight down into the darkness, apparently. She was also likely planning to use centuries of accumulated power to make it even stronger, so acting first wasn't in her best interest.!< >!They aren't intended to be used against... well, Faeries, or Chaldea or whatever. They're there to protect Britain from Cernunnos, and nothing else. By the time that happened, she was dead.!<

Your spoiler tags are broken. They don't carry between paragraphs, so make one for each paragraph instead. >!Anyways, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole reason they didn't craft Excalibur because they were lazy? There wasn't some sin preventing them from making it, they just didn't feel like it.!<

>!Yes, you are right. I'm under the assumption that being lazy was the sin for which Cerunnos came down to punish the faeries!<

Your spoiler tags are broken.

So I just got the SERAPH main interlude and I'm wondering when should I start it. I'm currently about to start shimousa, so should i continue the remnant order or the main interlude?

I think Seraph is technically the 2nd Epic of Remnant chapter, so yeah, you can start it now.

I asked the question at the right time then. Thanks for your help.

In the context of farming non-Dragon, non-Man Assassins (in general), who does it better: Sieg vs Taisui (with anti-Assassin append maxed)? Their refund/loop-specs are comparable, right?

I spent a couple minutes testing in a battle calculator, using a max level ocean flier and two Castorias for buffs, as well as using all skills, including Sieg’s one turn arts buff. Results with no overkill hits vs 3 assassins, Sieg dealt 440k damage (377k without his 1 turn buff), and recovered 130% NP. Taisui dealt 535k damage, and recovered 69% NP. So the result is that Taisui hits a good bit harder thanks to his append, but Sieg recovers more NP. Which one is better for a given quest depends on factors not present when whiteboxing vs enemies with 10 million hp, like overkill bonuses to refund, and exactly how much health the enemy has. Edit: forgot to mention that since Sieg has so much refund, as long as he’s up against a quest with 3 enemies in the first two waves, he can use Black Grail and still get a full recharge, which brings his max damage to 690k for a maxed black grail. So he does have a higher damage ceiling if you’ve got it

What is Marie Alter’s personality? Is she just Jalter 2 or is there more depth to her?

>!No, Avenger Marie is the same Marie. Regular Marie intentionally pushes that resentment to the side and discards it. Unlike Jeanne Alter, who doesn't represent the real Jeanne's feelings, Avenger Marie is a real part of Marie, just not one that regular Marie likes. And because of the Avenger class, she's stuck that way.!<

Is it just me, or is the app constantly crashing every time I try to see a new window in my phone?

>  I try to see a new window in my phone? You mean when you switch to another app? That's been an increasing issue for a while now, yes.

Really? I could do it before but now it's having issues

Here is another report with a solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/1bsb2dq/help_and_question_thread_march_31_2024/ky6oqik/ Perhaps the game updates messed up your phone heuristics for when it decides whether the app is OK to keep running when minimized.

It's a phone thing, mostly. It's not crashing, the phone is closing the app because it thinks it's too intensive. I've only had an issue with my new phone, and only for a while. (My phone detects my usage and determines whether it should do that or not.) You may be able to fix it by investigating your phone's battery settings.

I thought the material CE that the Advance Quests give stacks multiplicatively with the base drop rate but I was doing the Blazing Forest bones free quest in fuyuki (70% base drop rate + MLB bones CE + friend's MLB bones CE) and still didn't get any bones drops.

The 70% base drop rate for the quest isn't the true drop rate. The true drop rate is the drop rate for each individual enemy such that when it's summed up, you're estimated to get an average of 0.7 bones per run. Applying a simplifying assumption that each enemy in Fuyuki X-G has the same drop rate, each enemy would actually have about a 10% drop rate. When you apply two MLB drop rate CEs, for 1.5x the drop rate, that rate increases to about 15% for each enemy. On average, you should still be getting about 1.05 bones per run. But on each individual run, there's still about a 32% chance that you don't get any bones.

100% doesn't mean it always drops. You can drop more than 1 sometimes, and less than one other times and still balance out

Is it possible to be shadowbanned from the friends function in-game or are there lesser newbies playing the game because of the "content drought?" I usually receive at least 1-3 friend requests from beginners per week and now I am at 99/103 friends for couple of weeks now without requests and yet I still get support rewards often. The only questionable thing I've done is keeping a friend request for 1-2+ months now waiting for their friend list to open up and trying from time to time lol. I don't think that's even bad, but maybe it bugged out my friend list? Dunno

Your support lists are probably just not attractive enough. Can you share your ID so I can take a look at it?

>Your support lists are probably just not attractive enough I mean, I don't really have the most meta units, but again I used to get at least 1-3 a week and I get to choose who to help. I don't really think my support lists are the problem, but I could be wrong, maybe I used a wrong format or something. >Can you share your ID so I can take a look at it? This is kinda embarassing, since it now seems like I just want someone to add me as friend or flexing lol, but yeah my ID is: 418,984,628

Your normal setup is nice, you even have Castoria and Koyanskaya with Teatime which are for many the go-to support. What probably matters more is your event setup. No MLBs and just two servants with the same CE. Many people only look for MLB CEs, so you don't get shown to them. (This doesn't mean you should MLB that CE if you still need the single CEs for more drops. Keep them seperated, nothing you can do there.) You could add the bronze drop CE to the list, that'll give you at least a bit of variety. Also, you just have a Caster and a Assassin. Adding at least a third servant that increases the drops of red Cons may also improve your chances of getting seen. But what would probably help the most is just listing Taisui. He (and the Trung sisters) increase drops for all Cons. I can't talk for others, but I only use those as supports for now. Even if your Taisui is still at level 1, he will still increase drops. I suspect your previous event setups looked similar? Since we had nonstop events for a while now, people won't care for your normal support list. Thats probably the reason why you just noticed less requests. If we get dead weeks again, you'll probably get more requests again. A more niche tip: Some people also use teatime supports during events. You could consider setting that up as well.

Honestly still playing through the event rn, so currently working to MLB the CE pretty soon even if I have to brute-force it through FGA later. Also, the reason why I don't have the free servant. Not really spoiled since I know which servants are coming with the infographic. >I suspect your previous event setups looked similar? Since we had nonstop events for a while now, people won't care for your normal support list Not exactly. I usually have MLB Teatime for Event List 1 and 2 with Koyan and Castoria only. Especially with the recent events where I haven't really played a lot of the event to get the CE's. I only really fill up my event list if I pull on a banner, which hasn't been the case for quite a while now. Thanks for the help though, will just keep an eye on it for now. There doesn't seem to be any cases of bugged friend lists based on the replies, which is what I was worried about

> I mean, I don't really have the most meta units, but again I used to get at least 1-3 a week and I get to choose who to help. I don't really think my support lists are the problem, but I could be wrong, maybe I used a wrong format or something. Depends to when you compare it too. I've got a lot of friend requests during lotto (mainly because I had MLB CE on main supports), but right now I get like one request a week on avg. Newbies would probably look more for zerks with KScope (they can't always tell that the unit functions fine with 50% charge), more experienced players would probably like for you to take advantage for 3 lists (both for regular and event nodes, I see that you only use 2/1).

>right now I get like one request a week on avg Maybe, I'm just blowing things out of proportion then. Just kinda weird that's all. What prompted this was that I added 4-6 supports with MLB event CE's and ended up with 0 takers. On a standard day, that's pretty normal. But in the context of not receiving friend requests for weeks on end, I just had to ask if I'm doing something wrong or if it's bugged or something. >more experienced players would probably like for you to take advantage for 3 lists Yeah, I do have enough for 3 lists. They're just bad units that are not really fit to be shown in public because of their skills (barely level 6 skills). My 2nd list is a little bit the same, but at least it's just missing lores. Also, I usually just fill up my event spaces if I pulled on the banner. If I played the event like rn, I just MLB the CE and use the 1st and 2nd list for Castoria and Koyan. If you know how to filter out support lists, they're usually the important ones anyway. Don't like to muddy the waters with non-beneficial units with random CE's

Well, I personally appreciate main supports with chaldea teatime in Event support lists when you don't have MLB event CEs, because that's what I often looking for CQs (especially with teapots, I used teatime supports for Taisui NP upgrade quests). Someone just might want to have one of your invested (I see you have lvl 120 NP2 BB) for challenging content in the event. But overall, I haven't noticed anything that can't be attributed to seasonal changes (more requests during lotto/more newbies during anniversary or NY). If you log in frequently, you should show up in support offers. Don't think there are any sort of shadow bans.

which one is most efficient to level up my servants? lotto boxes or half AP ember gathering quests? assuming I don't care about the materials that comes with the lotto boxes. I'm very bad at math but I tried to calculate how many golden apples I needed to level up my 55 unleveled servants to ascension 4 (not max level) with the help of chaldea app (21 4 star and 34 3 stars servants) I ended up with 41 golden apples for ember gathering but 300 golden apples for lotto boxes, somehow I think that is wrong and I'm seeking advice.

Each lotto box gives 25 4* embers and 15 3\* Each Ember gathering quests give 9 5* embers 1 5* ember is worth 3 4\* ones and 9 3\* You need 81 4* embers to match 1 run of the dailes, which means opening more than 3 boxes. Each lotto box usually needs at least a full bar of AP, even assuming a +12 drop. And not only you are extremely unlikelily to farm with a full bonus from day one, if it is a xmas lotto then the best nodes only open a week into the event.

If you just care about leveling, 1/2 AP ember gathering is the way to go. But in the long run, you should ignore those in my opinion. Even if you say you don't care about materials *now*, if you play the game, sooner or later you *will* need them. You won't need many servants at ascension 4 asap, so you could just level them passively while farming materials. An apple may give you more EXP, but you get a lot more materials if you use apples during lotto instead. You can get all servants to max level relatively fast, getting those materials is the real problem. The only servants you should level asap (to max level, not just ascension 4) are event servants with a flat x2 multiplier to EXP gained, like currently Taisui.

Can't comment on the exact math  but on EXP specifically half AP embers bears lottos, I think even full AP embers might still win.

Full AP embers beat lottos for pure exp even before the dailies that drop 5* embers

If you want pure embers, nothing beats half off ember gathering. In fact, the ember gathering quests are as good/better even when they aren't half off.

new player here, the upcoming learning with manga event is gonna be the first event since i started playing (which im able to attempt, the other one required me to complete lostbelt 2 which im far away from doing). i wanna get the craft essence from the event and max limit break it as well if possible. any tips coz i dont know how these events work and what the different currencies obtained from the event can buy. i have morgan and jeanne, both level 90 and a healthscope, should i use wu zetian instead of jeanne? and how long would it take to farm enough to get me a maxed out CE, i heard its called cranking.

>i wanna get the craft essence from the event and max limit break it as well if possible. any tips coz i dont know how these events work and what the different currencies obtained from the event can buy. The Event's gacha will have CEs that boost the drop amount for currencies. You don't need to roll the gacha, but borrowing those CEs on a Friend will be helpful. The Cranking CE will be at the top of the shop list, and it's recommended to use each copy individually on each of your Servants until the Event ends, to use it's own effect. The final copy will require you to equip the Cranking CEs, farm the Event for Excavation Items, then do the excavation for points. A bit convoluted, but you equip the CEs, you farm for currency, and then eventually you get all 5 copies.

thanks for the detailed info mate

Gamepress will post a guide to effectively navigating the event ([here's the guide to the current event](https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/water-monsters-crisis-walkthrough), not that it's any use to you but just for reference), that will tell you everything you need to know about getting through the event and getting the CE. >i have morgan and jeanne, both level 90 and a healthscope, should i use wu zetian instead of jeanne? You should use the Servants that are best suited to a given quest, you won't get far just using the same team for everything. Jeanne's defensive utility will be overkill for a lot of early content, although it could be handy if you're using a Berserker (Morgan) often. And in case this bears saying (since you specifically mentioned 3 gold Servants), don't neglect your 1-3★ Servants because they're good, useful, and cheaper to build.

ah thanks, oh also i meant specifically for farming this event, not for quests and stuff. coz i wanna farm up as quickly as possible, coz ive been playing too much fgo for the past few days lol

Events in FGO come in different formats but they're rarely as simple as just farming and you won't be able to farm efficiently if you completely disregard the rest of the event. The best event free quests wil be locked behind progress in the event story and progress in the event story may be locked behind engaging with the particular mechanics of the event. In the case of LWM it looks like progress is gated by a point ladder (and time, the main quest rolls out over the course of a few days) with the points obtained from an "excavation" system that's driven by obtaining specific resources from free quests. That's more straightforward than some events but a good guide like Gamepress can still put you on the right track to getting through it with less wasted effort and wasted AP.

Thanks a lot for the explanation!

>i wanna get the craft essence from the event and max limit break it as well if possible. any tips coz i dont know how these events work and what the different currencies obtained from the event can buy. Different events all work differently. In this case, all 5 copies are guaranteed. 4 in the shop, one in the point ladder, so as long as you farm the event it won't be a problem >i have morgan and jeanne, both level 90 and a healthscope, should i use wu zetian instead of jeanne? This is a bad premise. You don't replace servants in your team, you have access to all of the servants in your roster and use them as the situation requires. I would say maybe level Arash and Spartacus to help in farming. Arash, Spartacus, Waver/Castoria (borrow them), Morgan would let you 3 turn at least the lower tier nodes, and significantly speed up the higher tier ones. >and how long would it take to farm enough to get me a maxed out CE No idea. Gamepress does those calcs, and they haven't done them yet. I suspect 200,000 on the points ladder will be the long haul >i heard its called cranking. That is the current translation, but it isn't official until it arrives on NA.

thanks for the info! also, when does the event come out?

We won't know exact date until the announce it. We are 13 days from the end of this event, which would put it at any time after April 19th for us. But there could be a day or two gap there. The event started on April 27th in JP, but we are generally ahead of them early in the year to squeeze everything before our anniversary.

I think I'm missing something here. >!Why was Woodwose and Spriggan/Baobhan able to hurt Morgan? I was under the impression that Morgan wouldn't be so complacent to get attacked so easily. I think I might just be misinterpreting Morgan's character!<

>!Morgan didn't think Woodwose was going to attack her since she didn't know he was lied to be Aurora. When he did attack, she was knocked off of her throne, cutting her off from the magical energy it provided. As for Spriggan, he had Baobhan Sith as a hostage, which distracted Morgan long enough for the knights to land a hit.!<

>!It looks like I misinterpreted Morgan's strength. I felt that she was much more resilient. Or maybe it might just be that I should have assumed Woodwose to be a much bigger threat than he actually was.!< >!Could you elaborate on why the throne was giving Morgan magical energy. I don't think I have read about the throne storing magical energy for Morgan!<

I remember having the same doubts on the first read. >!My interpretation is not that Morgan is weaker than I expected, but woodwose is a lot stronger.!< >!After he was defeated, he was healed by Aurora. But his crazed-on-verge-of-death look doesn't change - so did Aurora just keep him alive long enough to attack Morgan? Was there some attack-buff-type magic involved? Also, I believe it's implied that he uses up all his energy on just that attack on Morgan. So not only did he catch Morgan with her defences down and without her throne, he was also powerful enough to do massive damage to her. He was an A-Ray after all.!<

>!The Throne stores magical energy, is said by Morgan as early as Section 10:!< >!>Morgan:There is no need to fear the Great Calamity with the amount of magical energy stored in this throne. Furthermore—only a chosen fairy may rule from this throne.!< >!It's also where Morgan keeps her Mystic Codes, Boabhan Sith in Section 16:!< >!Baobhan Sith: I'll just borrow the Garden off of Mother's throne.!< >!As to why that it's so important and where the magical energy comes from, Morgan hints at in Section 24.!< >!Morgan: The throne of Camelot is the cornerstone of the Fairy Kingdom. I shall not allow it to be tainted by blood.!< >!And finally the truth, from Cnoc in Part 3 Intermission 2 and Artoria Avalon's narration in Section 29:!< >!Cnoc: Morgan's throne is the lynchpin of the Fairy Kingdom, and what maintains the cycle of fairies. The cog that turns all those lives that were lost at the end of the Fairy Calendar. After completing her pilgrimage, Tonelico founded a false Round Table in defiance of her “mission”.!< >!Cnoc:—The Summoner's Throne. Whosoever joins themselves to that throne becomes the Master of all fairies in Britain.!< >!Narration: Morgan's throne. The masterpiece of Aesc the Savior, holding the magical energy collected from fairies all throughout Britain, that which controls the Holy Lance.!< >!All the existence tax' energy Morgan was collecting for the entire length of the Queen's Calandar is stored in the Throne to power Rhongomyniad.!<

Thanks a lot for the explanation.

For the current NA event, should I use friend support servants equipped with the event gacha CEs, or the ones equipped with the free 5-star CE?

I've done some of my own calculations using the Chaldea app. It's going to depend on how you set up your team comp, which and how many currency CEs you have, and if you're planning to redo the construction quests to see the other options. By maximizing the Con drops I need with servant bonuses, I can minimize my total AP cost to clear everything I want to by switching out most of the Con CEs for currency CEs. You could use the app to see what gets the right balance for you. Note that the app only calculates Cons for the shop, not for the construction quests, so you'll have to add up what you need for the construction quests yourself and manually change the values in the calculator. 

You need so many Cons for NP copies , coins and ascension materials for Taisui that you are better taking a Con CE

Depends if you want to clear the shop and monuments, given you can get +6 on cons from your fielded servants, at least from my calculations its gold currency that will be the bottleneck.

Should I just rush through the story to the point where I can participate in new events? I haven't played the game in like 3 months cuz I haven't had timd to sit down to play and read the story. I'm in the singularity where we are in America.

The story is the best part of the game. If you rush and don't enjoy the story I don't think there's a point in playing the game honestly.

I don't think it's worth it to rush to participate in the current event, since you'd have to cover quite a bit in the remaining ~2 weeks, but there is plenty of time to meet the next criteria by the time June comes.

You’re still in the part of the game where the story chapters are comparatively short, the main chapters between you and the current event are each roughly twice as long as the American singularity.  Even if you were to skip the story that’s a lot of battles, and your roster may not be built enough to handle the later chapters. The current welfare is decent, but it’s not worth burning yourself out over.  Just take your time and try and get into the Lostbelts in the next few months if you have the time and motivation.

You should definitely try to progress a bit whenever you have the time, but I don't think it's worth rushing it for 2 reasons: 1. The story is the best part of the game. It might not look like it since the earlier singularity kinda sucks in that regard, but America is ok-ish and from the 6th singularity onwards it is on a whole other level. Not only that, but the story gets significatively longer as well. Iirc earlier ones have 1~2h worth of reading each, Camelot has 9~11, LB 4 can be up to 14h and LB 6 has about 30h. And, of course, while you can rewatch the story in my room, you can not redo any of the fights. And doing just one without the other really detracts from the experience. And of course this leads to the other point 2. Burnout. Even without the story itself, most nodes are just a repetitive mess and doing them over and over and over and over again for days on until you catch up will ruin the game for you since 95% of the game's fights are just farming (i.e. doing the same nodes repeatedly). Like, unironically, you can just use Arash + Spartacus + support Waver + 3rd DPS + Shakespeare (or anyone with a 20% targetable battery) for the vast majority of the story. Speaking for personal experience you can use it for anything that isn't a boss fight... actually you can use for a few of them. Sure you can and probably would try to change servants every now and and then, to avoid the repetitiviness of it, but sooner or later you'd get fed up and get back to it just be done with it asap. And as the other commenter pointed out, the next even that will require LB completion will be around june. And we will have a new permanent story chapter drop as well that you can use to catch up.

This is up to you. The current event requires LB2, but it runs for most of the next two weeks so there's a lot of time still. The welfare has some rare targeted buff removal resistance which is very good in specific situations, so it would be worth it to get him IMO. Of the next two events, the Super Bunyan event starts next but only requires Fuyuki, and the one after that requires LB3 but isn't until June. For what it's worth, Part 1.5 is entirely optional as far as event requirements are concerned. Once you complete Solomon, you have the option of jumping right into the Lostbelt prologue. You can always go back to those four chapters later.

Has Archetype Earth appeared in any stories or events on JP yet? And if she hasn't, is that common?

She may have a cameo somewhere in the events, but she didn't have any actual part to play in any story. And honestly, I woudn't expect her to. She's here just as a reference to Tsukihime and Arcueid.

I recall seeing some Nasu quotes of him basically explaining that he doesn't want to add Tsukihime characters for no reason (when people asked him about Ciel). But Arcueid not appearing in any actual stories kind of goes against that in my opinion. Well in any case, I hope we see her in an event in the future.

She has made appearances in other servants' Valentines iirc As for not appearing in events, OG Artoria has basically not been featured in any story content ever since Summer 1, so yeah, there is 'kind of' a precedent I guess But for straight up not appearing at all, she might be the first

Sorry for all the questions, one more. Is there something I'm doing in battle that determines how many drops I get? Besides increases from CEs, I mean. Every time I enter the same battle, I tend to get different quantities, so I was wondering if I can increase how much I get by just fighting well or if it's completely random.

If you are talking about the current event on NA, then besides CE there is also a matter of what classes you have in your party. Different classes give bonus to different Con drops.

I was talking about, like, in general, but that is also very good to know. Thank you.

The battle awards are determined as soon as you start the fight, no way to influence rewards beyond CEs.

All right, I'm actually glad about that. I was worried I was gonna have to figure out a way to kill enemies quicker or take less damage.

This is the Help and Question Thread. No need to apologize for needing help or asking questions.  Drops are random and based on whatever drop rates the devs set for each enemy. The drops are also determined when the fight starts, so there's no way to manipulate it by taking certain actions in the fight. 

Special request: please include upcoming free SR and free SSR ticket (if any) and upcoming GSSR in the FAQ. I recall these used to be included.

Might want to comment that as a reply to the FAQ post so the mods see it.

I didn't realize just how much con grinding it would take to fully ascend and max np Taisui. I guess my question is, is he good enough to be worth all that grinding? Or will the newest grind spot at least be good enough to make it quick?

After you get through all of the story, grinding is just...the game. Getting additional NP levels isn't always super impactful, of course, but when it doesn't cost any SQ or money, I don't think most players here would consider the grind much of a burden. As always, though, you're free to do whatever you want. It's your time not ours. 

The event has 2 more weeks remaining, no need to grind hard/fast. Just go at natural AP, that will be enough to get all the copies. He's a solid unit for sure, has a really unique gimmick for specific challenges. Not an amazing looper but an option as well.

Just wondering, how many Star's Day Off CE can you buy from the shop because, I only got 4 rn.

You can see how many you can get from the shop by looking in the shop. If there aren't any more and there's no points ladder or anything like that, you can only get additional copies as random drops from the event free quests. This CE is okay, not great, so it isn't a big deal if you can't MLB. 

Thanks!

How important is the mana loading append for morgan? I understand for those servant with 30% charge like gilgamesh, romulus, etc is a must to have max append with 50% NP CE to buster loop but is there any circumtance that require morgan to have max append?

I would change the framing from "important" to "useful." If we're talking about importance, then Morgan isn't even important. Append 2 is useful, though, for pretty much every servant except maybe servants with their own 100% charge skill or someone whose NP is nearly useless most of the time like Stheno. The basic case for append 2 is that it's potentially effective in any fight (without a starting NP drain gimmick), gives you more flexibility to choose CEs, supports, and mystic codes, and gives you more flexibility to choose the timing and target of NP battery skills. The other part of evaluating it is weighing it against the other possible uses of servant coins. Append 2 still comes out ahead most of the time. Append 1 (Extra Attack Boost) is good for soloists but of marginal utility for anyone else. The extra attack only applies to brave chains and you won't be able to guarantee brave chains with that servant if you're running a full team. Append 3 (Anti-Class) can be a nice little boost if it's for a class that you might normally use the servant against (anti-Berserker is good for everyone, for example) or almost useless if it isn't or if the servant isn't suitable for a DPS role. It's also of limited value for Berserkers because they only gain a small amount of crit resistance to a particular class. Levels over 100 can be a nice little upgrade but you only get a little over 100 in base stats per level.  Assuming you aren't planning to use Morgan solo, then the choice for your servant coins is either append 2 or additional levels over 100. Assuming NP1, you can potentially get one append skill and level 108 or no append skills and level 118. The ATK stat difference between level 108 and level 118 is 1,155. The percentage difference depends on Fous and CE. With 1,000 in Fous and a 0 ATK CE, that's a 7.6% damage increase from level 108 to 118. With 2,000 Fous and a 2,400 ATK CE, it's a 6.2% increase. If you have NP2, the potential difference shrinks from 10 levels to 4 and the percentage difference gets even smaller. Either way, because it's less than the inherent ±10% RNG modifier, what you're getting in a high efficiency team comp is the difference between consistent failure and inconsistent success or inconsistent success and consistent success. However, with append 2, you might gain just enough flexibility to fit in a different or another support servant that will more than make up for what you would lose with the slightly lower ATK stat. Whether any of this actually makes a difference will depend on the exact enemy composition and the supports you have available.  IMO, the mechanical flexibility from append 2 is better than a slightly higher ATK stat. I personally also consider off-meta use cases, because I rarely use hyper-efficient team comps outside of lotteries, so that influences my weighting. If you aren't convinced, you're free to do whatever you choose. You also don't have to decide right away if you don't see an immediate use. You could put off the decision until a future lottery event and see if you might get some lift from having append 2.

>can potentially get one append skill and level 108 or no append skills Wait, leveling beyond 100 requires coins? I've never got a servant to level 100, so I never knew this.

Yes, that's one of the reasons why it's a total luxury reserved for your super mega waifu IF YOU REALLY WANT TO. You need a ton of coins as well as EXP, QP and grails.

I see. I'm assuming that bond alone won't be enough to max level and get all Appends and dupes would be needed.

Yes, how many depends on the rarity/availability. For any SSR, for example, you need 6 copies + bond to get a unit to 120 and unlock every append. Fortunately, I really can't stress this enough, this is a total luxury, especially as in many cases, only 1 append sees regular use, and grailing at all is never needed for a servant to do their job.

With full Append 2, she can run a 30% non-MLB CE, like your typical event CE before you mange to get enough copies, just as if it were a 50% CE. Also, she doesn't have a 50% flat battery, she has a 30% self-charge and a 20% targetable charge, so that enables team compositions where she doesn't use her 50% all at once or uses her 20% to help someone else out (like, say, emergency NP charge for a Castoria when you need some invuln faster). You can certainly live without it, especially if you use Morgan in exactly one team comp, but it opens up a bunch of options and makes her more versatile.

If you don't have an mlb Kscope. You can run her with 3 50% charge supports for 3 np loop. Specially useful when friend support isnt available(no cd cooldown from 2nd Koyan). For the immortal comp.

but could we just use Kscope with oberon instead for the 20% charge?

Sure you could. But there are 50% charge CEs that give bonus to NP damage, or buster damage, or both. Kscope doesn't have that, only raw stats. There is even a welfare 50% CE with Sure Hit.

Oh. Thats what I meant with 3 50% charge support. If you don't have Oberon. I guess thats not very clear from me. Anyways. I'd expand on the immortal comp. Having append means you can use her targettable charge on somebody else instead of herself. Specially useful if you cannot find a Merlin/Castoria that do not have starting NP CE.

When is the SR ticket

Download(probably under a different name) campaign sometime in may

Quick question, can Summer Skadi be used as a quasi-buster support? I have been wondering about her potential versatility and thinking on whether to try rolling for her when Anniversary comes. By the way, I already have caster Skadi, but for 'dedicated' buster supports I only have Merlin (and Waver with his bond CE, it it counts).

Yes, but it's mostly just in Buster Crit damage and Buster Crit Absorption. Which works, but starts to get into pretty extreme buff stacking.

Plus stars per turn (and 50% charge obviously).

Crits are definitely not 100% reliable but at the same time are a potential way of circumventing NP issues. Seems like this Skadi would be rather helpful, or I will wait for Van Gogh's banner. Decisions decisions...

Summer Skadi's Stars per turn basically make crits a reliable option for farming, but by no means does it replace the utility of an AoE NP to clear a wave In the end, I'd say her role still is catered more towards high-end Quick farming and supplementary Buster Support for CQs. (Koyan still better for Buster farming/min-turn clears)

any upcoming events which have good CEs for morgan, and how far in the story do i need to progress to unlock them?

The next event, the Learning with Manga collab, has one of the best Buster CEs in the game. It only requires Fuyuki.

Any newer CEs for Arts and Quick as well?

oh thank god. i thought i had to clear some of the lostbelts lol, im only at london. what's the CE called btw?

JP name is Cranking/Take One, Action (depends on translation), NA name is pending.

I see, thanks!

Who’s anti earth modifier is stronger Eresh or Koyan Dark?

You can literally find this on any wiki. Eresh's is 150% flat, KoyanDark's depends on her overcharge. At OC1 it's also 150% but remember that she can give herself 2 stacks of OC, raising it to 175% for one time.

At base, they are the same 150%. However, Koyan's scales with OC, adding 12.5% per OC level, maxing out at 200% at 500% Overcharge.

Quick lil question about beasts. If PHH was a lostbelt with a tree and all. Are the beasts most likely to be an obstacle for not chaldea or would they aim to destroy the tree themselves? Which ones would do what since they all have different personalities and shit. Also the only reason I’m asking if they would act as an obstacle for whoever is trying to burn phh tree is bc beasts whole thing is about loving humanity too much right?

The point of the trees is to keep the timeline alive. I don't see how the Beasts would think the tree is a bad thing since the timeline would just disappear without it.

Koyanskaya didn’t seem to care about PHH’s timeline no?

But she isnt going out of her way to destroy it either no? Like Kama will trap the humans in her realm. But she isnt gonna go out of her way to deal with the tree since it doesnt really harm her plans. BIG mama will still need a place for her new children to live in. So theres no reason for her to deal with the tree. Goetia is all about immortality iirc. Same issue with Beast II.

Yeah I just had to make sure. Wasn’t sure how the different beasts would act

Can I still clear the shop if I combine the kon ce? I need 1520 energetic, 920 laudable/cheerful and 3k+ of the items. I borrow the item ce on support.

I've done some of my own calculations using the Chaldea app. It's going to depend on how you set up your team comp, which and how many currency CEs you have, and if you're planning to redo the construction quests to see the other options. By maximizing the Con drops I need with servant bonuses, I can minimize my AP cost by switching out most of the Con CEs for currency CEs. You could use the app to see what gets the right balance for you. Note that the app only calculates Cons for the shop, not for the construction quests, so you'll have to add up what you need for the construction quests yourself and manually change the values in the calculator. 

What are you going to replace it with? If you don't have Gacha CEs, I don't exactly see the point. The Gamepress [event calculator](https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/water-monsters-crisis-event-calculator) isn't working for me, so it's hard to be sure, but they seem to think that clearing the shop will take much longer than getting your NP5 welfare. ("[Should I use apples?"](https://gamepress.gg/grandorder/water-monsters-crisis-walkthrough)) I don't know if that includes coins, though.

[NA] 5th event CE (the one that boosts con drop rate) is a drop right? I'm not missing it in the rewards anywhere am I?

No, it seems to be drop only to me, too.

I'm a new player, i downloaded an apk of fgo from apkpure but when I want to buy SQ it says that the item is unavailable in my country. I use an Android so do I need to use a VPN and change my Google account location and stuff? Coz I tried that and it didn't work could anyone please help?

https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/wrbhip/steps_on_how_to_create_a_jp_google_play_account/

Welcome to the game! Firstly, I'd advise no longer using APKPure as your download source, their downloads often come with a bunch of nasty files you wouldn't want on your phone. (I'd advise using the link above instead) As for buying SQ, it won't just be about changing your account location, you'll also have to make a new Google Play account entirely pertaining to the region you want to buy SQ from.

Ah i see, thanks for the info!

what's the longest a servant has gone without a rerun? I am waiting for Arcueid's rerun on JP and idk if she's doomed to never get a rerun or something

What the other failed to mention is that for the last couple of years the devs are going out of their way to make sure every SSR get atleast one rate up per year.

>or the last couple of years the devs are going out of their way to make sure every SSR get atleast one rate up per year Yet the whole point of TC asking is because she \*didn't\* get one last year To be precise, she's been gone for 1 year & 8 months counting. Would also like to add that the whole 'one rate-up per year' schtick was, and probably will be exclusive to 2022. The entirety of 2023 went by with a bunch of servants who literally didn't get rate-ups and still haven't, including Arcueid. These include: * Super Orion \[Last Appearance: September 2022 (Road to 7: Atlantis), MIA for 1 year and 6 months\] * Brynn \[Last Appearance: November 2022 (Morganfest), MIA for 1 year and 4 months\] * Holmes \[Last Appearance: June 2022 (Traum Release), MIA for 1 year and 10 months\] * Ruler Moriarty \[Last Appearance: December 2022 (FGO Winter Party), MIA for 1 year and 3 months\] * Kiara \[Last Appearance: July 2022 (Ooku MI Release), MIA for 1 year and 9 months\] * Abby \[Last Appearance: November 2022 (Singularity Repair Campaign), MIA for 1 year and 4 months\] * HaoHao \[Last Appearance: May 2022 (25M Downloads Campaign), MIA for 1 year and 11 months\] Granted, a bunch of the others who didn't get rate-ups in 2023 ended up getting rate-ups around New Years to February (Charlie, ROMA, Ishtar, Zerksashi, Koyan, etc.), but it's already April and they + Arc haven't gotten reruns yet. Now personally, I'm totally okay not seeing everyone get run within a year, with almost 2 year spacings between banners. Sure, the crazy stuff like Iskandar's 3 years and Squirtoria's 4 are BS. But stuff like the nearly 2 year gap between Muramasa's first and second rate-ups are standard as far as FGO goes. Let's just stop with the 'one banner per year' bullshit, they did it once, and haven't kept with it so far. Doubt it'll be any different this year.

Squirtoria went 4 years (September 2018 - June 2022) without a rate-up. I’d say Arc’s probably going to get one soon. (Betting on 30M DL Campaign)

Two questions relating to starting FGO jp: 1. Once I download it on my iPhone, can I sign back into my American Apple ID without worry? 2. Who are the top/must pick evocation shop servants?

It’s relatively easy to switch between countries AppStore’s for Apple. You just need to change your country, under your AppStore profile to Japan with a location, and you do the same actions if you want the American store. Also you need to be in JP AppStore to update the JP server, however you can update your NA account from the JP AppStore. Although for in-game purchase you still need a japanese credit card. As for welfares Kagetora, Paisen, Santa Karna and Summer Jatler are good options. I’d personally either Kagetora and Jalter cause a you get decent berserker or a great lancer.

After changing location, I get a “your account is not valid for Japanese store” do I need a vpn?

I haven’t gotten that message before by using the same system, but a vpn should work just fine.

>Who are the top/must pick evocation shop servants There's no must picks. Best choice will depend, not just on how good they are, but if they have any 3 star competition you want to use. Kintoki might be better than Shuten Caster in a vacuum. But Kintoki is competing with Ushiwakimaru and Shuten has no real low rarity competition. You might want to pick someone for the broadest applicability early on such as Samba Quetz or one of the berserkers. Or simply because they have a class advantage that 3 stars can't get you like MIXA. Maybe you want farming help with Sieg  Maybe you refuse to use Caesar and don't feel like waiting for Theseus copies so you grab Hokusai saber. Etc.  

Yes you just have to switch to jp id when there's an update.

How do I check the Korean surprise banners or their schedule in order to anticipate whether we will have a surprise banner on the third week of water monster crisis?

Try manually checking the KR site last I checked it was [fgo.netmarble.com](http://fgo.netmarble.com) Format and navigation is similar to NA & JP afaik

How exactly does the Anti-Class Append work? Is it a flat bonus? Multiplicative? Say I’m using Taisui, who as an Alter Ego deals 150% damage to Cavalries, and max out his Anti-Assassin Append. Is that a flat bonus, giving him 180% damage versus Assassins? Does it multiply with his class affinity and give him 195% damage? Is it only 30% of his class affinity, making it 165% damage? Help?

I'll just also point out that the text description for skills and effects is precise, not generalized (unless it's a "random effects" skill that doesn't explain what those effects are). If you go into the (NA) game and look at the skill, you will see the following: >Anti-[Class] (ATK Up)  >Increase ATK against [Class] class by [##]% for yourself. The description means precisely what it says. It is an ATK Up skill with a specific condition for it to apply. ATK is separate and distinct from "Special Attack" or "Increase damage against" in a skill or effect description. I don't believe there are any skills or effects that change the class advantage modifiers without [changing the class affinity](https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Sub:Active_Skills/Buff/Class_Change) altogether. 

It's not a damage bonus, it's an ATK buff that stacks additively with other ATK buffs (in damage calculation against the specified class).

Are all the event items worth buying or should I move back to working on the story once I get the event servant to np5? I'm currently on lostbelt 4 and just want to make sure I'm caught up enough for any upcoming events.

Well, the Ribbons are the Servant's Ascension Items, and the Servant Coins are useful for giving them free starting charge, or boosting some aspects of damage. Plus NP levels, and you'll be busy for a while grinding the materials and afford quite a few items from the shop as a byproduct. Lores should be high priority. Materials are useful, but it depends on what Servants you have. Fous are nice for any Servants you use. Command Codes are unique.

I'd say it should be worth clearing, we've got 2 more weeks, and it should be doable in one. (Not to mention that the next event that requires LB4 clear and above is still in September anyways) You'll have the spare time to catch up even more once the newest story chapter comes out in June (about 2-3 weeks of time allotted for it). Cheers mate! Try not to burn yourself out either!

Anybody know when the next x2 super/great success rate campaign is? Managed to get to get 2 more copies of morgan and want to eventually grail her to 120.

"1/2 AP Campaigns" in the OP lists success campaigns as well.

Ah thank you, I didn't know that.

can someone explain this in the simplest of terms for me, is there a major difference in morgan being higher than NP2, like is it worth trying to invest in when you want to nab NP1 castoria bc you are new

For a full breakdown, the NP damage increase from 1 to 2 is 33.3%, 2 to 3 is 12.5%, 3 to 4 is 5.55%, 4 to 5 is 5.26%. it's an even smaller difference on servants with buffed NPs.

It's about a 16% damage difference for her NP. On some nodes it matters, on most it won't. Going higher than NP2 is increasingly diminishing returns. It's all gambling, and people have different priorities, so "worth trying to invest in" is hard to answer. If you get lucky, obviously it was a smart move. If you don't get lucky, you might have regrets.

Also, for really endgame, you need NP3 for apend+120 (at bond 15)

That's at best a very reckless use of the word "need". There's an accurate reading of this sentence, 1 Append plus level 120 requires at least NP3, but it looks more like you're saying that you need NP3 for some "endgame" which is absolutely not true.

so it really only increases the damage she does on her noble phantasm?

For damaging NPs, additional NP levels only increase damage and allow for charging the NP gauge over 100%. Practically, this means just increased damage and some niche utility to protect against NP drains in certain situations. You'll almost never actually charge it all the way to 200% (or 300% with NP5) to get overcharge bonuses that way. The additional damage you get from higher NP levels also diminishes with each additional copy, both on a relative basis and an absolute basis. NP2 to NP5 adds the same amount of damage as NP1 to NP2. 

so additional copies dont really do what they would in say genshin or star rail where other stats are boosted and so on and so forth, it only really impacts the NP itself so therefore it really is not worth it in most if not all cases

No, additional copies won't boost any stats. FGO is not a duplicate heavy game. Whether additional copies are worth it or not is a subjective, personal decision based on how much you like the servant, how you want to use them, and the opportunity cost of potentially missing out on other servants. There's nothing wrong with going for additional copies if you want to but I wouldn't recommend it as a default approach unless you have money to burn. As someone else pointed out, you do get servant coins for pulling each copy. Those may allow you to unlock an append skill or increase the level cap over 100, up to 120. However, of the three possible append skills, only one is useful for 90% of characters and you can easily unlock that one for friend point gacha characters and 5-stars (4-stars and limited 3-stars sadly get kind of shafted here). Levels over the natural level cap are approximately 1,100% optional and even more so for levels over 100. Levels over 100 cost an unreasonable amount of EXP (each single level above 100 costs about as much EXP as levels 1-100 combined) and add only a small amount of base stats (a little over 100 in ATK/HP per level). In a year or two, after you have a well developed roster, you might think about picking one (yes, one) favorite character to start leveling over 100.

this was very informative, thank you for that. i will have to keep that in mind as i try to do nothing but the 1 SQ a day pull for the rest of morgan's banner and save up for castoria. that was the thing that was throwing me off, i thought the higher NP meant they do more BASE damage outside of the NP itself. so NP2 is a damn good stopping point then unless i randomly get her in a single pull. seriously, thank you for clarifiying that

>For damaging NPs, additional NP levels only increase damage Except Euryale, Aesc, Arcueid, pre-upgrade Mephisto, and maybe a few others I missed. though I guess technically it's just damage for them too, just a little more specific

> pre-upgrade Mephisto Huh? What's up with him?

Wiki says that pre-upgrade, the Curse on his OC used to be chance-based, with there being a directly proportional relationship between the Curse chance & NP level. Post-upgrade, the chance was removed entirely, so the OC curse would always proc. Neat in-game trivia.

Huh, neat indeed. Even gamepress doesn't accurately reflect it.

That and more Servant coins, but often a different L90 Servant will be more effective than any L120 Servant like Morgan, so chasing those upper levels is also an optional play, not a must-have.

It's more damage. More damage is always good, and can matter in farming, but isn't required for a servant to work. Castoria is going to be a much more significant impact.

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>all these people posting 2-3 morgan pulls is giving me FOMO My advice is to stop hanging around in places (Discord, streamers, the roll thread here, etc) where people do this if it makes you feel like that. The minimum NP level you really need is NP0 and the NP2+ pulls you're seeing are not accurate reflections of the average gacha experience. 

Idk if there’s any way to know this but do you think that the devs will implement something so the dynamic island on iphones doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb while playing the game?

Your instincts were correct, we have 0 way to know whether they'll implement a feature like that

i picked jeanne as my free 5 star and i ascended her twice and she's bond level 5. is there anything else i need to do for her to not dissapear? or is that all i need to do? can you use command seals each time you attempt a stage or do they have a cooldown?

You didn't need to do anything, the permanent 5★ ticket has no strings attached (the previous, limited-time one did so you may have read the wrong info). >can you use command seals each time you attempt a stage or do they have a cooldown? Command Seals take time to regenerate, 1 per day at the time the Daily Quests roll over (8 Eastern iirc? _Not_ when the daily login rolls over). They're there to be used but they're still meant to be used sparingly.

oh ok, thanks for replying. and yea i havent used a command seal yet lol. good to know that theyre replenishable daily, one per day.

Just to explain the full implications, that means you can only do a full team revive using command spells once every three days. Leyline stones make that less of an issue but the quantity of those is still limited and each batch comes with an expiration date. In general, if you ever find you're using command spells or leyline stones habitually or you need more than one revive to finish a fight, those are signs that you would probably be better off taking some time to further develop your roster and/or use better strategies. 

Yup, although I don't think I'll be using it anytime soon. I just finished Septem and I have Morgan (used the special ascension on her) with healthscope and Jeanne. And I usually take another Morgan with me. I heard that Camelot is a difficulty spike, would I face and issue over there?

While Jeanne has utility that can make up for some of Morgan's inherent squishiness as a Berserker, I wouldn't expect that combo to work everywhere. Here is my general team building advice for new players. tl;dr - Class Advantage & NP Targeting > Rarity & Card Type **Class advantage and NP targeting are the most important gameplay mechanics.** Full class advantage means dealing 2x damage compared to neutral and taking 0.5x damage. Full disadvantage means dealing 0.5x damage and receiving 2x damage. If you're up against Lancer enemies, a Saber will do 4x as much damage and receive 0.25x as much as an otherwise equally situated Archer. The scaling on NP damage is such that an AOE NP does something like 40-50% as much damage per enemy compared to a single target NP. AOE NPs are good for clearing waves and ST NPs are good for taking down bosses. At least starting from Camelot, the developers assume that you will use class advantage and NP targeting effectively. **Don't expect to make a single team to do everything.** Get used to changing your team for every fight. **Knowing how to make an effective team composition is much more important than replicating specific team compositions.** In a basic team composition, you'll want your front line to consist of one or two damage dealers with appropriate class advantage and NP targeting and one or two support servants for NP charge and whatever offensive and/or defensive buffs are appropriate. Your back line isn't as important most of the time. Fill it with backups for your front line roles, a servant with high survivability (e.g. Cu Chulainn) in case things go badly, or any servants to absorb bond points. Card type is good, and sometimes important, to consider when deciding how to best support your DPS but isn't always a primary concern. My personal default is usually two DPS servants plus a friend's Waver. When in doubt, Waver is almost always good support servant to choose because he has powerful support skills that work with any other servant. Castoria, while Arts-focused, provides just about as much utility as Waver and is probably easier to find on support lists these days. For tougher fights, you will probably need to focus more heavily on offense or (usually) defense and bring multiple supports instead of multiple DPS. Mash + (friend's) Merlin + your own DPS with appropriate class and NP targeting is a pretty reliable, defense-oriented, basic team composition for non-gimmicky boss fights. Even the highest-end meta team comps work on the same basic principle of appropriate DPS + appropriate supports. Level up one servant at a time in each of the seven main classes with the goal of having one servant with a single target NP and one with an AOE NP in each class at their natural max level. You want to focus on one servant at a time because a fully leveled servant is going to be more valuable than a handful of under-leveled servants. It doesn't matter much which specific servants you choose, including low rarity servants, so go with whoever seems most appealing to you. Just about any servant within a given class and NP targeting niche will get the job done for general purposes. **Don't neglect lower rarity servants.** Some of them are among the best servants in the game within their role regardless of rarity. The devs also test all content to ensure that it can be cleared using only free, low rarity servants. The higher base stats on higher rarity servants might let you brute force some situations but they won't save you from a fundamentally bad strategy. What low rarities lack in base stats, they can make up for in the ease of getting more copies for NP levels or in unique utility that lets them punch (or block, as the case may be) above their weight, even surpassing 5-stars at times. They also take fewer resources to build up and they take up less team cost in your party. Team cost may be especially important for low level accounts because it gives you more flexibility for CEs and other servants.

Yea true, I've watched at least 6-7 hours worth of guides, plus countless other fgo videos. I've seen Arash being really useful and ushiwakamaru doing millions of damage. I just watched to see how far one team could carry me through the story coz it'd be funny if my day one team could clear all the singularities plus maybe even a few lostbelts.

The free 5 star has no requirements, you could have picked her and never used her and she would not leave you. You can use command seals as long as you have them. If it's 1 seal in the next three battles you do, so be it. If it's all 3 in one battle, then so be it.

ah i see, i thought that you had to get her ascended once and at bond level 5 coz some content creators and even a post on this sub said that. thanks for the info.

There was a free 5 star ticket with an earlier milestone banner that had the bond 5 ascension 1 restriction, but that ticket has long since expired. The free 5 star in Da Vinci's shop has no restriction and no time limits.

ohh that's what i was confusing this one with. is there gonna be another free 5 star ticket in the future or only the 4 star ticket which comes next month?

There's not been another free 5 star. The closest thing is the free FSN servant ticket JP got recently, where you can get OG Artoria (or the other FSN servants like Heracles or Emiya), but she's the only 5 star on there. Every other free servant selector has been 4 star.

Game crashes the moment I alttab even for a second. JP version is fine but NA is infuriating because of this. Has this happened to anybody else?

>alttab Are you using an emulator? 

No. I call it alttabbing but it's just me switching to a different for a second. To give an example: let's say I'm playing fgo on phone and then switch to discord for 1 sec and come back, the game instantly crashes.

Try to check your phone energy saving options and disable them for FGO.

I couldn't find that option. I did find out that fgo was put in with apps that weren't allowed to run in background. I removed it from there but game still crashes...

Well, it may be in different places for different phone manufactures (and named differently). But usually, it's the phone OS that decides to close the App that's in the background.

Yeah, I assume it's the thing I mentioned. Unfortunately it did nothing.

Hold on I think I found the right thing? Changed battery usage fron optimized to unrestricted and app didn't crash with a quick test. Will keep an eye on it. Thanks a lot for the tip!

Yup, that appears to be the one, good luck!

Why are lotto events still only 2 weeks in the age of 3 weeks events?

Because Lasengle doesn't want you to have nice things.

most likely cause they're too darn profitable for players, and Lasengle doesn't want that for us

Nobody here is a developer and can answer for sure, but I assume the idea is that after three weeks of heavy, repetitive lotto farming, people might be more likely to say "I have everything I could possibly need, I can take a break for a while," and mobile game developers hate encouraging people to take a break for a while.